1From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 9 November 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour of yours of the 7. Inclosed are a few more Extracts, concerning the Treatment of Mr. Laurens. You will publish Such Parts as you judge proper. This Event will have more Serious and lasting Consequences than are immagined. It is therefore proper that the facts should be preserved. It may be prudent to observe a delicacy concerning White Eyes. But Europe in general is much...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 9 November 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Son Exce. M. l’Ambr. de fce. [France], qui étoit allé accompagner Made. la Duchesse Son Epouse retournant en fce., est revenu. Il doit être parti pour Amsterdam. Je le saurai demain, Avant Son voyage, je lui avois fait ouverture de l’affaire de Saba , & des papiers que vous m’avez envoyés à ce sujet. Il est disposé à interposer ses bons offices dans cette...
3General Orders, 9 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Wayne[,] Lieutenant Colonel commandant Sherman [,] Lieutenant Colonel Fernald[,] Major Tudor[,] Brigade Major Smith The General court martial whereof Colonel Bailey is president, to assemble tomorrow morning, 9 ô clock at the Widow Godwin’s for the trial of such persons as shall come before them—All persons concerned to attend. Major Oliver...
4From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 9 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favors of the 4th and 7th. Upon hearing of the destruction committed upon the western Frontier, and that we should thereby be deprived of the Magazines of Bread which we expected from that quarter, I immediately wrote to Congress and pointed out to them the absolute necessity of having a supply of Flour, equal to the winter consumption of the Garrison of West Point, and...
5To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 9 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
At the particular Request of Capt. Hunter, of this Place, I have set down to write Your Excellency a Line. He desires me to inform Your Excellency that he feels himself very unhappy under the supposed Censure of General Washington, whose favorable opinion he thinks he has not justly forfeited. When at Head Quarters, soon after Arnold’s Desertion, he was not a little mortified in being refused...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, enclosing a Table of Continental Requisitions of Food, 9 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Fully convinced of our inability to obtain the grand object of the fœderal Union without the vigorous exertions of the several States we have thought it our duty to make the requisitions contained in the enclosed resolutions; and we wish our constituents to be impressed with the necessity of a speedy and punctual compliance. For although by the blessing of providence we have been conducted...