1To George Washington from John Sullivan, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
You will (I doubt not) forgive my Neglect in not writing you when I assure you that I have had nothing to communicate which Could give you pleasure or avoid giving you pain—& that I was unwilling to add to the pressure which your mind has been so Long Accustomed to—to Enumerate the Evils which have flown from party Spirit from inattention and from other Sources would fill a volume in Folio. we...
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I hope the Proceedings of the Court of Enquiry on my Conduct have e’er this reached your Excellency’s Hands. A Consciousness of the rectitude of my Intentions & Conduct, while in the Service of my Country, induces me to expect an honorary report from them. I now remain solicitous, only about properly publishing to my Countrymen & fellow Citizens & especially to my late Brother Officers, in...
3To George Washington from Brigadier General James Clinton, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
On the 4th instt I arrived at this place in pursuance of your Excys directions of the 28th ulto. And receiving intelligence of the appearance of the Enemy in the Lake, I immediately proceeded on to Saratoga, where I was necessarily detain’d untill yesterday, for the return of a flag, which had been previously sent in by Genl Schuyler, and Col. Gansevort, with a view of conferring with Majr...
4To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Forrest, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I feel a degree of regrett at making an application to your Excellency, which nothing but necessity would induce me to request. The length of my services are well known I presume to one of Your Observation. And did not the interesting Cares of a family whom I dearly love, call on me for my immediate Assistance & Support, I should with the highest degree of pleasure still persue Your...
5To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with yours of the 9th instant. I hope your Excellency’s representation to the honorable the Congress of the necessity of this post being supplied with Flour before the roads are rendered impassable will have the desired effect. The commissary has just informed me that there is not a barrel of Flour in the Store; but the Troops are served for two days, in which time I hope...
6To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
“ Camp West Point ,” [ 12 Nov. 1780 ]. “I have received your Excellency’s Letter of the 6th Current. It is amazing that a Man of a liberal Education, added to a common natural Understanding, should venture his Reputation and Character on such unjust Complaints as are made against me to your Excellency and the Honourable Major-General Heath, and then to proceed to the Prosecution before a...
7To George Washington from Philip Schuyler, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencys favor of the 6th Instant I had the honor to recieve last night. I have had several emissaries on the Grants since my last letter, they have all returned, but without that full Information, which I expected, some of these have Obtained the Inclosed copies of letters. the first of which is An answer to one Carried into Canada by the suspected person, at least so the reports...
8To George Washington from Colonel David Forman, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday my Intelligencer from The Highlands of Neversink Informed me of The Approach of a Considirable Fleet from the Southward to Sandy Hook—& allso of a Considerable fleet Comeing down from New York But Could not be particular in either as The rear of Neither of the fleets was Come Too—The Fleet from New York I am Assured from good Authority has Troops on Board for Carolina and I belive to...
9To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
The State of our provisions to the northward during our late alarms there detaind me much longer in that Quarter than I expected, I now however think I may venture to offer in to your Excellency, except in the article of beef, for which we must depend on other States, there is every probability they will during the course of the winter be tolerably supplyd; these alarms having in many...
10To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 12 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will receive herewith enclosed, Copies of several Acts of Congress, of the 4th 7th 9th & 10th Instant. By that of the 4th, the several States therein mentioned, are called upon to levy a Tax equal to Six Millions of Silver Dollars, to be paid partly in specific Articles of Provision, & partly in Money, at the Times & in the Manner expressed. By the Act of the 7th, (a Copy of...