1To George Washington from Major David S. Franks, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I hope this Letter and the Proceedings of the Court of Enquiry into my Conduct, will both be handed to your Excellency at the same time. Being fully conscious of my own Integrity, I have no doubt but the Report will be such as must silence the most malicious. As Your Excellency has been pleas’d to comply with Col. Varick’s Request respecting the Publication of the Report of the Court of...
2To George Washington from Colonel Richard Butler, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Inclosd is the Resignation of Lieut. Douglass of my Regt who has been prisoner with the Enemy Since the Affair of Bound-brook, the 13th April 1777 —his health & Constitution is much Impaird by his Captivity, And Although he has not the most flattering prospect by going into Civil life, it Seems to be A punctilio with him to leave the Service as he finds he is not Able to go through the...
3To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 13th Instant came to hand Yesterday, our Assembly have ever since my last been unhappily engag’d in a dispute respecting the power of the House of Delegates, to call their Members to the Bar to Answer for Misdemeanours committed out of the House during the sessions, parties ran high, and the Members were much inflamed on the case of Mr James Hindman, who was called to the Bar...
4To George Washington from Major General Steuben, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
your Excellency has no doubt, heard before this time, of the Departure of the Enemy from Portsmouth; as Governor Jefferson in his Letter informs you of all the circumstances of this retreat, I will refer you to it for particulars. I am now hastening, as much as possible, the Departure of General Lawsons Corps for the Southward; It consists of about 200 Horse and 300 Infantry, Inlisted till the...
5To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I take this earliest opportunity to inform your Excellency that I have returned from Long Island with the Troops ordered for my Command—I have no time to be particular, as I have not yet obtained a Return of the Prisoners, or the Articles taken at fort St George , near Smith’s house, they having not all arrived at this Place —As I am sure your Excellency must be concerned for the Detachmt...