113 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Returned to Amsterdam, having dined at Haerlem, at the Golden Lion. Went in the Evening to see Ingraham and Sigourney and C ommodore Gillon. Chez la V euv e Wynen, dans le premier Wezelstraat, à main gauche. Address of Cerisier. “There are three Gentlemen, in the Mercantile Way, Mr. Sigourney, Mr. Ingraham and Mr. Bromfield, who are now in this City, and propose to reside here and establish a...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Kidder Meade, 13 January 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
What shall I say or think of my dear friend Hamilton, not a single line from him since we parted. I will not however charge you my dear fellow with not having done your duty, or at least of a want of inclination to do it. You may have complied fully with your promise & your letters miscarried; mine probably have shared the same fate. This is the third since I got home. The first was writ...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Coffyn, 13 January 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your several Favours of Dec. 15 & 27. I thank you much for the timely News you sent me of the English Declaration of War against Holland. I believe that tho’ they may make some present Profit by so unjust a Proceeding, they will in time have great Cause to repent of it. Mr Wharton was still in France when you wrote to me concerning him,...
4General Orders, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
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5To George Washington from Ezekiel Cheever, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to your Excellencys Commands Decmr 17th which I recd the first Instant. I, immediately wrote to ord. depy Commissary Barber at Boston to procure a proper Guard to escort sd Collins and Send him to me at this Post. Last evening Collins came to town under the care of a Sergt & two men. Sergant James Willes pursuant to his orders deliver’d Collins up to me and I lodged him in the...
6From George Washington to George Clinton, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Since the information Col.⟩ Humphrys gave your ⟨Excellency by my direction —⟩some circumstances have ⟨been communicated by⟩ General Wayne (a Copy of w(hose Letter is in⟩closed) which give a very different ⟨complexion to⟩ the affair. Instead of deliveri⟨ng up the⟩ Emissaries from the Enemy, as I had been ⟨prematurely advised,⟩ the Mutineers have only reported ⟨them to⟩ General Wayne, still...
7To George Washington from the Continental Congress Committee on the Pennsylvania Line, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have only time to Inform Your Excy by Colo. Smith that the British Spies have been Executed The Commissioners are now Busy in adjusting the Claims & redressing the Grievances of the Pensylvania Troops and now Trust That Every Danger of Defections is past. I have the honor to be most respectfully Your Excys most obedt Servt ALS , DLC:GW . For the execution of these spies and the appointment...
8To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 13th of Decemr, this day came to hand. It is true, I came to the Southward in expectation of meeting with difficulties but they far exceed what I had any Idea of. This Country is so extensive and supplies are so difficult to obtain that it is impossible to carry on the war any length of time with the Militia. The waste of stores & consumption of provision and...
9To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed, I received from General Parsons yesterday afternoon; its complexion is very favorable. The order for drawing & coocking four days provission here yesterday, turned the whole conversation of the Troops on the subject of the Detachment, & conjecture of its design. such as have been reported to me, I shall relate to Your Excellency. A woman in Colonel Greatons Regiment, was sent...
10To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 13 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will receive enclosed an Act of Congress of the 12th Instant, ascertaining the Pay & Appointments of the Officers in the Department of Commissary General of Military Stores—the Officers & Men of the Regiment of Artillery Artificers—the field Commissary of Military Stores and his Subordinate Officers; the Commanding Officer of Artillery—the Surveyor of Ordnance—the additional...