1From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [16 October 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
Two nights ago, my Eliza, my duty and my honor obliged me to take a step in which your happiness...
2From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 16 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received yours of Sept. 26. from Corunna. The Conduct...
3From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 16 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Columbia University Library; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received yours by...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Coffyn, 16 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I beg leave to refer to the letter I had the honour of...
5[Diary entry: 16 October 1781] (Washington Papers)
16th. About four O’clock this Morning the enemy made a Sortee upon our Second parallel and spiked...
6General Orders, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
For the Trenches tomorrow Major General Baron de Steuben Brigadiers Wayne & Gist Major General...
7From George Washington to David Forman, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am much obliged by the Receipt of your Favor of the 2d instt which I received last Evening—I...
8From George Washington to François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse-Tilly, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have to thank Yr Excellency for the Letter which you did me the honor to write the 14th and the...
9To George Washington from François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse-Tilly, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
C’est avec bien du plaisir que je fais mon compliment à Votre Excellence de la distinction avec...
10From George Washington to Nathanael Greene, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
My Letter of 6th instant by Colo. Morris informed you that our Trenches would be opened that...
11From George Washington to William Heath, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Favors of 27th & 30th ulto. I make no Doubt but Sir Hry Clinton will make...
12To George Washington from William Heath, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
The last evening I was honored with yours of the 1st instant. I am happy to hear your prospect...
13To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency having personally seen our dispositions, I shall only give an account of what...
14From George Washington to Thomas McKean, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to inform your Ecellency in my last, of the 12h instant, that we had the evening...
15To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 16 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Transactions of the night 14 & 15th instant, at the French opened before York town. On the night...
16Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 16 October 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). In Edmund Randolph’s hand, except for the signatures of...
17From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 16 October 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). The cover is missing, but the letter is docketed in Pendleton’s hand,...
18Motion of Virginia Delegates on Western Lands, [16 October] 1781 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 36, I, 223–24). Written by JM. Docketed, “Motion of Delegates of Virginia—Oct...