21To George Washington from William Livingston, 13 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have just received your Excellencys Letter of the 10th instant respecting your having established the Post at Dobb’s Ferry as the only one in this State for flags to pass from, & be received at. Of the necessity of this measure I am so fully convinced, that I shall immediately notify it to the officers of our Militia, & use every mean in my power to carry it into execution. your Excellency...
22From David Humphreys to Timothy Pickering, 13 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
It is the Order of the Commander in Chief, that you furnish Hospital Tents & other Articles for the Accomodation of the Sick in the Field, agreeably to the Requisition of the Chief Physician of the Army. I am Sir Your Most Hble Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
23To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 13 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
The intelligences from Newyork which your Excellency has been so good as to send me are of the greatest importance, If to that, we add the surrender of Minorca and an invasion on Jamaica, if it takes place, we may look on all these events as forerunners of our last campaign: But as we must ever be ready for action untill the Last moment, I am in readiness to march as soon as I shall receive...
24To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 13 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
Tr ( LC : Force Transcripts). Addressed to “The Honble. James Madison Esqr. Philada.” Another copy, taken from the original, is printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society , 2d ser., XIX (1905), 151–52. The last of yr favrs I have to acknowledge is that of April the 23d., a subsequent one I missed hitherto, as I was not return’d from Richmond when the Post rider pass’d...