16th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Mr. D rode out in the afternoon. Pretty good weather.
2General Orders, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Lieutenant Boss of the corps of Invalids tried by the general courtmartial of which Colonel Putnam is president; " for behaving disrespectfully to Colonel Nicola and on many occasions unbecoming a gentleman and for disposing of public flour for his private use" is acquitted and released from his arrest. A return of the number of men now serving in the different state regiments who are engaged...
3To George Washington from John Cochran, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Being called on last spring to form an Estimate of Medicines, Instruments, Stores &c. for the Hospitals of the United States, for one year, I presented the same to the Secretary at War on the 6th of May last, and enforced the Compliance with my Requisition, in the strongest Terms, but more particular the immediate supply of Doctor Craik’s Estimate for the Field, (which was included in the...
4To George Washington from Christian Febiger, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
In the Absence of General Muhlenberg, (whose ill state of Health obligd him to go to the Springs) Your Excellency will permit me to acknowledge the Receipt of both yours Favours of the 22nd ultimo. I have written to Captn Irish the Comissary of military for a Duplicate of the Return mentiond and shall on Receipt transmitt it. The Executive are takeing Measures to putt in Execution a Law passd...
5From George Washington to Nathanael Greene, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
In my last Letter of the 7th of July, in which I acknowledged your several favors of the 22d of April & 19th of May, I mentioned my expectation of soon meeting the Count de Rochambeau in Philadelphia, and my intention of writing you from that place in case any thing of moment should turn up in the mean while—But as our hopes, that public Dispatches would have arrived from France before our...
6To George Washington from William Heath, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Major Keith has been relieved from the lines, and is ordered in arrest on the enclosed charges, which are submitted to your excellency. He will soon be brought to trial unless you think proper to order otherwise. A considerable number of soldiers in every regiment I am informed, are destitute of cartridge boxes, which will render them in a great measure unfit for real service, should the...
7From George Washington to William Irvine, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowlege the Receipt of your two Letters of the 1st & 11th of July—the former containg the plan of a proposed Expedition, of which you mention your being solicited to take the Command, & covering a Copy of your Letter to the Secretary at War on that proposition—I have not given you my Ideas on this Expedition, as the plan, if adopted, must probably have began its Execution, before...
8From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Armand in a Letter of the 3d June last inform’d me that his Cavalry is compleat to within five Men of his established number—but that Sixty Horses are still wanting—I imagine there is very little probability that our means will admit of furnishing him any more Horses, and as his Corps may be of essential service in the So. Army—I will be obliged to you to transmit him Orders to March...
9To George Washington from Robert R. Livingston, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
The furlough that you was so obliging as to give Mr Lewis Morris at my request being about to expire & the present prospects affording little probability so useful to the public in the field as in his present station I am induced to ask from your Excellency a continuance of it. The arrival of the fleet has set the invention of our politicians to work about the proper mode of employing it among...
10To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
The prices at which forage would be furnished thro’ the agent of the state of New-York (as appears by the papers transmitted me by Colonels Lutterloh & Hughes) being much higher than the cash prices, Mr Morris has refused his assent to either of the modes proposed. Instead thereof he has put into my hands a number of his draughts, which will be negociated with the receivers of the public taxes...
11From George Washington to George Reid, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 3d instant. Comparing the Resolution of Congress of 18th of Octo. 81 with that of the 10th of Augst 1776 to which it refers, it would seem that the Canadian Refugees as well as volunteers, are included in that resolution under which the Commissaries have stopped Issuing their Rations—General Schuyler however, is best able to give you Information on this...
12To George Washington from Francisco Rendón, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Give me leave to return my most sincere thanks to your Excellency for all the repeated marks of Kindness with which you do not Cease to honor me, for those Recommendations in particular which have been of so much use to me in my tour thro the State of New York. I cannot find words to express the grateful sence I entertain for the kind attentions which in Consequence of your Excellency desire...
13From George Washington to Walter Stewart, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two favors of Yesterday respecting your Brother, who you suppose, wishes to become an Inhabitant of the united States. I know you are sensible of the Delicacy of Situation in which I am placed—you are equally sensible of the impropriety of the Channel thro which your Brother has presented himself for our admittance: At the same Time, I trust, you are persuaded of the full...
14From George Washington to Jean-Louis-Ambroise, chevalier de Villefranche de Genton, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was informed by Genll Paterson that the place assigned by Majr Genll Knox & others for erecting the Magazine, was in your opinion very unfit for the purpose; if this is the case, I wish you to point out some other place on West Point, and give your reasons in writing as soon as possible, why you prefer it to the place first mentioned. I am sir Your Most Obedt Servant Privately owned.
15From George Washington to Seth Warner, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 16th June last reached me but a few Days ago, containing Intelligence from Canada similar to what I have received from that Quarter, thro various other Channels—As I am desirous to obtain every Information of the Motions & probable Designs of the Enemy that can be collected; I am obliged to you for your Attention in this Respect. I am very sorry for the Situation of the...
16From George Washington to Marinus Willett, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two Letters of the 9th & 21st of July—the first of which reached me but last Evening by the Hand of M r Ten Eyck. On the Subject of the Indians, I am at a Loss what to reply to you; the matter has been often under the Deliberation of Congress, at times much more favorable for conciliating the affections of that people, but, either the Means for carrying the Measure you...
17From George Washington to Antoine Félix Wuibert de Mézières, 6 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by your Letter of the 30th of July that all your Business, for which you requested to Come to Phila., was compleated—You will be pleased to repair immediately to Fort Pitt, where you will put yourself under the Orders of Brig. Genl Irvine Commandant of that post—I am Sir Your &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
18To John Jay from Gouverneur Morris, 6 August 1782 (Jay Papers)
I received your Letter of the twenty eighth of April by Major Franks. It came too late for I had already applied the Copy of a certain Correspondence in the Manner you intended when you sent it. I decyphered and read your Letter to the Minister of foreign Affairs. If I were with you or had Time to use my Cypher, I would say somewhat on it. I think that Congress will not be silent— Should you...
19Comments on Instructions to John Jay, [6 August] 1782 (Madison Papers)
Printed copy ( Thomson, “Debates,” Charles Thomson, “Debates in the Congress of the Confederation from July 22d to September 20th, 1782,” Collections of the New-York Historical Society , XI (1878), 63–169. p. 90). See Comments on Temple, 1 August 1782 , headnote. On 2 August 1782 John Rutledge had been appointed chairman of a committee, of which JM was also a member, to recommend “alterations...
20Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 6 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
Printed copy ( Burnett, Letters Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress (8 vols.; Washington, 1921–36). , VI, 427–28, and n. 6). Around 1930 the manuscript was owned by Stan. V. Henkels of Philadelphia. Arthur Lee rather than JM seems to have been the draftsman. See n. 9, below. Endorsed by Harrison, “to be laid before Ass.” We received the Letter your Excellency...
21From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 6 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC (Nat W. Pendleton, Wytheville, Va., 1961). Docketed by Edmund Pendleton, “James Madison Esqr. Aug. 6th. 1782.” I shall pay due attention to the request contained in your favor of the 29th. relative to the slave of your nephew. Should I however be so fortunate as to recover him, the price of slaves here leaves no hope that a purchaser will be found on the terms demanded. We have had several...
22To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 6 August 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Cover missing. Unsigned. Docketed by JM, “Aug. 6. 1782.” I should be ashamed now to acknowledge your three favors of the 9th., 16th. and 23d. Ulto., did I not hold myself excused for having omitted this act of gratitude by the inflexible and severe toils of my profession. On Tuesday the 23d. of July I left home for Wmsburg., where from the morning of the friday...