11To George Washington from Henry J. Sleght, 15 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
We the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of Kingston, for ourselves and in behalf of those whom we represent, Beg leave with the most unfeigned Love and Esteem to Congratulate your Excellency on your Arrival in this Place. To a People whose Principles of Liberty were early decided and whose Actions have been correspondent, the Appearance of a Character among them, who by...
12To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 15 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s Letter of the 12th instant. It seems very clear to me by the report which I have sent you from Newport and by the intelligence which you have given me from the Newyork papers of the 5th that the evacuation of Charlestown has been made on the 1st instant, and I expect that your Excellencys next Letter will bring me a confirmation of it. The Letter which Sir Guy...
13Richard Oswald to Thomas Townshend, 15 November 1782 (Jay Papers)
As M r Fitz Herbert informs me he intends to dispatch a Messenger to night, I take the Opportunity of referring to the Letter which I had the honour our of writing you on the 7 th by the Courier Stayley, who Sett out on the 8 th , at three in the afternoon. In that Letter I made a full Report of my last Conversation with the American Commissioners as near to their own words as I could...
14From James Madison to Benjamin Harrison, 15 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC (Princeton University Library). Cover reads: “His Excellency Benjamin Harrison Esqr. Richmond Hon’d by Col: Bland.” Theodorick Bland left Philadelphia on 15 November to return to Virginia. See JM to Randolph, 12 November 1782 (first letter), n. 5 . I send you as a peice of information of which you will be the best judge of the use to be made, an extract of a letter laid before Congress by...