1General Orders, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Lt Colonel Reid Lt Colonel Newhall For duty tomorrow the 6th for the 2d Massachusetts regt The first Jersey regiment will march for the relief of the Infantry on the lines tomorrow; the Commanding officer will please to call at Head Quarters for Orders, and apply to the Deputy Quarter Master for boats. The Infantry companies when relieved will join their respective...
2From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the recet of your Excellencys favor of the 27th Novembr and to thank you for the very polite manner in which you are pleased to express yourself, with respect to the correspondence between us, be assured, Sir, that nothing will give me more pleasure than to commmunicate to you any thing that may occur worthy your Notice. The apprehending of the persons mentiond in the...
3From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 29 t h ulto. It will be some time before Major Barber, the only Assistant Inspector at present with the Army, can attend upon you—perhaps not till toward the latter end of the Month. By a letter from Colo. Stewart, he may be expected the beginning of this, and will, I dare say, call upon you agreeable to his promise. If his health should not permit him to come...
4From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your favors of the 22d and 27 t h ulto—I cannot see upon what principles Colo. Swift should be promoted and not Colo. Dayton—There being already a Brigadier to the Connecticut Line and none to the Jersey—Colo. Shephard has resigned under the Resolve of the 19t of November. There is, I believe, no occasion of publishing your report respecting the reform of the Invalid...
5From George Washington to Matthias Ogden, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
You will proceed with the first Regt of New Jersey to relieve the Corps of Light Infantry on the Lines—One entire Company is to be posted at the Block House of Stoney Point, another Company is to garrison the Works of Ver Plank’s Point, and the remaining seven Companies (the Lt Company having joined) one to be stationed near the Croton, in such manner as shall be best adapted to prevent...
6From George Washington to John Sullivan, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the recet of your favor of the 16 November with its inclosures which were forwarded agreably to your Desire to New York. I am much obliged to you for your wishes for my Welfare and beg you to believe that I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
7From George Washington to Antoine-Charles du Houx, baron de Vioménil, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to thank you for your very polite letter from Providence—and to assure you that I shall ever recollect with peculiar pleasure the period in which the Army of our generous Ally acted in conjunction with that of America—The repeated marks of attention and respect which I have received from the Officers of all Ranks has endeared every individual to me. Believe me sincere when I say that...