1General Orders, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major Knap Brigd. Qr Master York Brigade For duty the 7th Massachusetts regt. The present mode of collecting and digesting the reports of Police into one point of view will be productive of the happiest consequences—The General desires the officers will continue to be as particular in their remarks as they have been a few days past. The Quarter Master Genl will provide...
2From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge your Excellency’s favor of the 12th inst. and to thank you most sincerely for the Intelligence you was pleased to communicate. The Articles of Treaty between America & Great Britain, are as full & satisfactory, as we have reason to expect—but from the connection in which they stand, with a general pacification, they are very inconclusive & contingent: from this...
3From George Washington to Richard Corbin, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 18th feby came to my Hands a few Days ago. I will take measures to make an Enquiry for your Son—If he should be found in New York, it will not be for me, but the Executive power of the State of Virginia, to determine, respecting his return to you—should their permission be obtained, I shall take pleasure in giving him my passport without Delay. I am &ca DLC : Papers of George...
4From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, Sr., 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of forwarding to your Excellency a Letter from a Mr Wormly in New York—His present application I suppose is in consequence of the information I had given him that a Passport for his Return to Virginia could only be granted upon his obtaining permission for the purpose from the Executive of the State. I now leave his Request to its own operation & the wisdom of Government....
5From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, Sr., 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
About the first of this Month I wrote you along letter. I touched upon the state of the Army—the situation of public Creditors—and wished to know from you, as a friend, what causes had induced the Assembly of Virginia to withdraw their assent to the Impost Law; & how the Continental creditors without (adequate funds) were to come at, or obtain security for their money. I little expected at the...
6From George Washington to Robert H. Kirkwood, Jr., 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received from you, an Arrangement of the Officers of the Delaware Battalion, My Approbation of it is conveyed to the Secretary at War as I know no objection to it—from whom you will also be able to collect my Sentiments respecting the drawing the Troops of that Battalion into one collected Body. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
7From George Washington to Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am exceedingly obliged to your Excellency, for your communication of the 15th of this Month. The Articles of Treaty between America & Great Britain, as they stand in connection with a general pacification, are so very inconclusive, that I am fully in sentiment with you, that we should hold ourselves in a hostile position, prepared for either alternative, War or Peace. I shall confer with the...
8From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received from Capt. Kirkwood, the Arrangement of the Officers of the Delaware Battalion—which has my Approbation. Capts—Wm McKennan & George Purvis, will by their Concent, also continue in Service, to do the Duty of P. Master & Adjutant. Should it be thot proper to collect that Battalion together, it is more probable that they may be called to join the Main Army, than to be ordered to...
9From George Washington to Robert R. Livingston, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 12th and for the enclosures—The early communication of such important occurrances rendered the favor double acceptable—Would to God the Articles for a general pacification were as well advanced as those between America and Great Britain but I am not with out fears that that event is at a greater distance than the sanguine one I imagine. The...
10From George Washington to Robert Morris, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Money which was received in Feby or March last year for my Household Expences, is more than expended; and the subsistence Notes in the hands of the D. Pay Master will procure nothing from the Country people. Be so kind then, my good Sir; as to point me to the means with which these expences are to be borne. For immediate & pressing calls I was obliged, a day or two ago, to draw upon the...
11From George Washington to Daniel Parker, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Silk which you expected from Boston for lining is arriv’d—but White—Mr Smith expects other—but this is uncertain—My Coat of which I am in great want, in the meanwhile stands. I shall thank you therefore to bring me a Buff lining of any kind from Philadelphia—sufficient for a Coat and Vest-Coat. If a pair of French Epaulettes (gold) could be had, I would thank you for bringing me a pair—I...
12From George Washington to John Pierce, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to be trouble some, but as you did not answer a question in my last, I am obliged to repeat it. I mean that one, which respects General McDougall. My reason for it is; that Gentleman applied (within the space mentioned in my last) for a Sum for Secret Services—not having the means of compliance, I was obliged to have recourse to Philadelphia—where I obtained money, & find in my...
13From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I did not write to you by the last Post—I was too much engaged at that time, in counteracting a most insiduous attempt to disturb the repose of the Army, & sow the seeds of discord between the Civil & military powers of the continent, to attend to small matters. The Author of this attempt, whoever he may be, is yet behind the Curtain; and as conjectures might be wrong, I shall be silent at...