11General Orders, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major Trescot B.Q. Mr 3d Massa. Brigade For duty tomorrow 3d Massachusetts regiment. Ensign Herring of the 1st Newyork regiment was tried by the General Courtmartial of which Colonel H. Jackson is president, "for Embezling or misapplying part of the sum or the value thereof due Captn Bleekers Company for the month of January last, and acquitted. The General approves Ensign...
12To George Washington from Robert Digby, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
As Captain Hurlbert has not called on me for the Pass for New London your Excellency requested, or any Body in his Behalf, I enclose it to your excellency and should Captain Hurlbert call in the mean time I will give him another. I have the Honor to be Your Excellency’s Most obedient humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
13To George Washington from Jean Halbach, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Nous prennons la Liberté de Communiquer par celle-ci à vôtre Excellence, que par rapport à la Paix conclut heureusement entre les treize Provinces Unies et L’Angleterre, qu’il a un de nos Compagnons entierement intentionné de faire le Voyage en quelques Semaines/: avec recommandation de deux Ambassadeurs de treize Provinces combinnés:/: par Amsterdam pour Philadelphie, puisque notre maison...
14To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
There are two resolutions passed relative to the restoration of the British Prisoners and to making arrangements for the surrender of the posts in the possession of the British troops, the first of which is to be transacted by you in conjunction with the secretary of War—the latter by yourself alone. I will explain to you some doubts which have arisen in Congress with regard to the true...
15To George Washington from Robert R. Livingston, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Congress have been, & still are extremely divided about the propriety of ratifying the present provisional Articles, & releasing their prisoners—The Articles are so drawn as to render them in many instances equivocal, & they doubt whether they shall consider them as preliminary or definitive—For my own part, I think them preliminary Articles, & that they should be ratified as such—As to the...
16To George Washington from James McHenry, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Because I have no reason to believe myself forgotten, notwithstanding you have not written to me for a long time. I would not leave Philadelphia without congratulating with you upon an event the most fortunate for America, and the most glorious for my general. You have carried us through a long war; you have not sunk under the severest tryals; and you live to see a country enjoy the blessings...
17From George Washington to Thomas Aston Coffin, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
It having been represented to me that Mr Tho: Aston Coffin has obtained the Permission of the Executive of the Commonwealth of Massa. to go from N. York to Boston to Visit his Friends—If this is Bona fide the Case—Permission is hereby granted to the sd Mr Ths Austin Coffin to proceed by Land from the City of N. York to Boston, for the Purposes mentioned above and to return again. Given at Hd...
18To George Washington from Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron [von] Steuben, 15 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor yesterday to receive your letter requesting my sentiments on a peace establishment. I am sorry that my little Knowledge of the Frontiers, or Sea Coast of the United States does not permit my giving Your Excellency my Sentiments on the matters proposed. I am of opinion that whatever number of troops are kept on a peace establishment there they should be entirely continental,...
19Notes on Debates, 15 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( LC : Madison Papers). For a description of the manuscript of Notes on Debates, see Papers of Madison William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al ., eds., The Papers of James Madison (6 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). , V, 231–34 . The ratification of the Treaty & discharge of prisoners again agitated. For the result in a unanimous ratification see secret Journal of the day; the...
20Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 15 April 1783—Missing Letter (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 April 1783 . After Congress had ratified the provisional articles of peace with Great Britain ( JM Notes, 15 Apr. 1783 , and n. 2), JM and Theodorick Bland, on behalf of all the Virginia delegates, apparently sent a brief letter, now missing, to Governor Harrison, informing him of the ratification (Anderson Galleries [New York] Catalogue, No. 1581 [2–3 May 1921], item 34).