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If the Superintendent of Finance will transmit to Governor Clinton (or furnish the Quarter Master General) with his notes payable on sight; for a sum not exceeding £3,000 Currency The Governor will borrow to the ammount for the Purpose of defraying the Contingent Expences of Garrissioning the Western Posts—The Money will be advanced in this Case immediately so as to prevent any Delay that...
I would just inform your Excellency that since Colo. Humphrey left me this Afternoon I have received a very satisfactory Report from this Person, employed to procure Money on Loan for the Use of the State; so that the only difficulty which now remains is to Justify me in the Appropriation of it for this Purpose of Garissioning the Western Posts And to this End I shall convene a Council without...
I am honored with your Excellency’s Letter of Yesterday—I some Time since recommended to the particular Attention of the Courts of Justice: The Outrage said to have been committed by a Party headed by Mr Honeywell in the lower Part of West Chester County and I have not a Doubt but—proper Measures will be taken for the Punishment of the Offenders—I am happy at the same Time to inform your...
Mr Chief Justice Morris who will have the honor of delivering this to your Excellency is now on his way to Westchester County. His principal Business thither is to establish the civil Authority of the State in that part of the County which has lately been relinquished by the British and to concert with the civil and military Officers and other principal Inhabitants of the County the most...
The Subject of your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th Instant is of such extensive Importance that it would require more Information than I am possessed of, to form the Opinion you request of me; and more Leizure than the present situation of Affairs admit of to arrange my Thoughts (which at best I would offer with great Diffidence) into System. It appears to me indispensably necessary that some...
I have prevailed on the Bearer, the Attorney Genl. to Repair to Philadelphia for the Express Purpose of disclosing to you certain Information of a very interesting Nature. The Communications he is to make are too extensive to be the subject of a Letter & it might be improper to intrust them to Paper. I, therefore, begg Leave to refer you to Mr. Benson for the Particulars of which he is fully...
Supposing all possible expedition, it will be a very considerable length of Time before the Dispatches forwarded by Sir Guy Carlton to Genl Haldiman, & which passed through this Place yesterday Evening, announcing Peace and directing Hostilities to cease can arrive at Quebec and be communicated from thence to the British western Posts and much Mischief may be committed in the interim. I would...
Be pleased to accept my warmest Thanks for the very agreable Communications made by your Excellency’s Letter of this Date which I have this Moment received. I sincerely congratulate your Excellency on this most interesting Event. I have the Honor to be with the highest Respect & Esteem Your Excellency’s most Obedient Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
I am infinitely obliged to your Excellency by forwarding the Dispatches which contain an Account of the conclusion of a general Peace. I most sincerely congratulate your Excellency and Family on this joyful Event. As the Legislature will rise—this Day I shall do myself the Honor, as soon after as possible, of visiting you on the Occasion. I have the Honor to be with perfect Respect & Esteem...
Inclosed I transmit your Excellency some Depositions which were taken on an Inquiry, I directed to be made relative to a Controversy between Mr Archer and Capt. Pyatt—This Inquiry was had in consequence of your Excellencys referring to me an Application from the Deputy Sherif of West Chester County who suggested that Captain Pyatt had escaped from him, And I had intended if it had appeared...
A considerable part of the Lands on which our Army is cantoned, and from which they are furnished with Fuel and Timber, is the Property of Mrs Jones (Step Mother to Doctor Jones) & her Children. At the commencement of the War they were in easy Circumstances but, having since received very considerable Sums which they had out at Interest in depreciated Paper Currency, they are now reduced to...
From the Affidavits which I now do myself the Honor to Inclose You and which I must request you to lay before Congress it appears that the Usurped Government on the New Hampshire Grants so far from yielding Obedience to the Resolutions of Congress of the 5th. December last have repeated their Outrages on the well affected Subjects of this State. The distressed situation of our fellow Citizens...
I have been honored by your Letter of the 12th. January. You may remember that in July last, I submitted to the Consideration of our Legislature certain Resolutions of the Assembly of New Hampshire making Overtures for an Amicable settlement of a Boundary Line between the two States, which were read & Committed but as the Session was Short and devoted principally to the particular Business for...
On my Return from Kingston Yesterday I was honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th Instant accompanied by one from Major Talmage. You may be assured Sir of my chearful Concurrence in every Measure which may be necessary to prevent the dangerous Intercourse with the Enemy mentioned by Major Talmage—Six only of the Number of Cruizers in the Sound have received their Commissions from me...
Before I was honored by your Letter of the 18th. Instant I had received a Line from Colo. Floyd on the same Subject. As my answer to his is forwarded by the present Conveyance I beg leave to refer you to it for Information. I hope it may prove satisfactory and I flatter myself no further Disappointment can take Place. Should I however be mistaken you have only to advise me of it & I will...
Inclosed you have the Information procured by Major Wychoff—He was unavoidably detained on the Island beyond the Time fixed for his Return, and altho he made his Report to me some Days ago—I conceived it unnecessary to forward it by Express to your Excellency & the present is the first private Conveyance that has offered. I have the Honor to be with Sentiments of the highest Respect & Esteem...
I this Day accidentally received the Information which your Excellency will find inclosed—It is imperfect as to some Points; but as it may be depended upon as far as it mentions Matters positively I thought it might not be improper to transmit it specially as the Persons whom I have sent to the Island may possibly be prevented from returning as early as could be wished ’tho by the last...
I hereby signify my Consent to any Indulgence which his Excellency General Washington may think proper to grant to the Bearer Mr Johno. Renselaer for the Purpose of his having an Interview with his Mother Mrs Bruce either in New York or at Cortlandts House and for obtaining certain Title Papers of his Estate in his Possession. Given at Pokeepsie this 3d Novr 1782 NHi .
State of New York. The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God free & Independent: To all whom these presents shall come send Greeting. Know Ye that we having inspected the records remaining in the Secretary’s Office of our said State do find there a certain Commission in the words following to wit “The people of the State of New York by the Grace of God free & independent: To all...
I was this Morning honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 19th Inst. When I transmitted the Affidavits &c. inclosed in my last, I was sensible of the Delacacy entertained by your Excellency respecting your interference with the internal Police of the french Army: but as the Persons concerned in the Dispute were Americans I should have had great reluctance in making the Application to...
The Bearer Mr Renselaer is very desierous of having an Interview with his Mother who is at New York at Dobb’s Ferry—The Merit of the Familly & particularly the Respect due to the Old Gentleman who is sollicitous that he may have this Indulgence induces me to consent to it and I shall be happy if your Excellency shall deem it expedient to permit it. I have the Honor to be with the highest...
I this Day received a Letter from Samuel Drake Esquire complaining of an Act of Violence committed upon a Constable of West Chester County in the Execution of his Office, a Copy whereof with the Affidavit which accompanied it I now take the Liberty of transmitting to your Excellency—I am persuaded I need not offer any Argument to induce your Excellency to give your Order that the Offender who...
I take the Liberty of transmitting to your Excellency a Copy of a Letter I received this Day from Genl Bayley with a Copy of the Examination of Capt. Snyder mentioned in Baileys Letter. Altho’ the information contained in these Papers, when compared with the pacific Conduct of the Enemy in other Quarters, would appear improbable, yet as the Informants w e re of good Character and merit the...
I am favored with your Letter of the 25th. Ulto. previous to which with a view of accelerating the collection of the last Tax I had prepared & have since dispatched a circular Letter to the several County Treasurers urging them & the other Officers concerned to a prompt execution of their Duty or that in Case of Neglect the Penalty of the Law will without favor be put into Execution. I have...
Last Saturday I received a Letter from Colo. Willet covering the Papers of which the enclosed are Copies. It was my Intention to have waited on your Excellency the next Day which induced me to omit making this Communication immediately and every Day since has produced some new—Business to prevent my leaving home—This I beg may be accepted as an Apology for the Omission. It was my Opinion that...
I have received your Letter of the 3d. Instant. I am not authorized to direct the Printer to deliver any of the Laws except a certain number of Setts which are by Law directed for particular Purposes. I have however mentioned your Desire to the Gentlemen of the Committee appointed to superintend the printing and distribution of them and requested them to furnish you with a Sett which I doubt...
I now transmit for your Excellency’s Information the Copy of a Letter which I received yesterday from Colo. Willet. From this Communication your Excellency will perceive that since the Enemy have taken Post at Oswego, our Western Frontiers are invaded by very formidable Parties and I am apprehensive unless the Force in that Quarter is augmented the whole of the Settlements on the Mohawk River...
Yesterday I received a Letter, by Mr Muirson, from His Excellency Governor Trumball (Copies of which and Mr Muirson’s Parole I take the Liberty of enclosing. ) His Character is justly described in the Letter; but as he came out under the sanction of a Flag and was received by the Authority at Fairfield I did not conceive it proper to order him into confinement. I have however paroled him to...
I have the Honor of transmitting your Excellency a Copy of a Letter which I received yesterday from John Hanson Esqr. of St Croix, how far the Intelligence it communicates may be depended upon your Excellency by comparing it with that you have received through other Channels, will be better able to determine than I am. I had accounts in the course of last Winter from New York informing that...
At the earnest Importunity of Coll Brinckerhoff I have consented that his Wife and Mrs Adrianse, with Major Wykoff to accompany them, visit their Relations in Queens County on Long Island; and I shall be happy in their obtaining a Flag from your Excellency for the Purpose. I can recommend Major Wykoff as a Gentleman of indisputable attachment to the Cause of his Country; and meriting the...