41To George Washington from Robert Howe, 7 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 7 Aug. 1779. On 9 Aug., GW wrote Howe: “I have received your (private) letter of the 7th.”
42To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 30 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have just now had Accts from an Emissary below the following is an Extract from his letter “12000 Troops Embar’d & saild their Destination suppos’d to be Georgia principally, tho’ all of them it is thought will not go there, the 26th Regiment has been Draughted the Commissiond and non Commissiond Officers are all gone to England to Recruit a great number of Vessels suppos’d to be Victualrs...
43To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 16–17 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honourd with your Excellencys favours of the 11th Instt, one of them Reach’d me on the Evening of the 14th, the o⟨ther⟩ Early in the morning of the 15th. I had received informations Similar to yours and had written to your Excellency upon the subject and was just Sending off by Express whe⟨n⟩ your letter arrived and render’d his goi⟨ng⟩ un[n]ecessary. I had also written to Governor...
44To George Washington from Robert Howe, 16 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letters not found : from Robert Howe, 16 Oct. 1779. On 17 Oct., GW wrote Howe: “I was favd last Evening with your two letters of yesterday.”
45To George Washington from Robert Howe, 21 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letters not found : from Robert Howe, 21 Oct. 1779. On 22 Oct., GW wrote Howe: “I have been duly favored with your two letters—both of the 21st” ( DLC:GW ).
46To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 1 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
I hear every two or three Days from New York but the Details given me have not been consequential enough t⟨o⟩ be sent purposely by Express, & no safe casual Opportunity has lately happen’d. I have had a pretty good Account of the Troops that have sail’d from New York, & my Informants assure me they did not exceed two thousand—that the British themselves talk’d only of three, but that it is...
47To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 13 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Returns of the Connecticut Brigades were not sent because Genl Huntington said he had given in a Field Return just before He set off for this Post—& that of the first Massachusetts was left out in making up the Packet by Mistake —some small Alterations having happened in that Regiment, a fresh Return is now transmitted. No Recruits have as yet arrived but from the States—of Massachusetts &...
48To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 3 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that the temper of the Creek-Nation by the unwearied exertions of Mr Galphin a Commissioner of Indian affairs, and by the liberality of this state in supplying them upon generous terms, with those Goods they wanted, Seems at present to promise peace—Which I consider as a very happy Event for this state and that of Georgia; to both of which, they, and the...
49To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 27 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Extract from a Letter from Major Genl Howe—Lower Salem August 27. 1779. [“]Last night about 10 OClock, I had a Letter from Lieut. Colonel White, who with a party of Horse and Infantry I had posted at Stanwick—informing me, that he had received Intelligence of the arrival of a British Fleet, with seven Thousand Men—and at three this morning one of my Emissaries came to me with the following...
50To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 9 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
Having been inform’d that some Difficulty would arise in obtaining the Public Horses from those Persons into whose Hands they had been lodged to forage them through the Winter, & having had it confirmed by many Persons having refused to deliver those up which were call’d for until the[y] were paid the Expence of having foraged them—I directed Col. Hay to proceed in Person, & fall upon Measures...