1From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen, 24 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of yesterday came duly to hand. I am aware of the difficulties there would be in the way of surprising the enemy, and I approve the caution you discover. Nothing (as I before intimated ) will at present warrant the attempt, but a moral certainty that they are much off their guard, whic⟨h⟩ by your information does not appear to be the case. If there is only a subalterns party at...
2From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 4 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favr of the 27th May—and am much concerned to find that Capt. Asgill has been sent on notwithstandg the Information which you had received of there being two unconditional Prisoners of War in our possession—I much fear that the Enemy, knowg our Delicacy respectg the propriety of Retaliating upon a Capitulation Officer in any Case, and being acquainted that unconditional...
3From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen or the Officer Commanding His Regiment, 25 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to direct a discreet Subaltern of your Regt with a proper party to proceed to Danbury and execute the within order—You will fill up the Blank with the name of the Officer. I am &. Df , in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The order, addressed “To [ ] of Colo. Hazens Regt,” reads: “You will proceed with the party under your command to Danbury,...
4From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen, 25 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have before me your letter of this date. The doubling of the garrison on Staten-Island, besides the giving a greater security to the place may have something further in view I am informed by Major Thayer (who commands a detatchment at Paramus) that the enemy have also doubled their numbers at Pawlus Hook. These circumstances would point to some offensive operation on their part; and I would...
5From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 25 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favored with your Letter of the 20th. There appears to be so much force in the reasons you give for extending the furloughs in your Regt beyond the limitation of Genl Orders, that I shall not hesitate to grant you that authority, only desiring; you will use it with the utmost discretion, & confine the indulgence to characters which are absolutely to be relied upon & to cases of...
6From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen, 20 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received Your favors of the 10th Ult. & 10 Inst. I am obliged to you for the Intelligence from Canada and should be happy if circumstances would authorize an implicit credit to be given to the whole of it. The persons who gave it to Major Whitcomb and Captain paulant, I fear, have taken it up in several parts upon slender grounds. The pressing situation of Affairs will not permit...
7From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 3 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Enemy, persisting in that barbarous line of Conduct they have pursued during the course of this war, have lately most inhumanly Executed Capt. Joshua Huddy of the Jersey State Troops taken Prisoner by them at a Post on Toms River—and in consequence, I have written to the British Commander in Chief, that unless the perpetrators of that horrid deed were delivered up, I should be under the...
8From George Washington to Colonel Moses Hazen, 21 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of yesterday. I do not object to the excursion you propose upon Staten Island; if upon full enquiry you think it promises success—and advantage equal to the risk. You are sensible that if we make a second attempt and fail it will add much to the disagreeable effect of what has already happened. This I say not to discourage you, but as a motive to caution. You ought...
9From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 2 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will proceed immediately to Christiana Bridge at which place I expect you will meet the Boats laden with Ordnance and other stores—You will make the proper general arrangements for the speediest transportation of them across to the Head of Elk—Colonel Lamb or Lieut. Coll Stevens will attend particularly to the assorting and forwarding the Ordnance Stores, which ought to be first carried...
10From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 25 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have sent orders to Colonel Humpton in Philadelphia, to send on immediately all the recruits who have been inlisted from among the Prisoners of War—Colonel Humpton is to send them as far as Princeton and I must desire to send a sufficient number of Officers to meet them there and conduct them to this place—their numbers I believe amount to about 120 or 130. Provision is to be furnished them...