En passant. As Church said in his letter to the Regulars, Remember I Never deceived you. If your Congress don’t give better encouragement to the Privates, than at present is held forth to them, You will have No Winter Army. There must be some small bounty given them on the inlistment. A Strange Mistaken Opinion Obtains among the Gentlemen of the Army from the Southward and if I mistake Not in...
1402To John Adams from John Trumbull, 14 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
I had the satisfaction last evening of receiving your very friendly Letter, which was the more agreable for being unexpected. As I am setting out tomorrow on a short Tour to the eastward, I have taken the only leisure moment to answer it. You may easily guess how much I am flattered by your approbation of the little essay, you mention in yours. As to its being mysterious, as you term it, you...
1403To John Adams from James Warren, 14 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
I last Evening received yours by Capt. Gist, and this Morning by Fessenden. It gives me great pleasure to see things in such a fine way and you in such Choice Spirits. I Congratulate you on the takeing of St. John’s. This news Fessenden brings with him from Hartford. This gives us great Spirits. He says likewise that Arnold was within twelve Miles of Quebec. You must know that our Anxiety for...
1404To Benjamin Franklin from [David Hartley], 14 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office; copy: Clements Library Hartley’s cast of mind was similar to that of the peace negotiators with whom Franklin dealt during his last months in England. All of them regarded reconciliation as a problem to be analyzed, ordered, and reduced to rational terms from which a rational solution might emerge. Barclay and Fothergill pinned their hopes on negotiating by...
1405To Benjamin Franklin from [David Hartley], 14 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office I send you a copy of the petition from the County of Berks for lenient measures with America, which my Brother and I have signed with about a thousand others. Some time ago the ministerial agents began to move for vindictive addresses, and got many from boroughs, several of them by surprize and management, as I have been informed by public newspapers. All these...
1406General Orders, 14 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
This moment a confirmation is arrived, of the glorious Success of the Continental Arms, in the Reduction, and Surrender, of the Fortress of St Johns; the Garrisons of that place and Chamblee being made Prisoners of war —The Commander in Chief is confident, the Army under his immediate direction, will shew their Gratitude to providence, for thus favouring the Cause of Freedom and America; and...
1407To George Washington from the Fairfax County Committee of Correspondence, 14 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
By order of the Committee of this County There was Ship’d from hence by Messrs Henley & Call, the 18th of November 1774–157 barrl flour, in the Schooner Volitile, Capt. Woodbury, Amountg £215.10/—and the freight paid here £23.11/—also fifty bushls beans amount £10—and Eleven barrl bread & five barrels of Flour, by the Capts. Hilton & Rust—Amount £14.9.3—The Contingent Charges pay’d here...
1408To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 14 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
You will receive this Letter by my Son George who accompanys your Lady, the Winter is so far advanced that I am fearfull she will have a very disagreeable Journey but I expect she will meet with every assistance she may have occasion for on the Road and should there be little Snow I make no doubt of her getting to you safe and before the weather is very cold; George is very desireous of...
1409To George Washington from William Ramsay, 14 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Ramsay, 14 Nov. 1775. In a letter of 4–11 Dec. 1775 to Ramsay , GW referred to “your favour of the 14th Ulto.”
1410To George Washington from Lund Washington, 14 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Inclose’d I send you an Ac[coun]t of money paid away by me Since you left Home with what I have Recieved from Mrs Washington & others—there are several sums of money which so soon as recieve’d were diliverd to Mrs Washington & therefore, were no longer in my Possession than whilst I was Countg it—I have also set it down that you may know who it was got from the money now in the House I have...