1To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 21 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing to your Excellency two Letters that have been committed to my Care. Not a Word of News from Europe, but what is taken from the New York Papers. Have the Honor to be with great Respect Your Excellency’s Most Obed. & very, Hble Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
2To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 18 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Elias Boudinot, 18 June 1778. GW wrote to Boudinot on this date that “I have received your two letters of this date.” In the letter to GW, Boudinot refers to “your Excellency⟨’s⟩ Letter of this date,” which apparently is GW’s letter acknowledging receipt of Boudinot’s two earlier letters. If so, Boudinot wrote to GW three times on 18 June, and two of his letters have...
3To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 9 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing to your Excellency a Copy of the recommendatory System of finance lately adopted by Congress, together with their address to the several States, which may serve for your Information and amusement. Mrs Boudinot & Miss Susan join me in presenting the most affectionate Complements to Mrs Washington. I have the Honor to be Your Excellency’s Most Obed. & Hble Servt DLC...
4To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the assurance contained in my letter of yesterday by the Post, I do myself the pleasure of enclosing the Act of Congress referred to therein; and have the honor to be, with great regard, Your excellency’s Obedient & very humb. Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
5To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 22 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
Being just returned from German Town, I beg leave to inform your Excellency that I was happy enough to perfect the Exchange of the following Officers, for those of equal Rank due to us from the Enemy, which I hope will meet with your Excellency’s Approbation. I have the Honor to be Your Excellency’s Most Obedt Hble Servt ALS , DNA:PCC , item 152; copy, DNA:PCC , item 169. The accompanying...
6To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 16 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since my recovery from my late Indisposition so far as to attend to any Business, I have been looking over the Papers relating to my late Office of Commy Genl of Prisoners, and among them I find the report of my transactions at German Town just before and at the time of the Enemies evacuating of Philadelphia, which was designed for your Excy, but prevented from being sent by my sudden illness....
7To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 7 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have duly recd your Excellency’s several public dispatches of the 9th 18th & 30th of Aprill and 3d May, all which have from time to time been laid before Congress. We are without any farther advices from Europe than what your Excellency has already recieved, except that Compte De Vergennes in a Letter to the Minister of France of the 29th Feby, mentions that there are no difficulties in the...
8To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 11 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s polite letter of the 4th instant, and am much obliged by the intelligence it contained. We have since received letters from our Agent Mr Harrison at Cadiz, a copy of which I enclose. By a letter from General Greene of the 11th of November, we are informed, "that the evacuation of Charles Town will not take place till the 20th or 21st. The...
9To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 18 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am this Moment returned from the Point opposite to Gloucester—As soon as the City was a little reconnoitered, and prudent precautions taken, I went down with two or three chosen Persons to the Point from whence the Enemy had just gone over—We plainly discovered their rear & indeed the direction of the whole Party from the Dust—Two Deserters came over to us while we were there, one swam the...
10To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 16 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 8th instant, enclosing Mr Chittendon’s receipt, came safe to hand and was duly laid before Congress. I have also the honor to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s private letter of the same date, enclosing the Bank Notes for 95 Dollars on account of the late Revd Mr Caldwell’s Children—I cannot but again repeat on behalf of these distressed Orphans, the...
11To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 23 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will give me the utmost credit, when I assure you, that it is with the most unfeigned Joy, that I congratulate your Excellency and the whole army on the confirmation of the signing of the definitive Treaty of peace by all the belligerent powers, on the 21st of January. This happy event has just been announced by an Express from on Board a Sloop of War in the River, dispatched...
12To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 20 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I omitted writing yesterday, supposing that your Excellency would have had constant Intelligence from the Gentlemen of the Army, and not being able to send any thing very material, knew it would be but troublesome. Finding this Morning that I was mistaken in the first, I push the Bearer forward with the enclosed Acct of facts which you may depend upon, as they come from a Person of Credit, who...
13To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 26 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the first Moment of Leisure since our Arrival here, to inform your Excellency that Congress have removed to this Place—The Reasons of our Conduct, I cannot delay the Post to give you in full—They are in short contained in the enclosed Proclamation—I think my last was on Monday, the Committee appointed to Confer with the President & Council of the State, could not prevail to have the...
14To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 9 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing to your Excellency, an Act of Congress of the eighth instant, together with the Letter, therein referred to, and have the pleasure to be Your Excellency’s Most Obedient & very Humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington. In consequence of the 7th Article of the treaty between America & England I with a number of others, have been to New York in order to...
15To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 21 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
This Afternoon I dispatched an Express to your Excellency (a copy of whose dispatches is inclosed) informing of the mutinous conduct of the Troops in the Barracks in this City, part of whom lately came in a mutinous manner from Lancaster. I thought proper to call Congress together this evening since writing by the Express, in order to deliberate on the proper steps to be taken in consequence...
16Colonel William Grayson, Lieutenant Colonels Robert Hanson Harrison and Alexander Hamilton, and Elias Boudinot to … (Hamilton Papers)
The Commissioners, appointed by His Excellency General Washington, “to confer, determine and agree upon a Treaty and Convention, for the exchange of prisoners of war, and for all matters whatsoever, that may be properly contained therein,” are inexpressibly concerned, to find, that the Commissioners on the part of General Sir William Howe should think it necessary to make the objections stated...
17To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favours of the 6th inst. gave me great pleasure, as they announced your safe arrival after so expeditious & fatiguing a Journey. The Resolution of Congress requested by your Excellency was forwarded several days since, but it cannot answer your expectations. Congress wished to have your Excellency’s personal aid at forming the peace arrangement whenever that Report was called...
18To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 8 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
This will be handed to your Excellency by the Count Del Vermé, a nobleman of Milan in Italy—By Means of his Cousin Prince Caraminici an Ambassador at the Court of London, he was recommended by the Duke of Portland to Dr Franklin Mr Laurens & Mr Adams, who have warmly addressed this illustrious Traveller to the Notice of Congress—Permit me Sir to request your kind attention to the Count on his...
19To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 16 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Since my recovery from my late Indisposition so far as to attend to any Business, I have been looking over the Papers relating to my late Office of Commy Genl of Prisoners, and among them I find the report of my transactions at German Town just before and at the time of the Enemies evacuating of Philadelphia, which was designed for your Excy but prevented from being sent by my sudden illness....
20To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 26 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mr Boudinot thinks it his Duty to report to his Excellency General Washington, that Complaints of the cruel Treatment of a number of our Prisoners, taken by the Enemy & confined in the Goals of the City of New York, are daily increasing—That Mr Boudinot as Commissary General of Prisoners, has made the best Inquiry into the Truth of the Facts alledged, that his Circumstances will admit—That on...
21To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 4 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Nothing but that indisposition with which I have been confined for upwards of four Months, could have excused me from waiting on your Excellency e’er now, and welcoming you once More to New Jersey, a State so much indebted to your former residence here, for its present safety & Happiness. Permit me Sir, while I am sensible of your aversion to any unnecessary parade or Ostentation, to enclose...
22To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 29 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The unexpected and melancholy news of the death of the late Major General Lord Stirling, contained in your Excellency’s letter of the 20th instant, was laid before Congress immediately on the receipt. The special services rendered to his Country by that Nobleman, from the very earliest period of the present war to the day of his death, has not only rendered his memory, in the highest degree,...
23To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 16 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I must beg your Excellency’s excuse from particularly answering your late favour, till I return home—The design of this is merely to acquaint you, that I have very great reason to believe that the design of the Enemy in their late Embarkation is to go along the Coast of Virginia under the Idea of plundering &c. but really to make a sudden March into the Country & rescue Burgoyne’s Troops—I...
24To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
You can only judge from your own feelings on this occasion, with what peculiar joy I congratulate your Excellency and the Army on a constitutional cessation of hostilities by the public Act of Congress, I have the honor to enclose. Thus far we may truly say, that we have passed thro’ the wilderness by a series of Miracles, which nothing short of the own ruling Providence of God could ever have...
25To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 21 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
It is but this moment that your Excellency’s Letter of the 14th Instt has got to Hand. The alarming illness of Mrs Washington gives Mrs Boudinot, myself & Daughter, real distress; our Prayers shall not cease for her recovery --Ere this I hope your Excellency has recd mine by the Secretery of War, which will inform of the Intentions of Congress, that you should make your Journey here entirely...
26To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 30 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
It would have given me great Pleasure to have been favoured with your Company on Thursday, but am fully convinced of the necessity of Business being attended to; whenever your Excellency can spare a day I shall think myself very happy in being honored by a Visit. The Person referred to in your Postscript, is a Major Ward of the new Levies, who has made very full Offers of this kind, on...
27To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 30 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing your Excellency by the last Post, since which a Captain Reed, late of one of our Frigates, arrived from Charles-Town, where he had been carried a Prisoner. He informs me that he left that Town on the 4th instant. Two divisions of Transports had sailed, one for St Augustine, the other for Halifax, with Stores and foreign Troops—That every thing looked like a speedy...
28To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 3 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
General St Clair is now here, and this moment suggests an Idea which he has desired me to mention to your Excellency, as a Matter of Importance in his View of the Matter in the intended Inquiry at Philadelphia—That the Judge advocate should be directed to attend the Inquiry—By this Means the Business would be conducted with most Regularity—The Inquiry might be more critical—and as several...
29To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 24 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 16th inst., which was duly laid before Congress, committed and will soon receive an answer. Enclosed is an act of Congress of the 18th inst. relative to Mr Reuben Harvey. On the 21st, (We are informed from pretty good authority), the Mercury Frigate arrived in New York, with the definitive Treaty, which, it is...
30To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The arrival of Captain Barney this morning creates so great a field for the circulation of reports agreeably to the complexion of the Reporter, that I have thought it not amiss to inform your Excellency of the substance of his dispatches, tho’ you may perhaps receive it from other hands. He left L’Orient the 17th of January last—His latest dispatches are dated the 25th December. The...