21Lieutenant Colonels Robert Hanson Harrison and Alexander Hamilton to Colonels Charles O’Hara and West Hyde, 12 December … (Hamilton Papers)
We have read the Letter, with which you were pleased to favor us, this Afternoon. We join with you in lamenting, that the purpose of our meeting have been frustrated, and we assure you, that it is to us matter of equal concern and surprise to find, that there should be a difference in our respective constructions of the Resolve, to which you refer. Persuaded, as we were, that the terms of that...
22Lieutenant Colonels Robert Hanson Harrison and Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [15 December 1778] (Hamilton Papers)
Report of Lieutenant Colonels, Robert Hanson Harrison & Alexander Hamilton Commissioners &ca. To His Excellency General Washington— We, the Commissioners appointed by your Excellency for the purposes specified in the powers to us given on the 30th of November last—Beg leave to Report— That in pursuance of your instructions, we repaired to Amboy on Monday the 7th instant at 11 oClock; where we...
23To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 18 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Davies and myself beg leave to inform Your Excellency, that with respect to the business of the Commission with which we are honoured, we have been busily engaged in it, ever since Tuesday morning—and thus far but to little purpose. The Gentlemen appointed on the other side, though they profess the greatest liberality of sentiment and generosity on the part of sir Henry Clinton, have not...
24To George Washington from Robert Hanson Harrison, 6 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
On looking over the papers transmitted by Mr L. Washington in his letter of the 15th of March —he seems not to have stated his collections so clearly and methodically as might have been wished. He has omitted to set down the particular dates when the payments he received were made, which should have been specified. Nor will the credits of interest for the several terms mentioned in the List,...
25To Alexander Hamilton from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, [27 October 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
My Dear Hamilton we are only leaving Philadelphia. The most flattering attentions have been paid to Meade & myself and such as would not permit us to progress before, unless we had shown ourselves entirely disregardless of the great world. Besides mot⟨ives⟩ of a public nature concurred to make us stay thus long. From all I have seen and heard there is a good dispostion ⟨in⟩ Congress to do all...
26To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 28 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely sorry to inform You, that it will not be in my power to return to Headquarters by any means as soon as I expected & hoped when I came away. The business which brought me to Maryland, & which must be adjusted before my departure, will take infinitely more time than I at first apprehended, and will be prolonged the more by the event of my Mother in Law’s death, which has just...
27To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, 26 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the 26th of last Month, I had the Honor to receive Your Excellency’s Obliging Favor of the 9th, which I should have done myself the pleasure of acknowledging before, but was waiting for an opportunity to send it to Alexandria for the post. The mutiny in the Pennsylvania line, though I have heard that it has been accomodated, gives me great concern, both from the danger of the precedent, and...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Hanson Harrison, 26 March 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
I came here, My Dear Hamilton, on Friday night to bid adieu to the General, to you and to My other Friends as a military man, and regret much that I have not had the happiness of seeing you. Tomorrow I am obliged to depart, and it is possible our separation may be for ever. But be this as it may, it can only be with respect to our persons, for as to affection, mine for You will continue to my...
29To George Washington from Robert Hanson Harrison, 14 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
As soon as I came to the City, I applied to Doctr Baker for such pinchers as Your Excellency wanted, & finding he had but one pair, which he could not part with, I engaged him to procure a set. He has assured me he has made diligent inquiry upon the occasion & has not been able to succeed. The matter, he says, will still be retained in his mind and if he can find a pair, he will forward them...
30To George Washington from Robert Hanson Harrison, 21 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to accept my sincere congratulations My Dear Sir, upon the surrender of Lord Cornwallis—They are the Offerings of a Heart very warmly attached to Your Excellency, & most zealously so to the interest & happiness of the States. This Event, for the wisdom & vigor of the measures leading to it, it is the Voice of all here, is as honourable to You & the Allied Army as it is advancive of,...