1To George Washington from William Livingston, 3 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 3 Sept. 1779. On 7 Sept., GW wrote Livingston: “I yesterday recd your favr of the 3d Inst.”
2To George Washington from William Livingston, 30 September 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 30 Sept. 1777. GW wrote Livingston on 1 Oct. : “I was just now honoured with your Favor of the 30th Ulto with It’s Inclosures.”
3To George Washington from William Livingston, 20 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s Favour of the 13th instant, & shall acquaint the horsemen with your Excellency’s Sentiments concerning their offer. Respecting the progress that is made under our late Law for filling up our continental Battalions, I not able to give your Excellency any information, as no returns of the Levies are made to me; but I have reason to believe from the Enquiries I...
4To George Washington from William Livingston, 17 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 17 Mar. 1777. GW writes to Livingston on 1 April that “I have been honoured with yours of the 17th and 26th.”
5To George Washington from William Livingston, 3 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 3 Mar. 1777. GW wrote to Livingston on 8 Mar. that “I this Moment had the Honour to receive your two favours of the 3d Inst.” The missing second letter apparently contained a brief request for GW to forward a letter of the same date to John Jay.
6To George Washington from William Livingston, 5 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 5 Aug. 1779. On 16 Aug., GW wrote Livingston: “I had not the Honor till two days ago, to receive Your Excellency’s Letter of the 5th Instant.”
7To George Washington from William Livingston, 20 October 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 20 Oct. 1777. GW wrote Livingston on 22 Oct. : “I have the honor of yours of the 20th.”
8To George Washington from William Livingston, 20 April 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 20 April 1778. In a postscript to his letter to Livingston of 22 April , GW wrote: “I received your favors of the 17th & 20 Inst.”
9To George Washington from William Livingston, 12 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have your Excellency’s favour of the 7th before me, & have dispatched orders for the removal of the live stock & Provisions from those parts of monmouth w[h]ere they are most in danger of falling into the Enemy’s hands to places of greater safety—As our Assembly will rise to day, I shall expect your dispatches at Elizabeth Town, & have the honour to be with great respect your Excellencys....
10To George Washington from William Livingston, 26 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 26 Mar. 1777. GW writes to Livingston on 1 April that “I have been honoured with yours of the 17th and 26th.”
11To George Washington from William Livingston, 29 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellencys Letter of the 29th instant; & cannot but flatter myself that the Legislature of this State, will, without hesitation, adopt the measure therein recommended—I am with the greatest esteem your Excellencys most obedient & very humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
12To George Washington from Brigadier General William Livingston, 4 July 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Brigadier General William Livingston, 4 July 1776 (first letter). GW began his letter to Livingston of 5 July : “Your Favour of the 4th came safely to hand,” and near the end he wrote: “another of your Favours came to my Hands informing me that the Enemy have thrown up two small Breast Works on the Cause way from the Point.” The second letter is Livingston’s letter of...
13To George Washington from William Livingston, 9 June 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 9 June 1777. GW wrote John Sullivan on 12 June that “Govr Livingston, in a letter of the 9th instant, informs me that he had ordered the Militia of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland to assemble at Mount Holly and that Colo. Bowes Reed was to assemble his Regt at Borden Town.”
14To George Washington from William Livingston, 16 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 16 July 1778. On 16 July, Livingston wrote GW , “I did myself the honour this morning to acquaint your Excellency that I had been yesterday to the Southward.”
15To George Washington from William Livingston, 18 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellencys letter inclosing the Queries. I doubt not a matter of so great importance will attract the first attention of the Legislature—After closing the war so gloriously, I hope we shall not be deficient either in Justice or Gratitude to those who have been so particularly instrumental in obtaining an honorable peace, as the American Army—with the greatest esteem I...
16To George Washington from William Livingston, 27 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 27 Oct. 1779 . Brig. Gen. William Woodford wrote Major General Stirling from Pompton, N.J., on 28 Oct.: “An honest Country man about twelve o’clock to Day picked up a letter in the Road near this place from Gove[rnor] Livingston to his Excellency which must have been dropped by a careless Express … the Letter was dated yesterday” (see GW to Stirling,...
17To George Washington from William Livingston, 1 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to your Excellency a Resolution of our Legislature desiring me to apply to you for some Ammunition. Lead is not to be purchased in Philadelphia; & tho’ we have employed a person to procure it in Boston, his journey thither & back again will necessarily keep us too long without that essential Article. I have the honour to be with the greatest esteem Dear Sir your...
18To George Washington from William Livingston, 7 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 7 Aug. 1778. On 11 Aug., GW wrote Livingston : “I was favor’d with yours of the 7th in[stant] this morning.”
19To George Washington from William Livingston, 29 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
As the inclosed (which was taken at Staten Island,) may probably be of some Service on Lieutenants Troup’s Trial, I thought it my Duty to send it to your Excellency. I have wrote you fully on the Subject of your Requisition of 1000 of our Militia to garrison the forts along Hudson’s River, by Major General Sullivan. I have still some apprehensions that the Enemy will play you a trick by...
20To George Washington from William Livingston, 13 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty to acquaint your Excellency that having the most solid Reasons to believe that it would be imprudent for me to reside at present, at Persippeney, I have fix’d my Quarters (after having visited my Family) at Mr Parsons, at Collo. Wards’ Quarters, about two miles from your Excellency’s. What induces me to inform your Excellency of this particular is, that in case you should...
21To George Washington from William Livingston, 9 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have directed the Bearer to take your advice respecting the part he is to act to counterplot the Designs of the Enemy. They want excedingly to know what Troops are stationd in this State, & to establish a line of Communication by Land—Should you advise Morseiles to aid in settling their Posts, & he is trusty enough to communicate it to us when established, we might by that means procure...
22To George Washington from William Livingston, 19 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s Letter of yesterday; & have the pleasure to undeceive you in the Information you had received concerning the draft from our Militia to serve for the Campaign. By the two Acts which I do myself the honour to inclose your Excellency, you will perceive that the Act for raising the 624 men upon the plan you mention has no connection with the Act for compleating...
23To George Washington from William Livingston, 10 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
your Excellency’s Letter of the 8th Instant respecting the Enemy’s Movements up the North River is truly alarming; nor shall I be wanting to use every Mean in my Power towards procuring all the assistance which this State can afford to oppose their Attempts. But the Necessity of such assistance being speedily procured, (and must if it is to answer any purpose) & the dilatoriness unavoidably...
24To George Washington from William Livingston, 14 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
It is represented to me, that Robert Wilson, who I am told, acts as Commissary under Mr Blain, for the Counties of Sussex, Morris and Somerset in this State, has in the County of Somerset employed only part of the Mills. By this means, the distance that Wheat must be carted is most amazingly encreased; and either the Farmer put to an unnecessary trouble, or the States to an additional Expence....
25To George Washington from William Livingston, 8 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received the honour of your Excellency’s Favour of the 4th instant; & am very far from differing with you in Sentiment that the Militia of the Country should be drawn out by the Authority of the Government rather than by the pecuniary reward attached to their Service. This has always been my opinion; & I have used my utmost Exertions to get our Militia upon that footing; but it is a...
26To George Washington from William Livingston, 29 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am quite ashamed of my present application as it necessarily infers a neglect of duty in those whom I do not chuse to blame. It were tedious to give you a narrative of the fruitless pains I have taken to have this State supplied with proper Magazines of arms & ammunition. But so it is that we must now either fight without ammunition or not fight at all. If your Excellency can possibly spare...
27To George Washington from William Livingston, 1 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the 24th January I had the Honour of receiving after the Assembly was adjourned to this Place, which is a Village in the County of Gloucester about six miles from Philadelphia. The several Points mentioned by your Excellency I think of the greatest Importance for the better regulating our Militia; and as the house have now a Bill for that Purpose before them, I shall in the strongest...
28To George Washington from William Livingston, 7 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was lately presented with a Petition from a considerable Number of the well-affected in the County of Bergen, shewing by an enumeration of particulars their inability to furnish a sufficient guard for their own Security against the Depredations of the Enemy, or the attempts of a set of domestic ruffians hired to carry them into Captivity; & praying me to procure them assistance by...
29To George Washington from William Livingston, 8 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s Favour of yesterday, and in consequence of it I forwarded to General Forman by the same Express the passports requested. My reason for not granting them on General Forman’s application, was the great abuse which I am informed is made of sending people into the Enemy’s lines under pretense of obtaining intelligence, especially at Newark & Elizabeth Town, where...
30To George Washington from Brigadier General William Livingston, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to Mr Adjutant Reed, nothing material has happened here, excepting that we are fully Confirmed in the Enemy’s having Posts along the whole Staten Island Shore as far as Amboy —They have thrown up a couple of small Breast Works on the Cause way leading from the Point over the Salt Meadows at the Entrance of the two Bridges. It is said that last Night they brought two pieces of...