1To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 18 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
It is matter of very great concernment and anxiety to have been the innocent occasion of so much trouble to your Excellency. The artful and very powerfull combination long since formed against me, made it necessary for me to object to an enquiry where I must bring a number of Citizen’s three or four hundred miles to support allegations or criminate myself. I do not wish to do either as I am...
2To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 3 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
This renews my application for leave of Absence, If your Excellencys arrangements will admit of such leave, I Shall feel a most sensible obligation I know very well that impatience has no rank among the military Virtues, but I am obliged at this time to acknowledge a very great anxiety to go home. I have the honor to be with very great regard Your Excellys most Obed. Servant DLC : Papers of...
3From James Randolph Reid to David Humphreys, 3 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The note you Sent me contains the Genl’s consent for my absence—I have between two & three hundred miles to go, and cannot possibly return by the 15th April—I could wish to have a limited furlough and that extended till some time in may If that can be granted I shall be much obliged. Your most obt Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
4To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
22d Feby 1783 I have been informed that a reduction of General Hazen’s Regt to the establishment of the Army is about to take place, which must eventually derange me. I take this early opportunity to inform your Excellency that I shall retire with infinite pain from a service, wherein a few virtuous and perservering Soldiers have (to the astonishment of the world) effected a glorious...
5To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 2 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I received a furlough from General Hazen at Lancaster on the 2d of last November with leave of absence from the Regt untill the 1st of December current. He did not tell me when the Regt was going, but I learnd they were come on towards the grand Army, I accordingly took the shortest and best rout for this place where I arrived yesterday. I am now very unwell from cold and fatigue and am in...
6To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 30 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry that necessity so often obliges me to call your Excellencys attention from matters of more concernment to my individual situation. The industry of Brigadier General Hazen and his good wishes towards me has enabled him to collect sufficient materiels for bringing me to a second tryal, and he has put me in arrest for "disobedience of orders, unmilitary conduct, and for ungentleman and...
7To George Washington from Major James Randolph Reid, 7 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
[ Fishkill, N.Y., 7 Dec. 1780 ]. Reid asserts that Col. Moses Hazen’s court-martial “for cheating the soldiers of his Regiment” convinced the court of his guilt, “but the proof was insufficient to convict him.” Reid reiterates complaints against Hazen, ranging from nepotism to fraud, and appeals to GW to “see the proceedings, which will sufficiently prove that my representation is not the...