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I have received your Letter of the 26th. The matter respecting Capt. Duncan may remain as at present, until further directions. I am Sir Your Most Obed. &c. P.S. All Deserters who come to your Cantonment are to be sent to Head Quarters—they may draw provisions sufficient to bring them there. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
As the Season for Opening the Campaign now approaches, it becomes necessary that you collect and keep together the Officers and Men of the Regiment under your Command & hold them in readiness to march on the Shortest warning—I must also request that you will embrace every Opportunity the Weather affords to perfect the Regiment in its Discipline & Exercise. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
I am to acquaint you that in consequence of your Letter to me of the 12 of this Month I have directed Colo. Sheldon to Arrest Lt Kinney immediately on his Joining his Regiment & to send him here to Answer for his Conduct. You will therefore be pleased to furnish the Judge Advocate with the Charges Against him & the Evidence necessary to support them. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
Your several favors of the 28 feby and 1st March have been received and I am happy to hear that your detachments are so fortunate in their exertions to prevent the illicit Trade carrying on between the Inhabitants and the Enemy. The Judge Advocate shall have orders to prosecute Mr Kinney and to call for the Evidence in support of the prosecution. If the business you mention is such as requires...
Morristown [ New Jersey ] January 21, 1780 . Discusses value of a second attempt on Staten Island. Cautions that if it is undertaken it must prove successful. Df , in writings of George Washington and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Moses Hazen was appointed colonel of The Second Canadian Regiment on January 22, 1776.
Morristown [ New Jersey ] January 24, 1780 . Again discusses possible attack on Staten Island. Stresses need for success. Warns against putting confidence in Major Moses Hatfield. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
I have recieved your Letter of the 29th Ulto. You will have proper Notice, & permission for attending whenever your presence shall be necessary for the purposes you have mentioned. I am Sir Your Most Obedt Servt. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
Captain Duncan of your Regiment has preferred a Complaint of Injustice done him by an Arrangement made in Regimental Orders of the 1st of Jany last wherein Captains Goslain, Lee and Selin are appointed to the Command of Companies, though younger Officers than himself I shall be glad you will inform me of the principles on which this Arrangement was made that I may be able to Judge of the...
Your letter of yesterday came duly to hand. I am aware of the difficulties there would be in the way of surprising the enemy, and I approve the caution you discover. Nothing (as I before intimated ) will at present warrant the attempt, but a moral certainty that they are much off their guard, whic⟨h⟩ by your information does not appear to be the case. If there is only a subalterns party at...
I have received your favr of the 27th May—and am much concerned to find that Capt. Asgill has been sent on notwithstandg the Information which you had received of there being two unconditional Prisoners of War in our possession—I much fear that the Enemy, knowg our Delicacy respectg the propriety of Retaliating upon a Capitulation Officer in any Case, and being acquainted that unconditional...