1To John Jay from Robert Troup, 30 October 1775 (Jay Papers)
I was, this Day, informed by a Carman, that you had requested him to supply you with Wood sufficient for the subsequent Winter. Agreeable to your Desire he has engaged a large Quantity for your Use, and is desirous of knowing when it will be convenient for us to receive it. I answered, that in the present Situation of affairs, you would not choose to encrease your Stock: My Opinion proceeded...
2To John Jay from Robert Troup, 22 March 1777 (Jay Papers)
I thought it would be best to defer writing to the Com m . of Arrangement about my late Appointment ’till Col. Livingston accepted of my Resignation. He, so far from being displeased, approved of my Conduct. I shall therefore not meet with the least Difficulty. By Dyckman I sent a Letter to the Committee. You will see it. I endeavoured to be as decent as possible— Tomorrow I shall set off for...
3To John Jay from Robert Troup, 29 March 1777 (Jay Papers)
Had I not been prevented by Business, I should have informed you earlier of what has happen’d below. But having not yet seen any Account altogether true, I have taken the Liberty of sending you the following Particulars, of which I was a Spectator. On Sunday the 23 d . ult o ., about 11 o’Clock in the Morning, the Brune Frigate, with the two Gallies taken from us last Fall, and four Transports...
4To John Jay from Robert Troup, 15 May 1777 (Jay Papers)
The Day after I arrived your Letter, to the General, came safe to Hand. He is pleased with the Contents, and doubts not you will do every Thing in your Power to promote the Good of the service.— Our Remoteness from Continental Congress will frequently oblige us to ask the Assistance of your Legislature. This, I am confident, will be readily granted if they possess that Spirit which marked the...
5To John Jay from Robert Troup, 2 June 1777 (Jay Papers)
I beg you will not form any unfavorable Opinion of my long Silence. Nothing would give me more Pleasure than to have it in my Power to write you a daily Account of every Thing that passes in this Department. But it is impossible. So far from being Idle, I have scarcely a Moment to attend to my Friends. Ever since my last I have been upon a tedious Command. The General desired I would...
6To John Jay from Robert Troup, 22 July 1777 (Jay Papers)
I have written to you repeatedly, since I have been here, but not having received an Answer to either of my Letters, I conclude they have not reached you. To the Disgrace of Human Nature, it has become a common Practice to betray the Confidence we repose in each other either by opening Letters, or not sending them to the Persons to whom they are directed. I have seen so many Instances of such...
7To John Jay from Robert Troup, 25 August 1777 (Jay Papers)
Had I heard of your Return from Philadelphia, I should not have omitted acquainting you with every material Circumstance that passed in this Department, since my Arrival here. But conceiving you are now at Kingston, I cannot dispense with the Pleasure of sending you the following Copy of a Letter, from Col. Gansevoort to Gen l . Arnold, dated Fort-Schuyler Aug. 22 1777. this Day received by...
8To John Jay from Robert Troup, 29 August 1777 (Jay Papers)
In my last I informed you of the Enemy’s Retreat from Fort Stanwix. Gen. Arnold upon, the earliest Notice of this fortunate Event, made a forced March to the Fort, with a View of harassing their Rear. In a Letter of the 24; he says Col. Gansevoort had anticipated his Design, by sending out a Party, which took 4 Royals, and a considerable Number of Prisoners. He adds that he shall, that...
9To John Jay from Robert Troup, 14 September 1777 (Jay Papers)
On the 9 th . Instant about 8 o’Clock AM. the Army marched from Van Schaicks Islands, & Londons Ferry. At 3 in the After noon it encamped at Forts Mills: and early the next Morning reached Still-Water. We took Post on the Heights—began to open Communications—and throw up a few small Redoubts, principally with a View of amusing the Enemy. On the 11 th. we rec d . Intelligence that Gen. Burgoyne...
10To John Jay from Robert Troup, 29 June 1778 (Jay Papers)
By a Letter rec d ., a few Hours ago, from Major Armstrong, we learn that our Army were, the Night before last, at English Town, in New-Jersey between six & seven Miles from Monmouth Court House, where the main Body of the Enemy were posted—that they were then marching, it is presumed, in Order to cut off their Communication entirely with South Amboy & the other possible Places of...
11To John Jay from Robert Troup, 16 August 1778 (Jay Papers)
Our Army is still encamped on the Heights near the White Plains— We shall move as soon as the Event of the R. Island Expedition is known— The last Accounts from that Quarter are—that General Sullivan had landed his whole Force on the Island, and was making regular Approaches towards the Enemy’s Works—that Lord Howe, with his Fleet, appeared off the Harbour last Monday—that the Count Destaing...
Inclosed is a Letter which was sent to me, two Days ago, by M r . Samuel Nicoll, who lately returned from England to New-York. He informs me that “it contains mercantile Matters of some Consequence tho of an old Date.” M r . Nicoll is a Brother of your old Acquaintance, Ned Nicoll, & went to Edingburgh, in the Beginning of the War, to perfect himself in the Knowlege of Physick. The more I...
13To John Jay from Robert Troup, 7 February 1779 (Jay Papers)
In the Conclusion of my last Letter to you I intimated that I should wait for Intelligence from England before I resolved either to leave the Army or to continue in it. I think it idle to form Conjectures about the future Measures the Ministry will adopt. To me, who am a Child in the Science of Politics, it would appear Madness in them to prosecute the War against us & the House of Bourbon....
14To John Jay from Robert Troup, 22 May 1779 (Jay Papers)
After mature Reflection I think it best for me to continue in the Army till the War is ended. You say an Officer who resigns at present will lose the Eclat his Services have given him. I thank you for your Advice, and have already improved it to Advantage, as you will find in the Subsequent Part of this Letter. Besides I feel my Happiness so intimately connected with the Prosperity of my...