22931[Diary entry: 3 May 1772] (Washington Papers)
3. Mr. Foxcraft and Mr. Hoops went away after breakfast and Mr. Ramsay after dinner. I continued at home all day.
22932To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 14 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment Honour’d with your Excellency’s letter, of the 12th Instant, I shall endeavour to be at Morris Town on the day mentioned—Should the Arrangments I am to make in this Quarter, which my private letter will set forth, appear to your Excellency of such a Nature, as to render my attendance this way more important, than any service I can do by sitting upon the Court Martial, you will...
22933From George Washington to the Dey of Algiers, 3 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
To the most excellent and most illustrious Vizer Hassan Bashaw, Dey of the City and Regency of Algiers. Health, Peace, and Prosperity. I have received your Excellency’s letter bearing date the 5th of May last, by James Leander Cathcart, informing me that altho’ eight months had then elapsed since peace and harmony had been settled between our two Nations, not one Article of the agreement had...
22934To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 13 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of writing to your Excellency by Messenger Barry under the 8th Inst. Inclosed with this Your Excellency will be pleased to receive An Act of Congress of the 9th for restraining Malconduct in Continental Officers Civil & Military & for correcting an abuse in the Civil Line in appointing Supernumeraries. I have the honour to be with great Re[gar]d. LB , DNA:PCC , item 13....
22935To George Washington from the Marquise de Lafayette, 8 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
( Translation ) Department of the upper Loire at Chavamac near Brioude Sir, 8t Octr 1792. Without doubt you have learnt our misfortunes—You know that your disciple—your friend has not ceased to act in a manner worthy of you, and of liberty—You know that his unalterable attachment to the Constitution which he swore to maintain, drew upon him the hatred of a powerful faction which wished to...
22936To George Washington from Brigadier General William Thompson, 28 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
I should e’er now have sent you a return of the troops stationed at this place, with an account of the stores &c. but had the pleasure to hear of your having obliged General Howe with his Garrison to evacuate Boston & that you were immediately to march for this place yourself. The many works laid out for the defence of New York will require more large Cannon, than are here at present, and as...
22937To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 31 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with your favor of this date at 1/2 past one at the landing—we have put & are putting on board the vessels the ordnance stores &c.—I shall send in the same vessels the Corps of artillery—Corps of Sappers & miners and also Colo. Hazens Regt by sending Gen. Hazens Regiment suppose it will be unnecessary to send the hundred men you mention I thought it was best to send whole Corps &...
22938[Diary entry: 14 February 1786] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 14th. Thermometer at 32 in the Morning—36 at [noon] and 38 at Night. In the course of last night there fell 8 Inches Snow and it continued snowing slightly till 10 or 11 Oclock when it cleared & became a fine afternoon and evening—Not much wind and that variable sometimes at So. Et. then at No. West and then calm. Employed all the women and Weak hands (who on acct. of the Snow) could...
22939To George Washington from William Heath, 14 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was the last evening honored with yours of the 12th—am happy to hear your Excellency has thought fit to take the several measures mentioned in your letter, to bring forward the provisions—It is an object about which I am at present most concerned—as it is certainly the most threatning circumstance we have to encounter. If relief is seasonably and effectually afforded, I think we have little...
22940From George Washington to Brigadier General John Neilson, 31 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was this morning favored with your letter of the 30th with the New-York papers. That you may be enabled to keep up your correspondence in this way, I transmit you some of our latest in return. I am much obliged to you for the intelligence—and am persuaded you will be assiduous in procuring the earliest information from the enemy, and in doing every thing in your power to promote the objects...