21From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I last Night received your Favor of the 9th Inst. I wrote to you Yesterday by Express, informing you of what I had done towards furnishing you with such Supplies as are in my power to give and the Obstacles that at present lie in the Way of granting you others that your Situation demands—I have in Addition to that sent, by Express, to peek’s Kill to order on thence to you as speedily as...
22From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 30th Ulto was duly received. I should hope the Enemy will never carry the post at Tyonderoga, and that the Force now there (with such Aid as may be called in upon an Emergency) will be sufficient to check the progress of their Arms in that Quarter. In the present Situation of Things, I cannot detach, with any Degree of propriety, more Troops from peek’s Kill, than what I have...
23From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I inclose you the opinion of Mr Pettit A.Q.M.G. and the Commissaries Mesrs Flint and Stuart, on that paragraph in your letter of the 22d In[s]t. which respects the purchasing the flour and wheat in those districts of Pennsylvania and Jersey, above Trenton, with their several sentiments how far a water conveyance can be conveniently adopted —Mr Stuart is particularly conversant in the...
24From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you Yesterday of which the inclosed is a Copy. Since which I have been informed that your Illness has obliged you to quit the Army, and General Wooster as the Elder Brigadier, will take Rank and Command of Mr Montgomery—General Wooster I am informed is not of such Activity as to press thro’ Difficulties, with which that Service is particularly environ’d. I am therefore much alarmed for...
25From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed You will receive a Letter from Congress, Which came to Hand this Morning, with a Copy of some resolves to which You will pay Your Attention as their Execution will be under Your Direction. I have also enclosed a Letter for General Burgoyne Which I request You to seal & forward to him as soon as You have perused the Important & Necessary Resolves It contains. The spirited Measures...
26From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 10 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
In my letter of the 5th instant I had the pleasure of acknowleging some paragraphs in yours of the 29th ultimo. In this I would express my obligations to you for your sentiments on the several objects of our proposed expedition, with which I have so frequently troubled you. But I find myself if possible still more indebted for your further offer of services, and cannot but feel an increase of...
27From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 9 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have only time to thank you for your several favours of the 16th 21st & 30th of May first and 5th of June, the last in behalf of the Board of Commissioners, and for the pains you have taken to acquire information of the Country between Fort Shuyler and Oswegatchie, Lt Harbenbergh has fully communicated to me his plan and the observations he has made, I have requested him to make a second...
28From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 21 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 20th of December found me as you conjectured by that fire side, from which I had been too long absent for my own convenience; to which I returned with the greatest avidity the moment my public avocations would permit; and from which I hope never again to be withdrawn. While I am here solacing myself in my retreat from the busy scenes of life, I am not only made extremely...
29From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 11 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I this Morning received Your Favor of the 7th inst., and am to inform You, That It is not in my Power to supply You with a single Nail, nor are they to be procured in Philadelphia, as General Mifflin tells Me, Who has just returned from thence. For Want of them, we are building here, Huts of sod, Logs &ca to cover the Troops & Which I am in Hopes will make a tolerable Good shift. Since My...
30From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 28–30 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
You may easily conceive that I had great pleasure in perusing your Letter of the 18th Instant which with the Inclosures I received last Evening—It was much damped by my finding that General Montgomery had the same Difficulties to encounter with the Troops under your Command that I have with these here—No Troops were ever better provided or higher paid, yet their Backwardness to inlist for...