1From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene or Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum or Brigadier General … (Washington Papers)
Capt. Duplessis has just delivered me yours of this Morning from Burlington. Every account from Philada confirms the Report that the Enemy mean to make a speedy Move. I shall not be disappointed if they come out this Night or very early in the Morning. You will therefore push forward, the Rear Brigades with all possible expedition and the Moment that the Troops and Baggage have all passed, let...
2From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 25 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Application has been made to me on the part of Capt. Perkins of the first Connecticut Regt for a discharge from the service —It must occur to the reflection of every person acquainted with military service, that the present time is exceedingly improper for such applications. Besides I am informed that Capt. Perkins has already left the Continent, or is about it, having obtained a Vessel for...
3From George Washington to Colonel Jedediah Huntington, 21 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have yours of the 15th instant. If filling up your Regt can be accomplished any thing the sooner by your remaining in Connecticut, a while longer, I have no objection, but you must send one of your Feild Officers forward to Peekskill to receive and form your small detatchments as they come up. I hope the late Measures taken by your Govr and Council to compleat your quota will prove...
4George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 28 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] May 28, 1779 . States that arrangement of the Army has been transmitted to Board of War. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
5From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, [11 October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 11, 1789. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by John Heise, Syracuse, New York, 1923, Catalogue 2531, Item 62.
6From George Washington to Jedediah Huntington, 13 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the 11th. As you will have the best Opportunity to be acquainted with the particular Circumstances, & uneasiness of your Line, I must desire that you will exercise your best Judgment & Discretion, & give furloughs to such persons as you shall find necessary & proper, & for such Time as you judge best. The Subject of the Memorial of the New Commissioned Officers, I...
7From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 16 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have just recd your favor of this date —I have not had any advice from the Commanding Officer at Paramus of the matter which it communicates, & therefore must request you to give me the best intelligence you can get From that quarter —If you have any Militia horse with you they may be serviceable, while the enemy are out, & enable you the better to give me an account of their movements—You...
8From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 14 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 2d Inst. meet me on the road to this place. I shall give directions to-day to the Adjutant General that the men of your Brigade who are on particular guards on this side the North River, be ordered to their respective Regiments. I am Sir & Df , in James McHenry’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . This letter has not been found.
9From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 2 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 16 of April and when I later conferred on the subject with the Secretary of War who informed me that he had returned to your son the his letter of resignation so that he l is now at liberty when he pleases to accept. His revocation affords has I assure you given me the greatest pleasure with true esteem I am Sir Your obed Sert ( Df , in the handwriting of...
10From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 6 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Brigade Major McCormick of the pennsylvania line two days ago sent his Commission and his Oath of Allegiance to the States to a Capt. Wilson of the same line and went off—What makes his disappearance the more suspicious is, that he has been for some time discontented on account of his Rank, and as he came over from the enemy at Boston at the beginning of the War, there is reason to apprehend...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 24 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I acknowledge the receipt of your’s of the 11th. instant. The privileges allowed to Vessels under twenty Tons appear to me in the same light in which they do to you. I should be obliged by your ideas of the most proper arrangement with regard to that description of Vessels; as the thing is perhaps not without difficulties. I have no doubt that the Importer must make entry, as well with regard...
12From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 21 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
From some inadvertence your letter, relative to vessels which put into the district of Newport, was placed among the answered letters, and has therefore lain without due attention. It is the duty of the Collectors of the several districts to pay attention to all vessels arriving within the same by whatever cause they may be led thither. If forty eight hours are likely to elapse after the...
13From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 23 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your coming to Morris as you wish tomorrow will be agreeable to me, & I request that should you give permission to any of the Officers at the Post to accompany you that you would enjoin them to return at night. The Enemy from the occasion which brings you here may be led to think that we shall be off our guard & attempt to enterprise something. I wish you to give directions for the Troops to...
14From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 7 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The case of the Brig Maria has been stated substantially in Conformity with your letter by Captain Stephenson. The following are my Ideas on the subject The Cap⟨t.⟩ Stephenson on entering the Vessel deposited his Register with you as usual, and if he clears out & applies to you for the Register again in order to depart, it is in the ordinary Course of business that you deliver it to him, with...
15From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 15 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding the Jersey Brigade has moved down in order to relieve your command, I wish you to remain where you are until you hear further from me. I am &. P.s. As I have recd intelligence of a movement of the Enemy, I beg you will keep the Troops in the most compact order & readiness to march on the shortest notice should circumstances require it. You will be prepared on the score of...
16George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 14 January 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 14, 1779. Instructs Huntington to supply Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Sherman’s regiment with clothing. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
17From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 8 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
On Rect of yours of the 23d Decemr I laid it before the Board of War for their direction. As the purchase of any kind of Cloathing out of the regular line occasions a deal of confusion, they will take the matter into consideration, and if they do not see a probability of supplying you in any other manner, they will direct Major Bigelow to procure Hats for the two Connecticut Brigades, which...
18From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 14 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Col. Sherman, who will deliver you this, informs me that his regiment has not received a supply of cloathing of any kind—I have not my papers by me and therefore cannot refer to what I wrote you from Fredericksburgh on the subject of cloathing for your Brigade—But if I recollect right, it was that it might be furnished out of the imported cloathing; provided you would engage to have all the...
19From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 8 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
I desire you will immediately detatch a proper Officer from your Brigade with orders to bring forward all the Men that may have been left upon command at the posts where the Brigade has been stationed, and who have recovered in the different Hospitals to which they have been sent—If any of the Men left at the Elaboratories have become expert at the Business and therefore useful in preparing...
20From George Washington to Jedediah Huntington, 15 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
It was a very unlucky Circumstance which you mention in your Favor of the 20th June—& has taken place without any Order from me, or Concurrence of mine. I am sorry however that the Assembly have taken such hasty Offence at the Measure, and have carried their Resentment so far as you inform—It could never be my Intention to call for, or Expectation to receive, other Men in the Room of those who...
21From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 5 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, December 5, 1789. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Chicago Book and Art Auction, April 27, 1932, Lot 84.
22From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 25 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 22. instant with the inclosed contract has reached me w— (Copy, in the handwritting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Acknowledges receipt of Huntington’s letter of May 22, 1799. Letter not found.
23From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 30 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
By an act of the last Session, provision is made for the payment of pensions to Invalids, for the space of one year from the fourth of march last, under such regulations, as the President should prescribe. The President having signified to me his pleasure, that the business in your state may be committed to your management; it remains for me to direct the necessary provision. I am therefore to...
24From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 18 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am informed by Colo. Bland who has the care of the convention Troops, that the first division of them would be at Sharon this Night. It is more than probable that many of these under the pretence of desertion will endeavour to find their way into New York; I would therefore wish you to stop all that may happen in your way and detain them untill you think their release may be safe—or send...
25From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 9 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of May 4 with its inclosure has reached me I take it for granted that you are making similar contracts throughout the State and that no time will be lost in effecting them as they are essential to the progress of the Recruiting service. with true consideration I am Sir Your Obed Servt ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Acknowledges...
26From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 21 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
If You hear nothing from me to the Contrary—You will march tomorrow morning by three OClock and join General St Clair with the pennsylvanians at or near Rockaway bridge on the Road from Morris to Pompton You will remain there till You hear further from me. I am Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt sert Df , in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Huntington, as senior...
27From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 17 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I perceive by your Letter of the 4th instant that I misapprehended you in respect to the question referred to in Your Letter of the 26th of September. I thought it related to the going from one port to another to deliver the inward Cargo which certainly cannot be done without previously paying or securing the Duties at the first port. But there is clearly no color for the idea that foreign...
28From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 10 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 10, 1793. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads: “acknowledging draft of $2000.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Anderson Galleries, January 24, 1908, Item 122. Huntington was collector of customs at New London, Connecticut.
29From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 25 June 1780 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Brig. Gen. Jedediah Huntington, 25 June 1780. In his second letter of 25 June , Huntington wrote GW that he had “recd Yours by Lt Keeler from Pequananck June 25.”
30From George Washington to Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 24 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago I received Your favor of the 10th Instant. It gives me much concern that there have been so many difficulties, respecting the Cloathing of the Connecticut Troops—and that they still exist in some degree. I heartily wish they had obtained their supplies through the ordinary channel, which would have been the case, if there had not been the most pressing applications to prevent...