51From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I received Yesterday your Favor of the 4th—I am greatly concerned at the rapid progress of General Burgoyne’s Army. I shall not enlarge at this Time for the Reasons mentioned in my last, and it is more than probable this will meet you on your Way to Head Quarters. I am Dr Sir Your most obedt humble Servant LB , NN : Schuyler Papers; Df , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
52From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 7 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 1st Instant I received last Night—Those of the 26h & 28th Ultimo came safe to Hand and in due Order. As Congress have advised you of their Inclination that you should come to Head Quarters, and as it is probable you will be on your Way when this reaches you I presume it unnecessary for me to enlarge upon the Subject of your several Letters or to add more at this Time than...
53From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Express with your’s of the 23d overtook me at this place last Evening. As soon as it was ascertained that the Enemy’s Fleet had left the Hook (which they did upon the 23d) I began to move the Army towards the Delaware, as it was the unanimous opinion, that as they made no Move up the North River Philadelphia was the most probable Object. From the best Accounts that we have been able to...
54George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 July 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Ramapo [ New Jersey ] July 24, 1777. Is disappointed in number of militia sent to Schuyler. Regrets inability to send Schuyler more Continental troops, but believes Schuyler will be aided by eastern states. Discusses strength of enemy. Is sending Major General Benjamin Lincoln to aid Schuyler and to command militia. Approves of stationing men about the New Hampshire Grants. Suggests putting...
55From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your two Favors of the 21st & 22d Instant with the inclosed papers are come to Hand. I lament, that you have not yet been joined by a larger Number of Militia, and that it has been found necessary to dismiss a part, even of those that have come to your Assistance, notwithstanding their presence is at this Time so urgently wanted—I am however in Hopes that your Situation will soon wear a more...
56George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 July 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Smiths Clove [ New York ] July 22, 1777. Is sending Brigadier General John Glover’s brigade to reinforce Schuyler. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Although the partially erased signature of H can be seen on the draft, this is without a doubt a Washington letter.
57From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I Yesterday Evening received the Favor of your Letters of the 17th & 18th Instant, with the Inclosures. I am heartily glad you have found two such advantageous Spots to take post at, and I hope, the progress of the Enemy will not be so rapid as to prevent your throwing up such Lines as you may esteem necessary for their Defence. Tho’ our Affairs for some Days past have worn a dark and gloomy...
58From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Since mine of this Date, in order the more effectually to enable you to give the Enemy a seasonable Check, I have come to a Resolution to send a further Reinforcement and have accordingly directed Genl Putnam immediately to forward General Glover’s Brigade to you. I have been informed of a fresh Arrival of Tents at Peek’s Kill, and have desired that every one which can possibly be spared from...
59From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
As I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you, since the 10th Instant, I am induced to hope that the Enemy have not pursued their Success with the Rapidity that was to be apprehended, and that General St Clair will have formed a Junction with you, before they advance upon you. Immediately upon the Receipt of your first Letter, concieving the Distress that you would labour under for Want...
60From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I last Night received your Favor of the 10th Inst. Amidst the unfortunate Reverse that has taken place in our affairs, I am happy to hear General St Clair and his Army are not in the Hands of the Enemy. I really feared they had become prisoners. The Evacuation of Tyconderoga and Mount Independance is an Event of Chagrine & Surprize not apprehended, nor within the Compass of my reasoning. I...
61George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 July 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Pompton Plains [ New Jersey ] July 13, 1777. Discusses supplies sent to Schuyler. Is astonished that there has been no word from Major General Arthur St. Clair. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
62From 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...
63From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday Evening, upon my March from Morris Town to this place, I received your’s of the 7th confirming the unfortunate Contents of the preceeding of the same Date. I will suspend my Opinion upon the propriety of this very extraordinary and sudden Evacuation until I hear something from General St Clair, for, in Truth it is altogether unaccountable—I most sincerely wish it was in my power to...
64From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was this Morning favored with your’s of the 7th Instant from Stilwater, inclosing a Copy of one you had received from General Learned. If that Letter is the only Foundation for your Apprehensions, you, in my Opinion, put a more unfavorable Construction upon it than it will bear—I rather think the Revd Mr Allen adverts to some Misfortune that had befallen Colo: Warner’s party, than to a total...
65From 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...
66From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 2 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was last Night favored with your’s of the 25th & 28h June with the several pieces of Intelligence which you had received from General Sinclair. Immediately upon the Receipt of your’s, I ordered the Troops which had been drawn down from peek’s Kill, to return to that place and sent off an Express to General Putnam to embark the four Regiments of Massachusetts with all their Baggage, that they...
67From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 20 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am favored with your’s of the 16h Instant from Fort Edward, but that of the 14th from Saratoga, to which you refer has not come to Hand—Supposing the plan mentioned in Amsbury’s Evidence to be true; I cannot concieve that it will be in the power of the Enemy to carry it into Execution. But to provide against all Events, I have ordered General Putnam to hold four Massachusetts Regiments in...
68From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 19 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
This will be delivered you by Mr Ryckman who returns with our Seneca Friends. I have shewed them every Mark of Respect in my power & taken such Measures as appeared most proper to impress them with Ideas of our Strength & Circumstances. They seemed to be extremely pleased and not only refused to go to Philadelphia on my Solicitations but thro’ our whole Camp, declaring they had seen what was...
69From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have your Favor of the 9h & 10h Instant. The Account brought by the Officers from Canada may not be entirely true, but that part which speaks of a Removal of some Regiments down the River, favors an Opinion that I have for some Time entertained, which is, that if General Howe had not a Certainty of a full Reinforcement from England, part of the Troops from Canada would be ordered round for...
70From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 23 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letters of the 18th & 22d Instant with their Inclosures. I am sorry to find there is such a Scarcity of Blankets, and doubt not, whatever Measures you pursue to procure a Supply, will be founded on the strictest propriety. I thank you for your Information respecting Mr James Fisher, and shall avail myself of it in a suitable Manner. I am Dr Sir with great Esteem &...
71From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 3 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
I received your Favor of the 30th Ultimo; and am obliged to You for the Trouble You have taken, in transmitting the Resolves of Congress, and in explaining the Reason on which they are founded. These appear to me solid & judicious; & I shall take immediate Measures, so far as depends upon me, to have the Resolutions carried into Execution with Dispatch, with such Improvements as shall seem to...
72From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 23 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Between one & two O’Clock this Morning, I received your Favor of Yesterday’s Date with a Return of the Troops You had sent to Bristol. Those belonging to the 2d 3d 5:6 & 11th Virginia Regiments, You will order to join their respective Corps immediately at the former Post. If the sixty Men, You mention to have arrived on the Night of the 21st are part of any of the above Regiments, You will...
73From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 21 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am favored with Yours of the 16th. I refer You to a Letter which I wrote Yesterday to Congress upon the Expediency of forwarding the Troops directly on, to join the Army here. But as it may take some Time to collect and fit them out properly at Bristol, I desire that I may have exact Returns from Time to Time, from the Commanding Officer there of the Corps to which the Detachments belong,...
74From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
Since Writing the Letter herewith, I received a Copy of a Letter from General Howe, transmitted me by General McDougall, in which he very modestly makes a Proposition for Major Edmisstons being permitted to go to Canada. Your own Reflections will immediately convince You of the Impropriety of Complying with It, and confirm what I before suggested, that the whole has been a Contrivance for...
75George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 March 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] March 12, 1777. Discusses necessity of concentrating forces. States that Philadelphia is enemy’s object. Weighs advantages of centralizing forces at Peekskill as against Ticonderoga. Df , in writings of John Walker, George Washington, and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Schuyler was at this time in Albany in command of the Northern Department.
76From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
It is of the greatest Importance to the Safety of a Country, involved in a defensive War, to endeavour to draw their Troops together, at some post, at the opening of a Campaign, so Central to the Theatre of War, that they may be sent to the Support of any Part of the Country, the Enemy may direct their Motions against. It is a Military Observation strongly supported by Experience, that “a...
77From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 23 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
On the 21st instant, I received the Favor of your Letter of the 15th. Colo. Pelliser’s Plan, I presume You have received, as It was transmitted a Day or two after my Letter of the 9th. Your Wishes respecting Brigr James Clinton will be gratified, I beleive. He will remain at the Post where he now is, at least for some Time. The Intelligence communicated by the Express who delivered my Letter...
78From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 19 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with Your Letter of the 4th instant: Your Observations respecting Captn Gamble’s Application, I think are exceedingly just, & he should not by any Means be permitted to pass the Lakes at this Time. If he is allowed to go to Albany, It will be under Restrictions, & You will not indulge him in his Wishes, till You Esteem his return Cannot be attended with Inconveniencies &...
79From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 9 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have now before me Your several Favors of the 25th & 30th Ulto & that of the first instant For which I return You my Thanks. Colo. Pelliser’s plan returned by Congress, I have read & transmit It to You. It seems to be designed on a large & an Extensive Scale. I cannot determine upon the Propriety of It, being not sufficiently acquainted with the Parts for which it is calculated & therefore...
80From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
I take this, the first Opportunity, of answering your Favor of the 15th instant from Fishkill. I thank You four Your Congratulation upon our late Successes, which I hope have stopped the Carreer of the Enemy for the Winter, & will give us some little Time to breathe, & to draw together the new Army, which begins, but slowly to make Its appearance. As fast as the New Levies most contiguous to...
81From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
It is some Time since I had the Pleasure [of writing] to or receiving a Letter from You. The Weight of Business, which has lain upon both our Hands, has I dare say hindered us from Writing Letters but when Absolutely Necessary. The Enemy by two lucky Strokes at Trenton and Princetown, have been obliged to abandon Every Part of Jersey Except Brunswick & Amboy & the small Tract of Country...
82From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
From my Remote Situation, & my Ignorance of the Country in which the Army under Your Command to the Northward, is to act, it is impossible for me to give any Peremptory Orders or scarcely my Opinion as to the Direction of Matters in Your Quarter. I am Confident Your own good Sense, Zeal & Activity will suggest to You the most probable Means of making amends for the Heavy Loss we have sustained...
83From 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...
84From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am now to acknowledge Your Favor of the 1st Inst. & to inform You, that the two Sachems of the Cayugas, with Mr Deane the Interpreter, have been with me & spent three or four Days. I shewed them every Civility in My Power & presented them with such Necessaries as our Barren stores afforded and they were pleased to take; I also had them shewn all our Works upon this Island, which I had...
85From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 4 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I last Night received the Favor of Your Letter of the 30th Ulto and am happy that You have Got the Directions of Congress upon the subject of Barracks, as It is high Time they should be begun where they are wanted. The Nails that are necessary I cannot supply. In Respect to Major Edminston’s Request, I cannot consent to his coming here. You may inform him that a General Exchange of Prisoners...
86From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 30 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favors of the 20th & 25th with their several Inclosures I received this Morning. The Letters for Congress with the Rest of the Papers I shall transmit them by the Earliest Opportunity. I cannot conceive That their Resolution of the 14th was Calculated or designed in the smallest Degree to give You Offence. The Application for Stores had been made, as a Requisition from General Gates,...
87From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 27 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday received Your Favor of the 23d instt. The Nails wanted by General Gates, cannot be sent from hence, our own Demands being Great & pressing & supplies but small. In Respect to building Barracks in the Town of Schenectady, if they are necessary, I suppose It must be done. However I do not apprehend, I have any Power to give Directions in the Case, Nor do I mean to do It, You had...
88From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 20 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have Your several Favors of the 9th 12th & 16 instants with their Inclosures. I am particularly happy to find by the Copies of General Arnold and Colo. Dayton’s Letters, that Your Apprehensions of an Indian War in Your Quarter, have Entirely Vanished, & that You have disbanded the Militia in Consequence. I clearly see & have severely felt the Ill Effects of short Enlistments, & have...
89From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 12 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
I Yesterday Evening received Your Favor of the 8th instant with Its Inclosures. You were right in supposing me unable to comply with General Gates’s Request; I am by no Means provided to supply so large a Demand & am Glad You Transmitted his Application immediately to Congress. The Papers You inclosed but too strongly indicate the Hostile Intentions of the Indians. However I trust if they...
90From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 4 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favors of the 29th & 31st Ulto with their several Inclosures have been duly received. I sincerely Wish the Event of the Skirmish on Long Island had been as favorable as reported to You. Hurried & Involved in a Multiplicity of Buisiness, I cannot give You a particular Detail of It, I shall only add that we lost in killed wounded & Prisoners, from 700 to a thousand Men. Among the Prisoners...
91From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
I received Your Favor of the 18th with its several Inclosures on Thursday by Mr Allen. My Letter of the 13th does not, nor was It meant to contain the most distant Hint of Your Entertaining Doubts or Suspicions of my Not having communicated to Congress, such Parts of your Letters as were Material. It was only designed to answer Yours, where You say, since my Arrival here, You had not written...
92From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 21 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
On Monday I received your Favor of the 16th inst. with Its several Inclosures. The Time You were in Treaty I can readily conceive, was sufficiently irksome & disagreeable. However, If the Good Consequences Which You meant should be produced from It, You will think It was extremely well spent. General Carlton’s Orders for their Indecent, Illiberal Scurrility, are equal If not superior to any...
93From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 6th Inst. I received this Morning by Bennet. The Reports made by the Emissaries who have been among the Indian Nations, appear not so promising as I could wish. However I trust, as so many have come to the Treaty, their Views are friendly, & tho they may not consent to take an Active Part in our Favor, that they will not Arm against Us. The Difficulties attending the Vessels...
94From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Before this I presume You have received a Letter from Congress inclosing sundry Resolutions of the 22, 23 & 24 Ulto among Which was One, Empowering their Commanders in Chief in every Department to Negociate an Exchange of Prisoners, upon the Plan there[i]n pointed out: There were two Others Mentioning the Case of Colo. Allen & the Persons taken with him. That the Views of Congress might be...
95From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 31 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favors of the 14th 17. 20 & 24th have been duly received, & I am extremely happy to find that You have discovered & apprehended some of the Ring leaders of a dangerous Plot, You say, was forming in the Neighbourhood of Albany. Nor do I hear with little Pleasure of the Harmony & Good Agreement between You & General Gates, knowing how Essential they are to the Service. Agreeable to Your...
96From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 17–18 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday Evening I was favored with Yours of the 12th Inst. with Its several Inclosures. As to the Propriety or Impropriety of Giving up Crown Point & Vacating that Post, It is impossible for me to determine. My Ignorance of the Country, My Unacquaintance with Its Situation & a Variety of Circumstances, will not permit me to pronounce any certain Opinion upon the Subject, or to declare...
97From 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...
98From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Resolve and Extract of a Letter You will see is of some Standing: Upon Considering the Matter, I do not see how It is possible for Me to carry this Resolve into Execution, with tolerable Precision or Certainty[.] The Persons the Witnesses & All Other Circumstances are so totally unknown, that any Inquiry made by Me must be delusive & Unsatisfactory. I am therefore under the...
99From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 11 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
I received Your Favors of the 1st & 2 Instant & agreeable to Your Request, transmitted Congress a Copy of the Former & of Its several Inclosures. The Important Subjects referred to them, have met with their Attention & the Letter Accompanying this, will inform both You & General Gates of the result of their Deliberations. I hope, that Harmony & a Good Agreement will subsist between You, as the...
100From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 28–29 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 25th & Its several Inclosures with General Arnolds of the same Date, I received by Yesterday Morning’s Express, that of the 24th came by to Day’s Post. I am sorry General Sullivan, in the Situation our Affairs were in, should have stopped at the Isle au Noix till he could obtain Orders for retreating further, thereby hazarding his Army without a Prospect of Success, &...