1From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Stevens, 17 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to transmit you the inclosed Commission and the Copy of a Resolution of Congress that accompanied it. I received the Letter which inclosed the Commission on my way from Fredericksburg; but being separated from my papers just after it came to hand—and not getting the Letter again till a day or two ago, I have been prevented from sending the Commission till now. In...
2From George Washington to Ebenezer Stevens, 2 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased immediately to order out a party of fifteen or twenty picked Men under proper officers to go with Major Logan, lately of the York Line, to endeavour to apprehend a gang of notorious Villains in this neighbourhood—Major Logan will guide the party and point out the objects. Let them take three days provision if possible. The party will march as speedily as possible, as one of...
3From George Washington to John Lamb, 15 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was last evening favd with yours of the 13th by which I perceive that you are not fully acquainted with the motive which influences the superintendant of Finance to issue to the Officers only promissary Notes to a certain amount, payable in six months. It was expected that the arrival of a store ship from France, would have put it in our power to have supplied the Officers with the necessary...