6621To George Washington from John Mitchell, 6 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
It has not been from want of atention to your Excellencys commands that I have not sent you the several Articles you wrote for, long ere this; but it has not been in my power to procure them sooner. I have sent the Queens ware, Candle-sticks & Snuffers by a Waggon who setts off this day, they are as carefully packed as I cou’d get them, & hope they will get safe to Head Quarters the...
6622To George Washington from Peter Scull, 6 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Peter Scull, 6 March 1779. GW wrote Scull on 11 March : “I have recd yours of the 6th instant inclosing the Resolves of Congress relative to the Cloathing due the Army for the Year 1777.”
6623To George Washington from George Clinton, 7 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
In Consequence of a Complaint made to me by James Hallett an Inhabitant of this State against Lieut. Colo. Holdridge I inclose your Excellency Copies of two Affidavits taken on the Subject not doubting that your Excellency will (if you can with Propriety interfere) give such Orders respecting the Matter as will insure to the Party complaining the Justice to which he is entitled. I am With the...
6624To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 7 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The fore going is a Duplicate of my letter of the Date there in mentioned, and as I have not received your Excellencys answer to it, I am apprehensive that it has not reached Head Quarters. I beg your Excellency will please to observe that my Regiment has not received a Blankit to every two Men—and we have nothing Provided for Sumer Cloathing—I have applied to Genl Putnam for orders with...
6625To George Washington from Colonel Christian Febiger, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
At the Request of Captn Calmes who is desirous of leaving the Service. I do certify that to the best of my Knowledge he has settled all his Accounts with the publick and is not indebted either to the united States or the State of Virginia except for some Articles, which he had from the State Store and for which he has deposited monney in the hands of Captn Taylor to settle. pr Captn Calmes I...
6626To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have lately received a letter from Genl Bayley of Cohaas, by which I am Sorry to find he is apprehensive Some of his enemies will miss represent matters to your Excellency with respect to the Public business he underTook when at white plains the last Sumer, and I was Still more Surprised by a letter from a friend at albany who Says that he heard it Spoke off Publickly “That Genl Bayley at...
6627To George Washington from George Mason, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I shall make no other Apology for my long Silence, than candidly telling You the Cause of it. Sensible of the constant & great Load of public Business upon Your Hands, and knowing how little Time You had to spare, I thought it wrong to intrude upon it, by a Correspondence of mere private Friendship, or the Communication of Matters of little Importance: this, & this only, is the Reason I have...
6628To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencys Favour of yesterday I recd. The men that returned from the Indian country I was informed lives in Sussex County, I do not know their names. I had the account from a Mr Meeker Major of Milita living not far from the Court House. I ask pardon for not mentioning the Boots befor; on the rect of your former letter I spoke to the man about them, and he informed me that it was the...
6629To George Washington from George Mercer, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have written you two Letters since October last, which I am informed will not reach you sooner than this—as the Gentleman who took Charge of those Letters has been detained at Nantes, and I recommend this to his Care. Though I have not the Pleasure of hearing from you, the Public who are so much and so justly interested in your Welfare and Triumphs, inform me often of you; And I think Sir...
6630To George Washington from the Officers of Colonel Henry Jackson’s Detachment, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
We the Officers of Colo. Henry Jackson’s Detachment, in behalf of Ourselves and Soldiers, beg leave to represent to your Excellency— That the State of Massachusetts Bay have been pleased, by various Resolves, at different times, to grant Gratuities to the Officers and Soldiers belonging to the fifteen Battalions raised in that State; some of those Gratuities they have also been pleased to...
6631To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
After having concluded my Letter of the 1st continued to the 7th Inst. I was honored with your Excellency’s of the 26th Ult.—I shall not lose a Moments Time in procuring the Intelligence your Excellency requests. This Morning I have received an Application from Oneida for a Supply of provisions for the Indians, who have very little left to subsist on, and will in the Course of twenty Days have...
6632To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 8 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Our last Assembly resolved that Ge[nera]l Nelson be directed to purchase four geldings to be sent on as a present from the State to yr Excellency—the g[enera]l being under the Necessity of going to Congress—desired me to undertake it —I have purchased you two Exceeding fine ones—and shall Attend the petersburg races which happens on the 1st day of April next, where I shall get two more, & will...
6633To George Washington from Captain Nathaniel Ewing, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was appointed on the 3d January—76 a first Lieut. in the Regiment late Smallwood’s, and served that Campaign, And upon it’s establishment as the first, and the Incorporation of the seven Independant Companies as the second Continental Regts in the Maryland Line on the 9th of October following and five new Regiments ordered to be raised pursuant to a Resolve of Congress of the 16th Septr—76,...
6634To George Washington from Captain Jotham Horton, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Memoral of Jotham Horton of Boston, a Capt. in the Continental Train of Artillery, Humbly Shews, that your Memorialist, had the Misfortune to be taken a Prisoner in Fort Washington from whence he was Carried to New York and kept a Prisoner Nine Months, there & at Long Island, after having Obtaind a Parole he at the Latter part of the Time being Abused by a Fellow at Long Island, Struck...
6635To George Washington from William Livingston, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s favour of the 3d instant inclosing the depositions which I had the honour some time since to transmit you—As I cannot answer it, without seeing the parties, I must postpone it, till I have an opportunity to consult them on your Excellencys proposals which are equally just & honourable. I am just now applyed to by Mr Van Nest a Son of one of our Council, &...
6636To George Washington from Brigadier General Thomas Nelson, Jr., 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Shall I get the favor of you to deliver the inclos’d Letter to Mrs Washington? I brought it with me from Virginia, and should have sent it sooner, but by mistake it has been for some time mislaid. Notwithstanding my utmost endeavours, it has not been in my power, to procure for you, such Horses as I would wish you to have. Several have been offerd that I did not approve of, & others, that I...
6637To George Washington from Brigadier General William Smallwood, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Our Field Officers desire me to request your Opinion on the following Questions, as they judge the Resolve of Congress of the 24th November to be silent thereon. Does a Title to Promotion, upon a vacancy previous to the 16 Sept.—76, give Rank from the Time such Vacancy happend, & ought to have been filled, whether the Party acted in it, under Brevet or otherwise? If it does, are the Officers...
6638To George Washington from Major General John Sullivan, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the hono’r to inform your Excellency, that some time after Colo. Jacksons Corps arriv’d in this department, a number of his Officers presented a Memorial to me, setting forth, that, Colo. Jackson did not behave as He shoud have done in the Action of Monmouth, and expressing their dissatisfaction, in being commanded by an Officer, whose Courage and Conduct, they had powerful reasons to...
6639To George Washington from Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 14th, Ulto. It gives me the greatest Pain to find that your Excellency should form the most remote Conjecture that any of the Officers of Colo. Angell’s or Webb’s Battalions had given the least Countenance to riotous Behavior. They have uniformly cultivated a Spirit of Discipline, ever since I had the Honor of being acquainted with them,...
6640To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Weissenfels, 9 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
at a Request of Lt Colonel Regnier made to your Exellency at Valley Forge, to have a Board of General officers to Setle his Rank, Which Resolution your Exellency wass Pleased to Confirm—May 29th 1778; Whereby it appears that the Rank in the Line wass Setled in his favour, but the Rank of the Line in this State, against him. I Presume from the above Circumstances and the Resolution of Congress...
6641To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr, 10 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Recovery of my Health encouraged me to accept the Command of these Posts during the Winter Season, which, if any is with me a Season of Health—The Undertaking has again convinced me that my Constitution is no longer equal to the Severities of active Service—the reduced State of the Regiment and Abundance of Officers in that Line, were additional Inducements with me to leave the Army—I did...
6642To George Washington from Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 10 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
When I gave Colonel Sherman an Order for the french Cloathing agreeable to your Excellencys Permission I hoped the rest of my Brigade might do without —but I find so many of them destitute & ragged that I have thought proper to give your Excellency a State of the Cloathing recd a considerable part of which was of very ordinary unsuitable Cloath & almost all without Lining & did but little...
6643To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 10 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I inclose to Your Excellency the New York paper of Yesterday. I have intiligence that a returning Cork Fleet of 17 Sail is to sail for Cork this day or to-morrow, they fell down yesterday—and there has been scattering Cannon heard ever since. I have further that Admiral Gambier is to Sail to morrow, or next day, on pr[e]tence of paying a visit to New Port; but in reallity it is believed to New...
6644To George Washington from Major John Clark, Jr., 11 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I waited at your quarters yesterday evening in hopes of seeing you, but was informed you were engaged; upon this, I requested Doctor McHenry to inform you I wanted leave of absence to regulate several matters in my department, as the Board of Treasury have lately made a new arrangement therein. They have by a Resolve of the “23rd Feby 1779 appointed three Audrs for the different Districts, Wm...
6645To George Washington from James Geary, 11 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your two orders are come to hand —Am very sorry ‘twas not in our power to send immediatly on the receipt of your first order an exact and accurate return of the Cloathing then remaining in this Store, as the chief or major part of all the Cloathg we have on hands was never opened by us ’till the receipt of your Excellency’s first order, when we thought it very necessary in order to make an...
6646To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 11 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
It is now upwards of four months since I had the honor to receive yours of the 29th of Octr, inclosing a resolve of the Hon. Congress of the 22nd of the same month, directing that Major General Gates should forthwith repair to Boston to take Command of the Continental Forces that were or might be in the Eastern district. Your Excellency in that letter was pleased to observe, “I inclose you the...
6647To George Washington from Peter Scull, 11 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Peter Scull, 11 March 1779. GW wrote Scull on 13 March : “I am favd with yours of the 11th.”
6648To George Washington from Captain Donald Campbell, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to inform your Excellency that on the 23 Ultmo I went to Newyork on Parole and on my Return to this Place on the 8 Instant was met at Bonham Town by Captn Conway of Dutchess County Virginia who informed me that he must search my Trunks and other Bagage & upon looking into it he took away some articles a List of which is inclosed on Pretence that I had brought them from Newyork...
6649To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Clark, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
By Lt Colonel Mebane, I send your Excellency a return of the Men of the 1st & 2d N. Carolina Regiments reinlisted during the war—opposite each man’s name is the expiration of his former inlistment, the Bounty paid him in dollars and the Officer who reinlisted him I have not had time to compare it with the Muster rolls but the officers assure me they have ben very careful, to comply with...
6650To George Washington from John Jay, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure of acknowledging the Receipt of your Excellency’s Favor enclosing an Extract of a Letter from Major General Putnam. Herewith enclosed is a copy of an Act of Congress of the 5th Inst. for the Payment of certificates given to Inhabitants from whom Supplies have been irregularly obtained —Another of the 9th for recruiting the Army, & a third of the 10th Inst. for accepting...