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...
6651To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with your Excellency’s Instructions of Philada 31st January & Middle Brook 12th Febry last, which shall be strickly complyed with to the Utmost of my power. & hope now Military Matters are in a proper Train they will be better Executed—but fear I shall not be able to get that thorough knowledge of the Country you require & that I could Wish, as few or none of the old Traders or...
6652To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 12 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 3d Instt inclosed in one of the 4th came safely to Hand. At that Time & till this Day the Business to which they refer was transacted by a Committee of Assembly in Concert with one from Congress. Their Proceedings I only knew from common Report & were thought by some inadequate to the End. Yesterday Advice was received that the Indians had begun at a Place called Bushy Run...
6653To George Washington from Captain William Galvan, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment honoured with your Excellency’s letter of the 11th instant, and return my respectfull acknowledgments for the favour you have confered on me, by taking the trouble to bestow Some of your important hours on my manuscript. This honour, Sir, is So gratifying to my pride that no attempts Shall be made to procure to my work any further illustration. I was far from contending with...
6654To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honr to address Your Excellency on the 7th and 8th Instant to which I refer. Your Excellencys letter and Instructions of the 6th Current I had the Pleasure to receive yesterday, and I beg to assure your Excellency that it is with real Satisfaction, that I enter upon a Service I have So much at Heart—I am Happy in that Paragraph of your Excellencys letter, in which are the words, “ A...
6655To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Reasons hinted in your Excellencys last Favor, are certainly of such Weight, as to prevent the Flag of Truce Vessells coming with Stores &c. for the convention Troops, from proceeding further than Hampton Road. Orders are therefore issued to Day for Vessells of our own, to be ready at that place to convey the Stores upwards to their Destination, under the Superintendance of proper...
6656To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Timothy Pickering, 13 March 1779. GW wrote to Pickering on 20 March : “I have the honor of yours of the 13th instant inclosing a Copy of a letter from Colo. Brodhead with an estimate of the Stores necessary for an expedition against Detroit.”
6657To George Washington from Major General Israel Putnam, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am honor’d with your Excellencys Letter of the 6th Inst., with Col: Hazens instructions, and shall get his Regiment upon the march as soon as possible. I beg leave however to mention to your Excellency that the roads are so exceedingly bad at present, that it will be almost impractible to get on the Baggage & Artillery. When he arrives on the Connecticut River, he will probably find it so...
6658To George Washington from John Jay, 14 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Jay, 14 March 1779. GW wrote Jay on 20 March : “I am honored by yours of the 12th and 14th insts. with their inclosures.”
6659To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 14 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will excuse in me the Liberty I have taken in requesting Colo. Morgan to call on you. That Gentleman can give you much and important Information relative to the State of our Western Frontiers. From the first View of the Commander in that Department at York Town he struck me as one of those who excel in the Regularity of Still Life from the Possession of an indolent Uniformity of Soul. The...
6660To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Procter, 14 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to Acknowledge the Receipt of your Excellancys Circular Letter, dated the 4th instant Relative to setling the rank of the Corps of Artillery, of which I gave my officers the earliest Information, in Order to enable them to present their several Claims in Form—I have been especialy more particular with those, who had not preferred them before, through the Channel of General...
6661To George Washington from Thomas Burke and Henry Laurens, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed papers are referred to us by Congress, and we wish for the assistance of your Ideas to enable us to make a more perfect report. we request you therefore to take the trouble of committing to paper your Opinion on the proposed terms for the exchange of Prisoners in the Southern department, and also any thing which you think will conduce to that End without Contravening your general...
6662To George Washington from Royal Flint, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
From the prospect of supplies for the next campaigne there seems to be a necessity of reducing the quantity of flour now issued in a ration. The deficiency will be made up either in meat or rice. There will be considerable quantities of rice ready early in the season for the purpose of such a substitute; and there is no reason to fear but meat both salt & fresh may be procured in the greatest...
6663To George Washington from John Jay, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will receive herewith enclosed a copy of an Act of Congress of this day for the Releif of such of the Troops of the United States as are not included in the Quotas assessed on the different States. I have the Honor to be With the greatest Respect And Esteem your Excellency’s most Obedt Servant. LB , DNA:PCC , item 14. This letter apparently was carried to GW by Maj. Benjamin...
6664To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to transmit to Your Excellency one of the latest papers from New York. I have had an account from Statten Island of several Letters being received there from Georgia mentioning many of the new Corps being kill there in a late Engagement: but I could not find that any of our friends saw the letters. They mention further that they were all lying close by their Shiping and...
6665To George Washington from Peter Scull, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Peter Scull, 15 March 1779. GW wrote Scull on 20 March : “I have your favs. of the 15th and 18th instants.”
6666To George Washington from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 15 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 3d Int. came to me at New London the 12th Int. I immediately sent Col. McClellan a Copy of it and requested him not to let passion or resentment dictate any of his Actions respecting the dispute with Capt. Sessions or rather General Sullivan—I am utterly unacquainted with the Action brought against Capt. Session, and believe it is brought by the Grand Juror and not by Col....
6667To George Washington from Ephraim Blaine, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Order to the Commissary General I receiv’d respecting the Magazines at Fort Pitt and Sunbury —and immediately gave the necessary Orders to my Assistants West of Susquehannah River for that purpose—Every Assistance shall be granted the Western Department with Provisions and have the pleasure to inform you that I hope it will be considerable, and that it will be in my power nearly to comply...
6668To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am greatly Oblidged for the Honor of your kind Letter of the 15th last Month. It was with great diffidence I mentioned the disaffection of the Officers towards General McIntosh, fearing it would give you additional Trouble, But I reflected that it might be better to do it at that Time, than be under the disagreeable Necessity of doing it at a future Day, when an enquiry might be attended...
6669To George Washington from Colonel John Crane, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
In Obedience to the directions contained in your letter of the 4th Instant for transmitting to Head Quarters my Claim of Rank in the Corps of Artillery, I herewith Send my Commission given by the State of Rhode Island in 1775, Also that of first Major in Colonel Knoxs Regiment in 1776, together with Some particulars Respecting them and the Rank of the Regiment under my Command. In Consequence...
6670To George Washington from James Duane, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour has been presented to the Committee of Conference. I beg you will do me the Justice to believe that my Zeal for the publick good—and may I be permitted to add—my Respect and Affection for your Excellency, will never suffer what you have at Heart to languish for Want of my best Exertions: Yet must I ask for Allowances for your Representatives, who are too much incumberd with a...