1731To George Washington from Nicholas Cooke, 30 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of addressing your Excellency in Behalf of Mr James Aborn who waits upon you with this Letter. I can assure your Excellency that he is a worthy honest Man, and hath upon all Occasions approved himself a sincere Friend to the Liberties of his Country. He sent a Vessel last Spring to the Eastward to trade and Fish, and to cover his Interest from the Enemy made Use of a Friend...
1732To George Washington from Moses Gill and John Pitts, 30 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 30 November 1775 . Present “Mr Gillam Tailer, a Gentleman from Boston, of a good Family & whose Character is unexceptionable, as being desirous to serve his Country.” LS , in John Pitt’s writing, DLC:GW . Moses Gill (1731–1800) of Princeton, Mass., was a member of the council and served on the committee of supplies. See Tailer to GW, 1 Nov. 1775 .
1733To George Washington from Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, 30 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Camp Near Prospect Hill, 30 November 1775 . Certifies that he has “no Objection that ... John Wetherbee Should be Dischargd from the Army.” ADS , DLC:GW . Although this document is not addressed to GW, his discharge of Wetherbee on this date indicates that it was sent directly to him. John Wetherbee, a private in Capt. Reuben Dickinson’s company in Woodbridge’s Massachusetts regiment, was...
1734To George Washington from Noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers of Captains Thomas William’s and Jonas Hubbard’s … (Washington Papers)
[December 1775] . Petition for reimbursement of damages sustained on the Quebec expedition. “Some of your Pettitioners By Reason of the Badness of the Weather, at the Cold Season of the Year, Suffered Considerable Losses, by going up the River; and others by being Destitude of Provisions were obliged to Leave the Detachment and Return back from Sd Expedition; were at Considerable Expence in...
1735To George Washington from William White, December 1775 (Washington Papers)
[December 1775] . Declines appointment as an ensign in “Capt. Peters Company in Colono. Larnerds Regiment” and gives his reasons. ALS , sold by Parke-Bernet, Catalogue 1825, item 464, 29–30 April 1958.
1736To George Washington from William Palfrey, 1 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Palfrey, 1 Dec. 1775. On 4 Dec. Robert Hanson Harrison wrote to Palfrey: “I am commanded by his Excellency to inform you that he received your favors of the 1 & 3 Instant” ( DLC:GW ).
1737To George Washington from Major General Israel Putnam, 1 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
I shall esteem it as a particular Favour if your Excellency will be so obliging as to recommend my Worthy friend Collo. Henry Babcock to the Honorable Continental Congress to be appointed to the Rank of Brigadier Generall in the Continental Army. I have been upon Service with him several Campaigns the last War and have seen him in Action behave with great Spirit and Fortitude when he had the...
1738To George Washington from the Stonington Committee of Safety, 1 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Recd Your Excellency’s Orders of the 27th Ult. Accompanied with the Papers belonging to the Sloop Warren, now in this port, and in consequence the Committee convened, and have taken the same into Consideration, and find that John Denny the Master of Said Sloop is a Native of Great Britain & is Suspected to hold principles Inimical to this Country, Wherefore we dont think Proper to discharge Sd...
1739To George Washington from John Hancock, 2 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your severall Letters from the time the Committee left the Camp to the 19th of November inclusive being duly Rec’d, were laid before Congress, on which, as well as on the Report from their Committee, they have Come to sundry further Resolutions, which I have the honour to inclose you —The Money order’d is getting ready and will be forwarded with all possible Expedition—The Congress have...
1740To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 2 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 2 Dec. 1775. On 15 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your Favours of the 28th Ulto and 2d Instt.”