51To George Washington from Lewis Nicola, 15 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of your Excellencies Orders of the 12th of June last we have arrang’d the relative rank of the Subalterns of the Connecticut Line, and enclosed a Roll of them in numerical order for your Inspection and further observation. In this business we look for our guide generally, the certifyed Returns given in to us which we regulated by the best establishd rules laid down for the...
52To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 23 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am honor’d with your Excellencys letter of the 13th and you may depend on it that the Arms, Accoutrements and Quarter Master Stores shall, be delivered to the State troops enlisted for three years, and to none others. Col: Olney writes me that a party of the Enemy about 20, were lately discovered near the South end of Lake George, a party which he immediately sent out after them could find...
53To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
On the 16th I was honord with the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 9th with the enclosures there in mentioned. after fully Considering the busyness; I concluded it would be best to Commit the Management of it to Lt Colonel Olney who is at Saratoga, and will best know which of his Officers are the most proper for the interprize; the enclosed letter which went off Yesterday contains...
54To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 24 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
The board of Officers Appointed to examine into the principles of the late Arrangement of the Subalterns in the Connecticut Line. Do Report it as their Opinion that the principles followed by the board of field Officers, in forming that Arrangement, are widely different from those pointed out as the Basis of such settlement by the Board of General Officers Convened near Dobbs’s ferry in August...
55To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 19 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
In order to answer the several Questions Stated by your Excellency on the 15th it will be necessary to fix some Certain Number to the strength of the Regiments that are to Compose the Northern Army this Campaign; at the time of its begining to operate; and I hope we shall be safe in Calling them. 12000. And that if the Enemy evacuate the Southern States we may expect from thence 2000 And...
56To George Washington from William Heath, 2 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
At a board of general Officers of the american Army held at camp near Dobbs’ ferry August the 2. 1781 by order of his Excellency the Commander in chief to consider three plans for the succession of the Medical department and report thereon. Present Major General Heath Brigadier General Knox Major General Lord Stirling Brigadier General Glover Major General Lincoln Brigadier General Paterson...
57To George Washington from Ethan Allen, 6 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The fifth Campaign drawing near Towards Opening, and Lake Champlain (from the last Intelligence) being broke up, and the Enemy’s Ships of Force and Scouting-parties Every day expected down the Lake; which may Annoy and Massacree the Frontier Inhabitants, has given rise to great uneasiness, as this Frontier is but weakly guarded and widely extended, which has Induced the Governor of this Infant...
58To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Ethan Allen, 2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
Having Procur’d the favour of Writing a few Lines to your Excellency, I Cherfully Exbrace the oppertunity and Entertain fond Hopes Shortly to pay my compliments to your Excellency Personally; The Kings Officers Incourage me that it will not be long before I am Exchanged, and I doubt Not but that your Excellency will Promote it, the more so, as I have suffered a long and sevear Imprisonment;...
59To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Ethan Allen, 28 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd Your Excellency’s Express this day, with a Bravet Commission; I Esteam the Approbation of Congress, your Excellency and my Country in General, Above gold and Silver. am now recruiting my Constitution, and for that purpose have Laid out a Certain regimane of Diet and Exercise. The Enemy keep their Ships of war Cruising in the lake but do not as yet Infest our Extensive frontiers, Tho it...
60To George Washington from Ethan Allen, 16 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the earnest solicitation of the Brownson family who have a brother in Captivity with others who are ungenerously used by the Enemy as well as from a sense of duty to my friends who are suffering from the Cruely of the Common Enemy I am Induced to address your Excellency on this Important Subject particulary on their behalf. The facts are Collected from prisoners (principally)...
61To George Washington from Captain Heman Allen, 1 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Salisbury, Conn., 1 Aug. 1777 . “Suffer me to inclose Copies of several Letters, directed to me by Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Kings 71t Regiment, the first of the 17th March, the second of the 20th & third of the 30th of April last. “I have been informed that Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, with four or five other Colonels of the Enemy, have been detained for a considerable...
62To George Washington from Jonathan Allen, 20 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Cambridge, 20 April 1776. Requests payment for service as a chaplain in the Continental army. “I left my congregation 200 miles without a single dollar for my support . . . I laboured near 4 months without provision or pay but charge but three being ill some part of the time. . . . I deliver’d in my Bill to General Sulivan, who promis’d to deliver it to Your Excellency but by his sudden march...
63To George Washington from Levi Allen, 27 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have rode some hundred miles in consequence of my brother Ethan Allen (commonly cal’d Colo. Allen) being taken prisoner near Montreal 25th Sept. last[,] waited on Your Excellency at head-quarters in Cambridge in Decm. last, since that waited on Genl Schuyler on the same business, he read me a paragraph of Your Excellency’s letter directing him to enquire what was become of Colo. Allen, and...
64To George Washington from Nathaniel Coit Allen, 11 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
It is with the greatest reluctance that I now apply to your Excellency on a Matter which has given you much trouble, nothing but real injury would have urged me to this application—On the 1st of April 1781. was commanded to Boston where continued ’til last March when join’d the 10th Massachusetts Regiment found Mr Cary Rank’d as Capt. Lieut. of the late Colonel Marshall’s Regiment and myself...
65To George Washington from Noah Allen, 13 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Lieutenant Darius How has Exhibited his Reasons to me for leaveing the Service and I think they are Sufficient And Would Recommend him to your Excellency for a Discharge But Cannot Say but he his Wanted in the Regiment. DNA : RG 93—War Department.
66To George Washington from Samuel Allinson, 19 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Thy Letter of the 10th Inst: inclosing one for the Commandg Officer of Major Lees light Horse I received the 17th and can do no less than acknowledge thy kindness & attention to the representation made to thee of the abuses done me by Lt Kearns. The “abhorrence which thou expressest of every violence done to the inhabitants” correspond with the respectable character which I have ever hear’d of...
67To George Washington from Samuel Allinson, 31 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Thy Character, in the station appointed thee, at this singular and difficult period, having obtained the general esteem of Mankind, I am encouraged to address thee on a matter, which, it is apprehended, ought not to be buried in obscurity, until the action is properly noticed by those in superior command. On the 21st instant, Lieut. Kearns of Major Lees Choir of light horse, seeing me take a...
68To George Washington from Private John Allison, 16 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellancy Genl Washington Commander in Chief of all the United States of North America &c. &c. &c. The Humble Petition of John Alison Soldier in the fifth New York Regt in the late Captain Hutchins Company —Most Humbly Sheweth: Whereas your Excellancies Petitioner, having only Inlisted for the Term of three years, and that time being Expired the first day of January last past, and...
69To George Washington from John Durham Alvey, 8 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
When I first enter’d the Army under Your Excellencies Command, (which is nearly five Years since) it was with an Intention, of continuing, as long as my health would admit, and the Allowance of my pay sufficient to support me. the former within these two years past, I find is much Impair’d, being of late Subject to Rheumatick pains, owing to frequent Colds I have caught, the latter within...
70To George Washington from John Amboy, 14 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
The above see below is a copy of a Letter I received last morning from Shrewsbury which I wish safe to hand. In a New York Paper of the 9th Inst. I saw the following. "On Sunday last was sent in here by some of his Majesty’s Ships the Rebel Frigate Protector bound from Port au Prince to Boston Carries 12. 12s 8 g un s, 6 6 pounders had many valuable Articles with 10.000 Dollars on Board; I am...
71The American Commissioners to George Washington, [August or September 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft ): Library of Congress The Marquis de la Fayette, a young Nobleman of great Expectations and exceedingly belov’d here, is by this time probably with you. By some Misapprehension in his Contract with the Merchants of Bordeaux he was prevented from using the Produce of the Cargo he carried over, and so was left without a Supply of Money. His Friends here have sent him over about £500...
72To George Washington from Du Bois de l’ Amoligniere, 27 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I send inclosed a discourse to the people whose liberty is the fruit of your labour this discourse dictated by circumstances may serve as a preface to an important work a project of Legislation, at which I have been some time working—I am no legislator and therefore it is not my own glory that I have in view, but solely the happiness of the Nation who shall adopt it—to offer it to America will...
73To George Washington from William Stuart, 2 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
We the Subscribers Officers in General Hazens Regiment, Trusting in your known desposition to an equal desposal of justice to all your Army beg the liberty of representing to your Excellency what we Suppose to be a grieviance of the highest Nature—Capt. Anthony Selin having been introduced into the Regiment: as we Suppose very unjustly causes much discontent among us—He is a Gentleman almost a...
74To George Washington from Major John André, 1 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
Buoy’d above the Terror of Death by the Consciousness of a Life devoted to honorable pursuits and Stained with no Action that can give me Remorse, I trust the request I make to your Excellency at this Serious period and which is to Soften my last moments will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a Soldier will Surely induce Your Excellency and a military Tribunal to adapt the Mode of my death to...
75To George Washington from Major John André, 24 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
What I have as yet Said concerning myself was in the justifiable attempt to be extricated; I am too little accustomed to duplicity to have Succeeded. I beg your Excellency will be persuaded that no Alteration in the Temper of my Mind or Apprehension for my Safety, induces me to Take the Step of Adressing you, but that it is to rescue myself from an imputation of having assumed a mean Character...
76To George Washington from Benjamin Andrews, 14 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You wrote lately to our company of Otis & Andrews, for blue drab cloth, and trimmings of it’s colour, for a Surtout; I am sorry it has not been in their power to procure either; but I take the liberty of sending, and Your Excellency will do me the honor of receiving, a pattern of blue & scarlet, which I happend to have lying by, in my house; with such trimmings, as after writing to several...
77To George Washington from Captain Abiathar Angel, 2 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
“Being in a Very Poor State of Health and Some Misunderstandings happening Between Me & Some of My Company, which I did Not Expect, which Renders it difficult for me to Serve With Pleasure—I therefor Move to Your Excelly for Leave to Resign My Command in Favor of Capt. Henry Work.” ALS , DLC:GW . Abiathar Angel (1744–1830) of Lanesboro was a captain in Col. David Brewer’s Massachusetts...
78To George Washington from Colonel Israel Angell, 1 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the arrival of the New Arrangement of the army Sent me by Major Thayer, I Appli’d to Colo. Greene and informed him that I thought it Necessary to Send on a list of the Officers who tarried in Service, togeather with the names of those who Retired, to Your Excellencey as Soon as possible, (as he Inclin’d to take the Regt) but he Said he thought there was no necessity of being in a hurry...
79To George Washington from Col. Israel Angell, 31 January 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Col. Israel Angell, 31 Jan. 1778. On 1 Feb., GW wrote Angell : “I am favoured with yours of yesterday.”
80To George Washington from Colonel Israel Angell, 8 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Am Sorry to have Occasion to trouble your Excellency Upon So disagreable a matter, Lieutenant John Hubbart of my Regt who will present you these Lines, had a Furlough Granted him the 2nd of January Last for Eighty Days, which Expierd the 21st of march past, the 3rd Instant the Regt was Mustered and Inspected. Lt Hubbart was not return’d at this time, but Capt. Tew who had ben at Morris Town...