31To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 8 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I do with the most unfeigned Pleasure congratulate You on Your Success in the Jerseys, over our Enemy. We are now anxious to know where these disturbers of our Peace will next bend their Course; but rest satisfied, that, at Your Approach, the Plunderers will quite any Part of the Country they may have seized upon, with the sam⟨e⟩ Disgrace they left the Jerseys. You will no doubt be surprized...
32To George Washington from Col. Elias Dayton, 19 July 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Col. Elias Dayton, 19 July 1777. In his letter to Dayton of 19 July, GW writes: “Yours of this morning has just reached me.”
33To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
A Schooner just now arived here from New York for the family & goods of Doctor Peterson. It appears from a paper shewed me by Mrs Peterson that on the 22d of May liberty was granted to remove within one week from that time. He however delayed the matter & appeared undetermined till lately when he went to New York hardly in a fair way, & has now sent for his family. Altho’ neither he nor his...
34To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 11 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday removed with the two Regiments to this place for the sake of provisions and beer which I am told may be procur’d much easier at this place than at Peramus. I send the Pay Master to Head Quarters for money as both officers and soldiers are much in want of it. The necessaries of life are so very high in the Country that their pay is scarcely sufficient during the month. Your...
35To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, a person has returned from New York; that has been, four days, at that place, observing the motions of the Enemy. He says, Tuesday last, three Transports sailed, up East-River; with a number of Troops on board; but what number he could not determine; that he heard a number of people talk of them: some said, they were only going to deceive Mr Washington: others said, they were...
36To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William De Hart, 25 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
A Wednesday Morning the fleet upwards of 100 Sail Sailed from Sandy Hook —And Stood An Eastern Course—Yesterday Afternoon Nine More sailed from New York six went out of the Hook & three Come too at the Watring Place, Their Frigates & some Other Small Vessels lay at New York Volentine Jones M: Genl Commands at New York. Some Hessians went A few days Ago to Kings Bridge. Cammel’s Regt has left...
37To George Washington from Major General Philemon Dickinson, 11 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
This morning came to this Place, Mr. Anthony Taylor an Inhabitant of Jersey, & gave me the following account that on Wednesday Eveng last (having the liberty of the City, & by bribing two Sailors) he made his escape from New York, in a Boat; that a Frigate came up to N. York, the day before he left it, the Captain of which said, that he had left the whole Fleet much to the Eastward of N. York,...
38To George Washington from Major General Philemon Dickinson, 18 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of a Commission which I r[e]cieved a few Days ago from the honble Council & Assembly of this State, (being at that Time in Maryland) I am now on my Way to join Genl Sullivans Division, where I am informed the greatest Number of the Jersey Militia are collected. I should have done myself the honor of waiting upon your Excellency, but have been much indisposed; I expect to be at...
39To George Washington from Major General Du Coudray, 4 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have received yesterday with the most respectfull Gratitude, the answer with which your Excellency has honoured me. I was not surprised, in finding that you disown’d the Authority which the Commandant of Artillery at springfield pretended to have, to execute the strange demande which he said he had received from the Commanding officer in Canada, to send to that country, twelve pieces of...
40To George Washington from Major General Du Coudray, 23 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have received last week the answer, with which your Excellency has honoured the respectful representations which I addressed to you, by Mons. de Goy, on the information which you were pleased to give me by your favour of the 30 June, concerning the resolution you had taken to leave at Springfield t[h]e 21 pieces of long construction, which came by the Amphitrite, and to cast them again into...
41To George Washington from Major General Du Coudray, 10 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have Received with the Most Respectful gratitude, the New proofs of esteem and kindness, with which your excellency has honoured me, in making Colonel hamilton Communicate to me the Letter, which you have adressed to the Congress, with Regard to the defence of the aproaches of the enemy to philadelphia. The manner in which your excellency has Discussed the differen opinions about the...
42To George Washington from Major General Du Coudray, 28 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
Il y a quatre Jours que Jai recu un Exprés des officiers d’artillerie français qui Accompagnent les 52 Pieces de Canon Venues par L’Amphitrite. Ces officiers m’ont annoncé par cet Exprés que le Colonel D’Artillerie de springfield pretendait leur retirer 12 de leurs pieces pour les Envoyer En Canada a la demande du General qui commande En cette partie, lequel, a ce que pretend ce Colonel a pour...
43I. Major General Du Coudray’s Opinion, 6 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
a Definitive project upon the Defence of philadelphia in the present state of affairs. In the account which I have given the Honourable Congress, of the state in which fort miflin, Red bank, and billin’gsport were, the first of august, I think I have Demonstrated, that in the actual situation of things, Litle Dependance should be had on this fort, to Defend both the places, where the River is...
44To George Washington from Colonel Thomas Elliott, 6 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Rect of yours of the 21st June is hereby acknowledged. I am heartily sorry that my ill state of health has prevented my joining the Army, and entering upon the duties of my Office untill this day, as I well Know the necessity of Officers being with their Corps at all times, especially at this critical Juncture; but such has been my unhappy situation that it has never been in my power since...
45To George Washington from Jonathan Elmer, 2 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 2 July 1777. Solicits GW’s aid in procuring the exchange or parole of Elmer’s brother-in-law, John Gibbon, or, “if Mr Gibbon cannot be released upon any other terms, his wife begs me to acquaint you, that she has engaged a man to go & remain a prisoner in his room, until an exchange can be effected. This to me is a new expedient, of which I can form no Judgment at present. If...
46To George Washington from Robert Erskine, 1 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 28th Ult: concerning the Office of Geographer, I had the honour to receive yesterday at Pompton. The distinction you confer on me, I beg leave to acknowledge with gratitude; and shall be happy to render every service in my power, to your Excellency, and to the Cause in which the rights of humanity are so deeply interested: on these accounts it is necessary to be explicit;...
47To George Washington from Brigadier General John Fellows, 24 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Am in duty bound to accquaint your honr that I am well informed from a person of real Dependence, that he has for a long time put himself off for a Tory—and that he has entertained the Enemies Expresses from one Army to the other, one of which passed his house 7 Days since from Genl How to Gen⟨l⟩ Burgoyne who informed him that Genl How meant to make a Diversion somewhere in Connecticutt in...
48To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 4 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will please to put in Orders who the several Officers wanting Stores of any kind are to apply to for Orders on me or the Comissaries of Stores—Capt. Watkins is Commissary of Ordnance Stores—Capt. Gostelowe Comy of Arms & Accoutrement &c. &c. (Thos. Butler Esqr. Public Armourer under the immediate Direction of the Hon. the Board of War). Your Excellencys most Obed. Very Hum....
49To George Washington from Brigadier General David Forman, 2 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the Honr of Transmiting your Excely An Acct of the Enemies Fleet’s sailing, Nothing of Importance has Come to my Knowledge—The Cork Fleet Consisting of 34 Sail Left Sandy hook on Tuesday Morning Last. The Accts respecting the Situation of our Northern Army as handed to us at this place is so Various as to Induce me to beg the favr to have the Accts from Some one of your Excelys...
50To George Washington from Brig. Gen. David Forman, 16 July 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Brig. Gen. David Forman, 16 July 1777. GW writes in his letter to Forman of 18 July that “I am favd with yours of the 16th instant by Express.”
51To George Washington from Brigadier General David Forman, 23 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday the 20th of this Instt I had the Honr of Informing your Excely that 160 Sail of the Enemy Fleet had come from the Watering Plase, and lay in Sandy hook Bay —On Monday Morning, fifteen Transports and Men of War Join’d them, and about 10 OClock, 80 Small Briggs., Schooners, & Sloops, came out of the Narrowes & Join’d the Grand Fleet—Tuesday they lay still—This Morning at Half past Six...
52To George Washington from Brigadier General David Forman, 6 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Very busy Season of the Year renders it impossible to keep out a Sufficient Number of Guards to prevent the Enemy from plundering the Inhabitants, unless I take Post near to Sandy Hook. I have pitched on a peice of Ground that is so near as to prevent all small pillageing Parties coming Off, and at the same Time Commands a full prospect of Amboy, Staten Island, and the Bay as far up as the...
53To George Washington from William Franklin, 22 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am sensible that you must now have so much Employ for your Time & Attention, in the great Business you are engaged in, that you can have very little of either to spare for an Individual. But as the peculiarly distressing Circumstances & Urgency of my Case will admit of no Delay, I have such Confidence in the Generosity & Humanity of your Disposition, that I cannot but flatter myself you will...
54To George Washington from Brigadier General Christopher Gadsden, 4 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Fort Moultrie, S.C., 4 July 1777 . Introduces Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: “I did myself the Honour to write a few Lines to your Excelly the other Day by my Worthy Friend Coll Danl Horry I now beg leave to introduce his Brother in Law Coll Chas Cotesworth Pinckney to your Excelly. He is Coll of the regimt I lately commanded the first of this State, station’d at Fort Moultrie under my immediate...
55To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 23 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am desired by The Honorable The Board of War to acquaint Your Excellency, that they have Order’d the Hessian paymaster, who had your pass in May last to go to Lancaster, & to return from thence to N. York, to be detain’d at His Quarters in this City, until Your Excellencys further Directions concerning him can be known; It is with Reason Suspected that Certain Tories, & Enemies of the United...
56To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 27 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
persuaded by my Own Opinion, & confirm’d by the Opinion of Congress, I believed Sr William Howe was determined to Force the pass of the Highlands; by the Direction of The Congress, I set out from philadelphia Fryday Evening to Join you at pompton, or peekskiln, as Circumstances might answer; This moment; an Express is Arrived from philadelphia; with Certain Information; that the Enemys Fleet...
57To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, 31 July 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, 31 July 1777. GW’s letter to Gates of 31 July says: “Your letter of this morning is just come to hand.”
58To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 8 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
my last was of the 2d Instant, covering a Return of the Troops forwarded from this place total 1694, since which only a small detachment of my Regt has come in, who are to March to Morrow. I take the liberty of laying before your Excellency the Inclosed act of Assembly, by which you will find that the Officers of the last Regts orderd by Congress are precluded the priviledge of recruiting in...
59To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 2 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing your Excellency last from Philadelphia and have now to Inclose you a return of the continental troops forwarded from this place since the 4th ultimo, amounting in the whole to 1694 Men Including Officers, I have likewise sent a return of my own Regiment, total at Camp 307. the Assembly of Maryland have resolved to add an Additional Bounty of thirty dollars to the...
60To George Washington from Brigadier General John Glover, 15 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
This will inform your Excellency I arrived at this place yesterday—recd Genl Putnams orders to march my Brigade to Head Quarters, upon enquirying into the state of the troops, found them in a most Shocking condition without coats, breeches, stockings or shoes, many of them having nothing but a frock & blanket to cover their nakedness. Colo. Wigglesworth’s & Swift’s Regts are without tents nor...