1To George Washington from George Clinton, 21 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have just recd a Letter from Genl Hand accompanying one to your Excellency and am happy to learn by the Accounts it contains that the situation of Affairs on the Western Frontier is not so bad as we had Reason to expect. The General requested me to write to your Excellency respecting the Disposition of the Troops in that Quarter but as my Brother’s Brigade is ordered there any thing I can...
2To George Washington from George Clinton, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
It gives me Pain to trouble your Excellency with the inclosed Complaint against some Gentlemen in the Military Line and agreable to the Law of this State for regulating Impresses of Forage &ca to request that the Offender be delivered over to the Civil Magistrate. I am Dear Sir with the greatest < mutilated > & Regard Your most Obedt servt LS , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from Joseph Strang...
3To George Washington from George Clinton, 19 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Letter of yesterday. I have not received any new advices from General Hand since I wrote to your Excellency. The Substance of the last accounts I have forwarded to Count Pulaski and Colo. Cortlandt —but I doubt their being able to attempt any thing against the Enemy on their Return to Tioga if that should be their Rout the Delaware and other Rivers between...
4To George Washington from George Clinton, 7 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
About two Weeks hence the Commissioners will be ready (as they have informed me) to send off the last Cargo of Persons who have refused to take the Oath of Allegiance, as prescribed by Law, to this State and are sentenced to be banished within the Enemy’s Lines. I have therefore to request that your Excellency will be pleased to direct the Commanding Officer at West Point to furnish an Officer...
5To George Washington from George Clinton, 29 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
After the Loss of the Forts in the Highlands it became necessary to detach a Part of the Army on the West Side of the River which joined by a Part of the Militia were under my immediate Command. The River being the Bounds between the different purchasing Commissaries none could be found to supply the Troops in Consequence whereof we were reduced to the Necessity of taking from the Inhabitants...
6To George Washington from George Clinton, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have just now received the inclosed very disagreable Accounts of the Desolation of Cherry Valley by the Enemy and of their having taken Fort Alden by Storm on the 14th Instant which at the Request of General Hand I now forward your Excellency by Express. I mean if I do not hear that the Enemy have left the Frontiers to set out for Schenectady on Thursday to assist General Hand. I shall not...
7To George Washington from George Clinton, 6 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with the Receipt of your Letters of Yesterday with their Inclosures. I will make it my Business to forward your Excellency’s Letter to Colo. Cortlandt—as I am not sufficiently acquainted with the particular Situation of the Minisink and other Settlements on the Delaware to be able to point out the Spot he ought to occupy for their Protection I will take the Liberty of desiring him...
8To George Washington from George Clinton, 1 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honor to forward to your Excellency by Express an Act of the Legislature passed Yesterday the more effectually to provide Supplies of Flour, Meal and Wheat for the Army that the Commissary may take the earliest Opportunity of availing himself of the Advantages intended by it. I beg Leave to suggest that if the Commissary was to order into the State and deposit with his...