1To George Washington from Brigadier General George Clinton, 5 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
On my Arival here I went immediatly to Fishkill to make Inquiery about the Arms said to be stored at Wiltsys....of Newburgh, N.Y., is on the west side of the Hudson River almost directly across from the mouth of Fishkill Creek. GW’s headquarters were at New Windsor for part of June and July 1779 and during most of the period between December 1780 and June 1781. The Continental army made its...
2General Orders, 11 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
...himself an energetic and dependable staff officer during the next several months, and when the army retreated from New York in November 1776, he remained behind to care for stores deposited at Fishkill and Peekskill. Hughes subsequently became deputy quartermaster general for New York with the rank of colonel. He resigned that office in the spring of 1778 but resumed it two years...
3To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston, 11–14 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
of Gen. George Clinton, Bedlow became a Continental deputy paymaster general at Fishkill in the summer of 1777, and in 1779 the Continental Congress made him one of the five auditors for the army (
4General Orders, 29 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
...house of Talman Pugsley. The matter was referred to the New York committee of safety, which after an investigation, found Ford guilty of the charge on 31 Dec. and ordered him to be confined in the jail at Fishkill (New York Committee of Safety resolution, 26 Dec. 1776–1 Jan. 1777,
5To George Washington from the New York Committee of Safety, 30 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
In our way to Fishkill agreable to an adjournment of the Convention, we are informed that the Army is removed from Long Island to the City of New York—an anxiety to know the fact, as
For this order, see ibid., 601. The convention, which had adjourned on 29 Aug., reconvened in the Episcopal church at Fishkill on 5 Sept. (ibid., 600, 609).
6To George Washington from Abraham Yates, Jr., 4 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
New York—Fishkill
.... The convention sat at Harlem until 29 Aug. On 30 and 31 Aug., the Committee of Safety held sessions at King’s Bridge and Philipse Manor in Westchester. On 2 Sept. the Committee of Safety met at Fishkill, Dutchess County, where sessions of the committee and the convention continued through 1776.
8To George Washington from Abraham Yates, Jr., 9 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
down the river to be impressed, until the number required is procured, and ordered two others from Fishkill landing, lest the vessels might be small and four of them insufficient; their dispatch will depend upon wind and weather; we suppose however, they may be down by Wednesday and
...the same time to impress two sloops in the vicinity of Fishkill landing for the same purpose (ibid., 616–17...
9From John Jay to Robert Morris, 15 September 1776 (Jay Papers)
[Fishkill 15 Sep
10To George Washington from Abraham Yates, Jr., 21 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
On 17 Sept. the convention appointed William Allison, Robert R. Livingston, and Henry Wisner, Sr., to be a committee of correspondence authorized to establish post riders between Fishkill and GW’s headquarters. William Duer was added to the committee by 22 Sept. (see ibid., 627, and