151John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The Post was later than usual to day, so that I had not yours of July 24 till this Evening. You have made me very happy, by the particular and favourable Account you give me of all the Family. But I dont understand how there are so many who have no Eruptions, and no..., 31 July 1809 (
152From John Adams to Daniel Hitchcock, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
, 7 July, James Reed, John Nixon, and William Prescott had been named on 1 Jan. 1776 colonels of the 2d, 4th, and 7th Continental Infantry regiments, respectively. Prescott, of course, was a hero at Bunker Hill. Reed and Nixon were named brigadier generals on 9 Aug. (
153Elbridge Gerry to Samuel and John Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
21 July27 July
154Mary Palmer to John Adams, 4 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
I had the honour of your Letter of the 5th July above a fortnight ago, and should much sooner have acknowledged the favor had not an absolute want of Paper prevented, having none but blank Commissions in the House which we used for little Billets, but wou’d not...
155From John Adams to Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of the 14 of July is before me. I am happy to find your Sentiments concerning the Rewards of the Army, and the Promotion of Officers So nearly agreable to mine. I wish the general sense here was more nearly agreable to them....
156To Benjamin Franklin from Charles-Guillaume-Frederic Dumas, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Arthur Lee to Dumas, July 6, 1776, Jared Sparks, ed., Dumas again refers in abbreviated form to a passage that he intended to include, this time from a letter to the abbé Desnoyers of July 28–29 in the same letterbook. “Il m’a avoue,” the passage reads, “qu’il étoit l’un des plus actifs dans ce parti, assistant à leurs conférences, les connoissant tous par noms et personnes,...
157To Benjamin Franklin from Ray Greene, 4 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
on July 3, 1776, Caty had asked his advice on whether to bring Ray, then eleven, home for vacation. The parents had done so, but had themselves left for Philadelphia so that William Greene might collect $120,000...
158To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 54). The transports in the convoy carried mostly Highlanders of the 42d and 71st regiments but included some Hessians (see Marriot Arbuthnot to Lord George Germain, 8 July 1776, in
159To George Washington from Brigadier General Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
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Tench Tilghman docketed this letter: “From B. Genl Greene Augt 4. 1776.” That date was a Sunday....the following May, and in October 1777 he was captured at the Battle of Germantown. Exchanged in June 1778, Skinner became a deputy commissary of prisoners at Goshen, N.Y., by July 1779, and on 15 Sept. 1780 Congress appointed him commissary general of prisoners, a position that he held for...
160To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 4 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour of your Letter of the 29th of July. I am much surprised to hear that the Carbines are not all yet arrived at New york, I forwarded them all agreeable to Your directions, and the last two hundred went from this place the fourth of July for Norwich to the care of Mr Huntington, to whom I wrote every time I sent Arms, or other Articles which were ordered to New york, to forward...
161From George Washington to John Hancock, 5 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW to Howe, 30 JulyNicholas Cooke to GW, 29 July
162To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 5 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Mercer of 1 Aug. has not been found. John Dickinson (1732–1808), colonel of the 1st Battalion of Philadelphia Associators and until 20 July 1776 a Pennsylvania delegate to Congress, arrived at Elizabeth with his battalion on 10 July. Dickinson’s conference with Mercer and William Livingston on 4 Aug. apparently concerned the fact that some of the associators were unwilling to...July
163Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 6 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Last Week I received Yours of July the 20th. also Dr. Rushs Letter on Inoculation for which You and the learned and benevolent Dr. have my sincere Thanks.In my last, wrote about 10 or 15 Days past, I gave You an Accountt of the State of your Family. That wrote the 5th. July You mention the receipt of. Mrs. Adams I suppose did not then write to you
164To Benjamin Franklin from Elizabeth Franklin, 6 August 1776 (Franklin Papers)
...on the 21st examined before the congress, which recommended that the Continental Congress send him out of the province as soon as possible. On the 26th orders came from Philadelphia to transfer him to Connecticut; he arrived there on July 4, and on giving his parole was lodged in a private house in Wallingford., July 29, 1776,
165From George Washington to Colonel Thomas McKean, 6 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
: McKean Papers.
The cover of this letter is addressed “to Colo. McKean of the 4th Battalion of the Pensylvania Associators at Amboy.”Thomas McKean (1734–1817), a prominent lawyer with political and professional connections in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, arrived at Perth Amboy, N.J., with his 4th Battalion of Philadelphia Associators on 23 July (see
166To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Favor of the 31st of July, I had the pleasure to receive this Morning.Inclose you an Extract of a Letter dated the 4th Inst. from Captain Varick my Secretary at Albany
167To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...examination of Capt. Anthony Mesnard, also of Livingston’s regiment, dated 7 Aug.; and “A Journal of a Scout from Crown point to St John’s Chamblly, &c. &c.—by Lieut. Benjamin Whitcomb & 4 Men” between 14 July and 6 August. These documents are in Allin and Loiseau, who left their homes in Canada about 6 July and arrived at Ticonderoga on 4 Aug., told Gates: “The Enemy did not fortify any of...4
168From George Washington to John Hancock, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Moultrie at Sullivan’s Island on the 9th July—the particulars they give nearly correspond with the Narrative sent by Gen. Lee—That they left Carolina 3 Weeks ago as a Convoy to 45 Transports having on Board Gen. Clinton, Ld Cornwallis & the whole Southern Army...his letter to GW of 1 July and note 1
169To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...an Irishman—of the 40th Regt com[mande]d by Lieut. Col. Jas Grant—in Capt. Jno. Adlam’s Company—was Clerk to the Regiment. Has been Six Weeks on Staten Island—was at Boston last year from July to the 17th March—went from there to Halifax—
...was he had 4£ due for pay & £10 as Clerk wch he ask’d for & was refused by the paymaster—The Officers are much afraid of the Riflemen—the soldiers in...
170From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
his letter to GW of 24 July, 4:533–34 (see also
171From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...this day we have the following intelligence (viz.) That General Clinton and Lord Cornwallis with the whole Southern Army have arrived from South Carolina and landed on Staten Island, in number between 3 & 4,000, that the Fleet which came in a few days since are the Hessians and Scotch Highlanders part of 12,000 who were left off Newfoundland, and the whole making about 30,000 Men, and...
172To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 8 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW’s letter to Custis of 8 July has not been foundunfound letter of 8 July
173To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 8 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
James Ewing (1736–1806) of York County, Pa., who had served as a provincial lieutenant on the Forbes expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758, was elected a brigadier general of the Pennsylvania Associators along with Roberdeau on 4 July 1776. In GW’s attack on Trenton on the evening of 25 Dec. 1776, Ewing was prevented by ice from crossing the Delaware River with a large body of militia and...
174From George Washington to Colonel Samuel Miles, 8 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 4th
...state rifle regiment, he was a colonel in the county militia and a member of the general assembly and the council of safety. Miles’s rifle regiment joined the flying camp at Perth Amboy, N.J., sometime in July 1776, and by 12 Aug. it was in New York (see
175From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 9 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
...did what I thought would be best, imagining you wanted the number you mentioned at any event, and that not being able to get them of that form, you would take them of any other. I therefore got 4 pint cans, 10s.; 2 quart do. 8s.; and 6 half-pint tumblers, 6s., all of double flint. So that there still remains in my hands £4 16s., Pennsylva. currency....known letter to Eppes was dated 23 July...
176To George Washington from John Hancock, 10 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 4:629–30)., 4:68–69), and he remained in Continental service until his death at the Battle of Princeton on 3 Jan. 1777. A native of Ulster, Ireland, Haslet took his master’s degree at the University of Glasgow in... 284, 287–91). As colonel of the Delaware Regiment during 1776, Haslet remained in the state until 20 July when Congress summoned him and his regiment to Philadelphia (
177To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 10 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
, 4th ser., 5:687–88). Atlee and his musketmen arrived at Perth Amboy on 21 July and marched to New York on 11 Aug. (see Extract of a Letter from an Officer in the 2d Philadelphia Battalion, 22 July, and Hugh Mercer to John Dickinson, 11 Aug. [first letter], ibid., 5th ser., 1:499, 895). Assigned to Stirling’s brigade, Atlee fought in the Battle of Long Island on 27 Aug.......on 4 Aug.: “Some...
178General Orders, 11 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
See Congress’s resolution of 16 July in Hancock to GW, 17 July
179To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Kermorvan, [12 August 1776?] (Franklin Papers)
...des troupes et le passage des batteaux, et la meilleure défense des rivieres dont l’embouchure est large sera d’y avoir des galleres armées de gros canons ou des batteaux armés; car des boulets de 4, six, huit, comme nous avons ici ne font pas d’effet sur un vaisseau et ne l’empescheront pas un moment de passer. Il est egalement nécessaire de couler bas au milieu des passages quelque...
180From George Washington to John Hancock, 12 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Marched for Skeenesborough. Genl Ward too by a Letter of the 4th Informs me, that the Two Regiments would march from Boston last Week having been cleansed and generally recoverd from the Small pox. I have also countermanded my orders to Colo. Elmore and directed him to J⟨oin⟩ the...
Aug., n.4.
181From George Washington to John Hancock, 12 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
that Horatio Gates wrote him on 21 July. “Upon my Arrival at Crown point with General Schuyler,” Gates says, “I found Colonel [Donald] Campbell, the Quarter Master General in this Department, in
Schuyler to GW, 1 July 1776, n.4
182Jefferson’s Outline of Argument Concerning Insubordination of Esek Hopkins, 12 August 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
, 120–4; G. W. Allen, upon Congress, on 11 July, ordered those officers to resume their commands. The next day the special committee was discharged and the marine committee, including one member from each state, was given the powers formerly granted the special committee, plus the task...
183From George Washington to John Hancock, 13 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW to Schuyler, 4 Sept. 1776: Armstrong Photostats). These papers were much disorganized in the process of packing and moving and were not put in proper order until Richard Varick reorganized GW’s wartime papers in 1781 (see Varick to GW, 19 July 1781, and GW to Varick, 21 July 1781, both in
184From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
GW is referring to the extract of Richard Varick’s letter to Schuyler of 4 Aug., which was enclosed in Schuyler’s letter to GW of 24 July
185From George Washington to Major General Artemas Ward, 13 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
22 July4 Aug.
186John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
, 4:234). For Congress’ action, Du Simitière’s sketches, and the long-delayed result, see On 4 July Congress had voted that Franklin,
187To John Adams from Samuel Cooper, 14 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...by having only Continental Bills pass among us. A thousand Inconveniences will be avoided by this, some of which begin already to take Place. An Officer of Rank in our Army at N. York in a Letter of 4th Aug:10 July
188To John Adams from John Lowell, 14 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The committee was appointed on 29 June and consisted of Messrs. Hall, Cooper, Davis, Crane, and Col. Mitchel. It reported on 1 July, its report being recommitted and two additional members being added to the committee, Messrs. Sumner and Brown (, 28 July,
189General Orders, 15 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Regiment, and in April 1779 he transferred to Col. Oliver Spencer’s Additional Regiment. GW appointed Smith inspector and deputy adjutant general of Lafayette’s light infantry division on 5 Aug. 1780, and on 6 July 1781 GW named Smith one of his aides-de-camp (see General Orders for those dates). Smith left GW in June 1782 to seek a command on a proposed expedition in the West Indies (see...4th
190[Fryday August 16. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
and they maintained a friendly correspondence. On 24 July 1776 Parsons wrote r about 4 Years ago,” allegedly robbed and murdered by one Basil Bouderot in Nova Scotia (
191From George Washington to Elbridge Gerry, 16 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Gerry stopped at New York 18–22 July while traveling home to Massachusetts from Philadelphia, where he was serving in Congress. Gerry’s fellow delegate, Samuel Adams, left Philadelphia for Boston on 12 Aug. and reached New York two days later. On this date Sam... ...4:467–69). Samuel Adams arrived at Boston on 28 August. By that time Gerry apparently had left Massachusetts for Philadelphia where...
192From George Washington to the New Jersey Convention, 16 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
. William Livingston wrote Tucker on 26 July: “I have authentic Information that some of the most malignant New York Tories have seated themselves in Shrewsberry; a very improper place on Account of the facility it affords for keeping up a Communication with the Enemy. Isaac......4th ser., 6:1665). Isaac Low (1735–1791), a New York City merchant who served in the First Continental Congress...
193To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 16 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
See Schuyler to Trumbull, 31 July, in , 4:436, 451, and the was burned at Skenesborough in July 1777 to prevent its capture. Hawley subsequently served as a captain in the Connecticut navy. Given command of the sloop
194Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
As to news we go on Briskly taking prizes. We have a plenty of Sugars. Within these ten days Sugars have fallen from 4 pounds to 3 and 2.8 by the hundred. A Brigg was carried into Newburry this Week, from Antigue laiden with Indigo and hides, and a Jamaca Man carried into Marble Head. Our Men the new Leavies have... ...day Received a Letter from Mr. Rice dated july 27 from Ticondoroga, he give...
195From John Adams to James Warren, 17 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The captured Highlander Lt. Col. Archibald Campbell to Gen. Howe, 19 June 1776. Washington forwarded this letter to the congress, where it was read 2 July. It was then printed in the newspapers ( , 18 July). The text is also available in , 4th ser., 6:981–982.
196To George Washington from Abraham Yates, Jr., 17 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...and Nutten [Governor’s] island ... that the depth of water at a particular place which he could point out, did not exceed 5 fathoms; and that the navigation could be obstructed in 4 hours after proper vessels are prepared for that purpose.” The convention directed Denning to give this information to GW and to inform him that the convention was willing for the East River to be obstructed...
197From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...Navy upon a more distinct, accurate and intelligible Plan, than any which I have seen before, among other Particulars which are new, is a Return of the State of the Hospital, in one Column the Number Admitted in July, in another the Number discharged, the Ballance remains by which it appears that between 4 and 500 got well in that Month, and has distinguished the Regiments to which they...
198To John Adams from William Tudor, 18 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
thinks it would be best when the Press is set to strike off 4 or 5000 Copies of the Articles of War; 2000 at least will be immediately wanted here. The Rest may be kept in the War Office and delivered out as occasion may require. Col. Reed desired me to mention... on 3 July. P. D. Sargent & Co. owned the sloop ( , 8 July,
199To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...Captains Delivered me the paper No. 1, in Answer to which I advised them Candidly to Narrate the Whole Transaction No: 2 is their Narrative, and No: 3 Contains an Account of what they took, No. 4 with the paper Inclosed in it is what Colo. White Delivered me. As I was Apprehensive that a public Conviction of so many Officers, would reflect to much Disgrace on our Troops, I chose to defer any...
200From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
. GW is referring to the Olive Branch Petition of 5 July 1775.
26 Nov. 1774 for £182 and £40 Virginia currency to secure his purchases, and on 4 April 1776 Powell redeemed both bonds, paying the £222 principal and £14.16 in interest that had accumulated since 1 Dec. 1774. Powell was the third of the forty-five purchasers recorded in Lund Washington’s account...