1From George Washington to John Hancock, 3 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
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Congress read this letter on 4 July (, 4:412–13.
2From George Washington to John Hancock, 4–5 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
July 5 General Mercer arrived here on Tuesday and the next Morning was ordered to Paulus Hook to make some Arrangements of the Militia as they come in and the best disposition he could to prevent the Enemy crossing from Staten....
Congress read this letter on 6 July (
3General Orders, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
July 4th 1776.
4From George Washington to John Hancock, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
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Congress read this letter on 8 July (
5From George Washington to Matthew Griswold, 4 July 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
to Matthew Griswold, 4 July 1776. is docketed in part “Answered 4th July.”
6From George Washington to Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
in Newark Bay. In a petition to GW dated July 1776, Burr asked for permission to add a subaltern and ten privates to his vessel, because he was, Burr said, “at a Station very differcult to take Care of, Especially without, an Officer under him or...Philip Burr Bradley to GW, 20 July
7From George Washington to Major General Artemas Ward, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
July 4th 1776.
8From George Washington to Brigadier General William Livingston, 5 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 4th came safely to hand.Livingston apparently wrote twice to GW on 4 July (see note 3 below). His first letter to GW of that date, to which GW refers here, has not been found.
9General Orders, 7 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
1776 and continued in that rank in Col. John Durkee’s 4th Connecticut Regiment from 1 Jan. to 31 July 1777, when he resigned his commission.The previous Friday was 5 July. Leonard Lispenard (1716–1790), a wealthy merchant and landowner, lived about two miles north of New York City in a handsome mansion on Lispenard’s Hill not far from GW’s current headquarters at Abraham Mortier’s...
10From George Washington to Colonel James Clinton, 7 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Clinton to GW, 4 July