14601From George Washington to Colonel Arendt, 25 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hamilton has informed me of your request to be permitted to go to Philadelphia; and, though at this season Gentlemen at the head of regiments can very ill be spared, yet the reason on which your request is founded is of such a nature that it is impossible I should refuse to comply with it—I hope, however, and doubt not you will return to camp as soon as circumstances will permit, for you...
14602From Alexander Hamilton to the Commanding Officer of the German Battalion at Quibbletown, 25 April 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
His Excellency desires me to inform you, that the Congress have been pleased, to appoint Monsieur Le Baron D.’Arondhl, colonel of the regiment, to which you belong. He conceives both the honor and advantage of the regiment, to be promoted by the appointment of a Gentleman to the command of it, so respectable by birth, the honorable Station he fill’d in the service of his Prussian Majesty, and...
14603From George Washington to Colonel Arendt, 18 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
Being recovered from the indisposition under which you lately laboured, you are to proceed immediately to Fort Mifflin on Mud Island and to take the command of the Troops there and those which may be sent. I shall not prescribe any particular line for your conduct, because I repose the utmost confidence in your bravery knowledge and Judgment; and because the mode of defence must depend on a...
14604From George Washington to Colonel Arendt, 5 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am glad to find by your letter of the 28th Ulto that your health is so far reestablished as to allow of your returning to active duty—at the same time it gives me concern to be informed that you have any disinclination to rejoin your Regiment, and the rather as I have no prospect of your being otherwise employed—It remains with you to determine whether the differences which you have had with...
14605From James Madison to a Resident of Spotsylvania County, [27 January] 1789 (Madison Papers)
“ The offer of my services to the district, rests on the following grounds: That although I always conceived the constitution might be improved, yet I never could see in it, as it stands, the dangers which have alarmed many respectable citizens; that I held it my duty therefore, whilst the constitution remained unratified, and it was necessary to unite the various opinions, interests and...
14606From George Washington to John Ariss, 8 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 5th, I have to inform you that I have no untenanted Lands in the Counties of Berkley or Frederick, except two lotts Nos. 5 & 6—the first containing 346½ acres, & the 2d—224½—in the latter, which I bought at the Sale of Colo. George Mercers Estate, in the year 1774—& for which I have had many persons applying to become Tenants. My intention was, after I had...
14607From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 28 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
Col. Hamilton delivered me your letter of [ ]. It is with pleasure I declare to you that I have the most favourable opinion of your conduct and services, particularly in the course of the last campaign in which circumstances enabled you to be more active and useful —But notwithstanding this, so far from recommending the promotion you desire I confess to you with frankness, I should be...
14608From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 12 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favor of yesterday. On my part there is not the smallest objection to your accompanying Colo. Laurens to France, but the permission must come from Congress. The offer which you make of equipping your Corps with Cloathing & Accoutrements (the cost of wch to be repaid in three or 4 Years, and the interest annually) is generous; and among many other proofs of your Zeal & ability...
14609From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 5 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
By the establishment of the Army agreeable to the Resolve of Congress of the 21st October, the partizan Corps under your command is to consist of three troops of mounted and three of dismounted Dragoons of 50 each—They are to be officered by my appointment subject to the approbation of Congress. I am also authorised to direct a mode for compleating, recruiting and supplying the Corps. As to...
14610From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 5 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
The complain[t]s of your corps dayly increase—You will immediately on receipt of this send it off under the Officer next in Command—to Join Colo. Moylan at or near Bedford. Yourself will remain with the Witness you have to attend a Court Martial which will sit tomorrow morning at 10 oClock. at New Windsor. Your most Obd. Df , in Caleb Gibbs’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . For...
14611From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 23 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will proceed with your corps to Monmouth County and take such a station as will best accommodate your men and horses and enable you to communicate with Major Lee for the purposes of mutual security, covering the country and preventing all intercourse between the inhabitants and the enemy. As your corps has been upon very active and severe duty during the campaign, I do not require that...
14612From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 6 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two letters of the 4th and fifth. Inclosed you will find a letter to the Board of War, recommending the incorporation of your corps with the late Pulaski’s including the troop command⟨ed⟩ by Capt. Bedkin. I do not unite the Marechaussee, because that corps is destined for a particular service, to which it will be altogether applied in the course of the next campaign, nor...
14613From George Washington to Colonel Armand, 28 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will without delay march your corps towards Bedford, to join the troops at or near that place under the command of Colonel Moylan. You are not for the present to go with the corps yourself, but to send it with the officer next in command, as there is a complaint of a serious nature against you made by Mr Vandeburgh a very respectable inhabitant of this state, which will oblige me to have...
14614George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 28 June 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New Windsor, New York ] June 28, 1779 . Instructs Armand to march to Bedford, New York. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14615George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 6 February 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] February 6, 1780 . Certification of Armand’s service and conduct. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14616George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 27 November 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Passaic Falls [ New Jersey ] November 27, 1780 . Regrets that Armand plans to resign. Commends Armand for his services. Df , in writings of Tench Tilghman and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14617George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 11 June 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Middlebrook, New Jersey ] June 11, 1777. Orders Armand to assume command of Ottendorf’s corps, to expand this corps to a full regiment, and in the future to take orders from Major General Benjamin Lincoln. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Charles Armand-Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouerie, was generally known as Colonel Armand. Nicholas Dietrich, Baron de...
14618George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 23 December 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] December 23, 1779 . Instructs Armand to proceed to Monmouth to contact Major Henry Lee. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14619George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 6 February 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] February 6, 1780 . States that Pulaski’s and Armand’s troops are to be incorporated and sent to Georgia. Approves of Du Plantier’s desire to be “useful,” but cannot give him a command. Encloses certificate testifying to Armand’s services. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14620George Washington to Colonel Charles Armand, 28 December 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] December 28, 1779 . Refuses to recommend promotion that Armand requests as it will cause discontent among equally qualified officers. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
14621From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 14 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with your favor of the 10th Instt & beg leave to assure you that the expression of attachment to the people & Government of this Country & to myself in particular, has filled me with pleasure & gratitude. Congress have made no communication to me of their intention respecting a Peace Establishment—nor do I conceive under the present state of our Finances they would...
14622From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 15 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of yesterday—Whenever you have received your instructions from Congress for the recruiting your Legion, you may be assured that I will, so far as depends upon me, give you every assistance. I look upon your wish to dismount the few Men of your Legion and to serve with them on foot as a fresh mark of your Zeal. You have my liberty to do it, and when they are ready, if...
14623From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 20 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have recvd your favor of the 5th instant accompanied by a letter from Coll Ternant enclosing the Inspection Return of your Legion for the present Month. When I sent you the order to march the Legion by detachment, to join the southern Army, it was from an apprehension that the enemy intended to reinforce their Army largely in Charles town from Europe as well as from New York—But as that does...
14624From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 13 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am favoured with your Letter of the 25th of Janry and am happy to inform you that Col. Ternant & the other Gentlemen of your Corps are exchanged. Arrangements are made with the Financier respecting the remainder of the recruiting Money of which Col. Ternant will give you a satisfactory account, & also acquaint you, with the steps that have been taken to procure the greater part of the Horses...
14625From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 15 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Among the last acts of my public life none afford me more pleasure than to acknowledge the assistance I have received from those worthy men whom I have had the honor to command & whose exertions have so much contributed to the safety & liberty of my Country. In the number of these, you my dear sir, cannot pass unnoticed: the great zeal, intelligence & bravery you have shewn, & the various...
14626From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 30 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have a few Days ago received your letter of the 3d of last Month—inclosing Copy of your Letter to the Secretary at War on the Subject of Capt. Sigourné ’s Resignation. I am much pleased to find that your Cavalry is so nearly compleated & that the men are so constant to their Engagement—I wish it was more in our power to compleat your Compliment of Horses—but I fear our finances will not...
14627From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 30 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the recet of your Letter of the 10th September—I am Extremely sorry that the situation of things has been such as to render it necessary for you to make such large advances to your Corps—the Zeal you have shewn for the good of the service & your exertions on this and every other occasion—deserves my thanks and you may be assured that I shall be happy in doing every thing...
14628From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 28 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor of the 20th respectg the Case of Lieut. Colo. Ternant—but not havg been furnished with the Resolution of Congress of the 26th of March, promoting you to the Rank of Brigadier, I am unable to do anything more than to refer him to the Secty at War & to Congress from whom I trust, he will experience that Justice & Attention, which his Merits & Services require, and which may...
14629From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 25 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
You may enlist from the Troops of any State, men whose term of Service will expire on or before the first of Jany next; and if you should find this difficult, you may obtain by Draft (with the consent of the Persons) Fifty men in the proportion below. Colonel Moylan is ordered to take a general Superintendency of all the Cavalry, & will have orders to furnish you with the Horses you require,...
14630From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 1 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby authorized to draft from the several Corps and in the proportion specified in my letter of the 25th Fifty men whose terms of enlistment are for three yrs or durg the War—provided it can be done with the consent of the persons. You will proceed from hence as speedily as possible to Charlotteville, where your Legion is to be quartered, and to remain until it has acquired...
14631From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 7 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have taken the Liberty to put under Cover to you, the inclosed Letter to the President of Congress—It is left under a flying Seal, for your Sight—& to be used as you shall think proper. If it shall prove of any Service to you, It will afford me very particular Satisfaction. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
14632From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 1 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your favor of Yesterday—As you think the Petition of the Officers (dated the 16th of June for Lands within a certain district therein described Northwest of the Ohio) has a different tendency to that which you propose for your Legion—As your views—my ideas—and the Sentimts of Congress may all differ. and Moreover as it would give me great pain to think that a previous...
14633From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 13 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11th inst: has been delivered to me—I am extremely sorry to be obliged to deny any request which comes from you; but never having opened a corrispondence with the Minister of War in France, & having refused the like application from other Officers, it is impossible to comply with it in this instance. I shall however be very happy in giving you a Certificate or letter,...
14634From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 9 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
As I ever take pleasure in seeing military Merit awarded—I rejoice at your promotion to the Rank of Brigadier General, which you mention Congress have been pleased to grant you—and most sincerely congratulate you on the Occasion—I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
14635From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 3 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
I enclose you a Resolution of Congress which has passed on the 29th of last month, and transmitted to me yesterday, by this you will observe the necessity I am under of requesting you to discharge the Legion under your Command as soon as possible—on application to the War Office in Philadelphia you may be supplied with the necessary blank discharges. I am sr DLC : Papers of George Washington.
14636From George Washington to Charles, marquis de La Rouërie Armand Tuffin, 12 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 22d July—Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to find any of the officers whom I have the honor to command turning their thoughts and attention to matters which will promote the regularity and good of the service, and that for that reason you have my thanks for the hints you have taken the trouble to furnish me with for the better formation and composition of...
14637From Thomas Jefferson to B. D. Arrmistead, 20 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
My occupations & avocations here not permitting me to read any thing with that close attention requisite for a work of the nature of that which you have been pleased to inclose to me, I have been able to give it but a hasty perusal, not sufficient indeed to make myself master of your views in all it’s parts, much less to pronounce on their merit. I see many which are ingenious, and which I am...
14638From George Washington to John Armistead, 29 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
Many months having elapsed since I informed you in explicit terms of my want of the money which is due to me from the Estate of your deceased Father, without having received any acknowledgement of the letter, I presume it has miscarried. To avoid the like accident, I have taken the liberty of putting this letter under cover to Mr Holmes, at the Bowling-green, who I persuade myself, will do me...
14639From George Washington to John Armistead, 17 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
It has been my hope since my return, that it would be unnecessary for me to remind you of the debt due to me from the Estate of your deceased Father; the speedy payment of which, at different times I have received assurances of from your self. Besides standing much in need of the money (which alone will, I persuade myself, be a stimulus to the discharge of my claim) it may be well for you to...
14640From John Adams to Theodore Armistead, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address in which the Modesty of Youth is united with the Fortitude of Manhood, and the Decency of Expression enhances the Value of the generous and Patriotic sentiments. Virginia is of so high Importance in the Union, and in my so respectable in my Esteem, that Assurances of Attachment to the Government from any Portion of the People of that state whatever may be their...
14641From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead, 1 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I desired you some time ago to provide cloathing for five hundred and odd Men according to a List from Baron Steuben which I put into your hands: be pleased now to deliver the Materials to the Person attending from Colo. Davies to receive them out of the Stock you purchased or what came from Winchester or from any other Stock you have. I am Sir your humble Servant, FC ( Vi ).
14642From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead, 31 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Till the appointment and qualification of a Commercial agent, we are forced to put on you all the duties of that office. You will perceive by the inclosed letters that a compromise as to the recaptured vessel may perhaps be obtained if the master has proper authority to compromise. This would be more agreeable to us than to go into a court of admiralty. I inclose you the letters to undertake...
14643From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead, 1 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
There is an account of very considerable amount between us and Mr. S. Nathan a merchant from the Havannah which we are to desire you to settle with Mr. Smith who acts for him. The debts against us may be arraigned under three heads. First, advances on a purchase of goods made at Baltimore and Philadelphia for us by Mr. Nathan; this is to be settled according to the price of tobacco at the...
14644From James Madison to George Armroyd, 18 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
In conformity to the request in yours of the instant I have made the capture of the Brig Neptune the subject of a representation to the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, as a ground for his interposition with the Govr. of Porto Rico: I enclose the letter with a request that you will convey it to him. As no document proving the Citizenship of the Claimants or the ownership of the Vessel, accompanied...
14645From James Madison to John Armstrong, 2 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
The Officers of the French Government in St Domingo having made that Government a debtor to Mr Tucker of Massachusetts by a restraint which left him no alternative, Mr Pichon undertook to liquidate the compensation due, for which he delivered Mr Tucker a draft on Paris. On the presentation of this draft payment has been refused on account of an alledged defect of authority in Mr Pichon. It has...
14646From James Madison to John Armstrong, 14 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The rein given by Great Britain thro’ the arbitrary decisions of her Admiralty Courts to the Cruizers against our commerce, has produced already heavy losses to our merchants, and a very general indignation throughout the nation. You will have observed the notice taken of the British conduct in the Message of the President to Congress at the opening of the Session. I now transmit a copy of a...
14647From James Madison to John Armstrong, 14 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 March 1809. Offered for sale in Charles Hamilton Catalogue No. 80 (5 Sept. 1974), item 275, which describes the one-page letter as a request that Armstrong obtain French permission to import merino sheep, noting that the letter reads in part: “The value of this breed to our Country is now generally understood, and acquisitions of specimens are acceptable services to the...
14648Lewis Cass to John Armstrong, 25 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Agreably to the opinion of Genl. Harrison and myself expressed in our last letter to you, I shall leave this place in the morning for Detroit accompanied by a select band of Indian Warriors. When I had last the honour of seeing you in Washington I submitted both verbally and in writing difficulties which occurred to me respecting some of the duties attendant upon the intercourse with the...
14649From James Madison to John Armstrong, 6 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
On reviewing the letters from you not yet acknowledged I find them under the following dates, viz 12th Novr. 24. 25. & 30th Decr 14th Feby and 18th March last. I have the pleasure to observe to you that the President entirely approves the just and dignified answer given to the venal suggestions emanating from the French functionaries as explained in your letter of the 24th of December. The...
14650Thomas Pinckney to John Armstrong, 16 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving the Presidents instructions concerning my assuming the direction of the expedition against the Southern Indians, communicated in a Letter of the 7th of this Month from the Department of War, in consequence whereof I am making arrangements for taking a position nearer to the scene of action, from whence I may give a general direction to the three Corps who are...