155851To Benjamin Franklin from Andreas Christian Knoepffel, 4 March 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library The present volume contains a number of letters from Frenchmen and other Europeans who want to settle in the United States, and we summarize them here in a single group. The writers are not only would-be emigrants, for a number of those included in our headnote on candidates for military service in America expect to make it their home. The ones...
155852General Orders, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
As the Field Officers of the day are often so busily employed in visiting the Guards, the day they are on duty as not to be able to wait upon the General. He desires the pleasure of their Company to dine with him the day after when relieved. At a General Court Martial whereof Coll Cortlandt was President (Feby 26th 1778.) Captn Cox of 10th Pennsylvania Regiment tried for absenting himself from...
155853To George Washington from Captain Samuel Bartlett, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I would beg leave to acquaint your Excelency that by reason of the Fatigues of the Past Campaign I am Reducd to So low a State of Health that I am intirely unfit to do Duty in the Camp, and as it is very improbable that I Shall recover So long as I Continue in the Camp, must beg your Excelency to grant me a Discharge from the Service. Your Excelencys Granting my Request will much Oblige your...
155854Instructions to Colonel George Baylor, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
It being adjudged advisable to augment the Cavalry in Continental Service by an addition of One Lieutt One Sergeant one Corporal and twenty two privates to each Troop, and that the States of Virginia and North Carolina should furnish Six hundred Horses for this purpose. You will receive from the Comee of Congress (sitting at Moor-hall) direction respecting the means to obtain these; with which...
155855To George Washington from William Buchanan, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 14th Ulto I had the Honour of recieving your Excellency’s Letter, in Baltimore. Both my duty and Inclination prompted me to answer it much sooner, but a severe Fit of Sickness, out of which I am even yet but very imperfectly recovered, has ⟨here⟩to prevented me—Words can not pain the Distress I feel in being at the Head of a Department, the Deficiencies in which, have occasioned your...
155856To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, 4 March 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, 4 Mar. 1778. On 9 Mar., GW wrote to Gates : “I have been this day favd with yours of the 27th February and of the 2d 3d and 4th instants.”
155857From George Washington to a Board of General Officers, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed I transmit you the Case & papers alluded to in yesterdays Orders, respecting the claim of rank by the Brigadiers in the Virginia line and upon which you are requested to report your Opinions, as to the prec[e]dence they should hold with respect to each other. I am Gentn Yr Most Obedt Servt Df , in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The enclosures...
155858To George Washington from a Board of General Officers, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
At a Board of General officers held at Lord Stirlings Quarters March 4th 1778 The Board having Taken into Consideration the Relative Rank of Generals Woodford Mulenburgh Scott & Weeden and after Examining the Papers Refferred to Them, Are unanimously of opinion That in the original promotion of Those Gentlemen to the office of Brigadiers They ought to have been Arranged in The following Manner...
155859To George Washington from Lund Washington, 4 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Horse and Letter by Fitzgerald was deliverd me on Saturday last—the Horse is rather poor, I think he is rather likely than otherways—he is much swoln about the Ancles otherways appears to be well—I shall endeavour to Fatten him—make him look as well as Possible and then let it be known that I have a Horse for the purpose of Coverg. I shall ask 15 or 20 Dollars for the season the latter if...
1558601778. March 3. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Our Wind continued brisk and fresh all the last Night, and this Morning. Our Course is about N.E. Showers in the Night and this Morning. The Flocks of Gulls, still pursuing Us. This Morning, Mr. Parison breakfasted with Us. Our Captn. in gay Spirits, chattering in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Greek, and boasting that he could speak some Words in every Language. He told Us he had...