157151From George Washington to Brigadier General John Lacey, Jr., 2 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday recd yours of the 27th Feby. I had heard of the loss of the Cattle before it came to hand, and I am sorry to say that the loss is imputed to your having refused to let the drovers have a guard when they applied for one. I shall be glad to know whether it is so, and if true, what could be your reason for refusing. I desire you to send a party of 150 Men, under a good Officer, well...
157152[Diary entry: 2 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
2. The Gentlemen went away after Breakfast. I rid to the Mill. Mr. Ben. Dulany & Wife came here to Dinner & stayd all Night as did Mr. R. Thompson. Richard Thompson was living on the Maryland side of the Great Falls of the Potomac, where he was trying to establish a business in the manufacturing and sale of smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff. In 1774 he was appointed to be the clerk...
157153From George Washington to Colonel Stephen Moylan, 24 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Enemy’s Fleet having left the Hook and gone to Sea, I am to request, that you will immediately repair with your Regiment to the City of Philadelphia and put yourself under the direction of the Commanding Officer there—You will not lose a Moments Time, and will order your Baggage to follow under a proper Guard. I am Sir Yr Humble servant LS , in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DSoC ; Df ,...
157154From George Washington to William Greene, 24 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
By the plan of operations settled between His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau and myself, the French Army, except a Guard over Stores at providence, is to march as soon as circumstances will admit and form a junction with the American upon the North River: But as it has been deemed of importance to keep possession of the valuable Works which have been thrown up upon Rhode Island for the...
157155From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 14 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
As the object of the enemy is now reduced to an absolute certainty, and they are bending their whole force, with great vigor, to the Southward, it can no longer answer any valuable purpose to keep a body of Continental troops in your state, whose presence in the further progress of the Campaign will probably be essentially necessary in this quarter. You will therefore, on receipt of this,...
157156General Orders, 13 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
A General Court Martial to sit to morrow morning to try Col. John Mansfield of the Massachusetts Forces, accused by three of his Officers of high Crimes and Misdemeanors: One Brigadier General, and twelve Field Officers, to compose the Court. President Brigdr Gen: Green Col. James Ried Col. Patterson Col. James M: Varnum Col. Woodbridge Lt Col. [Isaac] Wyman Lt Col. [Samuel] March Lt Col....
157157[Diary entry: 20 October 1769] (Washington Papers)
20. Raining in the Night and Misty all day. Wind still Eastwardly.
157158[Diary entry: 21 January 1787] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 21st. Mercury at 37 in the Morning—42 at Noon and 42 at Night. A very heavy thick fog till 10 Oclock—Cloudy & lowering Most part of the day afterwds. though the sun made feeble efforts to shine. Evening clr.—but little wind and that at No. Et. Major Swan (of Boston) & Mr. Hunter of Alexandria came here to dinner & stayed all nig[ht].
157159[Diary entry: 14 February 1768] (Washington Papers)
14. At home alone.
157160[Diary entry: 9 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
9. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg run, & the Mill.
157161General Orders, 6 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
A General Court Martial will Assemble at ten o clock tomorrow morning at the city Tavern for the Trial of Major General Howe upon the following Charges exhibited against him by the Delegates of the State of Georgia in Congress by order of the General Assembly of the said state. Major General the Baron de Steuben will Preside. General Knox Colonels Stewart Lamb Moylan and Humpton and Majors...
157162From George Washington to John Hancock, 31 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Inclination as well as duty would have Induced me to give Congress the earliest Information of my removal and that of the Troops from Long Island & Its dependencies to this City the night before last, But the extreme fatigue whic⟨h⟩ myself and Family have undergone as much from the Weather since the Engagement on the 27th rendered me & them entirely unfit to take pen in hand—Since Monday...
157163From George Washington to Major General Robert Howe, 7 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favr of the 3d with the Returns, to which it refers, inclosed. Colo. Gouvion—anxious to prepare Fascines, Gabions and sleepers for platforms, wishes a reinforcement of fatigue Men, to be kept constantly down towards the Village upon that service. I know not how such a measure may interfere with your present arrangements, and I can therefore only recommend to you to spare as many...
157164General Orders, 15 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
After Orders September 15th 1778. 1st—The whole Army will march tomorrow morning at seven ôClock —The General will beat at five the troop at six and the march at seven precisely. 2nd The baggage will precede the troops the first day Provision and Forage Waggons going in front. 3rd The Park of Artillery will march with the second Line between Parsons’s and Clinton’s Brigades. 4th The Commander...
157165From George Washington to Henry Knox, 29 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
That General St Clair may not think his letters (enclosed) to me, have been unattended to, or slighted, I wish such an answer as will do for publication may be prepared—conformably—to the Sentimts which seemed to be entertained of the matter when the subject was before us the other day. I am always Yrs P.S. To say neither too much, nor too little, in the answer will be a matter of some...
157166From George Washington to William Livingston, 2 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege the receipt of your favour of the 26 ulto. The recent detection of the wicked design you mention gives me the most sensible pleasure, and I earnestly hope you may be alike successful in discovering and disappointing every attempt, that may be projected against you, either by your open or concealed enemies. It is a tax, however, severe, which all those must pay,...
157167[Diary entry: 22 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
22. Very white frost, & ground a litle froze—but clear and pleasant with but little Wind.
157168From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 26 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 8th inst. with its inclosures—I have reason to hope that the extremity of distress to which the troops at the Eastward have been exposed for want of bread will be relieved and that the Commissary will have it in his power to prevent its happening again. The state of our money involves a variety of distracting difficulties which are rather to be lamented...
157169From George Washington to Thomas Wharton, 9 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment favor’d with your Letter of Yesterday, covering a Complaint of William McIlvaine Esqr. against Major or Captain Sims—The Corps to which he belongs is at present in Trenton. I shall take the earliest opportunity of having this matter strictly enquir’d into, & if Sims is found guilty of the charge, he shall make such satisfaction as Mr McIlvaine will deem sufficient, or (in case...
157170[February 1760] (Washington Papers)
Friday Feby. 1st. 1760. Wind at and Snow till 9 Oclock then cleard & became tolerable warm. Visited my Plantation’s. Found Foster had been absent from his charge since the 28th. Ulto. Left Order’s for him to come immediately to me upon his return & reprehended him severely. Mr. Johnston & Mr. Walter Stewart came here this Afternoon. Saturday Feby. 2d. 17[60]. The Gentlemen went of after...
157171From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 17th was not presented to me till after the Resolution’s (which were adjudg’d advisable for this county to come to) had been revis’d, alterd, & corrected in the Committee; nor till we had gone into a general Meeting in the Court House, and my attention necessarily call’d every moment to the business that was before it; I did however upon receipt of it (in that hurry &...
157172[Diary entry: 9 July 1771] (Washington Papers)
9. Finish’d Cutting & Securing my Wheat at Muddy hole abt. 4 Oclock in the Afternoon and removd my People to Doeg Run.
157173From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 8 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Congress has by an act of the 2d inst. directed me to order an Engineer to proceed to south Carolina for the service of the southern Department—if I shd judge it necessary. As I think the presence of a skilful Engineer indispensible in that Country I am to desire that you will detach one of the Corps—with directions to repair to Charles Town and take the orders of Major General Lincoln or the...
157174General Orders, 11 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Brigadier Genl Muhlenberg will take the trouble of inquiring into the Rank, and Claims for promotion of the Subalterns of the 1st 3rd 4th 5th 6th & 9th Virginia Battalions; determine the disputes, and make report; that no time may be left [lost] in filling up the vacancies. The commanding Officers of detachments and parties, as they arrive, must make Returns to the Adjutant General without...
157175From George Washington to Henry Lee, 21 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I should have thanked you at an earlier period for your obliging letter of the 14th ulto, had it not come to my hands a day or two only before I set out for Mount Vernon; and at a time when I was much hurried, and indeed very much perplexed with the disputes, Memorials and what not, with which the Government were pestered by one or other of the petulant representatives of the Powers at War....
157176From George Washington to Colonel Lewis Duboys, 9 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 5th by your Br[other] is Received[.] by him I forward you 800 Dollars, would have you order your Regt to March for this place as fast as an Officers party are enlisted, You will make a return to Me immediately of the number of Men already embodied, and Continue to make your returns by which you may call for Money as wanted, I conceive that taking Men from the 4 or 5 Months...
157177From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 29 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency having been pleased to transmit me a copy of the Act appropriating to my benefit certain shares in the Companies for opening the navigation of James and Potomack Rivers, I take the liberty of returning to the General Assembly through your hands, the profound & grateful acknowledgments inspired by so signal a mark of their benificent intentions towards me. I beg you, Sir, to...
157178[Diary entry: 29 June 1768] (Washington Papers)
29. Warm with but little Wind till the Evening then Cool with the Wind fresh from the No. West.
157179[Diary entry: 1 October 1771] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1st. The Weather clear & pleasant with very little Wind.
157180From George Washington to Lund Washington, 15 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 29th Ulto, Inclosing a line from Captn Marshall to you came to my hands yesterday—I have no reason to doubt the truth of your observation, that this Gentleman’s Land, & others equally well situated, & under like circumstances, will sell very high —The depreciation of our money—the high prices of every article of produce, & the redundancy of circulating paper, will, I am...