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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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22651 | Adams, Abigail | Lovell, James | Abigail Adams to a Massachusetts Member of the … | ≈1779-01-01 | It gives me real pain to see the various arts and machinations of our internal Enemies practised... |
22652 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-03-01 | The Armoury department is in as bad a situation as it can well be, and requires measures to be... |
22653 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-03-06 | However inconvenient, & distressing to the Service in this quarter it may be to part with another... |
22654 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-01-29 | The numerous defects, in our present military establishment, rendering many reformations and many... |
22655 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-03-01 | As I do not recollect your determination respecting the resolve of Congress, in the case of... |
22656 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-03-19 | Agreeable to General Reeds request I inclose you a list of the Field Officers in the Pensylvania... |
22657 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Camp Committee | From George Washington to a Continental Congress Camp … | 1778-04-09 | By a Resolve of Congress, the appointment of Officers to the Corps which Brigadier General Count... |
22658 | First Joint Commission at Paris | Continental Congress, Commerce Committee | The Commissioners to the Commerce Committee, 29 July … | 1778-07-29 | We have the Honour of your Letter of 28 May by Captain Reed. We are rejoiced at the Arrival, even... |
22659 | Adams, John | Continental Congress, Commerce Committee | From John Adams to the Commerce Committee, 24 May 1778 | 1778-05-24 | Passy, 24 May 1778. printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,... |
22660 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-01-23 | Cloathing the Army well is a matter of such essential and fundamental importance, that it ought... |
22661 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-02-02 | I did not hear till after I had set out, that some fresh difficulties had occurred in fixing a... |
22662 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | Remarks to Continental Congress Committee of … | ≈1779-01-23 | In consequence of the opinion of the Committee on the three plans submitted to them, some time... |
22663 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-01-13 | The Minutes I had the honor of transmitting to the consideration of the Committee, were intended... |
22664 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-01-08 | As the Resolve of Congress appointing you a Committee to confer with me extends the object of the... |
22665 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-01-20 | That the Officers of the Army are in a very disagreeable situation—that the most unhappy... |
22666 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee of Conference | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1776-09-11 | Letter not found: to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference or Edward Rutledge, 11... |
22667 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee on Fortifying Ports | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1776-04-22 | I received your favour of the 14 Instt, and Judgg Colo. Richard Gridley & Colo. Hy Knox to be as... |
22668 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee on Fortifying Ports | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1776-06-08 | In Answer to your Favour of the 14th Inst. in which you request me to employ proper Persons to... |
22669 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee on Reducing the … | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1780-01-23 | I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 11th, with a Copy of the propositions to which... |
22670 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee on the Mustering … | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-08-20 | I was duly honored with your letter of the 5th of last month, which several circumstances have... |
22671 | Washington, George | Sullivan, John | From George Washington to John Sullivan or the … | 1781-01-21 | I am honored with your letter of the 15th —I have just received the disagreeable intelligence of... |
22672 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Committee to Inquire into the … | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-07-19 | The little notice I had of your coming to the Army, and the shortness of your stay in Camp, will,... |
22673 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-01-07 | I have understood that the Foundery for casting brass Cannon which was begun at Philadelphia with... |
22674 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-01-12 | I have your several Favors of the 7th and 9th instant. Complaints of the usage of the prisoners... |
22675 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-02-27 | I am honoured with yours of the 20th 21st and 22d Insts. The French Gentlemen having been... |
22676 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-03-03 | I was honoured to day with your Letter of the 29th Ulto with the dispatches from Congress which... |
22677 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-02-13 | Morristown, 13 February 1777 . Requests the executive committee to give $4,000 to Lt. Col. David... |
22678 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Executive Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-03-02 | I was last Night honored with yours of the 26th last Month, inclosing the late Resolves of... |
22679 | First Joint Commission at Paris | Continental Congress, Foreign Affairs Committee | The Commissioners to the Foreign Affairs Committee, 29 … | 1778-07-29 | We have the Honour of your Letters of May 14. and 15. We congratulate you on the general good... |
22680 | Adams, John | Continental Congress, Foreign Affairs Committee | From John Adams to the Foreign Affairs Committee, 24 … | 1777-12-24 | Having been absent from this State, I had not the Honour of your Favour of December 3d. untill... |
22681 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Intelligence Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-09-03 | I have the Honor of yours of Yesterday with a Number of Hand Bills giving an account of our... |
22682 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Marine Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-10-09 | By the inclosed Extract from Genl Orders, which I have the honor to transmit, You will perceive... |
22683 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Marine Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-06-01 | This will be delivered you by Major Blodget, who has served with reputation in the army since the... |
22684 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Marine Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-10-06 | I had the honor yesterday to receive your favor of the 28th of September—accompanied by a Copy of... |
22685 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Marine Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1779-05-25 | In a letter which I had the honor to write to Congress the 17th instant I mentioned to them that... |
22686 | Swift, Samuel | Cushing, Thomas | Samuel Swift to Thomas Cushing, 2 October 1774 | 1774-10-02 | Since I wrote you, Jealousies seem to rise higher between the People and the Army. It has been... |
22687 | Washington, George | Continental Congress Secret Committee | From George Washington to the Continental Congress … | 1777-05-05 | I was this morning honored with your Letter of the 2d Instt, covering One for Mr Boudinot, which... |
22688 | Treasury Department | Continental Loan Officers | Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan … | 1789-10-12 | As I am not certain in what light the Commissioners of the Loan Office in the several states may... |
22689 | Treasury Department | Continental Loan Officers | Treasury Department Circular to the Continental Loan … | 1790-05-17 | There are in the possessions of the late Loan Officers of the United States, several specie of... |
22690 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1777-11-12 | I have your favr of the 10th and am only sorry that I did not sooner know my request of sinking... |
22691 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1777-11-29 | I am favd with yours of the 28th. I see no Reason for changing my former opinion in respect to... |
22692 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board, 1 … | 1778-03-01 | I am informed that a number of the continental flat Boats still remain at Bordentown. I wrote to... |
22693 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1778-04-11 | I am favd with yours of the 31st ulto. All the Articles which you send over are to be directed to... |
22694 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1777-10-27 | I this morning recd your favr of the 26th. I refer you to a letter which I wrote you a few hours... |
22695 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1777-10-25 | The applications of Commodore Hazelwood for seamen, & the necessity there is of his being... |
22696 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board … | 1777-10-27 | The more I reflect upon the evil that may arise from the Enemy’s possessing themselves of our... |
22697 | Washington, George | Continental Navy Board | From George Washington to the Continental Navy Board, 9 … | 1777-11-09 | I yesterday recd a letter from Congress informing me that they had received a Report from your... |
22698 | Hamilton, Alexander | Convention of the Representatives of the State of … | From Alexander Hamilton to the Convention of the … | 1776-08-12 | It is necessary I should inform you that there is at present a vacancy in my company, arising... |
22699 | Hamilton, Alexander | Convention of the Representatives of the State of … | From Alexander Hamilton to the Convention of the … | 1777-03-06 | The change in my own circumstances and in those of your company of Artillery lately under my... |
22700 | Hamilton, Alexander | Convention of the Representatives of the State of … | From Alexander Hamilton to the Convention of the … | 1776-09-14 | I do hereby certify that Wm. Douglass, the bearer hereof, faithfully served as a matross in my... |