34131General Orders, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
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34132To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
when the Counte pulaski was going to left this Country, i had ask’d of your Exellency the Command of his Corps, and if i had been granted with by your Exellency, not anny difficulty whatsoever would have taken place, but i believe that the Counte has no more the same project. i Could perhaps have from Congress the rank of brigadier if my rank of ancienté amongs my Country men here, and mine...
34133From George Washington to Brigadier General Jacob Bayley, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favor of the 25th Ulto. I have heard nothing of Col. Wheelock but hope your fears on his account are groundless—I do not know what dispatches he might have been charged with from others—but he had none from me. I have given directions to the Commissary Genl of Purchases to have proper care taken of the Stores that have been collected upon the upper part of Connecticut River. I am...
34134From George Washington to the Continental Congress Committee of Conference, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
That the Officers of the Army are in a very disagreeable situation—that the most unhappy consequences are to be apprehended, if they are not speedily placed in a better, and that therefore some provision more adequate than has yet been made is absolutely necessary—are truths so obvious and so generally acknowleged, that it would almost seem superfluous to say any thing to enforce them—But it...
34135From George Washington to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The liberal Testimony of approbation which you did me the honor of transmitting by the hands of His Excellency the President, coming from so respectable an Assembly cannot but make the deepest impression on my mind. However conscious I am that your generous sensibility attributes infinitely too much to me—my respect for you leads me to acquiesce in your request and gratefully to subscribe...
34136To George Washington from Richard Peters, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour of enclosing to your Excellency Copies of General St Clair’s Claim of Rank & of General Arnolds Letter in Consequence. Copies have also been interchangeably sent to the Parties. They are sent to your Excellency agreeably to the Usage in such Cases that you may take such Measures in the Matter as you shall deem expedient. I have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect your...
34137From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will immediately countermand the Orders You have given to transport flour to Connecticut River above No. 4 and let no provisions of any kind be forwarded to that Neighbourhood. You will also direct your deputy in that Quarter to take care that the provision already collected above No. 4 be so disposed of, as to be no object for the Enemy and safe from Embezzlement. I am Sir Your Most...
34138To George Washington from Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 20 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been long wishing for the pleasure of seeing you in Camp but Conclude from the Multiplicity of Buisness in which you are Engaged that it will be some time before we shall Experience that Satisfaction. Our City is completely finished. it’s Regularity is equal to any on the Continent—& it’s Internal police at least as regular as that of Phila. I can Assure your Excellency that we are much...
34139John Gilbank to the Commissioners, 21 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
Last Tuesday Week Mr. Dobrie informed me of an Additional mortification I had received by your refusing to accept my Bill, adding at same time that you informed him You had wrote to me; Since which time I have, without Effect, been waiting for your letter. It is to be lamented that such a Fatality should attend your Correspondence as to subject your Answers to miscarriage or some other Cause...
34140John Lloyd and Others to the Commissioners, 21 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
We had the honour to receive your letter of the 13th of this month in due course, and are thankful for Your Honours polite attention to us. We are obliged for the transmission of the Copy of the letter which Your Honours received from His Excellency The Count de Vergennes, and with pleasure observe, that in consequence an application had been made to His Excellency, to request, that the Convoy...