45931General Orders, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Irvine[,] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant sherman[,] Lieutenant Colonel Murray[,] Major Knapp[,] Brigade Major Rosekrans. For Detachment[:] Major Ball to relieve Major Reid Ensign Samuel Tallmage is appointed Adjutant to the 4th New york regiment vice Lieutenant Ellsworth promoted from the ninth day of July last. Major James Moore is appointed...
45932To George Washington from Major General Benedict Arnold, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Last Evening I was honored with Your Excellency’s Favor of the 14th. I have given Orders for the Guard requested As also to the Quarter Master to furnish Forage at Mr Birdsall’s for the Number of Horses mentioned in your Excellency’s Letter. My Answers to the Questions proposed by Your Excellency to the Council of War, I will do myself the Honor to deliver in Person. I am, with sentiments of...
45933From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Tomorrow I set out for Hartford, on an interview with The French General and Admiral. In my absence the command of the army devolves upon you. I have so intire confidence in your prudence and abilities, that I leave the conduct of it to your discretion, with only one observation, that with our present prospects, it is not our business to seek an action or accept it but on advantageous terms....
45934To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
By the two Acts of Congress of the 15. Instant herewith enclosed, your Excellency will be informed that the late Brigadier General Smallwood is appointed a Major General in the Continental Army, & Mr Abraham Skinner Commissary General of Prisoners. As also the Measures Congress have adopted to supply the Army with Beef. Expresses are sent off to all the distant States, urging in the strongest...
45935From George Washington to Colonel William Malcom, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the 8th inst. The difficulties and distresses, which we every day experience on the score of provisions, evince that we can place no certain dependance on the modes pointed out for obtaining regular supplies, and that it will be therefore expedient for you to procure as much as you consistently can by virtue of the powers with which you are vested by His...
45936From George Washington to Officers in the 2d Canadian Regiment, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of this date—and am sorry to find You have not obtained ⟨from⟩ your State, the benefits which are proposed and recommended by the Resolut⟨io⟩n to which You refer. I am sensible of the difficulties attending your situation on this account, and therefore consent to One of your going to His Excellency, Governor Lee, as You request. You will inform Colonel Hazen of it....
45937From George Washington to Rear Admiral Ternay, 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment recd a letter of which the inclosed is a Copy. It is possible that this may be the Fleet of Admiral Arbuthnot, and that the person who discovered them may have mistaken his larger Frigates for ships of the line, but of this you will be able to form a judgment by the time this letter reaches you—I will communicate any further intelligence which I may receive—I thought the...
45938To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 16 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your letters of the 22nd 27th & 28th ultimo, which were received soon after my letter of the 31st had been sent forward to Your Excellency. In this letter I informed you Sir of a quantity of Mess Beef which might be sent on from this State if required. As to fresh beef, I hope that before this time some supplies (though I fear but small) have been received from us. The...
45939From John Jay to Robert Morris, 16 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
Had I been ever so much disposed to be out of Humour with the Silence of my Friends I assure you it would all have given Way to the Pleasure with which I rec d . your Letter of the 6th July— Perhaps an opportunity may yet offer for settling a Cypher— I shall attempt it within this Month in a Way I think will succeed. M rs . Jay has more Health than she has enjoyed this long time—she is now at...
This letter and several copies of it are to be sent by the next Post to Bilboa, Cadiz, Nantes &c. The Object of it is to inform you that it is necessary immediately to cease drawing bills upon me—for the Present. Your Excellency may soon expect a full detail of Particulars from me, you will then receive an answer to every question that may be raised upon this letter. His Catholic Majesty has...
45941Resolutions Respecting Vermont Lands, [16 September] 1780 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 20, II, 249–52). These resolutions were merely one episode in an exceedingly difficult and prolonged controversy into which Congress was first drawn on 8 May 1776 ( Journals of the Continental Congress , IV, 334–35, 405). During the war, the concern of Congress about the dispute among New Hampshire, New York, and, to a lesser degree, Massachusetts over jurisdiction and land...
45942To Benjamin Franklin from Chaumont, [on or after 17 September 1780] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society M. de Chaumont a L’honneur de Communiquer a Son ami M. le Docteur franklin unne Lettre quil a Receu de L’orient et qui luy prouvera que M. Jones est peu propre a faire aimer Les francais par les americains. J’ay L’honneur aussi de prevenir mon Bon ami M. Le Docteur franklin que les derniers pacquets qu’il m’avait Confié pour L’amerique et que J’avais fait...
45943Sunday the 17th. (Adams Papers)
This morning My brother Charles and myself went to the first bible to see Mr. Dana and Mr. Austin. We stay’d there a little while and then came back to Pappa’s lodgings. A little after we got there Mr. Guile and Mr. Ingraham came here for us to go to church with them but Pappa could not go. Brother Charles and I went. After service Mr. Guile and Mr. Ingraham left us and we came back to...
45944Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 17 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
I was much gratified at again receiving a few lines from you, tho very Laconick. I wrote you about ten days since by a Mr. Brown, who came in the Alliance and brought Letters from my Friend to congress and to some of his Friends which he put into the post office, but they must be of an old date, as he was waiting near four months for the Sailing of the Alliance. Such conduct with regard to one...
45945John Thaxter to John Adams, 17 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
I was honoured with your favour of the eighth Instant on the fifteenth. So general an Approbation of the Constitution of the Massachusetts is an Event of great Importance to our State, and it’s Acceptance at this juncture affords an unequivocal proof of the Wisdom and Magninimity, Concord and Unanimity of its Inhabitants. I rejoice that I am to live under a Constitution of Government, that has...
45946From John Adams to William Churchill Houston, 17 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
Last night Mr. Dana arrived here, from Paris and brought me your Favour of the 11. of July. You cannot imagine, Sir how much Pleasure, this Letter gave me. I shall make a good Use of this and every other authentic Information, in order to prevent the unfavourable Impressions, you are aware of. It has been my greatest Affliction Since I have been in Europe that I have had so seldom Letters from...
45947From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 17 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ September 17, 1780. In September, 1780, Schuyler wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 17th I received on that day.” Letter not found. ]
45948To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 17 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief Je crois devoir profiter de la poste de Rotterdam, qui part demain pour la France, pour vous communiquer ce qui suit plus promptement. Un ami vient de m’écrire, que quoiqu’il ne puisse pas supposer que je puisse ignorer l’arrivée d’un Mr. Searle ou Searce (car je ne puis pas bien lire le nom tel qu’il est écrit) il croît...
45949General Orders, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Parsons[,] Colonel Bayley[,] Lieutenant Colonel Fernald[,] Major Hamilton[,] Brigade Major Smith For Detachment[:] Lieutenant Colonel Cobb At the General Court martial whereof Colonel Wyllys is President—Colonel Hazen was tried on the following Charges vizt: “Disobedience of orders and unmilitary conduct on the march from Tapan to the...
45950To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment received intelligence that the Enemy from Detroit intend paying a visit to this frontier. Major Lanctot has wrote me in french, and I take the liberty to inclose a copy of the translation. The Delaware Runners add that a party of twenty Indian Warriors have been discovered, about six days ago, marching towards those Settlements. and that a large party of Seneca’s may soon be...
45951From George Washington to Abraham Skinner, 17 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
It having been agreed that an interview should take place at Elizabeth Town, between Major Generals Phillips & Lincoln on the subject of their exchange —I was induced from the earnest desire I had of relieving the prisoners on both sides as far as circumstances would admit—& in compliance with the directions of Congress, to inform His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton on the 26th Ulto, that “I...
45952From John Jay to Timothy Matlack, 17 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your Fav r of the 21 April, which was deliverd to me the 27 th August. Knowledge is essential to the Duration of Liberty and Pennsylvania is wise in making them both the Objects of public Care. I have read your Oration with great Pleasure. The Subject is a fine one— The Field large and considering the time allotted you ^ you have interspersed it with ^ useful Remarks &...
45953[To Thomas Jefferson from James Maxwell, 17 September 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 17 Sep. 1780 . Minute in Journal of the Commissioner of the Navy ( Vi ) under this date: “Letter written to the Governour informing him of the Boat Nicholson’s leaving the Yard under the Command of Lieut. Steele to take her station.” Not located.]
45954To John Jay from Silas Deane, 18–20 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
I received yours of the 8 th . this Evening, and this being my fourth Letter to You, since my Arrival, You must be convinced that Your suspicions of Neglect on my part are groundless, nor is it possible for Me to be so taken up with any Affairs, or so resentful for any Treatment I have met with, as to be unmindful of the public Affairs of Our Country, or forgetful of my Friends, whither in...
45955Monday the 18th. (Adams Papers)
Went back to the school. Nothing remarkable to day. Reading in a Volume of the guardian I found something in it which I will copy. Here follows, on two pages of his Diary, Philip Sidney’s translation of Psalm 137, five eight-line stanzas, which appeared in No. 18, not No. 19 as JQA cites it, of The Guardian , 1 April 1713. In JQA ’s edition of the work, London, 1745, at MQA , it is found at...
45956George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 18 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Peekskill [ New York ] September 18, 1780 . Reports arrival of Admiral Rodney. Directs Greene to move the Army to vicinity of Tappan and to send a Continental regiment to West Point. Df , in writing of H, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
45957From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Digges, 18 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am sorry you have had so much trouble about Jones’s Affair. When he borrow’d of me the 30. Guineas, he gave me the enclosed Bill; acquainting me that he could command Money at Bordeaux where he was going, and would pay it there to my Order. He never went to Bordeaux, but is gone back they Say to London. Thirty Days Sight of Such Bill, is in reality 30 Days date...
45958From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Johnson, 18 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress The Trustees of the Maryland Funds in London have at Length sent me their Answer, importing that by the Advice of Counsel learned in the Law, they find they cannot safely do what is required by the Act of the new State, and as at present the Stock cannot be sold or transferr’d but by them, the Execution of the Act seems now impossible. Nevertheless if you think you...
45959From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Sim Lee, 18 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress The foregoing is a Copy of my last: since which I have received a Letter from the Trustees of the Maryland Funds in London, and the Opinions of Counsel they have consulted, Copies of which I send enclos’d. As the Trustees refuse to do any act by which they may be divested of those funds, I do not see that my Appointment, of a Person to do the Business, can have any...
45960From Benjamin Franklin to John Ross, 18 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your favour of the 11th. with the Accounts, Bill of Lading &c. of the Goods you have Shipped. If you remember right I promis’d only to assist you in the freight, but you have drawn upon for almost an equal Sum over and above, on Account of Charges, Commissions &c. These kind of Encroachements are disagreable, as well as inconvenient. I have however accepted...