48991From George Washington to Edward Hand, 3 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
In ansr to yours of last Eveng I should advise, that the Return of Hazens Regt be sent back, that the Commanding Officer be informed that unless the Alterations respectg the promotion of Officers between the present & last Return is made on good authority the Return cannot be accepted, that the Officer signing becomes responsible for the veracity of it, and must abide the consequences of the...
48992From Benjamin Walker to Edward Hand, 14 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief has reced information that some Waggons are on the road to Camp—laden with money for the Army—they were Escorted by a Guard from Philadelphia to Pompton—where a Guard of twenty men took charge of them & was to bring them to Ringwood, if possible this Evening. His Excellency desires that for the farther Security of the Treasure a Guard of a Captain & fifty Men may be...
48993From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 1 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since I arrived here, I received Your favor of the 17th Ulto. I am sorry the Country about Minisincks or within supporting distance could not afford forage sufficient to subsist Count pulaski’s Horse. Matters respecting them and their Quarters are arranged before this. As to the German batallion—should any pressing circumstances arise to make it essential, you may call it from Easton. With...
48994From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 21 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours by Genl Clinton. I have furnished Genl Schuyler with the Resolve of Congress directing the Expedition to Chemung, and desired him in conjunction with Governor Clinton and yourself to take the matter fully into consideration, that if thought practicable at this season of the Year it may be undertaken, if not, that I may stand justifiable to Congress for laying it aside. You...
48995George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 26 November 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Fredericksburg [ New York ] November 26, 1778 . Gives directions for distribution of troops on Hand’s arrival at Minisink. LS , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
48996From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 6 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
The number of Genl Officers in Camp is so Small, & of that number, several very anxious for leave to be absent that I am, exceedingly distressed, & put to it to conduct the ordinary business of the Army, with the smallest degree of propriety. I must therefore request, that upon receipt of this Letter you will repair to Camp. With esteem & regard I am Dr Sir—Yr obt Servt ADfS , DLC:GW ; Varick...
48997From George Washington to Edward Hand, 14 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
When I left Philadelphia I hoped to have had the pleasure of seeing you at Annapolis before my departure from thence, and to have had an oppertunity (previous to my resignation) of expressing to you personally, amongst the last acts of my Official Life, my entire approbation of your public conduct, particularly in the execution of the important duties of Adjutant General. Notwithstanding I...
48998From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 7 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been favd with yours of the 9th 10th and 15th January with their several inclosures, which I have not had an opportunity of answering before. Count Pulaski’s Legion being ordered by a Resolve of Congress of the 2d instant (Copy of which you have inclosed) to repair to South Carolina, be pleased to direct the Officer commanding the Infantry of the Legion to march immediately by the...
48999From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 16 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to hold all the troops under your command, except Colo. Cortland’s Regt, ready to march as soon as you shall receive orders from me to that purpose. You are to move over to Susquehannah, but let this remain a secret. I am informed that three Men who were taken by the Indians from the Minisink settlement have made their escape and have returned home. If they are intelligent,...
49000From George Washington to Edward Hand, 18 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
I intend in a day or two to set out to join the Army on the North River and wish you at the same time to forward your Official Papers and send on some of the Gentlemen of your Office, but as the Adjutant Generals Department is not yet Arranged you are yourself to remain in Town untill it is compleated or untill you hear further from me. I am sr Yr Hble Servt P.S. I could wish your stay in this...
49001From George Washington to Edward Hand, 30 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Honble the Congress having thought proper to request me, to remain in this City, to assist in transacting public business. I find it necessary that the Heads of particular departments should also reside here; during the term that the Business referr’d to may require attention. You will therefore upon the receipt of this be pleased to make such arrangements as your private affairs may...
49002From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 20 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Since mine of the 16th your missing letter of the 10th and another of the 11th has come to hand. A supply of Cloathing for the 4th Penna Regt and the Rifle Corps has been ordered up by Capt. Cobourn of Colo. Aldens Regiment and I hope it may be arrived with them by this time. The exigency of Affairs to the Northward having required an additional number of troops to be sent thither, I have...
49003From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 21 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote to you on the 16th I have been informed, tho’ not in such a way that I can depend upon it, that the Country between Chemung and the Seneca Nation is great part of it so low and swampy that it is traversed with difficulty by even a few Foot. This is a matter that should be ascertained with the utmost precision, because should we endeavour to move a Body by that Route, to cooperate...
49004From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 19 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are forthwith to proceed to Albany and take the command at that place and its dependencies—The forts on the frontiers, and all the Troops employed there will be comprehended under your general command and direction—Besides the garrisons, there are at this time Warners Regiment—Aldens, the fourth Pensylvania Regiment under Lieut. Colo. Butler and the rifle corps, late Morgan’s—now commanded...
49005From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 23 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
At the same time I acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 4th of January, I have the pleasure to congratulate you, on your appointment as Adjutant General to the Army. This has been announced to me two days ago officially from Congress. As Colonel Scammel had made his arrangements to leave the Office on the first of January, he is impatient to be releived by his successor. And indeed his...
49006From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 1 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since mine of the 24th I have recd a letter from Colo. Butler dated the 28th March, by which I find, that a Body of the enemy, consisting of Indians and others, had made their appearance at Wyoming, and had destroyed several Houses and Barns in the neighbourhood, but had been unsuccessful in their attempt upon the fort —This indication of the enemy’s being in motion upon that quarter makes me...
49007Recruiting Instructions for Colonel Edward Hand, 11 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
You are immediately to Inlist such of your Regiment or any other Troops raised in the Province of Pennsylvania as are able of Body & Willing to enter into the Service of the United States of America upon the following Terms. 1st. You are not to inlist any but Freemen able of Body & under the age of 50 carefully avoiding all persons Labouring under any Lameness or other Defect of Body...
49008From David Humphreys to Edward Hand, 17 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by His Excellency to send you the enclosed to be issued to morrow. He also requests (if possible) that from the result of your inspection, or by the Return of the Recruits who have joined since the first of April, you will afford the Means (this evening) of ascertaining our present force with great precision. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your Most Obed. Servant...
49009From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 12 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowlege your letter of the 29th Ulto with its several inclosures. The two militia companies, who were under General Starks discharge, and which you mention on the cover of your letter to have left you, will necessarily forfeit by this step the state bounty, as appears by its own resolutions of June the 10th 1778. Cloathing has been already sent on to Aldens—Butlers and Poseys...
49010From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 30 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
your several favors of the 16th from Lancaster—and the 23d & 26 Instant from Esthertown were duly handed me. Proper measures have been taken with the commissary of ordinance and military stores to have the necessary supply of such articles as are the subject of yours of the 16th forwarded. As to the axes & pack-saddles; on enquiry I find that the latter, of which you complain, were not...
49011From George Washington to Edward Hand, 4 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Return of Hazen’s Regt mentioned in your Letter of this date cannot be accepted, as no intimation has ever been given from Authority that the promotions in question have taken place—and until such official information shall be received no Notice can be taken of them, as I have already informed the Inspector of the Army in answer to his request to know in what manner the Persons said to be...
49012George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 4 September 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Wilmington [ Delaware ] September 4, 1777. Orders Hand to send forward officers of Colonel Daniel Brodhead’s regiment. Sends news of Fort Stanwix (Schuyler). Df , in writing of H, postscript in writing of Caleb Gibbs, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
49013George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 12 October 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Towamencin, Pennsylvania ] October 12, 1777 . Discusses conditions at Fort Pitt and orders Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment to join main Army. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
49014From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 4 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Broadhead of the 8th Pensylvania regiment has represented to me, that several of his officers sent to Westmoreland with large sums of public money, for the purposes of recruiting men for his corps & recovering others who had deserted from it, were detained by your influence and countenance from their regiment. I know not what foundation he may have for this assertion; but if the fact...
49015From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 28 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been favd with yours of the 17th and 22d instants. If the Serjeant of the 3d pennsylvania Regiment will be as useful to you as you represent, you may keep him with you. I will direct the Commissary of Musters to send up a Deputy to your quarter, who will transact the Business with more regularity than an Officer not acquainted with the proper mode of making Returns. I approve of your...
49016From George Washington to Edward Hand, 2 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will take the Command of the detachment which is intended to Surprise the Enemy’s Pos ts on the end of York Island. I entertain too high an opinion of your di ligence abilities & judgment as an Officer, to restrict you by Instructions. In the execution of this pr oject you will consider what follows as hints whic h may be improved upon, or departed from, as circum stances warrant. On the...
49017From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 31 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have before me your several favors of the 8—12—and 24th instant with the inclosures. I shall transmit them to General Sullivan, who is now at Easton, and mention to the board of war the clothing wanted for the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment. Our stores I am affraid, are by no means equal to our several demands. What they can furnish will require to be managed with the strictest frugality. I...
49018From George Washington to Colonel Edward Hand, 14 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
You left this place many Weeks ago to collect, as I understood, the remains of your Regiment together—no good that I have yet seen, has resulted from it—by the last return just handed in, you have 263 Sick, absent—strange this! after such a length of time spent in Assembling your Regiment. The Season of the year, & the exigency of our Affairs, will admit of no more delays; I have therefore, in...
49019From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 24 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of the 20th with the inclosures to which it refers. As soon as the weather will admit, I intend the German Battalion—Armands and Schotts Corps shall move over to Wyoming to take post there, and as Spencers Regiment will remain some time behind them, as a cover to the part of the Country in which you now are, and to wait for a detachment from the North River which is to be...
49020George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 19 October 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Fredericksburg [ New York ] October 19, 1778 . Orders Hand to Albany and sends details of the proposed expedition against Anaquaga. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress
49021From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 13 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your favour of the 15th Ulto from Fort Pitt, giving me an account of the State of your Garrison. I am sorry your force is not more adequate to the uses you have for it, and that such coldness appears in the neighbouring inhabitants as to preclude the assistance you had a right to expect from them. Under the circumstances you mention, I have no objection to your detaining...
49022From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 4 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Arms, Cloathing and Camp Equipage for Colo. Spencers and the German Regiment and for Armands and Schotts Corps, of which Capt. Schott brought down a return, will all be sent up the Susquehannah to Wyoming, at which place the troops ordered to march thither will meet them—As Colo. Cortlandts Regt will not be employed upon the same service, the necessary Cloathing and Camp equipage for it...
49023From John Adams to Edward Hand, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address presented to me by your Representative in Congress Mr Kittera. It is indeed too plainly apparent that We must resort either submit to be dictated to by a foreign Power, or resort to Arms for the defence of all that can be held dear to Freemen. The Happiness you acknowledge under the Influence of a Government of your own Choice mild and equal in its operations, is...
49024From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have recd yours of the 13th containing the disagreeable account of the attack upon Colonel Aldens Regt at Cherry Valley: But your letter of the 10th has never come to hand. I have ordered General Clinton with the two remaining Regiments of his Brigade to march immediately to Albany, that they may be ready to act as circumstances may require. It is in the highest degree distressing to have...
49025From David Humphreys to Edward Hand, 11 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by His Excellency to send you the inclosed, to be issued tomorrow, He also requests (if possible) that from the result of your inspection, or by the return of the Recruits who have joined since the first of April, you will afford the means (this evening) of assertaining our present force with great precision. I have the Honor to be With perfect respect, Your Most Obt Servt P.S....
49026From David Humphreys to Edward Hand, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief is pleased to authorize any three of the Board, appointed to decide the despute respecting numbering the Regts of Connecticut, who shall meet at Horton’s tomorrow, to proceed to the decision of that dispute, & to report accordingly—I have the honor to be Sir Your Most Obedt Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
49027From Thomas Jefferson to Handsome Lake, 12 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of January 18th. wherein you suppose that in my former answer to you of Nov. 3. I had not fully understood what you had communicated to me; and you repeat a complaint that the state of New York had purchased lands from your nation to which some part of the nation did not consent. this is exactly what I understood, and then answered so fully that I need here repeat...
49028II. Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 13 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Father and good Friend the President of the United States has taken into consideration all that you communicated to him when you took him by the hand three days agoe, and he has authorised me to give you the following answer Brothers, The President is pleased with seeing you all in so good health after so long a journey and he rejoices in his heart to find that one of your own people has...
49029From Thomas Jefferson to John Hankart, 28 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of the 18th. my whole crop of tobo. was put into the hands of my agent at Richmond (being about 45,000. ℔) who in his last letter informed me he was about to sell it at 7½ Dollars the hundred, and I presume it is actually sold, as I had desired it should be. were it still on hand I could not withdraw a few hogsheads from it without greatly injuring the sale...
49030Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hanna, 16 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter from you, dear Sir, comes to me like one from the tombs of the dead, so long is it since I have had any evidence that you were still in the land of the living, and so few are now so who were fellow laborers in the struggle for the liberation of our country. and I rejoice to find that advancing years are the only assailants on your health mentioned in your letter. time as well as ill...
49031Thomas Jefferson to Theodosius Hansford, 7 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Mar. 15. with the books stated in the catalogue it covered, and the natural substances accompanying them, and on behalf of the Visitors and of the University I return you thanks for this kind donation. they shall be carefully preserved, and faithfully delivered to that institution so soon as it opens. I hope it will become worthy of the favors of which you...
49032From John Quincy Adams to Alexander Contee Hanson, 23 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
According to your request, I return the plat, which you had the goodness to send me with many thanks.—Your letter of 6th. Feby. had remained unanswered, not only from the pressure of public business, but from an inability to answer specifically in the name of all Mr. Johnson’s heirs—His affairs were left at his decease in 1802 in a state of great embarrassment, chiefly owing to a suit in...
49033From George Washington to Alexander Contee Hanson, 7 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 22d Ulto has been duly received; and altho’ it is not usual with me, to answer letters of application for offices or to assign reasons for non-compliance; yet, from the respectability of your character, I depart from it in the present instance: and doing so, candour requires I should add, that it would be inexpedient to take two of the Associate Judges from the same State....
49034From George Washington to Alexander Contee Hanson, 18 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 14 instant, enclosing an Address from the Citizens of Annapolis, I had the honor to receive in the afternoon of yesterday. The answer to it, I give you the trouble, as Chairman of the meeting, to receive under cover of this letter; praying you at the same time to be assured of the very great esteem & regard with which I am &c. LB , DLC:GW . GW’s executive journal recorded his...
49035From James Madison to Alexander C. Hanson, 1 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on the 4th ⟨of⟩ March next, to receive such communications as may be made to it on the part of the ⟨Ex⟩ecutive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber in th⟨is⟩ City on that day is accordingly requested. RC ( MdHi ). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM . Copies of this letter were sent to all members of the...
49036From George Washington to John Hanson, 23 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit the proceedings of the General Court Martial upon Major General Howe. In apology for their being sent in so rude a state, I beg leave to observe that it would take some days to make a fair Copy, which would add so much to the detention of the Officers who composed the Court, several of whom have remained in Town at a very considerable expense and much...
49037From George Washington to John Hanson, 14 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received information that a lurking party of the Enemy is sent out to intercept the mail between Philadelphia & the North River, the place they are to lay in wait for the Post is said to be between Pluckimen & Morristown. I thought it proper to give your Excellency this notice of it (altho I cannot positively be answerable for the veracity of the intelligence) that measures might be...
49038From George Washington to John Hanson, 25 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit to your Excellency the Copies of two Letters which were written to me by the Count de Vergennes, sent out in the Packet from England, and have just come to my Hands by a flag of Truce from N.York—they con tain a very pathetic & affectionate Interposition in Favor of the Life of Capt. Asgill. I lose no Time in forwardg them by a special Messenger, to...
49039From George Washington to John Hanson, 25 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
My Intelligence from N. York informs that the British fleet was ready for Sea, and on the point of Sailing—in two divisions—some say one division will go to the West Indies—and the other into Gardners Bay to wait the motions of the french fleet. I cannot learn that any Troops are yet embarked. Some naval prisoners, Come out from N. York, by the Way of Dobbs Ferry Yesterday, inform that the...
49040From George Washington to John Hanson, 22 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to inclose to your Excellency, for the observation of Congress, the latest Intelligence I have received from New York.It is the most direct & perfect Information I have been able to obtain; much the same Accounts are received from there in different Ways. A Copy of what is herein inclosed, has already been transmitted to the Marquis de Vandreiul for his Information. With...