51551From George Washington to General William Howe, 23 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am compelled by repeated Complaints of the Inhuman treatment still shewn to the Unhappy prisoners in your hands, to call upon you for a clear & explicit Answer to my Letter of the 14th Instant. This I shall expect to receive by Monday Evening next. Their sufferings demand immediate redress; And unless I obtain the most satisfactory assurances on this Head, duty will constrain me to retaliate...
51552From George Washington to Lieutenant General William Howe, 1 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the honor of your favor of the 11th ulto and to thank you for your polite return of my Letter to Mrs Washington. Agreeing to the Proposition you were pleased to make for the exchange of such Prisoners as can be conveniently collected, The Gentn whose names are specified in the inclosed List have permission to proceed immediately to New York. Others as soon as they arrive...
51553From George Washington to Major General William Howe, 19 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to advise you, that in Consequence of Genl Sullivan’s Information, first by Letter and afterwards verbally, that you were willing to exchange him for Maj. Genl Prescot, and Brig. Genl Lord Stirling for any Brigadier of yours in our possession; I wrote to Congress to send Genl prescot to some convenient place from whence the proposed Exchange might be made. And supposing that...
51554From George Washington to General William Howe, 3 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
On the 1st Instt I received the favor of your Letter of the 27th Ulto. I had heard the day before of Lt Colo. Campbell’s confinement and wrote him and the president of the Council of the Massachussets State respecting it, and I trust his situation will be made more agreeable, it being my wish that every reasonable indulgence and act of Humanity should be done to those whom the fortune of War...
51555From George Washington to General William Howe, 10 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday the favor of your Letter of the 5th Instant. In answer to what ever it contains concerning General Burgoyn’s Army and the measures adopted relative to it, I have only to inform you, that this is a matter in which I have never had the least direction. It lies wholly with Congress, and the proposals you make, on this head, must be submitted to them; I have accordingly...
51556From George Washington to General William Howe, 13 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was this Evening honoured with your Letter of the 12th. The attention, which, you are pleased to assure me, has been paid to the Officers & privates of the Army under my command, who were unfortunately wounded in the Action on Thursday last, has a claim to my Acknowledgements. Agreable to the permission, you offer, I have directed the following Gentn—Doctrs Rush, Leiper & Latimer, and Mr...
51557From George Washington to General William Howe, 13 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by Congress to propose an Exchange of five of the Hessian Feild Officers taken at Trenton for Major General Lee, or if this proposal should not be acceded to, to demand his Liberty upon Parole, within certain Bounds, as has ever been granted to your Officers in our Custody. I am informed from good Authority that your Reason for keeping him hitherto in stricter confinement than...
51558From George Washington to Lieutenant General William Howe, 3 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which accompanies this, was designed to have been sent by the Gentlemen whose names are in the List it incloses; but by some Accident or delay of my Messenger they had left Brunswick before it reached them. Since that time I have been informed, that a Number of others both Officers and Soldiers are coming on from the State of Pennsylvania. I have directed Colo. Moylan to meet and to...
51559George Washington to Sir William Howe, 4 April 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Valley Forge ] April 4, 1778 . Discusses change of meeting place for commissioners from Germantown to Newtown. Df , in writings of Robert Hanson Harrison and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
51560From George Washington to General William Howe, 9 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have your letters of the 14th and 21 of February and the 2d of March, of all which, due notice shall be taken. Particular circumstances occuring make it inconvenient for my commissioners to meet yours at the time appointed: I must, therefore beg to have the meeting deferred, ’till the 31st of March. Mr Boudinotte, who has lately returned to Camp from New York, informs me, that...