52721To George Washington from Udny Hay, 5 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency I hope will forgive my troubling you with the enclosed narrative, which I was inducd to take the liberty of transmitting from the opinion of the Narrators Honesty & Candour, having known him several years previous to the commencement of the present war, and am convinced whatever Errors he has committed in the Narration m ay ha ve the effect of ignorance not design, I imagined...
52722To George Washington from John Hurlbut, 5 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Honorable the Continental Congress, to quiet the minds of Pensylvania Resolves that the Garrison of Wyoming should be Relieved with Troops Indiferent to the , & not of the line of Pensylvania or Connecticut or Citizens of either State Refering the whole matter to your Excellency whether or not that Post should be Garrisoned, your Excellency was graciously pleased to ordr a Relief from the...
52723To George Washington from Robert Morris, 5 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
You Will find enclosed herein the Copy of an Act of Congress of the 4th June whereby I am vested with Powers to dispose of the Specific supplies required from the several States in such manner as with your Excellencys Advice, I may judge will best promote the Publick interest and Answer the purposes of the present Campaigne—some former acts of Congress respecting these same Specific Supplies...
You will receive herewith enclosed, a Commission constituting yourself and the three other Gentlemen therein named, in Addition to M r Adams, our Ministers for negotiating Peace Also another Commission & Duplicate to the same Ministers, authorizing them to accept of the Mediation of the Emperor of Germany & Empress of Russia, in one of which you will observe the Emperor is first named & in the...
52725Friday July the 6th 1781. (Adams Papers)
This morning Dr. Waterhouse came here and told us that Colo. Trumbul had arriv’d in Town. I went to the first Bible to see Mr. Bordly, I found Mr. Trumbel there. I din’d at home. Dr. Waterhouse din’d with us; after dinner Colo. Searle and Major Jackson came here; I went and took a walk with Major Jackson and Mr. Dana. I spent the evening and supp’d at Madam Chabanel’s, got home at about 10...
52726From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 6 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received and answer’d two of your Expresses Yesterday Morning, and in the Evening I recd. a third Letter from you, all dated the 2d Inst. In this last you tell me, “that I must be sensible I cannot have the Disposal of the Money, as it was obtained without either my Knowledge or Concurrence by Col. Lawrens,...
52727From Benjamin Franklin to Vergennes: Two Letters, 6 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
(I) LS , AL (draft), and copy: Library of Congress; copy: R.M. Salter, London (1979); (II) AL (draft): Library of Congress I have at length received from M. De Viemerange the Estimates of the Furniture made and to be made by Order of Mr Lawrens, and find that it exceeds two Millions. This with the two Millions & half sent from Brest, and the Million & half in Holland, absorbs the whole of the...
52728To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Cochran, 6 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Having left my Native Land in quest of Peace, I arrived in Philadelphia three weeks agoe—and as Mr. Cochran had a letter from you of a very old date, brought by a Carolina Gentn. who return’d by way of the N’ward some time after the Town capitulated; I take the liberty to send you by this oppertunity a few lines to thank you for any favor shewn my dear...
52729[Diary entry: 6 July 1781] (Washington Papers)
6th. The French Army formed the junction with the American on the Grounds marked out. The Legion of Lauzen took a position advanced of the plains on Chittendens hill west of the River Brunx [Bronx]. This day also the Minister of France arrived in Camp from Philadelphia. The French reached Philipsburg about six o’clock on the evening of 6 July and camped about a quarter of a mile from the...
52730General Orders, 6 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
For the Day Tomorrow Major General Parsons Colonel Greaton Major Ashley Inspector—2d Massachusetts brigade The Commander in Chief with pleasure embraces the earliest public opportunity of expressing his thanks to his Excellency the Count de Rochambeau for the unremitting Zeal with which he has prosecuted his March in order to form the long wished for junction between the French and American...