78881From George Washington to Brigadier General James Clinton, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I request that you will, as soon as possible after receipt of this, proceed with the remainder of your Brigade to Albany. You will carry all your baggage and Artillery. If Colo. Hay the Qr Mr can furnish Vessels for transporting the Troops, without breaking in upon those that will be necessary for crossing such part of our Army as will soon go to Jersey—and the Convention Troops now on their...
78882To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer has this instant brought me the inclosed intelligence from Canada; I have in consequence Dispatch’d him immediately to Your Excellency. I have not a line from The president of Congress, since The letter which contain’d the Resolve for my removal to this Command; & Your Excellency’s Letter of the 6th Instant, is the last from Your Head Quarters. I am Sir Your most Obedient Servant...
78883To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I wish when your Excellency gives your orders for the Troops to march from Fish Kills that those employed in transporting forage may continue in that service until the Troops that are to Winter there, arrive and furnish a party to releive them. There are also a few Masons now employed in building Chimneys to the Barracks. These I wish may be left for about a fortnight. There will be wanted for...
78884To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The repeated instances of violence commited by Officers of inferior rank in the line, upon Waggon Masters, In direct violation of your Excellency orders render it necessary that some check should be given to this unwarrantable practice. The warrant Officers begin to think their situation so very disagreeable that they are determined one and all to quit the service unless they can find some...
78885From 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...
78886To George Washington from Colonel David Henley, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Gist being dissatisfyed by my late appointment to the Command of the light Corps, as he is of Opinion that by seniority it of Course belongs to him, and being determined to See your Excellency before he consents to my superiority to him: I have thought proper to write and inform your Excellency that I am totally unacquainted when the Day Of my Appointment was, as I have not received the...
78887To George Washington from Colonel David Henley, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I receivd a Letter last Evening from Capt. Wales (of Col. Guist Corps[)], dated Bergin the 13 Inst., in which he says the Fleet at Staten Island consisting of Thirty seven Transports (with troops on board[)], and two Men of War got under way, and he saw them sail through the Narrows at sun set that Evening: that he will continue to watch the farther motions of the rest of the fleet, and that I...
78888To George Washington from Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I understand by Col. Meigs that it is expected at Head Quarters that the Connecticut Troops will be supplied with Cloathing by Major Biggelo the Dep. Clothier at Hartford—but by the best Information I can get, he will not [be] able to clothe them in Uniform, nor, in any Manner, before Spring—If it is possible, I should be very happy to see the Connecticut Troops once well cloathed in Uniforms...
78889From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
By the time this reaches you General Du Portail will probably be at Philadelphia. One part of his business is to prosecute the directions given him, some time since, for forming a plan for the defence of the River Delaware, to be submitted to Congress. Another part is to understand from Congress, what may be their views and wishes with respect to his further continuance in America and that of...
78890From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your favour of the 6th, yesterday, with the inclosed copy of a letter from the President of the Council of New Jersey, relative to an expected attack upon the Western frontier of that state. I have just received a letter from General Hand, giving intelligence of an attack upon Colonel Alden’s regiment at Cherry-Valley, effected by surprise, in consequence of which,...
78891To George Washington from Colonel William Malcom, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Lt Lawrence has been down the River with a boat, & has Sent a very intelligent person to the City—I Send herewith his intelligence and Am with due respect Your Excellencys most Obed. & very Humbe servt ALS , DLC:GW . The enclosed, undated intelligence report from Lt. Jonathan Lawrence, Jr., reads: “A Great Number of Tents on the Hill near fort Independance, a few tents in Fort Independance,...
78892To George Washington from Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Inclosd I send you several Examinations taken of Persons who lately left New York. Ld Cathcart’s Corps I am informd have Orders to sell all except European Horses. I am obliged to continue a few Days longer on the Sea Coasts before I return to Camp; the Small Parties of the Enemy exceedingly distress the Inhabitants in this Vicinity, If a Brigade could be posted near the Coast it would Prevent...
78893From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
By a Letter from Genl Hand of the 13th, which came to hand to day, I received the disagreable intelligence that the Enemy had proceeded to the settlement of Cherry Valley—surprised and slain Colonel Alden, who was stationed there and committed many outrages. I wish it may not turn out, that the whole of his Regimt has been cut off, as the accounts seem to have left matters in a very doubtful &...
78894From George Washington to Major General Stirling, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to order Colonel Spencer, with his Regiment, to repair immediately to Coles Fort, at the Minisink, and there join General Count Pulaski. Your Lordship will further direct that Colonel Spencer may take the nearest route, and make his march as expeditious as possible. It was not till to day I had an opportunity to acknowlege your letters of the 11th and 13th Inst. The...
78895From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
In your letter of the 14th instant in answer to my enquiries, I do not know whether you clearly understood my meaning and intention, As it is essential to the due execution of some plans, in contemplation, and to orders I am about to give, to have the following Questions solved with precision, I wish you to say. How much Flour and how much Salt Beef and pork you can lay in at Albany by the 1st...
78896To George Washington from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The solution, I am able to give to your several enquiries, will not I fear be fully satisfactory to your Excellency. I cannot promise to have more than two thousand bbls of salted meat, at Albany by the first day of ensuing February. And the diffi culty of manufacturing flour in the midst of winter will not allow of more than two thousand bbls of flour being in readiness at that place, by that...
78897From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Weltner, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to find by yours of yesterday that the ill state of your health obliges you to think of quitting the Service. If you should be of opinion that retiring from the Army during the Winter Season would so far re-establish your Constitution as to enable you to take the command of your Regiment again early in the Spring, I should prefer granting you a Furlough to accepting of your...
78898General Orders, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
At a General Court Martial of the Line November 14th 1778—Lieutenant Coll Williams President Lieutt Cobie of the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment was tried for behaving unlike an Officer and Gentleman—The Court are unanimously of opinion that Lieutt Cobie is not guilty of the charge exhibited against him and acquit him. The Commander in Chief confirms the opinion of the Court—Lieutt Cobie is to be...
78899To George Washington from Colonel Armand, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
i had beg as a favour of your Exellency to honour’d me with a recommendation to the hble Congres for grant my officers with theirs Commissions, and my self with the Commission of brigadier. in Case i Could be granted with thoses Expectations, i would beg of your Exellency a Certificat of my services, and allow me to go back to france, but if i can not obtain the Commissions of my officers, i...
78900From George Washington to Colonel Theodorick Bland, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
In order to avoid the calling on the militia of Connecticut, for the purpose of guarding the troops of Convention, I have directed Genl Poor, with his brigade to proceed with them as far as the North River. Major Jamison may continue but You will be pleased, to return here, previously communicating to General Poor a copy of your instructions. I am the more desirous to see you, that a...
78901To George Washington from George Clinton, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have just now received the inclosed very disagreable Accounts of the Desolation of Cherry Valley by the Enemy and of their having taken Fort Alden by Storm on the 14th Instant which at the Request of General Hand I now forward your Excellency by Express. I mean if I do not hear that the Enemy have left the Frontiers to set out for Schenectady on Thursday to assist General Hand. I shall not...
78902From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The information I gave you respecting the Forage department, was only meant to excite a close attention to the conduct of those who are employed in the execution of this branch of business; suspicions of unfair dealing, in some of them, having been imbibed. No direct charge, or regular information, was lodged against the forage Master in this department; for if there had, I should have...
78903To George Washington from Colonel Moses Hazen, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Should the Intelligance from Canada which your Excellency may Shortly receive through General Bayley, and our own Situation in this quarter be Such as Should induce you to order a winter’s expedition to the Northward, Leggen’s and mittens must be provided for the Troops Distined for that Service, which I have heretofore observed may be provided in a very little time, and even after the...
78904To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your favor of 14th instant, thro^ General Huntington; and I am perswaded he will obey your excellency’s commands, respecting the new arangement of the line of his State; and take every posible Care of the Division in my absence. I was happy enough in finding Mrs Macdougal recovered of her illness; and shall therefore join the Division on Saturday next; if no pressing call...
78905From George Washington to Brigadier General Enoch Poor, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are to march immediately upon the receipt hereof with your Brigade to Enfeild at which place I imagine the first division of the Convention troops will be arrived by the time you get there. It is intended that your Brigade shall guard them from thence to Fishkill by the inclosed Route. You will therefore enquire of the Officer who conducts the first division, into how many they are...
78906From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You will, as soon as possible after receipt of this, put the two Massachussets Brigades under your command in motion—with their Artillery and Baggage—and proceed with them to Danbury, where you will receive further Orders. Genl Poor, with his Brigade—is to conduct the Convention troops from Enfield to Fish Kill landing. I have written to him particularly on the subject and therefore it is...
78907To George Washington from Major General Stirling, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The fleet of Transports &c. which for some days past have been at the hook, Came up last Night to the Watering place within the Narrows and were at Anchor there this Morning. I cannot Account for this Manuver any other Way than Supposing the Grand fleet under Admiral Byron has Met with some disaster, and that they have received Accounts of Count de Estangs Sailg As some Evidence of the former,...
78908To George Washington from Captain Lemuel Trescott, 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to Derictions Recivd from Major General Sullivan I have made out & Sent forward to your Exillency a Return of the officers of Colonel Henleys Regt with the dates of their Several appointments So far as is in my Power—the date of Colonel Henleys appointment I do not know. Having this oppertunity I Cannot Ommit observing to your Exillency that though I have Returned myself as a Captain...
78909To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 17 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Capt. Samuel Parmele of Guilford, in this State, brought me a number of evidences and applications relative to Luther Parmele, son to the Captain—William Handy Leaman Grave, Ichabod Hill, and Daniel Tuthill all of Guilford—young men imposed upon by Lieut. Linus Hopson, and induced to inlist into the Continental Service as Shoemakers—in a Company of Mechanicks. The young men were minors, and...
78910General Orders, 18 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
A few Tickets in the second Class of the United States Lottery are received and ready for sale at the Pay-Office where those who are inclined to become Adventurers are requested to apply as soon as possible as the Lottery will certainly commence drawing the first day of January next, at which time all the Tickets remaining on hand must be returned. Those who are possessed of Prize-Tickets of...