79031From George Washington to Colonel Daniel Morgan, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are to remain at Pompton untill the Rear Division of the Convention Troops has passed Chester on their Route to Sussex Court House. You are then to march to Middle Brook and receive directions from the Quarter Master General for the position of the Brigade under your command in the line of encampment. The Regiment sent to Hackinsack is to remain there till ordered off or releived. I am...
79032From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I this morning received your favour of the 24th Instant. I am well pleased with your Orders to Genl Poor to proceed immediately to Danbury—and to Colonel Badlam for escorting in his room the Rear divisions of the Convention Troops to Fish Kill. There has never been any regulation of Congress, authorising Officers and Soldiers on furlough to draw their Rations in the Country—and it can never be...
79033From George Washington to Major General Arthur St. Clair, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of the 15th. According to my present Ideas and expectations my Quarters for the Winter will be at or near Middle Brook, at which place the Pennsylvania, Maryld and Virginia troops will be hutted. Should Mrs St Clairs ill state of health require your attention, after your Affair before Congress is determined, I shall have no objection to your remaining with her, while the...
79034To George Washington from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
General Sullivan’s letter to your Excellency, I believe to contain much misrepresentation respecting the department, over which, I have the misfortune to preside. I therefore wish your Excellency would direct such an enquiry to be made into the matter, as will put it in a true light, the blame be rightly placed, and the parties concerned be dealt with according to their demerits. In the...
79035To George Washington from Lund Washington, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lund Washington, 25 Nov. 1778. On 17 Dec., GW wrote Lund Washington that he had received “your Letters of the 25th of last month and 2d of this.”
79036From George Washington to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 25 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to detach a Captain two Subs. and Fifty Men who are to lay at Robinsons Mills near Mahopack Pond till the Rear of the Pennsylvania Troops are about passing the North River, they are then to follow and join their respective Corps. The intention of this party is to prevent any of the Convention Troops, under pretence of desertion, from passing that way to New York. The...
79037Circular to Colonels of the Continental Light Horse, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
You will forthwith proceed to Durham, between Newhaven & hartford in the State of Connecticut, with your Regiment of Cavalry, where you are to fix your quarters for the winter. In quartering the Regiment at Durham you will preserve as much compactness as the nature of the place will admit, that by having them all under your own eye, you may be able to keep up good discipline, and prevent...
79038To George Washington from George Clinton, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
It gives me Pain to trouble your Excellency with the inclosed Complaint against some Gentlemen in the Military Line and agreable to the Law of this State for regulating Impresses of Forage &ca to request that the Offender be delivered over to the Civil Magistrate. I am Dear Sir with the greatest < mutilated > & Regard Your most Obedt servt LS , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from Joseph Strang...
79039From George Washington to Brigadier General Edward Hand, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
When I first ordered troops to the Minisinks, Coles fort on the Delaware was recommended to me, as a proper place for them to be posted at, covering at the same time a part of the Frontier of New York, New Jersey and Pensylvania, agreeable to which, my directions to Count Pulaski were given. But the Count, on his arrival in that quarter, has represented to me, the impossibility of taking post...
79040From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Mr John Dodge will have the honor of delivering this Letter to your Excellency—His history is—that he is a native of Connecticut—and about eight years ago, as he informs me settled in the Country between Detroit and Pitsburg as an Indian trader—That he carried on commerce till January 1776, when, for his attachment to our cause and the measures he had taken to promote it, he became obnoxious...