George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 30 June 1781
To Philip Schuyler
Head Quarters Peekskill 30th June 1781
Dear Sir
I have had the Pleasure to receive your two Favors of the 20 & 25th instant—and am much obliged by the Zeal & Chearfull Activity with which you are pursuing the very necessarry Preperation of Boats.1
I have consulted the Q.M.G. with respect to Oackum & Nails—which he tells me he has the best Reason to believe he can procure & forward within your Time2—and have also, agreable to your Desire, written to Congress—& enforced to that Body, the Necessity of their takg the most effectual Measures, that you may be reinbursed your Engagements by the Time mentioned in your Letter of the 20th—a Copy of which I have taken the Liberty to forward to the President.3
Inclosed is a Letter for Genl Stark, which I beg you to hand to him—in which I have desired him to apply to you for Advice in the Disposition of the Troops on the Frontier—& for your Advice & Assistance, should he at any Time find himself in any Distress on Accot of the Subsistance of the Troops.4 I am &ca
G.W.
Df, in Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Schuyler replied to GW on 3 July.
1. See Schuyler to GW, 20 and 25 June.
2. See Timothy Pickering to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 29 June, found at Schuyler to GW, 25 June, n.4.
4. GW enclosed his letter to Brig. Gen. John Stark written at Peekskill on 28 June: “On your Arrival to take the Comand of the Troops on the Northern Frontier, you will be pleased to advise with General Schuyler with respect to the Disposition of the Troops destined for the Defence of that Quarter. as that Gentlemans Knowlege of every Part of that exposed Country is very good, his Assistance & Council may be very usefull to you—for this Motive I am induced to give you this Direction.
“You will also consult with him with respec⟨t⟩ to furnishing the Means of Subsistance to the Troops under your Comand, should you at any Time find the public Stores to be exhausted” (LS, in Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.’s writing, NhHi: Stark Papers; Df, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW; see also GW to Stark, 25 June).