1To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 7 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Having been appointed by His Majesty to the Command of the Forces on the Atlantic Ocean and joined with Admiral Digby in the Commission of Peace, I find it proper in this Manner to apprize your Excellency of my Arrival at New York. The occasion, Sir, seems to render this Communication proper, but the circumstances of the present Time render it also indispensible, as I find it just to transmit...
2To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 23 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday evening I received Your Excellency’s Letter of the 21st inst. proposing that proper passports be granted for the return of a number of unfortunate inhabitants of So. Carolina, mostly Women & Children, who have been removed from their Province by British Officers, and that the expences of their transportation be defrayed by the King. In answer, I have the honour to inform You, Sir,...
3To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 20 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 10th of June, with two Enclosures, containing the Report of Chief Justice Brearly, concerning the Capture and detention of Hetfield & Bagely in New Jersey, and Extracts of Letters from your Excellency to Lieutenant General Robertson, and from Governor Livingston to you. Before I received your Letter I had written to Governor Livingston,...
4To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 7 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
However convinced of your Excellency’s disposition, yet it gave me much Satisfaction to be confirmed therein by your Letter of the 22d of June, wherein you say, that it woud make you happy if any Measures can be adopted for humanizing, as much as possible, the Calamities attendant on a State of War. But you are also pleased to say, Resort must be had to the Civil Power, the Laws complained of...
5To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 25 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to desire your Excellency’s Passport for Chief Justice Frederick Smith Esqr. and his Servant or Servants to attend your Excellency with the Minutes of the Court Martial on the Trial of Richard Lippencot for the Murder of Joshua Huddy, together with such other Documents relative to the matter as I may find proper to transmit therewith, and who will be enabled to offer such further...
6To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 1 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
In immediate Reply to your Excellency’s Letter of the 30th, I am to acquaint you that my sole purpose in desiring Passports for Mr Chief Justice Frederic Smyth, was that he might, at the same Time that he should deliver the Minutes of the Court Martial to your Excellency, enter into such Explanations, as a professional Man, if need were, as might give your Excellency the fullest Satisfaction,...
7To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 2 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
The pacific disposition of the Parliament and People of England towards the thirteen Provinces, had already been communicated to you, and the Resolutions, of the House of Commons of the 27th of February last, have been placed in your Excellency’s Hands, and Intimations given, at the same Time, that further pacific Measures were likely to follow. Since which, until the present Time, we have had...
8To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 5 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to desire Your Excellency’s Passport for Mr Landeg, of the General Hospital at New York, to pass to Lancaster in Pennsylvania, with Medicines, according to the enclosed Invoice, for the Use of the Prisoners at York and Lancaster; and that he be allowed to remain and distribute those Medicines as Occasion may require. I am, Sir, Your most obedient and most humble Servant DLC : Papers of...
9To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 13 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I transmit to Your Excellency a Copy of the Minutes of the Court Martial, appointed for the Trial of Captain Richard Lippencot, accused of the Murder of Mr Joshua Huddy, together with such other Documents as may serve to manifest the whole Course of the Proceedings here, both before and subsequent to Your Requisition thereon. From these Documents Your Excellency will clearly perceive, that...
10To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 23 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the receipt of two letters from your Excellency—dated the 16th and 18th of August, the one received yesterday morning and the other last night at 8 OClock; The former inclosing a Pass for Mr Landeg and the latter certain resolutions of Congress which I have communicated to Rear Admiral Digby. To the proposition of "appointing commissioners to settle forthwith a general...