401From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, 14 May 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be handed you by the Marquis, who brings us very important intelligence. The General...
402From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Nathanael Greene, [16 May 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
When you ask my opinion as a friend, I must always act the part of a true friend, however...
403From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, [18 May 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that the Commanding Officer on Staten Island has agreed to the...
404From Alexander Hamilton to Vicomte de la Touche-Tréville, [19 May 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I execute with the greatest pleasure a commission with which The Marquis De La Fayette has done...
405From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [28 May 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
The General requests you to furnish two Grasshoppers and a company of Artillery to be attached to...
406From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, [31 May 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you several late papers from New York. We have not yet gotten into a...
407From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [June–October 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you, my dear, in one of my letters that I had written to our father, but had not heard of...
408From Alexander Hamilton to the Officer Commanding a Party of Continental Troops, 1 June 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Stockton informs his Excellency that a number of articles belonging to him were plundered out...
409From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [4 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Gilliland, the most helpless mortal in the world, and the most ignorant of every thing he...
410From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Charles Stewart, 7 June 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Morristown, New Jersey ] June 7, 1780 . “The General requests you to come to Head Quarters...
411From Alexander Hamilton to Baron von Steuben, [7 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I am commanded by The General to inform you that the enemy are out in considerable force and by...
412From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [8 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I have seen the enemy; those in view I calculate at about three thousand; there may be and...
413VIII. To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 8 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have seen the enemy; those in view I calculate at about three thousand—there may be and...
414From Alexander Hamilton to Baron von Steuben, [12 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
You will be pleased at His Excellency’s desire to assemble all the Officer’s commanding batalions...
415[From Alexander Hamilton to Chevalier de Ternay], [13 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. This letter has been incorrectly attributed to H in...
416From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Nathaniel Heard, 14 June 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Springfield [ New Jersey ] June 14, 1780 . Orders Heard to deliver all horses to the...
417Examination of James Dickson by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, [15 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Springfield, New Jersey, June 15, 1780. ] Contains information concerning the British troops...
418From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Elias Dayton, [24 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry that we have not yet been able to get a return for the papers I last sent you, as the...
419From Alexander Hamilton to Baron von Steuben, [25 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
The enemy the day before yesterday made a forward movement to Springfield which they burnt and...
420From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, [30 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I received my Dear Laurens a letter from you which came by Mr. Ternant; and I since learn you are...
421From Alexander Hamilton to Baron von Steuben, [30 June 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your request my Dr Baron I communicated your pro[po]sal to the General. Happily the...
422From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [2–4 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I have been wishing my love for an opportunity of writing to you, but none has offered. I sit...
423From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, 6 July [1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Here we are my love in a house of great hospitality—in a country of plenty—a buxom girl under the...
424From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, [6 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. W. Mendy is one of those characters that for its honesty, simplicity, and helplessness...
425From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [9 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
We wish to know the number of heavy cannon we might bring into an operation against New...
426Pass for John Johnson, 17 July 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Headquarters, Preakness [ New Jersey ] July 17, 1780 . Pass and certificate of character for...
427From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, 19 July 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Preakness, New Jersey, July 19, 1780. On July 30, 1780, Laurens wrote to Hamilton : “Your...
428From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, [20 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I communicated My Dear Sir to the General your ideas of an union between the patriotic males and...
429From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [20 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
It is an age my dearest since I have received a letter from you; the post is arrived and not a...
430From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Lafayette, [21 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
We have just received advice from New York through different channels that the enemy are making...
431From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, [22 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty my Dear Sir to request your interest for a friend of mine and a member of the...
432From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [22 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
The alliance is not come nor our arms, nor our powder. They probably will come with the second...
433From Alexander Hamilton to Baron von Steuben, [23 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received My Dear Baron your two letters of the 16th. and 18th. On the formation the light...
434From Alexander Hamilton to Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, [24 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
By His Excellys. command I am to request you will be pleased to put General Hands brigade under...
435From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, 31 July 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Here we are my Betsey on our way to New York. I hope we shall take it and hasten the happy period...
436Plan for an Attack on New York, [August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
If upon reconnoitring Dobbes ferry it is found susceptible of batteries to establish a...
437On the Proposed Conference at Hartford with the Comte de Rochambeau and the Chevalier de Ternay, [August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
The Marquis De la Fayette by your order proposed New York as the object of the intended...
438From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Impatiently My Dearest have I been expecting the return of your father to bring me a letter from...
439From Alexander Hamilton to New-York Packet, [5 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Certain intelligence having been received that Sir Henry Clinton had embarked the principal part...
440From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [8 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Immediately after dinner, I stole from a croud of company to a solitary walk to be at leisure to...
441From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, [17 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
In the present state of affairs I know of no certain mode for procuring the release of your...
442From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Clement Biddle, [20 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Laurence who will deliver you this, is I am informed, a character that by his attachment to...
443From Alexander Hamilton to Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, [30 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
The General approves your proposed order and requests you to forward a copy to the respective...
444From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [31 August 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I had written the inclosed and left it to be sent by the last post; but by mistake it was not...
445To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, September 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Marquis De la Fayette by your order proposed New York as the object of the intended...
446From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, [3 September 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to your request and my promise I sit down to give you my ideas of the defects of our...
447From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [3 September 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you last night the inclosed hasty note in expectation that your papa would take his leave...
448From Alexander Hamilton to Philip Schuyler, 5 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Bergen County, New Jersey, September 5, 1780. On September 10, 1780, Philip Schuyler wrote to...
449From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, 6 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
The letter accompanying this has lain by two or three days for want of an opportunity. I have...
450From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, [6 September 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you My Dear Betsey a long letter or rather two long letters by your father. I have not...