1To John Adams from Joseph Reed, 4 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
I do not know whether I take the proper Channel of Recommendations, but I cannot help mentioning to you a Gentleman of your own Province whose Rank and Services seem to me intitle him to farther Notice than he has yet had. His Name is Henshaw of Worcester County. He came a Colonel of Militia in the Service afterward stayed as Assistant to Genl. Gates in his Department 5 Months for which he...
2To John Adams from Joseph Reed, 30 January 1784 (Adams Papers)
Considerations purely of a private Nature having brought me to this Kingdom I take the very first Moments to present your Excell y. my most respectful Regards & to regret that the Length of my Voyage has deprivd me of the Opp y. of doing it personally as I am inform’d you have left this City very lately. I also take this Occasion through our respectable Friend M r. Laurens to forward a Packet...
3Joseph Reed to John Adams, 21 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I was duly honoured with your Favour of the 11 th. Inst t. which I communicated to D r. Witherspoon who joins me in reciprocating every Mark of your polite & friendly Attention, & in expressing our very cordial Acknowledgments— The Establishment of our Funds in America tho long delayed & occasionally interrupted will I flatter myself take Place this Winter, at least so far as to establish the...
4Joseph Reed to John Adams, 7 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I should not have put you to the Expence of a Letter by the Post. But M r. Vanbibber a Gentleman of respectable Family & Fortune going over to Holland I could not resist the Temptation of renewing our friendly Intercourse which was suspended during the Winter. M r. De Berdt was so obliging as to communicate a Paragraph of his Letter respecting the Bills drawn by M r. Morris in the Fate of...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Reed, 25 September 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress After congratulating you upon an Appointment which is but a small Acknowledgement of the many signal Services you have rendered your Country, I beg leave to mention to you that by some Accident or Misconduct in the Offices the Generals Letters for these 2 Months past to his Family and Friends in Virginia have miscarried. Some very important Business as well respecting...
6Minutes of the Conference between a Committee of Congress, Washington, and Representatives of the New England Colonies … (Franklin Papers)
ADS : Library of Congress; three ADS , one incomplete: National Archives; incomplete DS : Massachusetts Historical Society As summer wore on into autumn, Washington’s troubles increased. His impromptu army was short of everything it needed, clothing, provisions, ammunition, and the money to buy them. Officers were disgruntled; privates threatened to mutiny if their wages were cut. Enlistments...
7II. Minutes of the Conference, 18–24 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Minutes of a Conference of the Delegates of the Honorable Continental Congress, the Deputy Governours of Connecticut & Rhode Island, the Committee of Council of Massachusetts Bay with General Washington begun at Head Quarters Cambridge October 18th 1775 & continued to the 22d of the same Month. Present His Excelly General Washington The Hon. Depy Govr Griswold } Connecticut Nathaniel Wales...
8To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 4 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 4 Nov. 1775. On 20 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your Letters of the 4th from New York—7th and—from Philadelphia . . . are all before me.”
9To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 7 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 7 Nov. 1775. On 20 Nov. 1775 GW wrote to Reed : “Your Letters of the 4th from New York—7th and—from Philadelphia. . . are all before me.”
10To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 15 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 15 Nov. 1775. On 28 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your favours of the 15th & 17th are come to hand.”
11To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 16 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 16 Nov. 1775. On 27 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your Letter of the 16th by Post now lyes before me.”
12To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 17 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 17 Nov. 1775. On 28 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “Your favours of the 15th & 17th are come to hand.”
13To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20–21 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20–21 Nov. 1775. On 30 Nov. GW wrote to Reed : “your favr of the 20th with the agreeable Post[s]cript of the 21st, is come to hand.”
14To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 November 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 Nov. 1775. On 15 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your Favours of the 28th Ulto and 2d Instt.”
15To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 2 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 2 Dec. 1775. On 15 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your Favours of the 28th Ulto and 2d Instt.”
16To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 7 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 7 Dec. 1775. On 25 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “your favours of the 7th, & 11th as also the 8th are come to hand.”
17To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 8 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 8 Dec. 1775. On 25 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “your favours of the 7th, & 11th as also the 8th are come to hand.”
18To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 11 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 11 Dec. 1775. On 25 Dec. GW wrote to Reed : “your favours of the 7th, & 11th as also the 8th are come to hand.”
19To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 19 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 19 Dec. 1775. On 4 Jan. 1776 GW wrote to Reed : “I have recd your obliging favours of the 19th & 23d Ulto.”
20To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 23 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 23 Dec. 1775. On 4 Jan. 1776 GW wrote to Reed : “I have recd your obliging favours of the 19th & 23d Ulto.”
21To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 30 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 30 Dec. 1775. In a letter of 14 Jan. 1776 to Reed , GW acknowledged “the receipt of your favour of the 30th Ulto.”
22To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 15 January 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 15 Jan. 1776. On 31 Jan. GW wrote to Reed : “I have now to thank you for your favours of the 15th 16th & 20th Instt.”
23To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 16 January 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 16 Jan. 1776. On 31 Jan. GW wrote to Reed: “I have now to thank you for your favours of the 15th 16th & 20th Instt.”
24To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20 January 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 20 Jan. 1776. On 31 Jan. GW wrote to Reed : “I have now to thank you for your favours of the 15th 16th & 20th Instt.”
25To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 21 January 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 21 Jan. 1776. In a letter of 1 Feb. to Reed, GW referred to “your favour of the 21st.”
26To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 January 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 28 Jan. 1776. On 10 Feb. GW wrote to Reed : “Your obliging favours of the 28th Ulto & 1st Instt are now before me.”
27To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 1 February 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 1 Feb. 1776. On 10 Feb. GW wrote to Reed : “Your obliging favours of the 28th Ulto & 1st Instt are now before me.”
28To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 8 February 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 8 Feb. 1776. In a letter of 26 Feb.—9 Mar. to Reed , GW wrote: “your favours of the 28th Jany and first & 8th of Feby are come to hand.”
29To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 18 February 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 18 Feb. 1776. In a letter of 26 Feb.—9 Mar. to Reed , GW wrote: “Your favour of the 18th Ulto came to my hands by Post, last Night.”
30To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed, 3 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have not been favoured with any Thing from you since my too last but that never makes any Difference in my Writing as your Claims of Friendship & Gratitude upon me are superior to all other. The Congress have made an Appointment of Generals as by the inclosed Paper. Armstrong is ordered to South Carolina—Thompson to New York the others keep their present Situation. Genl Lee’s Destination is...