1To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Tallmadge, 20 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 16th. instant I would observe that so far as the Draughts of the Ohio Lotts have been completed, every proprietor may know his own Lotts; but as this business has been executed but in part, it was tho’t best not to insert the numbers of the Lotts in the body of the Deeds. I except to go to Marietta the ensuing fall, when the Accounts of the Ohio Company will...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Tallmadge, 20 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Design of this Letter is to communicate to you the Information which I have collected respecting a Gang of Counterfeiters , the Effects of whose Villainy have long been known, but whose Connexions & more particular Operations have never been thoroughly developed. We have in Custody, at this place, a Man by the name of Jackson , who has long been known to be a notorious horse-thief , as...
3To James Madison from Benjamin Tallmadge, 8 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Being desirous of obtaining a compleat Set of the Laws of the U. States; I shall be greatly obliged if you will send on to me the Laws of the first Session of the seventh Congress. I have the Honor to be very respectfully yours DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
4To James Madison from Benjamin Tallmadge, 6 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
Bodily Indisposition obliged me to leave Washington a few weeks ago, & the same Cause forbids my return at this time. Permit me to state a Request, which the absence of the Secretary of the Navy, I hope may justify. I have a Son about twenty years old (Benjamin Tallmadge Jnr. by name) who has been a Member of Yale College to his third or Junior Year. He has long been very desirous of entering...
5To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 29 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose Your Excellency two letters which have just come to hand. The one signed S.G. is from a Person heretofore unknown in my private Correspondence, but from whom I should expect important services if he could be engaged in this way. I have the Honor to be, most respectfully, Your Excellency’s most obedt Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington. Lusboke } Hessian Regts be...
6To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 7 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Having a Dragoon just riding to Camp, I am induced to trouble your Excelleny with a line on matters respecting the Regt. In my last I noted that Colo. Sheldon & Lt Colo. Blackden were both absent in N. England —Am now to inform that Lt Colo. Blackden has procured Coats & Vests for the Regt Colo. Sheldon has been for some time expecting orders for purchasing Horses for the Regt—Of this I wrote...
7To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 28 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have this Evening had the Honor to receive Your Excellency’s favor of Yesterday. I am happy that any suggestions contained in my former Letter have met Your Excellency’s Approbation. Since I was at Head Qrs I have paid very particular attention to Your Excellency’s Instructions, & have enclosed two Papers for Purusal. I cannot but flatter myself that the Information is accurate, as several...
8To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 2 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment recd Dispatches from Cu. which I have the honor to enclose to Your Excellency—The Author of the letter signed S—G— is a Gentleman of my Acquaintance, & capable from his own knowledge, & opportunities with which he is peculiarly favored; of giving information to be depended on. I had an I n terview whith him when last on L. I—& proposed to him to assist us in the way of...
9To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 9 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
At the particular Request of Capt. Hunter, of this Place, I have set down to write Your Excellency a Line. He desires me to inform Your Excellency that he feels himself very unhappy under the supposed Censure of General Washington, whose favorable opinion he thinks he has not justly forfeited. When at Head Quarters, soon after Arnold’s Desertion, he was not a little mortified in being refused...
10To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 7 Oct. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Benjamin Tallmadge, 7 Oct. 1779. On 9 Oct., GW wrote Tallmadge: “I have your favr of the 7th inclosing a letter for Major Jameson who is in south Carolina.”