9161From George Washington to Nathaniel Woodhull, 24 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 12th Instant I duly received, and thank you for inclosing Captain Thompsons Information. The Contents of the Deposition, now transmitted to you, are of such a Nature, that I thought, no Time should be lost in giving you the earliest Notice of them. I am Sir yr mo. obt Servt LB , in Edmund Randolph’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Some member of GW’s staff...
9162General Orders, 25 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Otway Byrd Esqr. is appointed to act as Aid-de-Camp to Major Genl Lee, during the Absence of Samuel Griffen Esqr. and is to be obeyed as such. For the future Peas and Beans are to be valued by the Commissary General at Six shillings, lawfull money a bushel. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Byrd continued to serve Lee as an aide-de-camp after Griffin’s return.
9163From George Washington to Major Christopher French, 25 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
I now set down to give a final Answer to your Application respecting your Swords—Dr Franklin confirms what I before mentioned that the Priviledge claimed was no Part of the Stipulation made at Philadelphia, but passed without Discussion. Having made Inquiry I find the Rule with Regard to the Indulgence in Question is, that Prisoners do not wear their Swords. I therefore cannot approve of it,...
9164General Orders, 26 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
As several of the Officers have not yet signified their intentions respecting the requisitions contain’d in the orders of the 22nd Instant, and as the Nature of the Case will admit of no delay—The General directs, that every Officer in the army, do forthwith declare to his Colonel or Commanding Officer of the regt to which he belongs, whether he will, or will not continue in the service, until...
9165From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 26 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your several Favors of the 12th & 14th Instant came safely to Hand, though not in the proper Order of Time with their several Inclosures. You do me Justice in believing that I feel the utmost Anxiety for your Situation: that I sympathize with you in all your Distresses, and shall most heartily share in the Joy of your Success—My Anxiety extends itself to poor Arnold, whose Fate depends upon...
9166General Orders, 27 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
In making out the Pay Abstracts for the Month of September; the Colonels and commanding Officers of Corps, are not to include any Officer, or Soldier, on the Detachment with Col. Arnold; as he drew full pay for that Month, for every Man under his command. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
9167From George Washington to the Massachusetts General Court, 27 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen: The continued accumulation of price, and the scarcity which prevails throughout the camp, for the several articles of wood, hay, &c., oblige me to address your honourable Houses again upon this subject. The distress of the Army for these necessaries, I fear, will be followed, with the most dreadful effects to the general cause in which we are engaged, unless some speedy and...
9168General Orders, 28 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
The General Court Martial whereof Col. Bridge was President is dissolved. It is recommended to the Non-Commissiond Officers and Soldiers, whose pay will be drawn in Consequence of last Thursday’s orders (especially to those, whose Attachment to the glorious Cause in which they are engaged, and which will induce them to continue in the service another Year) to lay out their money in Shirts,...
9169From George Washington to Anthony White, 28 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Sir,—I could not let Mr. White depart this Camp without paying you the tribute of a Letter. When I wrote to you last, I thought it not at all unlikely, that he might have been one of my Family before this, as I was not sanguine in my expectation of the Gentleman’s (to whom I had written before I had spoke to yr. son on this Subject) coming this way. By the last Post I received a Letter from...
9170General Orders, 29 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .