13671From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 13 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I last Night received your Favor of the 9th Inst. I wrote to you Yesterday by Express, informing you of what I had done towards furnishing you with such Supplies as are in my power to give and the Obstacles that at present lie in the Way of granting you others that your Situation demands—I have in Addition to that sent, by Express, to peek’s Kill to order on thence to you as speedily as...
13672From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 30th Ulto was duly received. I should hope the Enemy will never carry the post at Tyonderoga, and that the Force now there (with such Aid as may be called in upon an Emergency) will be sufficient to check the progress of their Arms in that Quarter. In the present Situation of Things, I cannot detach, with any Degree of propriety, more Troops from peek’s Kill, than what I have...
13673From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
It is some Time since I had the Pleasure [of writing] to or receiving a Letter from You. The Weight of Business, which has lain upon both our Hands, has I dare say hindered us from Writing Letters but when Absolutely Necessary. The Enemy by two lucky Strokes at Trenton and Princetown, have been obliged to abandon Every Part of Jersey Except Brunswick & Amboy & the small Tract of Country...
13674From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 4 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Favors of the 29th & 31st Ulto with their several Inclosures have been duly received. I sincerely Wish the Event of the Skirmish on Long Island had been as favorable as reported to You. Hurried & Involved in a Multiplicity of Buisiness, I cannot give You a particular Detail of It, I shall only add that we lost in killed wounded & Prisoners, from 700 to a thousand Men. Among the Prisoners...
13675From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 17–18 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday Evening I was favored with Yours of the 12th Inst. with Its several Inclosures. As to the Propriety or Impropriety of Giving up Crown Point & Vacating that Post, It is impossible for me to determine. My Ignorance of the Country, My Unacquaintance with Its Situation & a Variety of Circumstances, will not permit me to pronounce any certain Opinion upon the Subject, or to declare...
13676From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 24 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I inclose you the opinion of Mr Pettit A.Q.M.G. and the Commissaries Mesrs Flint and Stuart, on that paragraph in your letter of the 22d In[s]t. which respects the purchasing the flour and wheat in those districts of Pennsylvania and Jersey, above Trenton, with their several sentiments how far a water conveyance can be conveniently adopted —Mr Stuart is particularly conversant in the...
13677From George Washington to Philip Schuyler, 20 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The perplexed State of our Military Affairs—generally—and the embarrassments with which I am (or more properly speaking have been, for they are not so great now as they were) surrounded in this quarter, must appologize for my not acknowledging the receipt of Your obliging favor of the 21st Ulto Sooner. It is with peculiar pleasure I hear that Maryland has acceded to the Confederation, & that...
13678From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 11 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
It was not till the 5th instant I returned to this place—While in Philadelphia, what between Congress and a special committee of that body I was furnished with ample employment. I had few moments of relaxation, and could do little more than barely acknowlege the receipt of your obliging favors of the 27th of December & the 1st and 2d of January Ult: Even now I find it impossible to be as...
13679From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 7 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have No Time to answer your two last Favors minutely, but only to acknowledge the receipt of them, being just returned from Philadelphia & the Post about to depart this Morning. The Situation of our Affairs in Canada, is truly allarming, & I greatly fear from the Intelligence transmitted from thence by Captn Wilkinson to General Greene, that ’ere this We have sustained further & greater...
13680From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 6 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you Yesterday of which the inclosed is a Copy. Since which I have been informed that your Illness has obliged you to quit the Army, and General Wooster as the Elder Brigadier, will take Rank and Command of Mr Montgomery—General Wooster I am informed is not of such Activity as to press thro’ Difficulties, with which that Service is particularly environ’d. I am therefore much alarmed for...