9121From George Washington to the Board of War, 12 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Congress having authorised me to appoint officers for Col. Armands corps, I have given him directions for the purpose, as he is, better acquainted than I am, with the characters, that will suit him. I am to request on his furnishing the Board with an arrangement that they will be pleased to issue commissions. He expects to go to France and dispatch being necessary to his plan, I Have thought...
9122From George Washington to Mayne, Burn, & Mayne, 6 August 1762 (Washington Papers)
From the Character given of your House by Messrs Carlyle & Dalton I take the Liberty of desiring you to send me a Pipe of your best Lisbon Wine. for the value of whh please to draw on Robert Cary Esqr. & Co. Merchts London who shall be duely advertised thereof and will pay your Bills upon demand. This Wine may receive a Freight in any of Mr Galloway’s, or Mr Ringold’s Vessells or in short in...
9123From George Washington to Comfort Sands, 25 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
After the conversation between Cols. Trumbull & Humphrys and yourself on the 6th of May, (which was reported to me in writing) and the subsequent Papers which passed between them and you, to your Letter of the 11th inst. inclusive; I am astonished beyond expression to find the following Words in a communication from you to the Field Officers of the Army dated the 14th of May, viz., "we have...
9124From George Washington to Robert Morris, 6 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for the Communication, which you have been pleased to make to me under the 11th of July. It was handed to me on my return last evening from a Tour I have been making to the Northward and Westward, as far as Crown point & Fort Schuyler, to view the Posts and Country in that part of the United States Territory. The anticipations you have been obliged to make are indeed great, and...
9125From George Washington to Samuel Powel, 27 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
In looking over the list of premiums proposed by the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia I perceive that those which are offered for the 2d 3d & 4th articles were to have been produced (according to the requisitions) by the 20th instt. Each of these being interesting to a farmer you would oblige me much by giving me the result of the communications, on these heads to the Society if any...
9126From George Washington to François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse-Tilly, 3 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have to thank your Excellency for the letter with which you honored me the 2d inst: and observe that the deciding reason with Your Exelly against passing the Enemys posts on York River is the apprehension of the number of fire ships which might be employed against the Vessels detached on that service; more especially as your Fleet is illy provided with the means of frustrating attempts of...
9127From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 10 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s favor of the 29th June. It is with very great satisfaction I observe the proceedings of the General Assembly of your state which you have been pleased to communicate to me The exertions of that Legislature have heretofore been laudable and I am exceeding glad to see the same spirit still prevailing—For my own part I have not a...
9128From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a Report of the Secretary of State on the measures which have been taken on behalf of the United States for the purpose of obtaining a recognition of our Treaty with Morocco, and for the ransom of our Citizens and establishment of peace with Algiers. While it is proper our Citizens should know that Subjects which so much concern their interests and their feelings have duly...
9129From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 3 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving Your Excellency’s Letter of the 28th of April, and of forwarding the Dispatches for the Chevalier de la Luzerne, which were transmitted to my care. I will expect the pleasure of Mr De Menonville’s Company in his route to Philadelphia. Nothing Material has occurred since my last Letter. With the highest esteem & respect I have the honor to be Sir Your...
9130From George Washington to Philippe-André-Joseph de Létombe, 10 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to forward to you a Letter which came to my Hands last Evening from the Chavalr de La Luzerne. No further Intelligence respectg the Enemy fleets at N. York has been received since that which I communicated to the Marquis de Vaudreuil on the morng of the 8th. I was favored with your Letter of the 6th—covering One of the 3d & another of the 6th from the Marquis—and am much...
9131From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 31 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of this date. I wish I was sufficiently acquainted with Circumstances, to enable me to give you such a Certificate as would fully answer your purposes: but when you reflect that little or no part of the conduct of your Office has come under my immediate Notice, you must see the impropriety of my undertaking to vouch for the regular discharge of your duty or to affix an...
9132From George Washington to Alexander Gillon, 17 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received by the post your two favors of the 4th March & 6th of June. I feel myself much obliged to you for the Care & Attention you have paid to the two Boxes sent on Board your Ship at Amsterdam—they contain a Press for Copying Letters, & were ordered on Board by Messrs De Neufville & Sons, & designed as a present from them to me. If you will be pleased to deliver the Boxes to the...
9133From George Washington to Jethro Sumner, 24 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letter of the 20th—Before this reaches you, you will probably be informed of the great success of the Arms in this Quarter, the particulars of which are in the inclosed Letter to Genl Greene which is left open for your perusal; after which you will seal the Letter & forward it to Genl Greene by the earliest conveyance—Any movements of the Enemy that take place at...
9134To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 15 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I give any decided opinion upon the letter you have written to Majr. L’Enfont, or on the alterations proposed for the engraved plan, I wish to converse with you on several matters which relate to this business.—This may be, if nothing on your part renders it inconvenient, immediately after 8 Oclock to morrow, at wch. hour I breakfast, and at which if agreeable to yourself I should be...
9135From George Washington to Brigadier General Enoch Poor, 7 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd your letter of the 3d instant, inclosing the court martial proceedings in the case of Lieut. David Gilman. I have approved and confirmed the sentance, and shall direct its publication in this days orders. Major General Putnam who commands in the room of Major Genl Gates will take measures respecting a surgeon for the sick. I am & Df , in James McHenry’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick...
9136From George Washington to Colonel Henry Jackson, 12 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
From the good report I have of you, and from the desire I feel of affording the Town of Boston an opportunity of turning out a Regiment, (& such a one as may become a pattern to others) I do myself the pleasure of sending you the Inclos’d appointment—Recruiting Orders—and Warrant upon the Paymaster in that District for money to recruit with. The confidence I repose in you will not, I am...
9137From George Washington to Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 29 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favor of the 22 Inst. I wish some positive and clear evidence could have been procured against Mr Hammel. It is painful, to be obliged, at any time, to take away the personal liberty of a subject, on mere presumption of guilt. However I have reasons to expect some further proofs from another hand to justify any vigorous proceedings, which it may be necessary to use. I am &c. Df ,...
9138To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 5 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
I would take the liberty of addressing a few lines to Your Excellency, respecting such of the officers and privates of Blands and Baylors Regiments of Dragoons and of Harrisons Artillery as belong to the state of Virginia. Their situation is really disagreable and discouraging; and it is perhaps the more so, from its being now almost if not entirely singular. It is said, that under the idea of...
9139From George Washington to Major General Philemon Dickinson, 2 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have this day receiv’d your Favor of 28th Ulto—& can only say it gives me concern that your Excursion to staten Island was not attended with success equal to your expectation, which, from the Plan you had formed, the Secrecy with which you expected to have executed it, I suppose was pretty Sanguine—but Experience shews us that the most triffling incidents will frustrate the best concert’d...
9140From George Washington to Nicholas Cooke, 6 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favours of the 25 & 30 Ultimo I received, and am to inform you that from the good Character you gave of Mr Aborn, I ordered the Agent in whose care his Vessell was, to deliver her up to him; There were other circumstances too, that were favourable to Mr Aborn & Induced a beleif that he was not Inimical to our cause. I am much Obliged by your kind attention to my two Letters of the 15 & 18...
9141From George Washington to Robert Morris, 17 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have in confidence imparted to you the alteration of our late plan and made you acquainted with our intended operations—Besides the provision necessary at the Head of Elk to carry the troops down the Bay a very considerable Quantity will be wanted in Virginia. I should suppose three hundred Barrels of Flour—as many of salt Meat and eight or ten Hhds of Rum would be sufficient at Elk—For what...
9142From George Washington to John Hancock, 10 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will permit me to introduce to your particular Notice & Attention M. Genl D. Choissny, who will have the Honor to present this Letter. As an Officer old in Command, & eminent for his Services, he has the Honor to be placed at the Head of the Troops destined for the Expedition proposed by the Marquis de Vaudreuil against Penobscot, provided that Enterprize should be attempted....
9143From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 20 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 17th I wrote you that Genl Poor, with his Brigade was to proceed to Enfield to conduct the Convention troops to Fish Kill landing. On the 18, having received a Letter from Colo. Bland, advising that the Van of the Convention Troops had reached Enfield on the 13 and that proper Escorts of Militia were provided; and supposing that the whole would have passed that place before my Letter of...
9144From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 22 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I send you a letter of the 26th Ulto from William Bingham Esquire to the Secretary of the Treasu[r]y together with the documents accompanying it. I desire your opinion on the following points arising upon these papers. I. Whether the proceedings heretofore by the U. States in Congress assembled have transferred from Mr Bingham to the public the consequences of the transaction in question so as...
9145From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 18 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two letters of this date, and thank you for the intelligence which they contain. you will be so good as to take every means in your power for discovering, in what manner the enemy have conducted themselves since you wrote—whether they continue to hover about the neighborhood of Haddonfield—or if they have made a decisive move, in what direction they have marched—early and...
9146From George Washington to James Craik, 27 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I would thank you, my Dear Doctor, for your candid opinion of the writer of the enclosed letter. I mean as to his credit, & capability of fulfilling the terms which he therein accedes to, for my land on D: Run. He talks largely of making money; but that does not contribute much if any thing to establish him as a man of property, or credit in my estimn—whilst it may be apprehended if he is...
9147From George Washington to Robert Powell, 4 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Being induced by the fair representation which is made to me of your character I do hereby notify to you your appointment to be Major Commandant of a battalion of Levies, directed by an act of Congress to be raised for the service of the United States in the State of Virginia—and I enclose to you a statement of the pay, clothing, and rations, and forage allowed to the said battalion. It will...
9148From George Washington to David Forman, 24 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the l4th Inst. has been duly received; the intelligence respecting the embarkation at New York & the arrival of Admiral Digby is very probably founded in reality, but his arrival, under our present circumstances, cannot I flatter myself have any influence on our projects or in the least retard our operations, while there are 36 french Ships of the Line in the Bay. Every thing has...
9149From George Washington to Horatio Gates, 27 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
On receipt of your Letter of the 17th covering the resolution of Congress of the 15th and informg your readiness & zeal to share a part in active military Duty, I have assigned to you a Command in the army under my immediate Direction, which is now on the point of entering the field. As soon therefore as you have adjusted your Concerns in Berkley, & prepared yourself for the Campaign, you will...
9150From George Washington to Colonel William Crawford, 20 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 12th by Mr Ashby came duly to hand. As I am unacquainted with the terms upon which your Regt was raised, it is impossible for me to say any thing on that head. Nor, as you mention your design of attending Congress will it be necessary for me to give any order about the Marching of your Regt as I presume you will be instructed by them. If the Matter rests with me, I shall be...