1From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Stevens, 11 November 1769 (Hamilton Papers)
This just serves to acknowledge receipt of yours per Cap Lowndes which was delivered me Yesterday. The truth of Cap Lightbourn & Lowndes information is now verifyd by the Presence of your Father and Sister for whose safe arrival I Pray, and that they may convey that Satisfaction to your Soul that must naturally flow from the sight of Absent Friends in health, and shall for news this way refer...
2From George Washington to Col. Edward Stevens, 2 May 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Col. Edward Stevens, 2 May 1777. Stevens referred in his letter to GW of 15 May “to your Letter of the 2nd Inst.”
3To George Washington from Colonel Edward Stevens, 15 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your Letter of the 2nd Inst. I herewith send you the Four Men desired from my Regmt. I hope they will Answer. They are all natives and agreable to the Size mentioned, they were Strongly recommended by their Capts. who has had a better Oppty of Knowing them than myself. Yours of the 12th March last missed me in Virginia And was sent back to philadelphia so that I never received it...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Stevens, 23 December 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Tho’ I have written you so repeatedly since my Arrival in Scotland, without having ever received an Answer, and ‘tho’ I am, at present, uncertain whether you have escaped those Dangers, to which you have been so long exposed in Defence of the glorious Cause in wh: you are engaged; yet so anxious am I to hear Something concerning you, and to convince you that I still retain the most sincere and...
5To George Washington from Colonel Edward Stevens, 19 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Another Flag from the Enemy, Just arrived at this post with a Letter for yr Excellency, with a number of others from our prisoners. All of which I now Forward, with Thirteen Guinea’s Five Shillings and a portmanteau that also came with the Flag. With respect I am Sir Your very hum: Servt ALS , PHi : Thomas Bradford Papers. The letter is docketed: “the money sent to McCrea Reading by Col....
6To George Washington from Colonel Edward Stevens, 24 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Situation of my private Affairs, obliges me to enclose you my Commission. It gives me concern that I ever accepted it. As I find from my present situation, I can’t (all at the same time) continue to do Justice to my Country, Family and others whom I have been concerned with. I in some measure shudder at the thoughts of laying myself any ways open to the censure of my Country. But conscious...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Stevens, 8 May 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Comment vous portez vous? & comment vous êtes vous porté depuis que je n’ai eu le plasir de vous voir? Si vous êtes en bonne santé tout est bien avec vous; j’en suis sûre. Qui pourrait avoir imaginé mon Ami qu’un homme de votre grandeur , de votre délicatesse de constitution, & de votre tranquillité aurait brillé tant, & en si peu de tems, dans le Champ de Mars, que vous l’avez fait. Je vous...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Stevens, 19 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I think it proper to inclose you a Paragraph from a late Act of Assembly putting the Militia with you under martial law. It is the only part of the Act which relates at all to the Militia, for which reason I do not send the whole Act, the Clearks being very busy. This Act having been made after the Militia went on duty may perhaps be thought by them to be in the nature of an ex post facto law;...
9[From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Stevens, 21 July 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 21 July 1780 . TJ’s earliest, fragmentary Epistolary Record under this date contains an entry for this missing letter reading as follows: “arms furnd [furnished] to U.S.?” See also TJ to Stevens, 4 Aug. 1780 .]
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Stevens, 4 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of July 16. 21. and 22. are now before us. Our Smiths are engaged making 500 axes and some tomahawks for General Gates. About 100 of these will go by the waggons now taking in their Loads. As these are for the army in general, no doubt you will participate of them. A chest of medicine was made up for you in Williamsburg, and by a strange kind of forgetfulness the vessel...