21From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 29 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since my arrival at this place I have been favour’d with two or three of your Letters, and thank you for your kind and frequent remembrance of me —If I shd not write to you, as often as you do to me, you must attribute it to its true cause, and that is the hurry, and multiplicity of business in which I am constantly engaged from the time I rise out of my Bed till I go into it again. I wrote...
22To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 18 May 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 18 May 1776. On 31 May GW wrote to John Augustine Washington : “I have received your Letter of the 18th.”
23From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 31 May–4 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since my arrival at this place, where I came at the request of Congress, to settle some matters relative to the ensuing Campaign I have received your Letter of the 18th from Williamsburg, & think I stand indebted to you for another, which came to hand sometime ago, in New York. I am very glad to find that the Virginia Convention have passed so noble a vote, with so much unanimity —things have...
24From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Whether you wrote to me or I to you last, I cannot undertake to say; but as it is sometime since a Letter has past, and as I expect every hour to be engaged in two busy a Scene to allow time for writing private Letters, I will take an oppertunity by this days post to address you a few Lines, giving a brief acct of the Situation of Affairs in this Quarter. To begin then—we have a powerful Fleet...
25To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 1 September 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 1 Sept. 1776. On 22 Sept. GW wrote to Washington : “I have had no Letter from you since the date of my last saving the one of Septr the 1st.”
26From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 22 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
My extreame hurry for some time past has rendered it utterly impossible for me to pay that attention to the Letters of my Friends which Inclination, and natural Affection always Inclines me to. I have no doubt therefore of meeting with their excuse, tho’ with respect to yourself, I have had no Letter from you since the date of my last saving the one of Septr the 1st. With respect to the Attack...
27To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 6 October 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 6 Oct. 1776. In a letter dated 6–19 Nov. GW wrote to his brother John : “I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 6th Ulto.”
28To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 30 October 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 30 Oct. 1776. In a letter dated 6–19 Nov., GW wrote to his brother John : “Your Letter of the 30th of Octr was delivered to me a few days ago.”
29From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 6–19 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 6th Ulto. We have, I think, by one Manouvre and another, and with a parcel of—but it is best to say nothing more about them—Mixed, & ungovernable Troops, spun the Campaign out to this time without coming to any decisive Action, or without letting Genl How obtain any advantage which, in my opinion, can contribute much to the completion of...
30To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 24 January 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 24 Jan. 1777. In a letter to John Augustine Washington of 24 Feb. 1777 , GW informed his brother that “your Letter of the 24th Ulto from Mount Vernon came duly to hand.”