41From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 5–9 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your favors of the 21st of June from Westmoreland, and 10th Ulto from Fredericksburg, are both to hand —Since Genl Howes remove from the Jerseys, the Troops under my Command have been More harrassed by Marching, & Counter Marching, than by any thing that has happen’d to them in the course of the Campaign. After Genl Howe had Imbarkd his Troops, the presumption that he woud operate upon the...
42To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 21 September 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 21 Sept. 1777. GW wrote his brother Jack on 18 Oct. : “Your kind and Affectionate Letters of the 21st of Septr & 2d Instt came Safe to hand.”
43To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 2 October 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 2 Oct. 1777. GW wrote John Augustine Washington on 18 Oct . that “Your kind and Affectionate Letters of the 21st of Septr and 2d Instt came Safe to hand.”
44From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 18 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your kind and Affectionate Letters of the 21st of Septr & 2d Instt came Safe to hand. when my last to you was dated I know not, for truely I can say, that my whole time is so much engross’d that I have scarce a moment (but sleeping ones) for relaxation, or to endulge myself in writing to a friend. The anxiety you have been under, on Acct of this Army, I can easily conceive; would to God there...
45To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 26 October 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 26 Oct. 1777. GW wrote his brother John Augustine Washington on 26 Nov. , “Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand.”
46To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 7 November 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 7 Nov. 1777. GW wrote his brother John Augustine Washington on 26 Nov .: “Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand.”
47From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 26 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand —by the last, it would appear that a Letter which I wrote you about the 18th of Octr had not reached you which I am exceeding sorry for as, to the best of my recollection, I wrote you very fully on the posture of our affairs and should be exceedingly concernd if it should have fallen into the hands of the Enemy or some...
48From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th of Mar. from Bushfield came safe to hand, & gave me the pleasure of hearing, or rather inferring (for you are not explicit) that my Sister and the rest of your family were well. I thank you for your intelligence respecting the pamphlet of forged Letters which Colo. Lee has, & said to be written by me; not one sentence of which you may rely on it, did I ever write;...
49To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 8 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 8 May 1778. On 10 June , GW acknowledged receipt of a letter from John Augustine Washington of the “8th of May from Berkeley.”
50From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 10 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I do not recollect the date of my last to you, but although it is not long ago, I cannot let so good an oppertunity, as Captn Turberville affords, slip me. Your favors of the 10th of April from Bushfield, and 8th of May from Berkeley, are both before me, and have come to hand, I believe, since my last to you. We have been kept in anxious expectation of the Enemy’s evacuating Phila. for upwards...