31To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 30 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
It would have given me great Pleasure to have been favoured with your Company on Thursday, but am fully convinced of the necessity of Business being attended to; whenever your Excellency can spare a day I shall think myself very happy in being honored by a Visit. The Person referred to in your Postscript, is a Major Ward of the new Levies, who has made very full Offers of this kind, on...
32To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 28 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your not having heard from me lately, has not proceeded from a want of the most sincere respect or the warmest Attachment to your Person & the Common Cause, but from a conviction that every unnecessary Letter, adds to your Excellency’s allready intolerable Embarrassments. This design of this is principally to inform your Excellency that from special Information, The Enemy have in the Ship Yard...
33From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 19 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
Permit me sincerely to congratulate your Excellency upon your election to the Chair of Congress. I do myself the honor to transmit you the Copy of an information which has been sent to me by the Honble Lieut. Govr Bowen of Rhode Island. I am fully of opinion that the information is well founded, but considering the peculiar situation of the people of Vermont, I do not know how far my...
34To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 27 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s several favours of the 30th Octr, 1st & 19th Instt which have come to hand since I had the honor of filling the Presidents Chair, have been duly laid before Congress. You will believe me Sir, when I assure you, that the Correspondence & Communication which my Office necessarily opens with your Excellency, are among the few special Advantages & agreeable Engagements, which I...
35To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 30 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing your Excellency by the last Post, since which a Captain Reed, late of one of our Frigates, arrived from Charles-Town, where he had been carried a Prisoner. He informs me that he left that Town on the 4th instant. Two divisions of Transports had sailed, one for St Augustine, the other for Halifax, with Stores and foreign Troops—That every thing looked like a speedy...
36From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the recet of your Excellencys favor of the 27th Novembr and to thank you for the very polite manner in which you are pleased to express yourself, with respect to the correspondence between us, be assured, Sir, that nothing will give me more pleasure than to commmunicate to you any thing that may occur worthy your Notice. The apprehending of the persons mentiond in the...
37To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 11 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowlege the receipt of your Excellency’s polite letter of the 4th instant, and am much obliged by the intelligence it contained. We have since received letters from our Agent Mr Harrison at Cadiz, a copy of which I enclose. By a letter from General Greene of the 11th of November, we are informed, "that the evacuation of Charles Town will not take place till the 20th or 21st. The...
38From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 14 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I recollect subscribing, when I was in Philadelphia last Winter, twenty or twenty five Guineas towards the support of the Children of the late Revd Mr Caldwell. No person has called upon me since for this money—I therefore take the liberty (as the Subscription paper was in your hands) of asking you to whom I am to pay this Sum? Mrs Washington who is now with me, offers her affectionate...
39From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 16 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 11th instant—I thank you for the information communicated therein, and shall take measures for forwarding the Letter which was enclosed, by an early and safe conveyance. In conformity to the pleasure of Congress, expressed in their Resolve of the 8th of Novr I wrote to Sir Guy Carleton on the 20th. A Copy of that Letter, together with Copies of...
40To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 25 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was honored by your Excellency’s letter of the 16th instant, which I laid before Congress. It is with great pleasure that I congratulate your Excellency and the Army, on the admission of our Independency and national Character by the Court of Great Britain; in the issuing a Commission under the Great Seal to Mr Oswald, now at the Court of Versailles, for treating with any Commissioner or...