1To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 26 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours under cover to General Smallwood requiring a return of the State of my Regiment, which was Immediately forwarded to him in order that the same might be transmitted to your Excellency—agreeable to your orders, which I make no doubt you have receivd. from the Insurrection of some Tories in Somerset & Worchester Counties of Maryland in Feby last—the...
2To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 2 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing your Excellency last from Philadelphia and have now to Inclose you a return of the continental troops forwarded from this place since the 4th ultimo, amounting in the whole to 1694 Men Including Officers, I have likewise sent a return of my own Regiment, total at Camp 307. the Assembly of Maryland have resolved to add an Additional Bounty of thirty dollars to the...
3To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 8 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
my last was of the 2d Instant, covering a Return of the Troops forwarded from this place total 1694, since which only a small detachment of my Regt has come in, who are to March to Morrow. I take the liberty of laying before your Excellency the Inclosed act of Assembly, by which you will find that the Officers of the last Regts orderd by Congress are precluded the priviledge of recruiting in...
4From George Washington to Colonel Mordecai Gist, 18 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I recd both your favs of the 2d and 8th instants. The State of Maryland hath not been particular in refusing to suffer the Officers of the Sixteen Battalions to recruit before they have compleated their own Quotas, several others have done the same thing. As the Officers of Colo. Nat. Gists Regiment were precluded from going on with recruiting, you were right to send them where they have a...
5Instructions to Colonel Mordecai Gist, 31 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Congress having called upon the State of Maryland to furnish a number of Militia to assist in repelling the Invasion of the Enemy by way of Chesepeak Bay and appointed Brigadr Smallwood and yourself to arrange—conduct and command them, You are to repair, without loss of Time to George Town on Sassafras on the Eastern Shore of that State, or elsewhere on the East side of Chesepeak Bay where...
6To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 5 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have to Inform Your Excellency that I arrivd here the 2d Instant, where I found General Cadwalader with about 300 Militia, in very confusd order. their complaints of being called out contrary to law has become very general Among them, which has Induc’d me to promise them to adopt the rule of calling out only the three first Classes as orderd by the Assembly of this State, for the better...
7To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 15 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to a resolve of congress forwarded to me through the hands of General Smallwood, I am preparing to march the Troops in my command to Join the main Army, and propose reaching New Ark to Night. the sick and Wounded of the Enemy came into Wilmington Yesterday with the prisoners they took in the late Engagement. they brought with them five peices of Artillery and have a Guard of Near...
8To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 30 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have the Misfortune to be on camp Near the Quarters of General Maxwell and have no good Water convenient except at his house. I endeavoured first by virtue of an order and since by personal Application to obtain some water for my own use, which contrary to the principles of politeness was refused to me. You will pardon me sir for troubling You on so frivolous an occasion, and permit me to...
9From George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 10 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
The unsettled state of the Maryland Line will require the utmost attention pains and care to organize it before the opening of the next Campaign. That you may assist in that necessary work and perform the other duties incident to the Rank to which you have lately been appointed I must request your attendance with the Army immediately after the receipt of this. I am Sir Yr most obt Servt. Df ,...
10To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 18 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
at the same time I acknowledge the Honor of your favor of the 10th Instant it is with pain that I Inform You of Mrs Gists extreme Indisposition whose life is despaird of by her Physicians and it is an additional wound to my sensibility that this melancholy circumstance compels me to act Incompatible with Your Excellencys orders. let Humanity speak my Apology while I wait the dispensation of...
11George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 27 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] May 27, 1779 . Instructs Gist to assume command in Maryland until immediate danger is over. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
12From George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 27 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
The State of Maryland apprehending an attack from the enemy now in Chesapeak bay have requested that you might be sent there to take the command. You will therefore proceed forthwith to Baltimore apply to the Governor and concert with him the measures necessary to be taken on the occasion. Your present command is only temporary. So soon as the enemy have left Chesapeak bay and the danger which...
13From George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 1 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
I intended to send the inclosed by you, but hurry of business prevented it. The letter for Colo. Rogers you will be so good as to deliver, or cause to be delivered, safely. The other for a Mr Bowers, with his letter to me (also inclosed) I am embarrassed about. However well meant these things are they rather distress than please, especially when they proceed from men of whom we have no...
14To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 21 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 3d Inst. covering letters to Colonel Rogers and Mr Daniel Bowers came to hand a few days ago and are since deliverd the latter is a Gentleman of German Extraction who I am Informd has Manifested his Attachment to the liberty and Independency of America on several Occasions among his Countrymen and his circumstances are such as would not admit an Offer from Your Excellency...
15To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 27 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
The entire command of the North River appears to be a principal object with the enemy whose present movements seem to be calculated to divert our Attention from this post that they may with the greater facilty and Assurance of success through the advantage of their shipping attack and carry our Works; these reasons Induce me to believe that the execution of any offensive plan at this Juncture,...
16To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 29 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
from a view of the operating force of our Army here, I am Induc’d to believe it would be inconsistent with the public good to detach any part of it to the Southward at this present time, and altho the Situation of General Lincoln and the safety of those States require Immediate Assistance, Yet a reinforcement from this pla⟨ce⟩ wou’d arrive too late for the Defence of Charles Town and enable...
17From George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 2 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Under the present situation of things it appears necessary to place the Maryland division under your command in the most perfect state of readiness to move at the shortest notice. It will be indispensible that all guards at a distance should be drawn in—All soldiers that may be servants with officers not belonging or attatched to the troops recalled, and every other previous arrangement in...
18To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 26 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
I left Hillsborough the 24th Ult. in pursuance to the Orders of Major General Gates, a Copy of Which I have the Honor to enclose you. on my Arrival at Annapolis I found the extra Regiment raised by this state had been detain’d there some time for want of necessary Clothing &c. to equip them for the March; they are since furnish’d, and began their March Yesterday. a Return of the Regiment is...
19To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 24 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 13th Instant came to hand Yesterday, our Assembly have ever since my last been unhappily engag’d in a dispute respecting the power of the House of Delegates, to call their Members to the Bar to Answer for Misdemeanours committed out of the House during the sessions, parties ran high, and the Members were much inflamed on the case of Mr James Hindman, who was called to the Bar...
20To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 15 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday the General Assembly of this state pass’d an Act to call in the Continental & states money at Forty for One, and an order to give a better circulation to the New Currency no Continental money is to be issued in payment for any contract after the 20th March Next. The Tender Law is repealed —a Bill from the House of Delegates for the Confiscation of British property is now before the...
21From George Washington to Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 2 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am pleased to hear, by yours of the 15th ulto, that the Legislature of your State are making spirited exertions and preparations agains⟨t⟩ the next Campaign. This seems to be the prevailing disposition, but I fear the means which have been generally adopted, for procuring Men, wil⟨l⟩ not answer. Where there is an alternative of Money or Men, the former will be preferred by the Classes, as...
22To George Washington from Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, 19 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am honor’d with your favor of the 2d Inst. The House of Delegates from an apprehension that the people wou’d not submit to a Draught upon such principles as were contain’d in the plan laid before them (of which you have a copy) pass’d a Bill Yesterday for raising 1000 Men for Three Years ; which ’tho far from answering my former expectations, is preferable to voluntary enlistments for that...
23To George Washington from Mordecai Gist, 4 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that the Serpent Cutter of 18 Guns Captain Anne DeLaLauno has this moment arrived here with Dispatches for your Excellency from Count DeGrasse, who arrived in Cheasepeake with 28 ships of the Line the 26th Ultimo, and the next day landed 3000 Troops on the South side of James River in order to form a junction with the Marquis D. La Fayette. The Fleet on their...
24To George Washington from Mordecai Gist, 6 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honor to enclose You a list of the Vessels that have sailed from this port for the Head of Elk, ammounting in the whole to 1,012 Tons, which I hope are arrived before this. About 300 Tons of Shipping are now in the Harbour discharging their Cargoes, including a Galley of four 18 Pounders, belonging to the merchts of the Town, who have had her sometime under repair, she is not...
25From George Washington to Mordecai Gist, 7 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
This will be deliver’d to you by the Officer of the French Navy, who brought the Dispatches from the Count de Grasse; if before his return to Baltimore, you shall have found a conveyance for the Letter addressed to the Count which was forwarded from hence this morning, the Cutter will remain and act as a Convoy to the Fleet in its passage down the Bay; if on the contrary, those dispatches have...
26To George Washington from Mordecai Gist, 24 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed papers were taken in a Dispatch Boat from Lord Cornwallis by the Brig. Sea Nymph of Phila. the 10th Inst. off Cape Charles, and now brought in here last Night. I have the honor to forward them for Your Excellency’s information. The French Troops and Delaware regiments embarked and Sailed from Annapolis on the evening of the 20th. There remains only one Vessel (exclusive of the...
27To George Washington from Mordecai Gist, 17 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
The bearer Ensign Menikin waits on Your Excellency for permission to resign. he is the Gentleman whose case I represented to you Yesterday. and his Services in the Army can be disposed with without prejudice to the Regiment. I have the Honor to be Yr Excellency’s Mo. obdt Servt PHi : George M. Conarroe Autograph Collection.
28To George Washington from Mordecai Gist, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
The constitution of the United States having invested the President with the power of nominating officers for the different departments of the present Government, I have in consequence thereof taken the liberty of presenting myself to your Excellency; & shall be exceedingly happy to accept of any appointment in this State, or the State of Maryland that I may be deemed qualified for. should I...