1From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 29 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Quarter Master General of the Army has represented to me that notwithstanding he has offered 2/ ⅌ Foot for Fire Wood—2/1½ ⅌ Bushel for Oats—3/4 ⅌ Ct for Hay he cannot procure those Articles for the Use of the Army. From the Information I have received I have great Reason to believe that this is an artificial Scarcity partly created by some Persons who are monopolizing those Articles in...
2From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 4 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Col. Sergeant has applied to me for his Commission in the Continental Army, & I have no Objection to comply with his Request but his not having received one under the Legislature of this Province. But as I do not mean to confine myself to Forms, if he has been considered by this Governmt as an Officer authorized to raise a Regiment, & would have received a Commission on the Provincial...
3To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 27 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 27 September 1775 . Recommends officers in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s and Col. David Brewer’s regiments for commissions. LS , signed by William Sever, DLC:GW .
4To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 3 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 3 October 1775 . Recommends officers for Col. Paul Dudley Sargent’s regiment. “The Council would further Suggest to your Excellency, that four Companies were raised, by order of this Colony, soon after the 19th of April last. Two of them in Braintree, One in Weymouth, one in Hingham, Towns within the port of Boston, in Consequence of a determination that certain ports within...
5To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 6 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 6 October 1775. . Recommends officers in Col. Edmund Phinney’s regiment for commissions. LS , signed by William Sever, DLC:GW .
6To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 16 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Council received your favour of this day by the Officer of the Guard, and thank your Excellency for your care, and as the Prisoners sent hither, are all disposed of, there will be no occasion for any guard until others are sent in; We have therefore returned the Guard and the Committee of Council, who are appointed to hear and examine &c. Prisoners in the recess of Court (a Copy of whose...
7From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 10 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
In the confused & distordered state of this Army, occasioned by such Capital changes as have taken place of late, I have found it almost impossible to come at exact returns of the strength of our Lines—Not till last night was I able to get in the whole, Since the dissolution of the old Army; by these I find myself weaker than I had any Idea of, and under the necessity of requesting an exertion...
8To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 20 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Council upon Examination of several persons who were sent here by the Committee of Safety of Newbury Port, and were taken on board a Ship from London, and a Brigt. from Cork, both bound to Boston; find that one of the passengers in the latter is a Lieutenant in the 5th Regimt (Earl Peircys) now in Boston, they have therefore ordered the sd Lieutenant Hill with his Servant to be sent to...
9From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 26 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
As I am making all possible preparation to take possession of the heights of Dorchester (which I expect I shall be able to accomplish by the last of this Week) it is expected that this, if any thing can, will bring the Enemy out of Boston to oppose, as at Charles-town, our erecting any Works there. To weaken our Lines on the North side of Cambridge River too much, with a view to strengthen...
10To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 16 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 16 July 1776 . Asks GW’s assistance in procuring the release of the officers and men of the Privateer Yankee Hero , “which was taken after a brave and manly resistance, by the Milford Frigate,” and of James Lovell, “who suffered a long and severe imprisonment in Boston, and was carried off in the Fleet to Hallifax where he has remain’d a close prisoner ever since.” LS ,...