1From George Washington to Major William Washington, 5 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Should you in consequence of your application to the Board of War and Committee of Arrangement be appointed to Colo. Baylors Regiment, you will immediately thereupon proceed to Bristol where the Regiment is assembled and take the command of it. I shall send orders to the Officer commanding at present to march the Regiment into Winter Quarters. You will therefore, if you join, call upon him for...
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 30 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
If your Excellency has not determin’d where Col: Baylor’s Regt, shall Winter, in which I have the Honor to be appointed, by Congress, in Room of Col: Byrd, I cou’d wish that Wilmington or Frederick-Town might be assign’d it. Col: Pettit & Cox are of opinion that either of those Places wou’d be more convenient than Bristol; but prefer Frederick-Town, supposing that a sufficient Quantity of...
3From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 1 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor last night and have the pleasure of transmitting your Commission which had just come to hand before in a Letter from the president. Full instructions were made out for Baylors Regiment—but by accident they were put up in the paper Chest with the baggage. They shall follow you as soon as possible. In the mean time you will put the Regiment in motion and proceed with it as...
4To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Lt. Col. William Washington, 23 Jan. 1779. GW wrote William Washington on 9 Feb. : “I have recd yours of the 23d and 30th ulto.”
5To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 30 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Lt. Col. William Washington, 30 Jan. 1779. GW wrote William Washington on 9 Feb. : “I have recd yours of the 23d and 30th ulto.”
6From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 9 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have recd yours of the 23d and 30th ulto. If a vacancy should happen in the Regiment I would not have you permit Mr Baylor to succeed to it untill he has cleared up his Character. The Cloathing for the Regiment which Capt. Smith procured at Boston has not yet come on to Camp; when it arrives it shall be forwarded, if the Men should be in absolute want before spring. But if they can make a...
7From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 21 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed is an order of Congress of the 7th instant, for the equipped and as many of the dismounted men of your co[r]ps, as Colonel Bland may be able to furnish with spare horses, to join his regiment under proper officers and proceed therewith to the Southern army. You will attend to its execution immediately; at the same time reserving the necessary proportion of officers to the care of that...
8George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 28 June 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
New Windsor [ New York ] June 28, 1779 . Instructs Washington to ask Brigadier General Charles Scott for directions and assistance. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. William Washington was a lieutenant colonel of the Third Continental Dragoons.
9To George Washington from Lt. Col. William Washington, 30 June 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Lt. Col. William Washington, 30 June 1779. GW wrote Washington on 8 July: “On saturday [3 July] I received Your Letter of the 30th of June.”
10From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 8 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
On saturday I received Your Letter of the 30th of June. I am much concerned to find that your Regiment was in so low a condition as not to admit a larger Detachment’s going to the Southward. As the Remainder of the Horses with you—and those you are to procure from Mr Mitchell are unfit to take the field yet, You may as well remain at Wilmington as any where else for the purpose of recruiting &...