1[Thursday May 2. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Thursday May 2. 1776. Congress resumed the Consideration of the Report of the Committee on General Washingtons Letter of the 24 of March last and after debate Resolved That it be recommitted; and as the members of the former committee are Absent, that a new committee be appointed. The Members chosen Mr. Dickinson, Mr. W. Livingston and Mr. Rutledge. The Recommitment and the names of the new...
2General Orders, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The first, second, and fourth Brigades, to encamp to morrow in the forenoon; each Regiment to be drawn up on their regimental Parade, at eight O’Clock in the Morning, and directly march to the Ground, mark’d out for their Encampment, when they are immediately to pitch their tents—The Qr Mr General will provide Camp-Equipage, Wood, and Straw, necessary for the Encampment. The Brigadiers...
3From George Washington to Brigadier General George Clinton, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
Having received information that there is a number of arms at one Wilseys at the Fish Kilns, among the Officers Baggage which came from St Johns, I request and authorize you to make inquiry about them & to secure all you can find. I am Sir Your Most Hble Servt LS , in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, PAeTPM ; LB , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Although Clinton had held the rank of...
4From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The General presents his Compliments to Mr Hazard & thanks him for the perusal of Mr Gordons Letter. Having had intimations of the like kind before, he has wrote very urgently to General Ward—& Colo. Gridley (the Engineer) upon the Subject, & hopes for better Accts. The General is unable to Assign a Reason for the four Regiments, left at Boston, being reduced to 1430 effective Men, when one of...
5To George Washington from Colonel Ebenezer Learned, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
New York, 2 May 1776 . Requests an honorable discharge from the Continental army because he is “so Indisposd in Body” that he is “absolutely—Renderd unfit to serve.” ALS , DLC:GW . GW promptly approved Learned’s discharge. Learned returned to the army after Congress appointed him a brigadier general on 2 April 1777, and he served until March 1778.
6To George Washington from Isaac Sears, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
Sir: Your Excellency will please excuse my writing to you on a subject that it is most probable you will have taken up before this comes to hand; but as it is the business of the Provincial Congress at New-York to first see that the resolves of the Continental Congress are carried into execution, I must suppose your Excellency would not interfere with them, unless you should see an absolute...
7To George Washington from Major General William Thompson, 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I receivd Col. Moylan’s Letter and send you inclosed a state of the accounts he mentions. On Sunday I went to Half-Moon to forward the march of the Troops from thence, and waited ’till Col. Patterson’s Regiment had march’d—Col. Greaton’s had march’d before I came there, and I met Bond’s near half-Moon. Part of Col. Poor’s Regimt went on Tuesday, and the remainder yesterday. The whole party,...
8From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 2 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor of the 27th ulto and am sorry to inform you that it is not in my power at this time to refund to your Colony the powder lent the Continent, our Magazines here being very low, and the pressing demands from Canada obliging me immediately to forward sixty barrels thither. Should any inconvenience result to the Colony from not having it, it will give me much uneasiness. You...