22 July. Set off from Pogkeepsie this afternoon & lodged at John Carpenters 23 d . Reach d . Salisbury this afternoon—Saw Mess rs . Fitch & Norton the Superintendants of the Iron Works, inform’d ’em of my Business & requested them to meet me at Doct r Wheelers tomorrow Morn g . The weather being too bad to inspect the State of the Works &c. 24. Those Gent[lemen], met me acc[ordin] g to...
2[Monday July 22. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Monday July 22. 1776. The Congress resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, to take into consideration the Articles of confederation, and after some time the President resumed the Chair, and Mr. Harrison reported, that the Committee have made some progress in the matter to them referred, but not having come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again. Resolved that this Congress will...
3Richard Cranch to John Adams, 22 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
Those that are dearest to you are here, under Inocolation. Charles was Inocolated with me on Thursday, the 11th. Instt. Our Symptoms are very promising; Mrs. A. and the other three Children underwent the operation the next Day. I suppose the enclos’d will be more particular. The Declaration of Independency which took place here last Thursday, was an Event most ardently wish’d for by every...
4To John Adams from Jeduthun Baldwin, 22 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
The strong inclination I have to Serve the Continent, has induced me to continew in the Service of the Publick. I have ever complied with all orders, and cherfully gone whereever I have been directed, and with the greatest dilligence, I have done my duty in the best manner I have been capable of. I feel with gratitude what the Congress have done for me—but I must request liberty from the...
5To John Adams from Daniel Hitchcock, 22 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
Altho I’ve been in the Continental Service ever since the Lexington Battle with a Regiment under my Command; and wish’d many Times to have wrote You; yet partly from the Slender Acquaintance I’ve had with You and partly from knowing your Time was wholly taken up circa Ardua Regni, and much more profitably employ’d than Reading my Scrawls, I’ve not till now presumed to write you a Letter. Dear...
6From Benjamin Franklin to George Washington, 22 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg The Bearer, Mr. Joseph Belton some time since petitioned the Congress for Encouragement to destroy the Enemy’s Ships of War by some Contrivances of his Invention. They came to no Resolution on his Petition; and, as they appear to have no great Opinion of such Proposals, it is not easy, in the Multiplicity of Business before them, to get them to bestow any...
7General Orders, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The orderly Serjeants who attend at Head Quarters, are hereafter to bring their dinners, and wait ’till they are regularly relieved. As it is much to be feared the state of the necessary Houses in the City, may endanger the health of the troops quartered there; It is recommended to the officers, and men, to guard against it as much as possible, and if any method can be fallen on to remove, or...
8To George Washington from Benjamin Barnard, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Nantucket [Mass.] 22 July 1776 . Asks “permission . . . to make a request to Lord How for the Liberation of a Son and Brother of mine who Were taken on board the Brigt. Mercury (on their Return from a Long and Tedious Whale Voyage On the Coast of Brazil) George Bunker Master About four Weeks ago & are detain’d on board The Cerberes Frigate Capt. Symons.” ALS , DLC:GW . This letter was carried...
9To George Washington from Colonel Philip Burr Bradley, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday about 12 ’OClock, a Barge from the ministerial Fleet under a constant fire of a Tender, which lies contigious to the shore, attempted to land on Bergen point, upon which a warm musquetry commenced between them and a party of our men; but the very warm reception which we gave them obliged them to retire in the greatest Confusion and disorder. What loss the enemy may have Sustained on...
10To George Washington from Baron de Calbiac, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ it is easy to see your Excellancy by the kind Reception with whom you entertain every bodeis, I have with a great deal of Repugnancy, imposed a Law to my self; in discontinuing to go and presente to you my humble duty; in the first place by the Reason of the difficulty that I have to make me understood, and secodly in the apprehension to trouble you from your great busines. in the mean...