1[Duportail and the American Commissioners]: Memorandum on Terms of Service, [11 January 1777] (Franklin Papers)
D : American Philosophical Society 1. M. de Portal demands to be at the Head of the Corps d’Ingenieurs in America: and under the Orders only of the General, or the Commander in chief in the Place where he may be. 2. He demands a Rank superior to that he enjoys at present, which is Major in the marine Infantry. 3. He proposes to take two Captains of the same Professions with him: to whom should...
2Lambert Wickes to the American Commissioners, 11 January 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Immediately After the Receipt of your favr of 26th Decr. 1 Set out for L Orient and have Executed the Businss you Desird there in the best maner The time and Surcumstances Would Admitt. I have no Great Appinon of the 60 Gunn Ship As Shee is an Oald Ship and A very Slow Sailer. Another Very Great Objecktion is her Draft Water being to much for our American...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas-Antoine de Mauduit, Chevalier du Plessis, [c. 11 January? 1777] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society De Mauduit Chevalier du plessis, Lieutenant au corps royal d’artillerie, agé de 22 ans, né au plessis près Lorient en bretagne brûle d’envie de passer chez les insurgens, il demande le même traitement qu’on a dejà fait aux officiers de son grade qui y sont passé. Depuis près de 8 ans il sert, au corps royal, s’est beaucoup appliqué a son métier, et se flate...
4Commissions to the Colonels of the Sixteen Additional Continental Regiments, 11 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Whereas the honorable Continental Congress by a resolve of the 27th Ulto have appointed Sixteen Battalions more to be raised in addition to eighty eight voted in september last and have authorized me to nominate & Commission the Officers for the same—Know You that I reposing the utmost confidence in your Abilities and Attachments to The United States of America, by virtue of the Power...
5From George Washington to Colonel William Grayson, 11 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
From Mr Harrison you would know my Intention of offering you one of the 16 Regimts which the Congress have been pleas’d to leave to me to raise, & appoint the Officers of[.] I have express’d my desire that Colo. Levin Powell should be your Lieut. Colo., & if you have no objection, & Frazers Stomach comes to him it will be agreeable to me that he becomes your Major as he is spoke very well of...
6From George Washington to Colonel John Patton, 11 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
Consequent of the good opini⟨on⟩ I entertain of you as an Officer, I present you with an Appointment to the Command of a Regiment. Parke will be your Lieutt Colo.; and Scull (late Brigade Majr to Genl Thompson) your Major. I have also to desire that Lieutt Jno. Dennis (recomd by Genl Cadwallader) may be one of your Captains. The rest of the Officers you, and your Field Officers will, I hope,...
7To George Washington from Col. Joseph Reed, 11 January 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Col. Joseph Reed, 11 Jan. 1777. GW wrote to Reed on 12 Jan. that “yours of the eleventh is Come to hand.”
8To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer, 11 January 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer, 11 Jan. 1777. Spencer wrote GW on 30 Jan. : “I wrote to your Excellency the 11th Instant.”
9Orders to Captain Francis Wade, 11 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby authorized and empower’d to collect all the Beef, Pork, Flour, Spirrituous Liquors &c. &c. not necessary for the subsistance of the Inhabitants, in all the parts of East Jersey lying below the Road leading from Brunswick to Trentown and as fast as the Stores are collected to be remov’d to Newton, Buck County in Pensilvania, and there stored, and formd into proper Magazines. You...