1Statement Concerning James Ledlie, 11 February 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, February 11, 1777. “From the general character of Mr. James Ledly and from my own Observations…, I have all Reason to Believe him Discreet well Behaved man and a good Soldier.…” Copy, Reel 91, Item 78, II, p. 311, Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives. Ledlie was master-at-arms of the Repulse , a xebec in the Continental Navy. The statement printed above appears...
2To Benjamin Franklin from Georgiana Shipley, 11 February 1777 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society After near two years had past, without my hearing any thing from you and while I look’d upon the renewal of our correspondence as a very unlikely event, it is easier to conceive than express the joy I felt at receiving your last kind Letter. The certainty that you are in good health and spirits, and that you still remember your English Friends, is the...
3General Orders, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
The exceeding difficulty there is in procuring Spiritous Liquor, with the exorbitant prices now asked for that Article, renders it absolutely necessary to stop serving it out to the troops in a general way, ’till supplies can be laid in upon more easy and better terms: The Commissary General is therefore directed to issue none, except it be to fatigue parties, scouting parties, or to such...
4From George Washington to John Hancock, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday waited upon by two French Gentlemen Monss. Romand de Lisle and Robillard. The first produced a Commission signed by you in Novemr last appointing him a Major of Artillery, but by the inclosed Letter from him to me, he claims much higher Rank, under the promise of Congress, that of Commandant of the Continental Artillery. Whether any such promise was made, I leave you to...
5To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
The last Evening I arrived at this Place, and Tomorrow morning shall Set out for Boston, The Spread of the Small Pox at and near Stanford in the State of Connecticut, is alarming I am Informed that Some of the Inhabitants are Secretly Inoculating their Families, I yesterday wrote to Governor Trumbull on the Subject—Some of our Prisoners have been Sent out of New York Undoubtedly Infected with...
6From George Washington to Brigadier General Henry Knox, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have yours of the 1st instant inclosing a Copy of a Memorial which you had presented to the Council & House of Representatives of the State of Massachusets. I most sincerely wish that your Representation may be attended with the Success it deserves, and that I could, with propriety, press the Subject of it upon them in the manner you desire. To advise them to give the Bounty of Twenty Pounds...
7From George Washington to William Livingston, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have with pain heard of the irreconcileable Uneasinesses prevailing in the 1st N. Jersey Battalion, originating, as I am credibly informed, in the appointment of Colo. Newcomb to the Command of it. Notwithstanding I believe that Colo. Newcomb is a Gentleman of great Goodness and Integrity, and can not entertain the slightest doubts of his Bravery, yet I am too well persuaded that he is not...
8From George Washington to the Massachusetts General Court, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Certain that the British Court would leave nothing unessayed in the course of this Campaign, to establish her unwarrantable claims over the United States and to deprive them of their rights, the Congress were induced upon reconsidering their first vote of Levies, to compose the Army, to determine that 16 Battallions more should be raised in addition to those they had resolved on before; And as...
9To George Washington from the Massachusetts Council, 11 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Assembly have received your Favor of the 24th of January last, We are fully sensible of the indispensible necessity of immediately levying and Equipping the number of Battalions alloted to this State—The reasons you Urge for their being sent forward with the utmost Expedition are forcible—and you may depend that we shall Exert ourselves to the Utmost to accomplish this necessary Business,...
10To George Washington from James Mercer, 11 February 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Mercer, 11 Feb. 1777. GW wrote Mercer on 21 Feb. that “your Letter of the 11th . . . came to my hands a few days ago,” and a note that Mercer made on GW’s letter reads in part: “I refer to my Let. to G.W. of the 11th Feby to which this is an answer.”