1Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
Most sincerly do I Congratulate My Friend on her Restoration to Health after pain, peril and Disappointment. May she Long be spared to her Family and Friends, And be happy in Domestic Life, Though the political sky Looks Dark and Lowry and the Convulsions of War! shake the Lower Creation. You ask My opinion with Regard to affairs in the North. All I Can say is I am Mortifyed and Chagrind at...
2Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 14 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
This is the memorable fourteenth of August. This day 12 years the Stamp office was distroyd. Since that time what have we endured? What have we suffer’d? Many very many memorable Events which ought to be handed down to posterity will be buried in oblivion merely for want of a proper Hand to record them, whilst upon the opposite side many venal pens will be imployd to misrepresent facts and to...
3John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
We are still parching under the fierce Heats of Dog days. It is agreed, by most People, that so long and so intense a Heat has scarcely been known. The Day before Yesterday, Dr. Ewing an eminent Philosopher as well as Mathematician, and Divine told me, the Spirit in his Glass, was at 91 in his cool Room, and from thence he concludes that it was above an hundred abroad in the Shade, because he...
4George Washington to Colonel Elias Dayton, 14 August 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Camp at Cross Roads [ Pennsylvania ] August 14, 1777. Instructs Dayton to send information on strength of the enemy at Kings Bridge and on Staten Island. Also asks Dayton to send account of number of boats available in that area. LS , in writing of H, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
5To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 14 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; AL (draft): Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague; extract: National Archives La Lettre de Mr. Carmichael, du 25e. Juillet, est la derniere faveur que j’aie eu le plaisir de recevoir de votre part Messieurs. J’ai eu celui de lui écrire depuis; mais j’étois si pressé, que je n’ai pu garder copie de ma Lettre, et j’ai même oublié d’en noter la date. Tout ce qui...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Rudolph Erich Raspe, 14 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have attempted to keep me in Your Kind remembrance by a Letter from Germany sent to London and dated Apr. 18. 1775 and by several others, directed from this place to Philadelphia under Aug. 31. 1775. and under March. 1. and 4. of last year. With these last I took the liberty to present You a copy of one of my last literary productions, to which I added...
7General Orders, 14 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
A board of general officers, consisting of all the General officers not on duty, to sit to morrow, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at General Greene’s quarters, for the purpose of settling the rank of all the Pennsylvania field officers. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . In the orderly book kept for the Pennsylvania State Regiment the general orders also contains the following advertisement:...
8From George Washington to Colonel Elias Dayton, 14 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 11th and have given a warrant for the month’s pay agreeable to your request. As your present situation is not inconvenient for gaining intelligence of what may be passing about Kings-Bridge in New York and on Staten Island, I wish you to take every method in your power to inform yourself of the situation of the enemy, their strength and motions at those...
9To George Washington from William Gordon, 14 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I embraced the first opportunity of sending you an anniversary sermon, this day fortnight, but had no time to accompany it with a few lines. I took the liberty of covering a few to some other gentlemen. Do the like now, praying you to accept of half a score to dispose of among your Suite, which has been so changed that I have not the pleasure of knowing them. Should be obliged to Mr Pickering,...
10From George Washington to Robert Morris, 14 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
In looking over my private Acct with the Public, I find a credit to it of a blank number of Silver Dollars sent me by you whilst I lay at Trentown about the first of Jany. for want of the Sum, I cannot Balle the Acct, and shall thank you for information on this head. With sincere regard I am Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt & Affe Servt ALS , PWacD , on deposit (1994) at PPAmP . An entry for this money,...