[ West Point, September 30, 1779. ] Orders Wayne to “detach the light infantry of the Carolina Brigade to join their respective Regiments.” AL[S] , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The signature and final sentence have been clipped from this letter. At the time the letter was written, Wayne was at Stony Point, New York.
2George Washington to Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, 30 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, September 30, 1779. Regrets that permission cannot be granted to Lady Mary Stirling to visit her friends. Df , in writings of George Washington and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Lady Mary Stirling, the wife of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, was the sister of William Alexander, Lord Stirling.
3George Washington to Major General William Phillips, 30 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, September 30, 1779. Regrets that negotiations for exchange of prisoners must be delayed. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
4George Washington to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 30 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ West Point ] September 30, 1779 . Has referred Wayne’s request for two light field pieces to Brigadier General Henry Knox. Describes how the boats under Wayne’s jurisdiction should be distributed. LS , in writing of H, George Washington Photostats, Library of Congress.
5From Benjamin Franklin to James Cuming, 30 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 22d. Inst. Several Parcels or Packets have lately come to my hands from Mr. Lovel Sent by different Vessels and I make no doubt but those you mention were among them. If the Bills you write about were originally drawn in favour of Mr. Thorp, his Letter to you relating to them may perhaps be nearly...
6From Benjamin Franklin to Arthur Lee, 30 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : University of Virginia Library; copy: Library of Congress I received but Yesterday Morning just as I was going out of Town; the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me dated the 26 Inst. respecting my supplying you with Money for your Support in Spain. As I cannot furnish that Expence, and there is not, in my Opinion, any likelihood at present of your being received at that Court, I...
7From Benjamin Franklin to James Lovell, 30 September 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copies: National Archives, Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives I have within these few Days received a Number of Dispatches from you which have arrived by the Mercury and other Vessels. Hearing but this Instant of an Opportunity from Bordeaux, and that the Courier Sets out from Versailles at 5 this Evening, I embrace it just to let you know that I have...
8General Orders, 30 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW . On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote to Maj. Gen. William Heath from headquarters: “If your health will permit, His Excellency wishes to have the pleasure of your Company at dinner, when you will meet Genl Whipple on his journey to the Eastward. “His Excellency last evening recd a south Carolina paper of the 8th Inst. it appears from that, that an...
9To George Washington from the Board of War, 30 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from the Board of War, 30 Sept. 1779. On 8 Oct., GW wrote the Board of War: “I have been honored with yours of the 30th ulto on the subject of Major Francis Murray’s exchange for the Hessian Major Stein lately captured.”
10From George Washington to George Geddes, 30 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging favor of the 22d Instt accompanying the present of a pair of very elegant Pistols came to my hands yesterday. accept Sir my thanks for this testimony of your polite attention—and be assured that I am Yr Most Obedt & obliged Servt ADfS , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . George Geddes (Geddis), a privateer captain of Philadelphia, commanded the 16-gun brig Holker and recently...