1To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe, November 1779–December 1779 (Washington Papers)
Sir, —I am induced to lay myself before you, from what I conceive to be a principle of duty, and that not merely personal. You may, perhaps, have heard, sir, of the uncommon fortune that threw me into the hands of the Jersey militia. Gov. Livingston told me I was a prisoner of the State, a distinction I never till then was acquainted with, and observed, that it was probable I should be soon...
2[November 1779] (Adams Papers)
Titlepage and cover for JQA ’s early Diary, designated D/JQA/1 by Adams editors to indicate the first of the individual Diary books, booklets, or miscellaneous fragments. This Diary booklet, which measures approximately 7″ × 4¾″, consists of eleven leaves of paper folded over and stitched. Bound in with the sheets is a paper cover, and each page has been ruled off with a margin by JQA , in...
3[Titlepage and Cover] (Adams Papers)
Titlepage and cover for JQA ’s early Diary, designated D/JQA/1 by Adams editors to indicate the first of the individual Diary books, booklets, or miscellaneous fragments. This Diary booklet, which measures approximately 7″ × 4¾″, consists of eleven leaves of paper folded over and stitched. Bound in with the sheets is a paper cover, and each page has been ruled off with a margin by JQA , in...
4Order of Cantonment, November 1779 (Washington Papers)
General Poor’s brigade to be Cantoned at Danbury—or, in preferen⟨ce⟩ to this—at Ridgefield if quarters can be had in houses—thereby rendering the building of Hutts unnecessary & a movement in case of any operation of the enemy not very inconvenient. This Brigade to have an eye to the Sound towards Norwalk Fairfield &ca—and to have orders in case the enemy shd discover an intention to make a...
5To John Adams from Bidé de Chavagnes, 1 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
Je me faisois une grande feste, samedy dernier, D’avoir Ihonneur de vous voir, de diner avec vous et de boire a votre santé chez monsieurs alain, mais 1’utilité de votre travail pour le bien public m’a fait supporter plus aisement cette privation, j eus cependant eté bien content de pouvoir vous parler moy même au sujet des besoins urgents ou commence a se trouver la fregatte du roy de france...
6Bidé de Chavagnes to John Adams: A Translation, 1 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
I was greatly looking forward to having the honor of seeing you, dining with you, and drinking to your health at Mr. Allen’s house last Saturday, but the usefulness of your work for the public good has allowed me to bear this deprivation more easily. And yet, I would have liked to have been able to speak with you personally about the urgent needs that are beginning to be felt by the frigate of...
7To John Adams from James Lovell, 1 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
Your Favor of Octr. 17th. came this day to hand by the Post and contains such flattering Sentiments in regard to my subserving your Mission as almost to intoxicate me into a Wish that I had not spurned much personal Honor and family Emolument in pursuing a comparitively evident public Interest. But, nearly drunken as you have made me, depend upon it I am sober enough to distinguish between the...
8Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 November … (Hamilton Papers)
[ Great Egg Harbor Landing, New Jersey, November 1, 1779. On November 8, Brigadier General Du Portail and Hamilton wrote to Washington : “We hope before this you will have received our two letters of the 26th of October and 1st instant.” Letter of November 1 not found .]
9George Washington to Brigadier General Louis Le Bèque Du Portail and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 1 November … (Hamilton Papers)
I have this day been favd. with yours of the 26th: ulto. informing me of your removal to Great Egg Harbour. My letter of the 18th, which had not reached you, went, as you supposed, by way of Philada., and lest any accident may have happened to it, I inclose you a duplicate. Mine of the 30th. ulto., which went thro’ Major Lee, informed you of the evacuation of Rhode Island. I have since recd. a...
10From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Reed, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress A Gentleman from Holland, one of the Senators of Ziricsee, M. Van Noemer, being desirous of settling in our State, with his Family, and being well recommended to me, as a Person of Character, for Learning & Virtue, & likely to make a good & useful Citizen, I beg leave to present him to your Excellency, and to request for him those Civilities &...
11From Benjamin Franklin to Cradock Taylor, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received yours of the 25th. Past, with Sundry Letters enclos’d from Mr. Fraser to you, and being now convinc’d that you are an honest American, and have not been a Volunteer in the English Service, I shall immediately endeavour to procure your Discharge. In the meantime, you may draw on me for five Louis d’ors, which I shall pay on sight of your Bill to assist you...
12To Benjamin Franklin from Anne-Louise Boivin d’Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Me voila donc réduitte a vous écrire mon bon papa et a vous dire que je vous aime; il étoit plus doux sans doutte de vous le laissér lire dans mes yeux; comment vaisje passér les mercredis et les samedis—point de thé, point d’échécs, point de musique, point d’éspérance de voir, d’embrassér mon bon papa—il me semble que la privation que j’éprouve de votre...
13To Benjamin Franklin from Jean Haag and Other Favor Seekers, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Money, as usual, was at the core of most requests addressed to Franklin in the course of this volume: outright pleas for financial help or inquiries for clarification of the American currency system. Jean Haag, whose letter is published below, needs money to get back to Charleston. A painter who gives his name simply as Paul writes on December 29 to ask for...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Je reçois, Monsieur, la lettre que Vous me faittes l’honneur de m’écrire, et je donne sur le champ des ordres pour que le sr. smith soit observé avec la plus grande exactitude. Je charge même l’officier de police de se rendre chès vous pour vous prier de lui procurer les details qui pouraient lui être nécessaires, et prendre vos ordres. Je suis avec un...
15To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 1 November 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Dumas left us last week, as he told us his presence should be required at the Hague from whence we gott his advice how to supply Mr Landay with money for his voyage to Paris, agreable to the orders of Your Excellency. At the same time our homme d’affaires at the Helder mentiond some matters to us we thought best to look into ourSelfs, and have arranged...
16General Orders, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
For the future when men are sent from the Light Infantry to the regiments to which they belong, on account of sickness, or other causes, they are to carry their arms and accoutrements with them. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . An unidentified communication from Brig. Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons enclosed with Maj. Gen. William Heath’s letter to GW of 31 Oct. likely raised this issue (see also the...
17To George Washington from Joseph Digges, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave, by this favorable Oppty to Drop your Excell’y these few Lines & coud wish I was at Liberty, to write you the Occurrences on this side the Atlantic; But not having yet heard of my being exchanged, my Parole of Honor forbids me. Upon my being made a Prisoner, I wrote Coll Harrison a few Lines from N: York with a Copy of Parole, & desired him to inform your Excell’y of it; Not...
18From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have this day been favd with yours of the 26th ulto informing me of your removal to Great Egg Harbour. My letter of the 18th, which had not reached you, went, as you supposed, by way of Philada, and lest any accident may have happened to it, I inclose you a duplicate —Mine of the 30th ulto, which went thro’ Major Lee, informed you of the evacuation of Rhode Island: I have since recd a letter...
19To George Washington from Brigadier General Duportail and Lt. Col. Alexander Hamilton, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Brigadier General Duportail and Lt. Col. Alexander Hamilton, 1 Nov. 1779 . Duportail and Hamilton wrote GW on 8 Nov. : “We hope before this you will have received our two letters of the 26th of October and 1st instant.”
20From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Major General Greene communicated to me on friday last a letter from Mr Bowen D.Q.M.G., giving an account of the total evacuation of Rhode Island, on the night of the 25th Ultimo. Not hearing from you on this event, I have concluded that your express must have met with some accident; and under this idea I communicated Mr Bowen’s advice for the satisfaction of Congress. I am anxious to learn...
21From George Washington to Major General William Heath, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have your favr of yesterday. I am sorry to hear of Colo. Russells death of whose indisposition I had not known. Lt Colo. Shearmans right to promotion to the Rank of Lt Colo. Commandant in consequence, must be reported to the State of Connecticut by the Brigadiers of that line agreeable to the terms of the late general order, as must also the names of the subalterns of the 8th Regt intitled...
22From George Washington to Brigadier General William Maxwell, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favd with yours of the 30th by Capt. Wool acquainting me with your being upon the upper Road, which is rather unlucky as it has disconcerted me in many respects —I yesterday wrote to General Sullivan to detach your Brigade to Westfeild to cover the forage in that quarter. Should the troops not have marched from Warwick towards sufferans when this reaches you—you will be pleased...
23From George Washington to Edmund Pendleton, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Recollecting that I am your debtor for an obliging letter written sometime last Winter, I will, while my eyes are turned southwardly (impatiently looking for, or expecting to hear some thing decisively of Count D’Estaing) make my acknowledgments for it, as a proof that I am not unmindful of the favor, though I have been dilatory in thanking you for it. I shall not at this late period recount...
24To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have just recd the enclosed Dispatches from the C——r’s. I was obliged to touch the Counterpart on the enclosed Letter written with the Stain to discover whether it was the right Sheet or not as it was in a Quire. With Respect to the Robbery lately commited at Setauket, as related by C——Senior, I have additional Accounts of the same from others. In addition to the Crime of plundering the...
25To George Washington from Philip Van Rensselaer, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencies Favour of the 12 Ult: I have received, with my Return Inclosed, for the month of September last, in Which Appeared to be some Mistakes, Occassioned, my not explaining properly the several Columes mark’d, here inclosed I Transmit your Excellency a fair Copy, also a Return for the month of October by Which your Excellency will find What Number of Arms and Bayonets have been...
26To George Washington from Brigadier General William Woodford, 1 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencies Letter of the 29th Octr directed me so soon as I was Assured of the Enemies return, to take a position between Suffrans & Stony point. Genl Muhlenberg & myself have reconnoitred all the Ground in this Neighbourhood, & find this the most convenient, unless we had gone near to Stony point, which I did not understand to be your Excellencies intention. We are at present without...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Giovanni Fabbroni, 1 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Sento dal Sig. Digs [Digges] vostro amico, che voi siete stato recentemente eletto Governatore della Vostra rispettabil Provincia. Vi sia egli testimone del contento, che ne provai, e per voi e per tutta La Virginia, che invano cercherei d’esprimervi colla mia penna. Mi si presentano tutte ad un tratto alla spirito Le vostre belle qualità di cui è ripiena La Francia, ed anco L’Inghilterra, e...