1Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 21 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
Your agreable favour of March 15 reachd me yesterday. I most sincerely thank you for every token of rememberance. You have been puntual to your word. I have constantly replied to your favours but whether they have ever reachd you, I know not. So bad has our communication been, where it ought to have been best, that not a single opportunity has offerd, for a direct conveyance since your absence...
2From John Adams to the Comte de Vergennes, 21 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have receiv’d the letter you did me the honor to write me yesterday; and am extreamly sensible of your Excellency’s Confidence in communicating to me, the destination of the Armament under M. Le Chevr. de Ternay and M. Le Comte de Rochambau, and the probability that the Ships will winter in North America. I assure your Excellency, that scarcely any News I ever heard, gave me more...
3To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 21 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have had the Honour of receiving your Excellencys Letter of the 14th Instant: in Answer to which, I can only return your Excellency my most humble Thanks and assure you that the Confidence, with which I am honored, shall not be Abusd by me, and Care shall be taken, that it shall not be so by any One Else. I will Keep together what I receive from Your Excellency, to be returnd to You or your...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Lafayette, [21 July 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
We have just received advice from New York through different channels that the enemy are making an embarkation with which they menace the French fleet and army. Fifty transports are said to have gone up the Sound to take in troops and proceed directly to Rhode Island. The General is absent and may not return before evening. Though this may be only a demonstration yet as it may be serious, I...
5George Washington to Comte de Rochambeau, 21 July 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Colonel Dey’s [ New Jersey ] July 21, 1780 . Reports rumor that English are embarking troops in order to attack French fleet and army. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
6From Benjamin Franklin to Jean de Neufville & fils, 21 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS and copy: Library of Congress I declined having any Concern with the Bills drawn on M. Laurens, because I had no Orders nor Advice concerning them, and knew nothing of their Amount, and because he himself was daily expected to arrive in Holland. But being lately informed that the Congress Stopt the Proceeding in those Drafts soon after it commenc’d, having adopted the better Plan of...
7General Orders, 21 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Major Trescott[,] Brigade Major McGowan The Men last drafted into the Commander in Chief’s Guards are to be returned on Command in the regiments from which they were drafted; but to draw pay and Clothing in the Guard. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . On this date Theodosia Ford, owner of the house in Morristown where GW had made his headquarters during the...
8To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 21 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago I received intelligence that a party consisting of thirty odd Wyondat Indians, had crossed the Ohio River five miles below Fort McIntosh, and had hid thirteen small Bark Canoes upon our Shore. I immediately ordered out two parties of Militia, to go in search of them, and cover the Harvesters. At the same time I detached Captn McIntyre, to form an ambuscade opposite to the...
9To George Washington from Colonel Elias Dayton, 21 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this morning received the following important intelligence which may, I believe, be depended upon—viz.—That the fleets under Admirals Arbuthnot and Greaves had sailed on wednesday morning —that fifty sail of transports had gone up the sound, expecting to take troops on board at white stone, from whence ’tis said, they are immediately to proceed to Rhode Island. They declare it to be...
10From George Washington to Colonel Elias Dayton, 21 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favor of this date, as I did those of the 17th and 18th. I can by no means accede to Capt. Stewards proposal of giving up his three Deserters for an Officer of ours now in Captivity, as that kind of composition is wholly unprecedented—Neither can I consent to his having an interview with his Mother—except in the presence of an Officer in whom you can confide. Every measure is...