1Thursday the 21st. (Adams Papers)
Holiday for the school. At about half after twelve brother Charles and myself went to Pappa’s lodgings where we dined. After dinner we went to Mr. Le Roi’s and from there to Mr. Hartswick’s house where we stay’d about an hour and then returned to Mr. Le Roi’s where we stay’d till supper, and after supper Mr. Le Roi went with us to the school door and then left us. We got home at about ten o...
2From John Adams to William Lee, 21 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 10th. is just come to Hand yet unanswered. I am fully of your opinion, that the British Cabinet are determined on a Prosecution of the War. It is not So much the Demands of America perhaps, as those of France and Spain which decide them. The English are not yet enough humbled to give up Gibraltar and the Floridas to Spain; and Liberty to Dunkirk and a more ample Extension to...
3To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 21 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je soupçonne que ce que j’ai eu l’honneur de vous écrire dans une de mes dernieres touchant Mr. Searce, a été cru par mon ami, & débité par des Américains, un peu trop légerement: car voici ce qu’il me marque dans une Lettre suivante. “Nous avons ici Mr. Austin revenu de Paris: comme aussi Mr. Francis Denca, & un grand nombre d’Américains.— J’ai fait mon...
4General Orders, 21 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] For the Day Tomorrow[:] Brigadier General Wayne[,] Colonel Nixon[,] Lieutenant Colonel Cochran[,] Major Alexander[,] Brigade Major Darby For detachment[:] Major Cogswell The burning of fences and breaking up inclosures is so distressing to the inhabitants, as well as disgraceful to an Army that has the least pretension to discipline and order that the General earnestly exhorts the...
5To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 21 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellency’s directions of the 18th, I have taken our old Camp at this place. We marched yesterday; and Meggs’s Regiment for West Point the day before. Colonel Tilghman communicate⟨d⟩ the last intelligence we had from New York. Since that I have not been able to obtain the least information of what is going on there, tho’ we have people in, from three different quarters: none...
6To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, 21 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Army moved to this place yesterday. No advices of any kind have been received from New York since mine of the 18th except what is contained in a paper which Genl Greene transmits by this opportunity —Neither have any letters come to hand, which I have thought needed forwarding, except the enclosed from General Gates and Colonel de Buysson. We have been very well supplied with Meat since...
7To George Washington from Colonel James Wood, 21 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to Inform Your Excellency, that Our Supplies at this Post have been Much better since I last wrote you On that Subject. the Convention Troops have been fully Supplied for the last three weeks; that I have hopes from Appearances, there will be no Cause of Complaint in future, and that I shall have it in my Power within a few Days, to begin paying up the Arrears due to the...
8Order of Council respecting Volunteers for the Southern Army, 21 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor laid before the board a proposition from Colo. William Preston to raise a body of volunteers to march to the Southward whereon the board are of opinion that the services of such a Corps be accepted on the following conditions. They shall serve three months from the time of their rendezvousing at the head quarters of the Sothern commander in chief or such other place as he shall...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Tilghman, 21 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commander in Chief set out last Sunday for Harford [Hartford] to meet the French Admiral and General at that place. More circumstantial accounts having been received since his departure of the embarkation mentioned in his letter of the 11th: instant, I have thought it my duty to communicate them to Your Excellency. One object of the expedition is said, in New York, to be the release of the...