1From Benjamin Franklin to Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 4 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives It is so long since I heard from you,...
2From Benjamin Franklin to John Laurens, 4 May 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : South Carolina Historical Society; copies (two): Library of Congress Inclos’d is a Letter I...
3[Diary entry: 4 May 1781] (Washington Papers)
4th. A Letter of the Baron de Steuben’s from Chesterfield Court House Virga. dated the 21st....
4From George Washington to James Clinton, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Instantly on the receipt of your Letter of the 16th Ulto (which came to hand in two days from the...
5To George Washington from James Clinton, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor of addressing your Excly in a Letter of the 30th Ulto on the Subject of the...
6To George Washington from William Heath, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed news-paper came to hand the last evening. The officer commanding the water guards...
7From George Washington to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
The freedom of your communications is an evidence to me of the sincerety of your attachment—and...
8To George Washington from Samuel Holden Parsons, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was favor’d yesterday with your Letter of the 30h of April & shall as soon as possible send the...
9From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Alarming accounts of the state of Provisions at Fort Schuyler, having this moment been received,...
10From Tench Tilghman to Timothy Pickering, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency does not apprehend any danger from the Enemy who have lately made their appearance...
11To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Mr Tilghman favoured me to day with the act of Congress relative to a barrack master to the...
12From Tench Tilghman to Timothy Pickering, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Colo. pickering will be pleased to make the appointment and send it to His Excellency who will...
13To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I this moment have received by a way which is known to your Excellency, intelligences of the 29th...
14To George Washington from Philip John Schuyler, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I received under cover of a letter from General Clinton dated the proceeding the day...
15To George Washington from Philip John Schuyler, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
the Inclosed is the paper which I mentioned in my Letter of this day and which I had forgot to...
16To George Washington from Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron [von] Steuben, 4 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
Maj. Lomagne will represent to your Excellency the present State of Colo. Armands Corps—the...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Claiborne, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
You shall receive the money necessary for the purchase of the horses as fast as it can be...
18To Thomas Jefferson from James Downie and William Thompson, with Jefferson’s Instructions, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
As prisoners of War on parole at this place we beg leave to address the Executive, hoping no...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Lawson, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
You were here when our council was broke up by the departure of Colo. Fleming since which we have...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Penn, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am exceedingly sorry that the public Situation should be such as to render it necessary to call...
21Petition from the Inhabitants of Kaskaskia, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
Kaskaskias, 4 May 1781 . Humbly profess their loyalty and services to George Rogers Clark,...
22To Thomas Jefferson from David Ross, 4 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have just now the Pleasure of receiving your letter of yesterdays date. I am happy in having it...
23[To Thomas Jefferson from Steuben, ca. 4 May 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Camp Bottom’s Bridge, ca. 4 May 1781 . In a letter to Major Lomagne, replying to an urgent...