1Oct. 13. (Adams Papers)
Sent 3 Copies of the Treaty of Commerce and as many of the Convention concerning Recaptures, by Mr. Storer to Amsterdam to go by three different Vessells. Finished packing my Papers for my Journey to Paris. Mr. Storer is to prepare every Thing for Us to set off, from the Arms of Amsterdam, on Fryday Morning. Mr. Thaxter and I are to be there on Thursday night. Walked the Tour of the Wood...
213th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Dined out with Mr. Artaud. Rainy stormy weather. Went to the Clubb in the evening.
3From Benjamin Franklin to Gérard de Rayneval, 13 October 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copies: Library of Congress (two), Massachusetts Historical Society With this you will receive the Copy you desired of Mr Oswald’s Commission. I request your kind Care in forwarding the enclos’d Letter to Spain, by your first Courier. I have the honour to be with sincere Esteem & Attachment Sir Your most obedient and most humble Servant...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Anne-Louise Boivin d’Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, 13 October 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Comment estes vous mon bon papa? Jamais il ne m’en a tant coutté de m’éloigner de vous, chaques soirs il me semble que vous seriés bien aise de me voir, et chaques soirs je pense a vous; lundi 21 j’irai vous retrouver, j’espere qu’alors vous serés bien Sur vos jambes et que le thé du mercredi samedi, et celui du dimanche matin reprendront tout leur lustre....
5General Orders, 13 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Major General St Clair Col. Z. Butler Major Wyllys Brig. Major Cox Quarter Master Bulkly For duty tomorrow the Rhode Island & 1st Massa. Regiments. The 2d Massachusetts regiment will releive the men of the 2d New York regiment on duty at Stoney point & Kakiat tomorrow. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
6To George Washington from Hamilton Chalmers, 13 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
From the public Situation of affairs, as also my private Situation, I after mature deliberation resigned my Commission in the British service & came this far. With part of the baggage I could get off & family, not expecting to meet with any difficulty till I had the honor of laying my Situation before your Excellency—I am now confined with a Centry over me—on a representation being made to the...
7From George Washington to Henry Knox, 13 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
My being obliged to go down the River early yesterday morning, prevented my answering yours of the 11th yesterday. I can say nothing decisive respecting the Invalid Regiment, untill the arrangements for the Winter are made: But I cannot concieve any duty more proper for them than that of Constitution Island will be, or where it will be more light. They will have occasion for very few Centries,...
8To George Washington from David Smith, 13 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
On examining the person Mentioned Yesterday to your Excellency, late from N. York, and suppos’d to be a british officer—I find by his acct of himself, that his name is Hamlinton Chalmers, That he formerly deserted from General Burgoyne’s Army—serv’d in the Spring 1778 at West Point as Assistant Engineer, afterwards, deserted the American service—Went to N. York—serv’d as Adjutant to the Corps...
9To George Washington from Benjamin Tallmadge, 13 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
Col. Sheldon, I presume, has informed Your Excellency of the Capture of four Men who say they belong to Delancy’s Corps, by a Party of our Dragoons. As an Exchange of those Men only gives them a Licence to pursue their Predatory Practices, & serves rather to encourage than Deter them from similar pursuits, at the Request of the Authority and many of the Inhabitants, I wrote to His Excellency...
10From John Jay to Gouverneur Morris, 13 October 1782 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your festina lente Letter, but wh wish it had been, at least partly, in Cypher; you need not be informed of my Reasons for this wish, as by this Time you must know that Seals are, on this Side of the Water, rather Matters of Decoration, than of use— It gave me nevertheless great Pleasure to recieve that Letter; it being the first from You that had reached me the Lord knows when:...