1From Benjamin Franklin to Robert R. Livingston, 5[–14] December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives I am honoured by your several Letters No 16. 17. 18. & 19. dated Sept. 5. 13. 13. & 18. I believe the Complaints you make in some of them of my not Writing, may ere now have appear’d less necessary, as many of my Letters written before those Complaints must have since come to hand: I will nevertheless mention some of the Difficulties your Ministers meet...
2December 5. 1782. (Adams Papers)
The Duke de la Vauguion came in. He says that France and England are agreed, and that there is but one Point between England and Spain. England and Holland are not yet so near. I shewed him our preliminary Treaty, and had some difficulty to prevent his seeing the seperate Article, but I did prevent him, from seeing any Thing of it, but the Words “Seperate Article.” Dined at Mr. Jays with Mr....
3Continental Congress Motion on Vermont, 5 December 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas it appears to Congress by authentic documents that the people inhabiting the district of Country on the West-side of Connecticut River commonly called the New Hampshire Grants, and claiming to be an independent state, in contempt of the authority of Congress and in direct violation of their resolutions of the 24th. of September 1779 and of the 2d. of June 1780, did, in the month of...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Barney, 5 December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : United States Naval Academy Museum I receiv’d your Letter of the 23d. past duly by the Express. I was very glad to see the Minister’s Dispatches, as the Want of them had much delay’d our affairs. I have kept the Express hoping to have sent by him our final Letters. But the Answer of the Court being not yet obtained, & the time when we may expect it being from some present Circumstances...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Catharine Greene, 5 December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Have been favord with your letter by Count Segar, which he forwarded from Philadelphia he Came to Providence with the Army we Sent for him but was gone to Newport on his Return to Providence Ray was at home and waited on him he Sat a day to Come with Count Rhoshambow but it was a heavy Rain for three days, after that the first Coll went to Boston and he...
6To Benjamin Franklin from Ségur, 5 December 1782 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society M de segur a l’honneur de faire à Monsieur franklin ses sinceres remerciments de ce qu’il a bien voulu prendre le soin de lui faire parvenir un Paquet venant de nantes par un exprès; il le prie de recevoir les assurances de son parfait attachement./. Presumably dispatches from America; see JW to BF , Dec. 1.
7General Orders, 5 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Colonel Vose, Lt Colonel Dearborne. For duty tomorrow the 8th Massachusetts regiment. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
8To George Washington from Moses Hazen, 5 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
On receipt of your Excellency’s Favour of the 27th ult. I went to Ringwood, and visited the Houses and Buildings at that Place: Their is no Houses there that are fit to lodge Troops, nor is there any that can be repaired. Col. Hooper was kind enough to accompany me in the Inspection of them; a Memorandum of which your Excellency will receive inclosed from under his Hand. I have directed Capt....
9From George Washington to Nathaniel Peabody, 5 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 27th of Novr. For some time past, I have been fully persuaded, that the British, had been tampering by their Emissaries with some Individuals within our Lines, and that a very improper & dangerous communication had been kept up between the Enemy in Canada & the District of Vermont—I was in expectation that Lieut. Colonel Johnson could have fixed the...
10From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 5 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 30th ulto. I sincerely regret the disappointment of the Allies before Gibralter—more especially as it will serve to keep alive the spirits of the English. I enclose you the Copy of a letter which I recd last Night from the president of Congress—By this it appears that the evacuation of Charles town would take place as soon as the...