11783 June [8]. (Adams Papers)
Went to Versailles on the Day of Pentecôte.
2To Benjamin Franklin from the Comtesse d’Houdetot, 8 June 1783 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Vous M’avés promis Mon Cher Et Venerable Docteur une petite Visitte pour Sanois. Voicy Le Moment De Vous En Rapeller Le Souvenir; nôtre Vallée Et Mon jardin sont Dans toutte Leur Bauté Et touttes nos fleurs vous apellent s’il Vous Convenait De Venir; Vendredy, Samedy, Dimanche ou tel autre jour De La Semaine. Souvenés Vous que Vous M’avés promis D’Estre tout...
3General Orders, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow B. Genl Patterson B. Qr Mr 3d Massa. Brigde The 5th Massa. regt gives the Guards and the Hampshire the fatigues tomorrow. Serjeant Bissel of the 2d Connecticut regt having performed some important services, within the immediate knowledge of the Commander in chief, in which the fidelity, perseverance, and good Sense of the said Serjeant Bissel were conspicuously manifested;...
4From George Washington to The States, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
The great object, for which I had the honor to hold an Appointment in the service of my Country being accomplished, I am now preparing to resign it into the hands of Congress, and to return to that domestic retirement; which it is well known I left with the greatest reluctance, a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh through a long and painfull absence, and in which (remote from the...
5From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. to Simeon DeWitt, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
In Consequence of your Letter to me of the 4th instant, I have mentioned to the Commander in Chief your purpose to obtain permission for publishing a Map of the Seat of War in America—& his Excellency directs me to inform you, that the measure is perfectly agreable to him, and the proposition meets his full Approbation; it being his Wish to see it accomplished in an accurate Manner, & at as...
6To George Washington from William Heath, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am so engaged in getting off the furloughed men and in the new arrangment of the Massachusetts line as not to be able to pay my respects this day at head quarters—which I pray your excellency to excuse. The arrangement of the four Massachusetts regiments is not compleated—there are five or six captains wanting and more lieutenants returned to continue than will be necessary—Some rule must be...
7From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. to William Heath, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency directs me to reply to the several Queries contained in your Letter of this Day—and to inform you that the mode you propose for Officering the four Regiments, is perfectly agreeable to him—or any other method that you shall find necessary to accomodate to the Views of the Officers concerned, so as to make the matter as agreable as possible to them. This he leaves entirely to...
8To George Washington from Ralph Izard, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am perfectly persuaded that the proceedings described in the enclosed Letter are such as your Excellency highly disapproves of. It is probable that complaints have been made to you respecting them, & I doubt not that everything proper has been done on the subject. I am much affected by the distresses to which Mrs DeLancey has been exposed by the violent conduct of those persons she complains...
9From George Washington to Henry Jackson, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having before this Time given my Opinion that it was not the Intention of Congress by their Resolution of 23d apl that the Music should have Arms deliverd to them at being discharged—but that they should take with them their Drums & fifes—and this Determanition having been carried into Effect by the Regiments which are gone It is now too late to make any Alteration—But was not this the Case,...
10From George Washington to Henry Knox, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
In answer to the question which has been proposed, whether the Music are entitled to fire Arms, under the Resolution of Congress of the 23d of April. I am to give it as my opinion they are not; but that they should be allowed to take their Drums & Fifes, which is the mode that has been adopted respecting the Music who have been furloughed from this Cantonment. I am Dear Sir With great regard...