1From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 19 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
Permit me sincerely to congratulate your Excellency upon your election to the Chair of Congress. I do myself the honor to transmit you the Copy of an information which has been sent to me by the Honble Lieut. Govr Bowen of Rhode Island. I am fully of opinion that the information is well founded, but considering the peculiar situation of the people of Vermont, I do not know how far my...
2From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the recet of your Excellencys favor of the 27th Novembr and to thank you for the very polite manner in which you are pleased to express yourself, with respect to the correspondence between us, be assured, Sir, that nothing will give me more pleasure than to commmunicate to you any thing that may occur worthy your Notice. The apprehending of the persons mentiond in the...
3From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 14 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I recollect subscribing, when I was in Philadelphia last Winter, twenty or twenty five Guineas towards the support of the Children of the late Revd Mr Caldwell. No person has called upon me since for this money—I therefore take the liberty (as the Subscription paper was in your hands) of asking you to whom I am to pay this Sum? Mrs Washington who is now with me, offers her affectionate...
4From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 16 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 11th instant—I thank you for the information communicated therein, and shall take measures for forwarding the Letter which was enclosed, by an early and safe conveyance. In conformity to the pleasure of Congress, expressed in their Resolve of the 8th of Novr I wrote to Sir Guy Carleton on the 20th. A Copy of that Letter, together with Copies of...
5From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 7 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of the Letter, your Excellency did me the honor to write on the 25th of Decr and to assure you of the great satisfaction I experienced from the agreeable communications you had the goodness to make. Enclosed your Excellency will find the original Certificate which was given by Mr Chittendon to the bearer of your Letter of the 11th Ulto. Nothing very...
6From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 8 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed your Excellency will receive Ninety five dollars in Bank Notes; which, if my Subscription towards the support of the Revd Mr Caldwells children was only Twenty Guineas, is about the Sum. As the Bank Notes, I presume, are considered (in Philadelphia at least) as ready money I have adopted this expedient as the easiest and safest mode of making you the remittance and have the honor to...
7From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 20 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the melancholy task before me, of acquainting your Excellency and Congress of the death of Major General Lord Stirling. The remarkable bravery, intelligence, and promptitude of his Lordship to perform his duty as an Officer had endeared him to the whole Army; and now make his loss the more sincerely regretted. In consequence of the resolution of Congress of the 27th of Novembr, for...
8From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 30 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I should not have under taken at this time to Address myself, through Your Excellency, to Congress, on the present state of our Military & Political Affairs (which are so blended as scarcely to admit of seperation in the discussion) did I not apprehend my silence might perhaps be construed into remissness of my Official duties, or inattention to the public interests; and that some...
9From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 11 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
Within these few days I have seen Printed Copies of—"A Remonstrance of the Council of the State of Vermont, against the Resolutions of Congress of the 5th of December"—addressed to Your Excellency; in which are several quotations from a letter of mine. Duty as well as inclination prompts me to lay before Congress the whole of that letter; and the one to which it was an answer. If it should be...
10From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 26 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to have to acquaint your Excellency, for the information of Congress, that a project which I had formed for attacking The Enemys Post at Oswego, so soon as the Sleighing should be good, and the Ice of the Oneida Lake should have acquired sufficient thickness to admit the passage of the Detachment, has miscarried. The report of Colol Willet, to whom I had intrusted the Command of the...