15171From George Washington to Nicholas Cooke, 20 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Letter accompanying of this was wrote before your favour of the 19th pr Express came to hand. Under my present Instruction’s and more especially, in my present Situation, I could not justify the sending of a Regiment from these Lines to you unless there was an apparent design of Landing a body of Ministerial Troops on Rhode Island; at present, I do not think this is to be apprehended, as a...
15172General Orders, 21 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
15173To George Washington from Major General William Howe, 21 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 18th inst. I am to acquaint you that my command does not Extend to Canada, nor having received any Accounts wherein the name of Allen is mentioned, I cannot give you the Smallest Satisfaction upon the Subject of your letter; But trusting Major General Carleton’s conduct will never incur censure upon any occasion, I am to conclude in the instance of your Enquiry...
15174To George Washington from Ebenezer Richmond, 21 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
The following is an exact Representation of the Facts which Your Excellen[c]y on the 19 Inst. directed Me to draw up & present. I was by the genl Assembly of Rhodeisland appointed Surgeon to the Regiment under the Command of Colo. Hitchcock. at the Solicitation of some of his Friends I consented that Doctr Fisk should come in as joint Surgeon with Me; and gave up to Him some Part of my Wages....
15175To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 21 December 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Major General Artemas Ward, 21 Dec. 1775. On this date Robert Hanson Harrison wrote to Ward: “His Excellency has commanded me to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of this date.”
15176General Orders, 22 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
15177To George Washington from John Hancock, 22 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 30th of November and of the 4th 7th & 11 of December being duly received were laid before Congress. To prevent the ill consequences, that might ensue from the backwardness of the men in the present service to reinlist, the Congress, as I informed you in my last, have written to the governors of Connecticut & Rhode-island, the council of Massachusetts bay and the president...
15178To George Washington from Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, 22 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Cambridge, 22 December 1775 . Certifies “that Sergt Joseph Foster ... should be dischargd from the Army On account of the Sickness & Distress of his Family.” ADS , DLC:GW . Although this document is not addressed to GW, his discharge of Foster on this date indicates that it was sent directly to him. Joseph Foster, a sergeant in Captain Dwight’s company of militia from Ware, Mass., was...
15179General Orders, 23 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Colonels and commanding Officers of the new established Regiments, will each of them receive on Monday next from the Adjt Genl a Warrant for Eight hundred Dollars, to pay their men for their Blankets; an exact Account of the distribution of this money is to be kept, and render’d when called for, particularizing the mens names, the Companies they belong to, and the towns they come from. The...
15180Circular to the New England Governments, 23 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding the great pains taken by the Quarter Master General, to procure Blanketts for the Army, he finds it impossible to procure a Number Sufficient—he has tryed the different places to the Southward without Success, as what were there are engaged to Supply the wants of the Troops in each place. Our Soldiers are in great distress & I know of no way to remedy the evil than applying to...