45151To George Washington from Louis-Antoine-Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Cambray-Digny, 23 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Having heard of a Resolution of the Honble the Congress for exchanging the Officers of the Convention; I take that Opportunity to reccomd myself to Your Excellency, being extremely anxious to go into the Field and to Show my good will in being useful. I Served ever Since the Invasion of General Provost in the Southern Departement, the different Events of War in that part of the Continent gave...
45152Enclosure: Memorial, 12 August 1787 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of Pierre Roussilles sheweth—That he is the son of a merchant of Bordeaux; and that he entered as a volunteer on board the Boston Frigate commanded by Captn Tucker on the 22d of may 1778—on the 19th June they took a prize on board of which the memorialist embarked to sail for Boston; but on their way thither they were retaken by a British frigate & carried to Portsmouth in Engld...
45153From George Washington to Colonel Goose Van Schaick, 26 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been favrd with yours of the 8th and 16th instants. You will be pleased to send Adams with the necessary Witnesses down to the Highlands there to be tried by a Court Martial, which I have directed Genl Heath to have held upon him. I return the proceedings of the Court of Enquiry which may be necessary to ground the charges agt him. You were right in not complying with the request for...
45154[Diary entry: 23 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear calm and exceeding pleasant. Ground little or nothing froze.
45155From George Washington to William Livingston, 19 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday received information from Genl Smallwood at Wilmington, that a number of Vessels, mostly sloops and Schooners, had gone down the Bay with Troops on board, their destination uncertain. Several deserters this day inform me, that the number of men embarked are four regiments of British which are at most one thousand. We have had it reported from different quarters that an expedition...
45156From George Washington to John Jay, 26 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Mr Wadsworth who is just now returned from the Eastward, informs me, that a vessel had arrived there from Charlestown S. Carolina, the captain of which told him, that he slipped out of the harbour, the night of the 5th instant (a fresh embargo being laid that evening on all the shipping, and the sailors ordered on shore for the defence of the Town). The report was that the enemy were on this...
45157General Orders, 10 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
Complaints having been made that certain Officers of Colo Whites’ Georgia Battalion of deserters having listed men out of the Regts in the service of the States under the pretence of their being deserters though many of them have serv’d faithfully a long time. The Commr in Chief directs that the matter be regularly enquired into for which end the Commg Officers of Corps who have any ground of...
45158[March 1760] (Washington Papers)
Saturday Mar. 1–1760. Finishd Bottling 91 dozn. Cyder. The wind for the first part was at No. West & very cold, but shifting Easterly & then to So. it grew something warmer but continued Cloudy. The Ground being hard froze stopd my Plows this day also—and employd all hands in running the dividing fence of my Pastures. Traversd the Fields in the Lower Pasture again & set a Course from the head...
45159From George Washington to Charles Stewart, 2 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have yours of the 30th Ulto. That I might give every assistance to the removal of the Stores from Trenton I ordered all the heavy Baggage of the Army to be unloaded and stored at Bethlehem and the Waggons sent down to Trenton. I imagine they had not arrived when you wrote, but I am informed there will be four hundred of them. As we have scarcely a sufficiency of Waggons to transport the...
45160To George Washington from Colonel George Baylor, 7 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
This is the fouth day of my being in this disagreeable place, making application to the Governor and Council, for the use of their Factories at Fredricksburg, which I have just obtain’d. I shall set out tomorrow for Petersburgh to get a part of my Saddles made there, and from thence I shall go to Ronoak in North Carolina, to perchase Horses; the price of them being so exorbitant here, that it...