45951From George Washington to Major Henry Lee, Jr., 13 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favr of the 10th: I am sorry to find that the repairs of your accoutrements and the general indisposition of your Horses will prevent your moving so soon as could have been wished, but I have confidence in your making no greater delay than is absolutely necessary. The Board of War having powers to order a General Court Martial, the prisoner you mention may be tried at...
45952Cash Accounts, January 1772 (Washington Papers)
Cash Jany 1— To Cash Won at Cards £ 6. 2.0 Contra 1— By Cash paid Mr Cunningham of Alexa. for Sundry Branding Irons from Philada 3.16.0 5— By my Expens. at Arrells Settling Colo. [Thomas] Colvills Estate Accts with the Assignees of J[ohn] Semple 1.17.9 By Michl Gretter for 1 Qr of Beef 46 lb. @ 3d. 0.11.6 7— By Lund Washington 12. 0.0 By Freight of Oats &ca from the Eastn Shore 10.13.4 10— By...
45953From George Washington to Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 29 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
It is agreeable to me that you should move with the light corps to the vicinity of Stoney-point on the principles proposed in your letter of yesterday. But as I should not be entirely without apprehensions for your security, the enemy having it in their power secretely to reinforce their garrison, and make an attempt upon you—I shall write to Lord Stirling, directing him in some measure to...
45954From George Washington to Capel & Osgood Hanbury, 25 November 1759 (Washington Papers)
On Board a Ship of Mr Mills’s (Virga) calld the Deliverance I have Shipd 20 Hhds Tobo for your House which please to Insure in the usual manner —and sell to the best Advantage of Gentn Yr Most Obedt Hble Servt LB , in GW’s hand, DLC:GW . The Deliverance , a ship owned by James Mills, had a Williamsburg registry. According to memoranda that GW wrote at the beginning of his 1760 Almanac (see the...
45955From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 1 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have recieved your Letter of the 29th Ulto. You will have proper Notice, & permission for attending whenever your presence shall be necessary for the purposes you have mentioned. I am Sir Your Most Obedt Servt. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
45956From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 2 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
The reason of my giving you the trouble of this, is the late extraordinary and reprehensible conduct of some of the Connecticut Troops—Some time ago, apprehending that they, or part of them might be inclined to go home when the time of their inlistment should be up, I applied to the Officers of the several Regiments, to know whether it would be agreeable to the men to continue till the first...
45957From George Washington to Major General Alexander McDougall, 21 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have just recd your favor. It is my desire for various reasons, that you should continue in your present command until relieved by an Officer of equal rank with yourself—this will happen as soon as our situation and the good of the service will permit—until then I have to request, that you will exert yourself, to put matters in general at this post in the best possible train—I make the...
45958[Diary entry: 1 May 1781] (Washington Papers)
May 1st. Induced by pressing necessity—the inefficacy, & bad tendency of pushing Military Impresses too far and the impracticability of keeping the Army supplied without it , or money , to pay the transportation I drew for 9000 dollars of the Sum sent on by the State of Massachusetts for payment of their Troops; and placed it in the hands of the QM General with the most positive orders to...
45959[Diary entry: 15 September 1768] (Washington Papers)
15. But little Wind yet cool with some appearances of Rain.
45960[Diary entry: 19 November 1789] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 19th. The following Company dined here today—viz.—Mrs. Adams (Lady to the Vice President) Colo. Smith & Lady & Miss Smith Mrs. Adams’s Niece—Govr. Clinton and Lady & Miss Cornelia Clinton and Majr. Butlar, his Lady and two Daughters. Gov. George Clinton’s wife, whom he had married in 1770, was Cornelia Tappen Clinton, a connection of the prominent Wynkoop family of Ulster County, N.Y....
45961From George Washington to Wilhelm von Knyphausen, 29 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellencys letter of the 25th instant—The complaint, as to provisions, contained in the depositions of the several Hessian prisoners lately exchanged, is the first that I ever heard respecting the quality of that delivered by the American Commissaries to their prisoners of War—Your Excellency will therefore pardon me, if I do not give entire credit to it—The very...
45962[Diary entry: 26 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
26. Clear and pleasant but rather warm there being no wind.
45963[Diary entry: 12 December 1768] (Washington Papers)
12. Rid to the Mill Doeg run & Muddy hole. Miss Carlyle & Miss Dalton came here. Elizabeth Dalton was the daughter of John Dalton of Alexandria.
45964From George Washington to Peter Muhlenberg, 22 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have not received the Return of Stores &c.—mentioned in your Favor of the 3d instant—which Circumstance gives me reason to suppose your Conjecture to be right, that they have fallen into the Hands of the Enemy—You will be pleased to send me a Duplicate of that Return. I shall be sincerely rejoiced if any Circumstance takes place to facilitate the Recruiting in Virginia. The present State of...
45965From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 19 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am to desire that you will immediately give order for establishing as large a Magazine of Flour and Salt Meat at Albany as you possibly can without injury to the Army in its Winter Cantonments. I desire that you will also immediately give directions for the establishment of as large a Magazine of Flour as you possibly can between No. 4 and the Coos upon Connecticut River. The thousand...
45966From George Washington to Rochambeau, 8 January 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your letters of the 28th of June 1786 & 12th of may 1787. In the former you mentinon your having just returned from Holland and were so obliging as to give me an account of the state of political affairs in that Country. Since the time of your writing their intestine disputes have been brought to a crisis and appear to have terminated rather against the Patriots; What changes may...
45967From George Washington to William Grayson, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I will not let your favor of the fifteenth, for which I thank you, go unacknowledged, tho’ it is not in my power to give it the consideration I wish, to comply with the request you have made; being upon the eve of a journey to Richmond to a meeting of the Dismal Swamp company, which by my own appointment is to take place on monday next; & into that part of the country I am hurried by an...
45968[Diary entry: 28 July 1767] (Washington Papers)
28. Began to Sow Wheat at Muddy hole with the mixd Wheat that grew there. Also began to Sow Wheat at Doeg Run of the red Chaff from Home. Also sowed Summer Turnep behd. Garden.
45969From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 15 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Letter to Lord Fairfax which accompanied your favor to me of the 22d of March, went into New York immediately upon its arrival at this place; & no doubt obtained a ready passage to England. I should not have delayed so long to inform you of this, & (as you seemed to desire it of me) to have announced the Ratification of the Provisional & Preliminary Articles of Peace, had I not been sure...
45970[Diary entry: 27 March 1797] (Washington Papers)
27. A little rain fell last Night. Wind Southerly in the Morning & violently all day afterwards & night from No. Wt. Omitted to enter the Acct. of the Weather & Occurrences the remainder of this month.
45971[Diary entry: 17 January 1773] (Washington Papers)
17. At home all day alone. Mrs. Barnes went up to Alexandria.
45972General Orders, 21 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Honorable the Congress on the 14th instant have been pleased to pass an act, of which the following is an extract. Resolved—That the thanks of Congress be given to Major General Sullivan and the brave officers and soldiers under his command for effectually executing an important expedition against such of the Indian Nations, as encouraged by the councils and conducted by the officers of...
45973From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 25 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 18th and 19th instant were received by fridays Post the 22d. If the answer which you returned to the Minister of the French Republic, to his enquiry relative to the prohibition of the sale of Prizes, brought by French armed Vessels into the Ports of the United States; should, as it ought, preclude any reply, it would be very agreeable: but it has not been found, that where...
45974From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 26 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I believe it was mentioned when you was at Head Quarters that Major Villefranche had made application for promotion—I have declined in this and all similar instances to use my influence directly with Congress, to obtain rank for Gentlemen who solicited it out of the common course of promotion; because I wished in the first place that Honble Body might decide according to their own pleasure,...
45975[Diary entry: 24 November 1797] (Washington Papers)
24. Clear & cold. Wd. at No. Wt. Mer. as above—A Mr. Welch from Greenbrier dined here. James Welch of Rockingham County, now living in Greenbrier County, arrived at Mount Vernon armed with a cautious letter of introduction from Daniel Morgan. He had no money but had a grandiose scheme for leasing GW’s 23,000 acres of land on the Kanawha River and dividing it into small farms for sublease. On...
45976[Diary entry: 14 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
14. Stopd at George Town, on Sasafras, & dind & lodgd at Mr. Dl. Heaths. Georgetown, Kent County, Md., is on the Sassafras River about 16 miles northeast of Chestertown. Daniel Charles Heath was the son of James Paul and Rebecca Dulany Heath, a sister of Daniel Dulany the younger ( MCGRATH Francis Sims McGrath. Pillars of Maryland . Richmond, Va., 1950. , 299; LAND Aubrey C. Land. The Dulanys...
45977General Orders, 1 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
DLC : Papers of George Washington.
45978From George Washington to Thomas Law, 7 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
After you left this on friday last, Mr Lewis put into my hands your letter without a date. It is unnecessary I hope, to assure you that your generous offers of a lot near the Seat of Congress, and of five thousand dollars on loan to commence a building in the City, were received with grateful sensibility—& thanks; at the sametime, let me entreat you not to consider as a slight, my declining to...
45979Orders, 20 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
To the Commanding Officer of the Troops, which shall arrive here from Fredericksburgh and Alexandria. You are hereby ordered to Halt with the men under your Command, until my Return from Fort Cumberland. You are to make regular Returns, signed by yourself, to the Commissary every day, of the number of men you have under your Command, for which he is to deliver you Provisions. The Court House...
45980From George Washington to Lieutenant General Rochambeau, 26 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received the honor of Your Excellency’s Letters of the 20th & 21st Instant, the last of which came to hand Yesterday Evening, and am much obliged for the matters of intelligence they contain, although some of them do not entirely correspond with our wishes. I am concerned for the situation of Capn Landais, as he has been esteemed an Officer of merit, and as his indisposition has...
45981From George Washington to Daniel Brodhead, 16 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favors of the 18th and 25th Feby and 10th of March. Inclosed you will find a power for holding a General Court Martial at Fort Pitt for the trial of all persons who shall be brought before them—The proceedings, if any capital, or any which affect Commd Officers, to be sent to me for approbation. I shall write to the Board of War and desire them to send up such of the...
45982From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 24 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
The letter, which I had the honor of addressing to you the day before yesterday, would inform Congress of the embarkation and sailing of a considerable detachment of the enemy from New York; and of the measures I had taken, in expectation of—and upon the happening of the event. Whether this will be succeeded by a further embarkation, or by a total evacuation of the posts, which they hold...
45983From George Washington to James Madison, 22 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
When I last wrote to you, I was uninformed of the Sentiments of this State beyond the circle of Alexandria, with respect to the New Constitution. Since, a letter which I received by the last Post, dated the 16th, from a member of the Assembly, contains the following paragraphs. “I believe such an instance has not happened before, since the revolution, that there should be a house on the first...
45984From George Washington to Henry Lee, Jr., 29 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of yesterday’s date from George Town is received. You know perfectly well what my inducements were to part with the property you purchased of me, but rather than have any difficulty, or unpleasant disputes respecting the payments, agreeable to contract, I would take productive property in the Federal City—in Alexandria—or almost anywhere—or any thing productive, or unproductive, at...
45985[Diary entry: 18 May 1760] (Washington Papers)
Sunday May 18th. Set out in Company with Mr. George Johnston. At Colchester was informd by Colo. Thornton and Chissel that the Assembly wd. be broke up before I could get down. Turnd back therefore & found Colo. Fairfax and his Family and that Lightning wch. had attended a good deal of Rain had struck my Quarter & near 10 Negroes in it some very bad but with letting Blood they recoverd. George...
45986[Diary entry: 11 July 1798] (Washington Papers)
11. Morning lowering—Wind fresh from the So. Mer. 72. Rain in the afternoon. Mer. 74 at Night. Mr. Fitzhugh & his oldest daughter dined here. He went away afterwards & Mr. McHenry—Secy. of war came in the evening. James McHenry, the secretary of war, brought GW’s commission as “Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief” of the provisional army then being raised in expectation of a war with...
45987[Diary entry: 1 March 1774] (Washington Papers)
March 1. Rather raw & Cold in the forenoon—pleasant afterwards and clear.
45988From George Washington to William Heath, 1 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two favors of the 9th and 12th of Septr. I am perfectly satisfied with the propriety of the measures you have taken in consequence of the Enemy’s Movements, and the intelligence you had received. Directions have already been given to the Quarter Master General for relanding the Provisions, which were shipped with design to be put under the protection of the Count de...
45989From George Washington to Antoine-Charles du Houx, baron de Vioménil, 12 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Reasons which prevented me from taking a public leave of your Excellency, operated equally against my signifying to the Army, now under your command, not only the reluctance with which I parted with them, but the grateful sense which I entertained of the very essential services they had rendered to America—Your destination being no longer a secret—permit me to request the favor of your...
45990From George Washington to Richard Peters, 3 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of the 24th and am glad to find that such supplies of Lead are upon the way to the different Elaboratories. Lining the flap of the Cartouch with painted Canvas will certainly be of service, considering the Badness and thinness of the leather in general, but the greatest preservative to the Cartridges is a small inside flap of pliant leather which lays close upon the top of...
45991[Diary entry: 18 August 1787] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 18th. In Convention. Dined at Chief Justice McKeans. Spent the afternoon & evening at my lodgings. Thomas McKean (1734–1817) began his law career in Delaware and in 1777 became chief justice of Pennsylvania, serving until 1799 when he was elected governor of Pennsylvania. In 1790 he lived on the east side of Third Street ( HEADS OF FAMILIES, PA. Heads of Families at the First Census...
45992[Diary entry: 23 February 1767] (Washington Papers)
23. Cloudy with spits of Snow first part of the day. Raining afterwards with the Wind at No. Et. In the Night Snow again which covd. the ground abt. an Inch.
45993From George Washington to William Stephens Smith, 23 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 21st was delivered to me last Evening. You will please to give Capt. Douglass permission to pass within the Enemy Lines, agreeable to his recommendation from Major Turner. But at the same Time, you will, as from me, declare positively to Capt. Douglass, that the proposed Communication for the Exchange of Marine prisoners, mentioned by him, to be opened by Way of Elizabeth...
45994From George Washington to John Blair, 26 April 1758 (Washington Papers)
To The President of Virginia [Fort Loudoun, 26 April 1758 ] Honble Sir, Having wrote fully to your Honor on the 24th past, I have little to offer at this time[.] I then thought to have sent an Officer for money, but all of them that can be spared from the several Garrisons, must be employed in recruiting. I have therefore ordered Mr Gist, a volunteer in my Regiment, to wait upon your Honor for...
45995[Diary entry: 29 November 1773] (Washington Papers)
29. Clear but rather Cool—Wind being at No. West.
45996From George Washington to James McHenry, 28 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
From a mistaken idea, numberless applications for appointments in the Army of the U. States are made to me. Where the applicants are known, or come under favourable auspices, I shall think it a duty incumbent on me to transmit them to the War Office. Mr Triplet’s family are respectable—of his medical or Surgical abilities I have no knowledge; Colo. Little whose letter I enclose, is the...
45997[Diary entry: 8 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Doctr. Lee & all the rest went away & I rid to the Cradlers (cutting my Wheat at the Mill).
45998From George Washington to David Stuart, 30 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
Company, ever since my return home, has prevented my mentioning a matter before, which will be the subject of this letter now. When the applications for Military appointments come to be examined at Philadelphia, it was pleasing to find among them, so many Gentlemen of family, fortune & high expectations, soliciting Commissions; & not in the high grades. This, and a thorough conviction that it...
45999[Diary entry: 18 September 1768] (Washington Papers)
18. My Schooner Saild for Suffolk for a load of Shingles.
46000From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 23 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s Favors of the 14th & 19th Instant the latter covering the latest accounts you had received from the Southward. I have just received authentic advice from the Enemy, by which their whole Army under General Clinton was said to be at James Island the 4th of this month and about to take possession of Stono-ferry. The account comes...