11To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 20 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I sent down a Guide who has pretty intelligent Conexions below and is himself intelligent, his accounts I send your Excellency tho they are not very Explicit or satisfactory. One of his Relations was in New York two or three days ago, he says that An Embarkaton is taking place and they seem to intend a Sea Voyage, that three Generals are to go with it, Mathews, Patterson, & a Hessian General...
12To George Washington from Robert Howe, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was honored with your Excellency’s favour of the 16th instant yesterday. The Judge Advocate announced himself to me on the 14th—The General Court martial was ordered to sit the next day and was to have been composed of the officers of the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania lines—The officers of the latter from some points of delicacy declined acting and though I did not, for reasons which must...
13To George Washington from Robert Howe, 17 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was honourd the night before last with your Excellency’s favour & should have set out as to day but both my servants were and are yet so ill that they are not able to attend me. They are not however in such a way that they can I persuade myself proceed by Sunday or Monday when I shall set out for camp or sooner if they can possibly Travel. The loss of the Confedracy with our Clothing is an...
14To George Washington from Robert Howe, 16 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 16 Aug. 1779. On 17 Aug., GW wrote Howe: “I have also received your public letter of the 16th.”
15To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 19 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Deprived as I was by the Enemies’ Advance of reducing their Post at Verplanck, which, but for that Event, I persuade myself I should have effected, I had nothing left but to retreat, which I performed and was so happy as to be joined by General Heath at Peeks-Kill. My Situation was critical, and it was well for me that I had found means to Obtain a tolerably exact Information of the Enemies’...
16To George Washington from Brigadier General Robert Howe, 4 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Charleston, S.C., 4 July 1777 . “I was last September near St Johns in East-Florida; a Party sent out to scout the Country on the River, fell in with a small detachment of the Enemy, which they surrounded and made Prisoners—Among these, was a Young Gentleman, by Name James Richardson, who was acting as a Cadet in the Sixteenth Regiment; finding him, when he was brought up, exceedingly unwell...
17To George Washington from Robert Howe, 25 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have delayd answering your Excellency’s favour in reply to mine requesting leave of absence until the matter betwixt Genl Hazen and Mr Edwards was determined, as it appeard to be your wish (to me always a Law) that I should remain ’till it was over. As motives of Business induced the request I made, the delay has not been without inconvenience to me, but my own affairs Shall always be, as...
18To George Washington from Robert Howe, 30 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am surprized at being reported to your Excellency in the manner I have been by major general Heath, but am happy in the persuasion that my reasons for my conduct will be satisfactory both to you and to service. On the 26th I marched with the Troops until I had leave of General Heath to quarter at General McDougalls. On the 27th I was so unwell that I could not join my division as early in...
19To George Washington from Major General Robert Howe, 28 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s Letters of the 16th & 19th Inst: directed on public Service to General Heath, & that of the 22d to him or the Officer commanding in this Department, reach’d me the Day before yesterday—the Contents of the two first shall be duly observ’d, & I had anticipated the Purpose of the latter, having taken the requisite precautionary Steps previous to the Reception of it, in...
20To George Washington from Robert Howe, 9 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Robert Howe, 9 Sept. 1779. On 11 Sept., GW wrote Howe and acknowledged receipt of “yours of the 9th” that reported “the success of Major Tallmadges excursion.”