31To George Washington from William Livingston, 24 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I received your Excellency’s favour of yesterday’s date, respecting your intentions of removing the Troops from Elizabeth Town & Monmouth; and am obliged to you for your seasonable intimation of that step, to enable me to provide for the security of those parts of the Country, by detachments from our Militia. The contents of your Excellency’s confidential Letter shall remain a profound secret...
32To George Washington from William Livingston, 1 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
By recent Advice from Eggharbour, several armed boats, with a number of men, are fortifying on Osburn’s Island near Eggharbour with a view, as is supposed, to receive Deserters from the American army, & deserting prisoners taken from General Burgoyne & Lord Cornwallis, as well as for the greater convenience of conveying provisions to New York, which already go from that neighbourhood in...
33To George Washington from William Livingston, 18 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty to transmit to your Excellency the affidavit of John Britton concerning certain insults on his person & violations of his property by Major Call, & a party of dragoons of Collo. Blands regiment under his command & another of John Dunham proving upon Major Call the like trespasses committed ⟨a⟩gainst him. Another of Elisha Ayres proving the like outrages upon him, by Henry...
34To George Washington from William Livingston, 6 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have just received your Excellency’s Favour of the 2d instant, and feel exceedingly for your Embarrassment. I am not only mortified as a Citizen of the Union at large at every obstacle against your Excellency’s operations, but greatly chagrin’d that this State in particular, considering my intimate connection with it, should, by contributing to such embarrassment, lose any part of the...
35To George Washington from William Livingston, 17 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 17 Mar. 1777. GW writes to Livingston on 1 April that “I have been honoured with yours of the 17th and 26th.”
36To George Washington from William Livingston, 3 March 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Livingston, 3 Mar. 1777. GW wrote to Livingston on 8 Mar. that “I this Moment had the Honour to receive your two favours of the 3d Inst.” The missing second letter apparently contained a brief request for GW to forward a letter of the same date to John Jay.
37To George Washington from William Livingston, 5 Aug. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Livingston, 5 Aug. 1779. On 16 Aug., GW wrote Livingston: “I had not the Honor till two days ago, to receive Your Excellency’s Letter of the 5th Instant.”
38To George Washington from William Livingston, 18 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I trust your Excellency will excuse me for obtruding my Sentiments on a Subject to which I profess myself altogether incompetent. I cannot but think that some of the light Horse would be more advantageously stationed in Gloucester & Salem than at this Place & New-German Town in Jersey, not only because Grain & forage is more plenty in the former, than in the latter which have been almost...
39To George Washington from William Livingston, 30 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I learn that Mr Fell one of the Members of the Council of this State was lately taken out of his own Bed in Bergen County by the Tories, and carried a Prisoner to New york —Considering his public Utility as a very valuable Member of our Legislature and incorruptible Attachment to the Cause of american Liberty, in a County abounding with its Adversaries; the delicacy of his Constitution &...
40To George Washington from William Livingston, 6 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
We should think ourselves highly inexcusable, did we neglect this opportunity, of congratulating your Excellency on your Arrival in this Town, the present residence of the Legislature of this State; & a Town which you Sir, have render’d famous to the latest posterity, by the most unexampled efforts of military genius; & your signal Victory over an Enemy till then, through the great superiority...