191To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 15 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
The pleasure I felt on Learning your Success At Trentown Occassioned Feelings which are Better Conceived than discribed, I very Sincerely congratulate you on that Event and the Succeding ones, may Heaven Continue To Crown you with a Succession of Laurels, and make you the happy Instrument of preserving Liberty to this much Injured Country. About one Thousand men from the Massachusetts engaged...
192To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 26 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the Honor to address You in a long Letter of the 20th which I hope will come safe to Hand. The Day before yesterday I was favored with a Letter from General Montgomery, Copy of which inclosd In the Contents of which, & on the Report of the Indian Deputies I do myself the Pleasure to congratulate Your Excellency. I have made some Explanatory Notes on General Montgomery’s Letter...
193To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 12–13 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am just returned from Crown point, to which place I accompanied General Gates—On our Way to that place we stop’d at Tyconderoga and left Colonel Trumbull to take a View of the Grounds opposite to it and on the East Side of Lake Champlain—In the Evening of the 5th we arrived at Crown point and on the 6th Colonel Trumbull arrived, who made so favorable a Report of the Ground, he had been to...
194To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 22 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Greaton, who has the Leave of Congress to go into New York, provided your Excellency approves, was to have been accompanied by a Colonel Muellevain —I am just now informed that she has taken James Fisher of this City with her, a notorious Tory, and capable of giving more Intelligence to the Enemy than any Man in it —I have informed Mr Hancock of this and he has advised me to communicate it...
195To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 16 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 10th & 11th Instant; I am very confident the Manner in which you have treated the Cayuga Sachems, will be attended with very salutary Consequences. By a Person from your Camp, who left it since the Ships of War passed your Cheveaux de Frize, we were informed that all the Craft that could be procured, were employed in carrying Stone to compleat...
196To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 28 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 26th I was honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 22d Instant. When I did myself the Honor to write you last I beleived that you might have been informed of the Resolutions of Congress of the 11th Ultimo directing an Expedition to be prosecuted against the Senecas—As you was not advised of it when your Letter was written I take the Liberty to inclose you Copy of the Resolution. But...