41To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 12 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favour of 8th ulto together with its enclosed permit for Capt. Shethar to resign, was handed me Yesterday. With respect to the Authority which some Civil Magistrates have assumed of furloughing our Soldiers, I believe it is confined to the State of New Jersey. We have some Dragoons who have been absent from the Regt thro’ the winter & have not yet returned, who we are...
42To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 14 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favour of 27th ulto directed to Col. Sheldon or Officer Commanding 2d Regt L. Dragoons, has this moment come to hand —In the Absence of Col. Sheldon, who is on Commd, I have examined its Contents, & find that it is in part answered by Col. Sheldon’s letter of yesterday, & mine of the 12th inst. to your Excellency. I informed that I had been to Boston with the order from the...
43To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 13 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed from C——Senr having just come to hand, tho’ it may bring nothing new, may perhaps be of some service to Your Excellency. I have another Letter from a Person on Long Island which mentions the Enemy’s having some sudden movement in view, & most probably up the North River—I am, with great Regard, your Excellency’s most Obedt Servt ALS , DLC:GW . Tallmadge wrote “Private” on the...
44To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 18 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
When I acknowledged your Excellency’s favour of the 11th inst. I informed that I should immediately ride Eastward on the business therein contained —I have accordingly given Directions for a Boat to cross as heretofore, & wrote to the C——s on the Subject. I expect to hear from them in a few days. I am informed (via L. Island) that an Express-Boat arrived at N.Y. on the 13th inst. from the W....
45To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 22 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment recd the enclosed from the Cu[lpe]r’s, which I have the Honour to enclose to your Excellency & forward by Express to Genl Howe —Least the Intelligence of the Embarkation of Troops for the Eastward should not be recd from your Excellency at Rhode Island in season, I have forwarded that part of the Intelligence which respects the Destination of the British Fleet & Army...
46To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 10 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment recd Dispatches from the C——s which I have the Honor to enclose to Your Excellency—The Person who crossed to L.I. did not go so soon as he was ordered, which has occasioned some delay. By the Enclosed from C—— Junr your Excellency will percieve he has consented to give intelligence, but does not say how long —Since I last saw your Excellency I have been endeavouring to open...
47To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 12 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
By the particular Assistance of Lieut. Rogers of the 2d L.D. I have procured the enclosed original Letter to Major Delancy , & the Copy of another Letter to a Person whose name I am under solemn Obligations, for the present, to conceal. In some future day when I may have the pleasure of seeing your Excellency, I shall unfold the matter more fully. Suffice it for the present to say that I...
48To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 20 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I have made several attempts to open a Communication with C—— Junr by the way of Oysterbay or Cow Neck. The Person whom I mentioned to Your Excellency as the properest Man to engage, & secure C——’s Services, was once from home at N.Y. & last monday night I sent over an Officer who formerly resided at Oysterbay, but the Person in question was then too ill to be seen. I shall still...
49To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 21–22 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed Dispatches having just come to hand, I have the honor to forward them to Your Excellency by Express. The Express which bro’t the enclosed, & the other Letters from Rhode Island, was fired on by a Party of seven armed Men, between Stanwich & this Place, about 12 oClock last night—He happily escaped without injury. I have the Honor to be with great Rega⟨rd⟩ Your Excellencys Hble...
50To George Washington from Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 26 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favour of the 21st inst. has been duly recd & the directions therein contained, attended to. I was yesterday at the Gentleman’s house to whom a certain Letter was addressed to be forwarded to Major D——y, when the Author of it came in —He soon enquired whether that letter had been recd by him & forwarded, & was answered in the Affirmative. The Gentleman who I heretofore...