21231From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 22 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have only time by Mr Eveleigh to acknowledge the rect of your private letter of the 2d & to thank you for it. The moment I am at leizure & a good oppertunity offers I shall write you more fully on the subject. Permit me to recommend the Letters herewith inclosed to your care—if no better oppertunity offers, be so good as to forward them by the first Post. Most sincerely & Affectionately I...
21232To George Washington from Robert Morris, 22 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
When Your Letter of the 28 Ultimo came to my Hands enclosing one from Mr John Logan the SubContracor, assigning the want of Money as the Cause of his not having been regular in the Supply of provisions to the Troops at Morris Town and Pumpton; I delivered the same to Messrs Francis and Slough the persons that contracted with me, they instantly acknowledged that so far from being kept in want...
21233From George Washington to Jean [de] Neufville, 22 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
The very favorable sentiments you are pleased to express in your polite Letter of the 10th of August last; have added infinitely to the value of the agreeable Present you intended for me: and I wish you to be assured, that the detention of that Present by Captain Gillan, has not diminished my sense of the obligations I am under to you—Major Jackson has explained the matter fully, and has...
21234To George Washington from Abraham Skinner, 22 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am this day honored with your Letter of the 20th instt that Express with the Dispatches for Congress. The Commissioners, & Sr Henry Clinton; which shall be forwarded without delay, the Commissioners having finished their business and returned to Philadelphia. I know not how Colo. Holmes cou’d assert that he acted under Authority from my Department in the making partial Exchanges—he has no...
21235To George Washington from Elijah Vose, 22 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of repeated Application from Lieut. Grace, of the first Massachusetts Regiment, to leave services I would beg leave to recommend to your Excellency for a discharge. I am Sir your Excellency Most Obedt Humble servant DNA : RG 93—War Department.
21236To George Washington from George Clinton, 23 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
It gives me great Pain to write to your Excellency on Matters concerning which I had the honor of a personal Conversation which I when I was last at Head Quarters; but as I have not yet received any answer from Congress respecting the Subsistence &c. of the Levies for the Defence of the frontiers & those rasing on bounties of unappropriated Lands, and as the ultimate period assigned for the...
21237To George Washington from Jonathan Dayton, 23 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour and happiness of communicating to your Excellency the agreable and important news of the capture of the whole Island of Minorca the 17th of February by our allies and of the treaty offensive and defensive between France and the States of Holland which has been lately concluded. These events we learn from a vessel which has just arrived in a short passage from Lisbon and from...
21238From George Washington to Nathanael Greene, 23 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 8th of february was acknowledged in mine of the 18th of March. I have now received yours of the 9th ulto coverg Copy of your Correspondence with the Count de Rochambeau, & a general Return of your Army. Your Apprehensions, in Consequence of the Movement of the Legion of Lauzun, need not be much alarmed— Portion in Code . The Recruits raising in the States from whence your...
21239To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 13 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I wold inform you That Sevril months have of varry havely as I have been hoping That Sum Dore Wold open That I might have A quanted you of Sum A Fares That I Think must have been a greabel To you as I have been made So well a quanted with your Desires inclinations and A Teachment To The British Crown I Shall with The greater Meashur inform you how the Rebels are imposed on and as my Life my...
21240To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 23 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
So many difficulties attended the late mode of issuing provisions to Officers or their own returns, that when the new contract was entered into, the contractors would not agree to issue as they had formerly done, but requested that the number of rations which each Officer was entitled to draw might be ascertained—this induced the recommendation of the enclosed resolves of Congress by which the...