1From George Washington to Colonel Otho Holland Williams et al., 10 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with Your Arrangement of the Maryland line from the Captains to the Ensigns inclusive, and with your Letter of the 4th Instant to General Smallwood upon the subject. I find by comparing it with the Arrangement made by the Board of General Officers, that there is a difference as you express. In the Latter, Captains Oldham & Gishline have arranged as the 26 & 27 Captains;...
2From George Washington to Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 9 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
The detachment you command is intended to relieve Colo. Stewart—& will be relieved in turn three days hence—You will proceed with it to the furnace of Dean, where you will make your head Quarters and from thence you are to send Picquets on the roads leading to Fort Montgomery—Kings Ferry &ca—and to use every precaution which your force will permit and the utmost vigilance requires, to prevent...
3From George Washington to Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 11 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have just received your favor of this date, and for the reasons you offer for continuing the detachment a longer time than was intended I shall readily consent to it—but instead of its drawing provision from the Fort, I shall direct the Commissay here, to afford the necessary supply; and you may depend on having it with you in proper time —I inclose you a letter written yesterday, which you...
4From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 9 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am favord with your polite Letter of the 2d Inst. It would have given me great pleasure to have had the opportunity of congratulating you personally on your late Promotion, but your business not permitting that, I am happy in this Oppertunity of doing it, at the Same time assuring you that your Merit more than any Interest of mine influenced Congress in your favor. I sincerely hope your...
5From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 10 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am favord with your polite Letter of the 2nd June. It would have given me much pleasure, to have had the Opportunity of congratulating you personally on your late Promotion, but your business not permitting that, I am happy in this Opportunity of doing it, at the same time assuring you, that your Merit, more than any Interest of mine, influenced Congress in your favor. I sincerely hope your...
6From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 12 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am favord with your Letter of the 1st Instant. Not having been consulted on, or made acquainted with any plans in contemplation for organizing the Independant Corps, or for reforming the Cavalry at large, all that I can observe on the subject of your Letter at present, is, that in case any arrangement should take place, by which a command suitable to your task can be conferred on you without...
7From George Washington to Samuel Purviance, Jr., 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The acceptable manner in which you have wellcomed my arrival in the Town of Baltimore, and the happy terms in which you have communicated the congratulations of its Inhabitants, lay me under the greatest obligations. Be pleased, Gentlemen, to receive this last public acknowledgment for the repeated instances of your politeness; and to believe, it is my earnest wish that the Commerce, the...
8From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 2 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th ulto with eighty three Diplomas came to my hands on Monday last. I have signed and returned them to Colo. Fitzgerald to be forwarded to you. It would be hard indeed upon Majr Turner & Captn Claypoole not only to give them the trouble of producing the Diplomas, but to saddle them with the expence of it also. Was there no provision made therefor at the General Meeting? Do...
9From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 26 July 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Otho Holland Williams, 26 July. On 15 Aug. Williams wrote to GW and referred to “Your Letter dated Mount Vernon July 26th.”
10From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 25 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th of Augt from Bath, only got to my hands on Sunday last. The one alluded to, of April, as giving an acct of the miscarriage of the Diplomas, & the best information you could obtain respecting them, nor any other since that which accompanied the Parchments, and wch received an immediate acknowledgement, have reached me at all. In a word, I never had the least intimation;...