1To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 3 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I had the Honor of receiving your Letter of the 1st Inst. which I communicated to Council, and it is with pleasure I can assure your Excellency that Council is perfectly convinced of the strict attention which you have always paid to the safety and ease of the inhabitants of this state. the proposal which Genl Armstrong has made and to which your Excelly has acquiesced in keeping up...
2To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 23 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
A controversy having arisen, in this borough, between a tavern-keeper and one of the officers which your Excellency permitted to come out of philadelphia with cloathing for the British and Hessian prisoners, about the price to be paid for the provisions with which the officer had been supplied—Lieutenant Patterson laid the bill, together with his own, before the Council, who sent for the...
3To George Washington from Thomas Wharton, Jr., 17 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour to write to your Excellency on the 13th Inst. & have since recd your favour of the 12th. It is with some concern, that I find you obliged to remind Council of the stipulation made by Genl Armstrong. You may [be] assured that on the day of last orders were sent out for the immediate march of two Classes of the Militia of York, Cumberland & Northampton Counties; & a Class of...