1Governor Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly, 9 October 1729 (Franklin Papers)
His Excellency Governor Burnet died unexpectedly about two Days after the Date of this Reply to his last Message: And it was thought the Dispute would have ended with him, or at least have lain dormant till the Arrival of a new Governor......; and few or none of their Governors have hitherto complain’d, or had Reason to complain, of a too scanty Allowance. But the late Gov. Burnet brought with...
2Extracts from the Gazette, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
, the following Books. Westindia Coasting Pilot. Newhouse’s Navigation. Pattoun’s Navigation. Key of Commerce. Lex Mercatoria. Euclid’s Elements by William Whiston. Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, 2 Vols. Lock on Human Understanding, 2 Vols. Blackmore’s Prince Arthur. London Dispensatory. Blancard’s Physical Dictionary. Geo. Fox’s Journal. Basnages History of the Jews. Van Helmont’s......William’...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 25 May 1747 (Franklin Papers)
...Sept. 1, 1747, in the editions of 1751, 1754, and 1760; but July 11 in those of 1769 and 1774 and by the principal editors—Dubourg, Duane, Sparks, Bigelow, Smyth—of Franklin’s collected works. William Watson, who quoted part of it in “Some further Inquiries into the Nature and Properties of Electricity,” Thomas Burnet, (6th edit., 2v. London, 1726), and William Whiston,
4To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 26 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Keil’s Examination of Burnet’s TheorySir William Petty’s Essays (not to be had)
5Appendix D. Inventory of the Books in the Estate, c.1759 (Washington Papers)
Salmons History of Plants—1 vol. [William Salmon. Cambden’s history of Q: Elizh—1 vol. [William Camden.
6Board of Trade to the Privy Council Committee, 1 June 1759 (Franklin Papers)
Sir William Johnson, made a proposal to appoint Commissioners to treat with the Indians in concert with Sir William Johnson, upon all Points relative to these Affairs, and to hear and determine any Complaints, which might be made, by any Indians, who had committed Hostilitys on the Frontiers of that Province, We transmitted the said Answer...
7To Benjamin Franklin from [Alexander Small], 5 July 1763 (Franklin Papers)
I do not know whether any of our Burnet Seed, ...keeps the ground warm, when a good Cover is left. If sown in August it will bear but little cutting that Season. The Weeds must be kept carefully under next Spring, the Burnet thinned where too thick, or transplanted where too thin, so that the Plants may stand in rich ground at the distance of nine Inches from one another, and of Six in poor...
8List of Books at Mount Vernon, 1764 (Washington Papers)
. Translated by Sir William Hope. London, 1729]; Life of Mahomet—Do. [Humphrey Prideaux. The Leybourn volume apparently belonged to William Fairfax.
9To Benjamin Franklin from John Mills, 12 July 1764 (Franklin Papers)
and I likewise send to the same Society (at their desire) an hundred weight of Mr. Roque’s Burnet seed., 173 n; William H. Eliot, Jr.,
10From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 25 October 1765 (Washington Papers)
Gilbert Burnet’s GW noted that the letter was sent by William McGachen, master of the
11To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 3 November 1765 (Franklin Papers)
William Maugridge (d. 1766), a carpenter and joiner, was an original member of the Junto. , 426. Henry Burnet, a former apprentice of Reily’s, advertised in , Nov. 21, 1765, and some later issues, that during the illness of “ that eminent Conveyencer,” who was”lately deceased,” Burnet had transacted all of Reily’s business.
12[November 1771] (Adams Papers)
Kent brought with him, Utopia, or the happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance, by Sir Thos. More, translated by Bp. Burnet. There is a sensible Preface by the Translator prefixed, and some Testimonies concerning More by great and learned Men of different Nations and Religions. Cardinal Pool William P. and Julia P. Cutler,
13Sunday Novr. 10. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Kent brought with him, Utopia, or the happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance, by Sir Thos. More, translated by Bp. Burnet. There is a sensible Preface by the Translator prefixed, and some Testimonies concerning More by great and learned Men of different Nations and Religions. Cardinal Pool William P. and Julia P. Cutler,
14Memorandum Books, 1772 (Jefferson Papers)
William Mickie (Albem.). To draw two clauses for a will and charge him Matthew Boswell (Albem.) v. Joseph Grissum (Carolina). Ent. petn. for 400. as. part of 1600. patd. abt. 40. y. ago by Jno. Carr or William Kerr. No q. r. ever pd. nor effects. Joing. the lands of Ephraim Rhodes, Richd. Durrett and Wm. Kerr tenants of the residue of the sd. 1600. as. See post Sep. 8.
15II. To the Boston Gazette, 18 January 1773 (Adams Papers)
Serjeant Levinz in the argument of Harcourt against Fox, speaking of the first parliament under King William says, “the parliament might observe, that some years before there had been great changing of offices that usually were for life into offices quam diu placuerit, this is very well known in Westminster Hall, and I did......and open exercise of their religion. See Rapin, Burnet, Skinner,...
16[December 1773] (Washington Papers)
William Burnet Browne (Brown), formerly of Salem, Mass., and his half-sister Anne lived in King William County.
Anne Clifton Slaughter (d. 1798), only child of William and Elizabeth Brent Clifton (d. 1773) of Clifton’s Neck, was married to Thomas Slaughter. She borrowed £6 from GW on this day—the loan was not repaid until 1788 (
17[Diary entry: 11 December 1773] (Washington Papers)
William Burnet Browne (Brown), formerly of Salem, Mass., and his half-sister Anne lived in King William County.
18From George Washington to James Mercer, 8 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
...deed of release to the trustees is described in this way: “One equal moiety or half part of several Tracts or Land situate at the Bull run mountains in the said County of Loudoun and Prince William purchased of George Byrne[,] Charles Green[,] Willoughby Newton[,] Thomas Owsley and the Sons and Heir of Edward Feagin and granted to the said John Mercer by the proprietor of the Northern Neck...
19I. Charles Phelps’ State of His Case, March – May 1774 (Adams Papers)
...South of New Hampshire, South Boundary Line as it was called when run West as far as the East Borders of New York Government and extending North as far as a Line drawn East of Fort William Henry, running East to the Western Banks of Connecticutt River, at Windsor in the County of Cumberland all which lyeth in the Jurisdiction of New York Government by an order of the King in Council 20th...
...nay open, avowed resistance by arms, against usurpation and lawless violence, is not rebellion by the law of God, or the land. Resistance to lawful authority makes rebellion. Hampden, Russell, Sydney, Somers, Holt, Tillotson, Burnet, Hoadley,William, Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, members of the Council of Six, were both executed for the Council’s part in the conspiracies of 1683; John,...
21I. To William Hooper, 27 March 1776 (Adams Papers)
In my early Youth, the Works of Sidney, Harrington, Lock, Milton, Nedham, Neville, Burnet, Hoadley,For Marchamont Needham (1620–1678), Henry Neville (1620–1694), Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), and Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), consult the
22To George Washington from the Essex County Committee of Safety, 14 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
, in William Burnet’s writing, William Burnet, Sr. (1730–1791), a prominent physician and political leader in Newark, became chairman of the Essex County committee of safety in 1775. During the spring of 1776 he established a hospital in Newark at his
own expense, and with his son William Burnet, Jr., who was also a physician, he began caring for Continental patients. When GW decided to...
23From George Washington to the Essex County Committee of Safety, 21 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
The absolute necessity of preventing all Correspondence between the Inhabitants of this Country and our Enemies, obliges me to every degree of Intelligence that lead to the Channel of such Intercourse—Doctor William Burnet of New Ark can inform you of certain Insinuations and charges against Part of the Army under my Command, as if they were liable to Bribery and Corruption, in permitting...
24To George Washington from William Burnet, 25 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
From William BurnetWm Burnet Chairman
25From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Tupper, 25 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
William Burnet to GW, this date
26To George Washington from William Burnet, 29 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
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Although this letter has no dateline, it is docketed in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing: “From Dr Burnet June 29th Ansd 30. 1776.” See GW to Burnet, 30 June
27From George Washington to William Burnet, 30 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
Burnet to GW, 29 JuneThis letter from William Franklin to his wife, Elizabeth Downs Franklin, has not been identified.
28From George Washington to the Captain of William Franklin’s Guard, 30 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
William Burnet to GW, 29 June
29Petition of Dissenters in Albemarle and Amherst Counties, [before 1 November 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
William WoodsWilliam Norris
30From George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 3 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
, item 152.
The cover is addressed: “To Docr William Shippen Junr at Docr Barnetts [Burnet’s] Newark favd by Mr Pennell.”
31To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 12 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
indicates this letter was sent “⅌ [William] Jones” and directed to “White Marsh.”, 9:1010–11). The committee, which consisted of William Duer, William Ellery, Francis Dana, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Eliphalet Dyer, brought in a report on 10 Dec., which Congress “agreed to as follows:
32To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 17 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Letter to Governor Livingston fell into my Hands, at the desire of Doctor Burnet, owing to the Governors absence.The letter to New Jersey governor William Livingston, who had left Morristown for Trenton in order to address the state general assembly, has not been identified.
33To George Washington from Brigadier General William Smallwood, 13 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
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Smallwood signed the cover, which indicates that the letter was sent “favor of Majr Burnet.”
34To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 1 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
James Burnet served during the war as a private in the 4th, 8th, and 12th Virginia Regiments.
35General Orders, 2 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
.... On this date GW’s aide Tench Tilghman wrote Commissary of Prisoners John Beatty, apparently enclosing a copy of a letter of 20 July written by William Cleveland to Ezekiel Williams. Cleveland, a lieutenant of the 10th Continental Infantry who had been captured in the retreat from New York, 15 Sept. 1776, complained: “The circumstances attending my Confinement, are no less singular than...
36To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 1 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Before closing this paragraph on the draft manuscript with this sentence, Heath wrote and struck out several lines, which include: “the wounded must Infallably Suffer; Doct. Burnet whom I am informed is to furnish the necessary Supplies is Some where in the Jersies. a few Days Since I wrote Doct. Turner, and Mr McKnight on the Subject, have received very Polite answers from them and...
37To George Washington from Major Henry Lee, Jr., 22 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
...I experience from them on every occasion. The Captains Reed, McClane, Smith, Crump and Wilmot behaved with the greatest Zeal and intrepidity. I must acknowledge myself very much indebted to Major Burnet and Capt. Peyton of the Dragoons for their Council and indefatagability in the previous preparations to the attack. The premature withdraw of the Boats was owing to the non arrival of my...
38To George Washington from the Board of War, 31 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
Mr Boudinot in his letter of the 19th inst. referring to Hallet, says, “He is a dangerous fellow, I believe. Dr William Burnet of the Medical department can give the best account of him, of any person I know of.” We have the honour to be, with great respect, your Excellency’s most obedt servts
39To George Washington from Nathaniel Scudder, 15 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
). GW probably had in mind the trials of Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold and William Shippen, Jr. For Arnold, see The fourth enclosure may have been the statement of William Burnet, Sr., written at Philadelphia on 27 May in support of Foster: “Whereas a Complaint has been made, by a Number of the Inhabitants of the Town of Danbury against Isaac Foster Esq. D. Director of the... ...Burnet served as...
40To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 23 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Major Burnet and Col. Dehart has just returnd from the Equacanock [Pequannock] and say that there is (as to wood Water & Sandy soil) a most excellent position, within about four Miles of Equacanock [Forks of Pequannock] and...The Pequannock area that Greene’s aide-de-camp Ichabod Burnet and Lt. Col. William De Hart examined for a suitable winter encampment was about five miles northwest of...
41To George Washington from John Morgan, 27 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
Majr Burnet,For an overview of Morgan’s allegations against William Shippen, Jr., and the latter’s eventual court-martial, which resulted in his acquittal, see
42General Orders, 28 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton wrote Nathanael Greene’s aide Ichabod Burnet: “The General considers the applicati⟨on⟩ as unusual and does not think proper to authorise a compliance with it” (GW to William De Hart, 8 Jan.
43To George Washington from Major General Arthur St. Clair, 29 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
Doctor Burnet is just arrived—He met the Person I mentioned,. Jonathan Mallett was the purveyor and chief surgeon of the British army hospital at New York. The letter was from John Jeremias Van Rensselaer, whose mother was married to William Bruce, a physician in the British army.
44To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 6 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Sgt. William Seymour of the Delaware Regiment began his journal with these remarks: “ ...Continental Artillery Regiment left Morristown with the Maryland and Delaware units. The troops moved in two brigades: the first, under Brig. Gen. William Smallwood, consisted of the 1st, 3d, 5th, and 7th Maryland regiments; the second, under Brig. Gen. Mordecai Gist, consisted of the 2d, 4th, and 6th...
45To George Washington from Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 8 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
P.S. I inclose a Letter from Dr Burnet about some BoatsThe enclosed letter from William Burnet to Huntington, written at Newark, N.J., reads: “Captain Shipman informs me that there are a Number of Boats upon Passaick River which, as they are under no Guard, may easily be made Use of,...
46From George Washington to Alida Livingston Hansen Hoffman, 25 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
Alida Livingston Hansen Hoffman (1728–1790), the sister of New Jersey governor William Livingston, married Henry Hansen in 1750 and then Martin Hoffman in September 1766.William Burnet, Sr., a prominent physician, wrote Governor Livingston on 1 June that in late May a group that included Isaac Ogden and his wife Sarah had received permission to travel from New York to Elizabeth, N.J. (...
47General Orders, 20 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
On this date, GW’s aide-de-camp Richard Kidder Meade wrote Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s aide-de-camp Ichabod Burnet: “I am directed by the Genl to request you will be pleased to send some person into New York that you can confide in, in order to ascertain the number of armed Ships (& their names) in......s brigade (five soldiers deserted); Brig. Gen. William Maxwell’s brigade (one subaltern...
48From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 15 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Captn BurnetThomas Burnet (d. 1784) became a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1744, a commander in 1756, and a captain in 1757.
49To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 23 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Dayton and Major Burnet are still at Elizabeth Town and New York....time was to be lost in taking measures to procure a further supply I sent Colonel Butler with a party of Horse and Foot to New ark; and wrote to Doctor Burnet and Mr Marsh (the first a Judge of the County Court, and the last a County Contractor) our situation; And desired them to endeavour if possible to make a...
50To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 26 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
, and Ichabod Burnet to William Irvine, same date, in