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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1481 | Washington, George | General Instructions for Recruiting, 9 January 1756 | 1756-01-09 | General Instructions for the Recruiting Officers of the Virginia Regiment. First: That no Officer... | |
1482 | Washington, George | Stewart, Robert | From George Washington to Robert Stewart, 9 January … | 1756-01-09 | You are hereby ordered to remain in this town until further Orders: when you are to receive and... |
1483 | Carlyle, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Carlyle, 9 January 1756 … | 1756-01-09 | Letter not found: from John Carlyle, 9 Jan. 1756. On 12 Jan. 1756 Carlyle wrote to GW : “I Wrote... |
1484 | Washington, George | Orders, 10 January 1756 | 1756-01-10 | Winchester. Saturday, January 10th 1756. Yesterdays Orders for Lieutenant Colonel Stephens’... | |
1485 | Washington, George | Walker, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Walker, 10 January … | 1756-01-10 | Instructions for Mr Commissary Walker. You are to lay in at Cockes and Ashby’s Forts, three... |
1486 | Washington, George | Bell, David | From George Washington to David Bell, 10 January 1756 | 1756-01-10 | You are to proceed to Fort Dinwiddie, to settle your Recruiting Accompt with Ensign Fleming. You... |
1487 | Washington, George | Hog, Peter | From George Washington to Peter Hog, 10 January 1756 | 1756-01-10 | Since writing you by Major Lewis, I have received yours; enclosing Returns of the eighth and... |
1488 | Washington, George | Boyd, Alexander | From George Washington to Alexander Boyd, 10 January … | 1756-01-10 | You are, out of the public money in your hands, to pay off all the Troops of the Virginia... |
1489 | Washington, George | Rutherford, Robert | From George Washington to Robert Rutherford, 10 January … | 1756-01-10 | You are to have regard to such order and Orders as you shall receive from Captain Stewart,... |
1490 | Washington, George | Memorandum, 11–14 January 1756 | ≈1756-01-11 | Jacob Funckhouser received his discharge at William West’s, January 11th as Ensign Buckner had... | |
1491 | Franklin, Benjamin | The Organization of John Van Etten’s Company, 12 … | 1756-01-12 | I. DS : New York Public Library. II. MS , and III. DS : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum... | |
1492 | Carlyle, John | Washington, George | To George Washington from John Carlyle, 12 January 1756 | 1756-01-12 | I Wrote you the 9th Inst. Acquainting you of the Arrival of the Cloathing. They are landed at... |
1493 | Washington, George | Dinwiddie, Robert | From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 13 January … | 1756-01-13 | Majr Lewis being at Winchester when your Letter came to hand was immediately dispatchd to Augusta... |
1494 | Adams, John | [January 1756] | ≈1756-01-14 | At Worcester. A very rainy Day. Kept school in the forenoon; but not in the afternoon, because of... | |
1495 | Adams, John | January the 14th. 1756. | 1756-01-14 | At Worcester. A very rainy Day. Kept school in the forenoon; but not in the afternoon, because of... | |
1496 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert Hunter | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, 14 … | 1756-01-14 | LS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania As we drew near this Place, we met a Number of Waggons,... |
1497 | Washington, George | Orders, 14 January 1756 | 1756-01-14 | All the Recruits in Town are to be completed to six days provision; and are to-morrow to march to... | |
1498 | Mercer, George | Cocks, William | George Mercer to William Cocks, 14 January 1756 | 1756-01-14 | Colonel Washington has ordered the Commissary at Winchester to deliver you, from the public... |
1499 | Mercer, George | Stewart, Robert | George Mercer to Robert Stewart, 14 January 1756 | 1756-01-14 | Colonel Washington desires, (if Captain Cockes, of the Company of Rangers, should apply for any... |
1500 | Mercer, George | Buckner, Mordecai | George Mercer to Mordecai Buckner, 14 January 1756 | 1756-01-14 | As Colonel Washington is doubtful that some of the men, to whom you delivered Shoes, Stockings,... |
1501 | Washington, George | After Orders, 14 January 1756 | 1756-01-14 | After Orders The Soldiers in town are not to march until further Orders—They are to remain here... | |
1502 | Washington, George | Dinwiddie, Robert | From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 14 January … | 1756-01-14 | When I was down the Committee among other things resolved that the Maryland and Carolina... |
1503 | Adams, John | 15. | 1756-01-15 | A fair morning and pretty warm. Kept school. Drank Tea at Mr. Swan’s, with Mr. Thayer. | |
1504 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 15 January … | 1756-01-15 | ALS : American Philosophical Society We move this Day for Gnadenhutten. If you have not Cash... |
1505 | Adams, John | 16 Fryday. | 1756-01-16 | A fine morning. A large white frost upon the ground. Reading Hutcheson’s Introduction to moral... | |
1506 | Franklin, Benjamin | Horsfield, Timothy | From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Horsfield, 16 January … | 1756-01-16 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I received your Favour, and thank you for your kind... |
1507 | Adams, John | 17 Saturday. | 1756-01-17 | A clowdy, dull, Day. Some snow about noon, and rain towards night. σπίζημαι, τα καθαρματα Ψυχησ.... | |
1508 | Adams, John | 18 Sunday. | 1756-01-18 | A fair morning. Heard Mr. Maccarty. Rev. Thaddeus Maccarty (1721–1784) , who at the preceding... | |
1509 | Stephen, Adam | Washington, George | To George Washington from Adam Stephen, 18 January 1756 | 1756-01-18 | In obedience to your Commands I reconnoitred to Ross’s mill on the South-Branch—from that to Fort... |
1510 | Adams, John | 19 Monday. | 1756-01-19 | A rainy Day. | |
1511 | Adams, John | 20 Tuesday. | 1756-01-20 | A fair, warm spring like Day. Drank Tea and supped at Mr. Greenes. For the first few months after... | |
1512 | Franklin, Benjamin | —— | [Benjamin Franklin?] to ——, 20 January 1756 | 1756-01-20 | Extract printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 29, 1756. We have been here since Sunday... |
1513 | Adams, John | 21 Wednesday. | 1756-01-21 | A very rainy day. Dined with Coll. Chandlers Jur. Spent the Eve at Mr. Maccarty’s. Kept school.... | |
1514 | Trent, William | Stephen, Adam | Enclosure: William Trent to Adam Stephen, 21 January … | 1756-01-21 | I received yours by Mr Fraser at Carlisle as I was returning from Philadelphia as you don’t... |
1515 | Adams, John | 22 Thurdsday. | 1756-01-22 | A fair morning. Fresh and lively Air. Drank Tea and supped at Mrs. Paine’s. Presumably Sarah... | |
1516 | Dinwiddie, Robert | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 22 January … | 1756-01-22 | Your two Letters of the 13th and 14th I shall answer Paragraphically. The Expedition against the... |
1517 | Withers, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from William Withers, 22 January … | 1756-01-22 | Mr Prentis omitting to send Majr Carlyle the Particulars in each Package ship’d on board the... |
1518 | Adams, John | 23 Fryday. | 1756-01-23 | A fair and agreable Day. Kept School. Drank Tea, at Coll. Chandler’s Jur., and spent the Evening... | |
1519 | Nicholas, Robert Carter | Washington, George | To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas, 23 … | 1756-01-23 | I was favour’d with yr Letter some Time ago, but know of no Opportunity of answering it sooner... |
1520 | Adams, John | 24 Saturday. | 1756-01-24 | A very high west Wind. Warm and cloudy. P.M. warm and fair. | |
1521 | Franklin, Benjamin | Horsfield, Timothy | From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Horsfield, 24 January … | 1756-01-24 | Extract: American Philosophical Society Foulk with his Company March this Day to build another... |
1522 | Adams, John | 25 Sunday. | 1756-01-25 | A cold Weather. Heard friend Thayer preach two ingenious discourses, from Jeremy 10th. 6. and 7.... | |
1523 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin, Deborah | From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 25 January … | 1756-01-25 | MS not found; reprinted from Duane, Works , VI , 8–9. This day week we arrived here, I wrote to... |
1524 | Franklin, Benjamin | —— | From Benjamin Franklin to ——, 25 January 1756 | 1756-01-25 | Copy: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission We got to Hays’s the same Evening we left you... |
1525 | Powell, Joseph | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Powell, 25 January … | 1756-01-25 | ALS : Yale University Library The Barer Harts[el]l Greear, is the Man whos Wife is so afflicted... |
1526 | Lewis, Charles | Washington, George | To George Washington from Charles Lewis, 25 January … | 1756-01-25 | The inclos’d is a Letter from Colo. Stephen, with which I should have waited on You, had I not... |
1527 | Adams, John | 26 Monday. | 1756-01-26 | A sharp piercing Air. Sat out for Uxbridge, arrived 2’o clock. | |
1528 | Franklin, Benjamin | Morris, Robert Hunter | From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hunter Morris, 26 … | 1756-01-26 | Copy: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission We left Bethlehem the 10th: Instant with... |
1529 | Franklin, Benjamin | Rhoads, Samuel | From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, 26 January … | 1756-01-26 | MS not found; reprinted from The Historical Magazine , 2d series, I (May 1867), 284–5. I am... |
1530 | Franklin, Benjamin | —— | [Benjamin Franklin?] to ———, 26 January 1756 | 1756-01-26 | Extract printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , January 29, 1756. Wednesday we were hinder’d almost... |