53451[Diary entry: 20 August 1781] (Washington Papers)
20th. The head of the Americans arrived at Kings ferry about ten O’clock & immediately began to...
53452To George Washington from John Stark, 20 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 16th Instant. but am sorry to acquaint you that no more than 120...
53453To George Washington from James Mitchell Varnum, 20 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Perhaps my Residence in this Place for near a Year without writing to your Excellency, may be...
53454From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 20 August 1781 (Jay Papers)
Seven Vessels have lately arrived at Nantz & Lorient from Am., two of them directly from...
53455To John Jay from Floridablanca, 20 August 1781 (Jay Papers)
Le Comte [de] Florida Blanca est charmé d’apprendre que Mr. de Jay soit assez bien remis de sa...
53456To John Jay from Benjamin Franklin, 20 August 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have before me several of your late letters, which tho’ not formally , have been substantially...
53457Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 20 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (New York Public Library). Entirely in JM’s hand, except for the signatures of the other...
53458To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 20 August 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
My Predecessor sent you the Copy of a vote of Congress of the 14th. of June last, appointing you...
53459[Diary entry: 21 August 1781] (Washington Papers)
21st. In the course of this day the whole of the American Troop, all their baggage, artillery &...
53460General Orders, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
DLC : Papers of George Washington.
53461To George Washington from Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, comte de Barras, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
jay receu la lettre que votre excellence ma fait lhonneur de mecrire par laquelle vous me...
53462From George Washington to Meshech Weare, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I feel myself unhappy in being obliged to inform you, that the Circumstances in which I find...
53463To George Washington from William Greene, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
In Consequence of your Excellency’s Letters to Dep. Gov. Bowen of the 16th instant I last Evening...
53464To George Washington from Hugh Hughes, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to acquaint your Excellency; by order of the Q.M. Genl that there has been no...
53465From George Washington to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to my Intentions communicated to you the 15th Instant—The Troops destined for the...
53466To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 15th Has safely come to Hand—I am going to give you an Account of matters in...
53467From George Washington to Richard Peters, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have devoted the first moment of my time which I could command (while the Troops are halted for...
53468From George Washington to Marriot Arbuthnot, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
The almost daily complaints of the severities exercised towards the American Marine prisoners in...
53469From Edward Hand to Timothy Pickering, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency desires you may immediately send an intelligent person to examine the present...
53470To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have sent a person to examine the roads on the routes mentioned by Genl Hand, & urged his...
53471From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have this Moment the Honor of your Letter ⅌ Monsr Blanchard—I am very sorry for the Difficultys...
53472From George Washington to Silvanus Seely, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I shall not be able to reach Springfield, with the Army, as soon as I expected—for which Reason I...
53473To George Washington from Silvanus Seely, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I received your Excellencys favour of this day, and shall wait your further orders—as to the...
53474To George Washington from Richard Varick, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellency’s Directions I do inclose Copy of the unsigned Instructions which I...
53475From Richard Varick to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to His Excellency’s Commands I have copied & added some Things to his Instructions to...
53476To George Washington from James Mitchell Varnum, 21 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Upon the foregoing System, each Battalion of Infantry consisting of five hundred Rank and File, a...
53477William Livingston to Sarah Livingston Jay, 21 August 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 14 th of March, & at the same time that of the 30 th of...
53478Virginia Delegates to Thomas Nelson, 21 August 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). Written by Meriwether Smith, except for the other signatures....
53479From George Washington to William Greene, 22 August 1781 to 24 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
The failure of the necessary Aids requested from the several States, together with some other...
53480From John Adams to the President of Congress, 22 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Constitution of this Country is such, that it is difficult to discover the general Sense....
53481From John Adams to the President of Congress, 22 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
The late glorious Victory, obtained by Admiral Zoutman over Admiral Parker, is wholly to be...
53482To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 22 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honor of receiving your Excellencys Letter, of the 18th. Instant, This Day. Indeed,...
53483From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 22 August 1781 (Hamilton Papers)
In my last letter My Dearest Angel I informed you that there was a greater prospect of activity...
53484From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Blake, 22 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress The Congress having judged that the private Trade...
53485From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Castries, 22 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter your Excellency did me the Honour...
53486From Benjamin Franklin to Francis Coffyn, 22 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing...
53487[Diary entry: 22 August 1781] (Washington Papers)
22d. 23d. 24th. & 25th. Employed in transporting the French Army, its baggage & Stores over the...
53488General Orders, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
That part of the Orders of the 19th of June last which relates to the Transportation of Baggage...
53489To George Washington from John Levinius Clarkson, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to inform your Excellency by Direction of the Board of Treasury that, a few days...
53490To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here the day before yesterday in a very bad situation with a great head-hoax and...
53491To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
i have been just now a Resolved of Congress about the exchange of prisonners by which the matter...
53492To George Washington from William Heath, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Incumbered with much baggage, I put it in motion the day before yesterday in the afternoon,...
53493To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, comte de Laumoy, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to forward to your Excellency a Letter from Genal Du Portail, by wich he shows...
53494To George Washington from Robert Morris, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I arrived in Town the Day before Yesterday—having taken the earliest Opportunity to acquire...
53495From Robert Morris to The States, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have already, in a former Letter, forwarded to your Excellency an account of the Specific...
53496To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
We have been four days to perform the March that you had prescribed to be done in two. we have...
53497From George Washington to George Washington, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Questions proposed by His Excellency Count Rochambeau. the 22d Augt 1781 at King’s Ferry 1st Is...
53498From George Washington to Arthur St. Clair, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have to request you immediately to assemble all the Recruits in the State of Pennsilvania at...
53499From George Washington to Benoît-Joseph de Tarlé, 22 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
You will oblige me by letting me know the Quantity of Flour which you propose to deliver to my...
53500Motion on Exchange of Prisoners of War, [22 August] 1781 (Madison Papers)
Printed text ( JCC Worthington Chauncey Ford et al ., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress,...