1To George Washington from Beverley Robinson, 16 April 1758 (Washington Papers)
, which sailed about a month earlier than the packet ship
2From Benjamin Franklin to John Foxcroft, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...Post Office bore the cost of packet ships, and letters sent by them consequently paid higher...
3From George Washington to Major General Philip Schuyler, 10–11 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
...he went to New York to board the July packet ship for its voyage home across the Atlantic....
4From George Washington to John Hancock, 21 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
..., several days before the arrival of the packet ship that brought Gage’s dispatches. He...
5To George Washington from Nicholas Cooke, 2 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
.... to attempt to intercept a British packet ship and several days later proceeded to...
6To George Washington from Nicholas Cooke, 25 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
For Abraham Whipple’s orders regarding the packet ship, see Cooke to GW,
7From George Washington to John Hancock, 8–9 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...on 29 July. His companions on the packet ship were Benjamin Johnston, a tavern keeper from...
8From George Washington to Colonel Samuel Miles, 25 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
...). After the war Foxcroft became an agent for British packet ships in New York City.
9From George Washington to Lund Washington, 29 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
...navy, refitting it for service as a cruiser and a packet ship. The
10From George Washington to Major General Israel Putnam, 20 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
...autumn of 1780 to visit his wife. The packet ship on which he sailed, however, was captured...