Letters / Correspondence

Francis Lightfoot Lee

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1 Francis Lightfoot Lee William Lee With this you will receive little John, son to the Esqr’s. Prue, you will take care of him till you receive instructions from Mr. Anthony Stewart who I suppose will be with you as soon as this I... Jul. 14, 1771
2 Francis Lightfoot Lee William Lee By a Glasgow Ship, I wrote you, that Mr. M. Smith intended to ship 80 hhd. tobo. in Rayson to answer the bills he had drawn on you, but that he cou’d not take them in; we have try’d since, tho in... Jul. 2, 1773
3 Francis Lightfoot Lee a Friend in London This Letter I hope will find you perfectly recover’d from your Virginia fever, & the fatigues of the Voyage. I have not been in Virga. since we parted, & have not been able to hear any... Jan. 29, 1775
4 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee An Express just arrived here from Williamsburg informing of the Assembly being called to the 1st. of June, which carries our Spea<ker> away. We supose the design is chiefly to lay Ld. North’s... May 1775
5 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee An Express is just arrived here from Williamsburg informing of the Assembly being called to the 1st of June, Which carries our Speaker away. We suppose the design is chiefly to lay Ld. Norths... May 21, 1775
6 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I received your Letter with great pleasure tho contrary to your expectation it paid postage to the hated Post office. As the constitutional post now goes regularly, we may with a safe conscience... Oct. 21, 1775
7 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I wrote to Col. Tayloe two or three days agoe, from whome I suppose you have had the news, and intended by Mr. Colston to answer your last letter; but an express from the Camp last night having... Nov. 20, 1775
8 Francis Lightfoot Lee Robert W. Carter We have had nothing new since the reduction of Montreal, which I suppose you must have heard of. It is supposed Arnold must be in possession of Quebec by this time. If he shou’d be too weak to... Dec. 2, 1775
9 Francis Lightfoot Lee a Friend in London From the little inquiry that has been made concerning your friends Land, upon Susquehanna, in Maryland, It appears to me, that he has a right to that & much more, if he can prove himself the... Dec. 11, 1775
10 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Before you receive this, Mr. Colston will have given you all the news of this place when he left it, since which one of our little men of war, called the Lee, capt. Manly, has taken a Store ship,... Dec. 12, 1775
11 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee . . .2 being so full as other ways I shou’d. You have seen the Kings speech, which you wou’d suppose must convince everybody of the bloody intentions of the King EL ministry, but it is far from... Jan. 8, 1776
12 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Mr. Dye having been hurried away a day or two sooner than he expected, prevented my writing to you by him. He will not probably be with you sooner than this, as Mr. Colston sets off early tomorrow... Jan. 9, 1776
13 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Having very little to communicate except our unfortunate attempt upon Quebec; a particular Account of which I have given to our mutual friend Col. Tayloe; I shou’d not now Trouble you, but to... Jan. 22, 1776
14 Francis Lightfoot Lee John Page I received yours of the 20th Instant last night. I will deliver any Letter you may send to Mr. Rittenhouse, tho’ my acquaintance with him is but slight.A very critical time is approaching. It is... Jan. 30, 1776
15 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I intended to have devoted yesterday to answer your kind Letters by last Monday’s post; but unexpected business intervened which prevented me, and this day I find my obligation increased by the... Feb. 12, 1776
16 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Before this I suppose you have recd. a Copy of common sense which I sent you some time ago; if not, I now send a parcel to Col. Tayloe of whome you may have one.Our late King & his Parliament... Mar. 19, 1776
17 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter The assurances of friendship in your Letter of the 30 of March, give me very great pleasure. I hope it will always continue, as a compensation for the many disquietude unavoidable in this Life. Who... Apr. 9, 1776
18 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have received your very acceptable Letter of the 30 Apl. I wish it was in my power to make better return, but my situation here will not admit of it. Perhaps it wou’d be well if Congress was... May 21, 1776
19 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Our affairs in Canada are at length brot to a conclusion, and we have now to contend with all the bad consequences which have been apprehended from the Enemy’s being in possession of that Country.... Jun. 30, 1776
20 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee I have written to you every post, since you left this. If you have not recd. the Letters, there must still be some villain, in the Post Office. It is supposed Ld. Howe is arrived, as three ships... Jul. 16, 1776
21 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I acknowledge myself greatly indebted to your goodness, for which, tho' I despair of ever making full returns, yet I shall endeavour to show my gratitude by such partial payments, as my time... Sep. 15, 1776
22 Francis Lightfoot Lee Thomas Jefferson Our affairs at N. York have not much alter'd since your departure, the Militia of the eastern states have mostly left it, & probably improved the Army. The Enemy having by every motion... Sep. 17, 1776
23 Francis Lightfoot Lee Walter Jones I have but a moment to thank you for your late letters, & to inform you that I think there is crude Sal Ammoniac among my medicines. This I am pretty certain of but if I shou'd be... Dec. 11, 1776
24 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Tho I have wrote pretty fully to Col. Tayloe, upon the present state of our affairs & sent him the papers, which I know you will partake of; yet I cant help saying a word, to convince you, that... Jan. 14, 1777
25 William Duer Francis Lightfoot Lee You will be much surprised to hear of me from Reading, where I have been detain'd three or four Days in Expectation of receiving a Letter from York Town, the Substance of which is (I am told)... Jan. 14, 1777
26 Francis Lightfoot Lee Edward Hand Mr. McClure delivered your Letter for the board of war, to me here. Congress having been obliged by the movements of Genl. Howe to leave Philadelphia, will meet in a few days at Lancaster, when... Jan. 23, 1777
27 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I was well pleased to find by yours of the 21st Jan. that you were in good health & spirits; may you long continue so. You will no longer accuse the Congress of timidity, when you know it has... Feb. 28, 1777
28 Francis Lightfoot Lee George Washington I am very sorry that I was not in this City when General Green was here; nothing cou’d give me greater pleasure, than to have an opportunity of shewing every respect & civility to a Gentleman... Apr. 10, 1777
29 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Having given Col. Tayloe what little news is stiring here, which I know will be communicated to you; I have only to acknowlege the rect. of several of your favors, for which I am much obliged to... Apr. 15, 1777
30 Francis Lightfoot Lee Adam Stephen An hundred times have I been going to write to you, & as often been interrupted. I hope you will not punish me too severely, by ceasing to let me know, now & then, what you are doing. We... May 3, 1777
31 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have lately received several of your favors, for which I feel myself much obliged, & should sooner have acknowleged it but that I waited to have the pleasure of sending you a treatise on... Jun. 8, 1777
32 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee On Friday last we received advice from Genl. Sullivan that the Enemy was advancing with their whole force, in two columns, one to Prince town, the other to Coryel's ferry. As we knew Genl.... Jun. 17, 1777
33 Francis Lightfoot Lee Mann Page No event of consequence has taken place, since you left us, but the unfortunate loss of Ticonderoga. Burgoyne arrived there, about the begining of this month; with what force, we know not as yet.... Jul. 15, 1777
34 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter I have the pleasure at last of sending you some directions for making sugar; which I hope will be usefull.You have my sincere thanks for your agreeable Letter by R.H.L. I am well pleased to find no... Aug. 1777
35 Francis Lightfoot Lee Landon Carter Mr. Jackson will deliver you a Letter which I wrote some time agoe, 1 by Mr. Crump, who was stoped at Elk by Mr. Howe. I hope it will arrive time enough for your sugar making business. I cou'd... Sep. 4, 1777
36 Arthur Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee Yr Letters to Mr. Lloyd of Maryland have reachd this place to others, but none from you to me. This is a little unkind especially as I have written frequently to you. By those Letters you seem to... Oct. 7, 1777
37 Francis Lightfoot Lee Timothy Matlack The last summer a Proposal was laid before Your Assembly, from Virginia; for settling the Southern boundery between the two States.The Delegates of Virginia received an Answer; but it has... Dec. 10, 1777
38 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee A Letr. from the Genl. of the 10th advises that Genl. Howe after many manoeuvres in which he gained no advantage & a good deal of skirmishing, in which he sustained pretty considerable loss,... Dec. 15, 1777
39 Francis Lightfoot Lee Samuel Adams Tho. the times are dull, yet its so long since I had any converse with you, that I cant help asking how you do. Your time I suppose passes sweetly on, surrounded with all the delicacies of Boston,... Dec. 22, 1777
40 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee The last Post day brought no letters from you or any of my friends, occasioned I suppose by the severity of the weather, which prevented the rider from travelling and crossing Rivers. I shall be... Jan. 3, 1778
41 Francis Lightfoot Lee Arthur Lee As the Committee for foreign affairs write fully on public matters, by this opportunity, I need not trouble you on that score.1 I will only observe that I think America stronger than ever; but as... Jan. 20, 1778
42 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Publications still continue in abundance to blacken the Lees & make Deane the greatest Man in the World. The cry is in their favor, no one has dared to enter the lists with them but Common... Jan. 22, 1778
43 Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee The day on which my last Letter was wrote, Mr. Deane produced to Congress his written narrative of his transactions & accusations.1 The first the most pompous bloated thing that ever was on... Jan. 25, 1778
44 William Duer Francis Lightfoot Lee I have this day seen a letter from Genl. Gates as president of the board of war directing general Mifflin to inform the commissioners appointed by the board to superintend the purchasing provisions... Feb. 9, 1778
45 Francis Lightfoot Lee John Hancock The State of Virginia having occasion to advance some French Gentlemen in Boston a sum of Money, & not being able to procure a bill of exchange in this place, I as a delegate for that State am... Feb. 13, 1778
46 Francis Lightfoot Lee George Weedon I am sorry to inform you that the report of the board of Genl. Officers was sent by the Comtee, to Congress, & is agreed to. I laid the whole matter before them, but they were of opinion, that... Mar. 31, 1778
47 George Washington Francis Lightfoot Lee, John Banister I have the honor of yours of the 16th instant. I know of no more eligible mode of remitting the 30,080 dollars for payment of the additional Bounty to the reinlisted Men of the Virginia Regiments,... Apr. 23, 1778
48 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee I wrote you four days ago by Mr. Armstead who promised to send the letter 1 to Mount Airy by his Servant from Fredericksburg. Since that we have had a more accurate account of the battle in the... Jul. 5, 1778
49 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee I had prepared a letter to you three days ago intending to have sent it to Chantilly by a Mr. Muse, but he slipt me without calling for my letter. Since that the Count D’Esteing, with a french... Jul. 12, 1778
50 Richard Henry Lee Francis Lightfoot Lee Your letter of the 12th came only to hand this day by Post, amazing delay, but I have spoken to the Post Master on this business until I am tired. It astonishes me that neither you or my other... Jul. 27, 1778