Letters / Correspondence

George Washington

101-150 of 263 letters
Letters table
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101 George Washington Henry Lee I have an account from New York that a fleet with two Regiments and a detachment of Artillery was to sail on the 29th. ulto. for Hallifax accompanied by all the heavy ships of War, except the... Nov. 2, 1779
102 George Washington Henry Lee I have been favd. with yours of the 30th. November and 16th. Inst. The practice of trading under the cover of procuring intelligence has grown to such a height that there is an absolute necessity... Dec. 20, 1779
103 George Washington Henry Lee Col. Armandt who is to take a Station this Winter in Monmouth County will on his arrival there give you notice of it, and afterwards communicate with you for the mutual security of both Commands.I... Dec. 23, 1779
104 George Washington Henry Lee I have recd. your favr. of the 24th. by Captn. Rudulph.1 I should have been glad had it been possible for your corps and Colonel Armands to have found a position in Monmouth County capable of... Dec. 28, 1779
105 George Washington Francis Lightfoot Lee, Ralph Wormeley, Jr. Your favor of the 12th. of March with its enclosures were long getting to hand; and arrived on the eve of a journey I was about to make to Philadelphia. My stay at that place, a round of Company... Jan. 1, 1780
106 George Washington Henry Lee I was yesterday favd. with yours of the 5th. I take it for granted that the measures you mean to pursue for cutting off the intercourse between the Country and the enemy will be such as will be... Jan. 7, 1780
107 George Washington Henry Lee You will not forget that you owe me a horse or something in the shape of one, for the bay I turned into your Corps twelve Months ago. I am not in immediate want; But in some cases it is necessary... Jan. 9, 1780
108 George Washington Henry Lee I have recd. your favr. of the 13th. I hope you may meet with the same success in the Counties of Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May, as that which has attended the Officers who went into those... Jan. 16, 1780
109 George Washington Henry Lee I have received your letter of the 17th.1 I am happy to find such a disposition in the good people to relieve us, and for their ready and zealous compliance in my requisition. I think you had... Jan. 21, 1780
110 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee I have been honored with your Excellency’s letter of Deer. 26th. and its inclosure.1 The immediate attention of government to the distress of the army, and the effectual assistance promised from... Jan. 24, 1780
111 George Washington Henry Lee I have received your favor of the 26th. inclosing one from Capn. McLane to you of the 15th.1However Capn. McLanes services may entitle him to consideration, yet he is neither singular in his... Jan. 30, 1780
112 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee About the latter end of December last I had the honor to receive a letter from His Excellency Governor Johnson dated the 27th. of October, in which he proposes an arrangement for the three... Feb. 19, 1780
113 George Washington Henry Leeor Officer Commanding his Corps I am to request that you will transmit me, as soon as possible, an exact Return of the number of the non Commissioned Officers and privates of your Corps, mounted and dismounted designating in a... Feb. 21, 1780
114 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee Since I had the Honor of writing to Your Excellency on the 20th Ulto. I have obtained Returns of some Corps, which I had not then. I find there are in Moylan’s Regiment of Light Dragoons a few Men... Mar. 10, 1780
115 George Washington - Sender: George Washington Recipient: The Commanding Officer of Lee’s CorpsHead Quarters, Morris Town, March 30, 1780Sir:You will be pleased, upon the receipt of this, to take the most expeditious... Mar. 30, 1780
116 George Washington - I have received Capt. Rudolphs favr. of the 2d. Inst. I have to request you not to lose a moment in commencing your march to South Carolina after your Corps is ready. You will take your Route from... Apr. 9, 1780
117 George Washington - Mr. Samuel Allison of Burlington has complained to me of violences offered to him by Lt Carnes of the corps under your command. I have told him that it is at his option to have recourse for redress... Apr. 10, 1780
118 George Washington Henry Lee I have reed. your favr. of the 10th. I am sorry to find that the repairs of your accoutrements and the general indisposition of your Horses, will prevent your moving so soon as could have been... Apr. 13, 1780
119 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee On the 2d. Instant I received the Honor of Your Excellency’s Letter of the 8th Ulto. and also one from the Board of War on the same subject. The information the Council had received, of particular... May 4, 1780
120 George Washington Henry Lee You will be pleased to halt your Horse and Foot ’till further orders, wherever they may be when this reaches you. Should the Horse be in Philada. and it should be found difficult to subsist them... May 20, 1780
121 George Washington Henry Lee I have rec’d your favor of this date. The spirit which has been exhibited by your corps on the present occasion gives me pleasure, and be assured meets with my Thanks and Approbation. As your rapid... Jun. 11, 1780
122 George Washington Henry Lee You may remain in your present position ’till further orders. In the meanwhile and without delay I request you to reconnoitre the country well about Totawa1 and between that and Pompton by the... Jun. 27, 1780
123 George Washington Henry Lee I have received Your Letter of this afternoon. I have had it for some days in contemplation to have the attempt made to which you allude; but from the information I had received with respect to the... Jun. 28, 1780
124 George Washington Henry Lee You will proceed to Monmouth and establish yourself in that vicinity. When you arrive there, you will see General Foreman who is charged with dispatches for a French fleet expected at the Hook and... Jul. 11, 1780
125 George Washington Henry Lee We have received advice from New York of the arrival of Admiral Greaves at the Hook with six sail of the line the 13th. We think it very extraordinary if the fleet has arrived that we should have... Jul. 16, 1780
126 George Washington Henry Lee I have received your letter of the 16th. You mistook the point of giving me intelligence1 as by recurring to your instructions you will find. I now depend on you for information of every occurrence... Jul. 19, 1780
127 George Washington Henry Lee I am informed by General Foreman that there is a great number of horses in those parts of Monmouth County within the enemy’s power belonging to disaffected persons. To prevent the enemy’s having... Jul. 24, 1780
128 George Washington Henry Lee I have recd. yours of the 23d. Inst. by which it appears as if the British Fleet were plying off and on. The dispatches which were lodged in Monmouth for Count Rochambeau and Monsieur Ternay are no... Jul. 25, 1780
129 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 10th inclosing Copies of the several laws passed by the Legislature of your State, for procuring the supplies of Men, provisions and... Jul. 26, 1780
130 George Washington Henry Lee I have received your letter from Eastown of 31st. ulto.Before this the Qr.M.G. will have transmitted you orders. I have to request after their execution that you will immediately repair to the main... Aug. 5, 1780
131 George Washington Henry Lee This day Mr Joshua Anderson of Monmouth County, presented a petition to me in consequence of Captain Rudulphs seizing a stone horse, which he urges was at any rate, unfit for present use. His... Aug. 20, 1780
132 George Washington Henry Lee You will be pleased to employ the whole of your Corps1 both Horse and Foot tomorrow in impressing Waggonsand Drivers from Totowa, Prekaness, Little Falls, Slotterdam, Wesel, Acquaquenac and the... Aug. 22, 1780
133 George Washington Henry Lee You will be pleased immediately upon the receipt of this to commence the Forage of Barbadoes Neck and as far up as Polifly. The necessities of the Army require that it should be executed as... Aug. 24, 1780
134 George Washington Henry Lee Yours of the 31st. Ulto. was delivered to me yesterday. I never hear of the intended resignation of a good Officer without feeling pain, and shall be sorry for that of Captn. McLean’s; but if he is... Sep. 2, 1780
135 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee I beg leave to inform Your Excellency that the Commission of Colo Price of your line, has been transmitted to me in a Letter dated at Frederick Town the 31st of April last, informing of his... Sep. 2, 1780
136 George Washington Henry Lee Several days ago I received a Letter from the Honble Mr Brearly, Chief Justice of Jersey in which he mentions that "Complaint has been made to me by a Member of the Legislature of Somerset... Sep. 3, 1780
137 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee In consequence of the disagreeable intelligence of the defeat of the Army, under Major General Gates,1 which I have just received: I think it expedient to countermand the march of the Troops which... Sep. 6, 1780
138 George Washington Mary Lee I am honored with your Letter of the 27th. of Septr. and cannot forbear taking the earliest moment to express the high sense I entertain of the patriotic exertions of the Ladies of Maryland in... Oct. 11, 1780
139 George Washington Henry Lee I am very glad your letter of this date has given strength to my conviction of the innocence of the gentleman, who was the subject of your inquiry.1 I want to see you on a particular piece of... Oct. 13, 1780
140 George Washington Henry Lee The plan proposd for taking A - - ,1 the out lines of which are communicated in your letter which was this moment put into my hands without a date, has every mark of a good one,2 I therefore agree... Oct. 20, 1780
141 George Washington Henry Lee Dear Sir: I think it more than probable that your Corps will be ordered to the southward, I would therefore have you, agreeable to your late request, send an Officer to Philaria. to provide... Oct. 22, 1780
142 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee Major General Greene, who goes to take command of the Southern Army, will have the honor of presenting this to Your Excellency. I have advised him to take the several States in his way, which are... Oct. 23, 1780
143 George Washington Arthur Lee I am much obliged to you for the suggestion which you do me the favour to make in your Letter of the 11th, as I shall at all times be for any others which may occur to you advancive of the public... Nov. 20, 1780
144 Richard Henry Lee George Washington . . . I left Richmond on the 3d Inst. in the Afternoon & in the Evening I received a Letter from the Governour informing me, that Arnold with Six Ships, 7 or 8 Brigs & 10 other Vessels,... Jan. 7, 1781
145 Richard Henry Lee George Washington I had the honor of addressing you last by eldest son who went to camp about four weeks ago. since that we have had the pleasure of hearing that your advances against York go successfully on. by... Jan. 12, 1781
146 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee Your Excellency's favor of the 18th ulto. came to Head Quarters during my visit to Count de Rochambeau at Newport from whence I only returned two days ago. You may be assured that every... Mar. 22, 1781
147 George Washington Arthur Lee I have had the honor to receive the letter wch. you did me the favor to write on the 19th. Ulto, and thank you for the extract taken from the letter of Mr Lee1of Feby. 20th.The information... Jun. 7, 1781
148 Richard Henry Lee George Washington Altho our correspondence has been long interrupted I hope that our friendship never will, notwithstanding the arts of wicked men who have endeavored to create discord and dissention among the... Jun. 12, 1781
149 George Washington Thomas Sim Lee I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellencys favor of the 19th. June. It is with very great satisfaction I observe the proceedings of the General Assembly of your state which you... Jul. 10, 1781
150 George Washington Richard Henry Lee The moving state in wch. the Army was, at the time your letter of the 12th. Ulto.1 came to hand. The junction of the Allied troops, which was upon the point of being formed; and a variety of... Jul. 15, 1781