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Letters

801-850 of 4,644 letters
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801 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee The two letters directed to the Delegates were yesterday laid before Congress.1 That relating to our Troops to the Southward was referred to the Board of War and am in hopes the wants of our Troops... Aug. 1, 1780
802 John Henry Thomas Sim Lee Your two letters addressed to the Delegates were laid before Congress and that respecting the Situation of the Maryland line referred to the board of War, and the other to the Admiralty.1 It is... Aug. 1, 1780
803 Henry Laurens Richard Henry Lee Had I at any time since my arrival here been possessed of a scrap of good News I should have attempted to allay your hungring & thirsting. In the 31 days which I have been sauntering away about... Aug. 1, 1780
804 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
805 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee Your packet directed to the Delegates was delivered by Mr Green Who also delivered us a Letter respecting the money to be emitted to which due attention will be paid and every assistance given to... Aug. 7, 1780
806 Samuel Huntington Thomas Sim Lee I am sorry to inform your Excellency that it is not in the Power of Congress to comply with your request by sending any Ships of Force into the Chesapeake for the Protection of the Navigation there... Aug. 10, 1780
807 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I received your favour by the post. Our Army Continues at Dobbs’s ferry. It is very great and daily increasing. Men I am persuaded will not be wanting to Carry into execution any enterprise our... Aug. 15, 1780
808 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
809 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
810 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
811 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I have never mist one Post writing to you And my not receivingAny of your favours for three weeks past induces me to believe you are out of Town. By a former letter I acquainted you that I had in... Aug. 28, 1780
812 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee After more than four months from its date your letter from Orient, of April the 3d. reached me at this place. I very much approve the plan you propose to pursue on your arrival at Philadelphia - to... Aug. 31, 1780
813 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
814 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
815 John Henry Thomas Sim Lee Your favour of the 26th of Aug. addressed to the Delegates I have had the Honour of receiving. On enquiry I find that the Embargo is continued to the 30th of this present Month in this State and to... Sep. 2, 1780
816 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
817 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
818 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I have been Confined to my room a fortnight and was so unwell when the last post set out, that I was not able to write, I am now on the recovery And hope to be able to Attend Congress in a day or... Sep. 11, 1780
819 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee This day I had the pleasure of receiving yours of the fifteenth, inclosing 365 Dollars. The Bundle of money which you was so very Kind as to procure for me I received. It Came in good time, but... Sep. 18, 1780
820 Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Thomas Sim Lee I need not inform you of the difficulties Congress labour under for the want of Money, you are already Sensible of them but what makes this distress the more Melancholy is, that there is no... Sep. 19, 1780
821 Richard Henry Lee Nathaniel Peabody I do not think myself the less obliged to you for having not sooner answered your kind favor of Nov. the 22d. - It was rather improper to interrupt your attentions at Camp with reading my much less... Sep. 24, 1780
822 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee Admiral Rodneys Arrival at Sandy Hook with ten Sail of the line is Confirmed beyond a doubt, preparations are makeing at New York for a Considerable embarkation of Troops. Virginia is Supposed to... Sep. 26, 1780
823 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee I am happy to hear of your safe arrival in Philadelphia, & I hope to be made more happy by seeing you at Chantilly as soon as you have finished at Congress - As I suppose my sons are on their... Oct. 1780
824 William Lee Jean de Neufville I have been prevented by indisposition otherwise shou'd have written to you before on the subject of your favor of the 19th inst & also to Mr Van. Bls had I not conceived from what passed... Oct. 1780
825 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee Yours of the 2d September I have Just received. No Accounts of the French fleet and as the Season is so far Advanced it is probable they will not be here at all - indeed their Arrival is not now so... Oct. 3, 1780
826 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I am obliged to you for your favours of the 5th and 6th Instant. The officer Who was intrusted by Maj. Gile to procure the necessary Cloathing for our new regiment has been Supplied with Shirts and... Oct. 9, 1780
827 John Henry Thomas Sim Lee Reports prevail to Day that all Regts are embarking at New-York bound for our Bay. It is spoke of with confidence, but I still have many Doubts, and principally because we have had no hint of it... Oct. 9, 1780
828 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
829 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
830 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee The Saratoga one of the Continental frigates, is just returned from a Cruize of about four Weeks and has taken four Jamaica men, with rum and sugar - one of them mounted 22 Guns, one 20, and... Oct. 16, 1780
831 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
832 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
833 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
834 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I most Sincerely Congratulate you, on our late Success to the Southward. This event it is to be hoped will give the most happy turn to our affairs in that part of the Country and if properly... Oct. 24, 1780
835 Samuel Huntington Arthur Lee I have the Honor to transmit you the enclosed Copy of an Act of Congress, directing you to lay before them all the Information in your Power relative to our Affairs in Europe.1I am Sir, with Esteem... Oct. 26, 1780
836 Nathaniel Peabody Richard Henry Lee I have been duly honored by your agreable favour of the 24thUltimo, Inclosing a letter to the director general,1 which has been delivered.Since the 22d November, the date of a letter you mention to... Oct. 27, 1780
837 Richard Henry Lee Theodoric Bland When I propose to you a correspondence between us, I do not mean to interrupt your attention to more weighty matters - but it seems to me Sir that such a correspondence may eventually produce good... Oct. 31, 1780
838 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I received your two letters one by the post and the other by Express, with their inclosures, the money I have not Counted but Suppose it to be right. As the Exchange is rising Shall pay it Away... Oct. 31, 1780
839 George Plater Thomas Sim Lee I am honor’d by your Favor of the 3d for which be pleased to accept my Acknowledgments. We have various flying Reports of fortunate Events having taken Place in the South, & waited impatiently... Nov. 6, 1780
840 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I am favoured with your by the post, with its inclosure. Am glad to hear of the Sudden departure of the English fleet and Armament from our Bay. If this is true, it is probable the report of the... Nov. 7, 1780
841 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Adams I was yesterday made happy by your favor of the 30th. current - I say made happy because every recognition of our friendship is extremely agreeable to me. I always imputed your silence to causes... Nov. 10, 1780
842 John Henry Thomas Sim Lee Last Spring Mrs. Stevinson my unfortunate Relation, made an application to the General Assembly, for permission to visit her Husband Doctor Stevinson a refugee in New-York.1 Since her residence in... Nov. 13, 1780
843 George Plater Thomas Sim Lee The enclosed I lately received,1 & beg Leave to lay it before you. Genl Washington writes that another Embarkation is about to take Place at New York, destined southward - that Rodney is to... Nov. 13, 1780
844 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee The painting of your Carriage is not yet quite finished. Would recommend your Sending the Ballance of the money as soon as possible. Should the Carriage be finished before the money is ready a... Nov. 15, 1780
845 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
846 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I wrote you by Capt Carberry who promised to deliver the letter himself and was the reason of my not writing to you by the last post - have nothing now worth Communicating, no news from the... Nov. 28, 1780
847 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I am honored with yours of the 1st Instant by the post. We have no news here, but a late Expedition of Major Talmadge Against Fort St George on Long Island, the Success of which you have An Account... Dec. 1780
848 Samuel Huntington Arthur Lee I do myself the Pleasure to transmit you the enclosed Copy of an Act of Congress of the first Instant, by which you will be informed, that they approve of your retaining the Picture of his most... Dec. 4, 1780
849 George Plater Thomas Sim Lee The enclosed was this Day put into my Hand which I have now the Honor to forward to your Excellency.1My Time being this Day expired which by the Constitution I cou’d sit in Congress, I am preparing... Dec. 5, 1780
850 John Hanson Thomas Sim Lee I am favoured with your two letters by the last post. You desire me to pay the money inclosed to the Coachmaker, but none was inclosed. Public Bills are now Selling at 60 and 65, that is one Dollar... Dec. 11, 1780

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