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Letters

351-400 of 4,644 letters
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351 William Duer the New York Convention I should have done myself the honor of writing to you immediately after my arrival, but have been so occupied by various business the whole Time I have been here that I have not had time to write... Apr. 17, 1777
352 Marine Committee Benjamin Dunn The Navy Board of this State having made application for the Assistance of Such Continental Cruizers as can with propriety be employed to defend the Cape May Channel in Delaware Bay against the... Apr. 18, 1777
353 Marine Committee Isaiah Robinson The Navy Board of this State having requested the assistance of the Continental Navy in defending the Cape May Channel in Delaware Bay so that the inward and outward bound Trade may not be totally... Apr. 18, 1777
354 - - Come. met. Present Morris, Lee, Lewis, Whipple. Order on J Gibson Esqr. A. G. in favor of Messrs. Meredith & Clymer for 2133 1/3 dlls being the amount of their valuation of their Sloop Peggy... Apr. 18, 1777
355 Marine Committee Benjamin Dunn We gave you orders yesterday respecting the service you are required to perform in Delaware Bay, after that is performed you are to have recourse to these Orders which you are to obey and execute... Apr. 19, 1777
356 Marine Committee Isaiah Robinson The Marine Committee gave you Instructions of yesterdays date for performing certain services in Delaware Bay which being accomplished you are to have recourse to the following Orders which you are... Apr. 19, 1777
357 Secret Committee Robert Purviance, Samuel Purviance, Jr. Your favours of the 12th & 15th Inst. came duely to hand the first advising your purchase of flour & enclosing Inventories of the Two Prize Vessells. We think the flour was bought very... Apr. 19, 1777
358 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry The inclosed resolve is now sent principally with a view of rectifying some Typographic errors that the copy formerly sent you contained. I am again, in the name of Congress, to desire your... Apr. 22, 1777
359 Marine Committee John Peck Rathbun As we have appointed you to the Command of the Sloop Providence of War, now at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, we expect your good conduct in this Station will be equal to the trust... Apr. 23, 1777
360 - - Come. met. Present Messrs. Morris, Lee. Whipple, Lewis. Order on the Audr. genl. in favr. Oswell Eve, for 652 24/90 dlls being the amount of his Acct for manufacturg. powdr. to the 10th April last.... Apr. 23, 1777
361 George Washington Richard Henry Lee I have been favored with two or three letters from you lately. The last that came to hand was without date, but contained an extract from Doctor Lee’s letter to the Secret Committee, and the French... Apr. 24, 1777
362 Secret Committee Caesar Rodney By a letter lately received from Mr Purdy at Lewis Town we learn that he has been pretty Successfull in collecting the goods that were Saved from the Ship Success lately blown up at the Capes; and... Apr. 25, 1777
363 Marine Committee Nicholas Biddle Your letter of the 14th instant is the only one we have received since the misfortune of carrying away your masts or indeed since you left the Capes of Delaware so that we are strangers to the... Apr. 26, 1777
364 Marine Committee Livinus Clarkson, John Dorsius Your Letter of the 14th instant arrived yesterday and is the only one we have received from you respecting the Randolph Frigate altho it is a considerable Time since we heard of her putting into... Apr. 26, 1777
365 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson If I were to consider punctilio more than the suggestions of friendship, I should expect an answer to some of the letters I have written you, before I dispatched another. But I ever hated... Apr. 29, 1777
366 Richard Henry Lee George Washington Being often obliged to write in great haste, is the reason that I sometimes omit to date my letters. But I am now to acknowledge the favor of yours of the 24th and I readily acquiesce with your... Apr. 29, 1777
367 - - It being this day determined to form a plan for intercepting the Jamaica Fleet that will Sail from that Island for Great Britain about the 26th day of July next, ResolvedThat this Committee will... Apr. 29, 1777
368 Marine Committee Nicholas Biddle You are directed in the Instructions1 in which these are inclosed to break the seal of this Letter on the 10th day of July next. At that time we expect you will be cruizing near the Island of... Apr. 29, 1777
369 Marine Committee the Commissioners at Paris Should you see this Letter it will be forwarded to you by Thomas Thompson Esqr. Commander of the Raleigh Frigate in the Service of the United States of America. This Ship was built in New Hampshire... Apr. 29, 1777
370 Marine Committee John Dupuy This may probably be delivered to you by Captain Nicholas Biddle of the Randolph Frigate which will be Cruizing on your Coast this Summer and should Captain Biddle pay you a visit we request that... Apr. 29, 1777
371 Marine Committee James Nicholson In consequence of Letters just now received from the executive Powers of the State of Maryland we have it in charge from Congress to direct that you do not leave the Port of Baltimore with the... Apr. 29, 1777
372 Marine Committee Thomas Thompson We have long been anxious to hear of the Raleigh frigate under your Command being compleated for the sea but hitherto the dificulty of obtaining her Guns has been insuperable. You may rest assured... Apr. 29, 1777
373 Richard Henry Lee George Washington The subject of your letter of the 17th is a very important one, and whilst it deserves the greatest attention, is certainly involved in great difficulty.1 Of one truth however, I beg you Sir to be... May 1777
374 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
375 George Washington Robert Morris, Richard Henry Lee, William Whipple, Phillip Livingston I was this Morning honored with your Letter of the 2d Inst covering one for Mr. Boudinot, which shall be delivered him. I wish the Bills transmitted to him, had been for a larger Sum, and I trust,... May 5, 1777
376 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry Having written to you so lately by Express this chiefly serves to convey my wishes that another Delegate might be hastened here, for the reasons you will see in the inclosed note,1 this moment put... May 6, 1777
377 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Lee, Ludwell Lee I heared with great pleasure that my dear children were safely arrived in France.1 Before this intelligence reached me I had suffered much from apprehensions both for them and their worthy Uncles,... May 10, 1777
378 George Washington Richard Henry Lee This letter will be delivered to you, by the Chevalier Dannemours,1 who, if I am not mistaken in my judgment, has something more in view than preferment. In the course of two days conversation with... May 10, 1777
379 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry The inclosed infamous Act of Parliament is taken from the New York Gazette and its authenticity therefore not to be doubted.1 The question upon this is, whether every State will not pass acts... May 13, 1777
380 Richard Henry Lee Samuel Purviance, Jr. It gives me great pleasure to hear of Capt. Nicholsons reconciliation with the Government, altho it is not yet announced to us in form.1The Tories I hope will not long have occasion to rejoice.... May 13, 1777
381 George Washington Richard Henry Lee Under the privilege of friendship, I take the liberty to ask you, what Congress expects I am to do with the many foreigners they have, at different times, promoted to the rank of Field Officers?... May 17, 1777
382 - George Wythe Sender: Richard Henry Lee, for the Virginia Delegates in Congress Recipient: George WythePhiladelphia May 20th. 1777Sir,We are favored with yours covering a resolve of Assembly to which we shall... May 20, 1777
383 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson We are this moment informed here, that some evil disposed people (no doubt hired for the purpose) have industriously propagated among the N. Carolina Troops, and among the recruits of Virginia in... May 20, 1777
384 Richard Henry Lee Annette Carter I well know your attachment to men of worth, and I am sure it will not be esteemed the less because it comes recommended by me. I therefore, with pleasure introduce to your acquaintance and... May 26, 1777
385 Richard Henry Lee Patrick Henry If I have contributed in any degree to your satisfaction or enabled you to combat false news intended to injure the cause of America, I am happy. I love the cause, and I have faithfully exerted... May 26, 1777
386 Richard Henry Lee John Page Finding by your letter of this post to your brother that you suppose I have been negligent in my correspondence with you, my chief purpose here is to remove that charge. I do not remember which of... May 26, 1777
387 Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee Ten days ago I arrived at Williamsburg to attend our General Assembly on business. I left Philadelphia the 15th. instant, and shall return again to Congress the 1st. of August, after a months rest... Jun. 1777
388 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I have but a moment to return you my thanks for your friendly and obliging letter. It was impossible for me to avoid feeling the unmerited ill treatment that I had received, but I have now the... Jun. 1777
389 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
390 - - Great Expence to procure the Commissioners or they must be all appointed <here>. The evils of appointing <all> here. How long will it be ’ere the appointments are made known <to>... Jun. 10, 1777
391 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
392 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee I intended to have written to you by the last Post, but being under a Necessity of dispatching some Letters to Boston by the Eastern Post which went off the same day I was prevented. When you left... Jun. 26, 1777
393 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee On Wednesday last the enemy reinforcd, as it is said, with Marines, marchd from Amboy, through a Road between Brunswick and Elisabeth Town <to> a place called Westfield about 10 Miles, with... Jun. 29, 1777
394 Richard Henry Lee Landon Carter I shall take care of your letter for my brother, and of the parcel for Dr. Shippen.It would give me pleasure to furnish you with better news than this post has brought us, however, it is what we... Jul. 1777
395 Samuel Adams Arthur Lee I did myself the Honor to write to you on the 2d of Jany past since which your favor of the 21st of the same Month from Paris came to my Hand.1 You have supposd that this Campaign would put General... Jul. 4, 1777
396 Richard Henry Lee Thomas Paine Your obliging favor of the fourth I have received and thank you for it. Your conjecture concerning the principle on which Gen. Howes first movement to Somerset Court House was made, is I believe... Jul. 13, 1777
397 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee I wrote to you a Fortnight ago in so great Haste that I had not time to transcribe or correct it, and relied on your Candor to overlook the slovenly dress in which it was sent to you. You have... Jul. 15, 1777
398 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
399 Samuel Adams Richard Henry Lee Your very acceptable Letter of the 12th came to my hand yesterday. The Confederation is most certainly an important Object, and ought to be attended to & finishd speedily.1 I moved the other... Jul. 22, 1777
400 James Lovell Richard Henry Lee The honour you did me at Chantilly the 12th came yesterday to my knowledge. Your just reflections served to recall a chagrin which I had sensibly felt at the time of debating the Commissions... Jul. 22, 1777