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46,149 lettersIn Committee of Safety Philada. 4th March 1776 Sir In order to carry into execution the Resolve of Congress for the manufacturing Fifty Tons of Salt Petre into Powder the…
Philadelphia, March 22, [ i.e. , 2 4 ], 1776. Dear Sir, I wrote to you lately by Mr. Story, and since by another conveyance. 5 This line will be…
Philadelphia March 3rd. [ i.e. , 2,] 1776 On your arrival in France, you will for some time be engaged in the business of providing goods for the Indian trade.…
[March 2, 1776] We the underwritten, being the Committee of Congress for secret Correspondence, do hereby certify whom it may concern, that the Bearer, the Honourable Silas Deane Esquire, one…
Worcester march 1st. 1776 Honored Sir Agreeable to your desire I now inclose your Acct. Drawn in the best manor I now Cane tho’ not So partecular as I Could…
February 26, 1776. Sir, I am extremely sensible of the Honor done me by my Fellow-Citizens, in chusing me their Representative in Assembly, and of that lately conferred on me…
Lond feb 24 1776 Dear Sir It is so long since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you that I fear the administration has but too effectually stopt…
Head Quarter’s 23 Febry 1776 Dear Sir This will be deliverd to you by The Baron de Woedtkee, who appears to be a Gentleman, and a Veteran Charectors you will…
Three Rivers 22d.[-23] Feb. 1776. Sir I have been informd that it is a Custom in the polite world when about to address a Stranger to Apoligize for so doing.…
Philada Febry. 19, 1776. Dear Sir, I rejoice that you are going to Canada. I hope the Gout will not have the courage to follow you into that severe Climate.…
London 13 Feby. 1776. Dear Sir I lament this unhappy war, as on more serious accounts, so not a little that it renders my correspondence with you so precarious. I…
London December 23. 1775 Dear Sir The Bearer hereof Mr. Wrixon, a Gentleman of Character and good Connexions in Ireland, I beg leave to introduce to your Frindship, Civility and…
London Decr. 23d. 1775. Dear Sir The difficulties and Dangers attending all American Correspondence have for sometime suspended those Communications which Friendship would have inclined me otherwise to make you.…
Sunsbury Shemokin Der 16 1775 Dear Uncle I Recevd your kind Condesenging letter, 3 and think myself happy to Inform you who I am-the Daughter of John Croker. I was…
Kensington Dec. 12. 1775 My dear Sir By not being inform’d in proper time I have miss’d several opportunities of writing to you, which I regret because I wish to…
Philadelphia Decr: 12. 1775 Illustrious Prince I have just received through the Hands of the Ambassador of Spain, the much esteemed present your most serene Highness hath so kindly sent…
Philada. Dec. 12. 1775 Sir, By this Conveyance we have the Pleasure of transmitting to you sundry printed Papers, that such of them as you think proper may be immediately…
Lancaster: Decr: 10th: 1775 Dear Sir I am told that the Congress have determined to raise four more Battalians in the Province. 4 And as a member of the committee…