Horatio Gates to John Jay, 15 March 1779
Boston March 15 th . 1779. Sir, Persuaded that your Excellency punctually attends to every Thing which may respect the Eastern Department, as you declared in the first Letter I…
Boston March 15 th . 1779. Sir, Persuaded that your Excellency punctually attends to every Thing which may respect the Eastern Department, as you declared in the first Letter I…
[Middlebrook, New Jersey, March 14, 1779] Dear Sir, Col Laurens, who will have the honor of delivering you this letter, is on his way to South Carolina, on a project,…
Albany March 5 th :[–8 th ] 1779. Sir As more than two Months are elapsed since my Resignation was laid before Congress I hope I shall not be deemed…
Poughkeepsie 4 th : March 1779 D r : John Your Letter & one I lately rec d . from Morris have given me pain. 1 They have represented me…
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] March 1, 1779 . Suggests that information from Europe be issued officially rather than circulated casually.
Philadelphia Febry the 27 th 1779 Sir– The negative put by Congress on my request to avail myself of Capt Tolty–s friendship and Sir Henry Clintons kindness throws me into…
[Perspiney, Feb y . 18 th . 1779.–] I thank you my dear M r . Jay, for your kind letters of the 31 st . of Jan y .…
S t : Pierre, Martinique, Feb y 17 th , 1779. (Triplicate.) John Jay Esquire, Dear Sir, Above is Copy of my last Respects, since writing of which the Continental…
Poughkeepsie, Feb y 8 th . 1779. Sir I have the Pleasure to inform you that in pursuance of a Resolution of the Assembly on the second, and a concurrent…
Middle Brook, February 7 th , 1779 My dear Sir, In the Conclusion of my last Letter 1 to you I intimated that I should wait for Intelligence from England…