[Middlebrook, New Jersey, December 19, 1778] I snatch a hasty moment My Dear Baron to acknowledge the receipt of yr. obliging favour of the 6th. 1 It came here while…
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] December 18, 1778 . Congratulates Schuyler on acquittal. States that a winter campaign is now impossible. Agrees that reduction of Niagara is important and has…
[ Middlebrook, New Jersey ] December 16, 1778 . Asks for McDougall’s opinion on kind and number of ships necessary to destroy enemy’s naval force on Lake Ontario.
[Middlebrook, New Jersey, December 15, 1778] Report of Lieutenant Colonels, Robert Hanson Harrison & Alexander Hamilton Commissioners &ca. To His Excellency General Washington— We, the Commissioners appointed by your Excellency…
Amboy [New Jersey] December 12th: 1778 Gentlemen, We have read the Letter, with which you were pleased to favor us, this Afternoon. We join with you in lamenting, that the…
[Amboy, New Jersey] 12th. December 1778 Gentlemen We cannot sufficiently lament, that the Purposes of our Meeting, you will pardon us for observing, have been defeated, by a less generous…
[ Philadelphia, December 6, 1778 . On December 19, 1778, Hamilton wrote to von Steuben : “I snatch a hasty moment My Dear Baron to acknowledge the receipt of yr.…
[ Paramus, New Jersey, December 6, 1778 . “… desire Colo. Harrison to write to Genl. Greene on the subject of his Letter respecting a change of ground for hutting.…
[Philadelphia, December 5, 1778] My Dear Hamilton: You have seen, and by this time considered, General Lee’s infamous publication. 1 I have collected some hints for an answer; but I…
Elizabethtown [ New Jersey ] December 4, 1778 . Reports advance of British vessels up North River. Gives instructions for countering British move.