Philadelphia 17 th Ap l . 1776 Sir We received your Favour of the 8th Ins t .– 1 The Office of Commissary is extreamly embarrassed–The Commissary Gen al .…
NewYork April 16 th 1776 Dear Sir, Your four last favors are now before me; my long Silence was owing to what you ascribed it. I have however Stole a…
[Philad. 11 Ap. 1776] Whether my last letter has reached you or not is uncertain. From your Silence I sometimes suspect it has not. However as I know you must…
Three Rivers in Canada April the 8 th . 1776 1 Honoured Sir I haveing been ordered by his Excellency General Wooster 2 on the 3 d . Feb. with…
Philadelphia April 2 d . 1776– Sir It gives me the most sensible Pleasure to convey to you by order of Congress the only Tribute which a free People will…
Philadelphia 27 March 1776 Dear Sir As M r . Willet leaves this Place in the Morning, I shall commit these few Lines to his Care, and tho they contain…
Philadelphia March 23, 1776 Dear Collonel When the Clerk of the Congress gave me the printed Papers which I enclosed you, he told me they contained the Navy Establishment. Whatever…
[[Philadelphia], 21 March 1776] D r . Sir I have at Length procured a Pike for you which will be sent by the Stage. 1 Your fitting out an armed…
Newyork 20 th March 1776 Dear Sir, I wrote you this morning pretty fully. I then forgot to inform you, that I got M r . Nichol–s provided for, in…
New York, 16 th. March: 1776 Dear Jack. Yours of the 10 th Int. I have now before me– 1 I received a letter from Papa yesterday, by which I…