Letter of Washington to Governor Clinton, acquainting him of a design
of the British to seize his person while residing at Poughkeepsie, and
convey him to New York. Dated at Dobbs's Ferry, 1780.
Letter of Washington to Brigadier-General Whiten on the subject of the
removal of the troops from Trenton to Philadelphia. Dated Plumpton
Plains, New Jersey, 1777.
Letter of Washington on the subject of promotions in the army. Dated
1779.
Note of invitation from Washington to Dr. John Thomas to dinner. Dr.
Thomas was surgeon of the Massachusetts line. Dated headquarters,
Newburgh, 1780.
Soldiers' discharge, signed by Washington, 1782.
Letter of the Marquis de Lafayette on the subject of fortifying the
North river. Written to Governor Clinton in 1778.
Letter of the Baron Steuben to Governor Clinton on the good appearance
of the New York line of the army. Dated New Windsor, 1780.
Letter of Lord Stirling to Governor Clinton on the discharge of the
command of Major Wessenfells. Dated Albany, 1782.
Letter of Clinton in reply.
Resolution drawn up in Congress, and signed by John Hancock,
requesting the state of New York to erect a monument, at continental
expense, to the memory of Brigadier-General Herkimer, killed on the
Mohawk in 1777. Dated in Congress, 1777.
Letter of Captain Abraham Schenck, of Fishkill, containing an order
for old linen rags, for lint, for the surgeon of his command. Dated
near Croton, 1776.
Letter of General Heath relating to beacons in the highlands. Dated
Robintson's House, 1780.
Letter of General Heath on the condition of the prisoners confined in
the Provost prison, at West Point. Dated Highlands, 1780.
Letter of Captain Nathaniel Toms, describing a chase after the British
over the Schuylkill in 1777.
Journal of Lemuel Lyon, of Woodstock, Vermont, who served in the
French and Indian war, in the expedition against Ticonderoga,
commanded by General Abercrombie. The journal commences on the 5th of
April, 1758, and closes on the 16th of November, 1759.
Journal of Samuel Haws, one of the minute-men called out on the day of
the battle of Lexington: commencing April 19, 1775, and ending in
January, 1776.
Three original letters of Washington to Colonel Marinus Willet,
relating to a secret expedition against Oswego in 1782. Dated at
Newburgh headquarters, 1782.
Letter of Joshua H. Smith, the person who conducted André toward the
British lines. Directed from Goshen jail to Governor Clinton,
complaining of the state of his health and the closeness of his
confinement. Dated 1780.
Letter of Ezekiel Hyatt, of Crompond, Westchester county, to James
Jackson, Esq., of Fishkill, in Dutchess county, informing him that
Husson, a notorious cowboy and freebooter, had gone up to steal his
horses, and was to have a hundred guineas if he got them. Dated
Crompond, 1777.
Letter of Lieutenant Lawrence on the subject of the departure of the
British fleet from the harbor of Newport. Dated Reading, 1780.
Letter by the direction of Washington to Abraham Schenck and others,
of Fishkill, to solicit shirts of the inhabitants of their precinct
for the soldiers of the army, many of whom were utterly destitute of
that article. Dated Kingston, 1780.
Letter of Samuel Barker, while confined in the Provost prison, New
York, to his wife in Westchester county. Dated Provost Prison, 1777.