The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series, Band 8New York Historical Society, 1876 |
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acquaint ANDREW ELLIOT appointed Army arrived August Barrack Master Barrack Office Batt Battalion beg leave Board of Ordnance Brig Gen Brigade Camp Capt Captain Charles Town Cloathing COLONEL Commander in Chief Commissary Companies compleat consequence Corps DEAR SIR Detachment directed by Major Duty enclosed Enemy England Expence favor Fleet Garrison GENTLEMEN give Grant Guns Halifax Hessian Honble Honor hope Horses House J. P. SIR JOHN July Knyphausen Letter LEWIS MORRIS Lieut LIEUTENANT likewise Long Island Lord Amherst Lord Rawdon LORD VISCOUNT TOWNSHEND Lordship Magistrates of Police Majesty's Major Gen Major Lumm Major Sutherland Major Traille March Militia N. Y. City necessary Number Opportunity Orders Pacquet Pattison to desire Pattison to inform Paulis Hook pleased Post present Prisoners Publick Quarters receiv'd received Regiment Regt request Return Royal Artillery sail'd sent Sept Service Ship Sir Henry Clinton Staten Island Stoney Point Stores Troops WILLIAM wish York
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Seite 235 - Yesterday, and to acquaint you for the Information of His Excellency the Commander in Chief that the 4 Iron 4 P...
Seite 86 - P™ and one Ligonier Howitzer are destined for this Service, which with their Ammunition <fe Stores were all embarked Yesterday by 5 o'Clock, on Board the Ship, which brought the Detachment of Captain Traille's Company from Rhode Island and the same Detachment with the Addition of another Officer, is order'd to proceed on the Expedition. I have the Honor to be, With due Respect, Your Excellency's Most Obed' & Most Humb1" Serv' JA
Seite 190 - Major Gen1 D. Losberg To SIR HENRY CLINTON. New York 26th August 1780. SIR, In the Conversation I had the Honor to hold with your Excellency Yesterday Afternoon, you were pleased to signify your wish of knowing, previous to my Departure, whether the Quantity of Ordnance & Stores now at New York, might be deemed sufficient to answer any occasional Calls of Service ; I therefore beg Leave to lay before you the enclosed, shewing the Number of Brass & Iron Guns, Howitzers, and Mortars, at present here...
Seite 299 - SPA Lieut. O'Hara. To GENERAL KNYPHAUSEN. New York, Dec1 17, 1779. SIR, I had the Honor of receiving your Excellency's Letter of this day, enclosing the Examination of the two Persons who brought the Letters from Philadelphia directed to Hessian Officers— With respect to the Man's having voluntarily delivered up those Letters to Captc Adye, I have to inform you that upon his first coming to Town, he was examined before the Police <fe mentioned to them tho...
Seite 259 - SPA Lieut. Col. Bruce. To BRIG. GENERAL PATTERSON. New York, October 6, 1779. SIR, I am to acknowledge the Honor of your Letter of the 4th. A Communication between this City and the Jerseys to a certain Degree I apprehend to be unavoidable. It has been much less frequent since I took this Command than it was before, and every precaution us'd to prevent improper Persons from obtaining Passports, by granting none but on the Application or Recommendation of Known or supposed Friends of Government. Nevertheless...
Seite 325 - New York, January 12, 1780. MADAM, I am directed by Major Gen1 Pattison to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of yesterday, and to assure you that Orders were before given, and Repeated again upon your Application that no Fruit or Ornamental Trees round Gentlemen's Houses, should be cut down. I am, Madam, &c SPA To Mri Clarke, Greenwich.
Seite 230 - Sir, that I may Know where to draw the Line so as not to exceed the due Limits of my Powers (and I am truly very far from wishing an Extension of them) I shall submit the Case to His Excellency the Commander in Chief.
Seite 76 - his Aide.de.Camp with a Flag of Truce to demand the Surrender of the Fort. — The Commandant asked to march out with the Honors of War, but finding that no other Terms would be granted than Surrendering Prisoners of War, they were after a Short Parly, consented to, and the British Colours hoisted in the Fort, — The little Garrison consisted of One Captain, 3 Lieutenants, a Surgeon & 70 Men. — They had one Officer <fe 3 Men Killed, but we had fortunately neither Officer or Man hurt.
Seite 315 - Barrack Master. To CAPTAIN WAUGH. New York, Decr 31, 1779. SIR, I am to acknowledge the Receipt of Your Letter of yesterday, and to inform you, that the Return the General wanted was that of the quantity of Wood that had been cut by the 300 Soldiers employed for this purpose, since the...
Seite 173 - Sir Henry Clinton. To MAJOR TRAILLE. New York 30th June 1780. DEAR SIR, I take this Opportunity to acknowledge your Letter of the 4th Instant, and to congratulate you on the Success of His Majesty's Arms in the Carolinas — The Encominm you give of the good Behavior of the Officers and Men of the Artillery during the Siege of Charles Town, cannot fail to be very agreeable to me, but I must nevertheless lament their not having had the further means of distinguishing themselves, by Commanding their...