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Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Lee, 1781 December 21; No. 430 Nathanael Greene to Henry Lee
Identifier(s): text:347645
Description: Points out the difficulties involved in Lee's proposed attack on John's Island, [S.C.], offers assistance if Lee and Col. [John] Laurens decide to attack, and comments that if the attack fails "it will be laid hold on by our domestic enemies" and "the consequences would be dreadful from the effect it would have upon the Country"; [docket]: notes that the attack proved abortive when Laurens's column lost the road in the darkness.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Lee, Henry, 1756-1818; Laurens, John, 1754-1782
Date: 1781-12-21; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Andrew Erwin, 1781 October 21; No. 432 Nathanael Greene to Andrew Erwin
Identifier(s): text:347654
Description: Warrant for the execution of Timothy Griffin, a private in the South Carolina Line, "for encouraging Mutiny and Desertion"; [on verso]: Erwin's certification that the prisoner was executed.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Mutiny; Desertion, Military
Date: 1781-10-21; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1779 August 29; No. 425 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:347704
Description: Encourages Hollingsworth to furnish returns regularly; informs him that Greene will aid him in preventing purchasing agents in the staff from interfering with each other, urges him to.prosecute offenders in order to deter others, and suggests that the heads of each district cooperate and correct abuses committed by their subordinates; remarks that appreciation of money "would cure all our evils" but that without it, "all our reformations will answer no very great purposes"; instructs him to account for money paid for other departments.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-08-29; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael on behalf of the Corporation of Hudson, New York to the mayor Abraham Yates, Jr., 1793 September 25; No. 431 Nathanael Greene, on behalf of the Corporation of Hudson, New York to the mayor Abraham Yates, Jr.
Identifier(s): text:347605
Description: Acknowledges receipt of information about a vessel that was passing to Albany "at this Alarming time" [during the yellow fever epidemic] and mentions that previously they took the precaution of examining all persons who came to Hudson.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: Yellow fever; Yates, Abraham, 1724-1796
Date: 1793-09-25; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1780 May 7; No. 429 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:347578
Description: Instructs him to forward quartermaster accounts and vouchers in compliance with a demand of the Board of Treasury; informs him that a committee of Congress is at camp that is empowered to regulate the Quartermaster department, points out that "Many improper suspicions of abuse prevail respecting the expenditure of public Money," and expresses hope that the department's accounts will prove "that the plan of the War, and the nature of the service entail the expence."
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1780-05-07; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Robert McCorkle, 1781 August 10; No. 433 Nathanael Greene to Robert McCorkle
Identifier(s): text:347668
Description: Warrant for the execution of James Pallet, a private in the Maryland Line, for "Desertion, and bearing arms against the United States"; [on verso]: McCorkle's certification that the prisoner was executed.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Mutiny; Desertion, Military
Date: 1781-08-10; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1780 February 26; No. 428 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:347707
Description: Points out that all buildings erected at Continental expense are public property and instructs him to furnish a return of all such structures in Hollingsworth's district and also to note any terms of rent for public buildings erected on private property.; "Circular"
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1780-02-26; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Mordecai Gist, 1783 May 20; No. 2361 Nathanael Greene to Mordecai Gist
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:771
Description: Gives instructions for delivering letters to Gen. [William] Smallwood and the Secretary of War [Benjamin Lincoln] and delivering orders for two officers who are going home with the sick and convalescent soldiers of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Lines.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: Waging the War; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Medical care; Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810; Smallwood, William, 1732-1792; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1783-05-20; 2021

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1779 December 10; No. 426 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:347602
Description: Orders him to furnish Quartermaster department returns agreeable to the manner and form set forth in the resolution of Congress and the order of the Board of War.; "Circular"
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-12-10; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1780 January 29; No. 427 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:765
Description: Comments on the measures adopted by Congress for procuring supplies for the army; remarks that although it may be desirable to have public agents free from any concerns in trade, if the states prohibit men who are concerned in trade from serving in the Quartermaster department it "will amount to almost a total prohibition of persons of any knowledge in business serving in the department"; urges him to settle accounts up to 1 March [1779]; encloses a copy [not present) of a letter from General Washington regarding discharging all established express riders; informs him that when Greene comes to Philadelphia, he will hear Hollingsworth's explanation about the loud and bitter complaints against the latter.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1780-01-29; 2020

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1780 January 29; No. 427 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:347619
Description: Comments on the measures adopted by Congress for procuring supplies for the army; remarks that although it may be desirable to have public agents free from any concerns in trade, if the states prohibit men who are concerned in trade from serving in the Quartermaster department it "will amount to almost a total prohibition of persons of any knowledge in business serving in the department"; urges him to settle accounts up to 1 March [1779]; encloses a copy [not present) of a letter from General Washington regarding discharging all established express riders; informs him that when Greene comes to Philadelphia, he will hear Hollingsworth's explanation about the loud and bitter complaints against the latter.
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803; Washington, George, 1732-1799
Date: 1780-01-29; 2022