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Title: Murfree, Hardy to Henry Hollingsworth, 1779 December 15; No. 991 Hardy Murfree to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:353384
Description: Informs him that Murfree's vessel ran aground on a mud flat and requests a sloop to "take us round."
Creator: Murfree, Hardy, 1752-1809et al
Subject: Sloops; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-12-15; 2023

Title: Howard, John Eager to Henry Hollingsworth, 1789 May 8; No. 558 John Eager Howard to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:348840
Description: Informs him that Hollingsworth's services for attending sales will be required only in the three upper counties of Maryland and requests that he execute and return a bond; [postscript]: requests that he transmit a letter to the tax commissioners.
Creator: Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827et al
Subject: Taxation; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1789-05-08; 2022

Title: Charles Carroll, of Carrollton to Henry Hollingsworth; No. 155 Charles Carroll, of Carrollton to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:320911
Description: Requests that he send four hundred bayonets of different-sized sockets for the Eastern Shore militia who are to comprise part of the Flying Camp.
Creator: Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832et al
Subject: Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1776-07-12; 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: Cox, John to Henry Hollingsworth, 1778 October 16; No. 203 John Cox to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:326035
Description: Informs him that Cox cannot comply with a request for cash because of "the large sums thought immediately necessary in the Commissary Generals Department"; instructs him to pay wagoners in compliance with the recently passed "Waggon Law" of Pennsylvania; informs him that Cox will attempt to procure clothing for the carters.
Subject: United States--History, Military; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1778-10-16; 2021

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: Morris, Robert to Henry Hollingsworth, 1779 November 16; No. 971 Robert Morris to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:353443
Description: Requests that he forward dispatches to [Anne-Cesar], chevalier de La Luzerne and to [Jean] Holker.
Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806et al
Subject: Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803; La Luzerne, Anne-César, chevalier de, 1741-1791
Date: 1779-11-16; 2023

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: Cox, John to Henry Hollingsworth, 1779 July 8; No. 204 John Cox to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:325979
Description: Requests a general return of everything pertaining to the Quartermaster's department in Hollingsworth's district and informs him that according to the Quartermaster General's [Nathanael Greene's] instructions, deputies who neglect to make regular monthly returns "will be discontinued without ceremony."; "Circular"
Subject: United States--History, Military; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-07-08; 2021

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: Maxwell, Solomon to Henry Hollingsworth, 1781 November 30; No. 926 Solomon Maxwell to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): text:353661
Description: Discusses paying wagoners for carting flour and other goods for the French army and mentions that the wagoners "begin to complain that this business will be like the Continental Debts"; informs him about the arrival of hospital stores and flour and also that shallops are transporting heavy artillery.
Creator: Maxwell, Solomon, -approximately 1827et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1781-11-30; 2023

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

Title: Finnie, William to Hollingsworth, 1779 May 12; Finnie, William to Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21209
Description: Letter from William Finnie to Henry Hollingsworth.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; United States. Continental Army--Military life; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; ; Finnie, William; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-05-12; 2022

Title: Johnson, Thomas to Colonel Hollingsworth, 1779 May 12; Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819 to Colonel Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21701
Description: Letter from Thomas Johnson to Henry Hollingsworth. Annapolis - Informing him of the narrow escape of Captain Hanson, who encountered certain armed vessels in the bay and put back to Annapolis. Report by Mr. Robinson of a schooner bound to sea chased by a fleet of between twenty and thirty sail; heard nothing further.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; Quartermasters; Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803
Date: 1779-05-12; 2022

Title: Pettit, Charles to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 19; Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806 to Nathanael Greene, Henry Hollingsworth to Pettit
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22451
Description: Letter from Charles Pettit to Nathanael Greene. Philadelphia - Enclosing a copy of Colonel Hollingsworth's letter announcing the appearance of the enemy in the bay, the landing of three or four thousand men at Portsmouth on their march to Williamsburg, and fourteen sail lying under New Point Comfort. Explains away a certain phrase in his letter which General Greene took offense at. Desires Mrs. Greene's instructions as to the locket. Hopes of getting money from the Treasury.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806; Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
Date: 1779-05-19; 2022