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Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene 1779 February 25; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21141
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Can procure 1500 pack-saddles by the middle of April. Will be with him the following evening.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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. Continental Army--Military life; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-02-25; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 19; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20870
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Directed by General Sullivan to send express to General Greene for 200 portmanteaus and 3000 canteens. Will accompany General Sullivan the following day to view the road cut in the great swamp, already three miles long.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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--American forces; Quartermasters; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-19; 2022

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Robert Lettis Hooper Jr., 1779 June 9; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. from Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20606
Description: Letter from Nathanael Greene to Robert Lettis Hooper. Camp, Smith's Clove - Acknowledging favor of 6th inst. His ability to furnish 100 barrels of flour a day for two months, to be delivered at New Windsor. Question of engaging teams. Hopes Colonel Hooper is mistaken with respect to the provisions not being sent up the Wyoming, as Major Claiborne's and Colonel Cox's accounts on the subject are most flattering. Enemy making no attempt upon West Point, but fortifying at King's Ferry. If necessary apply to Colonel Mitchell for portmanteaus; desires twenty good express horses, with pack-saddle on each.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Quartermasters; Household supplies; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-06-09; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Assistants in Quartermaster's Department, 1780 February 28; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Assistants in Quartermaster's Department
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20689
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper. Easton - Attempts to procure money fruitless. No further contracts must therefore be made, nor must articles appertaining to the quartermaster or forage departments be purchased for the use of the United States, until further instructions are received from General Greene, Colonel Biddle or himself. Begs them to come to the office and close their accounts, so that he may furnish General Greene with a list of debts due against the department.; 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; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Forage; Military camps; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1780-02-28; 2022

Title: Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper, 1779 May 17; Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22160
Description: Letter from Alexander Patterson to Robert Lettis Hooper. Brinker's Mills - Large quantity of stores, but no wagons to take them to the troops. Begs him to send six or eight and save the credit of the department. No riding-horses, no forage and no cash.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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--American forces; Quartermasters; Horses; Forage; Wagons; Patterson, Alexander; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-05-17; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene 1779 February 18; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20752
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Question of the best pack-saddles; will prepare materials for 1000. Difficulty of procuring teams at the price. The people's dislike of Continental money.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States. Continental Army--Military life; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Paper money; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-02-18; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Robert Lettis Hooper, 1779 January 25; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Robert Lettis Hooper
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19985
Description: Extracts of letters between Biddle and Hooper, Wadsworth and Hooper and Hooper and Biddle regarding providing forage to Camp Raritan, particularly the transportation from the Delaware to the North River.; 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--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Forage; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-01-25; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to John Sullivan, 1779 May 18; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to John Sullivan
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20922
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to John Sullivan. Easton - Will furnish horses to the number of 1400. Supplies needed and those at hand. Troops under Colonel Spencer and Colonel Courtland liable to suffer for want of teams necessary to supply and attend them; their clothing not yet arrived. Forage very scarce. Assistance of the Executive Council necessary in procuring wagons.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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--American forces; Quartermasters; Forage; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Clothing and dress; Wagons; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Sullivan, John, 1740-1795
Date: 1779-05-18; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene 1779 February 6_2; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20744
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Enclosing extracts of several letters, to show the orders he has received and the measures he has pursued. Has raised 48 teams on a contract for three months to carry on the flour mentioned in these letters. Acknowledging his letters of 23rd and 28th ult., glad General Greene approves of his candid reports. Will have his accounts to January 1 completed before the end of the month. Must ask for money, however, to complete his present contracts, so begs him to send 0,000 by the bearer, Mr. Strouse. Can procure pack-saddles. "Has grown monstrous fat by Mrs. Greene eating and drinking his health."; Copy of Mss_b_G83_250; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States. Continental Army--Military life; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Forage; ; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-02-06; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 12; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20882
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Number of horses on hand. Needs money. Honored by the esteem of such men as His Excellency and General Greene. Must have horse feed.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-12; 2022

Title: Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper, 1779 May 17; Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22062
Description: Letter from Alexander Patterson to Robert Lettis Hooper. Brinker's Mills - Asking him to send certain tools by bearer.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; 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; Quartermasters; Patterson, Alexander; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-05-17; 2022

Title: Sheriff, Cornelius to Robert Lettis Hooper, 1779 November 14, 16; Sheriff, Cornelius to Robert Lettis Hooper
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23165
Description: Letter from Cornelius Sheriff to Robert Lettis Hooper. Pompton - Desired by General Greene to request Colonel Hooper to call Colonel Bond to a settlement in the pack-horse department. REPLY: Easton - In the strict line of Colonel Sheriff's duty, not of his, to call Colonel Bond to a settlement; will report the matter to General Greene.; 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; Horses; Sheriff, Cornelius; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-11-14; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1780 February 28; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20729
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Happy to have his concurrence and Mr. Biddle's in the enclosed circular letter to all his assistants. Necessity obliged to step, which must occasion a great convulsion in the western district under General Greene.; 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; Quartermasters; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1780-02-28; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 23; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21002
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Has been assisting General Sullivan at Pocono Point. In receipt of 4,000 from Colonel Pettit, which he has paid out. If well supplied with money, will coax the farmers out. Mr. Stewart's mistake, in ordering the magazine to Van Campen's, has caused great damage. Immediate need for tents.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-23; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 12; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21040
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Bearer of letter is Mr. Jacob Schank, who is the conductor of twelve teams of horses. Asks the General to review the teams in order to see how business is done in Hooper's district. Requests money, as without it he is unable to carryout the General's orders.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-12; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 30; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21077
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Arrived safely at home and found Mrs. Hooper doing well. She sends Mrs. Greene a saddle of venison. James O'Hara detected in passing counterfeit Continental money; encloses the unfortunate youth's confession; begs General Greene to obtain a pardon for him and prevent the dreadful shock and disgrace to his family. The bearer, Mr. John Armstrong, is his uncle. Requests him to jog Lord Stirling's memory to send for the deserters now confined in Easton.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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; Quartermasters; Paper money--United States; Family life--18th century; War and families--United States--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-30; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 27; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20648
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - Acknowledging letter of 25th inst. Report of pack-saddles and horses on hand, and the number of teams for hauling stores. Will send on Mrs. Greene's horses as soon as they come.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-27; 2022

Title: Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper, 1779 May 17; Patterson, Alexander to Robert Lettis Hooper
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22046
Description: Letter from Alexander Patterson to Robert Lettis Hooper. Brinker's Mills - Wagoners attending Colonel Courtland's regiment have deserted, leaving their wagons standing on the road. If he cannot have six wagons supplied with forage by the next day, the troops will return for want of provisions; begs that they may be sent with all speed.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; 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; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Quartermasters; Forage; Wagons; Patterson, Alexander; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-05-17; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Mrs. Greene, 1779 May 16; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Mrs. Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20665
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper. Presenting his respectful compliments to Mrs. Greene and begging her acceptance of one keg of butter.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social life and customs; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; Household supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women; Family life--18th century; Horses; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797
Date: 1779-05-16; 2022

Title: Hooper, Robert Lettis Jr. to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 12; Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr. to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20568
Description: Letter from Robert Lettis Hooper to Nathanael Greene. Easton - The people tickled by the enclosed address, returned in pretty good humor. Twenty boats completed and launched, which will arrive at Trenton on Monday next. Number of boards at Minisink. Will send candlesticks to Mr. Thompson next week.; 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; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; Forage; Military camps; Hooper, Robert Lettis, 1730?-1797; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-12; 2022