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Title: Kéralio, Agathon Guynement, Chevalier de to William Temple Franklin, 1780 November 2; Kéralio, Agathon Guynement, Chevalier de, 1723-1788. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24947
Description: Letter from Agathon Guynement, Chevalier de Kéralio to William Temple Franklin. Thanking him for his letter and the extract from the Pennsylvania Gazette; when the information about Gen. Horatio Gates is received, he requests that it be sent to him as soon as possible.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Social networks--18th century; United States--Social conditions--18th century; United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; Gazettes; Kéralio, Agathon Guynement, Chevalier de, 1723-1788; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1780-11-02; 2022

Title: Claiborne, Robert to Benjamin Stoddert, 1779 September 13; Claiborne, Robert to Benjamin Stoddert
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20204
Description: Letter from Robert Claiborne to Benjamin Stoddert. Directed by General Greene to acknowledge his favor of the 18th inst. with the enclosed resolve of Congress for erecting barracks at Rhode Island. The General has given the necessary orders agreeable to the resolution.; 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--Social aspects; United States. Continental Army--Military life; Barracks; Claiborne, Robert; Stoddert, Benjamin, 1751-1813
Date: 1779-09-13; 2022

Title: Claiborne, Richard to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 24; Claiborne, Richard to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20305
Description: Letter from Richard Claiborne to Nathanael Greene. Mr. Morrisons' company of boatmen complete and will be down the Wyoming with the large boats. Colonel Mitchell's stores coming in very slowly. Boatmen wish same rations as boat-builders, also a blanket apiece, they being exposed to the weather day and night.; 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; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Operational rations (Military supplies); Quartermasters; Claiborne, Richard; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-24; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 January 25; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19936
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Camp, Middlebrook - Acknowledging favors of 20th and 22nd inst., with an acceptable supply of money from Colonel Pettit. Scarcity of forage on account of great land carriage. Complaints against Colonel Bostwick give him great pain. Thinks the purchasers of forage should have an allowance made for their incidental expenses. Arrival of a fleet of sail at York laden with oats and flour. The first fleet, depended on for provisions, is still missing.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: 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; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-01-25; 2022

Title: McDougal, Alexander to John Bancker, 1778 December 13; McDougal, Alexander, 1732-1786 to John Bancker
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23509
Description: Letter from Alexander McDougall to John Bancker. Fishkill - Ordering him to proceed to Poughkeepsie and prepare for the reception of Colonel Jackson's regiment. Orders respecting a supply of wood for the troops. Advises him to appoint a deputy to assist him; also to choose the best road for the troops to march by.; 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. Continental Army--Military life; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786; Bancker, John
Date: 1778-12-13; 2022

Title: Biddle, Clement to Nathanael Greene, 1779 October 30; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20010
Description: Letter from Clement Biddle to Nathanael Greene. Account of the landing of the enemy, 900 strong, at Amboy; the property destroyed and plundered, and the number of men killed. Question of forage and stores; fears for them should the enemy land again. Scarcity of flour on the North river.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: 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--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Military occupation damages; Forage; Quartermasters; Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-10-30; 2022

Title: Maxwell, William to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 6; Maxwell, William to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21561
Description: Letter from William Maxwell to Nathanael Greene. Elizabethtown - Ordered by His Excellency to be ready to march. Begs him to order every necessary provided, so that he may comply with His Excellency's command.; 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; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Maxwell, William; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-06; 2022

Title: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de to Richard Henry Lee, 1778 July 02; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834. ALS to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16441
Description: Letter from Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to Richard Henry Lee. The letter mentions General Washington's success against General Howe and the British army.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers; United States--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Foreign opinion, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces
Date: 1778-07-02; 2021

Title: Washington, George to Richard Henry Lee, 1778 September 23; Washington, George (1732-1799). ALS to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16522
Description: Letter from George Washington to Richard Henry Lee. "The designs of the Enemy, to me, are mysterious -- indeed totally incomprehensible..."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers; United States--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns
Date: 1778-09-23; 2021

Title: Claiborne, Robert to Udny Hay, 1779 November 15; Claiborne, Robert to Udny Hay
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20303
Description: Letter from Robert Claiborne to Udny Hay. In General Greene's behalf, acknowledges his favor of same date enclosing copy of a letter from Colonel Van de Burgh, respecting the wages of express-riders. They are allowed a day, find their own horses and bear their own expenses. Demand for boards at King's Ferry.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects; United States. Army--Pay, allowances, etc.; Claiborne, Robert; Hay, Udny
Date: 1779-11-15; 2022

Title: Bond, Thomas to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 10; Bond, Thomas, 1743-1793 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:19961
Description: Letter from Thomas Bond to Nathanael Greene informing him that his boy has gone through the small-pox but is now fit for service. They pleasure it has given him to have this opportunity to testify to the obligation he was under to General and Mrs. Greene. Desires some order concerning the boy.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; United States--Social conditions--18th century; War and families--United States--History--18th century; Quartermasters; Bond, Thomas, 1743-1793; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-10; 2022

Title: Mifflin, Thomas to Artemus Ward, 1775 August 16; No. 945 Thomas Mifflin to Artemus Ward
Identifier(s): text:353611
Description: Transmits an order from General Washington that Ward send light muskets that were recently captured from the enemy for the use of four Stockbridge Indians and points out that the latter "have given the General much Trouble by their repeated Applications."
Creator: Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Stockbridge Indians; Indigenous peoples; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of--North America; Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800; Washington, George, 1732-1799
Date: 1775-08-16; 2023

Title: Williams, Jonathan to William Temple Franklin, 1779 July 27; Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24973
Description: Letter from Jonathan William to William Temple Franklin. Refers to his letter to Dr. Franklin about the escaped American prisoners who are in distress at Nantes. Took a particular interest in their cases to counteract the impression there that Dr. Franklin was a cruel, inhuman man, who wantonly left them suffer. Has since engaged to pay their landlady out of his own pocket.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Social networks--18th century; United States--Social conditions--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoners of war--United States--History--18th century; Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1779-07-27; 2022

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1779 September 27; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20223
Description: Letter acknowledging favor of 26th inst. Urging him to employ every person he can muster to aid in getting the boats ready. Will engage the artillery artificers to assist in the business.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Mobilizing the Populace; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Artillery operations; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Quartermasters; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-09-27; 2022

Title: Claiborne, Robert to John Cox, 1779 September 16; Claiborne, Robert to John Cox
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20446
Description: Letter from Robert Claiborne to John Cox. The army is to be cantoned and the greater part to quarter at the Scotch Plains. General Greene requests him to have 200,000 feet of boards deposited at some convenient place in that neighborhood with dispatch and secrecy.; 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--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Social aspects; Military camps; Claiborne, Robert; Cox, John
Date: 1779-09-16; 2022

Title: Claiborne, Richard to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 17; Claiborne, Richard to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20435
Description: Letter acknowledging letter of 10th inst. Saw that Colonel Patton received the same orders as Colonel Morgan. Has consulted Colonel Cox on all measures relating to the Quartermaster Department. Lack of steel in the axes received will render most of them useless. Doubts Colonel Mitchell's diligence, and states his reasons for this opinion. Mentions men appointed by Colonel Cox to engage boatmen. Favorable outlook in the matter of boats and boatmen. Enclosing Mr. Redick's returns of provisions.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: 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; Claiborne, Richard; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-17; 2022

Title: Otis, Samuel Allyne to Nathanael Greene, 1779 January 18; Otis, Samuel Allyne, 1740-1814 to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22512
Description: Letter from Samuel Allyne Otis to Nathanael Greene. Boston - Has taken upon himself to execute the orders contained in General Greene's letter of the 5th to his deceased friend. Can procure no vessels upon the terms offered by Congress. Mr. Lewis presses hard for a supply of 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--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Quartermasters; Otis, Samuel Allyne, 1740-1814; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-01-18; 2022

Title: Weiss, Jacob to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 14; Weiss, Jacob to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24073
Description: Letter from Jacob Weiss to Nathanael Greene. New Windsor - Will set off in the morning for Morristown. Asks that Mr. Tenbrook may be sent on before the army marches, to make certain preparations as regards to stores, hutting, etc.; 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--American forces; Weiss, Jacob, 1750-1839; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-14; 2022

Title: Washington, George to Richard Henry Lee, 1778 February 15; Washington, George (1732-1799). ALS to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16342
Description: Letter from George Washington to Richard Henry Lee. "The enemy are governed by no principles that ought to actuate honest men...".; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; United States. Declaration of Independence--Signers; United States--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Destruction and pillage--British
Date: 1778-02-15; 2021

Title: Greene, Nathanael to John Sullivan, 1779 June 21; Sullivan, John from Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23091
Description: Letter from Nathanael Greene to John Sullivan. Smith's Tavern - Speaking of the great hopes placed in the expedition directed by General Sullivan; has done everything, therefore, in his power to give dispatch and success to his measures; has General Sullivan's glory and honor very much at heart. Nothing new. General Clinton at King's Ferry. Good news from southward likely to prove untrue.; 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--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Quartermasters; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; Sullivan, John, 1740-1795; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-06-21; 2022