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Editorial Note [Diaries 1:119]
Editorial Note [Diaries 1:162]
From the New York Committee of Safety, 25 April 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 4:135]
From William Gordon, 19–20 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:40]
To Major General Philip Schuyler, 20–21 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:60]+
To the Essex County Committee of Safety, 21 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:64]+
To John Hancock, 27 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:123]+
General Orders, 3 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:552]+
To Major General Israel Putnam, 9 November 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 7:129]+
Instructions to Joseph Trumbull, 10 November 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 7:140]+
From John Hancock, 14 November 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 7:158]+
From the New York Committee of Safety, 24 December 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 7:433]+
To John Augustine Washington, 24 February 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:439]
To Brigadier General George Weedon, 27 March 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:643]
To Richard Henry Lee, 24–26 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:256]
To Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 7 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:365]+
To John Hancock, 3 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:601]
To Colonel Theodorick Bland, 8 November 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 12:165]+
From Brigadier General Henry Knox, 26 November 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 12:415]
From Brigadier General John Glover, 29 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:351]
From Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, 4 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:395]+
From Major Joseph Watkins, 9 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:445]+
From Major General William Heath, 10 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:456]+
From Major General William Heath, 13 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:495]+
General Orders, 23 April 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:591]+
To Major General Benedict Arnold, 6 July 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:32]+
To Vice Admiral d'Estaing, 22 July 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:126]+
From Baron de Knobelauch, 2 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 16:476]+
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 15 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:12]+
From Brigadier General John Stark, 15 September 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 17:17]+
From Major General Horatio Gates, 12 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:39]
To Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 16 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:89]+
From Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 17 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:103]
From John Jay, 21 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:151]+
From Thomas Johnson, 23 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:179]
From Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, 25 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:207]
From Richard Henry Lee, 28 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:253]+
From the Board of War, 10 May 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 20:412]+
Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 11 July 1790 [Presidential Series 6:46]+
From Thomas Jefferson, 13 April 1792 [Presidential Series 10:260]+
From Anonymous, 1793 [Presidential Series 14:682]
From Tobias Lear, 22 August 1794 [Presidential Series 16:594]+
To Tobias Lear, 28 August 1794 [Presidential Series 16:611]+
– letters from [1 reference]
– accounts of French Revolution from [1 reference]
– act for enlisting of servants [6 references]
– activities in Kentucky and Northwest Territory [1 reference]
– act regarding land titles [1 reference]
– address to king of [1 reference]
– agriculture in [7 references]
– alleged duplicity of [1 reference]
– alleged influence on U.S. executive branch [4 references]
– alleged to foment unrest among western citizens [8 references]
– American agent [1 reference]
– American claims against [1 reference]
– American debts to British creditors [1 reference]
– American regiment [2 references]
– Americans in [3 references]
– American sympathizers in [3 references]
– American war effort against [1 reference]
– and American debtors [1 reference]
– and American independence [13 references]
– and American naval operations [1 reference]
– and American public opinion [1 reference]
– and American slaves [1 reference]
– and Canada [2 references]
– and confiscated Tory estates [1 reference]
– and Creek Indians [1 reference]
– and East India Company [1 reference]
– and European alliances [2 references]
– and European affairs [7 references]
– and expeditions to Baffin Bay [1 reference]
– and French alliance with America [3 references]
– and French encroachment in Ohio country [2 references]
– and frontier posts [3 references]
– and fugitive laws [2 references]
– and garrisons on Lake Champlain [2 references]
– and George Beckwith [1 reference]
– and Gouverneur Morris mission [7 references]
– and Hessian fly [1 reference]
– and Illinois & Wabash Land Company [1 reference]
– and independent companies [1 reference]
– and India [1 reference]
– and Indian affairs [19 references]
– and intrigue in Kentucky [1 reference]
– and Ireland [2 references]
– and Iroquois Indians [1 reference]
– and Loyalists' claims [1 reference]
– and Mississippi River navigation [1 reference]
– and Morocco [1 reference]
– and Northwest posts [12 references]
– and occupation of Saint Domingue [1 reference]
– and Ohio Company [1 reference]
– and packet service to U.S. [5 references]
– and Paine's views on debts owed to British creditors [1 reference]
– and posts on New York's western frontier [1 reference]
– and Puerto Rico [1 reference]
– and regiments from Ireland [1 reference]
– and removal of slaves [1 reference]
– and seizure of American ship [2 references]
– and Seven Years' War [1 reference]
– and ships on Lake Erie [1 reference]
– and smuggling [1 reference]
– and Spanish colonies [1 reference]
– and speculation in American frontier lands [1 reference]
– and standardization of weights and measures [1 reference]
– and the French and Indian War [2 references]
– and Thomas Paine [2 references]
– and truce between Algiers and Portugal [8 references]
– and U.S. boundary [3 references]
– and U.S.-Canadian boundary [2 references]
– and U.S. debts to citizens of [1 reference]
– and western posts [1 reference]
– and William Augustus Bowles [1 reference]
– applications for office in [3 references]
– as destination [40 references]
– as source of ore for U.S. [1 reference]
– attack on Saint Domingue [1 reference]
– attacks Ticonderoga [4 references]
– attitude towards U.S. [1 reference]
– at war with France [9 references]
– Beckwith conversations [3 references]
– Bermuda trade [2 references]
– Board of Agriculture [14 references]
– Board of Longitude [1 reference]
– Board of Ordnance [1 reference]
– Board of Trade to rule on Van Rensselaer's land claim [1 reference]
– boundary disputes with U.S. [5 references]
– bounties on whaling boats [1 reference]
– Braddock campaign [1 reference]
– British Crown [5 references]
– British naval operations [2 references]
– British queries on conditions in U.S. [1 reference]
– British ships to [8 references]
– British troops to [2 references]
– Bryan Fairfax attempts to visit [1 reference]
– Canadian boundary dispute [1 reference]
– captures French forts [5 references]
– captures Guadeloupe and Martinique [1 reference]
– captures Saint Domingue ports [1 reference]
– Caribbean possessions of [1 reference]
– cartel with France [2 references]
– chided [1 reference]
– claim over America [2 references]
– closes Ohio country to settlement [1 reference]
– comments on affairs in [3 references]
– commercial connections with U.S. [1 reference]
– commercial legislation of [2 references]
– commercial relations with U.S. [22 references]
– commercial treaties [1 reference]
– commissions in British army [1 reference]
– communications with U.S. [1 reference]
– complaints against [1 reference]
– construction of canals in [1 reference]
– consuls in Spain [1 reference]
– consuls in U.S. [7 references]
– consuls to U.S. [4 references]
– contempt for French navy in [1 reference]
– Continental officers from [1 reference]
– convoy from [1 reference]
– currency of [1 reference]
– departures from [14 references]
– deportation of Acadians [1 reference]
– depredations of British troops [1 reference]
– description of London [1 reference]
– determination to prosecute war [2 references]
– dispute over Alburg, Vt. [7 references]
– domestic unrest in [2 references]
– economic conditions [3 references]
– economic legislation [1 reference]
– embargo on ships [2 references]
– emigrants from [10 references]
– evacuation of New York City [1 reference]
– exchanges prisoners [4 references]
– expected reinforcements from [1 reference]
– expedition against France [6 references]
– expedition against Louisburg [7 references]
– failure to surrender western posts [1 reference]
– fears French annexation of Belgium [1 reference]
– financial affairs of [1 reference]
– financial situation [1 reference]
– fleets from [2 references]
– forces for America [1 reference]
– foreign affairs of [3 references]
– foreign relations [11 references]
– forgery in [1 reference]
– Freemasonry in [1 reference]
– French declaration of war on [1 reference]
– French emigrés in [2 references]
– French surrender to [2 references]
– funds sent to Dinwiddie [1 reference]
– garrisons in North America [2 references]
– gifts from [1 reference]
– goods ordered from [1 reference]
– Gouverneur Morris in [1 reference]
– Gouverneur Morris mission [4 references]
– Gouverneur Morris's negotiations with [5 references]
– GW's addresses to Congress published in [1 reference]
– GW's portraits in [1 reference]
– Hillsborough instructs Botetourt to make no grants in transmontane west [1 reference]
– Hillsborough's opinion that provincial officers were not included in 1763
proclamation [1 reference]
– Hite-Fairfax land dispute appealed to Privy Council [1 reference]
– hopes for independence from [1 reference]
– housing construction in [1 reference]
– illness of the king [10 references]
– immigrants from [6 references]
– impact of GW's proposed retirement on negotiations with [1 reference]
– importance of Canada to [1 reference]
– importation of tobacco [1 reference]
– imports from [1 reference]
– impressment of U.S. seamen [11 references]
– Indian agents [3 references]
– Indian policy of [14 references]
– Indian relations [13 references]
– influence on Portugal [2 references]
– instructions to naval vessels and privateers [5 references]
– intelligence concerning troop fleet from [1 reference]
– intelligence from [10 references]
– intrigues in the U.S. [2 references]
– inventors from [1 reference]
– Johnston-Russell land dispute appealed to [1 reference]
– land grants [1 reference]
– law restricting emigration of mechanics [2 references]
– laws [1 reference]
– laws on export of machinery and artisans [1 reference]
– laws regarding sheep [1 reference]
– legal system of [3 references]
– libel laws in [1 reference]
– linen drapery trade in [1 reference]
– Lord Camden's opinion on boundary dispute [1 reference]
– lords commissioners of the treasury of [1 reference]
– Loyalists flee to [2 references]
– machinery in [3 references]
– Manley-Hollows land dispute appealed to [1 reference]
– manufacturing in [7 references]
– marriage of Prince of Wales [1 reference]
– may abandon war effort [14 references]
– may evacuate U.S. [4 references]
– merchant ships of [1 reference]
– military affairs [9 references]
– military strategy of [1 reference]
– militia [1 reference]
– “Ministerial Line” [1 reference]
– ministers in [1 reference]
– minister to United States [11 references]
– Mississippi Company petition referred to Board of Trade [1 reference]
– mobs in [2 references]
– monetary exchange [3 references]
– monetary policy [1 reference]
– morale in [1 reference]
– music in [1 reference]
– muskets of [2 references]
– nautical education in [1 reference]
– naval action near [2 references]
– naval convoys from [3 references]
– naval forces of [7 references]
– Navigation Act of [1 reference]
– navy of [1 reference]
– need for intelligence from [1 reference]
– neglects Virginia [1 reference]
– news from [2 references]
– newspapers [7 references]
– newspapers from [2 references]
– northern boundary dispute with U.S. [1 reference]
– oaths of allegiance to [1 reference]
– occupies forts in U.S. territory [2 references]
– officers return to [2 references]
– opposition to Gouverneur Morris in [1 reference]
– order in council limiting governors from granting western lands except to officers
under 1763 proclamation [1 reference]
– orders in council [13 references]
– ordnance from [1 reference]
– outstanding accounts with U.S. [1 reference]
– packet ship from [3 references]
– pamphlets circulated in [1 reference]
– Parliament [49 references + 10 subentries]
– payment of debts to [3 references]
– peace commissioners [64 references + 12 subentries + 1 “see also” entry]
– peace negotiations [3 references]
– peace proposals [69 references]
– pilot enticed to [1 reference]
– plan of reconciliation [6 references]
– policy of [2 references]
– policy on American frontier [2 references]
– policy toward America [6 references]
– political affairs in [25 references]
– political opinions in [3 references]
– popularity of Rights of Man in [3 references]
– popular opinion on [1 reference]
– post at Niagara of [1 reference]
– post office in [1 reference]
– preparations for war [1 reference]
– price of commissions in army [1 reference]
– prices in [1 reference]
– prisoner exchange commissioners [3 references]
– prisoners sent to [1 reference]
– prisoners return to [8 references]
– prisoners taken to [1 reference]
– prisons in [2 references]
– privateers of [1 reference]
– Privy Council and Dunbar suit [3 references]
– property claims against [2 references]
– proposed envoy to [9 references]
– prosecution of war [26 references]
– prospect of war with France [10 references]
– providing arms to Indians [4 references]
– provision ships from [1 reference]
– provokes French sensibilities [2 references]
– public attitude toward war [5 references]
– public opinion about [3 references]
– public opinion in [3 references]
– public opinion on [12 references]
– quarantine on vessels from New York [1 reference]
– reconciliation with [11 references]
– reconciliation with colonies [18 references]
– recruiting in [1 reference]
– recruiting law of 1779 [1 reference]
– regency question [3 references]
– regiments in New York [4 references]
– regiments raised in [1 reference]
– regulation of West Indies commerce [1 reference]
– reinforcements from [7 references]
– relations with [10 subentries]
– religious disputes in [1 reference]
– repeal of Stamp Act [1 reference]
– reputation of [1 reference]
– resources of [1 reference]
– restrictions on hiring skilled workers from [1 reference]
– restricts export of sheep [1 reference]
– retains northwest posts [3 references]
– retention of U.S. posts [5 references]
– retention of western posts [2 references]
– Roman Catholics in [1 reference]
– rumored aid from Russia, Hanover, and Portugal [1 reference]
– rumored discord in [1 reference]
– rumored unrest in [1 reference]
– rumors concerning peace negotiations [1 reference]
– rumors of war with France [12 references]
– settlement of claims under Jay Treaty [1 reference]
– ship arrivals from [2 references]
– shipbuilding in [1 reference]
– ships from [2 references]
– ships leave [1 reference]
– stability of [2 references]
– strategy assessed [24 references]
– strategy of [1 reference]
– studies of taxation in [1 reference]
– support in U.S. for [1 reference]
– surrenders forts [1 reference]
– surveying expedition from Canada [1 reference]
– takes French ships [1 reference]
– taxes [2 references]
– textile manufacturing in [1 reference]
– threatened invasion of [1 reference]
– Tobias Lear visits [3 references]
– Townshend Acts [2 references]
– traders among Indians [1 reference]
– trade with U.S. [4 references]
– transports bound to [1 reference]
– treaties with German princes [2 references]
– Treaty of Paris [1 reference]
– treaty of Saratoga [1 reference]
– treaty with Portugal [1 reference]
– treaty with Prussia [1 reference]
– trials in [1 reference]
– troops from [13 references]
– troops in [1 reference]
– troops under Major Grant defeated [2 references]
– unemployment in [1 reference]
– Union Jack [1 reference]
– unpopularity of war in [2 references]
– urged to grant American independence [1 reference]
– U.S. consuls to [4 references]
– U.S. economic policies toward [1 reference]
– U.S. minister to [7 references]
– U.S. prisoners in [1 reference]
– U.S. trade with [1 reference]
– vessels sail to and from [3 references]
– views about U.S. in [3 references]
– views of Republicans on [1 reference]
– visitors from [1 reference]
– war effort [16 references]
– war rumored [1 reference]
– war weariness in [2 references]
– war with France [3 references]
– Washington's ancestry in [1 reference]
– Wool Bill of 1788 [1 reference]
– woolens from [1 reference]
See also Foreign Affairs, Great Britain [link unavailable]
See also Hammond, George (1763-1853)
See also London [matches multiple entries]
See also Nootka Sound crisis [link unavailable]