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George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 To GOVERNOR THOMAS JOHNSON Head Quarters, Middlebrook, March 1, 1779. Dr. Sir: Sir Henry Clinton in order to supply the British prisoners at Fort Frederick and Winchester with necessaries and money has twice requested a passport for a vessel to go with the same to the port of Baltimore. As it is necessary the prisoners should be supplied, I have granted permission to a schooner to proceed to Hampton road. Where the cargo is to be received into some of the Bay craft, and sent to Alexandria or George Town under the conduct and escort of our own people, and from thence to it's places of destination. I refused the passport to Baltimore especially as it was twice pressed': upon me, as that port did not appear to be the nearest to Fort Frederick and Winchester, and as it might be made use of for the purpose of exploring a navigation, with which they may be in some measure unacquainted. I have been thus particular, lest under colour of hard weather, the vessel should run towards 13 Baltimore. I have the Honor, etc. [MD.H.S.] To GOVERNOR PATRICK HENRY [Middle Brook, March 1, 1779.] Sir: I had the honor of writing you on the 13th Ulto. 13. In the writing of Henry P. Livingston. informing you of passports granted three british vessels to proceed as far as Hampton road in Virginia, subjecting the further conveyance of their cargoes to Charlotteville to your Excellency's directions. In revising the letter, I find I have not been as explicit as I at first designed. My intention, in limiting the passports to Hampton road, and in putting the cargoes under your directions, was that it might be in your power effectually to prevent the vessels from proceeding any further; a restriction which George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 http://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3c.003 I thought came more immediately under your notice and which appeared necessary from a number of considerations. It is uncertain how far Britain may have altered her plan of carrying on the war; or what she may have in view against our defenceless towns on our sea coast. At all events, it is our policy to prevent any discoveries of the Navigation that leads to those places; and as much as possible the state and face of the country on the sea board. These ideas will naturally suggest the measures to be taken, when we are obliged to admit of their vessels, as in the present case. In consequence of an application from Genl. Clinton, I have granted a passport for the Schooner Argyle, Magnus Crosbie Master, with necessaries and 150 guineas in specie for the use of the British prisoners at Fort Frederick and Winchester, but limited her as I have the others, to Hampton road in Virginia. I have also given a protection to 10,000 St. in specie in the Brig Lady Howe for the use of the Convention troops. Gen. Clinton twice pressed, for an extension of the passport for the Schooner Argyle to the port of Baltimore in Maryland, but I have confined it to Hampton road for the reasons mentioned above. 14 With the passport, I inclosed him a letter to your Excellency, (lest the vessel should arrive at Hampton before this) in which I have requested you to dismiss the Schooner as soon as possible, and give orders for the reception of her Cargo in some of the Bay craft; to be conveyed to Alexandria or George Town, by our own people, and under a proper escort to its place of destination. 15 I hope you will excuse me for being so particular on this subject, and believe me Dear Sir etc. 14. The letter to Governor Henry which Washington inclosed in his letter to Clinton was dated Mar. 1, 1779, and was a condensation of the above. The draft of it is in the Washington Papers. 15. The draft is in the writing of James McHenry. On March 1 Washington also wrote a brief note to the President of Congress, telling of the attempt of the British to surprise Maxwell at Elizabethtown. About a thousand troops under the command of Lieut. Col. Thomas Stirling, of the Forty-second Foot, made the attempt. They burned a few houses, but the cattle and horses they collected were recovered by Maxwell, who pursued the enemy to their boats. His loss was 1 killed, 4 wounded, and 9 missing. Washington's letter, inclosing Maxwell's report, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress. George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 http://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3c.003 To GOVERNOR WILLIAM LIVINGSTON Head Quarters, Middle Brook, March 3, 1779. Dear Sir: I was a few days ago honored with yours of the 18th ulto. inclosing the depositions of several inhabitants and civil Officers respecting ill treatment received from sundry Officers of the 32 Army and a refusal in some of them to submit to the civil process. Major Call and Mr. Heath two of the Officers are at Winchester in Virginia, in Winter Quarters a very considerable distance from hence, but if you are of opinion, that there is an immediate necessity for their appearance, to answer 33 34 the charges against them I will order them down. Capt. Von Heer and Mr. Skinner are in Camp. From the conclusion of your letter, you seem willing to suffer the matter to be compromised by the parties to prevent further trouble. I rather wish that the several charges may be fully investigated, that the Officers may, if they are found guilty, be dealt with according to law 32. Maj. Richard Call, of the First Continental Dragoons. 33. Capt. Bartholomew von Heer. 34. James Skinner, who was acting as assistant quartermaster to the Seventh Maryland Regiment. civil or military, in which ever Court they may be tried, or, if innocent, honorably acquitted. I therefore propose that the parties accusing Von Heer and Skinner should institute Civil suits against them, to which I will engage they shall submit, or if they will leave it to a military determination, I will order a Court Martial which will be the speediest method of bringing it to an issue. I am every now and then embarrassed by disputes between the Officers and Inhabitants, which generally originate from the latter coming into Camp with liquor, selling it to the Soldiers, and, as the Officers alledge, taking Cloathing Provision or Accoutrements in pay; there being no civil redress, that I know of, for a grievance of this nature, the Officers undertake to punish those suspected of such practices, some times with reason, and probably sometimes without foundation. If there is no law of the State to prevent this kind of commerce between the people and the Soldiery, it would have a very good effect, to procure one, prohibiting an inhabitant from selling liquor to the Soldiers, within the limits of the Camp, without leave obtained from the commanding Officer of the quarter into which it may be brought, and imposing a penalty, recoverable by a summary process before a George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 http://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3c.003 Magistrate, upon any person receiving Arms, Accoutrements, Cloathing or provisions from a soldier 35 by way of purchase, or in exchange for any commodity brought into Camp for sale. An act of this kind would releive the considerate Officer from the disagreeable necessity in which he is often involved, of submitting to a grievance destructive of every military principle, 35. At this point the draft has the following, which has been stricken out: “As it is my most earnest wish to support the Civil authority to the fullest extent and I know of no more effectual method of doing this than pointing out a mode.” or undertaking to punish a Citizen by virtue of his own authority, and it will point out a mode of redress to others too willing perhaps to exercise military power when they have an opportunity 36 or excuse for so doing. I congratulate you on your late escape at Elizabeth Town, as I am very sincerely. Dear Sir Your etc. 37 I return you the Affidavits agreeable to your request. To PRESIDENT JOSEPH REED Head Quarters, March 3, 1779. Sir: The president of Congress has transmitted me the Instructions of the Assembly of your State, to their Delegates, founded on a representation of the distresses of your western frontiers; and farther the opinion of a Committee of the house on the subject of their defence, together with the two Resolves made in consequence. I am therefore to inform Your Excellency that offensive operations against the hostile tribes of Indians had been meditated and determined upon some time since; that preparations have been making for that purpose and will be carried into Execution at a proper season, if no unexpected event takes place, and the situation of our affairs on the Sea board will justify the undertaking; but the profoundest secresy was judged necessary to the success of 36. Governor Livingston was absent from home at the time of the British raid of February 28, previously mentioned, and so escaped capture by the party of troops which seized his house. 37. The draft is in the writing of Tench Tilghman. George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3C, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 3 http://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3c.003 such an Enterprise, for the following obvious reasons: that immediately upon the discovery of our design, the Savages would either put themselves in condition to make head against us, by a reunion of all their force and that of their allies, strengthened besides by succours from Canada, or elude the expedition altogether which might be effected at the expence only of a temporary evacuation of forests which we could not possess, and the destruction of a few settlements which they might speedily reestablish.
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