Letter from George Washington to Joseph Jones (1783)
“From George Washington to Joseph Jones, 12 March 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/auhj. Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 27th. Ulto., and thank you for the information […]
Letter from George Washington to Henry Laurens (1779)
“From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 20 March 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/oqec. Dear Sir: I have to thank you, and I do it very sincerely, for your obliging favors […]
Letter from Eliphalet Dyer to Joseph Trumbull (1775)
Dear Sir, I have wrote you 2 or 3 letters since I receivd any from you. My last was by Doctor Church. I yesterday wrote to Genll Spencer which he […]
Letter from Daniel Morgan to Nathanael Greene (1781)
Camp near Cain Creek Dear Sir, The Troops I had the Honor to command have been so fortunate as to obtain a compleat Victory over a Detachment from the British […]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to the Inhabitants of America (1780)
I should forfeit even in my own Opinion, the place I have so long held in yours, if I could be indifferent to your Approbation, and silent on the Motives […]
Letter from Benedict Arnold to Lord Germain (1780)
My Lord, Conscious of the rectitude of my Intentions (whatever Constructions may have been put on my Conduct,) and convinced of the benevolence and goodness of your Lordship, I am […]
A New York Loyalist to Lord Hardwicke
The Rebels breathe the most rancorous and malignant Spirit everywhere. Committees and Associations are formed in every Colony and Resolves passed that no Refugees shall return nor have their Estates […]
Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe […]
Memorandum on Events of April 18, 1775
Paul Revere of Boston, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England; of Lawfull Age, doth testify and say, that I was sent for by Docr Joseph Warren, of […]
British Account of the Battle of Monmouth Court House
Neversunk General Clinton’s dispatches will acquaint you of an action on the 28th June, of which our Battalion bore the principal part. Lee, acquainted with the temper of our present […]