Lebanon Letters for the years 1775 thru 1793

Lebanon, CT - 13 July 1775

Suffer me to join in congratulating you, on your appointment to be General and Commander-in-Chief of the troops raised, or to be raised, for the defence of American liberty.

Lebanon, CT - 17 July 1775

On the 1st instant I met the Honorable Assembly of this Colony, to deliberate on the request and pressing reasons sent us from the Massachusetts for an immediate augmentation of troops from this Colony.

Lebanon, CT - 31 July 1775

By the resolve in Congress of the 19th instant, it is recommended to the New England Colonies to complete the deficiencies in the -regiments belonging to them respectively.

Lebanon, CT - 11 August 1775

I am informed a quantity of powder for the camp is to be at Hartford this evening, and more to follow soon. We have none lately arrived, which is daily expected.

Lebanon, CT - 5 September 1775

Our coasts are kept in continual alarm. Three ships of war, with thirteen other vessels of divers sorts, were seen off Fisher's Island, and in the Sound, yesterday.

Lebanon, CT - 15 September 1775

New London and Stonington are still so menaced by the ministerial ships and troops, that the militia can not be thought sufficient for their security, and it is necessary to cast up some intrenchments.

Lebanon, CT - 1 January 1776

By accounts received from the various parts of the Colony, the recruiting officers, for the Continental service, have good success in enlisting men.

Lebanon, CT - 15 January 1776

The condition and circumstances of the Colony of New York give me pain, lest the friends to American liberty in that Colony should be too much neglected and become disheartened

Lebanon, CT - 24 January 1776

I thought fit this morning to acquaint Colonel Burrell, appointed to command the regiment destined to Canada from hence, that a month's pay will be advanced to officers and men by you.

Lebanon, CT - 5 February 1776

The battalion raising in this Colony, to march to the assistance of our friends at Canada, are enlisted to serve until the 1st of February next, with bounty, pay, wages, and allowances, agreeable to resolve of Congress

Lebanon, CT - 12 February 1776

I am greatly concerned for the scarcity of powder and arms. We have not half a sufficiency for our selves, as the circumstances may be ; yet, anxious to furnish you, for the common good, with every supply in our power

Lebanon, CT - 4 July 1776

The retreat of the Northern army, and its present situation, have spread a general alarm. By intelligence from Major-General Schuyler, received last-evening, I have reason to conclude that they are now at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, in a weak state

Lebanon, CT - 5 August 1776

The troops from this State, destined to the northward, are marched to Bennington, and from thence to Skenesborough.

Lebanon, CT - 21 February 1777

although it would have made me very happy to have been able to procure a release of all our officers in captivity, I freely acknowledge and acquiesce in the justice and impartiality of the measures you have taken respecting them.

Lebanon, CT - 9 July 1781

Your feelings of distress excite a sympathy in my breast, and a readiness to do all in my power to remove the occasion. That the Committee from the Connecticut line of the army did not accomplish a full settlement, was to me a matter of sorrow, and f

Lebanon, CT - 17 July 1781

I wrote yesterday to the Treasurer, to inform me this week, what sum of hard money is and can be immediately collected for the army, which shall be sent forward without delay.

Lebanon, CT - 6 November 1781

The very interesting and important news of the surrender of General Lord Cornwallis; with the British army, shipping, &c., &c., under his command, reached me on the 26th ultimo by a vessel from the Chesapeake

Lebanon, CT - 20 April 1784

A month more, I trust, will bring me to the haven of retirement ; in the tranquillity of which I hope to have leisure to attend to and cultivate those seeds of private friendship, which have been planted during the tumults of war

Lebanon, CT - 28 October 1788

I wish the States were like to be as happily unanimous in their Vice-President.

Lebanon, CT - 31 October 1793

Moreover, the Constitution must be paramount to the law in such cases ; otherwise, the power granted may be so controlled as not to be sufficient to surmount the necessity of the occasion.