Middlebrook Letters for the years 1777 thru 1779

Middlebrook, NJ - 1 March 1777

I have taken the liberty to trouble you with this hint, as sometimes things the most obvious escape attention. If you agree with me in sentiment, you will easily fall upon the most proper mode for answering the purpose.

Middlebrook, NJ - 23 May 1777

I embrace the first opportunity since my arrival here to write you. I am very happy in the General's family. His secretaries and aides-de-camp are gentlemen of education, and of the most polite, obliging manners.

Middlebrook, NJ - 5 June 1777

A resolution, of the 30th ultimo, has been shown to me by some French officers attached to the corps of artillery under my command, ordaining that all officers of artillery, ... shall take rank, in the American artillery, according to the dates of th

Middlebrook, NJ - 0 April 1779

If, under this sanction, I should step beyond the line you would wish to draw, and suggest ideas or ask questions which are improper to be answered, you hare only to pass them by in silence.

Middlebrook, NJ - 3 April 1779

Perfectly satisfied that no consideration save a desire to reestablish your health could induce you to leave the service, I cannot therefore withhold my consent.

Middlebrook, NJ - 14 April 1779

The circumstance of which you have obliged me with a communication, is among a number of other instances of the unfriendly views which have governed a certain gentleman from a very early period.

Middlebrook, NJ - 10 May 1779

To me it appears that our affairs are in a very delicate situation ; and what is not the least to be lamented is, that many people think they are in a very flourishing way ; and seem in a great measure insensible to the danger with which we are threa

Middlebrook, NJ - 19 May 1779

It is much to be regretted that the pleasure of obeying the first emotions in favour of misfortune is not always in our power.