Robert Livingston Letters for the years 1773 thru 1795

Claremont, NY - 21 June 1773

Since we heard of your intentions, solicitous for our daughter's happiness, we have made such enquiries as have given a great deal of satisfaction.

Claremount - 20 March 1776

I sympathize most sincerely with you in your melancholy apprehensions about your parents. I know and I can feel such a loss

Philadelphia, PA - 21 May 1776

If your Congress have any spirit, they will at least build fourteen or fifteen light boats capable of carrying a twelve-pounder, to secure Hudson River, which is to be the chief scene of action.

Kingston, NY - 6 October 1779

I have just now heard that you are upon the point of leaving us. I might have expected to have received this intelligence from yourself, rather than from loose report

Trenton, NJ - 22 June 1780

My anxiety for the supplies of the army has brought me to this place, in order that I might satisfy myself as to the quantity on hand, and the means of forwarding them.

Philadelphia, PA - 26 August 1780

Your remembrance of the pleasurable days of our youth, and the scenes in which we mutually bore our parts, together with the attractions which this country still has for you, afford me the most pleasing hope that neither time nor absence will weaken

Philadelphia, PA - 26 February 1783

I have the honor to inform your Excellency that our last despatches, dated in October, announced a disposition in the belligerent powers to terminate the war by a general peace.

Philadelphia, PA - 12 March 1783

The Washington packet arrived this morning. I have not yet had leisure to read all my letters but as an express is ready to go early to-morrow, I rather choose to rely upon your goodness to excuse a letter written in extreme haste

Philadelphia, PA - 24 March 1783

You will by this express receive the agreeable intelligence of a general peace, upon which I most sincerely congratulate you and the army.

Philadelphia, PA - 12 April 1783

I congratulate your Excellency, most sincerely, upon the cessation of hostilities, which you will learn from the inclosed proclamation.

New York, NY - 29 November 1783

Our enemies are hardly more astonished than we are ourselves, and than you will be when you hear that we have been five days in town without the smallest disturbance

New York, NY - 25 January 1784

Our parties are, first, the tories, who still hope for power, under the idea that the remembrance of the past should be lost, though they daily keep it up by their avowed attachment to Great Britain.

Clermont - 8 July 1795

In my present retired situation, I have carefully read and considered the treaty with England. I see in it not the slightest satisfaction for our wrongs. I see them, in some instances, authorized.