THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO COLONEL JOSEPH VOSE Head Quarters, January 1, 1783. Sir: I approve of your conduct respecting the Flag. Messrs Lewis and Nicholson' are to be permitted to proceed on their Journey, but Mr Kinloch will be under the necessity of return. ing back as I have informed him. Mr. Mott, who was detained some day ago may also return. In future Flags of truce from the Enemy properly authenticated and conducted are to be received at the New Bridge on the Croton until further directions. Other Instructions will be given in a few days on this subject to the Officer commanding on the Lines. I am &c. P. S. You will please to send a safe guard back with Mr Kinloch if he chooses it.2 To SIR GUY CARLETON Head Quarters, January 1, 1783. Sir: As the passage of flags by water between the Posts of Kingsbridge and Dobbs Ferry will soon become very precarious if not totally impracticable on account of the ice; I have the honour to inform your Excellency, that whenever it is found John Nicholson was from Virginia. 'The draft, in the writing of David Humphreys, is inadvertently dated 1782. 8701 I more convenient for your flags to proceed by land, they will be received by the Officer Commanding at the New Bridge on the Croton; it will therefore be optional to send them to that place or Dobbs Ferry, during the winter. I have the honor etc." TO CLELAND KINLOCH Head Quarters, January 1, 1783. Sir: I am to acknowledge the recet. of your Letter of the 29th Decr. and am extremely sorry that I cannot consistently comply with your request, Congress having by their Resolves of October last directed that "no Subjects of his Britannic Majesty coming directly or indirectly from any part of the British Dominions be admitted into any of the United States during the War." The only mode therefore by which you may obtain the permission you desire is by an application to the Executive power of the State of which you mean to become a Citizen or to the Delegates of that State in Congress; their permission will be sufficient for me to admit you within our lines. I am etc.* To JOHN SHUTTLEWORTH Head Quarters, January 1, 1783. Sir: In answer to your favor of the 22nd Ulto. I have to inform you, that the Resolutions of Congress respecting Persons coming from any parts of the British Dominions into any of the United States are so pointed, that I cannot think myself at liberty to comply with your request; your only mode of application must be to the Executive of the State of Maryland, or the "The draft is in the writing of David Humphreys. 'The draft is in the writing of Benjamin Walker. 1783] DISCHARGES AND FURLOUGHS 3 Delegates of that State in Congress, to whom any Letters you may think proper to write on the subject, will be forwarded from the Post of Dobbs Ferry. I am etc. GENERAL ORDERS Head Quarters, Newburgh, Wednesday, January 1, 1783. Parole Guilford. Countersigns Hebron, Jerusalem. For the day tomorrow Colonel Tupper, Lt. Colonel Cochran. For duty tomorrow the 8th. Massachusetts regiment. Discharges, and Furloughs for the persons recommended by the late Board of Inspection are lodged at the Orderly office; Commanding officers of the corps to which these men belong will make application for them that they may be registerd in the books of the regiment before they are delivered out; the dates, (blanks for which are left) are to be inserted in the discharges of those who are entitled to the Provision made by Congress, in their act of the 23d. of April 1782, at the time they are actually given. It is intended by adopting this mode, that those meritorious men who have been debilitated in service shall be borne on the rolls of their regiments and receive their Provisions and other allowances accordingly untill they have an oppertunity of returning to their own States; when ever this happens and the discharges become complete, report thereof is to be made to Head Quarters, that the dates may be registered there also. Accurate Returns of the officers who remain in Service on the Arrangement of the Massachusetts and Connecticut Lines which is to take place this day are to be made to Head Qrs. by the Commanding officers of those lines, as soon as possible. "The draft is in the writing of David Humphreys. |