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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) WASHINGTON'S AIDES-DE-CAMP. - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799)
WASHINGTON’S AIDES-DE-CAMP. - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799) [1893]Edition used:The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890). Vol. XIV (1798-1799).
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- Note.
- The Writings of George Washington.
- 1798.
- To James Anderson.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Jeremy Belknap.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Lloyd.
- To James Lloyd.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Sir John Sinclair.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Confidential.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Anderson.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Henry Knox.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To William Vans Murray.
- To Jonathan Boucher.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To — Mcdowell. 1
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To G. W. Snyder. 1
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To General Lafayette.
- To William Vans Murray. 1
- To David Stuart.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- 1799.
- To Patrick Henry. [confidential]
- To Bryan, Lord Fairfax.
- To James Washington.
- To David Stuart.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private].
- To Timothy Pickering.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major General. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Charles C. Pinckney, Major-general.
- To James Welch.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To John Marshall.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Archibald Blair. 2
- To John Trumbull.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Robert Lewis.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Lawrence Lewis.
- To Burges Ball.
- To William Vans Murray.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Anderson.
- River Farm
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- Extract From a Diary.
- Last Illness and Death. 1
- Particular Account of the Late Illness and Death of George Washington.
- Tobias Lear to William Augustine Washington.
- Tobias Lear to Col. Burges Ball.
- In Congress.
- Mrs. Washington to President Adams.
- Mrs. Washington to Governor Trumbull.
- The Will of George Washington. 1
- Appendix.
- To Lund Washington.
- The Washington Family.
- Washington’s Aides-de-camp.
WASHINGTON’S AIDES-DE-CAMP.
So much loose statement exists concerning the military family of Washington, that I insert this list of his aids. No person can be accounted an aid unless his position was recognized in General Orders or in a definite statement on the part of the General. I give my authority for each appointment, and believe the list to be complete. | Special appointments. | | I have been unable to obtain a copy of the General Orders from November, 1776, to January 12, 1777. Fitzgerald must have been appointed during that period, for he was signing as aid in January, 1777. | | THOMAS MIFFLIN, | General Orders, | 4 | July, | 1775. | | JOSEPH REED,Secretary, | General Orders, | 4 | July, | 1775. | | JOHN TRUMBULL, | General Orders, | 27 | July, | 1775. | | EDMUND RANDOLPH, | General Orders, | 15 | August, | 1775. | | GEORGE BAYLOR, | General Orders, | 15 | August, | 1775. | | ROBERT HANSON HARRISON,Secretary, | General Orders, | 6 | Nov., | 1775. | | STEPHEN MOYLAN, | General Orders, | 6 | March, | 1776. | | WILLIAM PALFREY, | General Orders, | 6 | March, | 1776. | | CALEB GIBBS, | General Orders, | 16 | May, | 1776. | | GEORGE LEWIS, | General Orders, | 16 | May, | 1776. | | RICHARD CARY, | General Orders, | 21 | June, | 1776. | | SAMUEL BLACHLEY WEBB, | General Orders, | 21 | June, | 1776. | | ALEXANDER CONTEE HANSON,Assistant Secretary, | General Orders, | 21 | June, | 1776. | | WILLIAM GRAYSON, | General Orders, | 24 | August, | 1776. | | P. PENET,by brevet. See Vol. IV., 483. Journals of Congress, 14 October, 1776. | | JOHN FITZGERALD, | General Orders, | — | — | — | | GEORGE JOHNSTON, | General Orders, | 1 | March, | 1777. | | JOHN WALKER, | General Orders, | 19 | February, | 1777. | | ALEXANDER HAMILTON, | General Orders, | 20 | January, | 1777. | | RICHARD KIDDER MEADE, | General Orders, | 12 | January, | 1777. | | PETER PRESLY THORNTON, | General Orders, | 6 | September, | 1777. | | JOHN LAURENS, | General Orders, | { 6 | September, | 1777. | | { 6 | October, | 1777. | | JAMES McHENRY,Assistant Secretary, | General Orders, | 15 | May, | 1778. | | TENCH TILGHMAN, | General Orders, | 21 | June, | 1780. | | DAVID HUMPHREYS, | General Orders, | 23 | June, | 1780. | | RICHARD VARICK,Secretary at Headquarters. Washington to Varick, 25 May, 1781. | | JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Jr., Secretary, | General Orders, | 8 | June, | 1781. | | DAVID COBB, | General Orders, | 15 | June, | 1781. | | PEREGRINE FITZHUGH, | General Orders, | 2 | July, | 1781. | | WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, | General Orders, | 6 | July, | 1781. | | BENJAMIN WALKER, | General Orders, | 25 | January, | 1782. | | HODIJAH BAYLIES, | General Orders, | 14 | May, | 1782. |
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