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Start Over Collection Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1781 May 2 1 items Folder 15

Encloses dispatches from Culper Sr. (Abraham Woodhull); Comte de Rochambeau has asked Tallmadge to open an intelligence channel with New York and will furnish money; encloses draft of enemy works at Brooklyn Ferry.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1781 May-Dec

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1781 May 6 1 items Folder 15

Has instructed Culper Sr. (Abraham Woodhull) to improve intelligence communications; encloses letter concerning prisoners taken at Fort St. George; has written Congress concerning remounts and urges Washington to ask Gov. Jonathan Trumbull about them; expects Col. Elisha Sheldon at Hartford.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1781 May-Dec

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1782 Apr 27 1 items Folder 16

Has returned from an interview with Culper Sr. (Abraham Woodhull); Culper Jr. (Robert Townsend) is not as efficient as formerly; not all future intelligence to be in invisible stain; expenses of communicating intelligence.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1782 Jan-Jun

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1782 Dec 14 1 items Folder 18

Is gratified by Washington's letter and will communicate his best wishes to Caleb Brewster; will try to get intelligence if stationed on Long Island Sound; has intelligence from S. B. that 4,000 British troops will soon embark from New York for the West Indies; 114 transports lying at New York.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1782 Oct-Dec

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1782 Dec 4 1 items Folder 18

Has received Washington's orders and will carry them out on arrival of Col. Samuel Webb's two Light Infantry companies; Adm. Digby is at Huntington, N.Y. and Gen. Guy Carleton is expected there; will forward more intellgence shortly.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1782 Oct-Dec

Tallmadge, Benjamin to George Washington, 1782 Dec 8 1 items Folder 18

Troops from his command were embarked as ordered, but sailing delayed by winds; two enemy boats captured by Capt. Caleb Brewster; enemy casualties; Brewster badly wounded; prisoners being brought in by Webb's Light Infantry companies.

  1. The Litchfield Historical Society
  2. Benjamin Tallmadge collection, 1777-1864, Date acquired: 01/01/1933, bulk 1778-1833
  3. Correspondence, 1776-1856
  4. 1782 Oct-Dec