1To George Washington from John Kilty, 13 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave respectfully to offer myself to your Excellency as a candidate for the vacant surveyorship of the port of Baltimore. Respect for the station I hold in the government of this State, will not permit me to ask a recommendation from any but gentlemen of the highest character—I therefore content myself with presenting to your Excellency, herewith enclosed a letter from Mr Carroll of...
2To George Washington from John Kilty, 23 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave once more respectfully to present myself to your Excellency among the Candidates for the Collectorship of the Port of Baltimore, made vacant by the death of General Williams, and to lay before you the enclosed Letter from the Chancellor of Maryland, which with the Testimonials I had the honour to transmit on a former occasion, must form the whole foundation of my hopes on this...
3To George Washington from John Kilty, 29 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Having understood from respectable authority that Mr Gale proposes to resign his station as Supervisor of the District of Maryland, and that the choice of a person to succeed him already engages your Excellency’s attention, I beg leave to take the occasion thus offered of renewing my application for employment in the General Government. The testimonials which I have heretofore had the honour...
4To George Washington from John Kilty, 1 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honour to address your Excellency by the last mail, it has occurred to me that the enclosed Report of a Committee of our House of Delegates made at the last Session of Assembly would be the most genuine Testimony of my official conduct that could be offered inasmuch as it proceeded from five Gentlemen, with none of whom I had any degree of friendship or intimacy. The Clerk of...