1From George Washington to John Hancock, 23 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment received your Excellen[c]y’s polite letter of today—and have the honor to inform you that in consequence of suggestions made by the Gentlemen from Boston and the Depy Adjut. Genl (whom I met at Worcester this morning) that it would make it more convenient for the troops, many of which lived at a distance from the place of parade, if I should pass through Cambridge at an...
2To George Washington from the Massachusetts Legislature, 24 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Governor & Council present their respectful compliments to the President of the United States & request the Honor of his company with his suite to Dine on Tuesday next at the Coffee house in State Street at 3 o’Clock P.M. L , DLC:GW . For background to this letter, see GW to Betty Lewis, 12 Oct. 1789, n.3 , and to John Hancock, 23 Oct. 1789, n.1 . On 25 Oct. the dining arrangements were...
3Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 18 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by the President of the United States to send you the enclosed letter from General Hazen dated Decr 16th—and likewise a memorial from the same person of the 12th inst: together with the Copy of a letter written by the Presidents command in answer to the enclosed Memorial. I have the honor to be with perfect consideration Sir Your most Obedt Servt LB , DLC:GW . None of these...
4From George Washington to Benjamin Franklin, 23 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
The affectionate congratulations on the recovery of my health—and the warm expressions of personal friendship which were contained in your favor of the 16th instt, claim my gratitude. And the consideration that it was written when you were afflicted with a painful malady, greatly increases my obligation for it. Would to God, my dear Sir, that I could congratulate you upon the removal of that...
5From George Washington to John Brown Cutting, 23 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th of July enclosing sundry papers respecting the state of public affairs in France, for which mark of attention I request you to accept my best acknowledgements. I am, Sir, Your most Obedt Servt. Df , in the writing of Tobias Lear, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . On this day GW also wrote similar brief letters of acknowledgment to John...
6From George Washington to the Society of Quakers, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I receive with pleasure your affectionate address, and thank you for the friendly Sentiments & good wishes which you express for the Success of my administration, and for my personal Happiness. We have Reason to rejoice in the prospect that the present National Government, which by the favor of Divine Providence, was formed by the common Counsels, and peaceably established with the common...
7From George Washington to the Citizens of Portsmouth, 2 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am sensibly impressed with your friendly welcome to the Metropolis of New Hampshire, and have a grateful heart for your kind and flattering congratulations on my election to the Presidency of these United States. I fear the fond partiality of my countrymen has too highly appreciated my past exertions, and formed too sanguine anticipations of my future services—If the former have been...
8To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter Covering a proposal for establishing a Woollen Manufactory in this state I laid it before the General Assembly taking care not to communicate the name or residence of the person from whom the proposal Came. I have now the honour to inclose you the Resolutions of the Senate and House of Delegates on that Subject. I am, with the highest respect your...
9From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 12 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
A variety of avocations has prevented my giving an earlier acknowledgment to your letter of the 17th of July. I will now thank you, Sir, to furnish me with an Acct of the quantity & cost of the materials which have been placed on Cape Henry by the Commissioners appointed by the Assembly of Virginia, for the purpose of building a Light-house—as you have been so obliging as to offer to do it. I...
10Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The sum of two thousand five Dollars is necessary to be advanced to take up notes which were given for money advanced for the household of the President of the United States previous to the organization of the Treasury Department. This sum added to two thousand Dollars which you have already advanced for the purpose of taking up Notes, will compleat the payment of all Monies advanced for the...
11To George Washington from Harry Innes, 5 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have the hono’r to acknowledge the receipt of your very polite Letter of the 30th of September with the several papers therein inclosed, permit me sir to return my most grateful thanks for the attention paid & the hono’r confered on me by the supreme Executive of the United States. The Office of Judge is of the first Magnitude, and when I reflect on its importance & my own imbecility it is...
12To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 1 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I receiv’d your Letter Sepbr 13th in answer to that of Colo. Balls, George, Bushrod, and Corbin is here at this time I shall indeaver to have Every thing done as you desire you mention in your Letter to me that the Negros was to be divided into five Parts and one fifth part would be mine, Bushrod informes me that I have no Right to any Part, there is with that negro that you have thurteen...
13Farm Reports, 6–12 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Decr 6th Murcury in the Morng 48 SWt Clear Noon 50 Clear Night 55 NEt Clear NEt 7th Morning 56 SWt Clear Noon
14To George Washington from George Cornell, 10 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of George Cornell of Portsmouth On Rhode Island—Your Excellency Humble Memorialist is the first of all this State that yet appears To Congratulate your Excellency Too the Appointment of Their President—and he Thinks Himself forever Happy Now under Your Excellencys Reign and Good Government, and To whome with a faithfull heart he wishes Long life and all Happiness—and your...
15To George Washington from John Taylor Gilman, 12 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
On the 12th Ulto I received a Letter from Mr Secretary Lear, wrote by your Excellency’s direction in answer to one from me of same date—By that Letter I was informed that it was Expected Mr Kean and General Irvine would be in New York in Three weeks and should have Concluded to Stay until their Arrival had not the State of my Health been Such as that I was advised by my Physician and others to...
16To George Washington from Jonathan Titcomb, 24 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Major General Titcomb presents his profound respects to the President of the United States & would humbly beg to be informed when he intends passing through the County of Essex. The Major General, & the militia of the County wish to be prepared to embrace the opportunity which thus happily presents, to exhibit as far as in their power their veneration for the high and important station & their...
17Memoranda on Thomas Jefferson’s Letters, 27 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Information from our Bankers in Holland that they had money in hand sufft to answer the demands for the Foreign Officers & Captives: and moreover that the residue of the Bonds of the last loan were engaged. The Sum necessary for the first is 60,393⅌—17s.—10d. a year—and 26,000⅌ was sent him to complete the business of the Medals. The officers was paid up to the first of the year 1789. Desires...
18To George Washington from John Paul Jones, 20 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I avail myself of the departure of the Philadelphia Packet Captain Earle, to transmit to your Excellency a Letter I received for you on leaving Russia in August last, from my Friend the Count de Segur Minister of France at St Petersburg. That Gentleman and myself have frequently conversed on subjects that regard America, and the most pleasing reflection of all has been the happy establishment...
19To George Washington from John Page, 23 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
That I may not obtrude on you & to the Interruption of other Applicants, I again have Recourse to this Mode of Application in behalf of Gentlemen who wish to be recommended to you for Appointments. The inclosed Letter was left by Mr Andrews with a Friend the Day he set out on his Return to Virginia. I hope you will excuse my troubling you with it as I shall only add respecting him that I think...
20From George Washington to Edward Rutledge, 23 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with your letter of the 31st ultimo, and am very happy to learn that the appointments under the general Government have given so much satisfaction in your part of the Union. Added to the consciousness of having brought forward such characters only to fill the several offices in the United States, as, from my own knowledge, or the strictest inquiries, I conceived would do...
21From George Washington to Constant Freeman, Jr., 24 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th of July has been received and, agreeable to your desire, I embrace the opportunity, by the return of Mr Brown to the western country, to inform you that the letter, account &ca, relative to my business in Red-stone came safe to my hands. I am Sir, your most obedient servant LB , DLC:GW . Constant Freeman, Jr. (1757–1824) was born in Charlestown, Mass., and served during...
22To George Washington from Elijah Jackson, 25 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I hope the Justice of my intensions will excuse the fredom I have taken of Emploreing your Assistance. (For I Solemnly declare in the Name of him whose all searching Eye is Privy to every thing that is Transacted. that it is through Necessity.) I have been somtime Employed in the Study of Physic and my most ardent desire is to gain a Sufficient compotency of Knowledge in the Science in order...
23To George Washington from Moustier, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Although my absence from the United States denies me the honor of conferring with the President, I dare to flatter myself that I shall be permitted to recall his remembrance of me and to request the continuance of his goodness as well in quality of his dignity, as, in what I desire still more, his personal regard. Having left America penetrated with sentiments of the truest veneration, of...
24From George Washington to the Governor and Legislature of New Hampshire, 3 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Allow me, Gentlemen, to assure you that grateful as my heart is for the affectionate regards which my fellow-citizens have manifested towards me, it has at no time been more sensibly impressed with a consciousness of their goodness than on the present occasion. I am truly thankful for your expressions of attachment to my person, and approbation of my conduct—and I reciprocate your good wishes...
25From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate January 11th 1790. I have directed Mr Lear, my private Secretary, to lay before you a copy of the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the State of North Carolina, together with the copy of a letter from His Excellency Samuel Johnson President of the Convention of said State to the President of the United States....
26To George Washington from John Blair, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The honourable commission which you have been pleased to offer me in the service of the United States came to hand the tenth instt accompanied by your very polite letter, & the laws which have passed relative to the office. When I considered the great importance, as well as the arduous nature of the duties, I could not but entertain some fears, that I might find them well adapted neither to my...
27To George Washington from John Jay, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jay has the honor of informing the President of the United States, that yesterday afternoon he received a letter from Sir John Temple in the following words, vizt “New York 12th of October 1789, Sir. I beg leave to submit in the most respectful manner, the enclosed memorial to the consideration of the Government of the United States. The memorialist informs me he hath in his possession all...
28From George Washington to Joseph Buckminster, 23 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th of November and the discourse which it enclosed have been duly received. I consider the sermon on the death of Sir William Pepperell which you were so good as to send me by desire of Lady Pepperell his Relict, as a mark of attention from her which required my particular acknowledgments; and I am sorry that the death of that Lady which I see is announced in the public...
29Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 2 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 30th ultimo came to hand last evening accompanied with the Padusoy for Mrs Washington, the bill of which was enclosed. The President will thank you to get from Mr Bartram a list of the plants & shrubs which he has for sale, with the price affixed to each, and also a note to each of the time proper for transplanting them, as he is desireous of having some sent to Mount Vernon...
30William Jackson to Clement Biddle, 7 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The letter for Mr Holker, which encloses one for the Person, applying to be Steward of the Household, is, by the Presidents desire, committed to your care for conveyance. Be so good as to give it an early transmission. I shall take the liberty to write to you on my own account within a few days. The President and Mrs Washington are in perfect good health. I am, very respectfully, Dear Sir,...