21To George Washington from Lewis Pintard, 10 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Business, since which I have been persuaded by my Friends to offer myself a Candidate for the Naval Office for the Port of New York. a Life almost spent in the laborious Employment of Trade to all Parts of the World with unsullied reputation added to the assurance of Integrity & industry which I can with confidence make, are the
22To George Washington from Edward Pemberton, 11 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...of, to Congratulate Your Excellency upon having crown’d Your Labours with Success—I cannot Contemplate but with the highest Complacency, Your Elevation to the Dignity of being the first Citizen in the World. A choice so unanimous from so many flourishing States, great and powerful cannot fail to place Your Excellency in a point of View the most exaulted, which a generous mind can aspire...
23To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 16 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
should have it in his power to shew to the world the respectful opinion he entertained of his friend. His declarations, however, were so very general, that it was impossible for me to form an opinion what was his intention. . . . On Monday he will present...
24To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 24–27 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
...degree alarming both to Religion and Policy, and Colleges are Erecting to Educate Boys for the Monasteries; we want Inhabitants & this will encrease it very much—The Papists, in Ireland, are the most Biggoted of any in the world, & their Rancour towards the
25To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
that the period of your coming again into public life should be exactly that in which I am to retire from it; but I had this consolation that you were sensible and from what had occurred the world must be
26To George Washington from Rachel Levy, 26 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Whilst all the world are hurrying to New York in hopes of obtaining offices, will you revered Sir, permit me to make an application (tho at a more awfull distance), it is for my second Son, a minor, that I...
27To George Washington from Hans Rudolph Saabye, 5 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
With the greatest diffidence, I appear before that august body of Men, who so deservedly attract the admiration of all the World. A Stranger to you Gentlemen, tho’ not to many industrious Members of your Common-Wealth, boldly ventures, relying on the Liberality of Your Sentiments, on which his hopes to meet with your Indulgence for this intrusion are...
28To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 7 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
& settled for herself in the World. The Struggles at parting are now over on both Sides, and it only remains, that the Return of Affection should be warm & reciprocal, & that each should receive & entertain the Subjects of the other with cordial...
29To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
...and a regard to National Character, to exercise that authority which is vested in them, for obliging the different members of the Union to contribute their respective Quotas for the support of the general Government; and to manifest to the World, that they are not inattentive to the high and honorable trust of watching over the Welfare of a Free people.
30To George Washington from Elizabeth Thompson, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
...is wanting even the common necessary’s of life to Subsist on. he has no fortune to depend on, what he gets must be by the greatest industry, or else we could not live. all he had in the world went for the purchaseing of the articles contain’d in the Acct nay more than what he had, as the greatest part is Still due, and he finds it utterly impossible to Satisfy those people any longer that he...