1To George Washington from Robert Stewart, 18 August 1765 (Washington Papers)
...great enterprise, not less calculated for publick utility than your private Emolument;
2Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions, 22 June 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
..., to have preferred their own private emolument, by importing or selling articles...
3From George Washington to Botetourt, 5 October 1770 (Washington Papers)
...for their losses; & sought after by others for private Emolument, have we not a title to...
4From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 2 December 1772 (Franklin Papers)
...mere Time-servers, seeking their own private Emolument thro’ any Quantity of Publick Mischief...
...distinguished from their brethren for their private emolument, but for the good of the...
6General Orders, 8 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
...to work upon their Farms, for their own private Emolument, at the same time, that the public...
7Proclamation on Intercourse with British Warships, 29 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
...wicked Persons, preferring their own, present private Emolument to their Country’s Weal, have...
8From George Washington to John Hancock, 11 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
...sell one half of It again for private emolument and yet his Accounts upon paper would...
9General Orders, 15 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
...Army several valuable Horses, for their own private emolument taken in the Action of the 3rd...
10From George Washington to James Mease, 9 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
...any principle, to the purposes of private emolument or private friendship. Supposing those...
11From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 17 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
...the Service, or (for some private Emolument) giving Certificates when no Soldier is...
12To George Washington from James Mease, 18 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
...books, & how they could be turnd to private emolument, I know not, unless I could be...
13To George Washington from William Livingston, 14 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
...live in without any reference to private Emolument as represented in the Resolve of Council...
14General Orders, 5 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
...them as appears to have been intended to private Emolument, to the Injury of the Right Owner,...
15From George Washington to James Hill, 27 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
...of what was made on the Estate to his own private emolument it is quite new & Novel.
16To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 20 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
...& accumulate the public debt for their private emoluments; I beleive many such tricks have...
17From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 14 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
..., which are supposed to be for their private emolument or amusement, to draw Rations at...
18To Benjamin Franklin from Stephen Hills et al., 2 [March] 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...good of our Country to our own private emolument;—whatever answer your Excellency shall...
19From George Washington to George Mason, 27 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
...to continue the War for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice, &...
20To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 11 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
...alarming their fears from motives of private emolument; being determined to ask nothing...
21To George Washington from Major General Nathanael Greene, 21 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
...to that which is contrary to their own private emolument; and so they may by interesting their...
22From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene, 27 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
...retail the public liquors for his private emolument, and furnishing his quarters with beds...
23General Orders, 16 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
...which it is presumed were then intended for his own private emolument
24From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 23 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
...Sale, and plundering other Effects for the private Emolument of some of the officers. The...
25To George Washington from John Moylan, 18 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...I can be Actuated by no view of private Emolument, I must therefor Request, Sir, that...
26To Thomas Jefferson from John Teackle, 19 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
...at the Country’s Property, being applyed to private emolument. I would Recommend You, to Mr....
27To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 20 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
...and public artificers are employed for the private emolument of these men. Here your...
28Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 12 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
...him to be of self Interested views and private Emolument, Gaurd and protect his Honour ye who...
29To George Washington from Thomas Forrest, 29 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
...was not for any Clandestine Use or private Emolument but for the sole purpose of...
30To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 27 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
...will those men have to answer for who for their private emolument have fomented these divisions.
31Enclosure No. 4: Copy of a Letter from Major General Greene to Major General Lincoln, Secretary at War, 5 February 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
...Virginia writes, that it was considered a mere speculation for private emolument.
32To George Washington from Robert Morris, 29 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
...or a sinister Respect to my own private Emolument were the influential Motives of my Conduct...
33To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, 6 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
...of the fund vested in me from my private emoluments, to objects of a public nature.”...
34To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 25 February 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the fund vested in me, from my private emolument, to objects of a public nature.”...
35From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 16 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
...be of great public utility, as well as private emolument to the Subscribers when done: for the...
36From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 29 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
...of the fund vested in me from my private emoluments, to objects of a public nature, it...
37From George Washington to James Madison, 29 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
...of the fund vested in me from my private emoluments, to objects of a public nature,...
38Amendments to the Act Conveying Canal Shares to George Washington, [16 November] 1785 (Madison Papers)
...of the fund vested in me, from my private emoluments, to objects of a public nature, it...
39From George Washington to Battaile Muse, 16 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
...a Market of the Land for their own private emolument. Or where the tenant in possession has...
40To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, with Enclosure, 7 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...this business from any views of private emolument that could possibly have resulted from...
41To James Madison from John Fitch, 2 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
...I may profit by the project, my private Emoluments will be trifling compared to the Advantage...
42To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 1 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
...of America as calculated by the other for private Emolument, & not for the general Good. The...
43Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to George Washington, 1 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...of America as calculated by the other for private Emolument, and not for the general Good. The...
44Enclosure X: Letter from John Mathews and Richard Hutson, 30 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...into extensive speculations, for his own private emolument, soon after the relinquishment of...
45To George Washington from Charles Pettit, 19 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
...view to the public convenience, than to private emolument; being sensible at the time, that...
46To George Washington from Samuel Coleman, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
own private Emolument
47To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Platt, 8 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
...am persuaded that public good as well as private emolument will flow from his voyage. To these...
48To Alexander Hamilton from William Bingham, [5 October 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
...& as affording a well grounded hope of private Emolument. I will therefore give it every...
49To James Madison from James Monroe, 18 September 1792 (Madison Papers)
...who abusing publick trusts, have gaind private emoluments. The system shod. therefore be...
50From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Mercer, 6 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...in some species of Stockjobbing for my private emolument—or to speak more precisely, that...