7851From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As I have (without doing it officially) requested from the heads of the several Executive Departments such information as might be requisite to bring me acquainted with the business and duties of the Departments; I have thought fit to ask, in the same informal manner, for specific information, in writing, relative to the past and present state of the Post Office. I must, therefore, request you...
7852Tobias Lear to Ebenezer Hazard, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to return to Mr Hazard the enclosed proposals for printing by subscription a collection of State-Papers, which Mr Hazard submitted to the President and which have been subscribed by him. The whole or any part of the money for the President’s subscription will be paid by T. Lear whenever Mr Hazard may chuse to receive...
7853From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 17 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 15th Instant enclosing the Post Office Ac[coun]ts in detail for the years 1784 & 1788. But there still remains one point on which I would wish to have further information. By the statement of the Produce and Expences of the Post office which accompanied your letter of the 27th of June, there appears to have been an annual Profit arising from that Department,...
7854From John Adams to Nathaniel Hazard, 10 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
Your obliging favor of the 29th. of January would not have remained so long unanswered had not sickness in my family of a long continuance and distressing nature interrupted my inclination to acknowledge my obligations to you. The “Anticipation” which you observe to have retarded an “heavy attack”, I do not fully understand. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that nations and other...
7855From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, [23 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Be so good as to let me know whether a person has been engaged for the purpose we conversed about yesterday Morning. Yr. very obed servant ALS , Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Hazlehurst was a Philadelphia merchant. H had asked Hazlehurst to arrange for a ship to carry dispatches to Gouverneur Morris ( H to Hazelhurst, December 26, 1793 ). On August 15, 1793, the cabinet...
7856From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Hazlehurst, 26 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
On a review of the Papers which you furnished me respecting the Sloop Hannah, I observe no charge for Insurance. Concluding therefore that none was made upon her, I request that you will be good enough to take the further trouble of having it done. The errand she went upon need not be declared. Some inconvenience might still arise from its being known, that this particular vessel was the...
7857From George Washington to Isaac Heard, 2 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 7th of December was put into my hands by Mr Thornton; and I must request you will accept my acknowledgments, as well for the polite manner in which you express your wishes for my happiness, as for the trouble you have taken in making genealogical collections relative to the family of Washington. This is a subject to which I confess I have paid very little attention. My time...
7858From George Washington to William Heath, 9 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
The numerous congratulations which I have received from Public Bodies & respectable individuals since my appointment to my present station, are truly grateful, as they hold forth the strongest assurances of support to the Government as well as a warm attachment to myself. It is from the good dispositions of the people at large—from the influence of respectable characters—and from the patriotic...
7859From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport, from all classes of Citizens. The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a...
7860From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregations of Philadelphia, New York, Charleston, and Richmond, 13 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The liberality of sentiment toward each other which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this Country, stands unparalleled in the history of Nations. The affection of such people is a treasure beyond the reach of calculation; and the repeated proofs which my fellow Citizens have given of their attachment to me, and approbation of my doings form the purest source of my...