51To George Washington from George Fitzhugh, 20 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago, as I promised in my last I shoud do, I took a full view of your Estate in this place; its soil does not altogether answer my expectation, however its situation with the advantages ariseing therefrom will make it a very agreeable little Farm, and as your terms are such that I can conveniently purchase under will esteem it a singular favour you will not dispose of it to any other...
52To George Washington from George Clinton, 8 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
By an act of the last Session—a Copy Of which I enclose You will perceive that a Sum not exceeding 12,000£ is appropriated for the Purposes of erecting such fortifications building and equipping one or more floating batteries and Other Vessels of force for the Security Of the Northern and western Frontiers Of this state as shall appear necessary to certain Commissioners therein mentioned when...
53To George Washington from Hugh George Campbell, 6 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
Charleston, S.C., 6 May 1791. Offers himself as a candidate for the command of the United States revenue cutter for South Carolina and refers to the accompanying certificate for information respecting his character. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Applications and Recommendations for Public Office, 1797–1901. Archivists filed the letter under 1798. The enclosure, dated 6 May 1791 and written in Hugh George...
54To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I wrote You the 24th Ulto that I had contrary to my fixed resolution of returning to my Mount Vernon in a fortnight been tempted to procrastinate the time—from the flattering hope of benefiting my health, which is really so precarious that I am at a loss what to say about it—I am some times for three or four days tantalized with a belief that I am geting better but by the slightest cold (which...
55To George Washington from George Taylor, Jr., 17 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Being much flattered by the confidence reposed in me by you, while I was employed in your recording Secretary’s Office, and the notice you have honored me with since that period, permit me to enclose the copy of a letter I have just now written to Mr Jefferson, and as far as may be consistent, to solicit the favor of your Influence and Support, in obtaining the object of it. I have the honor...
56To George Washington from George Lewis, 6 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 18th Ult. with two Plats of land I receiv’d this day. my Mothers absence on a visit to my Sister Carter in Culpeper County, prevented my getting them sooner, as they were under cover to her, otherwise they would have been acknowledged ere this. It is not in my power to say any thing of my own knowledge respecting your lands, nor have I been able to make any enquiery as yet...
57To George Washington from George Lewis, 24 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
I declined answering your letter of the 13th instant from Spurriers, untill I could have an opportunity to know of Genl Spotswood the pedigree of his horse, as you wish’d, on Thursday last. I met with him at the bowling green races, at which place I was in hopes to have found many fine horses for sale, but saw none that could be recommended as saddle horses—It was certainly a grand omission my...
58To George Washington from George McCarmick, 26 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
after my Best Complyments to you, I then Beg your Excelence pardon for this liberty, I should be happy if there Should be Any Appointment to be made in the westran Cuntry Either in Survaying or Any Other thing that wood be advantages to me as I am a old Sufferar; that you wood think me wourtha off: if you wood do me the honour to think of me in Sutch Casses, which trust I Should Strictly...
59To George Washington from George Hancock, 7 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having understood that you have it in contemplation to appropriate the Shares which you own in the James River company to the endowing an Academy in the upper part of Virginia, and presuming that you would have no Objection to recieve every information which would tend to a knowledge of the most proper place, I have taken the liberty of requesting that I may be permited to have an interview,...
60To George Washington from George Lewis, 9 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 28th of last month, acknowledging the receipt of my two last letters, I receiv’d, no information since then has transpired respecting the value of western lands that can be depended upon—It has been asked me by some persons whether you would exchange any of those lands for improved estates (good farms) in this part of the country that might be immediately rented to an...
61To George Washington from George Thacher, 14 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of handing to you the names of two Gentlemen either of whom in my opinion will make a respectable District Judge for the District of Maine—viz. the Honourable David Sewal & William Lithgow Junr. The former was appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about the year 1776—which office he has sustained to the present...
62To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette, 25 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It would be very difficult for me to express to you the happiness which I experienced on the reception of the letter which you have done me the honour to write me. Respecting, as I ought, from the confidence that I have in your wisdom, the reasons which keep me at a distance from you, I shall only say, that I most ardently wish, I assure you, for the moment when they will exist no more. The...
63To George Washington from George Clinton, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
In my last letter dated the 8th September (and to which I ⟨ mutilated ⟩ yet been favored with an answer) I have omitted to mentio⟨n⟩ the French vessel, called the Republican, a prize to the Brit⟨ish⟩ frigate Boston, had departed, and was without the reach of my a⟨ mutilated ⟩ previous to the receipt of the Letter from the Secretary of war, directing her detension. It will appear from the...
64To George Washington from George Gibson, 8 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
In the month of January 1779, Your Excellency in conference with a committee of Congress was pleased to order me to reinlist for the War the men of the first State Regiment of Virginia under my command on the same terms that the Continental troops were enlisted with an assurance if the State of Virginia wou’d not take them, Congress wou’d—I have searched the Office & find the committee have...
65To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 26 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
When I left Mount Vernon it was my intention to have returned there about this time, but three days detention on the road in consequence of bad weather, and ill health since my arrival here will procrastinate my return a week longer than I had determen’d when I set out—On my way up I increased my Cold and Cough very much and a disagreeable hourseness attended it—which so much disorderd and...
66To George Washington from George Cabot, 24 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
upon a review of Mr Jackson’s letters I perceive the apprehension of more severe labor than his present health might endure, with certain other considerations affecting the subsistence & welfare of his family forbid me at this moment to engage in his behalf that he wou’d attempt the arduous task of which you have spoken. if however Sir you shou’d think it eligible to appoint him to an office...
67To George Washington from George Clendinen, 25 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
On the Eleventh day of May last I Receiv’d your Excellencies favour, directed to me from this City, dated, The twenty first of March, Wherein you inform me that you have disposed of the whole of your Lands On the great Kanawa, and on the Ohio between the two Rivers bearing the name of Kanawa, Drafts of which have been in my hands for A Considerable time. And altho I am purswaded you must have...
68To George Washington from George Clinton, 17 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I some Days since received your Favour of the 23d Ultimo—As there is certainly no incompatibility in my acting as your Attorney in the management and sale of the Lands in which we are jointly interested, I now agreably to your Request inclose a Power for you to execute for that Purpose —It will be proper to do it in the presence of two Witnesses, one of whom should be a Person coming hither...
69To George Washington from George Clinton, 7 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of inclosing to you three Letters which I received yesterday Evening from certain American Sailors, who have been impressed on our Coasts by the British Squadron under Admiral Murray and are detained on Board of the Resolution a Ship of that Squadron now lying within the Hook —I am well informed that besides the Subscribers to these Letters there are four other American...
70To George Washington from George Walton, 30 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Duplicate, via Charleston sir, Augusta [Ga.] 30 August, 1789. Although I have been employed in the service of America, in various lines, and almost without interruption, since the commencement of the public meetings and discussions which led to the Revolution, I do not recollect ever to have solicited an appointment. Nor should I now trouble you on such a subject, if it had not been suggested...
71To George Washington from George Clymer, 19 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have just received from Philadelphia the inclosed petitions of Captain Robert French and his wife, both of them addressed to the President and Congress, but conceiving the case to come entirely within the province of the Executive I have thought it my duty to lay them before you; only observing that the persons who have recommended the petitioners case to the consideration of government are...
72To George Washington from George Clymer, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I sought the earliest occasions, after my late appointment, to make you my personal acknowledgements; but on Saturday and Monday I found you either engaged in business or from home, and I am to day too much indisposed my self to go abroad—unwilling, however, any longer to defer a necessary duty, I beg, Sir, you will be pleased to accept, from me, in this form those acknowledgments, which are...
73To George Washington from George Eimbeck, 12 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
May it Please Yr Excellency Sir Savannah. May 12th 1791 Having for some years had the Command of Fort Wayne Am Inform’d by his Honr the Governor the Appointment and Salary must be made by the Union likewise that my Salary Ceases from the 31st July 1789. Therefore Humbly Request your Excellency to Give such Orders Concerning the Business as your Excellencies Wisdom may Dictate. Am with the...
74To George Washington from Christopher and George Champlin, 27 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosed came under cover to us which we have the honour of Transmiting to your Excellency. Mr Hans Rudolph Saaby the subscriber is a merchant of Copenhagen and the acting person in the House of Nicholas Ryburg Esqr. & Co. of that City. We conceive it a duty incumbent upon us, (not only as Freinds to the Union) but in Justice to the Character of Mr Saaby; to inform your Excllency, that...
75To George Washington from George Clinton, 2 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to your Excellency, herewith inclosed, Exemplifications of three Acts of the Legislature of this State, passed at their present Session, and to be with the highest Respect Your most Obedient Servant Copy, DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages. The enclosures were copies of three acts of the New York...
76To George Washington from George Eimbeck, 15 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
I Am Under the Disagreeable Necessity of Informing your Excellency that Fort Wayne is in A very Defenceless Situation having Neither Men Nor Amunition and as I have Frequently made Application to the Goverment of the State of Georgia without Redress. Humbly beg your Excellency to Honor me with your Orders Respecting the Business—your Honor will Please Send Orders for A Flag Staff and that the...
77To George Washington from George Walton, 22 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed copy of an affidavit, the original of which is deposited in our archives, is one among the many proofs existing of the unfriendly conduct of the Spaniards with respect to our black people —It is transmitted to you to form a part of the documents which it is expected you will make the foundation of some discussions with the Spanish Minister before the rising of the National...
78To George Washington from George Fitzhugh, 28 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour dated the 28 Jany did not get to my hands until three days ago, oweing to my being from Home; please accept my thanks for its contents. About the last of Apl I shall visit Gloucester, whilest there, will take a full view of your Lands; for notwithstanding I well know the Neighbourhood it lays in, and have indeed been on the premises, yet being a Stranger to your intention of...
79To George Washington from George Clinton , 28 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
In order to furnish you with the earliest and fullest Information of the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by this State to fortify our Northern and Western frontier, I take the Liberty to enclose various communications made by them to Me: Previous to their entering upon the Business I explained to them your Ideas on the Subject as contained in a Letter from the Secretary of war of...
80To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette, 28 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
At the moment in which my Friend and I were making arrangements to go to Philadelphia at your desire and invitation, I received a resolution of the House of Representatives, extremely honorable for my father; it was accompanied by a letter from Mr Livingston, equally obliging for myself. Penetrated with gratitude for this public mark of bounty, as little expected as merited on my part, I...
81To George Washington from George Lewis, 19 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter of the 8th Inst. with the inclosed advertisement, and think your determination, in doing nothing decisive with your lands untill September well judg’d, as you observe it will afford time for your terms to be more generally known. you may also in that time obtain such further information respecting them as to make the sale much more advantageous, than by a premature one....
82To George Washington from George Mathews, 23 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to transmit you an Act of the state Georgia entitled “An Act to ratify the resolution of Congress explanatory of the judicial power of the United States” passed at Augusta the 29th day of November 1794. I am Sir With much esteem Your Ob: serv: Copy, DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, second session, entry 33. A copy of the enclosed act, which ratified the Eleventh...
83To George Washington from George Taylor, Jr., 4 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
The President being invested by the Constitution with the Appointment of Officers for the new Government, I hope it will not be deemed importunate in me to mention to your Excellency, my former Services, lest, by the numerous great and important Objects which must necessarily occupy your Attention, they may escape you. I will not presume to ask for any Office in particular, because, conscious...
84To George Washington from George Plater, 20 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Johnson, who was appointed Judge in the federal Court for the State of Maryland, having declined to accept —I hope I shall be excused for taking the Liberty of recommending to your Excellency Mr John Allen Thomas, an old practitioner of Law, & who has frequently served his Country both in the Cabinet & the field —You are not a Stranger to him, & therefore it becomes unnecessary for me to...
85To George Washington from George Muter, 6 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have served seven years, as chief Justice for the District of Kentucky, and I beleive I have given general satisfaction: but, in the appointments for the court of Appeals for our new state, I have been left out, & appointed for the court of Oyer & Terminer, which, if it continues agreeable to it’s present establishment, will be of little consequence, and the judges will have little to do....
86To George Washington from George Leonard, 24 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg Leave to recommend for the office of Collectors in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts—which County is part of the district I represent—The Following Persons Edward Pope Esqr. for the Port of New Bedford and Hodijah Baylies Esqr. for the Port of Dighton. I am well acquainted with those Gentlemen and believe them to be well qualified to discharge the duties of that Office and...
87To George Washington from George Gilpin, 16 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I believe I have committed a trespass on your Excellencys property but I can assure you not wilfully and further I am willing to pay what ever damage you may Say I have done. the fact is as follows, in the month of October I spoke to Capt. William H. Terrett for Six trees three small, and three larger to dig up for knees for a wood flat, he informd me that I might have them when I went out to...
88To George Washington from George Cabot, 24 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The public papers having announced “that the President of the United States is on his way to Portsmouth in New Hampshire,” it immediately occurred to me that your rout wou’d be thro’ this village, & that you might find it convenient to stop here & take a little rest: shou’d this prove to be the case, permit me Sir to hope for your acceptance of such accomodations & refreshment as can be...
89To George Washington from George Bush, 5 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
In answer to the questions you were pleased to put to me this day, I take the liberty to trouble you with the following detail. I was born in the Delaware State, my Father still lives there, & I have resided there ever since the dissolution of the Army. I served an Apprenticeship of four Years to a Merchant in Philadelphia, at the expiration of which in 1776 I was appointed a Liut. in the...
90To George Washington from George Savage, 22 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to return you my most grateful Acknowledgment for the Commission appointing me Collector of the port of Cherry-Stone. Though The Revenue arising to the Union from the Collectorship of that port as also the profits of office will yield very little, there being few or no Sea Vessels that belong to the County; Yet from it’s extent, being upwards of 40 miles long, the number of Inlets...
91To George Washington from George Lux, c.4 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
I want words to preface a letter more respectfully to you—It is my pride & boast, that you & my dear Father were intimate, & you have occasionally honoured me with your notice. I have been ill, am still an Invalid, but have strength to wield a pen to assert, I am proud of you , & the stand you have made against a dangerous precedent alarming to future generations of United Columbia—Why should...
92To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 25 January 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 25 Jan. 1793. GW wrote Whitting on 3 Feb. , acknowledging that “Your letter of the 25th of Jany came duly to hand.”
93To George Washington from William Pearce, 20 March 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 20 March 1796. On 27 March, GW wrote Pearce: “Yesterday brought me your letter of the 20th instant.”
94To George Washington from William Thornton, 4 December 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Thornton, 4 Dec. 1796 . GW wrote Thornton on 26 Dec. : “Your letter of the 4th of the present month came to my hands.”
95To George Washington from William Aylett Lee, 1 July 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Aylett Lee, 1 July 1794. The entry for 12 July in GW’s journal of proceedings lists among papers sent "to the Secy. of War for his consideration" a letter "from Wm. A. Lee 1 July ’94."
96To George Washington from James Napper Tandy, 22 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Jas Napper Tandy, presents his most respectful Complimts to the President of the United States; and incloses him a Letter from their mutual Friend Sir Edward Newenham —and Tandy will take the Liberty of waiting upon his Excellency tomorrow, Or attend any other time he may think proper to appoint; to receive his Commands—previous to his writing to the Knight. AL , DLC:GW . The docket on this...
97To George Washington from William Augustine Washington, May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Augustine Washington, May 1793. GW wrote Anthony Whitting on 2 June that “Colo. Washington wrote to me a few days ago” to report that “one load of lime & two of Shells” had been delivered. For William Augustine Washington’s efforts to acquire oyster shells for his uncle, see his letter to GW of 14 May .
98To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Ducoigne, 24 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jean-Baptiste Ducoigne, 24 April 1794. On 16 July, GW sent Henry Knox “a letter from Baptiste Ducoigne, Kaskasias, 24 April ’94” ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797 . Charlottesville, Va., 1981. , 314).
99To George Washington from John Greenwood, 1 May 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Greenwood, 1 May 1792. In his letter to Greenwood of 1 July GW referred to “Your letter of the first of May.”
100From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, May 1, 1792 . On May 2, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Washington: “The case was here before the Secretary’s letter of yesterday was sent to the President.” Letter not found. ]