1To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 5 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
You will find by the inclosed, that I have taken the Liberty to inscribe to you a Sermon, which I lately preached to the First Battalion of our City commanded by Col. Dickinson; not doubting, but under the Sanction of your name, it will meet with the Public Candour. If the Manner in which I have treated the Subject should have the least good Influence upon the Hearts & Actions of the Military...
2To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 8 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
If this Letter should happen to find you in Council, or in the Field, before you read another Sentence, I beg you to take the first opportunity of retiring, & weighing well its important contents. You are perfectly acquainted with the Part I formerly took in the present unhappy contest. I was indeed among the first to bear my public testimony against having any recourse to threats, or even...
3To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 13 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
My dear friend Mrs Ferguson will deliver in your Excellency’s hands a letter which has laid by me several days for want of a safe conveyance: in which I have deliverd my sentiments to you upon the present state of our unhappy contest without reserve, and with full confidence in your honor. My mind will remain in a state of painful anxiety, ’till I have your candid answer and ’till I am assured...
4To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 7 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have never had the least Reason, even in the most trying Times, to doubt of your having been actuated throughout by a most virtuous Principle. Your Acquaintance with Human Nature, your Liberality of Sentiment & Goodness of Heart must also have led you to judge charitably of the Principles, Motives & Actions of others, however different their political opinions & Conduct might have been from...
5To George Washington from Jacob Duché, 2 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Will your Excellency condescend to accept of a few Lines from one, who ever was, and wishes still to be your sincere Friend, who never intentionally —sought to give you a Moment’s Pain, who entertains for you the highest Personal Respect, and would be happy to be assured under your own Hand, that he does not labour under your Displeasure, but that you freely forgive, what a weak Judgment, but...