1To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer and William Fitzhugh, 26 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
By request of the General Assembly of this State, We have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the enclosed resolution respecting rank and Grade. We have also enclosed a Resolution allowing half pay during life to such of our officers as shall remain in the Service during the War; this probably may prevent resignations. That health & happiness, may always attend your Excellency is the...
2To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer and Josiah Beall, 22 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
The extreme difficulty of embodying and marching the number of Militia required of this State by your Excellency and the Committee of co-operation, the impracticability of marching them in due time, owing to the total want of camp equipage, arms and accoutrements, the difficulty of procuring Waggons and Horses, the approaching harvest and the importance and necessity of securing it, have...
3To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 20 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Major General Green delivered me Your Excellencys favor of the 23d Ulto. I thank you for introducing to my acquaintance, a man, whose abilities as an officer, and whose politeness as a Gentleman entitles him to every mark of respect and attention. And it is with pleasure, that I can assure you, that the Members of both Houses of Assembly (now sitting) are disposed to comply with every...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 20 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I must beg the favor of your Excelly to forward the enclosed Letter to London. The Father of Mr. Lowndes who wrote it, is a worthy Citizen, and very desirous of seeing his Son in America before the 1st. of March 1782, the time limited by a Law of the State of Maryland for the return of absentees in the British Dominions, under penalty of forfeiting to the...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 5 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This Letter will be delivered to you by Coll. Dubuysson, an Officer of distinguished Merit and who has bled freely in the cause of America and wishes to return to it. I shall be obliged to you for your friendship and Attention to him. Enclosed you have a Letter from me to your old friend & acquaintance Governer Sharpe, which I beg you will Seal and forward...
6To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 28 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
It will not be the smallest inconvenience to me, to keep your Trees til the Fall, which I believe to be the best time for Transplanting, provided they be tied to Stakes with Straw to prevent the Hard Winds incident to our Winters from shaking them too much. It will also be necessary to put a little litter of some kind or other, no matter what, about the bottoms of the Stocks to guard the Roots...
7To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 31 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed your Excellency will receive an Order on Col. Hooe & Co. for £1069.1.7 which I have not the smallest doubt will be duely honored you have also the Account of your Certs. liquidated by the Auditor. I shall always be made happy by the execution of any business that you may have to transact on this side of Potomack, being with the most perfect respect & esteem for all at Mount Vernon. I...
8To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 15 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Should you meet with delay, or disappointments from Col. Hooe in payment of my Order; the Interest shall be allowed on any sum that he may be tardy in paying, but to prevent this being the case, I wish that Mr Lund Washington would put the Colo. in mind of the promise he made me, that you should not be disappointed. Mr Richmond has calculated the depreciation on your Certs. agreeably to the...
9To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 24 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
In a letter I received from Col. Fitzhugh dated the 17th Instant, He expresses a desire that my Answer to the Report of a Committee of the H. of Delegates against the late Intend[ant] should be transmitted to your Excelly & to Col. Mason. I do not know that it is worth your reading; but such as it is I send it to you. I shall only add to it, That the Chairman is a great Speculator, & was the...
10To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 15 April 1788 (Washington Papers)
It affords me great pleasure to have it in my power to inform you that our Elections are now over, & in general in favor of the New Constitution. But three Counties in the State have chosen Members Antifederal to wit Ann Arundel Baltimore & Harford & the Elections of these three will be controverted as to these Members to wit Mr Saml Chase for Ann Arundel on Account of being a Non resident....