1To George Washington from Jacob Read, 3 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hugh Rose of this State will do himself the honour of paying his Respects to Your Excellency and delivering this Letter[.] I pray leave to present him to Your Excelly as a Gentleman of worth and fortune. As my brother in Law and also a Cousin German by birth I cannot be indifferent to Mr Rose’s Reception or happiness on his present tour [.] I have therefore taken the Liberty of presenting...
2To James Madison from Jacob Read, 20 February 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 February 1812, Charleston. Mentions the recent and long anticipated death of district judge Thomas Bee. Uses “the freedom of an Old Acquaintance” to seek the position for himself. Mentions that President Adams nominated him for this office and that he was confirmed by the Senate in February 1801 and received a commission from acting attorney general Levi Lincoln, which “has never been...
3To James Madison from Jacob Read, 8 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to offer you my Congratulations on your Election to the Office of the Supreme Executive of the United States, and my Very Sincere Wishes that your Presidency may be happy and honorable to yourself, and peaceful and prosperous to our Country, which has Conferred on you So distinguished a Mark of Confidence and respect. I hope Sir I do not presume too far on our former Acquaintance...
4To George Washington from Jacob Read, 22 October 1784 (Washington Papers)
Having met with the Little Tract a Copy of which I do myself the honour to inclose to you in this City and Conceiving it possesses Some Merit I Seize the occasion it affords me of addressing a few Lines to you and of making inquiries of Your health & that of your most amiable Lady. I hope Your late Tour Westward has been Attended with every pleasure & advantage you promised Yourself and as I...
5To George Washington from Jacob Read, 30 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
The very Short Stay the post makes at Annapolis precludes me the pleasure of acknowledging in the Manner I wou’d with the receipt of your favour of the 28th and of giving you the Information that an hours leizure might enable me to extract from the public dispatches &ca. Having Several public Letters to finish for South Carolina & Which I must dispatch by this post I pray you’l be so good as...
6To George Washington from Jacob Read, 19 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
I obey the request of the Author of the within Scheme of a Review in presenting the inclosed copy for your Excellency’s perusal[.] Mr Simons supposed you were still in this City which I believe induced him to make the request, and I shou’d not have deemed the subject of sufficient importance to have troubled you with a Letter had not my own feelings been a good deal gratified in an opportunity...
7To George Washington from Jacob Read, 17 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Mr Prager comes recommended in the Most handsome manner to the Delegates from the State of South Carolina to Congress, by The Honourable Mr Laurens from London. Mr Prager also bore Letters from Doctor Franklin and Several others of the Principal American Characters in Europe to the Gentlemen of Greatest Weight in Philadelphia. Permit me to Introduce this Gentleman to your...
8To George Washington from Jacob Read, 8 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr Charles Philips who does me the Honour to charge himself with the delivery of the present Letter is my most particular friend, permit me to introduce him to your Acquaintance and friendship as such—He is a Gentleman of very ample fortune in the West Indies and is now on his return to Europe after visiting his Estates—a very principal reason for Mr Philips’s making a journey from this State...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Read, 18 January 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 18, 1798. “… The President having thought proper to dismiss Mr Tench Coxe from the office of Commissr of the Revenue a Successor is Wanted. The Gentlemen of the So Carolina delegation in both Houses are anxious to have Wm. Ward Burrows appointed & have Warmly recommended him to the President.… Mr Wolcott … Objects to him on the score Of a probable want of Industry.… For...
10To George Washington from Jacob Read, 1 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
By the post which arrivd from the Northward yesterday I had the honour to receive under Cover to myself the Letter I now do Myself the pleasure to inclose to you. As we have been for a Considerable time Without a post to or from the Southward I have preferred Sending this Letter to Mount Airy to be forwarded by any Conveyance that May offer from that place by a private hand and if none at...