1To John Adams from Thomas Tillinghast, 3 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to Recommend to your Consideration George Thomas Esquire as a Candidate Sutable to be appointed Commissioner for the District of Washington & Kent in Rhode Island his Situation as being Central in the District and very much so as Respects the State added to knowledge obtained of the Value of Property in different parts of the State from his having frequently traversed it on Publick...