1To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 13 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
By a Note, received this morning from Mr Lear, I am requested to let you know “if I have received the notification of my appointment to the Office of Brigadier General; and whether I accept.” I have not, Sir, received any Official Notice of such an appointment. My answer to a private letter from the secretary of War, of which the inclosed is a copy, may in some measure, account for the delay;...
2To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 18 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
If my letter, of the 22d ultimo, has been the cause of the least displeasure to you it will prove a source of lasting regret to me. A regret which I shall feel the more sensibly as the object of my proposal was, in my own estimation, too inconsiderable to have induced the smallest risque of your disapprobation. Your silence, My Dear Sir, and my own reflections induce the apprehension that some...
3To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 22 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Baltimore 22d March 1792 The receipt of your obliging letter of the 14th Instant gave me very great pleasure, as it gratified a wish to know that your plants were not lost; and that you had a prospect, ultimately, of receiving them safe at Mount Vernon. I have, for some time past, deliberated on the propriety of consulting you on a circumstance relative to our State...
4To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 1 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
My brother, Mr E. Williams, informs me that, when he had the honor to converse with you at Williams port, you were pleased to intimate to him the propriety of propositions being made for grants of Lands to aid the execution of the law of Congress respecting the permanent residence. The expectation (created by the law itself) that the location of the federal district may include some lands in...
5To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I assure myself that your moments of leasure are, some times, passed in the contemplation of rural concerns. Your known attachments to subjects of domestic, as well as public, utility; and your former attention to the improvement of Stock, encourage me to mention to you that I have had, for more than two years, an order, in the hands of an American in London, to procure for me one of the...
6To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 10 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The appointment of Coll Harrison to the Office of Judge in the supreme Court; and that of Mr Hanson to the Office of Chancellor, in this State; have created vacancies in the Commission of our general Court which, it is expected, will be filled by some of our most antient law Characters, to whom that situation will be most agreeable. The resignation of Mr Thomas Johnson, which is here spoken of...
7To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to write you, by a late Post, and to inclose certain papers which contained such information as in obedience to your request, I thought it my duty to communicate. In addition I beg leave to mention Major Jones who infornjs me that he has offered his services by letter; the inclosed paper relates to him. Major Alexander Trueman, and Major Benjamin Brooks have also informed me...
8To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 5 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I participate the general joy, upon your happy recovery, with sincere delight; and I hope that I shall, not untimely, make report on the matters which you were pleased to commit to my enquiries when I had last the happiness of seeing you. The inclosed papers contain the best information that I have been able to collect, and my impartial opinion, respecting each of the persons named on your...
9To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 18 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
The honor of being known to your Excellency will, I trust, excuse my omiting to mention the circumstances which have rendered me, in some degree, dependant upon Government for employment, and for support. Your Excellency has been informed that my public Services have been acknowledged by an appointment, in this state, to the most considerable office in the llection of the Imposts. As that...
10To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 15 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter dated Mount Vernon July 26th, is the only one that I have had the pleasure to receive from you since the return of peace. I could not imagine why the Diploma’s were not returned, and, having written to you once or twice on the subject, concluded that it would be more respectful to wait until you should please to send them to me than to give any unnecessary trouble by sending for...