31From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 12 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
Encouraged by your ⟨former⟩ kindness, I take the liberty of sen⟨ding⟩ another letter of Messrs Reed a⟨nd Ford⟩ on the subject of the Share⟨s, due from them⟩ to me, in the Bank of Co⟨lumbia; and to re⟩quest the favour of you to ⟨enquire of Mr⟩ Smith, or at the said Bank, ⟨if any effici⟩ent measures are in train ⟨for trans⟩fering the remaining twenty n⟨ine shares⟩ to me, agreeably to their...
32To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 19 July 1797 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the pleasure of inclosing you a Certificate of a Transferr of 29 Shares of Columbia Stock. Your Letter to Collo. Ramsey has been forwarded, and I at the same time wrote to Mr Lloyd respecting the young Bakewell. Probably Mr Lloyd is out on a summers Excursion as I have yet received no answer. With sentiments of perfect Regard and Respect I am Dr sir Your mo. obt servt ALS , DLC:GW...
33From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 22 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
I should not have taken the liberty of giving you the trouble wch the enclosures must occasion, but for the request of Genl Lee who left this yesterday and is implicated in the business to which they relate. Messrs Reed & Fords obligation, paid me by Genl Lee to discharge in part a debt he owed me, the letter of the latter with Mr Lingans note (all of which are enclosed) will be sufficient I...
34To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 14 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Mr Blagden waits on you for the purpose of examining your Stone Quarry. He is generaly h[e]re consider’d as the best Judge of free Stone in the City and all the Contractors for the public Works have submitted to his Opinions on the quality of the Stone deliverd. He is himself now a Contractor & has lately past Sentence against his own Stone. I am confident any Opinion he gives, you may safely...
35From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 25 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 20th inst: came to hand yesterday. I have neither received, nor heard of an Address from the Proprietors of the Federal City. Nor do I know any more of Mr Law’s sentiments relative to the concerns of it, than I do of Tippo Saib’s. The ideas conveyed in my last to the Commissioners (dated the 22d) are not of recent adoption. They are as old as the change which took place in...
36From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 21 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favored with the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, through the medium of my Nephew to whom it had been committed: and I must be dispensed with for only giving the general reply, which I have lately found it necessary to give on several similar occasions. For since it has been expected that I should be called to the chair of government, many applications have been made...
37To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 16 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of your favor by Mr Lear, & shoud have answerd it by the next Mail but Mr Smith’s answer did not get to my hands in time. Messrs Reed & Ford shew no serious design of procuring the Stock they owe, & ought long since to have transferrd: or else they wou’d not have restricted their agent to a price at which it is utterly impossible to procure it. I have written Mr Smith a second...
38From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 4 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
If the public dispatches which I receive, & am obliged to answer by every Post, would permit; I would go more into detail, & explanation of the subject of your last (seperate) letter, than it is possible for me to do at present. I will not, however, let it pass without some further expression of my ideas; & the understanding I always had of your entrance into the Office you now hold, in the...
39Notice concerning Legal Fees, 20 May 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
ON serious Consideration of the present State of our Practice in the General Court, we find it can no longer be continued on the same Terms. The Fees allowed by Law , if regularly paid, would barely compensate our incessant Labours, reimburse our Expenses, and the Losses incurred by Neglect of our private Affairs; yet even these Rewards, confessedly moderate, are withheld from us, in a great...