11To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 21 December 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ebenezer Hazard, 21 Dec. 1784. On 5 Jan. 1785 GW wrote to Hazard: “A few days ago I was favored with your Letter of the 21st ulto.” GW’s letter is printed in GW to Jeremy Belknap, 5 Jan. 1785, n.1 .
12To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 24 June 1788 (Washington Papers)
By sending the enclosed under Cover to me, our good Friend Dr Gordon has given me another Opportunity of testifying my Respect for your Excellency, without unnecessarily diverting your Attention from more important Objects. It came to hand yesterday from Boston, where Mr John Adams has at length arrived after a Passage of ten Weeks. The Attention of Politicians here is wholly engrossed by the...
13To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 14 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
Some short Time since Col. Morgan, of Princeton, left with me a Parcel for your Excellency, with a Request that I would forward it at any Time when we happened to have a small Mail; I have now the Honor to transmit it, with Assurances of the warmest Attachment of Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW . GW wrote Hazard from Mount Vernon on 22 July: “Sir, The letters with...
14To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 7 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is really with Reluctance that I add my name to the List of those who are Candidates for Offices, and by their Importunity encrease the weight of your Burthens: nor did I intend to do it: for, enjoying already the Office of Postmaster General, and conscious of no Cause of Removal, I thought it unnecessary; but having been lately informed that I have a Competitor, and fearing lest your...
15From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As I have (without doing it officially) requested from the heads of the several Executive Departments such information as might be requisite to bring me acquainted with the business and duties of the Departments; I have thought fit to ask, in the same informal manner, for specific information, in writing, relative to the past and present state of the Post Office. I must, therefore, request you...
16To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 27 June 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ebenezer Hazard, 27 June 1789. On 3 July GW wrote to Hazard : “Your letter of the 27th of June, together with the amount of receipts . . . were duly handed to me.”
17From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 3 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th of June, together with the amount of receipts and expenditures of the General Post-Office of the United States from 1782 to 1789, and the forms of bonds, accts &c. relating to the Post-Office Department, were duly handed to me; but my late indisposition has prevented my paying any attention to business ’till within a few days past. I have now inspected those papers; and...
18To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 15 July 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ebenezer Hazard, 15 July 1789. On 17 July GW wrote to Hazard : “I have received your letter of the 15th Instant.”
19From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 17 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 15th Instant enclosing the Post Office Ac[coun]ts in detail for the years 1784 & 1788. But there still remains one point on which I would wish to have further information. By the statement of the Produce and Expences of the Post office which accompanied your letter of the 27th of June, there appears to have been an annual Profit arising from that Department,...
20To George Washington from Ebenezer Hazard, 21 September 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ebenezer Hazard, 21 Sept. 1789. In a letter to Jeremy Belknap, 27 Sept. 1789, Hazard stated that he had written to GW on this date. Hazard copied a long extract of his letter to GW of this date into his letter to Belknap. The extract is printed in note 1 to GW to Hazard, 17 July 1789 .