1511From George Washington to the United States Senate, 31 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate, May 31st 1790 M. de Poiery served in the American Army for several of the last years of the late war, as Secretary to Major General the Marquis de la Fayette, and might probably at that time have obtained the Commission of Captain from Congress upon application to that Body. At present he is an officer in the French National Guards, and...
1512To George Washington from Gideon Wanton, 31 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
Newport [R.I.] May it please your Excellency. May 31th 1790 For two years past I have been elected by the General Assembly of this State, Naval Officer for this port and District of Newport, and at present hold that Office, but as that appointment ceases by the adoption of the new Constitution, I humbly supplicate your Excellency’s interposition for my continuance in the same, being altogether...
1513To George Washington from Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The sentiments yr Excellency expressed in yr Letter of the 9th of January are worthy of yr exalted character; and must be pleasing to all those who are friends to the happiness of man kind, For when by the success of yr arms, you afforded America the option of a free government; yr task was not so difficult, or more important, than yr present station; as her first Chief Majestrate. The present...
1514To George Washington from Thomas Green, June 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Green, June 1790. On 8 July 1790 Lear wrote Green that: “The President has received your letter of June.” In his letter to Green, Lear added: “As it has been contrary to his [GW’s] practice to suffer any accounts against him to remain unsatisfied for so long a time he thinks it possible there may be some error in your account that may be rectified by a recurrence...
1515To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Rue des ⟨J⟩euners no. 26. My General, Paris June 1. 1790. The letter with which your Excellency has honored me of the 29. of august last, and which accompanied a copy of that excellent work, the history of the insurrection in Massachusetts, is a new favor, which I appreciate in all its extent. Happy, if with the aid of your indulgence, I may be able to justify the good opinion which you have...
1516To George Washington from Stephen Moore, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial and Petition of Stephen Moore of the State of North Carolina Humbly Sheweth That, at a season when it is the wish of every friend to America not to break in upon your tranquility, your Memorialist finds himself under the painful necessity of intruding a few moments on your time. That having devoted his constant efforts and a large proportion of his property in aiding & furnishing...
1517To George Washington from Edward Thurston, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having been appointed by the General Assembly of this State at the two last Elections to the Office of Surveyor for the Port of Newport, and as such having discharged my duty to the Public to their intire Satisfaction, I do therefore humbly solicit your Excellency that I may be continued in that Office, and do assure You Sir that if it shall please You to continue me therein, my most earnest...
1518From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having received official information of the accession of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to the Constitution of the United States, I take the earliest opportunity of communicating the same to you, with my Congratulations on this happy event, which unites under the general Government all the States which were originally confederated; and have directed my Secretary to lay...
1519To George Washington from Wakelin Welch & Son, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
We had the honor of receiving your Excellencys favors of 13th Octr & 1st March by the hands of Mr Morris. Mr Morris has given his orders for the ornaments suitable for your dining Table, & for which, we have promised to pay, he observed that by sending some Goods, for you while he was in France⟨,⟩ he had advanced near £100, which if the Balance due to you in our hands would admit he should be...
1520To George Washington from John Canon, 2 June 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Canon, 2 June 1790. In a letter to John Canon of 25 June 1790 , GW refers to a letter of “the 2. instant.”