10051George Washington to Daniel Marsh, 14 June 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Springfield, New Jersey ] June 14, 1780 . Sends instructions concerning cattle that is being collected by Brigadier General Nathaniel Heard. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Marsh was contractor for supplies for Essex County, New Jersey.
10052From George Washington to Daniel Marsh, 27 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have just received your Letter of Yesterday, respecting the apprehensions of the Majestrates and well affected Inhabitants of Essex County. I cannot but flatter myself the Citizens of that County & of america in general will do me the justice to acknowledge that I have ever paid the most particular attention to the preservation of their property and civil rights. And altho the sufferings of...
10053From George Washington to Daniel Marsh and Abraham Schuyler, 14 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
Brigadier General Herd is directed to drive off all the Cattle from Newark to Amboy within five Miles of the water —the fit for immediate use are to be delivered to the Commissary or his assi[s]tant and the others to you. But that the inhabitants may have justice done to them, I am to request, you will in conjunction with a Magistrate have the cattle delivered to the Commissary appraised...
10054From George Washington to Philip Marsteller, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
I send my Barge for the German family with which I agreed on Saturday last, & for their necessaraies if they have any to bring. As I have no body about me who can converse with them in their own language, I pray you to inform them that it will be necessary they should exert themselves to learn English; that their residences in the room into which they will be first introduced may be temporary,...
10055From George Washington to Philip Marsteller, 15 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
To the severity of the weather, wch has in a manner shut every thing up, and put a stop to all intercourse; & to some other circumstances unnecessary to mention, is to be ascribed my silence ’till now: and even now, when I recollect how fully I have already explained my ideas to you on what is intended to be the subject of this letter, I find that I have hardly anything to trouble you with by...
10056From George Washington to Philip Marsteller, 25 July 1787 (Washington Papers)
You would oblige me by letting me know whether there is a prospect of your purchasing, on the terms specified in my letter of Instructions, any of the Articles mentioned in the list handed to you therewith—particularly Blankets—as the Season in which these will be wanted, is now fast approaching, and against which they must be provided for the accomodation of my Negros. If there is a moral...
10057From George Washington to Martha Washington, 25 June 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : to Martha Washington, 25 June 1794. Martha Washington wrote Frances Bassett Washington on 30 June: "I have been so unhappy about the Presidt that I did not know what to do with myself—he tells me in his letter of wednesday that he is better" ( CGlF ).
10058From George Washington to Alexander Martin, 30 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Favor of the 10th Octo. accompanied with your Letter addressed to Lord Cornwallis—Before the Receipt of which his Lordship had surrenderd himself & Army prisoners of War to the United States—in Consequence of which, it is not in that late Gentleman Commanders Power to give you any Relief in Behalf of Govr Burke. I am very sorry for the unhappy Situation & ill treatment of...
10059From George Washington to Alexander Martin, 14 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your Excellency’s private letter of the 27th of September, which accompanied your public communication of the cession of certain pieces of land in North Carolina for the purpose of building light-houses thereon. I request your Excellency will receive my thanks for the kind Congratulations which you express on my return from my southern tour in perfect health;...
10060From George Washington to Alexander Martin, 29 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the , and am happy that the late acquisition of arms we have received, by the surrender of the enemy in this quarter, has put it in my power to supply the State of North Carolina with a number, which cannot fail of being very useful. Enclosed is an order on Mr Jones D.F.C.M. Stores for one thousand arms and accoutrements complete, which he will deliver to your...
10061From George Washington to George Martin, 10 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
So long a Course of Time as you mention, had indeed obscured the Remembrance of our former Acquaintance, ‘till the Letter you have favored me with, bthe recollection of your Name to my Mind—Your good Sense has furnished me an Apology, should any be needed—and the Occasion which introduces this renewal of former Times, is most plea s ing indeed—Your Congratulations to our happy-fated Country,...
10062From George Washington to Hugh Martin, 20 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have recd & thank you for the 2 Copies of your Narrative of a discovery for the cure of Cancers—one of which agreeably to your request I have transmitted to Mrs Washington—The discovery is as beneficial to Mankind as it wd be regretted by them if the Secret—being known to only one Man—should die with him. I am Sir &ca DLC : Papers of George Washington.
10063From George Washington to Hugh Martin, 13 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
As I have been & still am extremely occupied in closing my public & private Affairs in this City, it is not in my power to make any farther observations on the subject contained in your letters of the 3d of Novr & 8th of Decr, than just to remark, that in my opinion it would be very unfortunate to lose the knowledge of any discovery which tended to prevent or remove the calamities of human...
10064From George Washington to Thomas Bryan Martin, 10 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
Captain Harden arrived in about half an hour after you went away, and informs me, he has about Seventeen Men coming to Town. This I thought proper to acquaint you of, that you may advise with his Lordship, whether with these Rangers in Town, the Twenty odd you spoke off, and those Captain Smith thinks he is sure of getting, it would not be necessary to attempt Something—I have sent off these...
10065From George Washington to Thomas Coleman Martin, 3 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
I have already erected a thrashing Machine on Mr Bookers plan, and was on the point of putting up one or two more when I received a letter from a Gentleman of my acquaintance informing me that you had invented one which did more execution with less force. This had induced me to suspend the erection of those in Mr Booker’s plan until I can receive better information relative to yours, and this...
10066From George Washington to Thomas Coleman Martin, 17 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 21st Ulto in answer to mine, relative to the Wheat Machine. At all events I shall—indeed have—provided the Scantling agreeably to your Bill for making one, as soon after harvest as your experiments shall have proved the Utility of their operation, by Manual labour, and you shall be able to send me a skilful workman to erect it. If this should happen in all...
10067From George Washington to Thomas Coleman Martin, 15 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
In the course of last Autumn, I wrote to you relatively to a thrashing Machine, of which you were the Inventor; and you were obliging enough to give me some account of it; adding that you had not fully satisfied yourself how far Manual labour or the labour of horses, could be applied to advantage. Since which, indistinct, & contradictory accounts have been received of the result of your...
10068From George Washington to the Maryland Delegates, 25 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor last night to receive your favor of the 23d Inst. In compliance with the wishes of His Excellency the Governor, which you have been pleased to communicate, I have requested General Gist to repair to Maryland as soon as he can, though his service with the army is now material, and from the train of intelligence I have received from New York for some days past, it may become...
10069From George Washington to the Maryland Delegates of the Continental Congress, 17 August 1777 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to trouble you with a few lines on a subject which I wish to have your attention. I was just now informed that Lieut. McNaire, of the Artillery, has been arrested, and stands bound over to the next Court to be held for Hertford County, for enlisting two men to serve in one of the Continental Regiments of Artillery. This, it is said, is in consequence of an Act of your Assembly, by...
10070From George Washington to the Maryland Legislature, 20 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I receive with the liveliest emotions of satisfaction, your expressions of gratitude for my having accepted the Office of President of the United States, and your congratulations on that event. From the enlightened policy of the Legislature of the Union, in conjunction with the patriotic measures of the State Assemblies, I anticipate the Blessings in reserve for these United States: and so far...
10071From George Washington to Maryland Masons, 8 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging and affectionate letter, together with a Copy of the constitutions of Masonary, has been put into my hands by your Grand Master; for which I pray you to accept my best thanks. So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Free Masonary, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence, and to be exercised only for the good of Mankind; I cannot, therefore, upon this...
10072George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel David Mason, 25 July 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
West Point, July 25, 1779. Discusses the rations of Springfield artificers. Authorizes courts-martial to tighten discipline. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Mason was deputy commissary general of military stores at Springfield, Massachusetts.
10073From George Washington to Colonel David Mason, 2 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am glad to find, from yours of the 13th Ulto that the six new Virginia Battalions are likely to be compleated by means of drafts and inlistments. All the Recruits who have not had the small pox should be innoculated before they join the Army, for altho’ there are few of the Continental Troops but have had that disorder, yet as we constantly have Militia with the Army we cannot safely...
10074From George Washington to David Mason, 25 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Major General Gates has transmitted me sundry letters received by him from yourself Col. Chevers and other Officers at Springfield principally relating to some discontents which have lately happened there among the Artificers on the subject of provisions —I am uninformed by what authority the ration was reduced to the standard complained of—or the reasons on which the reduction was...
10075From George Washington to Colonel David Mason, 16 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd yours of the 1st instant inclosing the proceeding of a General Court Martial upon John Bates and others. I am under the necessity of disapproving the sentences as the Court was illegally constituted, no Officer under the Rank of a Brigadier commanding in a separate state, except authorised by me, having a right to constitute a general Court Martial, as I wrote to you in my last: But...
10076From George Washington to Colonel David Mason, 14 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Congress having been pleased to refer the proceedings & Sentence of a Court Martial against John More to my determination I have thought proper to remit the punishment decreed against him. You will therefore order him to be released from Confinement & to join his Regiment or some Recruits coming to join the same. I have inclosed his pardon. I am Sir Yr Hble servt Df , in Robert Hanson...
10077From George Washington to Colonel David Mason, 19 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd yours of the 21st April by Colo. Syme. I cannot with any degree of propreity consent to your Return from Alexandria to Williamsburg, there to remain till Mrs Masons health shall admit of your joining the Army. This is a matter of so much uncertainty that it would undoubtedly give umbrage to every Officer whose family requires his attention; and there must be many under the same...
10078From George Washington to Colonel David Mason, 4 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of the 21st and 23d of March. I am convinced that your silence has not been owing to any want of respect or neglect of duty, but to having nothing material to communicate, and when that is the Case I will always willingly dispense with your not writing. I some time ago sent orders to the different Hospitals in Virginia to have no more men innoculated there, as it was...
10079From George Washington to George Mason, 8 May 1758 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Mason, 8 May 1758. On 16 May Mason wrote to GW : “I am favour’d wth Yrs of the 8th Inst.”
10080From George Washington to George Mason, 13 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
My brother John is much in want of four, five or six hundred pounds which he is desirous of borrowing on Interest. If it is in your power to supply him, I will become security for the fulfilment of his agreement. He seems to have little expectation that money in these times, can be had at the common interest; & his own words will best express what he is willing to allow. “I believe I mentioned...
10081From George Washington to George Mason, 10 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The uncertainty of my return, and the justice of surrendering to Mr Custis, the Bonds which I have taken for the Monies raised from his Estate and lent out upon Interest. As also his Moiety of his deceased Sister’s Fortune (consisting of altogether of Bonds &c.) obliges me to have recourse to a friend to see this matter done, and a proper memorandum of the transaction made. I could think of no...
10082From George Washington to George Mason, 20 August 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Mason, 20 August 1775. On 14 Oct. 1775 Mason wrote to GW : “I have to acknowledge Your Favour of the 20th of Augt.”
10083From George Washington to George Mason, 27 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
By some interruption of the last Weeks Mail your favor of the 8th did not reach my hands till last Night—Under cover of this Mr Mason (if he should not have Sailed, &) to whom I heartily wish a perfect restoration of health, will receive two letters; one of them to the Marqs de la Fayette & the other to Doctr Franklin; in furnishing which I am happy, as I wish for instances in which I can...
10084From George Washington to George Mason, 29 August 1756 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Mason, 29 Aug. 1756. On 13 Sept. 1756 Mason wrote GW : “Your Favour of the 29th Augt did not come to my Hands till Yesterday.”
10085From George Washington to George Mason, 23 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your Coachman applied to me yesterday (through my Nephew) for employment. I informed him it was not my custom to treat with any one in the service of another unless it was well ascertained that a seperation was about to take place—nor then unless sufficient testimonials could be produced of sobriety—of Skill honesty and industry in the occupation that was followed. To the First, he replied...
10086From George Washington to George Mason, 5 April 1769 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive a letter and sundry papers which were forwarded to me a day or two ago by Doctor Ross of Bladensburg. I transmit them with the greater pleasure, as my own desire of knowing your sentiments upon a matter of this importance exactly coincides with the Doctrs inclinations. At a time when our lordly Masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the...
10087From George Washington to George Mason, 3 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have this moment received yours of yesterday’s date enclosing a memorial & remonstrance against the assessment Bill, which I will read with attention; at present I am unable to do it, on account of company. The Bill itself I do not recollect ever to have read: with attention I am certain I never did—but will compare them together. Altho’ no mans sentiments are more opposed to any kind of...
10088From George Washington to George Mason and David Stuart, 4 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of a resolution which passed at the last meeting of the Potomk company, and in behalf of the Directors, I transmit the enclosed Petition to you, for the consideration of your Honble House. The Petition is short. We therefore rely on you, if the sentiment shall meet your approbation, for argument in support of it; begging at the sametime (as the sole end is to obtain a more...
10089From George Washington to George Mason, 7 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
Doctr Stu[a]rt whom I have seen since his return from Gunston informs me (of what indeed you had done before) that your Crop of Corn is very short—and that you had it in contemplation to draw a supply from No. Carolina might be had cheap. My crop is much below what I had conceived, even from the distressing accounts which were handed to me. I much doubt whether the aid of 800 Barriels will be...
10090From George Washington to George Mason, 15 November 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Mason, 15 Nov. 1787. On 27 Nov. Mason wrote GW : “I this Morning received your Favour of the 15th.”
10091From George Washington to John Mason, 8 December 1799 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 4th instant, enclosing a Resolution of the Legislature of Maryland to take, on account of the State, one hundred & thirty shares in the augmented Capital of the Potomak Company, and thank you for your politeness in forwarding of it to me. Altho’ this mode of obtaining money to complete the Navigation of the River, differs from the plan adopted at the last...
10092From George Washington to John Mason, 2 January 1798 (Washington Papers)
I am just informed by the President of the Potomac Company, that the application to the Maryland Assembly on behalf of that Company, for aid to complete their works, has met with much delay, and even at this time, is uncertain in its event—a circumstance which I learn with no small regret. Understanding also, from the same source, that some persons have expressed a doubt whether I still...
10093From George Washington to John Mason, 12 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 14th of August together with its enclosures, for which, as well as for the polite offer of your services, I beg you to accept my best thanks. On the 16th and 25th of August I wrote to the House of Fenwick, Mason and Co. requesting them to furnish me with a quantity of the best claret, which letters, I presume have got to hand. I am Sir, your most obedient...
10094From George Washington to the Masons of Georgetown, South Carolina, 30 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The cordial welcome which you give me to George Town, and the congratulations you are pleased to offer on my election to the chief Magistracy receive my grateful thanks. I am much obliged by your good wishes and reciprocate them with sincerity—assuring the fraternity of my esteem, I request them to believe that I shall always be ambitious of being considered a deserving Brother. LB , DLC:GW ....
10095From George Washington to the Masons of King David’s Lodge, Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I receive the welcome which you give me to Rhode-Island with pleasure—and I acknowledge my obligations for the flattering expressions of regard contained in your address with grateful sincerity. Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the masonic fraternity is founded, must be promotive of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the...
10096From George Washington to the Masons of New Bern, North Carolina, 21 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I receive the cordial welcome which you are pleased to give me with sincere gratitude. My best ambition having ever aimed at the unbiassed approbation of my fellow-citizens, it is peculiarly pleasing to find my conduct so affectionately approved by a fraternity whose association is founded injustice and benevolence. In reciprocating the wishes contained in your address, be persuaded that I...
10097From George Washington to Thomson Mason, 24 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
I mean to renew the outer fence, on the line between you and me, & in a manner more substantial than usual. Mr Anderson will explain the method by wch I propose to accomplish this, to you; and ask your leave to profit by your Ditch, & present fence: which can be attended with no temporary inconvenience to yourself—and may, ultimately, be of singular advantage to you, as well as myself; as my...
10098From George Washington to Thomson Mason, 15 March 1798 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomson Mason, 15 Mar. 1798. On 17 Mar. Mason wrote GW : “I found your Letter of the 15th Inst.”
10099From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 28 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 16th. I am much obliged to the Council for the loan of the Arms, and am persuaded they have spared all that were in their power. I believe they have been misinformed about the number of Arms at Springfield—By the last return there were two thousand muskets capable of repair, and about sixteen thousand Gun barrels, which being mounted would be...
10100From George Washington to the Massachusetts Council, 25 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty in a Letter of the 11th of February, to inform your Honble Board of the augmentation Congress had resolved to make to the Army they voted to be raised in September, and to sollicit your attention and good Offices in promoting the raising of your proportion of these latter Levies. I trusted, that I then urged such reasons for the measure and so clearly shewed the Quota...