1From George Washington to George Clymer, 17 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
I was this Evening honoured with yours of the 15 Inst., and It is with no small degree of pain that I am under the necessity of Informing you It is out of my power at this time to comply with the request made by your Honourable body. The many Important works carrying on for the defence of this place against which there is the highest probability of an Attack being made in a little time, will...
2George Washington to Robert Morris, George Clymer, and George Walton, 12 April 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] April 12, 1777. States objections to forming an army in Pennsylvania. Names Bristol as rendezvous. Orders Pennsylvania Militia to be kept at a distance from Continental troops until there is action. Again recommends removal of stores from Philadelphia. LS , in writing of H, New-York Historical Society, New York City. Df , in writing of Tench Tilghman with minor...
3From George Washington to George Clymer and John Nixon, 14 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with yours without date —I am much obliged not only by the candid manner in which you have laid before me the State of the Bank, but by your assurances of using every possible exertion to afford a supply of Bread to the Army, as far as your circumstances will admit. Of this although I do not entertain a doubt, I cannot help expressing my apprehensions that we shall be under...
4To George Washington from George Clymer and John Nixon, 21 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
The letter of the 14th instant which your Excellency has honored us with, makes us sensible of the necessity of fixing, with some degree of precision, the supply of flour the army is to receive from the Pennsylvania—bank. From a consideration then of its present ability, and the near prospect we have of its encrease, we can venture to give assurance of a supply of two thousand five hundred...
5To George Washington from George Clymer, 19 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have just received from Philadelphia the inclosed petitions of Captain Robert French and his wife, both of them addressed to the President and Congress, but conceiving the case to come entirely within the province of the Executive I have thought it my duty to lay them before you; only observing that the persons who have recommended the petitioners case to the consideration of government are...
6To George Washington from George Clymer, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I sought the earliest occasions, after my late appointment, to make you my personal acknowledgements; but on Saturday and Monday I found you either engaged in business or from home, and I am to day too much indisposed my self to go abroad—unwilling, however, any longer to defer a necessary duty, I beg, Sir, you will be pleased to accept, from me, in this form those acknowledgments, which are...