1. In a letter to GW, 6 June 1789, Alexander MacWhorter, a New Jersey clergyman who had served as chaplain to Henry Knox’s artillery brigade during the Revolution, wrote: “I take the liberty of accompanying Mr Beebees petition, who is a son in law of mine, with a few lines. He has been all the unfortunate man hinted at in his petition, and besides, I myself suffered the loss of my little all in the calamities of the war, having with the first embarked in the American cause in opposition to British measures, and perhaps was too zealous therein for my sphere in life. But however this may be, whether by zeal, or being sent by Congress to North Carolina for political purposes in the beginning of 1776, or by living in Newark in the neighbourhood of this city, or from whatever other cause the same may have happened, I became somehow unfortunably very obnoxious to the enemy, and I and my family were long exiled from home and from our living. I never relaxed in my faithf⟨ul⟩ endeavours to encourage my people and others in their struggles for what I believed to be their just rights, yet I have hereby been disabled from helping my children to begin the world as might otherwise been reasonably expected; therefore, Sir, if Mr Beebee, who, I know to be an honest sober and endustrious man, and very capable of business (otherwise I should not solicite for him) could obtain an appointment, in any of the clerk’s offices, or another office, whereby he might be aided in the support of a necesitous and young and growing family . . .” (DLC:GW). Macwhorter also wrote to Alexander Hamilton, 9 Nov. 1789, soliciting the appointment of Beebee as a clerk in one of the Treasury offices (Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 5:506).