1From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 18 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind and obliging letter of the 16 of July, and am sorry that the extream heat of the weather, and a constant attendance on the duties of an office which is somewhat laborious and fatiguing, have prevented my giving it an earlier answer. The approbation you are pleased to express of my public conduct, is a great satisfaction to me. It is true that I have run through a...
2To John Adams from Sylvanus Bourne, 18 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
It gives me sensible pain to be under the necessity of troubling you further with my personal Concerns amid the weight of your public Cares: but entertaining the fond hope that you are not totally disinterested in my welfare, I am prompted to observe to you, that upon my arrival here I found M r Keith had been pushing all possible force for the Marshalship of this District a place which I...
3To George Washington from Eliphalet Dyer, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
it is with a degree of Diffidence & reluctance that I undertake to Address you on a Subject which so nearly Concerns myself and which perhaps may be thot rather Indelicate but knowing your Candor I beg leave to Impart to you my Wishes and inclination which I trust you will gratify if not inconsistant with the Publick good which have no doubt you will attend to & make your great & principall...
4To George Washington from John Skey Eustace, 18 August 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Skey Eustace, 18 Aug. 1789. On 23 Nov. GW wrote to Eustace : “Your Letters of the 24th of July and 18th of August have been received.”
5From George Washington to Cyrus Griffin, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I think it expedient to acknowledge the receipt of your two Notes, dated the 10th of July & the 14th of Augst, for the purpose of assuring you that there was certainly nothing improper in the tenor of them. But it will be an instance of Justice to inform you, at the same time, that, without considering myself at liberty to give either encouragement or discouragement to the wishes of Gentlemen...
6From George Washington to the New York Port Wardens, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
As the period has arrived, when the United States were to make provision for keeping up the proper supplies for the Light Houses in different Ports, and as the Treasury Department has not yet been organised so as to carry that arrangement into effect; I must desire that you will still continue the superintendence of the Light House in this Port, keeping an exact account of the expenses which...
7From George Washington to Comfort Sage, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter dated the 31st of July, a few days after the nominations in the Revenue Department had been made; and your other letter of the 8th instant has just now been put into my hands. In consequence of those letters, it is but right I should inform you, that my not having received any immediate application from you, expressive of your readiness to fill the office, was the reason...
8To George Washington from Elizabeth Thompson, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I once more take the liberty of addressing myself to your Excellency, requesting that you will be so good as to give your approbation to the payment of Mr Thompson’s Acct for the Articles provided by him for George M. White-Eyes, which articles he would not have Supplied him with, had he not thought that he was acting upon a Surety of it’s being by your desire. I have Sir—the honour of being...
9To George Washington from George Turner, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
The numerous applications which no doubt your Excellency has received from candidates for public favour, and the superior abilities which such a range of choice must afford, impress me with great doubts as to the propriety of any application from me. I have taken a liberty, however, which I hope your Excellency will excuse—in thus soliciting the favour of your nomination to place me in some...
10From George Washington to the United States Senate, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
In conformity to the Law re-establishing the Government of the Western Territory, I nominate Arthur St Clair Governor. Winthrop Sargent Secretary. Samuel Holden Parsons, } John Cleve Symmes and Judges of the Court. William Barton I also nominate Ebenezer Tucker, Surveyor of Little Egg Harbour in the State of New Jersey. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, President’s Messages—Executive...