1To George Washington from John Carter, 22 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
On a Presumption that this truly distressed State is at length on the Point of joining the Union, and that a new Arrangement of Officers will in Consequence take Place, permit me, with all Deference, to ask of your Excellency a Nomination to the Naval Office for this District. My Object, in the first Instance, was the Collectorship, and I had endeavoured to make some little Interest: But...