1To George Washington from David Lenox, 18 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
When I had the honor to address you in New York on the 27th May 1789 I did it on the presumption that I might possibly have succeeded to an appointment in the Customs. I am again urged by a duty which I owe my family to step forward and to solicit the appointment of Supervisor for the State of Pennsylvania under the Excise Bill should the same be enacted into a Law. I am informed that there...