1[Diary entry: 19 May 1791] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 19th. Received & answered an Address from the Citizens of Augusta; dined with a large Company of them at their Court Ho.; and went to an Assembly in the evening at the Accadamy; at which there were between 60 & 70 well dressed ladies. The address of the Augusta citizens and a copy of GW’s reply are in DLC:GW . About 3:00 P.M. GW reviewed the Augusta Light Horse, and at 4:30 P.M. he...
2From George Washington to the Citizens of Augusta, Georgia, 19 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I receive your congratulations on my arrival in Augusta with great pleasure—I am much obliged by your assurances of regard, and thank you, with unfeigned sincerity, for the favorable sentiments you are pleased to express towards me. Entreating you to be persuaded of my gratitude, I desire to assure you that it will afford me the most sensible satisfaction to learn the progression of your...
3To George Washington from Robert Hawes, 19 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
Queen Street, Moorfields, London, 19 May 1791. Presents with sincere respects the enclosed “effort of a solitary Individual to avenge america’s and his injur’d Country’s wrongs. May the God of Liberty preserve you continually—is The Prayer of Sir Your Excellency’s most affectionate Friend, and admiring Servant, with a Bible open, and presenting 1. Maccabees Xth Chapter 15 & 16 Verses to my...
4From James Madison to Ambrose Madison, 19 May 1791 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 9th. instant found me in this City. I immediately wrote to Mr. Leiper & this day recd his answer on the subject of Tobo. which I inclose. I think you & my father wd. do well to send your tobo. to him as soon as you can, takin⟨g⟩ care to send none but of the most respectable quality. I cannot comply here with my father’s request as to the raisins & Tamarinds. Before I left Philada....
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 19 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The day I left Philadelphia, I went for the first time up into the book-room which Mr. Carstairs is building, and then for the first time also observed he had left no place for the chimney. On asking an explanation I found that some how or other he had taken a notion from the beginning that there was to be none. I am sure he had it not from me. It is possible that I may not have particularly...
6Enclosure K: Nicholas Duff to Joshua Johnson, 19 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Portsmouth, 19 May 1791 . He delivered the letter enclosed in Johnson’s of the 18th. The collector answered that it did not solely rest with him and that he would consult the comptroller and give their answer.—“I arrived at Spithead on the night of the 21st of Feby. had the Revenue Cutter on board on the morning of the 22d. and rec’d two Officers from her. I reported on the 23d. and had my...