1From George Washington to William Pearce, 16–17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11th with its enclosures came to hand at the usual time; but not so as that, enquiry co[ul]d be made into the prices of linnen, & you to be informed, by the Post of tomorrow (this day being Sunday)—Go on therefore, until you hear further from me, to get linnen as fast as it can be worked up. The 11½ d. linnen is as good as any for the boys, girls & small people, who do...
2From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
At length your clover-seed, and chocolate Nut shells, are on Ship board for Alexandria; consigned to the care of Colo. Gilpin. The Vessel was to have sailed this day, but whether she is gone, or not, I am unable to say—she has been going every day for ten days, but I would not put your things nor my own Seeds on board until the last moment, lest they should get heated in the hold. yesterday...
3From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
You have not informed me yet, in what condition, or under what circumstances you found my lots in the Towns of Winchester and Bath—and my land above the latter: or whether you have visited all, or any of them since I see you last. I wish also to be informed how your collection stands, that I may direct the application of the money: and request you will furnish me with a correct list of all my...
4To George Washington from John C. Ogden, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Foreign as the ecclesiastical affairs of our country may be from your immediate deliberation, yet as a member of the Church, it may not be unpleasant, to receive a line, on a new subject, which has excited some conversation. The Revd Doctr Peters of London, formerly of Connecticut, is elected Bishop of Vermont. The Revd Doctr Bass, knowing the embarrassments, as to The Church Land, and being...
5To George Washington from One of the People, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I need not, I trust, make any apology for the freedom I now take in sending you these few lines—They are well intended, and cannot, I think, in reason, give any offence. The following truths are undeniable—There is a God—He is the supreme governor of the universe, both in a natural and moral sense—This God is holy, just, good, and merciful. Being holy, he cannot but hate sin; and being just,...
6To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President a letter from Mr Short, received yesterday; and two books, containing his shares in the companies. Those in the James river company are a hundred, and in Potowmac fifty—See page 26. in the blue book, and 12. in the red book. [P.S.] A letter from the Superintendants of the people of St Domingo at Baltimore is also ⟨e⟩nclosed. AL , DNA : RG...
7To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that the expression as to the merchants is changed, so as to give no possible offense, even if published. But the fact is, that amongst others Colo. Sam: Smith, of congress, yesterday declared himself to be ruined. Cyphers, by way of figures, uniformly indicative of the same word, are not beyond the reach of possible discovery—But they have...
8To George Washington from George Lee Turberville, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Full of diffidence—And conscious of the multiplicity of essential concerns that occupy every moment of your important Life, believe me I do a violence to my feelings when I am tempted thus to tresspass on yr Leizure but the interests of a deserving and amiable Wife, and of a promising family of Children impell me to begin. I sat out in Life with the fairest prospects, and for five years...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 16 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor to write you last the inclosed have been delivered to me by a person, who received them from Europe. They were not accompanied by a letter, but were said to have come from the Editor. Last Evenings post brought us the information from London under date of the 20th. Decemr. in Fenno’s Gazette. It has added greatly to the former sensations on the Subject of the depredations...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 16 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madisons propositions are yet depending and their fate incertain. The probability is they will pass in the H. of R. and be rejected in the Senate. The steady zeal with which any thing like a systematic operation on the British commerce, or indeed any branch of her interest is opposed, you have long witnessed and can of course readily conceive upon the present occasion. The opposition as...