1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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,...
4To 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...
5To 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...