1To George Washington from the North Carolina Legislature, 23 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
The General Assembly of North Carolina, apprized of your intention to retire from office, feel it a duty, for themselves and their Constituents, to express the high sense they entertain of the vast advantages derived from your exertions, to the cause of freedom of America, and of mankind. To Secure this national blessing of peace and Independance, to rescue a people from Slavery on the one...
2To George Washington from Thomas Hartley, 23 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you on Wednesday, you were pleased to desire me to give my opinion of the present value of Lands situate between the Susquehanna and the Potomac. I cannot answer with actual certainty at the moment but imagine that the following extract of a Letter dated the 24th September 1791 which I had the pleasure of sending to you, may be very properly taken into view—as...
3To George Washington from Robert Morris, c.23 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
On the 25th of August last I had the honor to state in my letter of that date what had been the tenor of my Conduct in regard to the pre-emption right which I had acquired by purchase of the State of Massachusets to a Tract of Country within the State of New York and to request of the President of the United States that He would “Nominate and appoint a Commissioner to be present and preside at...