2101To George Washington from Matthew McAllister, 25 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have to return you many thanks for the confidence reposed in me, when you were pleased to nominate me to the office of Attorney for this district, at the organization of our happy Government: permit me Sir, to assure you, that nothing could give me greater pain, than that it should in any degree be diminished with the President, for whose character I have ever had, the highest respect. If a...
2102To George Washington from John J. Pringle, 3 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Charleston, S.C., 3 Sept. 1792. Resigns as U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina because his “business and avocations” do not permit him enough time to perform properly the duties of this office. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. John Julius Pringle (1753–1843), a Charleston lawyer, was appointed the U.S. district attorney for South Carolina in September 1789 (see GW to the...
2103To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
No. 6 Sir Board of Treasury [New York City] July 23d 1789. We have the honor of transmitting to you a Report on the General State of the Treasury, with the Official Documents explanatory of the same. We have the honor to be with high respect Sir Your obedient humble Servants Board of Treasury July 22d 1789 On the General State of the Treasury. From the statement made by the register of the...
2104To George Washington from William Willcocks, 3 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Having had the honour of being introduced to Your Excellency by Mr Purvyance at Baltimore last March, and being Elected Mayor of this City Since my return, but do not come into Office till the 30th of the present Month; In that Situation it occurs to me that I may be useful, particularly to Your new City, which I hinted to Col: Deakins, who I had the pleasure to see at George Town, I therefore...
2105To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 15 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that we arrivd here last evening after a pleasant journey from Phila. and shall sail for Providence in about an hour. I have thought it best, & upon the whole most œconomical to take a water carriage to Providence. The principal object in troubling you with a letter at this time is to mention that while I was on board the Packet this morning engaging a passage I...
2106To George Washington from James Anderson, 18 January 1797 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from James Anderson, 18 Jan. 1797 . GW wrote Anderson on 22 Jan. : “Your letter of the 18th instant … came to my hands yesterday.”
2107To George Washington from Thomas Bird, 5 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Permit a stranger to inform your Excellency, that about twelve months since, I was apprehended & committed to Goal, in the Town of Portland, within the District of Maine, charged with the murder of Capt. John Conner, of the Sloop Mary, upon the Coast of Africa. That yesterday I was tried & found guilty of the Crime, & that the District Judge, a few hours since pronounced the fatal sentence,...
2108From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 5 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I was in due time favoured with your letter of the 26 June & consulted the Gentleman you name on the subjects of it. We are both of opinion there is no power in the President to appoint an Envoy Extraordinary, without the concurrence of the senate, & that the information in question is not a sufficient ground for extraordinarily convening the senate. If however the President from his...
2109To George Washington from Jonathan Burrall, August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having offered myself as a candidate for the Office of Auditor of Accounts in the Treasury Dept, I beg leave to lay before you the inclosed testimonials of my qualifications, and offer to your consideration the following facts and observations. Conscious of having faithfully and diligently executed the duties of the several important Offices I have held in the Treasury Dept. since the year...
2110To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to send for the President’s perusal, his letters to Govr Sinclair & Judge Symmes: as also letters received from the postmaster at Richmond on the subject of the two cross posts. he has gone further as to that towards the South Western territory, than Th: J.’s letter authorized, as he only submitted it to his enquiry & consideration whether a post along that rout...
2111To George Washington from John Eager Howard, 23 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor yesterday in Baltimore, to receive from Genl Lee your letter by him, and being obliged to return immediately to this place, I could not answer it by the mail which left Baltimore this morning. This mark of your confidence has made so deep an impression on my mind, that I should not hesitate to comply with your wish, could it be done without making sacrafices that I am persuaded...
2112To George Washington from Thomas Posey, 20 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Some time since I took an ocasion to write to you, but held up the letter untell now, from a thought that I might be too troublesome: but I trust your goodness will excuse my boldness. I am more & more confirmd, that a change in my mode of life must take place, and provided I could fall into a business which I might discharge with equal propriety that any other person would in an office under...
2113To George Washington from Baron Otto de Wurmser, 22 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
C’est avec une Confiance Sans Bornes, et avec une profonde veneration pour les vertus et les Sublimes qualités de vôtre Excellence, que je prend la liberté de m’adresser à elle, pour la prier de m’aider dans la pénible recherche de la malheureuse mere de ma femme. Cette respectable femme S’apelle Md. de Bayeux, agé de 84 ans, habitante du Cap françois Côtes et Isle de St. Domingue; Elle etoit...
2114To George Washington from Jeremiah Nicols, 25 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the Year 1790, thro’ the Intercession of my good Friend Mr James Tilghman You thought proper to nominate Me to the Collectorship of the Port of Chester, this Gentleman being now no more I beg leave to refer You to his Son Mr William Tilghman, Genl Dickinson, Colo. Cadwallader, Mr Edward Tilghman and the Mr Chews of Philadelphia for any Information which You deem necessary to my private...
2115To George Washington from Isaac Backus, 15 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Among the numerous addresses to your Excellency, since your advancement to the highest seat of goverment in America I suppose you have received none from any community of Baptists in the state of Massachusetts. Not because they have not as hearty a regard for your excellency as any denomination therein, but for want of a convenient oppertunity therefor, when you was in these parts. But an...
2116To George Washington from James Simpson, 24 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have not before intruded on Your Excelly since I had the honor of being encharged with Renewal of the Treaty between Morrocco and the United States. I did not however fail to take every opportunity of advising the Secretary of State my proceedings in detail, for your information; and it will afford me infinite satisfaction, to receive your approbation thereof. I had it in charge from Coll...
2117To George Washington from James McHenry, 26 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
Mr Liston has this moment favoured me with the inclosed letter. If you have time to look over the draught of the letter to Capn De Butts, and can return it to-day I shall endeavour to get him dispached to-morrow. I have the honour to be Sir with the highest respect Your most ob. st ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The docket reads “May 27th 1796” on the ALS , and the letter-book copy shows the...
2118To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 26 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor dated the 24th ultimo came duly to hand, altho’ it remained a fortnight in Fredericksburg before an opportunity offered to this place. I am felicitated with the idea of your becoming a private Citizen once more. Indeed I might venture to affirm that it is the ardent wish of every friend and relative you have in this world. I shall leave home in a few days for Frederick and Berkley...
2119To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him some letters just received also the draught of a letter to the Judges. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letters to Jefferson from diplomats William Carmichael and William Short of 18 April and 5 May 1793...
2120To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having seen the Bill for establishing the judiciary department of the Government of the United States, by which a Judge is to be appointed to hold a district inferior Court in each State, I presume to trouble your highness with an application for that appointment. As I have not had the happiness of any other opportunity to be personally known to your Highness, than what arose from one or two...
2121To George Washington from Henry Knox, 6 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
The letter to General Wayne herewith submitted being of great importance I concluded it ought not to be transmitted until you had full time to consider its contents, and to approve or disapprove the same or direct alterations therein. Opportunities will occur in the beginning of next week for its transmission. I have the honor to be respectfully your Obedient Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW...
2122To George Washington from Armand, 20 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Since five years that I am return’d from america, my dearest thoughts have Been taken up By the remembrance of the days which I spent under the command of your Excellency, By the tender vénération which your character has forever ingraved into my soul. I know that men of such a high merit owe no gratitude or return for the affections which their virtues inspire: it is their due. But those who...
2123To George Washington from Civis, 1 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
When any Citizen presumes to offer his sentiments to you, his Love for his Country and its Glory should be his apology—Upon this Principle the writer hopes to be heard. and altho’ his opinion may be useless that the freedom will be excused. He has been a constant and warm Stickler for the new Government, and is happy to think it is now out of the reach of its Enemies. He does not fully...
2124To George Washington from Ebenezer Tucker, 8 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
as the Law of the Nation Requires Cutters to be Fitted & mannd for the Aid of the Customs, Permit me Sir to Observe that it’s my Oppinion that the Cutter that Cruzes on this Coast Shoud have an Officer On Board that understands the Coast harbours Creeke &c. Vary well. Capn Dennis of the Vigalant who paid our port a Visset a few Days Since, informs me that his first officer is not yet...
2125To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, La Fayette & his tutor have been here—I conversed with them concerning a future destination, as by way of consultation, without proposing any thing, and in a way best calculated to sooth. But I found that the idea of not being permitted to see you is very painful to them—though they both profess submission to whatever may be your decision & behave modestly. The declaration,...
2126To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1791. Encloses a copy of his report of this day to the House of Representatives on the petition of Jacob Isaacks, noting: “it is printed on the back of a Permit in order to shew that the proposition therein made is perfectly practicable.” ALS , NUtM ; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Thomas Jefferson Papers; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 59, Domestic Letters.
2127To George Washington from the Comtesse de Rochambeau, 18 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I hope that your excellency will give me the leave to beg a favor of your Justice. I think it just & intercede for the Baron closen who was an aid-de-camp to Mr Rochambeau during the American War. He longs with the desire to be a member of the Association of the Cincinnati. The officers who were employed in the French army & younger than him in the military service have been decorated with...
2128To George Washington from David Burnes, 12 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I Presume to Address you a second time on a Subject which materially concerns me and my famely—I have applied to your Commissioners for redress to no purpose—You informed my Son the Commissioners would do every thing that was right if they had done right in my opinion they would have paid me for the Presidents Square Octr 1st 1791 when they began Occupying the above mentioned Square and I...
2129To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, September 1795 (Washington Papers)
We had the pleasure of your favor by Mr Lear Covering Mr Morriss Letter of the 21t instant —finding that Mr Morris is of Opinion that we have no power to sell his property we think it highly necessary to assure him that we are impress’d with very Different sentiments and shall if Compelled by him take the advice of able Counsel on the point—We enclose a Copy of our letter to Mr Morris with his...
2130To George Washington from Robert Dick, 5 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your known goodness will, I hope, excuse the trouble of this letter, which I presume to write You in order to introduce to Your notice the bearer of it Mr James Oswald; who is a Son of George Oswald Esqre of Scotstown near Glasgow, and a partner in the business which I have conducted in Virginia and Maryland for many years. This Young Gentleman is Grand Nephew to Richard Oswald Esqre, the...
2131To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 27 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I this day drew the attention of the Senate to the evident impropriety in publishing their Executive proceedings. I stated in as strong a point of view as I was capable of, the injustice and impolicy of suffering ourselves to become dupes to the foreign public characters resident at the seat of Government; by detailing in conversation any part of our proceedings. Our Secretary was imprudently,...
2132To George Washington from Francis Bailey, 2 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
To the honorable the President and the honorable the Members of the Senate, of the United States of America the Memorial and Petition of Francis Bailey of the City of Philadelphia, Printer, Most respectfully sheweth, That your petitioner, has invented a mode of forming Types, for printing devices, to surround, or make parts of printed papers, for any use, which cannot be counterfeited, by the...
2133To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 19 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have received the Letter which You have done me the Kindness to write, tho’ unexpected; and received it as another Instance of your long Friendship; and was also pleased at Your entire submission to the will of Heaven in Your late afflictive Loss, tho’ it was no more than I expected. For having encountered & surmounted many & various Difficulties & disappointments, and believing in a...
2134To George Washington from Robert Hoops, 20 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
The humble Memorial of Robert Hoops on the part of his Brother Adam Hoops respectfully sheweth, that very early at the Commencement of the late Revolution his said brother enter’d as a volunteer in the Army of the United States and was soon after appointed an officer in it, in which Capacity he served untill the glorious Cause for which we took up Arms was happily obtained—Shortly after the...
2135To George Washington from Théophile Cazenove, 25 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On my return from my house, at Alexandria, I learnt that a letter, transmitted to me, here, for your Excellency, from Madame de la Fayette, had been put into the post-office. As I am desired, by my friend in England, through whom it was sent me, to inform him, whether it reached your Excellency’s hands, I beg leave to request you will deign to let me know, whether you received that letter:...
2136To George Washington from Henry Lee, 15 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
When I was in Norfolk I heard of your passing thro Baltimore on a visit to Mt Vernon, and flattered myself with being enabled to pay my respects to you, but on my return I heard of your departure for Philada. This happiness I must hope for on a future day. In the mean time permit me to occupy a few moments of your time. You cannot have forgotten a declaration which you made at your own table...
2137To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 4 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State, having reviewed the Consular Appointments under the United States, has the honor of reporting to the President, as follows. 1. The Consul at Falmouth in Great Britain, has been commissioned in the name of Edward Fox; but he writes that his true name, is Robert Weare Fox. He was promised by the Secretary of State on the 12th of Septr 1793, that the error should be...
2138To George Washington from Henry Knox, 10 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to report to you, that a letter, of the purport of the enclosed, be written to Governor Lee in answer to his letter of the 2d instant relatively to the fortification of Norfolk —I took the liberty of laying his letter before the other heads of departments and the Attorney General—who were of opinion as stated in the proposed answer. I have the honor to be with the highest...
2139To George Washington from John Jay, 25 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your very friendly Letter of the 1 Novr last, gratified me not a little. The Insurrection had caused disagreable Sensations in this Country, the objects and Efforts of the Jacobin Societies in america were known here, and the hate of our Government was considered as being involved in that of the Insurrection. The manner in which it has terminated has given sincere Satisfaction to this...
2140To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Alexander Hamilton, 6 July 1795. On 7 July, GW wrote Hamilton: “Your letter of yesterday is this moment received.”
2141To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 28 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honour to receive your Excellencys letter relating to the advertisement of Dr Andersons periodical publication in the Gazette of the United States which attention to my reccomendation I feel very sensibly and return you my gratefull acknowledgment. In the 21st No. of that literary miscellany I inserted a monitory paper respecting America which I flatter myself may if attended to on...
2142To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
après bien des peines et des traverses, c’est en Amérique, c’est auprès de vous, que je viens chercher un azyle, et mon pere. j’avois aspiré depuis long-temps après cet heureux moment, qui toujours avoit fui devant moi. je commence à espérer maintenant davantage. comme c’est à votre nom, que je dois le bonheur de me trouver enfin dans ma seconde Patrie; ce sera sûrement encore à vous, que je...
2143To George Washington from the Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New-York Line, 20 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
THE non-commissioned officers and privates of the New-York line, in the late American army, beg leave most respectfully to address you, and to present to you the services we rendered to our country during the late glorious struggle with the armies of the King of Great-Britain, and the mode in which we have been paid. That at the conclusion of the war we retired to private life, with assurances...
2144To George Washington from James Craik, 3 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
Since the receipt of your favour of the 8th Septr nothing has occurred to justify my breaking in upon your necessary engagements by an Epistolary Communication—Tho a Correspondence with those we Esteem and adore is one of the greatest pleasures, yet have I every gratification that I can expect from the public Prints. by them am I dayly informed, how deservedly you retain that high place in the...
2145To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 20 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter from Wm Bingham Esqr. of the 26th of febry last, together with the papers which it enclosed. It would seem that the United States in Congress assembled have already put the affair in a situation to make the consequences of the Suit a public concern; in which case it would appear adviseable that measures should be taken for a regular defence on behalf of the...
2146To George Washington from John Story, 20 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to address you to offer myself as a Candidate for an Appointment under Goverment and beg leave to submit the following for Your Consideration. I am a Native of Boston and served with a Merchant untill the commencement of the late War, when I entered the service of my Country as a Volunteer and served as such untill 1776. Infirm health prevented my Acceptance of a Commission at...
2147From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses a description of a new plan of a Capitol in which Mr. Hallet is engaged, who has expressed very earnest wishes that the ultimate decision may not be pronounced till he can bring it forward. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Washington. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . For the...
2148To George Washington from William Matthews, 9 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I humbly beg leave to present you a Paper signed by a few of my respectable Neighbours. It would not have been the least difficult for me to have Increased the Number but considering that it is well known with how much facility the General Benevolence is mov’d to Acts of this kind, I concluded to spare you Sir the trouble of a lenthy Scrawl and my self the pain of soliciting Suffrages that...
2149To George Washington from Giuseppe Ceracchi, 23 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
As soon I received your valuable Suscription for the National Monument I send it to those Gentilmen appointed to promote the plan, I imagined that under such Reputable Auspice might be forword it with success. but I was disappointed with astonishement when it was told me, that various causes actuating towgater produced invincible difficulties ageinst it, and your example in having suscribed...
2150To George Washington from Robert Ballard, 3 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I discover by the Act of Congress for laying an Additional duty on Forriegn Spirits and Spirits Distilled in the U.S.—and that your Excellency & the Supervisor are to make appointments for carrying into effect the Services the Act requires to be performed. and furthermore that your Exellency may appoint such Officers of the Custom’s as may seem Proper to you. I am therefore humbly to sollicit...