1To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 1 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The information I received at camp and communicated to your Excellency, relative to the expected resignation of a general officer was, I believe, not well founded—But if your excellencys opinion should concur with my wishes I may possibly obtain employment by another circumstance. I am advised that it is in contemplation at the War office, to organize all the independant corps, and such as are...
2To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 13 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
By a Note, received this morning from Mr Lear, I am requested to let you know “if I have received the notification of my appointment to the Office of Brigadier General; and whether I accept.” I have not, Sir, received any Official Notice of such an appointment. My answer to a private letter from the secretary of War, of which the inclosed is a copy, may in some measure, account for the delay;...
3To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to write you, by a late Post, and to inclose certain papers which contained such information as in obedience to your request, I thought it my duty to communicate. In addition I beg leave to mention Major Jones who infornjs me that he has offered his services by letter; the inclosed paper relates to him. Major Alexander Trueman, and Major Benjamin Brooks have also informed me...
4To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 10 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
This will be presented by Captn Ferroll a native of Maryland, who was in England at the commencement of the War, and sometime an Officer in the British Army. He came over to America, and was in Philadelphia & Remained there when it was evacuated by the enemy in 1778, and became a prisoner, and was afterwards liberated, and, has remained with us ever since. Captn Ferrell requests that I will...
5To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have not had the honor of a line, or message from you since I forwarded, to Mount Vernon, the Parchments which Major Turner sent to me from Philadelphia, and I was uncertain of your intentions respecting the Diplomas ’till about ten days ago, a gentleman Mr Hamilton, ⟨(⟩of this town) desired me to look at two blanks to which your name was subscribed—they were Diplomas, and upon enquiry I...
6To George Washington from Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 28 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am exceeding sorry to be the Author of bad News, but lest a more imperfect account shod reach Head Quarters, I think it my Duty to acquaint your Excellency of the misfortune sustain’d by Coll Baylors Corps. Early on Sunday the Coll remov’d with his Regiment from Paramus to Herring Town (a small place two or three miles from Taupaun) and took Quarters. Between three and four this morning the...
7To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 21 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to present, inclosed, an address, to your Excellency, from the Yankee Club of Stewarts town in the County of Tyrone, and Province of Ulster in Ireland. It came under cover by way of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Your Excellency’s Most obedient, and Most Humble Servant. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
8To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 18 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
The honor of being known to your Excellency will, I trust, excuse my omiting to mention the circumstances which have rendered me, in some degree, dependant upon Government for employment, and for support. Your Excellency has been informed that my public Services have been acknowledged by an appointment, in this state, to the most considerable office in the llection of the Imposts. As that...
9To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 5 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I participate the general joy, upon your happy recovery, with sincere delight; and I hope that I shall, not untimely, make report on the matters which you were pleased to commit to my enquiries when I had last the happiness of seeing you. The inclosed papers contain the best information that I have been able to collect, and my impartial opinion, respecting each of the persons named on your...
10To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 10 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The appointment of Coll Harrison to the Office of Judge in the supreme Court; and that of Mr Hanson to the Office of Chancellor, in this State; have created vacancies in the Commission of our general Court which, it is expected, will be filled by some of our most antient law Characters, to whom that situation will be most agreeable. The resignation of Mr Thomas Johnson, which is here spoken of...
11To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 18 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
If my letter, of the 22d ultimo, has been the cause of the least displeasure to you it will prove a source of lasting regret to me. A regret which I shall feel the more sensibly as the object of my proposal was, in my own estimation, too inconsiderable to have induced the smallest risque of your disapprobation. Your silence, My Dear Sir, and my own reflections induce the apprehension that some...
12To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 8 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Letter to Major Davidson, now one of the Council of this State, authenticates the address I had the honor to present at Annapolis. The County Tyrone has been remarkable for a spirit of patriotism ever since the commenc[e]ment of the American revolution. In 1775, Mr Patterson, a merchant of this Town, tho’ born in Ireland, traveled through that County and assures me that such was...
13To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Town of Baltimore feels an unusual joy on your Excellency’s arrival; And, willing to testify, in an acceptable manner, the most grateful sense of your eminent services and superior abilities, We are intrusted to congratulate your Excellency on the Glorious and happy conclusion of an unequal, precarious and bloody War, through which you have successfully Commanded the Armies of the United...
14To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 15 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter dated Mount Vernon July 26th, is the only one that I have had the pleasure to receive from you since the return of peace. I could not imagine why the Diploma’s were not returned, and, having written to you once or twice on the subject, concluded that it would be more respectful to wait until you should please to send them to me than to give any unnecessary trouble by sending for...
15To George Washington from Colonel Otho Holland Williams, 11 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellencys instructions I have taken post at the Furnace of Deane, And in order to relieve & Support the Picketts at Fort Montgomery & on the Road to Doodle Town with the greater facility, have advanced Majr Webb, about two Miles, to the post occupied by Coll Stewart, with One hundred and sixty Men compleatly Officer’d; With this Detachment I have a constant communication....
16To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 22 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Baltimore 22d March 1792 The receipt of your obliging letter of the 14th Instant gave me very great pleasure, as it gratified a wish to know that your plants were not lost; and that you had a prospect, ultimately, of receiving them safe at Mount Vernon. I have, for some time past, deliberated on the propriety of consulting you on a circumstance relative to our State...
17To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I assure myself that your moments of leasure are, some times, passed in the contemplation of rural concerns. Your known attachments to subjects of domestic, as well as public, utility; and your former attention to the improvement of Stock, encourage me to mention to you that I have had, for more than two years, an order, in the hands of an American in London, to procure for me one of the...
18To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 12 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
After I had the pleasure of seeing you in Philadelphia I made an excursion to New York, and from thence up the north river as far as Saratoga. One motive for extending my tour so far that course was to visit the springs in the vicinity of Saratoga which I recollected you once recommended to me as a remedy for the Rheumatism. They are now much frequented by the uncivilised people of the back...
19To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 2 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I intended to have had the honor and the happiness of personally acknowledging to you, Sir, at your Head Quarters, the very grateful sense I have of the favor of your Excellency’s interest in Congress, to which I consider myself principally indebted for my late promotion in the Army; but being detained longer at Philadela than I expected, I hastened to this place lest the general Assembly...
20To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 1 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
My brother, Mr E. Williams, informs me that, when he had the honor to converse with you at Williams port, you were pleased to intimate to him the propriety of propositions being made for grants of Lands to aid the execution of the law of Congress respecting the permanent residence. The expectation (created by the law itself) that the location of the federal district may include some lands in...
21To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 24 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
Major Turner of Philadelphia to whom, and Captn Claypole, was committed the buisiness of having the Diploma of the Society of the Cincinnati engraved on Copperplate, has sent me a bundle containing eighty three Diplomas on Parchment, with a list of fourteen members who have advanced to him one dollar each for the expence. Major Turner has importuned me exceedingly to pay him the money he has...