1401To George Washington from John O’Donnell, 9 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
ODonnell presents his most respectful Compts to the President of the United States—intreats his Acceptance of the accompanying Indian Apparatus for Smoaking called “a Hooka” which He took the Liberty to mention to Him, when He had the Honor to visit Him sometime since at New York. The Bearer will shew the President’s Servant it’s use, and the Manner of preparing the Tobacco for Smoaking. AL ,...
1402To George Washington from Barbe Perbal Legaux, 17 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Le citoyen Legaux mon mari, obligé il y a peu pres huit ans de quitter la goideloupe par les véxations que lon vouloit lui faire éprouver, Se retira a la nouvelle angleterre ou il a eu le bonheur de vous connoitre; dans toutes Ses lettres il ma parlé de vous, citoyen, et combien il avoit été flatté de la bienveillance avec la quelle vous avez accueellis ce quil a fait pour Se rendre util dans...
1403To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit here with the copy of a report intended to be presented to the House of Representatives on the subject of a National Bank. This communication would have been earlier made if it had been in my power; but it has been impossible for me to prepare it sooner. With the most perfect respect I have the honor to be Sir, Your Most Obedient & Most humble Servant LB , DLC:GW ....
1404To George Washington from John Graff, 14 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will have received a letter of the 22d Ulto containing two papers of the same import with those now inclosed. I was desirous of paying my respects to you Sir, & arrived here with that intent, but your Excellency’s being from this place has occasioned my troubling you with the present—Many Citizen of the mercantile line have not yet returned to Philada which has occasioned the...
1405To George Washington from Joseph Buckminster, 27 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I should not have presumed to intrude upon a moment of your time, filled as I know it must be with a variety of the most important cares, were it ⟨not⟩ to execute a request made when you were at Portsmouth, To present in the name of Lady Pepperell, Relict of Sr William Pepperell the inclosed discourse. Though the connections of her Ladyship have been such as would lead us to suppose that she...
1406To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 16 December 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Bryan Fairfax, 16 Dec. 1795 . On 3 Jan. 1796, GW wrote Fairfax: “Your favor of the 16th Ulto came safe.”
1407To George Washington from Robert McCulloch, 15 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to State the distressed Circumstances of an Old Soldier. At the Battle (or Surprize) at the Peola I recd Two Wounds with the Bayonet, At the Battle of Germentown I recd a Wound in my left leg, by a Musket Ball, which was afterwards Cut out by the Doctrs—At Chemung, in Genl Sullivans Expidi[ti]on agains the Indians, I recd a bad wound in my left Arm by a Rifle or Musket Ball—at the...
1408To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 18 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The following remarks occur upon the statement of Colo. Hamilton, which you did me the honor of communicating to me this morning. 1. In what manner is it to be exhibited to the public? or in other words, is it to be introduced under the known or allowed countenance of the President? As I do not see, how the one or the other can be avoided, it seems proper to call his attention to these points....
1409[Diary entry: 25 September 1795] (Washington Papers)
25. Do. Do. and warm.
1410Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 31 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Bw Dandridge respectfully informs Genl Knox that the President will be glad to see him at 10 o’Clock this morning. The President wishes the General to bring with him the message & other papers which are to accompany the treaty with the Six Nations to Congress. ADf , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . For these documents, see GW’s first letter to the U.S. Senate, 2 Jan. 1795 .
1411From George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 17 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have recieved your favors of the 9th & 11th ⟨instant,⟩ & shall be glad if the purchase from ⟨Burns⟩ should be concluded before you receive this at £15 or £⟨17⟩ as you ⟨illegible.⟩ but as you mention that should he ask as far as £20 or £25 you will await further instructions before you accept such an offer: I have thought it better, in order to prevent delays, to inform you, that I could wish...
1412To George Washington from James McHenry, 14 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to lay before you the proceedings and sentence of a court-martial on Lieut. Simon Geddis, and several papers and letters connected therewith. Lieut. Geddis having prayed for a new trial, I shall wave any remarks upon his case, and confine myself to the reasons which favour such an application. It is declared, in the articles of war, vz. Art. 1. for the administration of...
1413Yundt & Brown to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 12th we had the honor of receiving on the 13th instant. The advertisement is inserted in this day’s paper, which is transmitted to the President, (to save postage) by mail. Our charge is twenty five dollars, (being a dollar per square for the three first insertions) which you will please to pay Mr Young, bookseller, to whom we shall give an order. It was our desire to make it...
1414To George Washington from George Clinton, 24 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Confidential Sir New York, 24th February 1792 It is reported here that Colo. Smith either has or intends to resign the Office of Supervisor of the Excise for this District; Under this Impression and a Conviction that from the Nature of that Office there is none that it is more necessary should be filled with a Man of Discretion, Integrity and weight in the Community I begg leave to mention for...
1415To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I received another letter from Mr King—it is dated the 16th of August, covering a duplicate of the former, and saying that he had heard nothing from Mr Monroe respecting the letter from the Directory to Mr Barthelemy, so interesting to the commerce of neutral powers: and this silence was the only circumstance that left him a hope that the letter in question is not genuine. At the...
1416From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 26 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) My dear Sir, Mount Vernon Augt 26th 1792 The purpose of this letter is merely to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the 5th & 13th instt, and to thank you for the information contained in both without entering into the details of either. With respect, however, to the interesting subject treated on in that of the 5th, I can express but one sentiment at this time, and that is a...
1417From George Washington to John Adams, 3 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 8th of June next; you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part. LS , MHi: Adams Papers ; LS (duplicate), owned (1995) by Joseph Maddelana of Beverly Hills, Calif.;...
1418To George Washington from James McHenry, 24 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
private. I inclose you a rough draught of a talk to the Cherokees and instructions to agent Dinsmore, containing a plan for promoting their civilization and rendering the management of them easier and more economical. If you think favourably of it I will revise and correct it and have Mr Dinsmore dispatched to his station. You will find it to contain little more than a mode for executing the...
1419To George Washington from John Kean, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Commission with which I have this day been honored is a mark of your approbation highly grateful to me—I shall endeavour by my actions to merit & preserve it. My present occupation will not permit me to appropriate to the expediting this business so much of my time as I could wish & the nature of the service may require; but no exertion shall be wanting on my part so far as my time will...
1420From George Washington to James McHenry, 11 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
I shall have occasion to write to Mr Lear by tomorrow’s Post, and would thank you to let me know (in a summary way) what money he has drawn on acct of the Arsenal on the Potomack; and what report he has made to the War Office of his proceedings in that business, for I shall take an occasion (as from myself) to ask him what has been done therein. Yours always ALS (photostat), DLC : James...
1421To George Washington from Thomas Millet, 20 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I had promised to lay before the public my fears on the dispersing the french fleet in Several harbours, and on the letting So many of merchant-ships, in chesapeake-bay, Without any ship man of war. but feeling the consequences of that publication, I do Keep myself Within bounds to transmit to your excellency my opinion on that affair; if I Give you only Some Strong probabilities on this...
1422To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of submitting to the President the rough draughts of the letters of credence for Mr Adams. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The date is supplied from the docket on the AL , which agrees with the date on the letter-book copy. The rough drafts have not been identified. The two...
1423To George Washington from the Quakers, 16 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial and Address of the people called Quakers, Respectfully sheweth, That deeply affected with the great effusion of human blood, and the slaughter of our fellow men in the late contests with the Indian natives, we sincerely lament the miseries and distresses which these mournful circumstances have produced, and may be yet further encreased; if the same hostile measures are continued....
1424Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have just now written to the President to communicate some Intelligence lately received from Paris. This I have done in abstract but my correspondent has written to me as follows “The Government here are highly displeased with ours. You may easily guess the Reason. It is come to a very serious pitch. A fleet is to be sent to our shore with a new minister. A definitive answer must be given in...
1425To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 21 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have taken the Liberty to send you a Pamphlet which is, at this Time, a Subject of much public Animadversion, and I have done it under the Impression that, from a Consciousness of the Rectitude of your own Conduct, you will read it without Emotion, and that you wish to collect the Sentiments of Mankind with Respect to our public Measures & public Men; and, further, as I have ever thought the...
1426From George Washington to David Shepherd, 25 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for the information which you have given me in your letter of the 30th of Decr respecting the intention of the Tomlinsons and others to dispute my title to a tract of land called the Round Bottom. I wish these persons, and any others who may be disposed to dispute my title to that land, to be informed in the most explicit and pointed manner, that it is my fixed determination to...
1427To George Washington from John Conrad Zollickoffer, 17 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
If my Family Business would permit my absance from home, I should have concured to the wishes of my Cozen Mr Rd Valltravers; I should myself have do me the Honor to wait upon Your Excellence with this Inclosed letter & Sundry other Papers, which (as he maintion to me) are Copy’s of his Correspondance with You Sir, Mr Lear Your former Secretary, Mr Jefferson presidt of the Philadelphia Accademy...
1428To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 22d instant after the departure of the post on Monday Morning the 27th. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and myself have had two separate meetings, yesterday and to day upon the subject of the Georgia dispatches. We have, in substance, adopted the ideas, you were pleased to communicate in your favor of the 19th...
1429To George Washington from Ralph Pomeroy, 20 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Hartford [Conn.] May it please your Excellency 20th July 1789 In the late war I had the honour to Serve my Country in Several successive departments, and last of all as Deputy Quarter Master for the State of Connecticut, which business (tho’ dificult) was executed with fidelity and Success. I now beg leave to offer my services, and request a new appointment in some one of the new Offices now...
1430From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 1 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding Mr Lear is already known to you, I cannot suffer him to depart without this letter of introduction to your civilities, whilst he may remain in London. He is a person whose conduct has entitled him to my warmest friendship & regard—and one from whom you may obtain the best oral information of the real state of matters in this Country. Mercantile pursuits with draws him from my...
1431From George Washington to James Monroe, 25 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
Duplicate Your favor of the 24th of March written in Cypher, never got to my hands until the 10th instant at Mount Vernon; nor were the contents of it known to me until my arrival in this City on the 21st. For the information contained in it, and your attention thereto; I offer you my best thanks. Having no clue by which to discover the fact, I am very much at a loss to conjecture by what...
1432From George Washington to David Rittenhouse, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having had under consideration the letter of the Director of the mint of this day’s date, I hereby declare my approbation of the purchase he has made of the house and lot for the mint. of the employment of mr Voight as Coiner, of the procuring fifteen tons of copper, & proceeding to coin the cents and half cents of copper & dismes & half dismes of silver: and I leave to his discretion to have...
1433From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Permit me once more to give you the trouble of forwarding the enclosed letters to their respective addresses. If you read the Aurora of this City, or those Gazettes which are under the same influence, you cannot but have perceived with what malignant industry, and persevering falsehoods I am assailed, in order to weaken, if not to destroy, the confidence of the Public. Amongst other attempts...
1434Tobias Lear to Jonathan Dayton, 9 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your letter of this date, the President of the United States directs me to inform you, that he is ready to do, at any time, whatever may depend on him towards completing the “grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes and his associates,” in conformity to An Act of the Legislature passed during the last session of Congress. But as the President understands that...
1435To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The last letter which I had the honor to write to you was dated on the 10th instant. Since which I have received your favor of the 7th instant. Colonel Hall having declined Colonel Darck agreably to your orders, will have the offer of the 1st regiment of Levies, and if he should decline, it is probable that Colonel Rawlings would accept it. We shall march between the 25th instant, and the 1st...
1436[Diary entry: 18 October 1789] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 18th. Went in the forenoon to the Episcopal Church and in the afternoon to one of the Congregational Meeting Houses—attended to the first by the Speaker of the Assembly Mr. Edwards, & a Mr. Ingersoll, and to the latter by the Governor, the Lieutt. Governor, the Mayor & Speaker. These Gentlemen all dined with me (by Invitation) as did Genl. Huntington, at the House of Mr. Brown, where I...
1437To George Washington from James Manning, 2 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to congratulate your Excellency on the joyful Event, the adoption of the Constitution of the United States by the State of Rhode Island on Saturday last; and to recommend to your Notice Capt. Samuel Snow (Son of the Revd & venerable Joseph Snow of this Town) as a Candidate for the office of Surveyor of the Customs in the Port of Providence. He was esteemed a good officer in the...
1438From George Washington to William Pearce, 1 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am glad to find by your letter of the 27th ulto that you had had some good rains, previous to the date of it. Those rains, with such as have followed since, may give a very different appearance both to your Oats & flax; & may enliven, & push forward the Corn and B. Wheat; but I fear much for any grass that may have been cut, there having been no weather to cure it (in this part of the...
1439To George Washington from “John A. Dingwell”, 16 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
By seeing mortons peaper of this day it informs me you Recd my letter of the 12th Inst., Im also informed the Indians are to Receive a Sum of money this day[.] tis my oppinion you had better postpone the giving it untill you Know the Contents of my peapers which I think will prevent your Ever giving them it[.] if your Letter is not Sent to the post office the Sooner I think the better[.] I...
1440[Diary entry: 26 February 1797] (Washington Papers)
26. Clear & cold all day Wind at No. Wt. & Mercury 19. All the Military & Naval Officer[s] dined with me yesterd. Mercury at 19 degs.
1441Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of State, that the President has intended several times, when he has seen the Secretary latterly, to have mentioned his opinion respecting Mr Albion Coxe’s wages; but some other subject being introduced put it out of his mind. He now informs the Secretary, that it is his opinion, that Mr Coxe should be paid wages for the...
1442From George Washington to John Hurt, 28 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 24th instant, and have to inform you on the subjects mentioned in it, that, according to the best of my recollection the Arrangements respecting the Commutation of the half-pay of the Officers in the late army were made between Congress & a Committee from the Army, without any agency of mine. Nor do I remember to have taken any measures with regard to...
1443To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Board have had under Consideration for some days past the Subject of regulating the building of wharves; according to the Powers delegated to them by the Act of the Maryland Legislature passed in 1791: An Abstract of which is herewith inclosed. On a Subject so extensive, it is not to be wondered at that considerable difficulties have occurred: and it is not probable that all will be...
1444To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 31 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
By General Knox I had the honor of being advised that your Excellency was disposed to confer on me the appointment of Marshal for this District If I so inclined. This measure I suppose to have proceeded from my former application for that office and my subsequent wish to have some appointment in the General Government. I beg leave to return my most sincere thanks for your Intention to serve...
1445From George Washington to John Eager Howard, 19 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
It may seem strange to those, not acquainted with circumstances, that the office of State should be so long vacant; but causes, not within my power to controul, have occasioned it. I have, at length, proposed to Colo. Pickering, to go from the War office into that of State, & he has agreed to do so: this, of course makes a vacancy in the former. Permit me, to ask you Sir to fill it. I shall...
1446To George Washington from William Knox, 13 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I hope that my particular situation, and zeal, for imparting to you, the general attachment of the good people of this Kingdom to our Country will plead my excuse for troubling you with a letter. Having thought it my duty, I have for two or three months past been visiting some of the most material Ports of Ireland, and I am happy to say from personal experience that no Country in Europe...
1447To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 19 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
The secretary of state has the honor of informing the President of the U.S., that the commission for Mr Jay is preparing, and he is notified by letter, that it is preparing; no time being to be lost. Perhaps the President will find it necessary to have a ship, taken for the voyage and to fix the salary at once. E.R. will therefore talk with Mr Jay. An express is sent off to Mr Patterson, with...
1448To George Washington from John Kilty, 23 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave once more respectfully to present myself to your Excellency among the Candidates for the Collectorship of the Port of Baltimore, made vacant by the death of General Williams, and to lay before you the enclosed Letter from the Chancellor of Maryland, which with the Testimonials I had the honour to transmit on a former occasion, must form the whole foundation of my hopes on this...
1449Indenture with Thomas Green, 9 November 1790–14 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
Articles of Agreement made and enterd into this ninth day of November Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety between Thomas Green Joiner & House Carpenter of the one part and George A. Washington for and in behalf of the President of the United States on the other part Witnesseth that the said Thomas Green for the wages and other considerations hereinafter expressed doth agree and...
1450To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 21 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you on Friday, informing that on that day two vessels were to sail for England carrying the two copies of the treaty ratified and the papers which were to accompany them, and one packet for Mr Monroe, to be forwarded by Mr Deas. A second will be sent to Mr Monroe by the first vessel to Hamburg; and the others by the first conveyances to France. The letters to Mr Pinckney are not yet...