1From George Washington to Tristram Dalton, 24 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 22d instt. Previous to the receipt of which, I had written to a gentleman of this state, (at a distance from hence) to know if he would accept the trust of being a Commissioner of the federal city. No answer has yet been received from him. Part of the district of Columbia being on the Virginia side of the Potomack, and the State having contributed...
2From John Adams to Tristram Dalton, 19 January 1797 (Adams Papers)
I received this morning with great Pleasure your friendly Letter of the 16, and thank you for your kind congratulations on an Event which seems determined in the public Opinion, tho not yet legally ascertained I have lost by the course of years so many of my Friends and so many others in their old Age, have become weathercocks that the Sight of correspondence of a few who have proved...