1To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 9 August 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Vans Murray, 9 Aug. 1799. GW wrote Murray on 26 Oct. that he had just received a number of letters from him, including those dated the “9th and 17th of August.”
2To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 26 July 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Vans Murray, 26 July 1799. On 26 Oct. GW wrote Murray : “Within the space of a few days, I have been favoured with your letters of the 26th of July. . . .”
3To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 1 November 1797 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honour of informing You that the Peace between France & the Emperor was settled & the Treaty signed at Udina on the Seventeenth of Octr. The French Have all the limits which they have gained during the war, adjoining their territories—& Belgium expressly ceded to them—They have also all the Venetian Islands below the gulph of Lodrino in the Adriatic, as Corfu, Zante, & in the...
4To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 9 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
The day before yesterday I recieved a letter from Mr Williams, consul at Hamburgh, in which he informs me that M. La Fayette and his family were expected there on the next day—the Fourth Inst. —That all the family, except Madame la Fayette & one of her daughters, were well; & that they would probably embark in the Ship John, for America, if the health of the ladies permitted. I had written to...
5To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 17 September 1797 (Washington Papers)
In the haste of Captain Izard’s departure the copy of a letter of which I spoke was omitted in mine of the date of yesterday—but as he waits at Rotterdam for a wind, the copy which was not quite ready when he left this place, goes under cover in this. The letter as you will see is without place of Date, except the Initial & concluding letters of the word Paris, from whence it came ⟨ mutilated...
6To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 16 September 1797 (Washington Papers)
The late event which has taken place at paris will probably tend too much to the injury of America not to be extremely interesting to you. The storm which the Directory have for several months excited against the council of Five hundred has at length burst & the papers & letters announce the arrest of Fifty Four members of that body by order of the Directory on the Fourth inst. The two members...
7To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 26 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
Though I did myself the honour of writing very lately to you, the pleasing event of which a letter this morning from Hamburgh gives a prospect, induces me rather to trespass upon your patience than to omit for a moment the intelligence that there is every reason to expect the liberation of M. Fayette. I will extract part of Mr Williams’s (the Consul’s) letter of 22d Augt —he says that “Mr...
8To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 8 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
It is said that a vacancy has occurred in the collectorship of the port of Wilmington, in Delaware —In bringing to view the name of Mr Vining, who has since the adoption of the government had the honour of being personally known to you, Sir, I need only add that I believe Mr Vining would be gratify’d by being appointed collector. I am with most respectful attachment Sir yr mo. ob. svt ALS ,...
9To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 11 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
I find from the atto[r]ney of this district that Randal is in a course of being judicially try’d this time in the Circuit Court—& that I am to be a witness. You will I am sure Sir pardon the solicitude that leads me to request of you that the Proceeding may be stopped—After having done what I conceived my duty demanded of me, & after having encountered many little circumstances extremely...
10To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 24 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
You will excuse me I am certain for the liberty I take in mentioning Mr Chase. Without touching in the remotest degree upon any thing belonging to the conversation I had the honour of, lately; & without intimating that I had been spoken to, or that Mr Chase had been even thought of by you Sir, I have taken some little pains to discover the opinions of several very respectable men from Maryland...
11To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 1 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to the wish you did me the honour of intimating last session I have endeavoured to obtain information respecting Mr Magowan’s case —I have not been successful though I have written to several gentlemen at & near Annapolis. The inclosed from Mr Duval, the Member, is an answer to a letter I wrote to him, uninformed as I was of his being attorney for the administrator. It may from some...
12To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 21 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
As a vacancy will happen in the Treasury Department as intimated by the Secretary, it is possible there may be a vacancy in the departments subordinate to that of the Officer who intends to resign—Mr William Winder of Somerset, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland & now a Senator of that state, is a man of sound character, of strong parts & particularly qualify’d in accounts—He was engaged in the...
13To George Washington from William Vans Murray, 30 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Among the candidates for the office of Collector of the port of Annapolis is Mr Pinckney —a young gentleman in high estimation among his acquaintances—He is a store Keeper but not an importer. He is a steady, competent & worthy man to whom the office might be an object & of whose capacity as well as integrity I have a very good opinion. I am Sir with great deference Yr most obt ser. ALS ,...