301To George Washington from Jacob Gerhard Diriks, 24 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
The honor of having served under your Excellency engages me, arrived in America lately, to take a view of the States made happy by a peace, after a war ended with glory under you—to testify my great respect for you, as the Officer, under whose auspices, I received my Military Education—How happy should I be, if I could in person renew the acknowledgements I so justly owe you—But the distance...
302To George Washington from John Dixon, 5 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
As I am perswaded you do not forget your old—I may say sincere Friends—I am (in your exhalted & honorable station) tempted to take the liberty of addressing you—with a view of Introducing to you my Son Joseph Dixon, who will have the honor of handing you this—and who I beg leave to recomend to your kind Protection—as Youth often want such prudent advisers in matters of Business—which calls him...
303To George Washington from Alexander Donald, 20 June 1787 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of receiveing your letter of the 2d Current—By which, I saw that the former remittance which I made you, at Docr Stewart’s desire, had got safe to hand, I now beg leave to trouble you with a further remittance of 306 65/90 th of a dollar, at the request of same Gentleman, which I hope will also reach you. I am with undissembled respect—Sir your mo: obt Sert ALS , DLC:GW . See...
304To George Washington from Alexander Donald, 22 May 1787 (Washington Papers)
At the desire of Docr Stewart, I have the Honour of enclosing you Mr Morris’s note for 200 Dollars, And the first of Messrs William Alexander & Co’s. bill on same Gentleman for 894. 85/90 ths payable at ten days sight—Both which I hope will get safe to hand. I beg you will do me the favour to acknowledge receipt of the above money. I will not trouble you with the second Copy of the bill, if I...
305To George Washington from Alexander Donald, 28 February 1789 (Washington Papers)
I hope you will have the goodness to pardon me, for embracing the oppertunity by Doer Le Mayeur, of returning you my thanks for the unmerited kindness & attention you have been pleased to honour me with. and which has made such an impression, as never can be obliterated from my memory. It will give me much pleasure to be able to pay my personal respects to you at Mount Vernon, before you go to...
306To George Washington from Arthur Donaldson, 1 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
I Esteem my Self highly honourd by your Excelencys faivour to Mr Hollingsworth and Shall Imbrace the Opertunity of Serving you with the greatest freedom Theirfore in the first place hope to remove your doubts of the Hippopomos being Applicable to your purpose by Viewing the Inclosd draught & discription which was publishd in the Pennsylvania Magazine for May 1775 but on Account of the War was...
307To George Washington from James Jemima Jacobina Douglas, 26 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
I sit down to adres you as father of your Country and as one who his the pour to redres the injur’d one of your subjects Mr Glass Strahcan in virg⟨i⟩nia richmond town James river phychiuns ⟨then owse⟩ to my father andrwe Douglas in 74 6 hundre pound which with the interest upon must near double the sum[.] my fath⟨er⟩ dying sudingly with out neading up his affairs his been hard on ⟨me⟩ I am...
308To George Washington from Philemon Downes, 3 November 1788 (Washington Papers)
Caroline County, Eastern shore of Maryland Sir, 3 November 1788 When a man have lived beyond what may be called the Middle Stage of Life, partly as a Recluse, and being defrauded of his Living at that Stage; lays a Stranger under Manifest imbarisments in making his Applications to those whom he may hope for employment to Precure bread for a Distressed Wife and Children; Such is the unhappy...
309To George Washington from Peter Dow, 20 June 1786 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lund Washington, applied to me yesterday, as also your young Man ⟨W.⟩ Shaw, to day for the Rent I owe you; I sincerely wish it had been in my power to discharge the same; but from an unforseen event, my Family coming in and drawing on me without advice for Some money; togather with my retirement from any kind of Trade to the Country, has rather embarrassed me at this Season till I can...
310To George Washington from Alexander Doyle, 10 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
From a Sense of your Excellency’s Universal Benevolence and Willingness to Countenance and Incourage any design of Public Utility, I have taken the Liberty to entreat your Excellency to give the Paper you will Receive herewith the Sanctions of your Name. In Conjunction with Several well disposed persons of this Town, who Consider Religion and Virtue as the best Basis of the Happiness, Security...
311To George Washington from William Drayton, 23 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
As Chairman of the Committee of the South Carolina Society for promoting & improving Agriculture & other rural Concerns, I am directed to inform your Excellency, that you are unanimously elected the first honorary member of that Society. This mark of their Respect the Society thought ⟨wa⟩s with peculiar Propriety due to the man, who by ⟨his⟩ gallantry & Conduct, as a Soldier, contributed so...
312To George Washington from William Drayton, 20 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to transmit to you a late Publication by our agricultural Society in this State. It is a Beginning only; but I hope the Subject will increase in it’s Progress. The Prospect, which the new Confederation opens to America, of an energetic Government, must doubtless stimulate the Genius of every Citizen to exert those means, by which not only his own Interests will be increas’d,...
313To George Washington from William Drayton, 10 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
I should have done myself the Honour of acknowleging sooner the Receipt of your Letter, dated Novr 12th, but that by some unaccountable Delay it did not reach my Hands, ’till a few Days ago. The Trouble you have had with my Negro Man demands the most grateful Sentiments, & the warmest Thanks from me; altho’ the Event did not answer your kind Intentions on the Occasion. I beg Leave to offer my...
314To George Washington from Dolphin Drew, 13 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
Mr Albion Throckmorton a young Gentleman of my Acquaintance purchas’d late last Fall a Lease of one Collet one of your Tenants of about 200 Acres upon Bullskin. Since this Mr Throckmorton to his great Surprize has discoverd that Collet had no right to sell him the Lease, it being against one of the Covenants. As however Mr Throckmorton has paid Collet his Money & enter’d upon the premises &...
315To George Washington from James Duane, 22 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
A Resolution which lately passed—and which I have long had at Heart—makes it necessary that I should inform your Excellency that the foreign dispatches last received, and which were referred to a Committee of which I was Chairman, are returned into the Secretary’s Office, and ready for your Excellency’s perusal whenever it suites Your Convenience. With the most perfect Esteem and Respect, I...
316To George Washington from James Duane, 16 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
I entertained the pleasing hope of meeting you at this place; on no better authority indeed than report; and yet I feel the disappointment in proportion to my affection for your Person, my gratitude for your publick Services, and the kind attention with which you have always indulged me. Be pleased to take in good part the Address which I have the honor to transmit with the Freedom of our City...
317To George Washington from James Duane, 10 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
An Opportunity at length presents itself of forwarding to your Excellency a packet which has been detained ever since I left Trenton, as I did not wish to hazard it by the Post. Congress are fixed here for the present apparently to their Satisfaction. They are busily employed in arranging the national Affairs. Mr Adams is appointed Minister for the Court of London Mr Jefferson for Versailles:...
318To George Washington from Nicholas DuBey, 11 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
At the latter End of 1786, I bought of Messrs Savary & Gallatin of Richmond a tract of 20 thausend acres of Land, Scituated 2 miles from the ohio, between Little & Great Canaway, joigning your Excellency’s possessions on the Same River, near Sandy Creek Harrisson’s County. This Parcel is undivided between Mr Ostervald, a rich Swiss, for the greatest part, Mr J. P. Jeanneres of the Same Country...
319Appendix VI: From Du Bouchet, 17 May (Washington Papers)
Being of all the petitioners for Becoming Members of the association of the Cincinnati, the only officer Whose case stands so pecular as to advocate for an exception to the General Rules of the society, I ardently Beg your Excellency to Be pleased to Reccollect, that I have on no other purpose, that to Get admittance to the order, Cross’d the atlantick, and that Returning home disapointed in...
320To George Washington from Joseph-Armand Duché, 25 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
the politeness and hospitality wich I expereienced when I had the honor of paying you my respects at your Seat and the goodeness you manifested towards me in the letter wich you gave me to the Marquis de la fayette emboldens me to communicate to you an event very interesting to me, and for what I place your excellency among the number of those to whom I am indebted. I have just received a...
321To George Washington from William Duer, 5 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
My Freind Mr Sayre, late Sheriff of the City of London, has Thoughts of Establishing himself in your State; and from his present Ideas, it is most probable his Choice will be not far distant from your Excellencys Seat —My long Acquaintance with him in England (where he was beloved and Respected by an Extensive and polite Circle of Freinds) had riveted him deeply in my Affections; and I cannot...
322To George Washington from William Duer, 4 November 1788 (Washington Papers)
Mr Warville who will do me Favor of presenting this Letter, has been particularly introduced to Colo. Wadsworth, Colo. Hamilton, and myself, by our Freinds in France, as a Gentleman truly attach’d to the Interests of this Country, and capable, from his Talents, of making such a Representation of our present State, and future Prospects, as may Efface the unfavorable Impressions, which the...
323To George Washington from Benjamin Tasker Dulany, 1 February 1788 (Washington Papers)
Nothing but the inclemency of the Weather has prevented my going to Maryland for your Rent, and can assure you I have no other apology to make. As soon as I can cross the potomac you may rely on my going to Maryland, and immediately waiting on you on my return with your Rent, in the mean time Mrs French will rest satisfied —With respectful Compliments to Mrs Washington I am Dear Genl with true...
324To George Washington from Dulau d’Allemans, 15 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
L’armée americaine vient de donner aux troupes francoises, qui ont eu L’honneur de Luy etre associée sous vos ordrès, une marque flateuse de bienveillance et d’estime. C’est a vous Comme a notre Commun général que nous devons temoigner notre reconnoissance, Le regiment d’agénois dont Javois L’honneur detre Colonel en Second pendant Le siege d’yorck y sera particulierement sensible, Ce regiment...
325To George Washington from Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 28 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Since full nine years I have the honor to be a Servant, as unexpectedly called as scrupulously loyal to the United States in this Country, I wanted only a proper occasion for paying your Excellncy directly my share in the admiration which Mankind owes to your Virtues. Now it presents itself with the most charming grace, my eagerness in taking it up, will not, I hope, appear unseasonable....
326To George Washington from James Dunlop, 3 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by Mr Montgomerie of Dumfries to pay on Stewart[,] Wilson & Montgomeries Bond to the Heirs of Colville in your hands what money I have collected from the purchasers of the Merryland tract—I have about Six hundred Pounds Sterling in hand and expect shortly a further sum. If you will order the Bond into the hands of any person here or otherwise as may be most aggreeable to you...
327To George Washington from Victor Marie Du Pont, 22 April 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of forwarding your Excellency a letter which I received at Paris from the Marquis de la Fayette few days before I left that city, and which I had intended to have delivered myself. But fearing least it might contain some matters of importance, I have applied to Général Knox who has promised to inclose it in his own. I am very sorry that circumstances should have prevented me...
328To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 6 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
I hope your excellency will not be displeased with the liberty I take of sending to you the inclosed letter to Congress for Capt. Castaing and of requesting you would be so good as to forward it in a proper time, if you do not think it improper. I did not propose at first to trouble you about this affair; but while I was preparing my application, I heard of the sudden and unexpected...
329To George Washington from Duportail, 16 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for the kind letter you have honored me with by Count de laval —I wish I Could Carry you the answer my self and accompany the marquis, but I am detained here—however I do not renounce to the pleasure of seeing your Exellency again and my american friends, even if we are not happy enough to receive you here—in two or three years I intend to pay a visit to america. I am Really sorry...
330To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 24 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here ten days ago from london—I landed at plimouth traveled through england about three hundred miles—and stayd at london five days & i intended to stay some time longer but was prevented by different news I heard from here—your Excellency will not be surprised of that tour of mine—after the americain war it was Certainly Curious to see england & to observe the effect of their...