771To George Washington from George Davis, 1 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
My friends have advised me to offer myself a candidate for the office of Marshall or Sheriff of New Jersey. I⟨n⟩ conformity with their advice, & in pursuance of my own inclination to Serve under the present Goverment in any reputable Station I take the Freedom of requesting that you will, Sir be pleased to put my name in Nomination for the Above office; I could easily procure a Number of...
772To George Washington from Colonel Henry Knox, 21 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your Excellencys Instructions I tarried at Cambridge ’till all the Ordnance & Stores in my department were on the way to this place, which to my great mortification was not till the 14th instant—The detention was owing to the Zeal of the General Assembly which promis’d more than their activity could perform —In my passing thro’ Providence Governor Cook & a number of the principal...
773To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 31 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here last night and Immediately renewed my orders for Sending you the lead (my former ones having not come to hand) It will leave Crown point this Afternoon and be forwarded without Loss of Time to you. Gen: Montgomery leaves Crown point to day with twelve hundred Men, and four twelve pounders, I follow him this Evening and have ordered the whole Strength I can Spare to Join me at...
774To George Washington from François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse-Tilly, 7 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Il y a actuellement prés de Votre Excellence, deux officiers dont le merite, les connoissances et l’esprit, m’ont forcé a les distinguer, sur le nombre qui se trouve sous mes ordres. Ils n’ont d’autres instructions de ma part que celle de voir avec Votre Excellence, tout ce qui sera possible de faire exécuter à l’armée. Ils connoissent tous les deux, mais plus particulierement encore M. de la...
775To George Washington from Colonel Alexander Martin, 7 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
The within Proceedings of the Board of Officers of the N. Carolina Brigade I approve of, and do recommend the Gentlemen Officers within named—both from their Rank & Merit, to your Excellency, to fill the Vacancies aforesaid. ALS , DNA : RG 93, Revolutionary War Records, North Carolina. Beneath Martin’s letter GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison summarized the promotions of four field...
776To George Washington from the Portsmouth Committee of Safety, 9 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
We are honoured with your Excellency’s Letter of the 5th Instant a full Answer to which we shall forward as soon as we have consulted the Provincial Committee of Safety which setts tomorrow, the Letters and Papers received by the Prince George We forward by Dr Jackson. I am with due respect By Order of the Comtee of safety Sir Your Excellency’s Most Obedient Humble Servt The Bill of Lading &...
777To George Washington from John Eager Howard, 21 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Excellencys letter of the 25th march with a medal ordered to be struck by the late Congress. my only object in the late war was to render any service in my power in the common cause, and my only hope of reward was that my conduct might meet the approbation of my Country; the obliging manner in which you are pleased to communicate this mark of approbation which...
778To George Washington from Jeremiah Olney, 3 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to acquaint your Excellency, that in a Flagg of Truce Granted a few days Since Mrs Johnson a Refugee Lady from New York & Resident of Monmouth County, was permitted to pass to the Enemy’s Guard Ship—She having a pass port from his Excellency Govr Livingston to go into New York, but it being not of her power to obtain permission for that purpose, She Return’d this day in a...
779To George Washington from Major General John Sullivan, 22 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Enemy are Still Silent I have no news of the Fleet all the news of this Quarter is in the paper which I have the honor to Inclose. I am Dear General with much Respect & Esteem yr Excellenceys most obedt Servant ALS , DLC:GW . The enclosed newspaper has not been identified. Sullivan apparently had already sent GW a copy of the most recent issue of the Providence Gazette; and Country Journal...
780To George Washington from Jacob Read, 13 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
A desire to fulfill the Wishes & to further the Veiws of a Friend who I most Sincerely Esteem and who I believe possesses much of your good opinion must be my appology for troubling you with the present Letter—In doing so I cannot omit the pleasing opportunity of offering you my most Sincere respects & good Wishes, and of expressing to you the happiness I felt on receiving the Intelligence of...
781To George Washington from John Woddrop, 16 September 1784 (Washington Papers)
I having done myself the honour for to write to your Excellency on the 27th of July the last year, and to transmit along therewith a list of the different Manufacturies in the linen branch of bussiness in Scotland, and as I did do so with a vow to be of some use to the States of America, and also to serve the Mississippi Company, of which Company my brother Robert Woddrop, late factor &...
782To George Washington from Pierre-François de Bois, 5 Sept. 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Pierre-François de Bois, 5 Sept. 1779. On 27 Sept., GW wrote de Bois: “I have received Your Letter of the 5th Instant.”
783To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 24 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
It is with great satisfaction that I receive notice, by your letter of the 21st instant, of arrangements being taken for the immediate release of the prisoners, and I am to acknowledge with thanks the different options you have been pleased to give me as to the more convenient execution of this measure; but considering the quantity of tonnage necessary for the evacuation of this place, and...
784To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 15 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on the passing a Resolution for a Kind of Establishment at this late Hour It is not what you wished but it may do You must pardon a little to the Republicanism of our Ideas. What is a little extraordinary there was no Dissentient State and only two Individuals Yet no Measure hath ever been more severely contested. We shall now go thro the Regimental & other...
785To George Washington from William Livingston, 10 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
your Excellency’s Letter of the 8th Instant respecting the Enemy’s Movements up the North River is truly alarming; nor shall I be wanting to use every Mean in my Power towards procuring all the assistance which this State can afford to oppose their Attempts. But the Necessity of such assistance being speedily procured, (and must if it is to answer any purpose) & the dilatoriness unavoidably...
786To George Washington from Sussex County, Va., Citizens, 12 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Sussex County in the State of Virginia on Wednesday the 12th day of August 1795 for the purpose of investigating the proposed Treaty of Amity, commerce and navigation between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America, Citizen William Massenburg was unanimously chosen chairman and Citizen Michael Bailey Secretary to the...
787To George Washington from Giuseppe Chiappe, 31 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
Extiment de mon devoir La continuation a Vôtre Excellence de Toutes Les Novelles de cet Royaume particullierement sur ce qu’il peut servir de gouvernement aux Venerables Etats, J’ai L’haute honneaur de Les umillier a V.E. & dans Le même temps de supliquer tres humblement vouloir m’honnorer de ⟨ illegible ⟩ ordres tres respectables ⟨ illegible ⟩ Toutes mes humbles precedentes pour me...
788To George Washington from Hampden-Sydney College Committee, 6 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your benevolent intention, as to the appropriation of your interest in the James River Canal Company, being known by a resolution of the last General Assembly of this State; a Board of the Trustees for the College of Hamden Sidney, in this County, have appointed us, in their name, to address you, Sir, in behalf of that seminary. Hamden Sidney lays claim to considerable local advantages; to...
789To George Washington from William Jackson, 15 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s letters of the 3rd and 8 instant—The Post did not arrive until this morning. I shall address Congress on the subject of additional subsistence money to be allowed the Officers of the Cavalry in consideration of their keeping more servants without arms than those of the Infantry—until their decision is had, which I am persuaded will be conformable to the...
790To George Washington from Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, 19 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Light Infantry who were Encamped on the Right between third & fourth Street have Struck their tents this morning—their Picquets are drawn in—we took possession of the Advanced Redoubt made of Rails when they Vacated this day—I am just proceeding along the line to the left—they have turned out the Guards from a house near the City with a few of their Horse but don’t seem Inclined to...
791To George Washington from Cumberland County Convention, 8 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
The petition of the Delegates for the several Towns in the County of Cumberland met in Convention Humbly Sheweth That in consequence of the Distruction of the Town of Falmouth on the 18th Ult., this Convention met on the 31st of the same Month and continued by Adjournments to this Day, To consider of the most practicable and eligable ways to Defend this County. and also this part of the...
792To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 21 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Excellencys Letter of the 18th Instant—that part of my letter of the 11th Instant relative to the boundaries between Canada and The United States must have been misunderstood, for I had not the most distant idea of an attempt of that kind under our present circumstances, it was only meant to give my idea’s of some consequential points that should hereafter...
793From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 December 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, December 23, 1790. Discusses qualifications of various candidates who have been recommended for the appointment as “Keeper for the Light-house at Portland in the District of Maine.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
794To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 February 1787 (Washington Papers)
My last to you was on the 22d instant, in which I stated my apprehensions respecting the proposed disfranchisement in Massachusetts. I did not mean to find fault with the measure. I am persuaded circumstances have rendered it necessary, and proper. But any rigorous chastisement of the rebels, will enflame them and render it right and expedient for the government to provide for its own safety...
795To George Washington from Major General Benedict Arnold, 12 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
Last Night I had the Honor to receive Your Excellency’s Favor of Yesterday inclosing a Copy of a Council of War held the 6th. I will endeavour agreeable to Your Excellency’s request, to transmit my Opinion, on the Matters submitted by the Time required: I sincerely wish the Situation of our Affairs would admit my giving it with more Decission, than I am able to do at present. The Order...
796To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
There being a proba[bi]lity that an accommodation of our differences with the Northwestern Indians is to be effected by treaty in the course of the expected negotiations with them: Or their enmity placed in so strong a point of view, as to endure a general acquiescence in the measures, which must of necessity be persued, by the government, to compell them to embrace such equitable terms, as...
797To George Washington from Thomas McKean, 27 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have an ambition to take a share in Your Excellency’s administration, and know of no line in which I can render so good service as in the judicial department. Having expressed this, it will, I trust, not be deemed indelicate in me to give a short account of myself & my studies. I was born in Chester county in this State, and having been instructed for seven years in the latin and greek...
798To George Washington from La Luzerne, 15 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Marquis de la Fayette has delivered to me the letters of your Excellency and I am extreemely flattered by this mark of your attention and of your remembrance. I have executed your commissions near his Majesty and the Royal family, and the King is concerned that your domestic affairs deprive him of the satisfaction to see a man, whose talents and virtues have procured the hapiness of his...
799To George Washington from Elias Dayton, 27 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I enclose to your Excellency a note which I have received from the paymaster general with respect to a permission for Captains Ogden & Dayton to be absent for the purpose of procuring their vouchers & Accounts for settlement. I would wish to know whether it is your Excellency’s pleasure that they be permitted to go to Jersey for this purpose. I can assure your Excellency that I am fully...
800To George Washington from Lieutenant Robertson Duncanson, 21 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I beg your Excellency will be pleased to excuse the liberty I take in addressing you, but particular bussiness of a private nature which I had not an opportunity of negotiateing at New York before I was made Prisoner, and that now requires my personal attendance there, induces me most earnestly to request your Excellencys permission to go in upon Parole of honor for any space of time your...