22751To George Washington from Charles Yates, 25 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
Mr Robert Rutherford has put into my hands a Letter directed to you in Wmsburg or in case of your not being there, to Colo. F. Lewis, the purport of which is to request your paying me Fifty Pounds agreeable to the tenour of a Subscription you signed and has put into my custody a Bond properly executed for repayment of said Fifty Pounds which I am to deliver on recpt of the Money—Colo. F. Lewis...
22752To George Washington from Charles Yates, 27 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
If it is not now too late, nor any former claim has been made in behalf of the Heirs of James Towers for a proportion of the Lands granted to the Virginia Troops who first went out with you—I beg this may be noticed as such and that you will be so good as inform me what is necessary to be done on my part to serve his relations—I think Mr Towers was a Lieutenant, whatever his share may...
22753To George Washington from Christopher P. Yates, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency George Washington Esqr General and Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States. The Address of the Magistrates and Supervisors of the County of Tryon in behalf of themselves and the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County. Sir While we congratulate your Excellency on the conclusion of a Peace favourable to the United States we request you to accept of our...
22754To George Washington from Hopley Yeaton, 11 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Permit an inferior Officer in rank, tho’ not inferior in Affection for you in your high Sphere, or for my Country’s welfare, amidst the great concerns of a happy Continent, who have called you, by their united voice to your present important Station, to lay before you my humble Memorial, vizt That I was in the earliest Stage of the late arduous Contest, on the side of my Country; That I had...
22755Enclosure: Resolutions from the York County, Virginia, Citizens, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the County & Borough of York, on Tuesday the 2nd day of September 1793, the following Resolutions, were enter’d into, Vizt. 1st Resolved, That peace to a Nation is a blessing too, Valuable to be Wantonly interrupted. 2nd Resolved, That it is peculiarly the Interest of the infant Republick of America to Cultivate peace, Agriculture & Commerce. 3rd Resolved,...
22756To George Washington from Anna Young, 6 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
You will no Doubt Think odd that I should presume To Write to You but When I let You know my Situation I hope you will Excuse me I shall Endeavour To State the Matter Intelligible as I am capable of You know Sir that there was a Resolve of Congress that if An Officer Or Soldier Died in the Continental Service their Widow Or Orphan Children Should be Entitled to Seven Years Half pay And My...
22757To George Washington from Arthur Young, 9 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to present your Excellency with a book I have published; &: to request that you will pass over the first half of it & read only the second. The age is so frivolous that if a work contain only a subject of importance it has but little chance of attention unless it proceed from a genius of the first class, and this circumstance induced me to publish some rubbish to tempt people to...
22758To George Washington from Arthur Young, 2 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I should have done myself the honour of answering Your Excellency’s letter more fully than was in my power by the farmers I recommended to you, long since, but I waited to be able to transmit the second edition with large additions of my Travels. I now have that pleasure, & shall be happy if the book is honoured with a place in your library. The doubts you were pleased to express as to the...
22759To George Washington from Arthur Young, 1 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
I recd the honour of Your Excellency’s Letter of Nov. 1 some weeks past but I have been so engaged in opposing the progress of our Wool Bill through both Houses of Parliament, that it was utterly impossible for me to make the necessary enquiries for answering it. I am very glad to hear the things I sent arrived tolerably safe but I am not surprized at the sainfoine coming up but thinly; for it...
22760To George Washington from Arthur Young, 18 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Within these few days I recieved the honour of the letter Your Excellency has had the goodness to write, wth the very important communications annexed. It is impossible for me fully to express the high idea I have of your goodness in condescending to take so much trouble, so unusual with persons that fill your splendid station; but while the interests of an empire and the welfare of a great...