291To George Washington from George Clinton, 29 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment Honourd with your letter of this date, & thank you for the agreeable intelligence it contains. I wrote to General Scuyler this morning, & requested him to Communicate to your Excellency the measures I have taken in consequence of the information from Colonel Van Schaack. I am of opinion that there is no immediate necessity to put Public arms into the hands of the militia. I...
292To George Washington from George Hancock, 7 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having understood that you have it in contemplation to appropriate the Shares which you own in the James River company to the endowing an Academy in the upper part of Virginia, and presuming that you would have no Objection to recieve every information which would tend to a knowledge of the most proper place, I have taken the liberty of requesting that I may be permited to have an interview,...
293To George Washington from George Clinton, 21 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Last Saturday I received a Letter from Colo. Willet covering the Papers of which the enclosed are Copies. It was my Intention to have waited on your Excellency the next Day which induced me to omit making this Communication immediately and every Day since has produced some new—Business to prevent my leaving home—This I beg may be accepted as an Apology for the Omission. It was my Opinion that...
294To George Washington from George Weedon, 15 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter from Rocky hill of the 24th Ulto to the Senr Officer in Virga came under cover Addressed to me from Majr Walkers. The Officers of the Virga line had a General Meeting at Fridericksburg the 1st of October, and I am Estonished Your Excellency has not Yet been informed of our Proceedings respecting the Order of Cincinnati as they were transmitted to Genl Gates for that Purpose. I have...
295To George Washington from George Washington Parke Custis, 11 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
⟨mutilated⟩ transmitted my last letter to you by the way of a gentleman who was going to Baltimore that it might arrive a little sooner and quiet your mind on the subject which you mentioned in yours preceeding viz.—on the subject of expence, if however it did not arrive I will in my next if you please transmit the same detail. The class which I joined have at length finished their course of...
296To George Washington from George Weedon, 8 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellencies Direction consulted Genl Choisy, on a communication with your Camp. We shall establish two, one by the way of the Fleet which he Thinks the most Secure, and one from this post, where I write you on my knee. In my Opinion their is no kind of risque from hence as we have a fine View of the River and can destroy any thing Hostile for some distance. The Boatt will...
297To George Washington from George Lewis, 9 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 28th of last month, acknowledging the receipt of my two last letters, I receiv’d, no information since then has transpired respecting the value of western lands that can be depended upon—It has been asked me by some persons whether you would exchange any of those lands for improved estates (good farms) in this part of the country that might be immediately rented to an...
298To George Washington from George Clinton, 10 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
⟨ Mutilated ⟩ more than probable that, when the Result of the late Election for President of the United States shall be disclosed, your Excellency’s Presence will be required in this City—Under this Impression permit me Sir to sollicit the Honor of your Company at my House until suitable Accomodations can be provided for you—Should Mrs Washington accompany you, it will give additional Pleasure...
299To George Washington from George Thacher, 14 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of handing to you the names of two Gentlemen either of whom in my opinion will make a respectable District Judge for the District of Maine—viz. the Honourable David Sewal & William Lithgow Junr. The former was appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about the year 1776—which office he has sustained to the present...
300To George Washington from George Fowler, April 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am doubtful you blame the Conduct of the Sheriff and myself for taking Mr Crawford in your house you may be assured very cincerely that I had been informd he intended out on Monday morning and having been well informd that he once had escaped did not know but he might attempt it again and certain it is I suspended the Action untill the last hour. when I left home I heard he was at Johnsons...