91To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette and Felix Frestel, 21 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
being after a tiresome journey of six days arrived in New-york, I take, according to the wish you so kindly expressed, the opportunity of the first post day after our arrival to inform you of it, and to renew to you the assurances of a gratitude which words can but imperfectly express. the sense of all my obligations to you, and the remembrance of the paternal care with which you have always...
92To George Washington from George William and Sarah Cary Fairfax, 2 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ I did myself the honor of filling more than one sheet of Paper in answer to your Excellencys last favor, very recently, by the hands of Doctor Baynham, Yet as my very worthy friend Doctor Ruston came from London to Bath, and from thence hither, on purpose to desire to be introduced to some of our friends in Virginia where He and his family are unknown; I trust you will excuse the liberty...
93To George Washington from George William Fairfax, 25 January 1786 (Washington Papers)
This will I hope be presented to you by John Anstey Esqr. in his Tour through America. He goes upon particular business with the approbation of our Ambassador Mr Adams from whom he has Letters to Congress, Doctor Franklin &c. Mr Ansteys Father is a very worthy Gentleman of Fortune in this City, no Person more respected, and what must be allowed to be a recommendation to Us, he always Execrated...
94To George Washington from George Burr, 22 May 1781 (Washington Papers)
We have it from good Authority that Thomas Langley Collier of Fairfield is Under the Sentence of Death by a Court Martial of Your Excellency’s Appointment for crimes Committed within and against this and the United States We do not Undertake to call in Question the Propriety of this Proceeding, nor do we pretend to say any Thing to justify the Conduct of the Man we Suppose him to be Unfriendly...
95To George Washington from George Mason, 12 June 1756 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty to address You on Behalf of my Neighbour & Your old School-fellow, Mr Piper; who, without duly considering the Consequences, when he was at Winchester enlisted as a Sarjeant in Capt. Mercer’s Company; he has been down to consult his Father upon it, & finds him excessively averse to it, & as his principal Dependance is upon the old Man (besides the Duty naturally due to a...
96To George Washington from George Washington Parke Custis, 23 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I have collected all my accounts which I transmit for your perusal the only article I apologise for is an umbrella which I was unavoidably obliged to procure as I lost one belonging to a gentleman. College breaks up on Saturday and I shall be ready at any time that you may send I will look over every thing belonging to me and have them adjusted. I am very well and at variance...
97To George Washington from George Digges, 5 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
Mr Gilliss Polk (who is now here) & lives at Salisbury in Somerset County will Immediately upon his return home have the plank sawed agreable to your directions & also will forward it by the first Oppertunity —Our Senate have rejected the Money Bill & this day we expect a Message from them given their reasons. We have done little or no Public Business nor doe I believe we shall as there seems...
98To George Washington from George Mason, 29 July 1752 (Washington Papers)
I came Home ⟨ mutilated ⟩ Yesterday, when I re⟨ mutilated ⟩ Me with the time of Yr Brother ⟨ mutilated ⟩ neral, & desiring my Attendance. I am very sorry it did not come to ⟨ mutilated ⟩ Hands sooner; had I known it in ⟨ mutilated ⟩ I wou’d by no means have refused the last peice of Respect to the Memory of a Gentleman, for whom, when alive, I had a sincere Regard. I most heartily condole You...
99To George Washington from George Clinton, 31 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here the 21st Inst.—My Brother will deliver you this—it will be therefore unnecessary to particularize the Situation of the Military—The Spirit of Discontent, which had reached the Troops here and discovered itself by a Mutiny not of a very aggravated Nature, has subsided and I am in Hopes a Repetition is not to be apprehended. There are in the Troops of this State a Number of...
100To George Washington from George Richards Minot, 7 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to offer for your perusal, a copy of the History of the late Insurrections &. in Massachusetts. The share which you had, in the great and glorious events of America, must interest your feelings in all subsequent transactions; and, I hope, this little narrative will not be unacceptable to you, as a continuance of information, upon the important subject of domestick History. The...
101To George Washington from Captain George Lewis, 23 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
My Ill state of health Since my arrival at Frederick town, and for many months before, renders me incapable of performing the Duty’s of an officer; must beg leave of your Excellency to quit the Army. Would my health admit of my Continueing in the Service, I could not Consistent with the Character of an Officer or Soldier by any Means Submit to have younger Officers placed over me. If your...
102To George Washington from George Muse, 30 November 1774 (Washington Papers)
As there is a peace with the Indians shall be obliged to you to have Deeds Executed for the land I Exchang’d wth you as soon as conveniancy will permit, in Order to have it saved, if you have an inclination to purchase please let me know by Mr Morton what you wou’d give. ⟨ Mutilated ⟩ acknowledge the receipt of 20£ by Colo. ⟨ mutilated ⟩ndleton for which I am obliged to you, I Suppose Colo....
103To George Washington from Colonel George Baylor, 23 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday receiv’d intiligence from a party of militia which were sent down to Burgen, that lait in the afternoon a number of Transports came as near to Powles hook as they could and landed a considerable boddy of men. other parties have returnd and confirm this account. they (the Enemy) encamped last night in Burgen wood about five miles on this side of the Town—on the road to the liberty...
104To George Washington from George Walker, 28 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
No Doubt but you will be surprised to Receve a Letter of this sort from a stranger. The more so when you perseve the Author to be a soldier, but hope my Sittuation will Pleade an excuse. To be short, I’m a Discharged Soldier from the Ohio, that I Receved sevon months ago; without, one Farthing, almost Naked, altho I had a Years Clothing Due, and a Journey of six hundred miles to New-York. I...
105To George Washington from Colonel George Gibson, 23 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Assembly of Virginia in their late Act passed for the reinlistment of their Troops have not taken any notice of the Two state regiments anex’d to the Continental Army. from what cause I Know not unless it may be that they conceived the regimts to have been Continental Troops from the time they were taken into the Service, Indeed His Excelly the Governor & many Gentn of the House of...
106To George Washington from George Clinton, 5 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you inclosed the Exemplification of an Act of the Legislature of this State—ratifying the Amendment of the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Senate and House of Representatives at their last Session respecting the Judicial Power thereof, and am with the highest Respect your Most Obedient Servant Copy, DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793-95, Senate...
107To George Washington from George Clinton, 22 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
Robert Morris Esqr. late Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey has requested my Consent for him to have an Interview on the Lines with Laurence Kortright, John DeLancey and John Zobricski for the Purpose of receiving Information respecting the Title of some Lands in this State—the two former are Subjects of this, the latter of the State of New Jersey—If your Excellency can consistently...
108To George Washington from George Lewis, 19 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Lewis’s indisposition has detained me in the country for eight dayes past, which prevented my getting your letter of the 7th Inst. untill to day, otherwise it would have been immediately acknowledged. With respect to Mr Parks, he is a young Man in the Mercantile line, appears industrious and attentive to his buisness. I have known him for twelve months past, and from his conduct since...
109To George Washington from Colonel George Baylor, 20 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
Enclosd is the return of the Rigiment agreeable to the directions given me, by Colo. Banister. An officer will set out tomorrow for Boston, for the purpose of procuring c[l]oathing, I should of sent him off on my arrival here, but have waited for the making of a coat, which is to be the fashion of the Regiment. I neglected to mention to you when I was in your company, that Lieut. John Baylor...
110To George Washington from George Clinton, 7 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s Letters of the 27th of last Month & 1st Instant. I am greatly concerned for the Unhappy Fate of Van Tassel, who I am informed always maintained a good Charecter & his Familly have afforded many Proofs of their Attachment to the Cause of their Country in which some of them have been great Sufferers. At the same Time as Capt. Colson has already Quit the Army...
111To George Washington from George Washington Parke Custis, 20 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your last letter arrived by the ordinary course of the mail and conveyed the pleasing tidings of your health a theme allways acceptable to my grateful heart. With respect to my expenses I did not mean to insinuate that I was actualy in want but thought that you had lodged money in some one’s hands, to whom I was to apply—I have opened accounts with a shoemaker, tailor, and other persons of...
112To George Washington from Colonel George Baylor, 17 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
I receivd your favor of the 1st of March a few days ago, and attended particularly to your direction concerning the two officers in my Regiment, I have seen Mr Armistead and have informed him of what you directed me to do, and have appointed in his room, Mr Presly Thornton, Son to Colo. Anthony Thornton. I have writen to Mr Stith on the Subject, though I believe, he was never in the Army, he...
113To George Washington from George Clinton, 3 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
Capt. Sacket informs me that a certain Lownsburry who was taken Prisoner last Winter by a Party of our’s and is now confined at Fishkill, was employed by him as an Emissary during the course of last Summer & Fall in obtaining Intelligence of the movements of Delancey’s Corps and other Parties by which the Country was harrassed—that he was useful & faithful in the Business and that he had...
114To George Washington from George Clinton, 10 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowlege the Receipt of your Excellency’s Letters of the 5th & 20th Ulto —The Legislature had under their Consideration last Fall a more suitable Provision for the Officers and Privates forming the Quota of this State in the Continental Army—they were interrupted in this Business by their rising sooner than was intended, occasioned by the Expectation of the Arrival of the French...
115To George Washington from George Steptoe Washington, 8 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter from Col. Hanson, and after considering the contents, think it necessary to transmit to you an account of the late occurrence, in which you have been informed I acted an improper part; my object in writing this letter is not to exculpate m[y]self, it is only to state matters as they really were; whither my conduct was justifiable in doing what I have, I am not a judge,...
116To George Washington from George Turner, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
The numerous applications which no doubt your Excellency has received from candidates for public favour, and the superior abilities which such a range of choice must afford, impress me with great doubts as to the propriety of any application from me. I have taken a liberty, however, which I hope your Excellency will excuse—in thus soliciting the favour of your nomination to place me in some...
117To George Washington from George Gilpin, 27 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
A Servant of yours a few days ago request’d to be inform’d if there was any Vessell at Alexandria bound for Philadelphia there was no Vessell then at this Town bound to Philadelphia, but Capt. Ellwood is now here his packet will Sail for that plaece in a few days. I made enquiry for a joiner as you desired I found Several that would have taken some 5 and others 6/ ⅌ day but on enquiry they had...
118To George Washington from Colonel George Gibson, 10 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
A Gang of Villians employed by Mr Howe for the purpose of Stealing & otherways procuring horses, made their appearance in the vicinity of this Town, Apart of the Gang were apprehended by order of the Civil Majestrate, as I conceived they came within the Cognizance of Martial Law. I waited on the Marquis de la fayette Majr Genl, who was of the same oppinion. He immediately Issued the Inclosed...
119To George Washington from George Reid, 8 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was Hon’d with a letter from your Excellency adressed to Colo. Tupper, dated the 29th ultimo, in which you wish the Contl Troops togethe r as near as Circumstances will admit. As soon as all the N. York State Levies arrive, I hope I shall be able to have the second Regt (which is at present very much scattered) Collected at Fort Plaine, the most central post on Mohawk River, and where they...
120To George Washington from George Clinton, 15 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I this Day received a Letter from Samuel Drake Esquire complaining of an Act of Violence committed upon a Constable of West Chester County in the Execution of his Office, a Copy whereof with the Affidavit which accompanied it I now take the Liberty of transmitting to your Excellency—I am persuaded I need not offer any Argument to induce your Excellency to give your Order that the Offender who...