2101To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 4 April 1784 (Washington Papers)
I had flattered myself long before this to have paid my respects to you at Mt Vernon, and some time in this Month my Family intended a Visit—but many things have hapned to prevent the execucion of my plan heatherto—first the Frost which continued very late, & when the weather was brakeing up a little, we got the Melancholy Acct of the untimely death of my Son Augustine, whose loss affected me...
2102To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 8 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 30th of June with the inclosed extracts &c. I had the pleasure to recieve last night—I am under very great obligations to you for the trouble you have taken upon this occasion, and also for your kind intention of writing to Colo. Tilghman, if you can understand he is in such a way of business as to promise a youth of application a tolerable share of knowledg in Mercantile...
2103To George Washington from Lund Washington, 1 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I have Re ceive d two of your Letters the 13th and 20th of Septmbr. I did not write by the last Post because I did not return in time from visiting your Tenants, I have not been able to Collect one shillg from them your Tenaments over the Ridge are clever and in good order with Fine Crops growing on them, White in gs excepted and that I think has the appearance of decay the...
2104To George Washington from Lund Washington, 6 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I was this Day inform’d by my nephew Lund Washington, that he was a few Days past in the Cty of Stafford, when he was told by Mr John James and his sons, that it was frequently mentioned by people in that Cty, that we shoud have a very pretty President at the head of our new Government, one Who had pd of his Debts within the time of the war with paper money altho it had been lent to him in...
2105To George Washington from Thornton Washington, 6 June 1786 (Washington Papers)
I must again trouble you respecting the two hundred acres of land whereon I now live though I fear I shall find the presant claim not so easily settled or so much to my satisfaction it is among the surveys of the Hights lately recoverd by A soot in chancery which is certain as there is many now in being within the bounds of my neighbourhood that know it of A truth. John Smith whom I doubt not...
2106To George Washington from Thornton Washington, 1 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
after my most respectkfool compliments to your self and lady I must beg lieave to lay before your considerashion A matter that interests me in A verry particular manner the plantashion whareon I now live sayd to contain two hundread acrees I purchast of my father for which I have his obligation for the mentaining me in the fool wright of. it is the land purchast of Colo. Phillup Pendleton I am...
2107To George Washington from Warner Washington, 7 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
In the Month of March, I do not recollect the Year, one William Bartlett took a Lease of 125 acres of your Land in the Barrens of Bullskin, Bartlett has been dead some few Years & the Widow continued on the Lease till last Summer or Fall was twelve Month. Mr John Bryan who has the management of my Business took possession of the above Lease by your permission. I will be his Security for the...
2108To George Washington from Warner Washington, 7 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr Henry Whiting a Neighbour and Relation of mine I write to you in his Name to beg you would be kind enough to allow Him to give up his Lease as the keeping it two Years longer would he says, be certain ruin to Him. He does not desire to make any advantage from it, either by selling or any other way neither does he make one farthing towards paying his Rent—I am informed Mr...
2109To George Washington from William Washington, 21 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Major George Washington arriv’d at this place in January & has favor’d me with his company ever since his arrival. It wou’d give me great pleasure to inform your Excellency that our Southern Climate had accomplished the Object of his peregrination; but I am apprehensive that his disorder is too inflexible to be remov’d by mere Change of Climate. His agreeable Manner has much interested me in...
2110To George Washington from William Washington, 18 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
In complyance with the request contain’d in your Letter of June 30th it gives me much pleasure to forward to Mr Wm Hammond in Baltimore two Boxes, one containing Acorns & the other, Plants of the Live-Oak-Tree, which I have requested him to send you by the first opportunity. You will observe a difference in the Form of the Acorns, those of an oval Figure are from the Live-Oak Tree, an...
2111To George Washington from William Augustine Washington, 10 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favour by Francis Herbert together with a Gross of Bottles came safe to hand —I thank you for the information, of the demand of 5 Pr Ct upon each Share, from the Proprietors of the Potomck Company; I have for some time past waited with impatience, for an opportunity to Alexandria, by which I might contrive my quota, but none offering, have determined to send my servant as far as your...
2112To George Washington from William Augustine Washington, 1 June 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Esteem’d favr by Mr Blane, I recd and was particularly attentive in collecting of the Holly Berrys, agreeable to your request, wch I trust has got safe to hand —I have been industrious in inquiring for some Wild Goose & Swans for you, at length I have procured these Geese, which I now send you, the one with a tame Goose for a Mate is a present from Mr McCarty to you, who desired me to...
2113To George Washington from William le Washington, 1 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honour to Inclose your Excellency a Lr which Charles Anderson Pelham Eqr. Member of Parliamt in England gave me, w’erein he inform’s me he has acquainted your Excellency who I am & my Intent of making a Tower of America. Having Deposited fifteen hundread Pounds Stirling in the Hands of Messrs Saml Smith & Son, Bankrs—London, of which they, give me an acknowledgment in their Lrs of...
2114To George Washington from Elkanah Watson, 22 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have bore steadily in mind the circumstance of the dutch gardener, but Mr Brown cannot recommend him so fully as he could wish. This will be handed by Mr Howel a gentleman who is connected with Mr Brown & who intends doing himself the honour to pay his respects to your Excellency. The information you was so polite as to communicate to me, relative the plan of opening the Potowmack, the...
2115To George Washington from Anthony Wayne, 6 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
Accept of my warmest & sincerest congratulations, upon your appointment to the Presidency of the United States of America! & altho’ it cannot add to the Illustrious Character, you have so justly merited & established through the World, yet it reflects additional honor upon the Western Empire —by a display of her Wisdom—prudence & Gratitude, in the choice she has made of her greatest...
2116To George Washington from Anthony Wayne, 14 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
long want of health, occasioned by the extreme of fatigue & loss of blood, in assisting to Vindicate the rights & liberties of America from her coldest , to her hotest sun, deprived me the honor & pleasure, of attending your Excellency into New York, & now adds to my unhappiness, by preventing me from paying you my personal respects in the City of Phila., however I have one consolation i.e....
2117To George Washington from Anthony Wayne, 1 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having been long accustomed to act under your Excellency’s eye, or particular Orders in the field, & frequently honored by your public approbation, & from a wish to merit a continuance of that favorable Opinion of my Conduct, since detatched from you after the Reduction of York, I am induced to lay before your Excellency a brief detail of the principal Operations of the troops under my...
2118To George Washington from Samuel Blachley Webb, 20 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
We have been honor’d by the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 31st of October 1786 directed to the Baron Stuben, our Presdt. So soon as he arrives in Town we presume he will call a meeting of our State Society and communicate to them the Contents. In the mean time we cannot omit the present opportunity to acquaint your Excellency with the sentiments which the most distinguished...
2119To George Washington from Noah Webster, 18 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
If the request I am now to make should need any apology but such as will naturally be suggested by its own importance, I am sure it will find it in your candour. The favourable reception of my grammatical publications in the northern States, has induced me to offer them for sale in the Southern; and I am happy to find they meet with the approbation of those literary Gentlemen, with whom I have...
2120To George Washington from Noah Webster, 14 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
Having engaged to write, for Mr Morse’s Geography, a sketch of the History of the late war, I take the liberty of making an enquiry respecting a fact which I am told is commonly misrepresented, & which perhaps no person but the commander in chief of the late armies in America can set right. An opinion, Sir, is very general, that the junction of the French fleet & the American armies at York...
2121To George Washington from Noah Webster, 31 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am happy in the opportunity, which Mr Lee’s politeness has offered, of presenting Your Excellency a copy of Mr Dwights Poem. Whatever faults may be found in this performance, its merit cannot fail to recommend it to every friend of America & of virtue. I flatter myself that in three or four weeks I shall be able to furnish you with an Instructor, as several Gentlemen will assist me in...
2122To George Washington from Noah Webster, 17 October 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Noah Webster, 17 Oct. 1787. On 4 Nov. GW wrote: “I have received your letter of the 17th ulto.”
2123To George Washington from Noah Webster, 16 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have just returned from Richmond where I was happy enough to succeed in my application to the Legislature. For this success I acknowledge myself indebted, in some measure, to your politeness. Should the same success attend me in the States of Delaware & New York, my whole plan will be accomplished; & if on my return to the Northern States, I find myself in tolerably easy circumstances, I...
2124To George Washington from Noah Webster, 18 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
Yours of this date, with the Pamphlet, is just handed me, by which I acknowledge myself obliged. The determinations of the States, to which my application will be made, will be known next month. These are however not essential to my present plans. My own resolutions on the subject can be formed as soon as I can visit New England; probably before you can recieve an answer from Europe, or...
2125To George Washington from George Weedon, 10 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on receipt of yours, I wrote Col. Heath for the enclosed which only came to hand yesterday. I think Mons. Cornay has taken a round about way to deposit his money by drawing on Mr Wadsworth in Conn. it would have been as well to have requested Mr De Marbois to have paid this money. The old lady your mother talks of paying you a visit in Septr. I mean doing myself the honor of...
2126To 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...
2127To George Washington from George Weedon, 25 November 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Weedon, 25 Nov. 1787. On 3 Dec. GW wrote Weedon : “I have received your letter of the 25th Ulto.”
2128To George Washington from George Weedon, 2 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of transmiting you a copy of the proceeding of the last meeting of the Virginia Society of Cincinnati held in Richmond the 13th & 14th of Novr 1788. A very severe fit of the gout which crippled me for three months has deprived me the pleasure of Visiting you at Mount Vernon this fall agreeable to promise. With very great esteem and respect I am my Dear Genl Your Obt Servt ALS...
2129To George Washington from George Weedon, 17 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your circular Letter of the 31t of October having been communicated to the annual Meeting of the Virginia Cincinnati, they have directed me to assure you, that while they regret the loss the Society sustains by your relinquishing the Presidency, they are fully sensible of the justness of those motives which have determined your Retreat. They lament however, that to the causes which might have...
2130To George Washington from George Weedon, 14 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing a letter to Your Excellency from Baltimore on the Subject of our state proceedings respecting the Order of Cincinnati. I have never been able to procure the printed Copies till lately which are now inclosed with a Copy also of the proceeding of the Georgia line. Wishing You the compliments of the season. Am with every Sentiment of Esteem Your Most Obt Servt DSoC .
2131To George Washington from Frederick Weissenfels, 10 December 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Frederick Weissenfels, 10 Dec. 1787. GW wrote Weissenfels on 10 Jan. 1788 : “I have received your letter of the 10th of December.”
2132To George Washington from Frederick Weissenfels, 27 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Exellencys favour of the 15th instant, With which I was honored, leaves my Mind in the most perfect tranquility, that I may Expect the honor to recieve your Certificate, when your Exellency is furnished with one from his Exellency Governor Clinton, Which I here inclose. The Governor has mentioned my derangement, from the Continental Line, and although no Date by him Citet, I beg leave to...
2133To George Washington from Frederick Weissenfels, 21 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
When I had the honor to be under your Comand, my Sufferings, were alleviated in your presence, I underwent the Fatigues of the different Campaingns with Pleasure, and when finished I returned with my Numerous Family to the Cottage, not without Some hopes, of being rewarded by my Country but my reward proved paper Notes Which from necessity of my Family I am obliged to Sell at 2/6 for Every...
2134To George Washington from Wakelin Welch, 13 March 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Wakelin Welch, 13 Mar. 1786. GW wrote Welch, July 1786 , about receiving his letter of “13th of March.”
2135To George Washington from Wakelin Welch, 26 January 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Wakelin Welch, 26 Jan. 1784. On 27 July 1784 GW wrote to Welch : “Your letter of the 26th of Jany, & duplicate thereof, both coming by the way of James river, were long getting to hand.”
2136To George Washington from Wakelin Welch, 27 February 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Wakelin Welch, 27 Feb. 1786. GW wrote to Welch, July 1786 , acknowledging the receipt of his letter “of the 27th of Febry.”
2137To George Washington from Anna Welsh, 12 November 1788 (Washington Papers)
The readiness which your Excellancy has ever shewn to Assist the Injurd, the distress’d, and the Widow, Induces me tho’ unknown to you, to trouble you on a matter in which I am deeply Interested, the high character you bear would have forever clos’d my mouth in Silence, had not dire necessity forc’d me to make this Application to you as the last resource. Your Excellancy will per mitt me to...
2138To George Washington from Count de Wengierski, 8 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
I Believe that the weather will permit Your Excellency to come here to morrow morning, because I love to flatter Myself with the hopes of Seeing You again. I have travelled many thousand miles to see and know the founders of American liberty, as much to boast of having seen them, as to learn from them, the means to conserve to the people their most precious rights. I am Citizan of an Unhappy...
2139To George Washington from Thomas West, 27 June 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry that the papers you mention are not ready for your perusal but you may rest Assured that nothing shall be wanting on my part to bring those matters to a final conclusion. since I spoke to you last on the subject have selected a number of the decd Colo. Colvills Papers many of which are of consequence and shou’d have had the whole ready by this day had proper care been taken of them...
2140To George Washington from William West, 17 May 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William West, 17 May 1788. GW wrote West on 28 June : “I was favoured with your letter of the 17th Ult.”
2141To George Washington from John V. Weylie, 11 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have made bold to write these few lines to you to Thank you for my Education my Parents being Poor were unable to Give me much So that had it not been for your Generosity to Which I owe for my Learning I Might have remained without any all My life But since You have been so Bountiful to The Poor Inhabitants of this town As to set up A free School for the benifit of the poor Children Whose...
2142To George Washington from Alexander White, 29 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have at length so far settled the affairs of General Lees Estate as to be enabled to pay his American debts. it will give me pleasure to discharge the account due to your Excellency—I am sorry you did not take a Bond to secure the interest, but do not think myself authorised to supply the defect. With Sentiments of the highest respect I am Your Excellencys most Obt Servt ALS , DLC:GW . For...
2143To George Washington from Alexander White, 26 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of your Excellencys letter 16th instant enclosing Mr Frauncis’s which I have answered by this Post —As your Excellency has no knowledge of Mr Frauncis’s demand it would be impertement in me to trouble you with my opinion of it—I can only say, that I am anxious to discharge every just debt, and that your Excellencys Countenance afforded to Mr Frauncis will induce me to pay...
2144To George Washington from Matthew Whiting, 10 August 1786 (Washington Papers)
I recd yours and am very sorry that it did not come ten days sooner as I had parted with all the money that I had by me however the first that comes into my hands will take care to pay you. Should of been glad to of let you had wheat for sowing if I had any that I could recommend. I had parted with all my old wheat and the new I think but very Indifferent. I am with Complements to your good...
2145To George Washington from James Wilkinson, 30 December 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Wilkinson, 30 Dec. 1787. GW wrote Wilkinson on 20 Feb. 1788 : “I have received your letter of the 30th of December.”
2146To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 31 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencies letter of the 16th Instant was handed to me at this place yesterday—Immediatly after receiving Tents and other necessaries for executing the orders I received from your excellency at Albany. All our State troops that were Most fit for active service were assembled at Fort Herkimer and ordered to march without loss of time to the head of the Communication between the Mohawk...
2147To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 3 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am at this place waiting on the Council of appointment in order to compleat a reform in our State troops—After this business is done the troops will be arranged into five Companies, and the Command of those Companies given to Major Elias Van Benshaten the present eldest Major—When this is finished I shall be out of Service and of course enter into some other business. But my principal...
2148To George Washington from William Hartshorne & Company, 26 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Enclosed Letter and Account we recd under cover from our Friend Mr David Pearce of Gloucester New-England with an order on you for the Amount say £63.5.6—as the account is not very plain & you may not be acquainted with the hand writing I have sent a Copy of it —I am Respectfully Yours LS , DLC:GW . In his letter of 6 Nov. enclosing his account with GW, David Pearce indicated that he was...
2149To George Washington from Hugh Williamson, 24 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
You are proba[b]ly informed that there is a Company in North Carolina called the Lebanon Company, who own 40 or 50 thousand a[cre]s of Land on the South side of Drummonds Lake or the great Dismal, I presume thier Lands are bounded to the Northward by the Lands of the Virginia Company of which you are a member, by the last Post I recived letters from some gentlemen who are of the Lebanon...
2150To George Washington from Hugh Williamson, 19 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
Application has been made to Congress lately by James McMechen who is connected with James Rumsey of Virga in the newly invented Machinery for pressing Boats through the Water. Mr McMechen has laid before the Committee, to whom his Memorial was refer’d, a Certificate that you was pleas’d to give him respecting the Invention. We observe your Opinion that “He has discovered the Art of working...