751To George Washington from John Parke, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Amid the Multiplicity of the most important Business, that ever has fallen to the Lot of one Man to adjust: I hope Sir, you will excuse this small Interuption, from a Person who was once dignified by your Friendship & Acquaintance, & who, for several Years, during the late glorious Revolution, was honored by your Excellency—with a regimental Command. The Number of Departments under Government,...
752To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I cannot find words to express the feelings of my heart, on the receipt of your favour of yesterday, at this repeated instance of your goodness. I shall ever retain a grateful remembrance of this and of your condescension to me on a former occasion when your presence administered a balm to my wounded spirit. From the love and veneration I bear and have continually felt for you, and the light...
753To George Washington from Elkanah Watson, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is with reluctance that I venture to introduce myself to your attention for a moment in quality of an applicant for the collectors office in one of the districts of Massachusetts. In respect to my family connections—experience in business—& character—I beg leave to refer your Excellency to Messrs Gerry, Leonard & Thatcher of the said state. I dare not arrest so much of your important time,...
754To George Washington from Rachel Levy, 26 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Whilst all the world are hurrying to New York in hopes of obtaining offices, will you revered Sir, permit me to make an application (tho at a more awfull distance), it is for my second Son, a minor, that I dare thus to intrude on your time and benevolence —I intreated Mrs Washington (with my respects) to beg you would allow me to hold a place in your recolecktion; foreboding (altho’ fortune...
755To George Washington from Reuben Wilkinson, 26 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed is the charge exhebited against me in my absence, and also the determination of the Honorable the Executive thereon, for your excellency’s consideration untill I shall have had a hearing which will be the 3rd of August next, at which time I shall do my self the honor of transmitting to your Excellency the determination thereon. I have the Honor to be Your Excellencys most Obt Hble...
756To George Washington from Thaddeus Burr, 27 July 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thaddeus Burr, 27 July 1789. Burr wrote to GW 1 Jan. 1791: “I find by perusing a Copy of a letter addressed to you the 27th July 1789 . . .”
757To George Washington from Bartholomew von Heer, 27 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to your Excellency a Memorial stating my Claim and that of two other Officers of my late Corps against the United States any irregularity in my application I trust your goodness will impute to my want of knowing in what manner otherwise to apply. I am with the greatest respect Sir Your Excellency’s most obedient and very humble servant ALS , DNA:PCC , item 78....
758To George Washington from Leonard Henley, Jr., 27 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Amidst the multiplicity of publick & important business that surround Your Excellency on all Sides, I am extreemly unwilling to beg the favour of your attention to the situation of a private individual, with whom you have no personal acquaintance; but the approaching distresses of a Family part of whom, I flatter myself, are in some measure dear to you, induces me though attended with much...
759To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 27 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I intended this morning to have personally delivered you the letters that I now enclose and had hopes of being indulged with a private conversation on the contents of them; but I was hindered by the company then present. Your ill state of health as well as my own, and the business that surrounds us both, may perhaps under this mode of conveyance the most convenient—The letter that I have now...
760To George Washington from George Walton, 27 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to you a copy of an Order of the Council of this State dated the 17th Instant. The facts on which the complaints are founded are real, and capable of being supported by the most unequivocal testimonials—I am well aware of the delicacy of a proceding which should lead us into a dispute with the Catholic Monarch; and of the pain it must necessarily give our great...
761To George Washington from Thomas Fosdick, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having had the Honor of Serving under your Excellencys orders in the late American Army, and being informed that the Appointment of the revenue Officers originates with your Excellency, I am indued in this manner to solicite an Appointment for this district—The inclosd Certificate from General Glover will show that I acquited myself with reputation—I have the Honor to be you Excellys Most Obt...
762To George Washington from Bernard Hubley, Jr., 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Alleghany County Fort Pitt [Pa.] My Dear Beloved General July 28th 1789 I take this first Opportunity to inform you, that I have come thus far on my way homeward, my place of Residence in Northumberland County, which I left now six Weeks in Compy with Col. Fredk Antis, (of the same Place) we set out with an intention to explore the Western parts of Pennsylvania, we kept up the West Branch of...
763To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having examined the report of the Commissioners for treating with the Southern Indians dated the 30th of June last, and the papers accompanying the same, I have the honor to observe. That it is the opinion of the said Commissioners, that the Creek Nation of Indians are generally disposed to enter into a treaty with the United States, for the purpose of establishing a permanent peace. That it...
764To George Washington from Jonathan Lawrence, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am informed that by a Law of the United States it is intended that the Officers of the Customs at the principal Ports of Entry shall consist of a Collector Naval Officer &c. I have by the advice of some of my friends taken the liberty of troubling you, Sir, with my Petition for the appointment of Naval Officer for this Port. It is not my intention, Sir, to claim a preference on account of...
765To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
The above letter was written under the impression that the Bill for collecting the impost would have passed within a few days after its date—and in the form in which it was reported by the committee appointed to prepare it. But the delays which have impeded it’s passage and the changes made in it’s form have prevented me from making the communication then intended till the present moment—and...
766To George Washington from William Thompson, 28 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Not satisfied with having my Wish and Suffrage included and expressed in the unanimous Voice of the Nation for You to exercise the Office of Supreme Magistrate; I beg Permission to testify hereby, my own peculiar Joy, and intire Satisfaction, that You have again evinced and displayed Your genuine and unfailing Patriotism, by accepting that important and arduous Trust. Among your other great...
767To George Washington from John Graham, 29 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having had the Honour to hold an Office in the Court of Admiralety of this State, together with some other Considerations, leads me to Offer myself, as Candidate for the Place of Naval Officer in the Customs of the Port of New York. The great disadvantage I lay under in not having the Honour of a Personal acquaintance with You—I hope will excuse me, for refering you on this occasion to the...
768To George Washington from Jorre, 29 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Madame Maury with whom I have the honor to be acquainted, and with whom I had the pleasure to pass some months at Liverpool, will not refuse me, I am sure, her support in confirming to you what I am now to have the honor of communicating. I am a frenchman born at Rouen of an honest family—I have been bred to the bar, and I was six years ago admitted an advocate of the Parlement of Paris. Since...
769To George Washington from the Leyden Poetical Society, 29 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Suffer that persons unknown to your Excellency may offer the just tribute of their respect, and to explain the nature of a composition which we send from a distant part of the globe. Upwards of twenty years a Society has exsisted in this city, for the purpose of promoting and cultivating poetry and the Dutch Lenguage, consisting of a respectable number of the lovers of both. it is customary...
770To George Washington from Benjamin Bankson, 30 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
An Employment as Clerk in the Office of the late Secretary of Congress from August 1781 until the 8th of May last, a Term of near Eight years; and my Conduct during that period having met the approbation of Mr Thomson, as will appear by a Copy of his Certificate enclosed herewith, will I trust apologize for my troubling you with this Letter. A constant and faithful discharge of the duties...
771To George Washington from John Langdon, 30 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honour a few days since to mention to you the Names of Col. Joseph Whipple, for Collector and Eleazar Russell Esq. for Naval officer for the port of Portsmouth in New Hampe. I now beg leave to mention the Name of Thomas Martin Esq., for the Surveyor of that port, this Gent. is well qualified for this or any other office in the Customs, of great probity and a Respectable...
772To George Washington from Robert Walker, 30 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Being sensible of the Injury sustained by the Loss of Pay and Property while in the Army of the United States under your Excellencys Command, and a much impaired Constitution occasioned by the Fatiegues and Hardships undergone in the course of the two first Campaigns in Canady & Northern Department, and four Succeeding Campaigns in Colo. Lambs Regimt of Artillery in the Southern Department...
773To George Washington from Thomas Hartley, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hartley wrote to Mr Adam Rugart and enquired of him if about ten or twelve Mares fifteen hands high—not more than two Years old—bay or black—and of the Country Breed—could be had in Lancaster County—Price from £18 to £24 or £25 Pennsylvania—and if a remar[k]able fine and good Mare perhaps the President might go towards £30. He has got an Answer from Mr Rugart that his Mares may be had. He...
774To George Washington from Jonathan Jackson, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Though the primary object of my visit to your Excellency this morning was taken up with the sincere endeavour to serve a man who has the merited esteem of the discerning part of his Countrymen, and for whom I have a great affection—supposing him to be in that critical situation, that support & relief to his mind as well as affairs could not be too early administered—yet I must confess sir, I...
775To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you on the twenty ninth of April last. I shall not trouble you with a Recital of Events which Mr Jefferson has I know very amply communicated to the Office of foreign Affairs. But being here on my Way to London, and finding a Vessel bound directly to New York, I take the Opportunity to send some Tables which contain the political military pecuniary and commercial...
776To George Washington from John Page, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
That I may not be troublesome & appear to others if not to yourself to obtrude myself too often on your Goodness, I take this Method of apologising for leaving a Letter with your Lady, & directing it to you without knowing its Contents but Sir Mrs Whiting’s Character & good Sense, induced me to comply with her Request, which was to direct her Letter & present it to you. At the Request of...
777To George Washington from Comfort Sage, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
the opinion of the Subscriber, would not of itself have given him the Confidence, in this manner, to address the Supreme Magistrate, of the United States, the present mode, of application, has been represented, as agreeable, to the Usual practice, on Such Occasions, this measure, was advised, by a parson, whose Station was Sufficiently, alevated, to forbid the doubting, its propriety, this...
778To George Washington from Thomas Randall, July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Among the offices to be created I learn are those of Naval Officer and Surveyor—as from my education and manner of life I feel myself competent to the exercise of those offices I am induced by the advice of friends—the diminution of an easy fortune by the war and the diversion of business from its antient channels to offer my name as a Candidate to either of them. I do not mean sir, to urge...
779To 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...
780To George Washington from De Grasse, 1 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Permettés moi je Vous Suplie De Proffiter d’un navire, ameriqain, Pour faire Part a Son Exelence de mon mariage, avec une Creole de ce Pays cy Si j’ose prendre la liberté, de lui En faire Part. C’est la tendre amitié que Son Exelence a Voüe a mon Pere, qui me fait assarder cette demarche, J’ose me flater, que Si mon General d’aigne m’honnorer de Ces bontes, il voudra bien me Permettre de lui...