91To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 17 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your respected favor of the 13th instant reached this place last evening, and should have been answered by return of the mail; but I had been absent for some days at the Great Falls, on the business of the Potomac Company, and did not get home till this day. I trust, my dear Sir, that after knowing my reasons for not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of your kind letter of the 14th of...
92To George Washington from Hannah Fairfax Washington, 17 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
This will be presented to you by my Son Fairfax Washington, who I have sent to Phliadela with a view of reading the Law under Mr Charles Lee, and of improving himself, by being introduced into good company. Depending on the friendship you, & your good Lady, have allways express’d for his Father & myself, I make free to beg your countenancing him, & the favor will be gratefully acknowledg’d by...
93To George Washington from Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, 16 Jan. 1797 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, 16 Jan. 1797 . GW wrote Fergusson on 5 March and acknowledged her “very polite and obliging favour of the 16th of January” (see Papers, Retirement Series W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series . 4 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1998–99. 1:6 –7).
94To George Washington from Samuel Nicholson, 16 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
It is with much reluctance I trouble you with the present application, but a great anxiety to provide for a numerous family, must be my appology. It has been the practice in the British, and I believe all other Navies, to admit as Midshipmen a Small proportion of Young Men who have not had any experience as Seamen. I am very desirous to have my two eldest sons Samuel aged 14 years, & Joseph...
95To George Washington from Elkanah Talley, 16 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Altho’ I have not the honor of a personal acquaintance with you; yet I presume you will pardon my taking the liberty of addressing you on a subject which relates to some of your property in this Neighbourhood. The property alluded to is the Land you had of Mr Dandridge, which was formerly a part of Bristo’s confiscated estate. Within these 2 years, repeated trespasses have been committed on sd...
96To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Possessing as I do a thousand evidences of your friendship, I am persuaded that you will readily beleive me, when I say that my silence of late, has been the effect of my unwillingness to intrude, lest I should for a moment prevent the consideration and different views, you give to the important subjects incessantly before you. Although the same cause continues to prevent my interruption, yet...
97To George Washington from Marie-Jeanne-Jacqueline-Antoinette Pernot, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
allow an ancient inhabitant of America, who has had the honor of knowing you, when she was at Philadelphia, to break in one moment upon your important business, to claim from you the Justice, which She is threatened not to obtain from the tribunals. as president of congress your are to cause the laws of your country to be faithfully executed: and it is their strict execution I claim. give me...
98To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to return the address of the Senate of Pennsylvania, with the draught of an answer in terms which I imagined would correspond with your feelings, and which unsullied honor and the dignity of truth would authorize you to express. If however you prefer any other sentiments, by receiving the draught thus early, there will be time for alterations. I sent the intended letter to Mr...
99To George Washington from James Anderson, 11 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Refering to my last of 2d have now to hand You Report of last week. As said in my last I have now brought my Family here, which with Mr Pearce sickness has put it out of my power to send You Inventory of every Article I find here. It is however nearly compleat And will certainly forward it in my next—which I intend by Monday, instead of this days post, I have been at all the Farm’s various...
100To George Washington from Alexander White, 11 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Previous to Mr Scotts setting out for Annapolis, it was mentioned by him and not controverted by Doctor Thornton, that a full Board would not be necessary till about the tenth of this month, and that I might with propriety remain in Virginia till that period, unless something should occur to render my presence sooner necessary, in which case they would give me notice. By a letter put in the...