1From George Washington to James B. M. Adair, 4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 31st ulto from New York enclosing one from Sr Edwd Newinham—also the magazines, the Packet from Sr John Sinclair &c. for your care And attention in forwarding them I beg you to accept my thanks. Any civilities which it may be in my power to shew you while you remain in this Country, will give me Pleasure. I am Sir your Mot obt Sert LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG...
2Enclosure: To Annapolis, Maryland, Citizens, 16 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Conscious of having had in view the Interest & Happiness of the people of the United States, in the discharge of my public duties; and fully persuaded that remaining in a state of neutrality during the present contest between the powers of Europe, if not absolutely necessary to these objects, would tend in a very considerable degree to promote them, I receive with infinite satisfaction,...
3From George Washington to Mary Atlee, 14 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President wishes Mrs Atlee to be assured that, his disposition to prevent tears of distress from flowing, is far beyond his means to accomplish; and that he should be extremely happy if the latter were adequate to the numerous calls that are made upon the former. Mrs Atlees case being entirely unknown to the President—Her application of course, is not well understood by him. ADf , DLC:GW ;...
4From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 16th Instant, from Leesburgh. In answer to which, respecting the purchase of Buck Wheat, I send you a Bank note for two hundred dollars; being more disposed to give two & six pence pr Bushel in Loudoun than depend upon the purchase here, & the uncertainty of getting it round in time. What the Waggonage of it to my house from thence (as fast as it is...
5Enclosure: Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Barbados, 9 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I heartily congratulate your Country on your peace with the Savages; for, from what you tell me, I presume the Indian War is terminated—may this be your last War! but we are not without serious Apprehensions of a rupture between G. Britain & you. Without troubling You with a detail of many idle & unsupported Tales in circulation, it may be of Use to be informed, that on Tuesday last, (the 6th...
6From George Washington to William Aylett Booth, 18 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
The attachment, expressed by the resolutions of Shenandoah County, to the Constitution of the U. States; the importance of cultivating peace & harmony with all the world, by just & honorable means; and the grateful acknowledgment of the services rendered by the French nation, meet my full assent. For the favorable sentiments towards myself, I must entreat you, Sir, to communicate my thanks to...
7From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 27 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favoured with your letter of the 12th instt and the Pamphlet which accompanied it. I am sensible of the honor you have done me in the Address, and am grateful for the flattering expression of it. Sure I am, I shall peruse the sentiments which you have breathed in the Pamphlet with pleasure as soon as my leizure will allow me to read it. At present I am occupied in collecting &...
8From George Washington to William Wootton Brewer, 29 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
A Letter from you of the 20th inst: has been received, stating the distressed & truly affecting situation in which you are. Could my ability to do it, keep pace with my sincere desire to relieve the wants of the distressed, the request made in your letter to me would be chearfully complied with; but the numerous & pressing calls upon me for pecuniary aid from real objects of charity, & from...
9From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 8 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear, The Gentleman who will have the honr of putting this letter into your hands, I can venture, & therefore shall take the liberty, to introduce as worthy of your Lordships civilities. He has lived seven or eight yrs in my family as my private Secretary, and possesses a large share of my esteem & friendship. Commercial pursuits have taken him to Europe & a desire to visit some of the...
10From George Washington to Edward Carrington, 11 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Accompanying this, I send a Letter by post to The Secy of State. I request the favor of you if there should be a probability of its remaining two or three days in the post office at Richmond waiting the regular post to Charlottsville, or on any other accot to have it directly conveyed to mr Jefferson by Express—in which case you will be good enough to let me Know the expense which may be...
11From George Washington to Daniel Carroll, 16 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 9th & sample of free stone from my Quarry, sent by Mr Hoban; for which I thank you both; and should be obliged to him for information of the spot from whence it was taken. I always knew, that the River banks from my Spring house, to the Ferry formerly kept by Captn Posey, were almost an entire bed of free stone; but I had conceived before the late...
12From George Washington to Charles Carter of Ludlow, 25 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th instt having unluckily passed on to Philadelphia before it got to my hands, is the cause of its remaining so long unacknowledged. I have by the Post of to day written to the Comptroller of the Treasury for most of the other Offrs are absent to obtain, on my acct, one hundred dollars for the use of your Sons in Phila. and hope it will be accomplished; but such is the...
13From George Washington to Richard Chichester, 23 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the 21st instt I was favored with your letter of the 10th. I am very sorry that so trivial a matter as that related in it, should have given you one moments pain. There must have been some misconception on the part of Colo. Burgess Ball if he understood that I had been informed it was you, who had killed my English Buck; for no such information that I can recollect ever was given to me. I...
14Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Childs & Swaine, 6 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by the President of the United States to inform you that the business to which he is necessarily obliged to attend does not permit him to read the public prints which are now brought to him. He therefore desires you will not consider him as a subscriber for the Supplement to the daily Advertiser —& that you will discontinue to transmit it to him. I am Gentlemen your most Obt Sert...
15From George Washington to the New London, Connecticut, Citizens, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
The motives which have induced a public expression of your sentiments at the present juncture, are such as naturally operate upon good Citizens, when points which materially concern the happiness of their Country are the subjects of discussion. Your approbation of my conduct on the occasion, to which it relates, could not fail to give me particular pleasure, and to serve as a support to my...
16Enclosure I: Charles Williamson to George Clinton, 26 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose you an Affidavit taken before me as a Magestrate of this County—as the outrage complained of has been attended with the most distressing consequences to some of the sufferers, and a most dangerous Precident to the safety of the Settlers on this Frontier—I thought it my duty to lay it before your Excellency. As I consider this unwarantable stretch of Local power on...
17From George Washington to George Clinton, 27 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia 27th Novr 1793 Not having the letters at hand, I am unable to refer to dates; but the one with which you were pleased to favour me, dated sometime in September, did not reach my hands before I had left this City. Immediately, however, upon the receipt of it (at my own house in Virginia) I put it under cover to the Secretary of War with directions to answer it...
18Enclosure I: Edmond Genet to George Clinton, 30 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Le General Galbaud, l’aude de Camp Concience, et le Caporal Bonne, se sont evader cette nuit a m am armée âu bord du Jupiter. ces hommes sont tous deserteurs et à ce titre nous avons le droit de les reclamer⟨.⟩ Je vous prie enconsequence Monsieur de vouloir bien faire deliverer des Warrants au Consul de la republique pour qu’il soient arretés et condutés a bord d’un des Vaissaus de l’Escadre....
19From George Washington to George Clinton, 25 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 18th instt enclosing a statement of sales of lots in Coxburgh, belonging to us, has been duly received; and I thank you for the particular manner in which they are rendered. I did not mean to give you so much trouble. To know summarily what had been sold, and what remained on hand, was all I had in view. I hereby acknowledge the receipt of a Bank note (New York) for Sixteen...
20Enclosure: Extract of a letter to Mr. Close, 1 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have this day shipped the above on Board the William Penn, James Josiah, Comr for Philadelphia, by this post I have enclosed in a letter to Clement Biddle Esqr. the Bill of Loading, and have said to him that through the direction of Col. Humphrey’s, I have consigned it to his Care, and from whom I apprehended that his Excellency or himself woud hear farther on the Business—I have done this...
21From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 1 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 3d of last Month came to me by the Post of yesterday with the George Town mark of the 27th of November. What caused such delay in forwarding it, you better than I, can explain. For the reason mentioned therein it is to be regretted. I shall not lose a Post in transmitting the enclosed Order (to you) and wish it may be in time to produce the desired effect at the Treasury of...
22From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 9 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your Letter of Septm. 5th and in consequence thereof have Authorised Mr David Ross of Bladensburg & Colo. Robert Townsend Hooe of Alexandria to examine the accounts and Vouchers of the expenditure of the monies appropriated to your trust as Commissioners of the publick buildings of the Federal Territory & to certify to me the result. With esteem, I am Gent. your most Obt...
23From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Winstanley, a celebrated Landskip Painter, is disposed to take a view of the Federal City, or of the grounds in the vicinity of it. As you will be there about the time he may arrive, I take the liberty of giving him this letter of introduction to you. His designs are more extensive—and I have suggested the Great & little Falls; the passage of the River Potomac through the Blew Mountains—the...
24From George Washington to John Cowper, 26 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have in my possession a bond of yours, assigned to me by Mr Jno. Lewis, for £146.13.4d—payable with interest the 18. day of may last. I should be glad if you would cause it to be discharged as soon as convenient, as I am in want of the money. Tomorrow I shall leave this for the vicinity of Philada. the money may be sent by any of the Delegates of this State; or in any other manner more...
25From George Washington to Hiland Crow, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I really am at a loss for words to express my vexation and displeasure at your neglect in plowing, after I told you how anxious I was that this business should be carried on with all the dispatch in your power, the moment the ground was softened by Rains; when I had pointed out to you the quantity you had to flush up during the fall, to prepare for the Crops I named to you; and when you know...
26George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
G. Taylor Jr presents his respectful Compliments to Mr Dandridge—and informs him that Mr Jefferson desired the Commissions to be filled up agreeably to the Presidents desire on the day the present ones should determine, which will be on the 26 of the present month. This has accordingly been done having all been commissioned on that day in 1789. Will Mr Dandridge be so obliging as to send 100...
27From George Washington to John Doughty, 23 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter, conveying to me the resolutions, agreed to by the Inhabitants of Morris County, the 10 inst: has reached my hands. Their firm & manly sentiments, declared in the resolutions, & united determination to protect & defend the honor & dignity of our Country, are such as become the freemen & citizens of the United States; & evince their firm & commendable resolution to preserve their...
28From George Washington to John Eccleston, 6 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the post of Wednesday last, I enclosed you an answer to an address of the Landholders & other citizens of the county of Dorchester. An answer to this address had been before transmitted to you; and the address having, without my knowledge, been put into the hands of Mr Murray, on it’s being returned, received a second answer, without my adverting to the circumstance of it’s being already...
29From George Washington to John Eccleston, 4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
The address, to which the enclosed is an Answer, was sent to me by Mr Murray. I take the liberty of enclosing it to you, as Chairman of the Meeting, with a request that you will communicate it to the Landholders & other citizens of Dorchester County, being, Sir &c. LB , DLC:GW . GW enclosed his undated reply to the 19 Aug. address of the citizens of Dorchester County, Md. , approving of his...
30From George Washington to John Christian Ehlers, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
By a Vessel which left this City ten or twelve days ago I sent you Grafts of several kinds of fruit, according to a list which was enclosed to Mr Lewis, & which I presume he gave you. I now give you a letter to a Gentleman living about 12 miles from you, where there used to be, and I dare say still is, a great variety of choice apples and other fruits —Go then when you find it convenient, for...