132721To George Washington from Jonathan Deare, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
It having been suggested that doubts had arisen respecting the propriety of appointing a person to the Office of Collector for this State whose residence is not in Amboy, where the Office will probably be established, I take the liberty to inform your Excellency that if I am honored with the appointment and find it necessary I intend to remove to that place. I have the honour to be with...
132722To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 18 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
Upon the receipt of yours on Yesterday I immediately sent an Express to West-Chester, with the Letter directed to Col. Williams, & a Line from myself for his immediate march to Mount Washington—The Express informs that Col. Williams with his Regiment was not arriv’d, but hourly expected—The Major of the Regiment is at West-Chester, and will as soon as the Regiment reaches that place deliver...
132723To George Washington from Richard Kidder Meade, 21 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
It is with reluctance that I contribute in the least degree to the accumulation of your trouble; but when the object of this letter, & my motive for writing it, is known to you, I will not doubt of gaining your pardon, for the trouble it may cause. I am certain you hold in remembrance the name of Colo. Robert Stark, the gentleman who met with such rigorous & continued ill treatment to the...
132724To George Washington from Lieutenant General William Howe, 11 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed Letter having been intercepted and brought to me, I am happy to return it without the least Attempt being made to discover any Part of the Contents. I was yesterday favored with your Answer to my Letter of the 8th, and am perfectly satisfied from your Assertion, that the Delay in the Exchange of Prisoners has not arose from any Disregard to the Agreement on your Part, but from the...
132725From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 13 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President a sketch which he has submitted to a gentleman or two in the legislature on the subject of Indian purchases. He sends him also two letters received last night from Mr. Gouverneur Morris. The correspondence referred to in one of them, is in French, and being improper to go into the hands of a clerk, Th:J. is translating it himself for the use...
132726To George Washington from William Smallwood, 4 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acquaint you that since I wrote you on the 1st Instt. I have received arms and Accoutrements for the 4th Regiment and about one Hundred of the 5th and the State promise to make every exertion to forward Supplies of Cloathing after the Troops into Virginia which induces me to order them to March early Tomorrow Morning with all possible dispatch to join the Marquis as they...
132727To George Washington from Colonel Charles Harrison, 9 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to your Excellency’s instructions, have made known to the Governour & Councel the weak state of my Battalion, & in most pressing terms requestd their assistance to have it recruited, who with advise of the board of War, have thought proper to order out on recruiting Service such of my Officers as are in the State on furlough; want of money is at present the only apparent obstacle we...
132728To George Washington from Bryan Fairfax, 29 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the Pleasure of writing to Your Excellency some time in the last Winter, and tho’ I then did not expect to hear from You, yet upon this Occasion I hope to be favoured with a Line—Mr Custis is willing to receive what I owe him at the rate of 33⅓ Exchange, which appears to me so much to his disadvantage considering the price of everyn Thing at present, that while I was getting the money...
132729To George Washington from Kentucky Citizens, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
To the PRESIDENT and CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; T he REMONSTRANCE of the S ubscribers , C itizens of the C ommonwealth of KENTUCKY, SHEWETH: THAT your Remonstrants have observed with concern and indignation, the injuries and insults offered to the United States by the king of Great Britain. He has violated in important parts, that treaty of peace, the observance of which might...
132730To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 14 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of you[r] Letter of the 1st inst.—have now the pleasure to congratulate you on the further Successes of the Army at the Northward—Hope this Aurora Borealis may not only dispell the gloom, and establish our Affairs in that Quarter—but be the forerunner of success and Victory in every other Department. The greatest part of our Intelligence is contained in the enclosed Hartford...
132731To George Washington from Captain George Starr, 16 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed his Excelency has a Return of my superentinding the makeing of Leather Accoutriments & shoes & Exchangeing Raw Hides for shoes &c. which Shoes & Accoutriments I shall send on to Your Camp as soon as there is Forriage for the Teams I have call’d upon the D. Q. Mr Gen. for Teams who is promissed to Let me have them as soon as there is Forriage; I sent Last February three Teams with...
132732To George Washington from Richard Peters, 2 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Averse as I am from a Desire to trouble you on such Subjects my Anxiety on Account of the Situation in which a worthy character is unfortunately placed has induced me to take the Liberty of mentioning to you the unhappy Predicament in which General Wayne stands—As Matters have turned out he was cursed with a Present from the State of Georgia of a Rice Plantation which they gave him with very...
132733To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 7 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 13th of October. And should have appointed the time and place for the immediate Execution of Gamble. But both him & Davis had effected their escape as I informed your Excellency in a former Letter. The Officers who commanded the Guards at the times they respectively escaped were arrested tried & acquitted, and therefore I thought it unnecessary to trouble...
132734To George Washington from Colonel Benjamin Tupper, 22 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Col. Benjamin Tupper, 22 Feb. 1779. GW wrote Tupper on 26 Feb. : “I recvd your letter of the 22 Int.”
132735To George Washington from Brigadier General William Smallwood, 24 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
On my arrival here at Christmas I found the Regular & flying Camp Officers in general much disgusted by the Appointments of the Commissioners, in which indeed there were irregula[ri]ties and Improprieties which no established Mode cou’d justify, many being below, others promoted above their Rank, & many more not appointed at all; which induced me, as the Appointments were incompleat, to make...
132736To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to submit to your view a loose sketch of the general ideas which have occurred to me on the subject of instructions to the Commission[er]s. If any part of them should meet your approbation, they could, together with such additions as you may judge proper be drawn up in form. I will wait on you tomorrow to receive your further orders on this subject. I am Sir respectfully and...
132737From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received from Mr. Gore by yesterday’s post the evidence on the aggression committed by Mr. Duplaine Vice Consul of France at Boston, and it appears fully to establish the fact against him. I have therefore prepared and countersigned a Revocation of his Exequatur, with letters on the subject to him, to Mr. Genet, and Mr. Morris; as also instructions to Mr. Bankson in what way to make up their...
132738To George Washington from Brigadier General William Irvine, 3 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding several changes, have taken place since your Excellency laid the situation of our affairs before the Board at Morristown; I apprehend our operations must be nearly the same. I am pretty clearly of opinion, that before our levies can be got together, and Stores collected to a proper point, it will be too late to think of Caneda, unless provision is amply made for remaining there...
132739To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Ternant, 29 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
When I accepted of the military offices proposed to me in this army, & undertook to discharge the duties of them as a volunteer, besides other motives, I had two chief objects in view: 1º to try my own self & learn from experience what I could not get with certainty from Theorical speculations, 2º to give your Excellency an opportunity of judging of my military abilities, talents &c.—how...
132740To George Washington from Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 10 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will kindly pardon the liberty I take, to offer You my Description of America. You know, it is the right, as it is the heartfelt pleasure of every freeborn feeling man, to admire the great and good benefactors of mankind. This pleasure I very often enjoyed, when I endeavoured to describe that country, whose daily increasing happiness is principally Your Work and that of those...
132741To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 31 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
in Consequence of A Note from me the Admiral Came to Last evening, and defensive ideas Gave way to offensive plans—our Conversation was long and is not yet ended—But I hasten to write you a Summary of what past Betwen the Count, the Chevalier, and Myself. I first Began in My own name to Give them a pretty exact Account of the Situation we were in three Months Ago, of the Super natural efforts...
132742To George Washington from Brigadier General Charles Scott, 6 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd Your favor of Yesterdays date Late last night—I can hardly Suppose that the Fleet could possably have Saild without our Hearing of it. however every thing possable Shall Be immediatly don in order to know with Certainty whether that is the Case, particular attention Shall also be paid Respecting the disease. Capt. Leavenworth who was expected on Sunday last, is not Yet Come. I am afraid...
132743To George Washington from Henry Knox, 22 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you a letter from the Governor of Georgia dated the 5 instant with the deposition of Owen Bowen relatively to the murder of eight white persons. I have the honor to be with the highest respect Your most obed. servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . On 24 Dec. 1792 Bartholomew Dandridge, at GW’s direction, wrote John Stagg, Jr., chief clerk of the War Department, that...
132744To George Washington from Henry Knox, 19 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for your favor of the second instant which I received by the last post. The extreme badness of the roads is given as the reason that the number of members necessary to form a quorum of both houses are not yet assembled. Mr Patterson of the Senate, and Mr Griffin and Mr Moore of the representatives are the only additional since my last —The number therefore at present nine senators...
132745To George Washington from Mary Harding Bristow, 27 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
The high Character I have heard of Your Excellency emboldens me to take the liberty of addressing a few lines to You, (tho’ I have not the honor of being personaly known to You) in behalf of my Son . The Coppy of a Memorial & Petition, address’d to the Governor, the Senate, and House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, which I have the honor to enclose to Your Excellency, from myself and...
132746To George Washington from Henry William DeSaussure, 1 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
I find on packing up my papers, one wch I had Intended for your use—Permit me now to enclose it. It gives a Correct view of the course of the Canal from santee to Cooper. Last Evening I recd a letter from General Pinckney, wherein he states Strongly the necessity of keeping up a Garrison of some force at Fort Johnson; at least a full Company & mentions that a good deal of disgust had been...
132747To George Washington from Major General Stirling, 29 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have received yours of Yesterday evening about an hour ago. have Orderd in all the parties that are out both of my division and of the fifteen detached parties; I expect they will be ready to march for Camp by Noon. There is now a fine oppertunity for the Q.M.G. & Commissary Genl of provisions to employ their Waggons, at one place within Six miles of this place there is above 100 Tun of Bar...
132748To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 15 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, for your information, copies of the various documents which I have received by Express from Genl Gibson, stating, among other things, the proceedings of a Council, held at Fort Le Bœuf on the 26th ulto, between Capn Denny and Mr Ellicot, and a deputation from the Six Nations in the presence of Genl Chapin. The requisition which has been made on this occasion, for...
132749To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to inform you, that the result of my enquiries concerning the character of Capt: Jonathan Maltbee, is, that he is a man of fair character and an experienced & good Seaman, who might be expected to execute his duty faithfully as the Commander of a revenue Cutter. I do not learn however, that either he or Capt. Law are remarkable for their activity. The principal point of...
132750To George Washington from Henry Lee, Jr., 22 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
I have waited here two weeks cheifly to try to finish my engagement with you—But all my endeavors are vain—I shall never recede from my exertions till I do accomplish the end, for no event of my life has given me more anguish. I would if you consider yr sale injurious rather relinquish the contract & give up the payments made, than to be the instrument of damage to you—The loss of money I am...