1Tobias Lear to Robert Pollard, 11 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States requests that you will transmit to him a statement of his accot with the James River Company, from it’s first institution; in order that he may be fully acquainted with the payments which have been made on his account, as well as with what may be due from him. The President’s long absence from home, & the little attention that his public duties have permitted...