561From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 5 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
Private Your private letters of the 29th & 30th have been received. If Mr Churchmans account respecting the broken seal of Mr Monroes letter, to the Department of State be true, it bespeaks the man of candour, and does him credit; but I do not see why, when called upon, he should require time to consider whether he should relate the truth—or “give a certificate that might excite suspicions of...
562From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have now before me your letters of the 9th of January & 12th of february, to which it will not be in my power to reply so fully as my inclination would lead me to do if I had no avocations but those of a personal nature. I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the Protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious and alarming heigth mentioned in your letters. Religious...
563To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 15 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
On this day week, I wrote you a letter on the subject of the information received from G—— M——, and put it with some other Papers respecting the case of Mr. De la Fayette, under cover to Mr Jay: to whom also I had occasion to write. But in my hurry (making up the dispatches for the Post Office next morning) I forgot to give it a Superscription; of course it had to return from N: York for one,...
564From George Washington to William Pearce, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I learn with concern from your letter of the 18th instant, that your crops were still labouring under a drought, and most of them very much injured. At disappointments and losses which are the effects of Providential acts, I never repine; because I am sure the alwise disposer of events knows better than we do, what is best for us, or what we deserve. Two or three fine rains have fallen here in...
565From George Washington to Samuel Hughes, 15 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Samuel Hughes, 15 Aug. 1793. Hughes wrote GW on 19 Aug. 1793 that he “had the honor of receiving your letter of the 15th Inst.”
566[Diary entry: 1 January 1797] (Washington Papers)
1. Clear—Wind Westerly. Went to church. [23] The information in brackets (indicating morning temperatures for the days in January) appears as marginal notes on one diary page and one almanac page.
567From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 11 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have weighed with deliberate attention the contents of your letter of yesterday; and altho’ that consideration may result in an approbation of the ideas the[re]in suggested; yet I do not, at present, feel myself authorized to give a sanction to the measures which you propose. For, as the Constitution of the United States, & the Laws made under it, must mark the line of my official conduct, I...
568From George Washington to Warner Lewis, 24 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 9th instant, enclosing a duplicate of the letter you were so obliging as to write to me on the 11th of March came duly to hand, and I sincerely thank you for the attention you have bestowed on the matter I took the liberty of troubling you with. I thought I had acknowledged the receipt of the last mentioned letter before I left Mount Vernon, but suppose from the multitude of...
569From George Washington to Alexander White, 28 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
Mr Carroll, one of the Commissioners of the Federal City, from age, and the infirm State of his health; is desirous of quitting the employment —Permit me to ask if it would be agreeable to you to supply his place? The present Salary is 1600 dollars per annum. To discharge the duties properly, a residence in the City and close attention to the multifarious duties which occur in the execution of...
570From George Washington to William Darke, 7 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
A second necessity having arisen for my troubling you on the subject of officering the Virginia battalion of levies, I again beg leave to request your assistance therein. I had written to Major Powell, who lives about six miles from Alexandria, informing him of his appointment to the majority of the battalion, and requesting to see him at Mount-Vernon immediately—but he has not appeared nor...