1To George Washington from Thomas Freeman, 13 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
The active and interesting operations in my department in this City, being now verging to a close, & the salary annexed thereto being but a bare support, I feel it a duty incumbent on me to seek the most early opportunity of judiciously changing my present situation—to this end, my first object would be that business wherein my services would be most useful & best rewarded. The ascertaining &...