1Response to the Virginia Legislature, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
With feelings which are more easy to be conceived than expressed, I meet, and reciprocate the congratulations of the Representatives of this Commonwealth, on the final establishment of peace. Nothing can add more to the pleasure which arises from a conscientious discharge of public trust, than the approbation of one’s Country. To have been, under a vicissitude of fortune, amidst the difficult...
2To George Washington from Unknown Author, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
[The author, who was a planter, probably in Virginia but possibly in Maryland, and a man with some knowledge of the classics, rings all the changes on the declension of the American Revolution from its early days of glory to its present sorry state in 1784. His jeremiad on the corruption of American society and its institutions repeats things often said before and to be said again in the...
3To George Washington from David Humphreys, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
You may be surprised, tho I dare say you will not be displeased to receive a Letter from me, dated at a moment when you would have supposed I had already traversed at least one half of the Atlantic—The occasion of my having yet to embark is this—Governor Jefferson on his tour to the eastern States informed me (in Connecticut) of the arrival of a french Packet at New York, in which he proposed...
4To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
I may not omit so good an opportunity as now offers ⅌ Major Bayliss to inform your Excellency that at the meeting of the Cincinnati of this State they with great pleasure adopted the system as altered and amended by the general meeting and it appears to give great satisfaction to the citizens at large. I am pursuing the plan I mentioned to your Excellency the last fall of erecting mill for...
5From George Washington to Stephen Sayre, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
General Washington presents his Compliments to Mr Sayre and requests the favor of his Company at Dinner tomorrow—and any Gentleman of his acquaintance in Alexandria he may incline to bring with him. AL , ViHi : James Ambler Johnston Papers. Sayre was staying in or about Georgetown, Md., in the late summer and early autumn of 1784. See his letters to GW of 20 Aug. and 15 Oct. 1784 . See also...
6To George Washington from Tench Tilghman, 15 July 1784 (Washington Papers)
Only one Vessel has arrived from Ireland since I had last the honor of writing to your Excellency, and she came in last Night. As she had 450 people on Board, I thought I stood a good chance of procuring the two Tradesmen you have commissioned me to purchase —Upon enquiry, I found only ninety were servants—among them none who would suit you. The remainder were persons who paid their own...
7To Thomas Jefferson from St. John de Crèvecoeur, 15 July 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duely receiv’d your Last Letter from Boston, and am Glad for your Sake that you Shou’d have found a Convenient vessel, the Captain of which has Engaged To Land you on the Coast of France. But I am afraid you’ll Set your feet on some barbarous Corner where you’ll find neither Horse nor Carriage. As To my own Sake I am Sorry I Shou’d by this arrangement been deprived of the pleasure of...