1To George Washington from Matthew Clarkson, 2 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having formerly acted under your immediate Command as a principal in the department of auditor of accounts to the army; I had the honor to become personally known to you; those services I hope were approved. I still wish to be useful to our common country. From the late proceedings of Congress I have been induced to suppose that that honorable body will shortly determine where their permanent...
2To George Washington from Matthew Clarkson, 19 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
It having pleased Divine Providence to add Doctor Phile, the naval officer of this port, to the number of those to whom the present prevailing disorder hath proved fatal, I am induced to solicit the appointment as his successor. Confiding in that protection which hath hitherto preserved me, whilsts upwards of three thousand of my fellow citizens have been removed into eternity, I shall think...
3Enclosure: Matthew Clarkson to Timothy Pickering, 23 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I think it may be concluded that the state of the mortal sickness is become more favorable, this appears from the decrease of funerals in the City generally, and at the Hospital at Bush-Hill It is not possible to ascertain, with any degree of precission the degree in which it has abated. The general appearance is pleasing, the Physicians have fewer applications from new patients, the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Clarkson, 3 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that it was Doctor Foulke who gave to Mr. Moissonier the names of the two persons who are represented in the Vice Consuls Memorial, as having excited the English Sailors to continue the Quarrel with the People of the Ambuscade, The Doctor has been so obliging as to call upon me, at my request, to inform me what he knew of the matter. The following is the substance of what he...