52651To George Washington from George Martin, 15 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
With the purest Sentiments of Esteem and respect I took the earliest Opportunity of acknowledging the Honor of your Letter by the hands of My Nephew Mr Geo: Martin who was preparing to embark for Virginia from England, but I since find that unexpected Occurrences have detain’d him so long that it is more than probable this Letter will reach your hands before he can present his—give me leave...
52652To George Washington from Joseph Shallcross, 16 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
We the Burgesses and Common Council of the Borough of Wilmington, in behalf of themselves, & the Inhabitants thereof, being penetrated with Sentiments of the most perfect Respect, beg leave to approach, & to be permitted to congratulate Your Excellency, that your glorious Endeavours, to rescue our Country from a determined Plan of Oppression, has been not only attended with the most complete &...
52653From George Washington to Joseph Shallcross, 16 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I earnestly wish to convince you of the pleasure I take in reciprocating your congratulation on our glorious successes, and the attainment of an honorable Peace. Altho’ the prospect of our public affair has been sometimes gloomy indeed; yet the well-known firmness of my Countrymen, and the expected aid of Heaven, supported me in the trying hour and have finally reallised our most sanguine...
52654To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Town of Baltimore feels an unusual joy on your Excellency’s arrival; And, willing to testify, in an acceptable manner, the most grateful sense of your eminent services and superior abilities, We are intrusted to congratulate your Excellency on the Glorious and happy conclusion of an unequal, precarious and bloody War, through which you have successfully Commanded the Armies of the United...
52655From George Washington to Samuel Purviance, Jr., 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The acceptable manner in which you have wellcomed my arrival in the Town of Baltimore, and the happy terms in which you have communicated the congratulations of its Inhabitants, lay me under the greatest obligations. Be pleased, Gentlemen, to receive this last public acknowledgment for the repeated instances of your politeness; and to believe, it is my earnest wish that the Commerce, the...
52656To George Washington from Samuel Hodgdon, 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have Capt. King’s duplicate receipt for the boxes given him in charge for your Excellency, they have been carefully put on board his Vessell and I hope will come safely and speedily to hand—The other things are putting up with the greatest care and will probably be on their way to Morrow. With every sentiment of respect I have the honour to be Your Excellencies Most Obedient...
52657To George Washington from Samuel Hodgdon, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a Duplicate receipt of the owner and driver of the Waggon which has in all the Articles left with me to forward to your Excellency such precautions have been taken, as leaves me no room to doubt of their coming safe to hand—You will please to give the waggoner a receipt for the Articles delivered—the Vessel with the other things sails tomorrow—the keys of the Trunks are in...
52658To George Washington from Lachlan McIntosh, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was honored yesterday by your Excellency’s favor of the 24th October. and have directed the secretary of our State Association of the Cincinnati to Copy such extracts from the minutes of our proceedings as will give you all the information you require, which he will inclose herewith, as I am obliged to go out in the Country. The reason I have not done myself the honor of writing to your...
52659From George Washington to Thomas Mifflin, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I take the earliest opportunity to inform Congress of my arrival in this City, with the intention of asking leave to resign the Commission I have the honor of holding in their Service. It is essential for me to know their pleasure, and in what manner it will be most proper to offer my resignation, whether in writing or at an Audience; I shall therefore request to be honored with the necessary...
52660To George Washington from Le Chevalier d’ Osmont, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Permettez que je Supplie votre Grandeur D’honorer de vos Bontées un Gentilhomme françois qui Par L’appuit de Votre Credit Sent Combien Son affaire a besoin de Votre h’autorité reclammant votre justice pour vous prouver une affaire juste dans son Evidence à besoin de vos lumieres de la Supperiorté de votre Esprit et d’un Rend Distingué Comme le Votre pour le faire parvenir à la Supperiorité à...
52661To George Washington from William Paca, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Amidst the general Joy on the happy and honourable Termination of the War we beg Leave to welcome your Excellency’s return to this City with Hearts Full of Gratitude and Affection. As long Sir as Mankind shall retain a proper Sense of the Blessings of Peace Liberty and Safety, your Character in every Country and in every Age will be honor’d admir’d and rever’d: but to a Mind elevated as...
52662To George Washington from Philip John Schuyler, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose Your Excellency, two letters from General Haldimand, which he transmitted under cover to me, by an express who arrived here this day. I suppose this will find you by that fire side from which your public Avocations have so long witheld you and from which, philosopher as you are, you will probably hardly be inclined to retire unless on some urgent Occasion in which...
52663To George Washington from Jacob Van Braam, 20 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The latter end of 1775, when I was settled on a good farm in Wales with Mrs Van Braam and her Mother, I received a letter from the agents of the 60th Regt: the purport of which was to enquire if battalion should be added to the regiment whether I would choose to come in! Forseeing the nature of the service they were to be employ’d uppon, and prefering the life I had addopted for eight years...
52664From George Washington to Thomas Mifflin, 21 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
In my last dispatch to your Excellency, I had the honor to inform Congress that the American Troops had taken possession of the City of New York, and had delivered it to the Government of the State; and that the British Troops had retired to Staten and Long Islands. I had also the honor to inclose to you Sir Guy Carleton’s last letter, informing me of his intention to take his final departure...
52665To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 21 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to present, inclosed, an address, to your Excellency, from the Yankee Club of Stewarts town in the County of Tyrone, and Province of Ulster in Ireland. It came under cover by way of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Your Excellency’s Most obedient, and Most Humble Servant. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
52666To George Washington from J. Foy Chase, 22 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Annapolis congratulate your Excellency on the Restoration of Peace and the Establishment of the Freedom and Independence of the United States of America. The Citizens feel themselves particularly happy in this Opportunity afforded them of expressing their sincere Approbation of your most disenterested and unexampled Conduct through...
52667From George Washington to J. Foy Chase, 22 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Permit me, Gentlemen, to offer to you my sincere thanks for you r Congratulations on the happy events, of Peace and the Establishment of our Independence. If my Conduct throughout the War has merited the confidence of my fellow Citizens—and has been instrumental in obtaing for my Country the blessings of Peace and Freedom—I owe it to that Supreme being who guides the hearts of all—who has so...
52668To George Washington from Daniel Carroll, 22 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The General Assembly of Maryland embrace this Opportunity of expressing the grateful Sense which they and their Constituents entertain of your distinguished Services; services which under the smiles of divine providence have secured the peace, Liberty, and Independance, of these states! Your retirement to private life is a full evidence of that true patriotism which Induced you to draw your...
52669From George Washington to Daniel Carroll, 22 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I feel myself particularly happy in receiving the approbation of the Genl Assembly of Maryland, for those services which my Country had a right to demand, and which it was my duty to render in defence of it. Having happily attained the object for which we had drawn the Sword, I felicitated myself on my approaching return to private life, and I must acknowledge I anticipated an unusual degree...
52670From George Washington to United States Congress, 23 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulations to Congress & of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country. Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased with...
52671To George Washington from United States Congress, 23 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The United states in Congress assembled receive with emotions too affecting for utterance this solemn resignation of the authorities, under which you have led their troops with success through a perilous and a doubtful war. Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights you accepted the sacred charge before it had found alliances and whilst it was without funds or a government to...
52672From George Washington to William Paca, 23 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I shall ever cherish a pleasing remembrance, of the welcome reception I have experienced from your Excellency and the Council, on my return to this City, after the happy and honorable termination of the War. The flattering sentiments you entertain of my exertions in defence of our Country, and the favorable point of light in which you place my Character, too strongly demonstrate your...
52673From George Washington to Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron [von] Steuben, 23 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Altho’ I have taken frequent opportunities, both in public & private, of acknowledging your great zeal, attention & abilities in performing the duties of your Office; yet I wish to make use of this last moment of my public life, to signifie in the strongest terms my entire approbation of your conduct, and to express my sense of the obligations the public is under to you, for your faithful &...
52674To George Washington from Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 24 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Votre Excellence ne doit pas être surprise que ceux, qui ont eté assez heureux pour cooperer par leurs services au grand acte de la liberté de l’Amerique, vous temoignent le plus grand empressement d’entrer dans une association faite pour consacrer à jamais la memoire de ce grand evenement. J’avouë à Votre Excellence que je ne vois pas des françois admis dans l’illustre Societe de Cincinnatus,...
52675To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 24 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I arrived here ten days ago from london—I landed at plimouth traveled through england about three hundred miles—and stayd at london five days & i intended to stay some time longer but was prevented by different news I heard from here—your Excellency will not be surprised of that tour of mine—after the americain war it was Certainly Curious to see england & to observe the effect of their...
52676To George Washington from Charles-Hector Theodat, comte d’ Estaing, 25 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I must beg leave to gratify a desire, I cannot resist of paying your Exellency in a private letter the most unfeigned homage of my unalterable attachement for you. I shall take particular delight in carrying the marks of an association which you are President-General of. it belonged to a Chief of your merit, who gives to the World in his Person the example of every thing that is great, to...
52677To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 25 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
On the Receipt of Your Excellency’s letter, I took Measures to fulfill the intentions of the Society in which I Have the Honour to be a Member. As our institution was differently interpreted, I wrote a letter to Count de Vergennes of which the inclosed is a Copy, and the Account I gave was printed in a Court Gazette which I Have also the Honour to send—at a King’s Council, this day was a week,...
52678To George Washington from Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 25 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
A yant in-si-que le requeroit d’objet de ma mission fait toute la depeche possible pour me rende à paris, je me suis d’abor supressé de Remettre aux Comtes de Rochambeau, d’Estaing, de grasse au major general marquis de la fayette les depeches dont j’etois chargé pour Eux et ait payez les visites à ceux des officiersResident à paris, qui par leurs cervices et leurs grade dans L’arme francaise...
52679To George Washington from Robert Adam, 26 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Whilst all Denomination’s of People bless the happy occasion of your Excellency’s return to enjoy private and domestic felecity, Permit us Sir, (the Members of Lodge No. 39 lately establish’d in Alexandria) to assure Your Excellency that We as a Mystical Body rejoice in having a Brother so near us, Whose pre’eminent Benevolence has secured the Happiness of Millions, and that We shall esteem...
52680To George Washington from Marie-Adrienne-Françoise de Noailles, marquise de Lafayette, 26 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
I seize with eagerness, the first moment, in which you enjoy the charms, of a peaceful retirement, and the Satisfaction to find you r self restored, to those, to whom you are dear, after So many dangers, and So much glory; to offer you my hommage, and my felicitations, on the glorious peace, obtained by your Labours, and your success. I have, sir, many rights to partake your Sentimens, on this...
52681From George Washington to Robert Adam, 28 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
With a pleasing sensibility I received your favor of the 26th, and beg leave to offer you my sincere thanks for the favorable sentiments with which it abounds. I shall always feel pleasure when it may be in my power to render service to Lodge No. 39, and in every act of brotherly kindness to the Members of it; being with great truth Your affecte Brother and Obedt Servant ViAlL .
52682From George Washington to George Clinton, 28 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
After as prosperous a journey as could be expected at this season of the year, I arrived at my seat the day before Christmas, having previously divested myself of my official character—I am now a private Citizen on the banks of the Potomack, where I should be happy to see you if your public business would ever permit and where, in the meantime, I shall fondly cherish the remembrance of all...
52683To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 28 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
This Letter will be presented to your Excellency by Mr Godin, a Relation of Mr Van Berkel; who is on his Journey to South Carolina, with Mr Backer & Mr Barron : These Gentlemen have been introduced to me by Mr Robert Morris; a Copy of whose Letter I enclose. Many Foreigners of Distinction, who have been desirous of viewing your Excellency at The Head of an Army, and still more anxious to see...
52684To George Washington from François-Joseph-Paul, comte de Grasse-Tilly, 29 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
J’ay Reçu Par le major Lenfant la lettre Dont votre Excellence m’a honnoré comme Presidant De la Société formée Par les officiers Dans l’armée americaine Sous la denomination De Cincinnatus. Je suis flatté De l’honneur qu’Elle m’a fait De me nommer un des Ses membres & Je suis Charmé que Sa majesté ait Bien Voulu me Permettre d’En Porter la Medaille. Je vous prie d’Etre Persuadé que Ce Signe...
52685To George Washington from Richard Conway, 31 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Mayor and Commonalty of Alexandria, impressed with the liveliest Sentiments of affection and gratitude, do most sincerely congratulate your Excellency on your return from the conclusion of a glorious and successful war, to domestic happiness and tranquillity. We, experience a Singular Satisfaction in reflecting that your residence in our neighbourhood will have a happy influence as well on...
52686From George Washington to Richard Conway, 31 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
Nothing could have contributed more essentially to encrease the satisfaction I experience on my return from a successful War, to the tranquillity of domestic life, than your affectionate Congratulations. To find that neither time nor absence have interrupted or diminished the harmony of our happy neighbourhood, and that the circumstances are most favorable to the growth & prosperity of your...
52687To George Washington from Bartholomew von Heer, 1783 (Washington Papers)
That your Memorialist in the year 1775 Joined General Montgomery at Montreal, against the Enemies of America, having then been shortly arived at that place from Spain; And Acted, in the American Army as Lieutenant and Adjutant in a Canadian Regiment raised under Col. Livingston & Proceeded with the Regiment to Quebec. Where he received a Seperate Command to Cut off the Supplies of the Enemy,...