281Tobias Lear to John Churchman, 10 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter with its enclosure last evening, and agreeably to your request submitted them to the inspection of the President of the United States. There has ⟨been⟩ no other letter for you passed through the Presidents hands, except the one which you mention to have received. The manuscripts, pamphlets & Charts which accompany this, were received by the President some weeks ago, by a...
282Tobias Lear to Richard Varick, 19 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with your request signified in your polite letter, I have the honor to inform you that the President of the United States will have the pleasure to see you tomorrow at 10 O’clock, if that hour should be convenient & agreeable to you. with great Respect I have the honor to be Sir, Your most Obedt Servt ALS , NHi : Richard Varick Papers. Richard Varick (1753–1831) moved from...
283To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 19 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have just returned from my trip up to the Shanandoah without being able to accomplish the object of securing for the public the property at the junction of that River with the potomac in the manner I wished. I am not, however, without hopes that it may yet be done. I found, on examination into the title, that the ferry tract, which contains about one hundred & twenty acres, by patent, was...
284To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 24 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your respected favors of the 9th & 12th current; the latter having reached my hands a few moments before I sat off on a trip to Fredericksburgh, from which place I have just returned, having had the pleasure to see Mrs F. Washington so far on her way to Eltham, without any unlucky accident, and with a fair prospect of reaching the end of her...
285Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 21 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you three letters from the supreme Executive of the State of Virginia upon the subject of Indian Affairs. These letters are addressed to the President of the United States, and have been duly acknowledged by him. As the President of the United States has directed me to transmit to you all letters & papers which have been received by him upon the subject of Indian...
286To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 3 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose such letters and papers as have come to hand since my last. The British Packet arrived here last evening; but brings no decided accounts as to the War between Great Britain and Spain. She left Falmouth on the 12th of July, at which time the English fleet was lying in Torbay. This contradicts a report in the Philadelphia and Alexandria papers of an engagement having...
287Tobias Lear to John Rutherfurd, 18 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to lay before the President the letter which you left with me yesterday for that purpose, and to communicate to him the ideas which you expressed respecting the deed for a certain tract of land formerly purchased by Edward Snickers—and have now the pleasure to convey to you the President’s observations on the subject. When Colo. George Mercer (not James, as mentioned in the...
288Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to the President’s commands T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the following letters & papers which have been put into the President’s hands by the Secretary. viz. Genet’s communications relative to Spain Lettr from Govr. of Pennsya. dated 24th June & Warden’s report. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket reads “Washington Presidt recd July 15.93.”...
289Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the letter from the Treasurer of Virginia, which has been submitted to him —and to request that the Secretary would inform the President where he can obtain a copy of the New Impressions of the Federal City? The President wishes to know if it would not be adviseable, in the Secretary’s Opinion, to have a...
290Tobias Lear to Andrew G. Fraunces, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
In the letter which I wrote to you by the President’s order on the 3d inst. you was informed that the President had directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report to him, in writing, on the subject of your letter to the President of the 31st of July. This Report has accordingly been made by the Secretary—and the President directs me to inform you, that he finds therein such cogent reasons...