25501From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 2 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for your private letter of this date, & will arrest the talk intended for the...
25502From George Washington to James Anderson, 5 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 28 ulto has been received; but leaves the matter we have been treatg of,...
25503From George Washington to William Pearce, 5 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 31st of Augt from Chester Town, came duly to hand; but as you did not...
25504From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 6 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday, your letter of the 4th instant. If the promised paper has not been sent...
25505From George Washington to James McHenry, 7 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Private The principles of the Enclosed Instructions I approve; and since they are drawn, I shall...
25506From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 10 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed is approved, and if there is any Authentic ground to go upon, it ought to be...
25507From George Washington to William Pearce, 11 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 4th instt came to my hands yesterday, and the one you wrote me from Chester...
25508From George Washington to John Quincy Adams, 12 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 12 September 1796. In a letter marked private, GW asked Adams to look into the...
25509From George Washington to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 12 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
After furnishing you with the following copies of Letters, it is scarcely necessary to add any...
25510From George Washington to James Wood, 12 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
By a recurrence to the Acts of the last Session of Congress, you will find one for disposing of...
25511From George Washington to the Cabinet, 14 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
As I cannot, without peculiar inconvenience to my private concerns, remain in this City beyond...
25512From George Washington to Robert Brooke, 15 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Commonwealth of Virginia, having manifested their approbation of my design, to apply the...
25513From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 18 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
More than once, the Spanish Minister expressed, with pleasing solicitude, the intentions of his...
25514Farewell Address, 19 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
The period for a new election of a Citizen, to Administer the Executive government of the United...
25515From George Washington to the Fairfax County, Va., Court Justices, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having been named an Executor to the Will of the late Major George Augustine Washington, of...
25516From George Washington to Samuel Phillips, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter, from my Nephew to me, accompanying one from him to you (which have been to...
25517From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 17th 20th & 20th instant, have been received. Enclosed you have a Warrant on...
25518From George Washington to the Militia and Citizens of Frederick County, Va., 28 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
The approbation of my public conduct, which you have been so good as to express in behalf of the...
25519From George Washington to the Pennsylvania Freemasons, c.28 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Fellow-citizens and Brothers, of the Grand lodge of Pennsylvania I have received your address...
25520From George Washington to Samuel Ashe, 25 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
I have received your very friendly letter of the 30th of last month, covering the address of the...
25521Agreement with James Anderson, 5 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Articles of Agreement made and entered into this fifth-day of October in the Year of our Lord One...
25522From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
The bad weather (rather rain) on Monday, prevented my sending to the Post Office as usual, that...
25523From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 10 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 5th instant with its enclosure, came to hand by Friday’s Post. The extracts...
25524From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 14 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
We have not precisely fixed the day on which to commence our Journey for Philadelphia, but I...
25525From George Washington to Landon Carter, 17 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you have favoured me, dated the 28th Ulto, came duly to hand. A few months...
25526From George Washington to James McHenry, 17 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
By the last Mail I received three letters from you (with their several numerous enclosures) the...
25527From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 17 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11th instant was received by the last Post. Expecting to be at the Seat of...
25528From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 19 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
The letter from Mr King to you, is herewith returned. In your dispatches to him, he ought to be...
25529From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 21 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
According to my promise, I have given the several matters contained in your letter of the first...
25530From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 21 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th came duly to hand. Fortune seems to have declared for us, hitherto, in...
25531From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 25 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter came under cover to me from the Sister of General Pinckney. Not knowing...
25532From George Washington to William Pearce, 26 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Cyrus was obliged to come on to this place, in order to take the horses back, which Mr Frestal &...
25533From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 2 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
On monday Afternoon I arrived in this City, and among the first things which presented themselves...
25534From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 3 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
After my letter of yesterday was despatched to you, the draught of the answer to Mr Adet was...
25535Memorandum for James Anderson and William Pearce, 5 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
I shall communicate such directions as have occurred to me since I left Mount Vernon, and are...
25536From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 7 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your two letters, dated the 31st Ulto, with their several enclosures, were received on thursday...
25537From George Washington to Landon Carter, 8 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
The letter you have been so good as to favor me with—dated the 27th Ulto—found me in this City...
25538From George Washington to Van Vleck, Jacob, 9 November 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : to Jacob Van Vleck, 9 Nov. 1796 . Van Vleck wrote GW on 15 Nov.: “Your...
25539From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 11 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is the Act with my signature, requesting Thomas Beall of George, and John M. Gantt to...
25540Enclosure: Executive Order to Thomas Beall and John Mackall Gantt, 10 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Whereas in and by certain Deeds executed by Amos Smith and others, whereby the whole Land of the...
25541From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 12 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
In due time, and in good order, I received your letters dated the 4th, 5th & 10th instt; and...
25542From George Washington to James Ross, 12 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
A few months will put a period to my political existence—and a few days afterwards to my...
25543From George Washington to John William Bronaugh, 13 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th Ulto did not get to my hands until after my arrival in this City. I...
25544From George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to recommend the enclosed letter to your care. And to ask if it be practicable to...
25545From George Washington to Charles Lee, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
This letter is for your eye only—It is written for the purpose of expressing my regret for your...
25546From George Washington to William Pearce, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th was received (with the Reports) on Saturday; but I do not clearly...
25547From George Washington to Alexander Smith, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th has been duly received. When I authorised Mr Pearce to sell my flour, I...
25548From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 14 Nov. 1796. GW advises his nephew of a letter he received several years earlier...
25549From George Washington to George Washington Parke Custis, 15 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday’s mail brought me your letter of the 12th instant, and under cover of this letter you...
25550From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 16 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
I hardly know what apology to make for the positive manner, in which I declared the Certificate...