1To George Washington from James Seagrove, 24 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having been lately informed that the nomination of Persons for appointments under Congress, rests with your Excellency is the reason of my thus intruding on your time which I am convinced must otherwise be fully employed. I think it highly probable that lapse of time since I had the honor of being known by you at New York, and afterwards during part of the Campain before Boston you must have...
2To George Washington from James Seagrove, 16 August 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 16 Aug. 1791. GW wrote to Seagrove on 14 Sept. of “Three letters of yours—two bearing the 16th and other the 25. of August.”
3To George Washington from James Seagrove, 25 August 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 25 Aug. 1791. GW wrote to James Seagrove on 14 Sept. , acknowledging receipt of Seagrove’s letter of “the 25. of August.”
4To George Washington from James Seagrove, 30 November 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 30 Nov. 1791. On 20 Feb. 1792 Henry Knox wrote Seagrove: “Your letter to the President of the United States, dated at Trader’s Hill, on the river St. Mary’s, near the Indian line, on the 30th of November 1791, . . . ha[s] been . . . received within the last week.” Henry Knox’s letter appears in ASP, Indian Affairs, Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American...
5To George Washington from James Seagrove, 12 April 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 12 April 1792. On 21 April, Seagrove wrote to GW from Rock Landing, Ga. : “My last letter to you was from Savannah under date of the 12th Inst.”
6To George Washington from James Seagrove, 21 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
My last letter to you was from Savannah under date of the 12th Inst. agreeably to what I then wrote I have returned to this place where I found my Interpreter just got back from General McGillivray with a letter in reply to mine of the 25th Ulto. For your information I now enclose you extracts from his two last letters to me, by them you will be informed of his intention of com-ing down to...
7To George Washington from James Seagrove, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The information, which I am about to give appearing to me of importance to the United States, I hope will plead my excuse for thus intruding on your moments of retirement. In my dispatch of the 14th Ulto to the Secretary of War I promised to procure what information I could respecting a Spanish Officer which General McGillivray mentions in his letter to me of the 18th of May, a Copy of which...
8To George Washington from James Seagrove, 27 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I herewith send you a copy of what I had the honor of communicating to you on the 5th instant which I sent by express to Savannah to be forwarded from thence by Mr Habersham the Collector since that date I am not so happy as to receive a line from any of the public departments and as the Cloud in this Southern Country seems to thicken with matter interesting to you and the Union I must again...
9To George Washington from James Seagrove, 12 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 12 Dec. 1792. Seagrove wrote GW on 17 Mar. 1793 : “When I had the honor of addressing you on the 12th of December from Savannah, I considred all matters between the United States, and the Creek people on a favourable footing.”
10To George Washington from James Seagrove, 17 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Duplicate Sir St Mary’s [Ga.] 17th March 1793 When I had the honor of addressing you on the 12th of December from Savannah, I considred all matters between the United States, and the Creek people on a favourable footing; and until the 11th Inst: had not the least reason to alter that opinion. You will be informed by my Letter of this date to the Secretary of War, the unfavourable change in...