1To George Washington from Elizabeth Bradford, 10 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Being persuaded, that your extended Rank will prevent you from attending to the distresses even of an individual, I would willingly flatter myself that my request may obtain a favourable reception, and answer, which may relieve a heart in almost a state of ruin—Sir I am the affectionate Wife of Mr Bradford, he is absent from me and from several tender little ones, the pledges of our cemented...
2To George Washington from Elizabeth Bradford, 10 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I need not preface a letter to you with painting the distress of myself & family occasioned by the absence of my husband in consequence of the late unhappy troubles in this Country, you yourself can better conceive than I can express them—I some time ago addressed the President on this unhappy subject: but whether it reached him or not I have not heard. I hoped that when time had suffered the...
3To George Washington from Elizabeth Bradford, 10 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
To the President of the United States, the Petition of Elizabeth Bradford wife of David Bradford late of Washington county in the State of Pennsylvania Humbly sheweth The unfortunate share which your petitioner’s husband had in the insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, and his subsequent departure out of the territory of the United States is perhaps known to your Excellency....
4To George Washington from Elizabeth Bradford, 22 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
You who are esteemed not only as the father, but revered as the Saviour of his Country, to whom all justly render the tribute of greatful acknowledgement, and perhaps to look up to as a protec. of our inimitable Goverment & regard as a beneficent releiver of the Wretched; from you at least I expect commiseration and an answer (even if not agreeable to my fondest wishes) to my repeated and...