31To George Washington from Thomas Ridout, 1 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
By return of my Brig to Alexandria I have taken the liberty of sending you a few Cases of wine &c. as ⅌ the invoice inclosed, to the address of Colo. Fitzgerald. It will give me great pleasure if I hear of their being agreable to you. Some days ago I had the honor to recive a letter from the Marquis de la Fayette—dated at Paris the 8th of April in which he mentions to have sent a few packages...
32To George Washington from Henry Hollyday, 30 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
At the instance of my Neice Miss Harriot Rebecca Anderson, the youngest Daughter, and, now, only surviving Child of Mr William Anderson Merchant of London, deceas’d, I am induced to make this application to You, as one of the Executors of the late Colo. Thomas Colvill of Virginia, for payment to her of a Legacy devised her by that Gentleman. This Lady, who came into Maryland, from London, in...
33To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 27 April 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, 27 April. GW wrote Newton on 3 Sept. : “I have suffered your letter of the 27th April . . . to remain . . . unacknowledged.”
34To George Washington from Lyonel Bradstreet, 26 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
It is with Pleasure that I now forward your Excellency a Case which was delivered to my Care in London, & for which I paid 16/ Sterlg for Custom House Charges &C. it being foreign, I hope it will be delivered to you in Safety. I am with the utmost Respect Your Excellencys Mo: Obt Servt ALS , DLC:GW .
35To George Washington from John Baylor, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I am just returned from Richmond, where by appointment, I was to have met Mr Dandridge and to have fixed upon some Mode of settling the Debt due from my Father’s Estate to Mr Custis’s, as his Death prevents that settlement and the only Administrator —as I am informed. I should now bee happy to have an interview with you, I should have waited upon you, but by your Advertisment, I find you are...
36From George Washington to William Grayson, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I will not let your favor of the fifteenth, for which I thank you, go unacknowledged, tho’ it is not in my power to give it the consideration I wish, to comply with the request you have made; being upon the eve of a journey to Richmond to a meeting of the Dismal Swamp company, which by my own appointment is to take place on monday next; & into that part of the country I am hurried by an...
37To George Washington from Nathanael Greene, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Some little time ago Capt. Gunn formerly an officer in the horse sent me a challenge to fight him upon the footing of equality as Citizens. His reasons for it are he says I injured him in a tryal while I was in command in this Country. He sold a public horse and was called to account for it. To avoid breaking him I refered the matter to a board of Officers in preference to a Court Martial. I...
38To George Washington from John Murray & Co., 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your request have sent you twelve yard of the Calicoe you pick’d out when up here, being the Amot of the money sent by your Servant. The enclosed was left with us by a person from N. England. Very respectfully and Yr Excellency Most obedt Servts L , DLC:GW . John Murray’s store in Alexandria at this time was near the courthouse on Fairfax Street. On Thursday, 21 April, GW “Called...
39To George Washington from Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I recieved at Paris, the letter Your Excellency did me the honor of addressing to me, in behalf of Mr Ridout —I regret much, I was not at Bourdeaux, at the time he arrived there—But, if he passes any time there, I shall still have the pleasure of seeing him; and making him acquainted with my friends—I have written to my Father, to make amends for my absence from Boudeaux, by being as useful as...
40To George Washington from Samuel Powel, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ I am apprehensive that you may be fatigued with Letters of Recommendation, yet I cannot suffer the Bearer hereof, Dr Moyes, to leave this City on his intended Tour to the southern States, without requesting Permission to introduce him to your Notice. To General Greene I am indebted for an Introduction to this Gentleman, & hold myself his Debtor for remembering me on the Drs Subject, from...
41To George Washington from John Harvie, 22 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Upon my Researches into the Ordinances of Convention and Acts of Assembly to see if I could discover any General principle in either, Effective of your Title to the 2813 Acres of patented Land, that is the present Subject of your Ejectments, I can find no Law or Ordinance, in my Opinion Materially applicable, except the Act of Assembly that pass’d in the year 1779, Intitled an Act for...
42To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 22 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday your letter of the 5. And as the subject therein referred to belongs to the department of foreign affairs, I have transmitted it to Mr Jay. I have no doubt but the Minister who is to negotiate with the court of London will have occasion for the list; but as it would not be safe to trust a paper of such importance to the common conveyance by the post, and as it is proper...
43To George Washington from William Washington, 21 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Major George Washington arriv’d at this place in January & has favor’d me with his company ever since his arrival. It wou’d give me great pleasure to inform your Excellency that our Southern Climate had accomplished the Object of his peregrination; but I am apprehensive that his disorder is too inflexible to be remov’d by mere Change of Climate. His agreeable Manner has much interested me in...
44From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th Ulto —If it should ever be in my power to render you any Service, I shall be ready, & happy to do it. With the Gentlemen of my acquaintance in Philadelphia, I persuade myself you stand as well, as my introduction could place you. If there are any here, to whom the mention of your case would be of any avail, I should have pleasure in doing it. I thank you...
45From George Washington to George Clinton, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I promised you a letter by the last Post, but it was not in my power to fulfill it, business not my own, & with which I really ought not to be troubled, engrosses so large a portion of my time (having no assistance) that that which is essential to me, is entirely neglected. I now send you Hooe & Harrisons second Bill upon Mr Sylvanus Dickenson; altho’ I hope, & expect the first will have been...
46To George Washington from Barbier de la Serre, 20 April 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Barbier de la Serre, 20 April. On 12 May GW wrote Barbier de la Serre : “The letter which you did me the honor to write to me the 20th of last month.”
47To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have not had the honor of a line, or message from you since I forwarded, to Mount Vernon, the Parchments which Major Turner sent to me from Philadelphia, and I was uncertain of your intentions respecting the Diplomas ’till about ten days ago, a gentleman Mr Hamilton, ⟨(⟩of this town) desired me to look at two blanks to which your name was subscribed—they were Diplomas, and upon enquiry I...
48To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 19 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I paid Mr Claypoole your account for Advertisements for which the receipt is enclosed—he again assures me the papers have been Constantly sent & their miscarriage must be owing to the post Office. I wrote to a Gentleman at New York to pay Mr Boudinots Account at Elizabeth Town. I hope the last Grass seed by Capt. McClean has come safe to hand. I could not procure any of the other...
49To George Washington from Francis Hopkinson, 19 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Encouraged by the friendly Notice with which you have upon every Occasion been pleased to honour me, I take the Liberty of recommending to your kind Attention my Friend Mr Pine, an Artist of acknowledged Eminence, & who has given the World many pleasing & forcible Specimens of Genius. Zeal for the American Cause has brought him over from England, to secure, whilst it is yet possible, faithful...
50To George Washington from Robert Morris, 17 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received in due time the Letter you were so obliging as to write me of the 1st February and am quite ashamed that I should have suffered so long a period to elapse, without acknowledging its Receipt, but this was owing to my having delivered it to some of my Friends for their Perusal who detained it longer than I expected, and have only now, returned it to me. The Extent of inland Navigation...
51To George Washington from Lafayette, 16 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
To My Great disappointement I Had no letter from You By this packet—it is However the only Regular Way to Get intelligences, and Mercantile Opportunities are not By far So much to Be depended on—I warmly Beg, my dear General, you will not let me Be Uneasy for want of a line from You—the distance is already so great in itself, and So much Greater for the feelings of the tenderest friendship,...
52To George Washington from Henry Lee, 16 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have Sent you by your Servant 2½ bushels of the Naked Italian Barley wch will be Enough for your ground as it branches much I never Sewed it very thick; it requires Strong Land, & never grows tall, has a thick Stem & large luxuriant heads, wch hangs near the Earth, and if Cut there is a great waste of the grain in harvesting; therefore I have it pulled up by the hand, and as it is a rear...
53To George Washington from William Grayson, 15 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing to you by Post the 10th of March last in answer to your favor of the 22nd of January, & I hope my letter has before this got safe to hand. On my being appointed one of the Commee for draughting the Ordnance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western territory, the President was kind enough to furnish me with an extract of your letter to him...
54To George Washington from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 15 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Should you meet with delay, or disappointments from Col. Hooe in payment of my Order; the Interest shall be allowed on any sum that he may be tardy in paying, but to prevent this being the case, I wish that Mr Lund Washington would put the Colo. in mind of the promise he made me, that you should not be disappointed. Mr Richmond has calculated the depreciation on your Certs. agreeably to the...
55To George Washington from Adrienne, Marquise de Lafayette, 15 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
every mark of your kindness, is very precious to me, and amidst all my feelings at the marquis’s return, I received an additional joy, by the obliging Letter, he brought me from you. I hope that during this Late stay at mount vernon, where he was so happy, he has found an opportunity, in some of your conversations, about domestic Life, to mention his wife and his children, and speak to you of...
56To George Washington from William M. Roberts, 14 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
your Exsellency has Got in A Pasion with Me Which I am Vary Sorry for, & Taking Me at anon plush in Many Respects I always thought From the Bisoness I Call my Salf Master of I aught To have the wages you have Genaresty paid Me, but As your Stream is Light & I at this Time Know Not Whare to Go I woud Take 70 pound a year if youd Agree to Imploy Me for 10 years if its pleas God To Continew you &...
57To George Washington from John Witherspoon, 14 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Favour of the 8th of March reached me towards the End of that Month At that Time I was entirely ignorant where Mr Bowie was but in general supposed him to be at a great Distance in the Back Countries. However when deliberating how to get a Letter conveyed to him I receivd a few Days ago a Letter from himself dated at Chambers Town Feby 28 and though there is nothing in the Letter from...
58To George Washington from John Harvie, 13 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have to Regret that an Excursion into the Country for Eight or ten days past prevented my receiveing your Letter of March the 19th in time to Answer it by this Weeks post—I shall Sir with the highest Satisfaction look into the several Acts of Convention and Assembly that make any thing to the point and do myself the Honour of Communicating to you the Necessary References to them by the next...
59To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 12 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
By a Schooner Capt. McLean which saild last week for Alexandria I sent a barrel which I received from Mr Boudinot with Orchard Grass seed—it went to the Care of Colo. Hooe to whom I forwarded the Captains receipt—this was the first Conveyance I could hear of since it came to hand. I shall pay Mr Boudinots Account & send you the same with his receipt. Inclosed is your account Current previous...
60From George Washington to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, 12 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Post preceeding the last, brought me your favor of the 31st Ulto—The next day I waited upon Colo. Hooe with your order, but he was confined to his bed & unable to do business. Two days after he sent me a Bill on New York for 2500 Dollars, payable at fifteen days sight; & gave me assurances that he wd pay the Balle shortly. In consequence, you have my receipt for £1069.1.7 specie at the...