1To George Washington from William Gordon, 24 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I send under cover to Mr Hazard, that so it should not be known at the Coffee house, that I correspond with your Excellency; & pray you not only to have any direction to me written in some other hand than your own, but the letter sealed with the seal of another. When you write again, introduce the Key in some sentence when it may appear natural, with a stroke underneath it. The reason of the...
2To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 24 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I was my dear general a few days since in Boston where I had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 23d Ulto. The information which your Excellency has received, respecting the machinations of the antifederal characters, appears from what circulates in this part of the country, but too well founded. I have no doubt, but every exertion will be made to introduce into the new government, in...
3To George Washington from Samuel Milford, 24 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have, A letter from Major John Poison, as also, one from said Gentleman to me respecting, an enquiry of some Lands in this Country, you will see Sir, by perusing his Letters, the wish, he has, to have early Information in England, and in consequence of his confidence, in me to Act for him, in this Part of the World I have taken the Liberty to write to you Sir Imediatly upon my...
4To George Washington from Francis Willis, Jr., 24 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty formerly to address you on some business that still remains unsettled, therefore must again be troublesome & request yr determination on the matter. at the decease of Mrs Washington Colo. Saml Washington wife she left some negros to her son that were given her after his decease, the child also died, & I who was her Executor from my own ill Judgment & being also ill advised...
5To George Washington from James Madison, 26 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I subjoin two resolutions lately taken by Congress in relation the Mississippi which I hope may have a critical and salutary effect on the temper of our western Brethren. In Congress Sepr 16 On report of the Committee &c. to whom was referred the Report of the Secy for For. Affairs on a motion of the Delegates of North Carolina, stating the uneasiness produced by a report “that Congress are...
6From George Washington to Nicholas DuBey, 27 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you were pleased to write to me from Philadelphia the 11th of this instt came duly to hand. I wish it was in my power to answer your queries satisfactorily but the little connection I have of late had with the affairs of the western Country does not enable me to give in detail an account of the settlements in the vicinity of your Lands (between the Great & little Kanhawa)—or...
7From George Washington to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 27 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you was pleased to favor me dated the 29th of Augt came duly to hand, and afforded me the pleasure of hearing that you had made a purchase agreeable to your wishes in the vicinity of Esopus—I sincerely hope that it may prove an agreeable retreat, and a happy Asylum from your late troubles in Holland. The Mangal Root which you saw growing in my Garden is not, I believe, of...
8From George Washington to John Polson, 28 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25th of July by Captn Milford, came duly to hand; but I do not recollect to have received one dated Septr 2d 1783, spoken of therein. At that period I was with the Army in the State of New York and did not return to Virginia until the beginning of the succeeding year. All foreign letters to me, therefore, must either have passed the British Lines or taken their chance in...
9From George Washington to Samuel Milford, 29 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you wrote to me from Richmond on the 24th Instt came duly to hand. Was it in my power to give you information with respect to the circumstances attending Major Polson’s Land—or satisfactory answers to the quæries he has propounded on this subject, I would do it with pleasure. But the truth is—I know not a little more of the matter than you are already made acquainted with by...
10To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 30 September 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure of inclosing to your Excellency a political publication which lately made its appearance in this Commonwealth. It was ushered into light with all that cover of secrecy which often attends that of an illegitimate child. The father however has shared the fate which is common in such cases his likness being so strongly impressed upon his offspring that all our shrewd observers...
11To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, September 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s friendly and obliging letter of the 28th Ulto came safely to hand. I thank you for your assurance of seconding my application to General Morgan. The truth of that affair is, that he purchased the watch for a trifle of a British soldier, who plundered Major Cochran at the moment of his fall at York Town. I should be deeply pained my Dear Sir if your scruples in regard to a...
12From George Washington to Bouillé, 1 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter introductory of Mr Chastel de la Vallee, which you did me the honor to write to me on the 6th of May, has been forwarded by him since his arrival in America; with information that his affairs would detain him some little time in Philadelphia—I have written to him in return, that I shall be very happy to receive him, with marks of regard, at Mount Vernon; whensoever he can make his...
13From George Washington to La Vallée, 1 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter dated in Philadelphia, accompanied by one from the Marqs de la Fayette and another from the Marqs de Bouille. Whensoever your affairs will induce you to make the visit you propose to Virginia, I shall be happy to be favored with your company at Mount Vernon and to bestow the attentions due to your merits and their recommendations. I take the liberty of...
14From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 2 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 17th Ulto came duly to hand, and the one enclosed therein from Mr Dubey has received an answer. In my last letter to you I requested that you would not put yourself to any trouble in procuring Winter barley for me as I expected to get a supply from the brewer in Alexandria. You will oblige me by forwarding the enclosed letter to Pittsburg —and also by informing me, in your...
15To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 2 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have to answer your favour of 16th Ulto. I had not Purchased the Winter Barley altho’ I had secured it in Case you had not provided it elsewhere—I have spared no Pains I have not been yet able to sell the Herrings & shad except a few Barrels by Retail but have the promise from two french Houses to take some for Hispaniola on the Course of this month & hope to get them off I expect to do this...
16From George Washington to William Bird, 2 October 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Bird, 2 Oct. 1788. As president and director of the Potowmack Company, GW signs a notice that the company is seeking a judgment against Bird for the indebtedness on Bird’s subscription to the company. LS , sold in 1973, American Book Prices Current, 79 (1973), 114.
17To George Washington from Samuel Hanson, 2 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I have examined into the State of the Boys Cloathes, and find they want as follows viz. George—1 pr common Shoes, 1 pr do for Dancing—2 pr common winter Stocks. & 1 pr of every-day Breeches. Lawrence—1 pr common Shoes—2 pr coarse Stocks.—1 pr ditto Breeches—1 everyday Coat. They desire me to request you will let them have Leather Breeches, which are to be had in this...
18From George Washington to Thomas Lewis, 2 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you in december last requesting that you would be so good as to assist me in pro-curing tenants for, and settling of my lands on the Great Kanhawa and Ohio, and at the same time vested you with full power for that purpose upon the terms which I mentioned, and which I had understood was the custom of that Country. This letter was, at Richmond, committed to the Care of a Mr...
19From George Washington to Embree & Shotwell, 3 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I hope and expect you have received payment for the Clover and Timothy seeds which you forwarded to me last winter—It was ordered long ago. Pray on what terms could you supply me with 3000 lbs. of fresh and good red clover Seed of the present years growth to be Shipped from New York before the Rivers are closed with Ice—or at any rate to be here immediately after they open. Your answer soon...
20From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 3 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
In acknowledging the receipt of your canded and kind letter by the last Post; little more is incumbent upon me, than to thank you sincerely for the frankness with which you communicated your sentiments, and to assure you that the same manly tone of intercourse will always be more than barely wellcome, Indeed it will be highly acceptable to me. I am particularly glad, in the present instance;...
21From George Washington to Thomas Snowden, 3 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
The cost of the Plough which you were so obliging as to have made and sent to me has never yet been presented—I am ready to pay it to you or [to] your order on demand. Will you permit me again to request the favor of you to procure me another exactly like the former and as perfectly made—both Iron and wood—as it can be by your best workmen? I like the other so well that I mean to get into the...
22To George Washington from Philippe-André-Joseph de Létombe, 5 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send you two Volumes which M. le Comte de Buar, the Author of them, has forwarded to me, beging that I would offer them, in his Name, to your Excellency. Hydraulicks is not a new science; able men have illustrated it some time since, and, at this moment, one of the greatest men of the age is still increasing his glory by perfecting the Navigation of James & Potomack Rivers;...
23To George Washington from Moustier, 5 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
The objects which were contained in the letter which your Excellency did me the honor to write to me on the 17th of Augt last, appear to me to be so important in their consequences that I am very desirous of obtaining your opinion more particularly, and this has induced me to hasten my intentions of offering my respects to you at Mount Vernon. In my leisure time, induced by the season & other...
24To George Washington from Rochambeau, 5 October 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Rochambeau, 5 Oct. 1788. On 13 Oct. 1789 GW wrote to Rochambeau : “I have been honored with the receipt of your letter ... of the 5th October 1788.”
25From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 6 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
It was intended, tho’ omitted in my last, to have requested you to ask the Brewers in your City what they will give for spring Barley delivered at my Landing—or in Philadelphia—and in the latter case for you to have known what the freight would be. My Barley is raised from the Seed you obtained for me from Mr Haynes; and is, as I mentioned to you in a former letter, mixed in some degree with...
26To George Washington from William Irvine, 6 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose a sketch of the waters of the Alleghany, which approach near to Lake Erie it is taken from an actual survey made by the persons who ran the line between the states of New York & Pennsylvania—These gentleman say that the main branch of the Alleghany falls in Pennsylvania and that there is only seven or eight miles land carriage between it and the heads of a...
27To George Washington from Eliza Harriot O’Connor, 7 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
However flattering the encouragement I may yet receive in this Town and the honor I should feel to exert my efforts in this humble line under your Excellency’s patronage and Notice, yet I am obliged to join my Husband at Edenton North Carolina where he intends to publish his History of this Country from an Office over which he is appointed to preside, as well as to superintend a young Seminary...
28To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 10 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I lately received your Letter of the 31st of August, scarce any Thing could have surprised me more than the Occasion of it for instead of being displeased I thought myself much obliged by the Letter you wrote me in the Time of our Convention —To strengthen the Friends of the new Constitution and expedite it’s Adoption I shewed that and other Letters containing much the same Information and...
29To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 10 October 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edward Newenham, 10 Oct. 1788. On 2 Mar. 1789 GW wrote to Newenham : “I am taking up my pen to present my acknowledgment for your letter of the 10th of Octobr last.”
30From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 10 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 23d Ulto was handed to me by Capt. Justice who deld at my landing 35,962 Shingles agreeable to his receipt. Your letter of the 8th of August mentions that, by contract, payment was to be made for the shingles three months after the delivery of the first parcel, and in consequence thereof I did not make provision for the payment sooner, but as you have been disappointed in...