31To George Washington from Count d’Estaing, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Le Pere de la Patrie l’est aussi de tous ceux qui ont fait des éfforts pour lui être utile. Votre Excellence la prouvé aux Marins françois en obtenant de la société de Cincinnatus qu’ils Seroient traittés comme les Officiers de L’armée de terre. il m’a fallu resister au désir de ceux des deux Services qui ont été particuliérement mes Camarades. J’ai Voullu n’adresser qu’une listte pour chaque...
32From George Washington to Ebenezer Hazard, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As I have (without doing it officially) requested from the heads of the several Executive Departments such information as might be requisite to bring me acquainted with the business and duties of the Departments; I have thought fit to ask, in the same informal manner, for specific information, in writing, relative to the past and present state of the Post Office. I must, therefore, request you...
33From George Washington to John Jay, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Although, in the present unsettled state of the Executive Departments under the Government of the Union, I do not conceive it expedient to call upon you for information officially; yet I have supposed that some informal communications from the Office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs might neither be improper or unprofitable. For finding myself, at this moment, less occupied with the duties of...
34From George Washington to William Lyles, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is the draft which I received of you in Virginia on Mr William Hunter junior for three hundred pounds Virginia money. Two hundred pounds have been paid by Mr Hunter as you will see noted on the back of the draft, and, as it was not convenient for him to pay the whole here, I have remitted it to you, having received it upon the condition that I should be put to no trouble in the...
35To George Washington from Louis XVI, 7 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is with great grief that We inform you of the death of the Dauphin our very dear son. This Prince fell a victim to a long & painful disorder; We are the more affected with his loss as we had reason to form the greatest hopes from the qualifications of his heart & mind which he had already manifested. We make no doubt but that you will participate in our sincere affliction. I expect this...
36From George Washington to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, 30 May-5 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I receive with great sensibility the testimonial, given by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, of the live and unfeigned pleasure experienced by them on my appointment to the first office in the nation. Although it will be my endeavor to avoid being elated by the too favorable opinion which your kindness for me may have induced you to express of the...
37To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 5 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letters contain the latest intelligence received from our southwestern frontier. I did myself the honour to inform you on the first of the present month, that the state of Virginia retained in service the troops employed in the defence of the counties of Washington, Montgomery and Russel. This force consists of fifty rangers and four Scouts which were directed to be raised in the...
38To George Washington from Samuel Beebee, 4 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The petition of Samuel Beebee of the City of New York humbly sheweth That your Petitioner being early attached to the Independance of America and haveing suffered considerable losses by this attachment, from fire and being twice plundered by the Enemy; and by losses at Sea in the time of the War, risking his property for the good of his Country; and since the peace by accidental misfortunes is...
39To George Washington from Leonard Bleecker, 4 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
When I address myself to your Excely in the Character of a Citizen, I feel myself (in my present Situation) at so great a remove from your personal attention, that I am considerably embarassed when I attempt it. However Sir, when I take a retrospect of your affectionate Care, and repeated declarations of regard for the Individuals who have served with fidelity under your Auspices through the...
40To George Washington from Mathew Carey, 4 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
In the bitterness and anguish of my soul, I sit down to exculpate myself from the charge contained in your excellency’s letter of the 31st ult. Though I have read it several times over, I cannot, owing to some ambiguity in the expression, tell whether you were offended with my returning your letter—with the contents of mine—or whether the latter was not broken open, and handed to your...
41To George Washington from John Guarenau, 4 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The humble petition of John Guarenau of the Yonkers, in the County of Westchester and State of New York, Humbly sheweth. That your petition[er] being reduced to an indigent situation by the late War, having lost all, save some Cloathing and two Beds, my Buildings and property that I left behind were destroyed by the Enemy. That your Petition[e]r, his House being Head Quarters for his honor...
42To George Washington from Benjamin Franklin, 3 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have made a rule to myself that your Excellency should not be troubled with any solicitations from me for favors to any even of my nearest connections, but here is a matter of justice in which the honor of our country is concerned, and therefore I cannot refuse giving this line for your information. Mr. Le Ray de Chaumont, father of the young gentleman who will have the honor of waiting on...
43To George Washington from Andrew G. Fraunces, 3 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject of much importance to myself and a young family that daily look up to me for support—this last together with the experience of your extreme goodness with respect to my father will I hope plead an excuse. It is near four years since my appointment as Clerk to the Honorable Board of Treasury which Office I still fill and I hope with satisfaction...
44To George Washington from Joseph Hardy, 3 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Bill for Organising the Department of the Treasury having amongst other provisions declared that an Auditor should be appointed to Examine and Adjust Accounts, I beg leave with great humility, to offer myself a Candidate for that Office. The duties of the Station I am at present employed in, as Accomptant of the Treasury, are similar to those of the Office I now sollicit; although in some...
45To George Washington from Turpin Holroyd, 3 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of Turpin Holroyd of the City of New York mariner. Humbly sheweth— That your Memorialist understanding a new arrangement will shortly take place for the Customs of the United States is induced to this his humble request of solliciting a Birth as Tide waiter or any other Capacity your Excellency may deem Expedient. Your Memorialist at the first Commencement of the late Revolution...
46To George Washington from Robert Birchele, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Previous to This moment I could not obtain an oppert⟨y⟩ of addressing you, (an honor I ever had the most ardent wis⟨h⟩ for) and which I sho’d now conceive an unpardonable presumptn was it concomitent with the minutest particle of adulation, but conscious of the sincerity of my attachment to you, no⟨w⟩ in the most precarious times, I am embolden’d to assur⟨e mutilated⟩ I shall not expatiate...
47To George Washington from Benjamin Goodhue, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Goodhue from Massachusetts, would wish respectfully to recommend to the President of the United States, as a proper person for the collection of the Revenue at the port of Glocester in that State, if any such should be appointed, Epes Sargent esqre with whom he has had a long and intimate acquaintance and from that acquaintance and living in his neighbourhood, can venture in the fullest...
48From George Washington to Moustier, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The sentiments expressed in your letter of yesterday are perfectly consonant to my ideas of propriety. I never doubted that you was animated by motives of the purest regard for my Country & myself. On the other part, you may rest assured, I shall always be happy in occasions of demonstrating the sincerity of friendship for your Sovereign & Nation: being with sentiments of real consideration...
49To George Washington from George Morgan White Eyes, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am reduced at last to the disagreeable Necessity of applying for relief to your Excellency, my Situation at present being painful to the greatest Degree, better had Congress a Body for whom I have the highest Veneration left me to wander in the Wilds of my native Country than I to experience the heart breaking Sensations I now feel—Without Friends, without one I dare unbosom myself to, am I...
50To George Washington from William Worthington, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I Live in Saybrook Near the Mouth of Conneticut river. Should that place be Made a Naval Port I Wish An Appointment, Would refer You to the Delegates of Conneticut, And am Most Respectfully ALS , DLC:GW . William Worthington served during the Revolution as a lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut militia and was active in local Connecticut politics during the 1780s. Something of an inventor,...
51To George Washington from Alexander Furnival, 1 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Representation of Alexander Furnival, Most respectfully Sheweth, That having served the State of Maryland as an Officer in their Artillery almost during the War, and on every occasion Testified his attachment to his Country & the glorious cause of liberty from the earliest period of the late contest, he is induced with every sentiment of respect and veneration to represent to your...
52To George Washington from John Courts Jones, 1 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
At a very early period of Life I obtained a Commission in the Army, and continued ’till the Conclusion of the War, in which time I was promoted to the rank of Major—On the return of Peace, finding my Finances a good deal exhausted, I was induced to solicit an employment in the civil Department, and rejoiced to find my application attended to—soon after, the Governor and Council in Consequence...
53To George Washington from Moustier, 1 June 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Moustier, 1 June 1789. On 2 June GW wrote to Moustier : “The sentiments expressed in your letter of yesterday . . . .” See GW to Moustier, 2 June 1789, n.1 .
54To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 1 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honour to receive your favour of the 16th of May. In consequence of the treaties lately entered into with the different tribes of Indians on the western frontier and of the measures which have been taken by the general Government for the protection of the inhabitants of those districts; the Executive have withdrawn the force employed in that service by this State, except such as...
55To George Washington from Benjamin Walker, 1 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I flatter myself it will not be deemed improper to mention to your Excellency my having been employed these three years past as one of the Commissioners for adjusting the public Accounts, that the term of my appointment expires at the Eighth of this Month, and that the business is brought into that State as to render a renewal of the office unnecessary. It was to your Excellencys very...
56From George Washington to the German Lutherans of Philadelphia, April–May 1789 (Washington Papers)
While I request you to accept my thanks for your kind address, I must profess myself highly gratified by the sentiments of esteem and consideration contained in it. The approbation my past conduct has received from so worthy a body of citizens as that whose joy for my appointmt you announce, is a proof of the indulgence with which my future transactions will be judged by them. I could not...
57To George Washington from Paul Richard Randall, May 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is with extreme diffidence I obtrude myself upon your notice in expressing an inclination to serve my country in some publick Employment. I have no meritorious claims to urge in support of my pretensions having had very little opportunity of manifesting a patriotick zeal. After receiving an education suitable to the bar, and being admitted to practise in this state, I made a small tour in...
58From George Washington to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I request that you will accept my best acknowledgments for your congratulation on my appointment to the first office in the nation. The kind manner in which you mention my past conduct equally claims the expression of my gratitude. After we had, by the smiles of Heaven on our exertions, obtained the object for which we contended, I retired at the conclusion of the war, with an idea that my...
59From George Washington to John Campbell, 31 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your very polite letter of the 18th —and the obliging manner in which you have consented to dispose of your favorite horse to me deserves my warmest acknowledgments and best thanks. I am perfectly satisfied with the price (of thirty five guineas) and shall forward the money to you by Mr William Hunter junior of Alexandria, who says he shall set off for that place tomorrow. The...
60To George Washington from James Gilliland, 31 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Petition of James Gilliland one of the Sworn Gaugers of the City of New York Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner had the Honor of bearing a Commission under your Command during the course of the late war, at the Conclusion of which he had the honor to be appointed in this City a Custom-House and City Gauger, the duties of which Office he has executed with propriety diligence & Integrity....