351To George Washington from Henry Beekman Livingston, 12 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
May it please your Excellency The Confidence with which I have presumed to address you I hope will not be displeasing as it arrises in some measure from the Gracious Reception You have been pleased to give me on every Reasonable application I have had the Honour to make you. My Confidence in America when strugling for Freedom, has reduced me to Poverty, and distress, and from this Circumstance...
352From George Washington to James Madison, 12 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As the Communications herewith enclosed will not take much time to read; As there are matters related which to me are new; and as the information respecting land transactions, and other things in the Western Country will require to be noticed & acted upon in some way or another, I send them to you together with a Gazette with a marked paragraph containing some suggestions that have not, I...
353To George Washington from Uzal Ogden, 12 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty to inclose the first Number of a periodical Publication. If amidst the numerous and important Concerns of State, your Excellency shall find Leisure to peruse it, and if it shall be honored with your Excellency’s Approbation, it will be esteemed a Favor (if the Request is not improper) if your Excellency shall condescend, in a few Lines, by the Post, to signify your...
354To George Washington from Thomas Duff, 13 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
With the greatest deference & submission I take the liberty to Address you though I am afraid in the midst of business of the greatest magnitude and importance. On your passage Sir, through the Delaware State, knowing that a number of Solicitations were made to you for Offices by sundry persons, I desisted my application at that time, but I hope your Excellency will excuse the liberty I take...
355To George Washington from Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 13 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is impossible for the oldest Diplomatic Servant of the United States to suppress the joy which he feels at the happy news of the eminent dignity which has been conferred on Your Excellency by the unanimous voice of the Sages appointed for that purpose by the freest People on Earth, without highly participating in it with this noble People, and with them paying to your Excellency the justest...
356To George Washington from the Ohio Company Committee, 13 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
A vacancy having taken place, in the Bench of the Judiciary of the Western Territory, by the Death of the Honorable Judge J. M. Varnum, formerly a Citizen of this State; We beg leave, as a Committee of the proprietors of the Ohio Company, in this State, & in their behalf, to Mention to your Excellency, Benjamin Bourne Esqr., Counsellor at Law, in this State, as a Gentleman properly qualified...
357To George Washington from Gabriel Peterson Van Horne, 13 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Permit me, with Sentiments of the Sincerest Respect, to Express the grateful Sence I have, Of the Honour confer’d on Me by Your Excellencys generous, and Obliging Letter —If my little Services, were in any Degree instrumental, in promoting the Ease, and Convenience of Lady Washington, I am Amply rewarded, by her Gracious Acceptance, And Acknowledgment of them. Let me, Assure Your Excellency, I...
358To George Washington from Daniel Baldwin, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The petition of Daniel Baldwin late a Captain in the line of the Continental Army of the State of New Jersey—most respectfully sheweth— That your petitioner in the action of Germantown had the misfortune of losing his Leg by a wound from a musket Ball, in the attack of Chew’s House, by which means, he has been depriv’d from making that provision for his family which is necessary for their...
359To George Washington from Mathew Carey, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The letter which your excellency condescended to favour me with, the 10th inst. has removed every doubt from my mind, respecting my unfortunate letter; yours and it were enclosed under a cover, which was sealed with my cypher. Whether the boy who takes care of the mail, and to whose care the letter was delivered, wilfully tore off the cover, or by carrying it in his pocket, let it be worn off,...
360To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The time it will require to complete a full statement of the department of War, induces me to submit to your view in a series of numbers such parts thereof as seem to claim an immediate attention. As most of the nations of indians within the limits of the United States are at present discontented some of them turbulent, I have concieved it proper to commence by a statement of the indian...
361Enclosure, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
(Number 1) By information from Brigadier General Harmar the commanding Officer of the troops on the frontiers, it appears that several murders have been lately committed on the inhabitants by small parties of Indians probably from the Wabash Country. Some of the said murders have been perpetrated on the south side of the Ohio, the inhabitants on the waters of that river are exceedingly alarmed...
362To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The uncertainty which I am in whether my letters get safe to your hands or not, has determined me to embrace the opportunity which offers by Mr Theophilus Cazeneau a distinguished Citizen of this City, to confirm to you, my General, the transmission which I have had the honor to make to you of my Fragments of political literature in which I have presumed to place some of your virtues. I pray...
363To George Washington from Richard Marshall Scott, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
It is with diffidence that I become one of the very many applicants which address your Excellency in your Official Character, but the assurances Communicated to me by my friends here that I shall be excused for this intrusion induces me to proceed. I take the liberty of enclosing a recommendation from the most respectable merchants and Inhabitants of this Town expressive of their approbation...
364From George Washington to the United States Senate, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jefferson the present Minister of the United States at the Court of France, having applied for permission to return home for a few months, and it appearing to me proper to comply with his request, it becomes necessary that some person be appointed to take charge of our affairs at that Court during his absence. For this purpose I nominate William Short Esquire, and request your advice on the...
365To George Washington from John Hoskins Stone, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
I cannot help feeling a degree of pain when I reflect on the trouble I am about to give you by addressing this letter to you, at a period when you must have so many of a similar nature; presuming however that you will excuse me, I beg leave to say that if in making your arrangements in appointing officers to collect the Revenue of the United States in Maryland there shou’d be no person offer...