301To George Washington from Nicolas Pike, 30 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
With the most profound Respect I beg leave once more to approach you, though with apprehensions that it may be intruding on that time, which is of so great Importance to the Public. My Wish, Sir, is to solicit a Favor, provided it may be granted consistently with the Good of the Community; which I should not have presumed to do, had I not known that others, in similar Cases, had been advised...
302To George Washington from Simeon Thayer, 2 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I hope your Excellency will pardon my Addressing you again on the Subject of my Application to be placed in the Invalid Establishment. I have forwarded a Petition to Congress on the Subject, and as your Excellency is already Possessed of a Narrative of the Facts on which my Claim is founded; I have only to add that your Excellencys Justice and benevolence will on this occasion prompt you to...
303To George Washington from John Canon, 17 March 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Canon, 17 Mar. 1791. In a letter to John Canon, dated 9 April 1791, Tobias Lear refers to a letter Canon “wrote to the President of the United States on the 17. of last month.”
304To George Washington from George Clymer, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I sought the earliest occasions, after my late appointment, to make you my personal acknowledgements; but on Saturday and Monday I found you either engaged in business or from home, and I am to day too much indisposed my self to go abroad—unwilling, however, any longer to defer a necessary duty, I beg, Sir, you will be pleased to accept, from me, in this form those acknowledgments, which are...
305To George Washington from Robert Rutherford, 15 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your Condescending goodness of heart I trust will not rebuke this familiar address. I had indeed promised myself the honor of a short Conference during the recess of Congress, but a violent indisposition prevented me. An excursion of Ten months thro the South Western frontier, particularly over most parts of the Kentucky, has enabled me, to observe, the great fertility of the soil, with the...
306IV: Memorandum of James Iredell on Distances from Richmond, Va., to Edenton, N.C., February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Route from Richmond in Virginia to Edenton in North Carolina miles miles Richmond to Petersburg 25 viz. Richmond to Osborne’s 15 Osborne’s to Petersburg 10 25 Petersburg to Suffolk 81 viz. Petersburg to Geary’s 15 Geary’s to Cabin Point 11 Cabin Point to McIntosh’s 14
307To George Washington from Augustine Seaton, 19 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I see by an Act of Congress there is to be a light House erected at Cape Henry I would wish to be employed as the keeper & to Superintend the building of it, as I have lost very considerable by not being paid for servises rendered the Continenttall Army through the neglect of Colo. William Grayson. I had Claims against the Continent for about £1500 due from March 1777 to Feby 1778 for Waggons...
308To George Washington from the Seneca Chiefs, 7 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
No Seneca ever goes from the Fire of his Friends, untill he has said to him, I am going: We therefore tell you, we are now setting out for our own Country Father, We thank you from our hearts, that we now know that there is a Country that we may call our own, on which we may lie down in peace. We see that there will be peace between your Children and our Children, and our hearts are very glad....
309To George Washington from Hyacinth de Chappedelaine, 9 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The marks of friendship and kindness which you have had the goodness to bestow upon me during my tour through the United States have made too deep an impression upon me not to be remembered with the most lively sensibility. The interest which you have always taken in the welfare of the French gives a title to them and to me to make you acquainted with my arrival at Savannah with the heads of...
310To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 10 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of informing you, that the plan for opening a contract with the woollen manufacturer, appears, as far as I am able to judge, to be proper in itself, and likely to be approved by the legislature of Virginia. But I must confess, that I have paid more attention to the propriety of the President, undertaking a correspondence with the British Artist. I am told and believe,...
311To George Washington from Joseph Chapline and William Good, 4–5 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have the platts as promised by our last favd by Genl Mathews, as far Perfected as the shortness of the time would Permit, no alteration in the Subscription has come to hand. Some small alteration respecting donation of the lands has taken Place. Capt. Shepherd ⟨has⟩ withdrawn his Subscription of forty acres of land and has given in the whole Tract called Pell Mell containing one...
312To George Washington from Sarah Leitch, 25 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Sarah Leitch, and James Frisby Leitch Infants and Children of Major Andrew Leitch by this their humble petition beg leave to Shew. That their said father being a Merchant and possessing but a small Capital was in a great degree dependent on his personal exertions for the support of himself and his family, but actuated by Zeal in the cause of this Country entered into the Army of these States,...
313To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration such a plan of raising the levies as appears to Major General St Clair, Brigadier General Butler and myself to be proper. And I also submit to your consideration, the draft of a letter to be written to me previously to your departure, authorizing me upon the points therein mentioned. I shall have the honor to wait upon you, in the morning, in...
314To George Washington from Alexander J. Dallas, 26 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to request the honor of a place in your Library for a volume of “Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania.” The work, as far as it depends on my labour, is of little value; but considering it as a useful example in a literary walk, which is almost untrodden in this country, and as a respectable production, in the articles of paper, types, and printing, of...
315To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to join a few lines to Pages of our friend Mr de la fayette —I think I cannot, under better auspices, express to your Excellency my heart-felt Satisfaction on being appointed Minister plenipy of france near the United States. It was under your comand, I begun my public life and learned to value and defend the cause of liberty: and it will be my constant endeavour in the new Station...
316To George Washington from Walter Healey, 10 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Calcutta, Jany 10th 1791. Proposes to convey his title to the village of Allenagur near Calcutta to the United States for the establishment of an American factory. Solicits the post of U.S. consul to India. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Walter Healey was apparently a British merchant living in India. His letter to GW of 10 Jan. 1791 runs to nearly five thousand words, filled with...
317To George Washington from John I. Sonnet, 10 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Although the recital of the distresses of another, is painful to a heart so susceptible of sensibility as is that of Your Excellency; Yet both by your public and private Character, I am emboldened to lay my misfortunes at your Excellency’s feet; and although Your Excellency’s time is necessarily dedicated to the best and most important Uses in the State, Yet ’tis capable of stooping, to...
318To George Washington from John Macpherson, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
May it please your Exclency to let me know, your opinion of my plan for the Federal City. If your Excelency approves of it, I will as soon as possible get one done by a person with two Arms. I mean to draw a plan for the whole City. I now form ideas, what it will be a Hundred years hence; nor, do I think, I am too sanguine, in firmly beleaving that if built as I hope it will be, it’s...
319To George Washington from Mary House, December 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Mary House, c. December 1790. On 28 Dec. 1790 Tobias Lear wrote to Alexander Hamilton, transmitting a letter from Mary House, soliciting an appointment on one of the cutters for her son George House. Lear noted that “an application from George House to the President was among the letters upon this subject, which were laid before the Secretary of the Treasury” ( DLC:GW )....
320To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Since the affair of the 2d of January several Wyandot men & women have ben into Fort Harmer To Trade. they approched with Shyness, and in truth our people ware at a loss how to treat them. but on the whole it was thought best, and they ware recived & treated in the same frindly maner as here to fore: althoe Sculking parties were at the Same time discovered houvering round Some of our...
321To George Washington from John Rice, 2 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Perceiving by the public Papers, that Congress are about laying an Excise in the several States & being desirous of offering myself to your consideration as a Candidate for Office in that Department, I beg leave to submit to your Notice a few particulars in support of this measure. In the year 1774 I compleated my academic Studies in the Colledge at Cambridge, the then unsettled Affairs of...
322To George Washington from Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 1 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The reports in Europe some months ago respecting yr Excellencies health gave the admirers of yr virtues and the friends to American liberty much concern. We are happy to heer that health is again restored to you. Some ⟨time in⟩ the course of the last summer I did my self the honor of sending you my thoughts on the important subject of education. I now send you my observations on Mr Burkes...
323To George Washington from Charles Scott, 4 December 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Scott, 4 Dec. 1790. In a report to GW, dated 5 Jan. 1791 , Henry Knox wrote that “The Secretary of War, to whom the President of the United States was pleased to refer the address of the representatives of the Counties of Kentucky, and the other counties of Virginia bordering upon and contiguous to the Ohio, as transmitted by General Charles Scott⟨,⟩ in his...
324To George Washington from Arthur Young, 25 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
It would give me pain if I thought Your Excellency had the least idea of my neglecting your Wool: as no judgment could be formed of it correctly but by having it manufactured as far as spinning and combing &c. were concerned, I put it into the hands of an ingenious person at Bury who has but now returned it. The following is the account. It weighed 5 lb. 3 oz. value at present here 8d. per...
325To George Washington from Henry Knox, 18 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Having arranged all the Papers referred to in the proposed instructions to me, I have the honor to submit them under one cover. A Map of the south-western frontier is preparing, which will not be finished until tomorrow, and which would be proper to accompany the book. The instructions for Major General St Clair, are copying, in order to be submitted to your consideration; and it may be proper...
326Enclosure II: Draft Authorization to Henry Knox, 14 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Being about to make a journey to the Southern States, in which I shall be absent for some time, it has become necessary, for the public service, that I should give you authority in the cases herein after named. Firstly. I approve the general principles of your report of the 22nd February last for the operations of the proposed campaign north west of the Ohio, and I authorize you to instruct...
327To George Washington from Charles Pettit, 19 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
If I were to recount to your Excellency the various conflicts I have had with myself to avoid giving you the trouble of this address, I am confident the recital would plead strongly in extenuation, if not in excuse, for the liberty which a sense of duty at length prevails upon me to exercise. The desire of standing fair in the opinion of those we highly venerate and esteem, is irresistable;...
328To George Washington from Joshua Barney, 21 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Congress having this day determined that they will not make me an allowance for claims I have against the U.S. for monies expended in making my escape from prison in England, and expences in returning to America, nor will they grant Commutation to me as an Officer of the Navy, I beg leave to mention to your Excellency that the monies claimed as above amounting to the sum of 896 dollars which...
329To George Washington from William Deakins, 11 February 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 11 Feb. 1791. In a letter to Deakins and Stoddert, 17 Feb. 1791 , GW refers to “favors of the 9th and 11th instant.”
330To George Washington from Samuel Turbett, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I take the earliest Opportunity after arriving in Town, of laying before you the within recommendation, and have the Honor to be with the greatest respect Your Excellencies Obedient Humble servt ALS , DLC:GW . Samuel Turbett moved from Chester County, Pa., to Lancaster County, Pa., before the Revolution. He was an early supporter of the Patriot cause, subscribing to a fund for the relief of...