Title: To George Washington from Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 30 October 1789
From: Graham, Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            Bracknal Berks [England] Octbr [30] 1789

          It is now about a year and a half since I had the honor of receiving a letter from you dated Novbr. 16. 87. I do not pretend to make you any apology for not troubling you with an acknowledgment sooner, tho I rather think it necessary to make one for troubling you in the important station you now fill, with my congratulations on the event, which placed you at the head of the American government. But it is not you Sir, that I consider as benefited by the unanimous election of the Americans; yr philosophic turn of mind would have lead you to the completion of human happiness in a private station; but the Americans in their judicious choice, have I flatter my self, secured to themselves the full and permanent enjoyment of that liberty for which they are indebted to yr persevering valor in the first instance. Yr wisdom and virtue will undoubtedly enable you to check the progress of every opinion inimical to those rights, which, you have so bravely and fortunately asserted; and for

which many of yr Country men have paid so dear: and you will be a bright example to future presidents of an integrity rarely to be met with in the first stations of life.
          All the friends of freedom on this side the Atlantic are now rejoicing for an event which in all probability has been accelerated by the American revolution. You not only possess yr selves the first of human blessings but you have been the means of raising that spirit in Europe, which I sincerely hope, will in a short time extinguish every remainr of that barbarous servitude under which all the European Nations in a less or a greater degree, have so long been Subject.
          The French have justified the nobleness of their original character, and from the immerssions of Luxury and frivolity, have set an example that is Unique in all the histories of human society. A populous nation effecting by the firmness of their union, the Universality of their sentiments; and the energy of their actions; the intire overthrow of a Despotism that had stood the test of ages. We are full of wonder in this part of the world, and cannot conceive how such things should be.
          Yr Friend and Eleve the Merquis de la Fayette has acted a part in this revolution which has raised him above his former exploits; because his conduct has been directed to the good of his distressed country men and shews him far above those base and narrow selfishnesses with which particular privileges are so apt to taint the human mind.
          I have heard that a Mons: Brissot de Warville has lately become a citizen of America; he is a warm friend to liberty and a man of the first rate abilities. He is a great friend of mine and as I presume he has been presented to yr Excelency; will take the liberty which yr known goodness inspires to beg that you would remember me to him and to assure him of my wishes for his happiness and prosperity.
          Mr Graham joins me in best respects to yr self and Mrs Washington. We contemplate with no small pleasure the advantage America will reap from that check to all the luxuries of dress which her example of an elegant simplicity in this article will undoubtedly effect. I am Sir Yr Excellencies Most Obednt And Obliged Humbe Servt

            Cath: Macaulay Graham


Title: From George Washington to the Citizens of Newburyport, 30 October 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Citizens of Newburyport

            Gentlemen,
            [30 October 1789]

          The demonstrations of respect and affection which you are pleased to pay to an individual, whose highest pretension is to rank as your fellow-citizen, are of a nature too distinguished not to claim the warmest return that gratitude can make.
          My endeavors to be useful to my country have been no more than the result of conscious duty—Regards like yours would reward services of the highest estimation and sacrifice: Yet it is due to my feelings, that I should tell you those regards are received with esteem, and replied to with sincerity.
          In visiting the Town of Newburyport, I have obeyed a favorite inclination, and I am much gratified by the indulgence. In expressing a sincere wish for its prosperity, and the happiness of its inhabitants, I do justice to my own sentiments, and their merit.

            G: Washington.


Title: To George Washington from John C. Ogden, 30 October 1789
From: Ogden, John C.
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            Portsmouth [N.H.] October 30th/89

          Overwhelmed as Your Excellency is, by the Invitations and Solicitations of our grateful and virtuous Countrymen, who wish to pay every tribute of veneration, and give every possible proof of their Affection for your Person, and Reverence for the high office, which you have condescended, to accept for the public good; I would spare you the trouble of this, and in silence rejoice at our being favored with your visit to this quarter, and at a distance recognize the man who possesses the Love and Applause of a World.
          But, My Family is composed of Madam Wooster the Lady of the late General Wooster, the father of Mrs Ogden.
          I have with me also, my own Parent, the Mother of two amiable young men who lost their lives during the late revolution; who with me were Brothers to Mrs Barber, The Relict of your much valued Officer Colol Barber. May I ask your Excellency kindly to condescend, to give us such part of your time while here; as shall be most convenient, and appointed by yourself.

Or may I mention, our having your company at tea on Sunday afternoon.
          If this is agreable to Your Excellency⟨,⟩ President Sullivan, has promised to attend you to The Parsonage.
          Come My Dear Sir, and do me this greatest of favors—and give pleasure to a family bereaved of their most valued friends; and joy to two venerable women, whose fortitude under sufferings, does credit to American Matrons, as well as to human nature. I have the honor and happiness to be, with the greatest respect, Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servant

            John C. Ogden
            Rector of Queens Chapel


Title: To George Washington from Piomingo, 30 October 1789 [letter not found]
From: Piomingo
To: Washington, George

          Letter not found: from Piomingo, 30 Oct. 1789. In a letter to Henry Knox, 18 Nov. 1789, Tobias Lear stated that GW had received a letter “from Piamingo or the Mountain Leader, a Chickasaw Chief, requesting a supply of powder & ball for his Nation—dated Richmond October 30th 1789.” In his Memoranda on Indian Affairs, 1789,

           GW describes this letter as follows: “From—Piamingo—Richmond 30th Octr Mentions the long friendship which has subsisted between the United States & his Nation, the Chicasaws. the distressed situation it is in for want of Ammunition. His having set out on a journey for the Seat of Federal Governmt to solicit a supply—But the delays he had met with and the temporary aid he had obtained from the State of Virga had determined him to return, least his people might be distressed—2000 lbs. of powder & Lead equivalent having been furnished him. The Creek Indians attack his people as well as ours; but he wishes not to fight with them if they will make satisfaction & give assurances of good behaviour in future; however, he requests & entreats that they may be furnished with powder & Ball against the Spring, as then the War must become general with the Creeks, unless they will listen to reason. Their Nation he says depends upon the U. States—The Choctaws seem friendly, & will be consulted by him on his return. Refers to Genl Lincoln & the Commrs whom he saw at Richmond—gives strong assurances that he will hold me by the right hand of friendship; and requests in strong terms that I will speedily send a letter to him expressive of what he may depend upon.”


Title: To George Washington from Edward Rutledge, 31 October 1789 [letter not found]
From: Rutledge, Edward
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Edward Rutledge, 31 Oct. 1789. On 23 Nov. GW wrote to Rutledge: “I have been favoured with your letter of the 31st ultimo.”


Title: From George Washington to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in North America, 19 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in North America

            Gentlemen,
            [19 November 1789]

          I receive with a grateful heart your pious and affectionate address, and with truth declare to you that no circumstance of my life has affected me more sensibly or produced more pleasing emotions than the friendly congratulations, and strong assurances of support which I have received from my fellow-citizens of all descriptions upon my election to the Presidency of these United States.
          I fear, Gentlemen, your goodness has led you to form too exalted an opinion of my virtues and merits—If such talents as I possess have been called into action by great events, and those events have terminated happily for our country, the glory should be ascribed to the manifest interposition of an over-ruling Providence. My military services have been abundantly recompensed by the flattering approbation of a grateful people; and, if a faithful discharge of my civil duties can ensure a like reward, I shall feel myself richly compensated for any personal sacrifice I may have made by engaging again in public life.
          The Citizens of the United States of America have given as signal a proof of their wisdom and virtue in framing and adopting a constitution of government, without bloodshed or the intervention of force, as they, upon a former occasion, exhibited to the world of their valor, fortitude, and perseverance; and it must be a pleasing circumstance to every friend of good order and social happiness to find that our new government is gaining strength and respectability among the citizens of this country in proportion as it’s operations are known, and its effects felt.
          You, Gentlemen, act the part of pious Christians and good citizens by your prayers and exertions to preserve that harmony and good will towards men which must be the basis of every political establishment; and I readily join with you that “while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.”
          I am deeply impressed with your good wishes for my present and future happiness—and I beseech the Almighty to take you and yours under his special care.

            G. Washington.


Title: From George Washington to the Society of Quakers, 13 October 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Society of Quakers

            Gentlemen,
            [c.13 October 1789]

          I receive with pleasure your affectionate address, and thank you for the friendly Sentiments & good wishes which you express for the Success of my administration, and for my personal Happiness.
          We have Reason to rejoice in the prospect that the present National Government, which by the favor of Divine Providence, was formed by the common Counsels, and peaceably established with the common consent of the People, will prove a blessing to every denomination of them. To render it such, my best endeavours shall not be wanting.
          Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the Persons and Consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their Stations, to prevent it in others.
          The liberty enjoyed by the People of these States, of worshipping Almighty God agreable to their Consciences, is not only among the choicest of their Blessings, but also of their Rights—While men perform their social Duties faithfully, they do all that Society or the State can with propriety demand or expect; and remain responsible only to their Maker for the Religion or modes of faith which they may prefer or profess.
          Your principles & conduct are well known to me—and it is doing the People called Quakers no more than Justice to say, that (except their declining to share with others the burthen of the common defence) there is no Denomination among us who are more exemplary and useful Citizens.
          I assure you very explicitly that in my opinion the Consciencious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy & tenderness, and it is my wish and desire that the Laws may always be as extensively accomodated to them, as a due regard to the Protection and essential Interests of the Nation may Justify, and permit.

            Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from the Citizens of Haverhill, Mass., 1 November 1789
From: Citizens of Haverhill, Mass.
To: Washington, George

            Haverhill Novr 1st 1789

          The Inhabitants of the Town of Haverhill address their most sincere Respects to the President of the United States & assure him, that they should esteem themselves highly honoured in his passing thro’ this Town in his Route to New York and of giving them an Opportunity of testifying to him the Respect due to so distinguished a Character.


Title: To George Washington from Francis Willis, Jr., 1 November 1789
From: Willis, Francis Jr.
To: Washington, George

          gloster [Va.]
          May it please your ExcellencyNovr 1st 1789
          At the request of Colo. Henry I again trouble you on the subject of the Negroes he bought—he apprehends I did not state the situation of the Idiot he bought, as he could wish therefore inclosed you will please to receive his letter to me, & if you will please to honour me with your opinion on the matter I will instantanously proceed agreeable to it I am Sr yr Most Obedt hbl.Sert

            Francis Willis Jr.


Title: From George Washington to the Citizens of Marblehead, 2 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Citizens of Marblehead

            Gentlemen,
            [2 November 1789]

          The reception with which you have been pleased to honor my arrival in Marblehead, and the sentiments of approbation and attachment which you have expressed of my conduct, and to my person, are too flattering and grateful not to be acknowledged with sincere thanks, and answered with unfeigned wishes for your prosperity.
          Avoiding to dwell on the diminution of pleasure, which the mention of your impaired circumstances occasions me, I desire to engage your thoughts on the pleasing prospect presented

to all our interests, and particularly to our fishery, in the efficiency of our government and the invigorated industry of our citizens.
          Protected in the exercise of those means, which the beneficent Parent of mankind has furnished for their sustenance and comfort, the Citizens of America, animated by virtuous enterprize, and actuated by due obedience to the laws and regulations of their government, may expect with confidence, to enjoy every blessing which industry can promise, and national union may ensure.
          Your attachment to the Constitution of the United States is worthy of men, who fought and bled for freedom, and who know its value.
          Your anxiety for my health, and your prayers for my happiness are replied to with solicitude for your welfare, and an earnest entreaty to the Author of good for your felicity.

            G. Washington.


Title: From George Washington to the Citizens of Portsmouth, 2 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Citizens of Portsmouth

            Gentlemen,
            [2 November 1789]

          I am sensibly impressed with your friendly welcome to the Metropolis of New Hampshire, and have a grateful heart for your kind and flattering congratulations on my election to the Presidency of these United States.
          I fear the fond partiality of my countrymen has too highly appreciated my past exertions, and formed too sanguine anticipations of my future services—If the former have been successful, much of the success should be ascribed to those who laboured with me in the common cause—and the glory of the event, should be given to the great Disposer of events.
          If an unremitting attention to the duties of my office, and the zeal of an honest heart can promote the public-good, my fellow-citizens may be assured that these will not be wanting in my present station.
          I can claim no particular merit, Gentlemen, for the preservation of your town from the devastation of the enemy. I am happy if by any event of the war your property has been preserved from that destruction, which fell but too heavily on your neighbours—and I sincerely condole with you for the loss which you sustained in navigation and commerce: But I trust that

industry and oeconomy, those fruitful and never failing sources of private and public opulence, will, under our present system of government, restore you to your former flourishing state.
          The interest which you take in my personal happiness, and the kind felicitations which you have expressed on the recovery of my health, are peculiarly grateful to me; and I earnestly pray that the great Ruler of the Universe may smile upon your honest exertions here, and reward your welldoings with future happiness.

            G. Washington


Title: From George Washington to the Presbyterian Ministers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 2 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Presbyterian Ministers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire

            Gentlemen,
            [Portsmouth, N.H., 2 November 1789]

          The affectionate welcome, which you are pleased to give me to the eastern parts of the union, would leave me without excuse, did I fail to acknowledge the sensibility, which it awakens, and to express the most sincere return that a grateful sense of your goodness can suggest.
          To be approved by the praise-worthy is a wish as natural to becoming ambition, as its consequence is flattering to our self-love—I am, indeed, much indebted to the favorable sentiments which you entertain towards me, and it will be my study to deserve them.
          The tribute of thanksgiving which you offer to “the gracious Father of lights” for his inspiration of our public-councils with wisdom and firmness to complete the national constitution, is worthy of men, who, devoted to the pious purposes of religion, desire their accomplishment by such means as advance the temporal happiness of their fellow-men—and, here, I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. To this consideration we ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation, respecting religion, from the Magna-Charta of our country.
          To the guidance of the ministers of the gospel this important object is, perhaps, more properly committed—It will be your care to instruct the ignorant, and to reclaim the devious—and, in the progress of morality and science, to which our government will give every furtherance, we may confidently expect the advancement of true religion, and the completion of our happiness.
          I pray the munificent Rewarder of virtue that your agency in this good work may receive its compensation here and hereafter.

            G: Washington


Title: From George Washington to the Governor and Legislature of New Hampshire, 3 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Governor and Legislature of New Hampshire

            [Portsmouth, N.H., 3 November 1789]

          Allow me, Gentlemen, to assure you that grateful as my heart is for the affectionate regards which my fellow-citizens have manifested towards me, it has at no time been more sensibly impressed with a consciousness of their goodness than on the present occasion.
          I am truly thankful for your expressions of attachment to my person, and approbation of my conduct—and I reciprocate your good wishes with unfeigned affection.
          In exercising the vigilance and attention, with which you are pleased to compliment my military command, I did no more than what inclination prompted and duty enjoined.
          In discharging the duties of my civil appointment, I can sincerely promise that the love of my country will be the ruling influence of my conduct.
          The success, which has hitherto attended our united efforts, we owe to the gracious interposition of Heaven, and to that interposition let us gratefully ascribe the praise of victory, and the blessings of peace.
          May the State, in whose councils you worthily preside, be happy under your administration, and may you, Gentlemen, partake of the blessings which your endeavors are intended to bestow.

            G. Washington.


Title: To George Washington from William Dawson, 4 November 1789
From: Dawson, William
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            Westmoreland [County, Va.] Novr 4th 1789

          It is humbly represented to your Excellency by William Dawson who in the Year 1774 acted as Manager for Colo. George Mercers plantations in Frederick County that unable to precure A settlement or induce the Honourable James Mercer to make him payment for Such his Services, he was Compell’d to bring his action for the recovery; to this his Claim, Mr Mercers Pleading the act of Limitations has prevented him from proving the Justice of his demand in a point of Law.
          In this forlorn and oppress’d Situation he was induse’d to propose and accede to an Arbitration by Consent Sir, your Answer to the Quaries he has now the Honor of Submitting to your Excellency, will be Respectfully Receiv’d as Proof.
          He Submits to your Excellencys recollections? if the Middle and Lower Plantations, and the three New Quarters ware not under good fencing? if there ware not good Crops of wheat Sown at Each? if the Stock as also the Tools ware not in good order at the Day of Sale? if your Excellency received any Information

of his misconduct or mismanagement from any other Person then a certain Mr Edward Snickers of Frederick County? if this Mr Snickers did not Sucseed him as manager after having diprived him and his family of their Bread? if Sir whin you Blamed him for not having finish’d all the Tobo on the Plantations: did he not Convince your Excellency what a most Sevear Laborious and unthankful years Service he had contended against, occasion’d by the overseers and Negroes knowing they ware to leave the Estates at the Exspiration of the Year? if he did not Convince you Sir, that all the Tobacco was finished Excepting Some Ground leaves? what Quantity of Tobacco did Mr Snickers Prize for the E[s]tate after the Sale? if the Negroes did not all appear in Good Condition according to thier ages? if he and his Family, did not Conduct themselves with respect to your self Sir, and Mr Mercer? And if your Excellency advis’d Mr Mercer to Sue him for Damages from Instances that you had discover’d of Either his Misconduct or Mismanagement—He inclose’s the affidavit of Mr Mercer for a supersedeas: the Real And imaginary Losses that Gentn attributes to his Misconduct, he Considers to have been Occasioned by the Cruel Aspersions with which a Mr Edward Snickers branded his Character; your Excellency will Pardon a warmth occasion’d by the Recollection of Wantonly Malicious Injuries, as he is firmly Perswaded, that had not this Mr Snickers coveted the Said Earned Lively hood he then Possess’d, the Honorable Mr Mercer would not have added the Injustice of his Plea to his approbious Reflections, on an Injured character, nor Should your Excellencys Valuable time been encroach’d on by his Narrative of the oppression he has Contended Against himself. He has the Honor of Subscribing Your Excellencys most Obedient Servant

            W. Dawson

            N.B. your Excellency will please to direct your answer to the Clerk of the District Court of Fredericksburg.


Title: To George Washington from Nicholas Eveleigh, 8 November 1789
From: Eveleigh, Nicholas
To: Washington, George

          New York, 8 November 1789. Acknowledges appointment as comptroller of the treasury. “I consider it, Sir, & the consideration affords me the most heart-felt satisfaction, as an unequivocal proof, that I am view’d by you in a favourable light. to be thought well of by a man, himself not only universally thought well of, but respected & revered, cannot fail of proving to me a source of the highest gratification; but, Sir, it will have another effect; that of stimulating me to a faithful discharge of the duties connected with the office now intrusted to my charge.”


Title: To George Washington from John Bondfield, 12 November 1789
From: Bondfield, John
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            Bordeaux [France] 12 9bre 1789

          The great and Urgent wants of this Nation, occation’d by the faileur of the two last Crops of wheat, creates dreadful Alarms, to this add the low State of the finnances, occation’d by the Great Revolution effecting; for the two last six months few have paid the Usual Tax’s, that the Treasury is exhausted, this forces the National Assembly to extraordinary exertions, to avert the ill

consiquences that may attend a real want of dayly subsistence of Bread to the Nation.
          The 7th Instant a Motion was made in the National Assembly to impower Le Ministre du finnance to make application to the United States of America, for a supply, and from the Crampt state of the Finnances to Ask a reimburssment, and that in Grain in part of the advances due by America to france[.] their Arguments.
          In Urgent need America applied to france. france granted powerful Assistance simular circumstances creates simular demands The Glorious revolution now greatly advanct calls in a Multiplied Capacity every exertion of Succor from Antient Amitie strengthend by the new Constitution forming on Simular liberal Principles.
          A ship sailing to morrow for Philadelphia engages my taking the liberty to transmit you advice of what is here agitating so far as relates to the United States.
          In an Assembly held yesterday by the Magistrates of this City being call’d on for my sentiments on the dependance of Supplies I assurd them that every exertion on the part of the United States will be made for the releif of this Nation. with due respect I have the Honor to be Sir Your most Obedient and most Humble Servant

            John Bondfield


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Jones, 15 November 1789
From: Jones, Joseph
To: Washington, George

            Dr Sr
            [c.15 November 1789]

          After a conflict in my breast for two weeks past, whch I should transgress a rule from which I have in no instance departed, al[t]ho’ honoured with several respectable appointments by my Country, I have determined to inform you of my wish to come into the office of district Judge—the emoluments of the appointment with the profitts I could make from my fortune though small would enable me to disc[h]arge in a few years a debt I owe the estate of the late Col. Tayloe for which I am much pressed and to pay which demand I have offered to sell my land in King George County but cannot (such is the depreciation of property) obtain a reasonable price for it or indeed as yet any offer. Necessity I well know is an unfavourable pretence to offices of great trust, but I think I have integrity and resolution sufficient to bear me through any trial I may be exposed to where doing justice shall occasion the embarrassment—the principal difficulty with me was whether I could execute the trust with propriety, and if I do not deceive myself, notwithstanding my having been long out of the business of the Courts, and am as the common phrase is rusty, yet I Fear not being able to put the business in motion and to carry it on in such manner as not to disgrace the appointment—I should not have presumed to come forward while the office was open to Pendleton, Wythe, Blair and E. Randolph, but as they are no longer in the way should you be at liberty to nominate me consistent with the ⟨rules⟩ prescribed to yourself for such important appointm⟨ents⟩ you may rely my best endeavours shall be exerted in the office and that should I find myself unequal to the undertaking I shall as soon as the discovery is made afferd you an oppertunity of introducing a more proper person—let the issue of this application be what it may, you will hear no complaint from but as usual retain the good wishes of Dr Sr aff. & obed. Servt

            Jos: Jones


Title: To George Washington from Pierce Butler, 16 November 1789
From: Butler, Pierce
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            New York Novbr the 16th 1789

          My situation as a senator from Carolina obliges me to trouble You with the perusal of the inclosed letters. As they will speak for themselves I will not intrude further on Your time. I have the honor to be with great respect and attachment Sir, Yr Most Obedt Servant

            P. Butler


Title: To George Washington from Andrew Dunscomb, 17 November 1789
From: Dunscomb, Andrew
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            Beekman Street No. 8 New York Novr 17th 1789

          As an Old and faithfull servant of the United States I presume to address you, and to solicit your attention and favor.
          The services I have been engaged in, as particularized in the accompanying Paper No. 1 commenced with the Revolution, nor did they cease when Peace was established—thus employed, I have been prevented from obtaining more than a mere living—Attentive to the Duties and fettered by the Scruples of Office, I suffered the certainty of making an Independant living,

or at least, of placing my self in easy circumstances to pass by unimproved, by which means I am now left with little other comfort than that peace of mind the result of a well directed conduct in the service of my Country. For all my labours during the War I have received a Certificate from the Registers Office—the value of which is well known.
          I beg to refer you Sir, to the Certificates and Letters accompanying, as more proper testimonials of my Conduct than any thing I could say on the subject on these and on your goodness I rest my hopes of an Appointment to an Office suited to my Abilities and adequate to the support of a Family.
          I entreat a pardon Sir for the liberty I have taken to make my wish known to you. I have the Honor to be With respect—Esteem and Regard Sir Your most Obt servt

            Aw Dunscomb


Title: To George Washington from Fenwick, 17 November 1789 [letter not found]
From: Fenwick, Mason, & Company
To: Washington, George

          Letter not found: from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 17 Nov. 1789. The dealer’s catalog states that this letter deals with matters “regarding the purchase of champagne, claret, etc.”


Title: To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 17 November 1789
From: Goodwin, Samuel
To: Washington, George

          Pownalborough: on Kennebeck river in theCounty of Lincoln and State of Masschusets
          SirNovember 17th 1789
          I Most Humbly beg leave: to lay before your Excellency, that when there was an Expedtion To Quebeck in: 1775: by the way of Kennebeck River, & over the Carrying Places: to Amaguntick Lake or, Pond, &c. and to Choudire river & to the River St Lawrance, & Quebeck I haveing A Plan of the Sea Shore, (from

then Falmouth Now Portland) in Cascobay & as fair as penob-Scut river; of the Great & most leading river Kennebeck: & the Carrying Places, to the river St Laurence &c.; your Excellency was pleased To derict me by Mr Ayers to Copy A plan for the Then Colonal Bennedick Arnold Esqr. To whome Your Excellency Gave the Command of that Army; I went to work Ameaditly in Obedience To your Excellency’s Command; and did Compleat A large plan: (& also two Small plans, the two Small plans was by, Said Arnolds order) I Delivered them to Said Arnold on Thuresday the 21st Of Sepetember. the Great Plan I Delivered at my house: & on the 23d the two Small Plans at Fort western about 16 miles, above where I Hunt I then haveing; Planing Paper & Coulering and all things Redy, for Copying Plans; I also Gave him Said Arnold, A Journal: in June and July: 1761 Containing forty Seven pages in Quarto, from Quebeck by the way of Chaudiere river and the river dsloop [Du Loup] & the head of PenobSecut River & Carrying placesses into Moose Lake which is at the head off the North east branch of Kennebeck river: and through Said lake and Kennebeck river, To Fort Hallefax And: then from, Said Fort Hallefax up Said Kennebeck river, and over the Carrying placesses on the west Side of Said Kennebeck river to the Dead river, So Called, being, the western branch of Said Kennebeck river, & then up Said Western Branch; over Carrying Placess To Amaguntick Lake or pond, & through That Lake to Chadiere river, & down Said River to the river St Lawrance and then To Quebeck; there is some blanks left in Said journal; but for what reason I Could Never learn; every one hath had a Compansation for what they did; except my self, who had nothing but your Excellencys Letter by Mr Stephen Moylan, dated at Cambridge the 4th of November A.D. 1775 which is as follows Viztt

            Sir
            Cambridge 4th of November 1775

          I am Commanded by his Excellency To acknowledge the Recept of your favour of the 17th of October he is pleased that you had supplied Colonal Arnold with the plans for his Rout to Quebeck; if it Should be found Necessary to lay out the road you mention, his Excellency wont be unmindfull of your offer of Service for that Purpose: I am Sir Your H: St

            Stephen Moylan
            S:P:J.

          A Copy from the orignal.
          Sir I have suffered much by the Late Times if your Excelleny: would be pleased to Think off: and Grant me some favour it Will lay me under Great obligations: as well as Most Dutefull obedients; or other wise as Your Excellency in your Great Wisdom Shall Think Proper: And I as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray

            Samuel Goodwin

            N.B. I Most Humbly beg your Excellencys Pardon for Giveing you Any Trouble: about my affairs but your publick & universall; Known Goodness and Charity: who hath ben the means under God of Giveing peace & Liberity to Millions: make me attempt it; When your Excellency was at Boston &c: I attempted to wate on you there to Pay my Duty, but money: was not to had To beare my Expences: So Could not have the Honour to pay my Duty to your Excellency and lay my affairs before you: A Person Distressed in the decline of life is heard I enjoy a Good measur of health Blessed be God; I hope your Excelleny will Pardon Every thing amiss & the in correctness of This and I as in Duty bound &c.

            Samuel Goodwin


Title: From George Washington to Alexander Anderson, 18 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Anderson, Alexander

            Sir,
            New York [November] 18 1789

          I have been favored with the receipt of your letter of the 14th of may last accompanying a parcel of seeds, which have been disposed of agreeably to the disposition suggested to you by Mr Benjamin Vaughan.
          I desire to express my sense of your obliging kindness and to assure you that I shall be happy to aid beneficent intentions on

any other occasion. I am Sir very respectfully your most obedient Servant

            G. Washington


Title: To George Washington from William Cushing, 18 November 1789
From: Cushing, William
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            Boston November the 18th 1789.

          On Saturday the 24th of October, at Taunton while on the circuit, I had the honor of receiving your letter of the 30th of September last with a commission for the office of an associate Justice of the Supreme court of the united States. Decency & duty would have prompted an earlier answer, but that two of our state courts, at Cambridge & Salem remaining to conclude the business of the year, Judge Sewall, who has been appointed to the office of district Judge, thought with me, that two immediate resignations would have endangered the falling through or a distant adjournment of those courts, to the public inconvenience & the injury of individuals; which, I doubt not, therefore, you will approve as an apology for the delay. You condescend, Sir, to consider the Judicial System as the chief pillar of our national government, and kindly to say, that you have nominated to that department such men as you concieved would give dignity and lustre to our national government. I should be glad if my poor abilities could in any measure give ground for such a hope respecting myself; but I beg leave to say, that my wish has been from the beginning, to have such a national government take place, as should effectually secure the union, the authority, the peace & prosperity of these states. And since you have been pleased to express a desire of my ready acceptance of the office,

I do now, with the greater confidence, but hoping for your candor, of which I shall stand in need, declare my acceptance of it. I must take the liberty to express my regret at being depreived of the honor of paying my respects to you at Boston, and joining publickly in the universal joy occasioned by your honoring these northern States with a visit; owing to a bad cold joined to the foulness of the weather the monday & Tuesday after your arrival here. Without troubling you, Sir, with my sense of the great things you thought it your duty to do and Suffer for us during the war, I shall only add my hearty wish, that you may long preside over, and thereby continued to render happy, the people of America. I have the honor to be, with the deepest respect, Sir, Your most obedient obliged humble Servant

            William Cushing


Title: From George Washington to William Drayton, 18 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Drayton, William

            Sir.
            United States Novr 18th 1789

          The Office of Judge of the district Court in and for South Carolina District having become vacant; I have appointed you to fill the same, and your Commission therefor is enclosed.
          You will observe that the Commission which is now transmitted to you is limitted to the end of the next Session of the Senate of the United States. This is rendered necessary by the Constitution of the United States, which authorizes the President of the United States to fill up such vacances as may happen during the recess of the Senate—and appointments so made shall expire at the end of the ensuing Session unless confirmed by the Senate; however there cannot be the smallest doubt but the Senate will readily ratify & confirm this appointment, when your commission in the usual form shall be forwarded to you.
          I presume, Sir, it is unnecessary for me to advance any arguments

to shew the high importance of the Judicial System to our National Government, and of course the necessity of having respectable & influential Characters placed in the important offices of it. The love which you bear our Country will, I am persuaded, lead you to do every thing in your power to promote its welfare; and upon this principle I flatter myself you will accept the above appointment. I am Sir Yr most Obdt Hble St.


Title: Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 18 November 1789
From: Lear, Tobias
To: Knox, Henry

            Sir,
            United States. November 18th 1789

          I am directed by the President of the United States to transmit to you the enclosed letters which have been received by him, and which come properly under the cognizance of the Secretary of War.
          The letters enclosed are as follows, viz.
          one from Samuel McDowell, as chairman of a committee of a Convention in Kentuckey, upon Indian Affairs in Kentuckey, and containing a list of sundry tribes of Indians not included in any treaty between the United States and Indian tribes, dated Da[n]ville July 26th 1789.
          One from Daniel Smith, relative to the Chickasaw nation and enclosing a list of depredations committed by Indians on the Inhabitants of Cumberland since may last—dated Miro District on Cumberland River in North Carolina Augt 23d 1789.
          One signed by a number of respectable Inhabitants of Kentuckey

recommendg the Mountain leader a Chickasaw Chief—dated Septr 8th 1789.
          One from Jos. Martin relative to the Chickasaw nation &c—lands claimed by John Brown &ca—dated Long Island of Holston Septr 25th 178[9].
          one from Piamingo or the Mountain Leader, a Chickasaw Chieef, requesting a supply of powder & ball for his nation—dated Richmond October 30th 1789. I have the Honor to be with perfect respect Sir, Your most Obedient Servant

            Tobias LearSecretary to the President of the United States.


Title: To George Washington from James Madison, 20 November 1789
From: Madison, James
To: Washington, George

            Dear Sir
            Orange [Va.] Novr 20 1789.

          It was my purpose to have dropped you a few lines from Philada but I was too much indisposed during my detention there to avail myself of that pleasure. Since my arrival here I have till now been without a fit conveyance to the post office.
          You will recollect the contents of a letter shewn you from Mr Innis to Mr Brown. Whilst I was in Philada I was informed by

the latter who was detained there as well as myself by indisposition, that he had recd later accounts though not from the same correspondent, that the Spaniards have finally put an entire stop to the trade of our Citizens down the river. The encouragements to such as settle under their own Government are continued.
          A day or two after I got to Philada I fell in with Mr Morris. He broke the subject of the residence of Congs, and made observations which betrayed his dislike of the upshot of the business at N. York, and his desire to keep alive the Southern project of an arrangement with Pennsylvania. I reminded him of the conduct of his State, and intimated that the question would probably sleep for some time in consequence of it. His answer implied that Congress must not continue at New York, and that if he should be freed from his Engagements with the E. States by their refusal to take up the bill and pass it as it went to the Senate, he should renounce all confidence in that quarter, and speak seriously to the S. States. I told him they must be spoken to very seriously, after what had passed, if Penna expected them to listen to her, that indeed there was probably an end to further intercourse on the subject. He signified that if he should speak it would be ⟨in earne⟩st, and he believed no one would pretend that his conduct would justify the least distrust of his going throug[h] with his undertakings; adding however that he was determined & accordingly gave me as he had given others notice that he should call up the postponed bill as soon as Congs should be re-assembled. I observed to him that if it were desirable to have the matter revived we could not wish to have it in a form more likely to defeat itself. It was unparliamentary and highly inconvenient, and would therefore be opposed by all candid friends to his object as an improper precedent, as well as by those who were opposed to the object itself. And if he should succeed in the Senate, the irregularity of the proceeding would justify the other House in withholding the signature of its Speaker, so that the bill could never go up to the President. He acknowledged that the bill could not be got thro’ unless it had a majority in both houses on its merits. Why then, I asked, not take it up anew? He said he meant to bring the gentlemen who had postponed the bill to the point, acknowledged that he distrusted them, but held his engagements binding on him,

until this final experiment should be made on the respect they meant to pay to theirs. I do not think it difficult to augur from this conversation the views which will govern Penna at the next Session. Conversations held by Grayson both with Morris & others in Philada and left by him in a letter to me, coincide with what I have stated. An attempt will first be made to alarm N. York and the Eastern States into the plan postponed, by holding out the Potowmac & Philada as the alternative, and if the attempt should not succeed, the alternative will then be held out to the Southern members. On the other hand N.Y. and the E. States, will enforce their policy of delay, by threatening the S. States as heretofore, with German Town or Trenton or at least Susquehanna, and will no doubt carry the threat into execution if they can, rather than suffer an arrangement to take place between Pena & the S. States.
          I hear nothing certain from the Assembly. It is said that an attempt of Mr H. to revive the project of commutables has been defeated, that the amendments have been taken up, and are likely to be put off to the next Session, the present house having been elected prior to the promulgation of them. This reason would have more force, if the amendments did not so much correspond as far as they go with the propositions of the State Convention, which were before the public long before the last Election. At any rate, the Assembly might pass a vote of approbation along with the postponement, and Asign the reason of referring the ratification to their successors. It is probably that the scruple has arisen with the disaffected party. If it be construed by the public into a latent hope of some contingent opportunity for prosecuting the war agst the Genl Government; I am of opinion the experiment will recoil on the authors of it. As far as I can gather, the great bulk of the late opponents are entirely at rest, and more likely to censure further opposition to the Govt as now Administered than the Government itself. One of the principal leaders of the Baptists lately sent me word that the amendments had entirely satisfied the disaffected of his Sect, and that it would appear in their subsequent conduct.
          I ought not to conclude without some apology for so slovenly a letter. I put off writing it till an opportunity should present itself not knowing but something from time to time might turn up that would make it less unworthy of your perusal. And it has

so happened that the oppy barely gives me time for this hasty scr⟨awl⟩. With the most perfect esteem & affect. attachment I remain Dear Sir Yr Mot Obedt ⟨servt⟩

            Js Madison Jr


Title: To George Washington from Henry Knox, 21 November 1789
From: Knox, Henry
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            War Office November 21st 1789

          I have the honor to submit to your inspection the report and letter which I have just received from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs for the Southern district. I have the honor to be Sir With the highest respect Your Most Obedient Humble Servant.

            H. Knox


Title: To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1789
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Washington, George

            Dear Sir
            Richmond November 22. 1789

          Immediately upon the receipt of your private communication of my appointment, I wrote to you with a head, very much disordered by a fever. As soon as I recovered, I should have written to you again, had I not heard of your tour to the East. By this time I presume you have returned, & therefore beg leave to inform you, that I shall leave Virginia on the 15th of January for New-York. The reason, why I do not make an official reply to your official favor is stated in my former letter. Should you wish to see me earlier than the day, which I have fixed above, I will endeavour to obey your summons.
          In a fortnight the assembly will rise. Mr Henry has quitted, rather in discontent, that the present assembly is not so pliant as the last. He moved before his departure to postpone the consideration of the amendments until the next session. His motion now lies upon the table, to be discussed tomorrow. I think the result will be, to ratify the first ten, and adjourn the remaining two over, on account of their ambiguity.
          A motion will also be made tomorrow to publish an inflammatory letter, written by our senators to the assembly. This will be opposed so far, as relates to a publication under legislative sanction. As soon as I can with propriety procure a copy, I will forward it to you. We have reduced the taxes a fourth below the taxes of the last year, and about 25000£ short of our actual demand. Mr Henry pressed a reduction of a third, and declared that he would come even to a half. He also urged commutables; but the payment is to be made in Specie, and warrants equivalent only. For this year the military certificates will probably support their value. But the draught, which will be made from the next assembly, of men, who are friends to public faith, will I fear leave them in an unprotected state.
          The plan for a revisal of our la⟨ws⟩ as mentioned in my former letter, has been approved, after a marked malignity shewn to it by our demagogues.

          In a day or two we shall be agitated by a question on the sale of the glebes. The partizans of this iniquity wish to keep it off until next year. But it is determined to prepare an antidote for their misrepresentations, by stating the title of the church in a pointed manner. If we find it practicable, we shall draw the assembly to a final decision. I am dear Sir your obliged and affectionate friend & servant

            Edm: Randolph.


Title: From George Washington to John Brown Cutting, 23 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Cutting, John Brown

            Sir,
            New York Novr 23d, 1789

          I have received your letter of the 25th of July enclosing sundry papers respecting the state of public affairs in France, for which mark of attention I request you to accept my best acknowledgements. I am, Sir, Your most Obedt Servt.


Title: From George Washington to Thomas Newton, Jr., 23 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Newton, Thomas Jr.

            Sir,
            New York Novr 23d 1789

          Your letter of the 24th of October, containing an estimate of the cost of a Light-house which was to have been erected on Cape Henry—a draft of the same—and an account of materials placed upon the spot for the purpose of building, has been duly received; and I beg you to accept my thanks for your trouble in preparing & forwarding them—I am, Sir, Your most Obedt Servt

            Go: Washington


Title: From George Washington to Edward Rutledge, 23 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Rutledge, Edward

            Dear Sir,
            New York Novr 23d 1789.

          I have been favoured with your letter of the 31st ultimo, and am very happy to learn that the appointments under the general Government have given so much satisfaction in your part of the Union. Added to the consciousness of having brought forward

such characters only to fill the several offices in the United States, as, from my own knowledge, or the strictest inquiries, I conceived would do justice to the public & honor to themselves, I have the happiness to find, so far as my information extends, that they are highly acceptable to the good people of this Country.
          Your brother’s acceptance of his appointment has given me much pleasure;—and I should have been glad if Major Pinckney could have found it compatible with his interest to hold the office of District Judge; however, I am persuaded the duties of that office will be ably and faithfully discharged by Mr Drayton whom I have appointed to fill it, in consequence of your warm recommendation of him, and the concurrent testimony given of his abilities and integrity by those Gentlemen who are acquainted with him, & who have spoken to me on the subject. I am, Dear Sir, with sentiments of affection & esteem Your most Obedt Humbe Servt.


Title: To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 25 November 1789
From: Goodwin, Samuel
To: Washington, George

          Pownalborough, District of Maine, 25 Nov. 1789. Suggests that a lighthouse be established on the island of Seguin, near the entrance of the Kennebec River, and describes the advantages of the location.


Title: To George Washington from Elijah Jackson, 25 November 1789
From: Jackson, Elijah
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            New York November 25th 1789

          I hope the Justice of my intensions will excuse the fredom I have taken of Emploreing your Assistance. (For I Solemnly declare in the Name of him whose all searching Eye is Privy to every thing that is Transacted. that it is through Necessity.) I have been somtime Employed in the Study of Physic and my most ardent desire is to gain a Sufficient compotency of Knowledge in the Science in order to render myself Capable of leading a usefull and active life. but to my great and unhappy disappointment, I shall not be able to accomplish my much Desired intension without the assistance of Some Noble and generous hearted Soul. For my finances is Exausted and my Parents reduced by Sickness and other misfortunes, which renders them incapable of assisting me.
          Should you O! most Illusterous President. who has proved Yourself to be a friend to Mankind. See it consistent within Yourself to assist your humble Pertitioner, I Shall Esteem it a very great Deed of charity. It will be of the greatest importance to me, as my Present prospect of future Success Depends upon Immediate assistance. I am Sir. Your most Humble Pertitioner.

            Elijah Jackson

            Sir.

          Should it not be to much trouble Please to favaur me with an Answer.


Title: Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 25 November 1789
From: Lear, Tobias
To: Knox, Henry

            Sir,
            United States, November 25th 1789

          The President of the United States has directed me to return the draft of the letter which you are about to send to the Governor of Georgia and to inform you that it meets his approbations. The President of the United States wishes you to send him the copy of the Instructions given to the Commissioners—

which he will return to you in a few days. I have the Honor to be with perfect respect Your most Obedt Servt

            Tobias LearSecy to the Presidt of the U.S.


Title: To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 26 November 1789
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Washington, George

            Dear Sir
            Richmond Novr 26. 1789.

          Since my last, written about five days ago, the committee of the whole house have been engaged in the amendments from congress. Mr Henry’s motion, introduced about three weeks past, for postponing the consideration of them, was negatived by a great majority. The first ten were easily agreed to. The eleventh and twelfth were rejected 64 against 58. I confess, that I see no propriety in adopting the two last. But I trust that the refusal to ratify will open the road to such an expression of federalism, as will efface the violence of the last year, and the intemperance of the inclosed letter, printed by the enemies to the constitution, without authority. However our final measures will depend on our strength, which is not yet ascertained.
          I shall set off on the 15th of January, as I took the liberty of informing you in my last. I am dear sir yr obliged & affectionate friend

            Edm: Randolph.


Title: To George Washington from James Boyd, 27 November 1789
From: Boyd, James
To: Washington, George

            Boston Novr 27. 1789.

          To the President the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.
          The Petition of James Boyd of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, Humbly sheweth—
          That your Petitioner was possessed from the Year 1767 till the Beginning of our Contest with Great Britain of very large Property in Lands situated on the Eastern Bank of the River Schoodick, granted him by the British Government of Nova-Scotia, and that during said Period he introduced many Families on the same Lands at his own Charge, and expended much Property in getting the same under considerable Improvement and Cultivation; But feeling himself attached to the Cause of America, he took such an active Part in their Favour, that the resentment of the British Subjects in that Province compelled him to leave the Country, and flee to the Protection of the United States; & that in Consequence thereof he has suffered Poverty and Distress from that Day to the present Time, that the said Lands which your Petitioner held, are on the western Side of the River St Croix, and within the Dominions of the United States, but unjustly now held in Possession by British Subjects—That the Facts aforesaid and your Petitioner’s Situation have been particularly set forth to Congress by the Legislature of this Commonwealth, in a Letter of Instruction to their Delegates in the Year 1786, signed and transmitted by the then Governor Bowdoin, and which is now on the Files of Congress, accompanied wth a Number of Letters from Governor Bowdoin, the present Governor Hancock, and others upon the Subject, to which your Excellency and Honours will please to be refered: that your Petitioner by his thus quitting the British and joining the American Interest has been subjected to peculiar Hardships and Difficulties, which with a large Family he has with great Anxiety sustained: But confiding in the Power and Disposition of the present Congress of the United States to do him compleat Justice, he requests them to put him in Possession of his Lands aforesaid now held by British Subjects, tho’ on this Side the Line between the two Dominions, or otherwise recompence your

Petitioner who has lost the whole of his Property and Means of procuring a comfortable Subsistence in Consequence of his Attachment as aforesaid.
          Your Petitioner begs Leave to add that he is possessed of Papers, and that John Mitchel Esqr. of the State of Newhampshire (now an old Man about 76 Years of Age) is also possessed of Papers, that may be useful in determining the real Situation of the River St Croix, entended by the late Treaty of Peace to be the dividing Line between the Dominions of the United States & Great Britain, as will appear by a Plan taken in the Year 1764 by the said Mitchel, and another taken by the Surveyor General of Nova Scotia the Year following, and now in the Possession of your Petitioner, who, As in Duty bound will ever pray &c.

            James Boyd


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Buckminster, 27 November 1789
From: Buckminster, Joseph
To: Washington, George

            Sire
            Portsmouth [N.H.] November 27: 1789

          I should not have presumed to intrude upon a moment of your time, filled as I know it must be with a variety of the most important cares, were it ⟨not⟩ to execute a request made when you were at Portsmouth, To present in the name of Lady Pepperell, Relict of Sr William Pepperell the inclosed discourse. Though the connections of her Ladyship have been such as would lead us to suppose that she would have entered into the views and prejudices of the British administration, yet she has invariably been friendly to the american revolution, and wished to give some token of her high esteem and respect for one, who had been so highly honored of God, in effecting it. Her ill health and infirmities forbad her soliciting the honor of a visit when you landed at Kittery, near her mansion: But she wishes you to recieve the inclosed, as a token of her respect, presented by one who begs leave to subscribe himself, with the most fervent prayers for your Prosperity and happiness Your most Obdnt Humble Servt

            Joseph Buckminster


Title: To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 November 1789
From: Knox, Henry
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            War Office November 27th 1789.

          I have the honor to submit to you a letter from Brigadier General Harmar dated the 19th of October with several enclosures shewing the State of affairs on the Western Frontiers. I have the honor to be Sir, with the highest respect, your most obedient humble servant

            H. Knox


Title: To George Washington from Winthrop Sargent, 27 November 1789
From: Sargent, Winthrop
To: Washington, George

          Marietta, Territory of the United States
          SirNorth West of the River Ohio Novr 27th 1789
          I conceive it incumbent on me to acquaint your Excellency with the Death of Saml H. Parsons Esqr. one of the Judges of this territory.
          He had been to view some Salt Springs on a Branch of the big Beaver & on the Morng of the 17th Inst: Embarked on Board a Canoe, with one Man only, to descend that River—Before noon on the same Day, the Boat, in a very shattered Condition, with

sundry Articles of Baggage known to have been the Property of the Judge, were observed floating by a military Post or Station at the Falls of Beaver (four Miles from the Ohio) & the Officer commanding immediately detached a Party in Search of the Bodies—but without Success. Upon the Eveg of the same Day a Soldier, who was with the deceased at the Time of his embarkation, arrived at the Post, being charged with his Horses & a Message to the Officer that he would dine with him at 12 oClock on the same Day—the 17th.
          Upon the 18th and 19th the Bodies were sought after, but in vain—and we have no Intelligence since.
          As this melancholy Occasion has given me the Opportunity of introducing myself to your Excellency, devoid of the painful Consciousness of Intrusion I will trespass so far as to express my grateful Satisfaction in the fair Prospects of our Country under the present Constitution & your Excellency’s Administration. with every Sentiment of Respect I have the Honour to be your Excellency’s most obedient & most devoted Servant

            Winthrop Sargent

            P.S. The Governour is expected every Moment to arrive at this Place on his Way down the River—as the waters, which have been very low, will now permit his Passage.
            This Tour will give me an Opportunity of visiting a Country in which your Excellency, if I am not misinformed, has formerly been conversant—If there should be at this Time, or hereafter, any Services which I can render you—or if your Excellency should be desirous of any Species of Information within my Ability to acquire, it will be highly gratifying to me to devote my attention thereto—for it will add very much to my Happiness to contribute to your Excellency’s Pleasures.

            W. Sargent


Title: To George Washington from Thomasin Gordon, 28 November 1789
From: Gordon, Thomasin
To: Washington, George

          [New York, 28 November 1789]
          Worthy Sir,No. 4 Crown Street
          The Very distressed and Melancholy Situation I am in at this time occasions my taking a Liberty with your Excellency, which otherwise woud Be unpardonable. I am Sir Confind to My bed, with A Violent fever, in a Strange City, far Remov’d from Every friend and Connection, and have not one Shilling to Support myself, or to buy a morsel of Bread for my fatherless Child, for those two days past. I have therefore app[l]y’d to your Excellency Begging your kind assistance with a few dollars To Save me from Starving. as I Realy have not the Common necessaries of life. the Publick Is Indebted to My late husband Colo. John White of Georgia. but I Cannot Get a Settlement of his Accts till Congress Sits again. for Gods Sake Worthy Sir afford Me a little Assistance. And Reap the Reward in a better World than this, Colo. Alexander hamilton Can make you acquainted With my Character and wretched Situation—with Respect I am Worthy

Sir Your Excellencys most obedie[n]t and very distresd humble Sert

            Thomasin Gordon


Title: Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 28 November 1789
From: Lear, Tobias
To: Hamilton, Alexander

            Sir,
            United States Novr 28th 1789

          The President of the U. States being very desirous that the several Accts of those Articles which were furnished by directions of Saml Osgood & William Duer Esqr in pursuance of a resolution of both houses of Congress of the 15th of April 1789 and deposited in the house provided for the President of the United States, for his use, should be settled & paid. He has, therefore, directed me to inform you that it is his wish that the money appropriated to that purpose might be applied thereto as soon as may be; and that you should employ a competent person to examine & settle said Accounts, and previous to their being paid that the person so employed should compare the accounts rendered in, with the articles actually in the house to prevent any abuse. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Sir Your most Obt Servant

            Tobias Lear


Title: To George Washington from David Ross, 28 November 1789
From: Ross, David
To: Washington, George

            Virginia Richmond 28th Novr 1789.

          The Petition of David Ross of the State of Virginia
          Humbly Sheweth,
          That your Petitioner, being proprieter of certain Salt Springs in the Western Country, at the place known by the name of the Great-Bone Lick is solicited by many of the most respectable inhabitants of Kentucky to establish salt-works at the said springs—That your petitioner would willingly comply with the pressing desire of the people but the situation is at present so much exposed to the depredations of the Indians as to render it too hazardous and expensive for an individual without the assistance of a guard from the public for a short time.
          Your Petitioner is well informed that the establishment of salt works at the Great Bone Lick, would not only ensure a plentiful supply of salt so essentially necessary to the inhabitants; but that a guard could perhaps be no where more advantageously placed for the protection of a very valuable part of that Country, and would certainly encourage the settlement of the adjacent lands; so that the public aid would not be long required—From these considerations—your Petitioner presumes to pray, that you may be pleased to grant such public aid as may be necessary, for the protection of the Salt-Works, to be erected at the Great Bone Lick, in the district of Kentucky—and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray.

            David Ross.


Title: To George Washington from John Trumbull, 29 November 1789
From: Trumbull, John
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            New York 29th Novr 1789.

          Had not the subject been accidentally introduc’d in the conversation with which you was pleas’d to honor me this Evening, I should never have thought of mentioning that any application from me bore a part in procurring to Mr Jefferson the civilities wch He receiv’d from the Custom House in England.
          But since it has been mention’d you will pardon my enclosing

copies of the Letters which I wrote on the occasion to Mr Pitt & which I hope will not meet your disapprobation. I am with all possible Respect sir Your Obligd & Humble servant

            Jno. Trumbull


Title: From George Washington to John Jay, 30 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Jay, John

            [New York] Monday November 30th 1789

          The President of the United States presents his best Compliments to the Chief Justice of the United States and his Lady, and encloses them Tickets for the Theatre this evening.
          As this is the last night the President proposes visiting the theatre for the season, he cannot deny himself the gratification of requesting the company of the Chief Justice and his Lady—altho’ he begs at the same time that they will consider this invitation in such a point of view as not to feel themselves embarrassed, in the smallest degree, upon the occasion, if they have any reluctance to visiting the theatre; for the President presents the tickets as to his friends who will act as is most agreeable to their feelings, knowing thereby that they will meet the wishes of the person who invites them.


Title: From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Jefferson, Thomas

            Dear Sir,
            New York Novr 30th 1789.

          You will perceive by the enclosed letter (which was left for you at the Office of Foreign Affairs when I made a journey to the Eastern States) the motives on which I acted with regard to yourself, and the occasion of my explaining them at that early period.
          Having now reason to hope—from Mr Trumbulls report—that you will be arrived at Norfolk before this time (on which event I would most cordially congratulate you) and having a safe conveyance by Mr Griffin, I forward your Commission to Virginia; with a request to be made acquainted with your sentiments as soon as you shall find it convenient to communicate them to me. With sentiments of very great esteem & regard I am—Dear Sir Your Most Obedt Hble Servt

            Go: Washington


Title: To George Washington from Corbin Washington, 30 November 1789
From: Washington, Corbin
To: Washington, George

          Walnut Farm [Westmoreland County, Va.]
          My dear UncleNovr 30. 1789
          Some time late in September la⟨st I⟩ received a letter from Mr John Marshall informing me that the Suit of the Hites & ⟨Greens⟩ against me for a part of my land in Berkley was set for trial in the succeeding Octr, and, unless I could procure for him sundry papers &c., with which he had not been furnished, he could not maintain the Suit. Upon examination, I found that the papers required were not in my possession, neither did I know where to apply for them. In the height of this dilemma, I had the pleasure of seeing Mr Charles Lee, who informed me, that, in consequence of a conversation he had had with you some time ago, he inclined to believe that you could either inform me where to obtain the necessary papers, or give me some useful instructions respecting the business—if it is in your power to do either, you will much oblige me (Sir) by answering this letter as soon as you conveniently can. I enclose you a copy of Mr Marshall’s letter ⟨to m⟩e, which will serve to shew what papers and other proof he wants to secure me. Could you, without ⟨m⟩uch inconvenience to yourself, contrive, a letter on this subject to my brother in alexandria, come by the fifteenth of Decr it will meet with me there on my way to Berkley, and will possibly save me much fatigue & expence. The subject on which I now address you, is of such consequence to me, that I hope it will in some degree justify the liberty I take in calling your attention a few moments from matters of a public nature. Mrs Washington joins me in sincere love to Aunt Washington, and wishing health & happiness to you both. I am Dr Uncle Your Affectionate & Sincere Nephew

            Corbin Washington


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Ogle, November 1789
From: Ogle, Joseph
To: Washington, George

          Delaware State Newcastle County
          Dear Sirwhite Clay Creek hund. No. W. [November 1789]
          I am in the Greatest Distress as per N. 1 from Principles of, I know not what, but to make A Pray of My Fidelety & patriotism, for the heat of the Enemys, Progress through the Jersey A Number of the fineest Men we have now was then not to be found, though at that time I Sacreficed Every thing that was near & Dear to a Man of feeling & thought I gave up, & proceeded on till I Seen the Close of the war & then Retired after, laying out all the money that I had & runing in debt for A Considirable sum To Support the postes, Near my districk, & my own Service, & am now to be Devourd by a few who took the advantage of the Only few who Stood forth to Defend the whole all I want is that the Certificates in my Name might not be Sold Till the interest might be paid which is far Inadquait to my

bodyly distress But in General am willing to be Sattisfied With it Sir I hope youll Pardon me (for Presuming to write to you who are the head) Whom am & has been a Sincere friend to the United States as far as my Knowledge led you[r] Hume Sert

            Joseph Ogle


Title: From George Washington to John Jay, 1 December 1789
From: Washington, George
To: Jay, John

            [New York] December 1st 1789

          The President of the United States hath read with attention the Papers herewith returned, relating to our Affairs in Morocco: and as far as he can form an opinion without knowing the contents of Guiseppe Chiappe’s Letters of the 25th of April & 18th of July 1789—no translation thereof being sent—approves the Draft of the Letters to the Emperor and Guiseppe & Francisco Chiappe; and wishes, as the case seems to require it, that they may be forwarded by the first good conveyances that offers.


Title: To George Washington from John Habersham, 2 December 1789
From: Habersham, John
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            Savannah, December 2d, 1789.

          The letter which you will herewith receive I beleive respects the appointment of a Collector of the Customs for the Port and District of Brunswick, which is now vacant by the resignation of Mr Handley. Mr Hillary informs me he has applied for it; if he should meet with your approbation, I have no doubt but he will discharge his duty properly, being I beleive a Man of integrity and sufficient ability. I have the honor to be, with due respect, Sir, Your most obedient, humble, Servant

            John Habersham
            Collector of the Customs at Savannah


Title: Tobias Lear to William Duer, 4 December 1789
From: Lear, Tobias
To: Duer, William

            Sir
            New York December 4th 1789.

          The President of the United States will keep the Carriage provided for his use previous to his arrival in New-York—and as it will be considered upon the same footing with other articles furnished at that time and for that purpose —Mr Manley will therefore bring in his Accot accordingly. I am sir, with great respect Your most Obt Servt

            Tobias LearSecy to the president U.S.


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 4 December 1789
From: Mandrillon, Joseph
To: Washington, George

            Great man!
            Amsterdam 4th Decr 1789

          The kind indulgence which you have deigned to give my productions, is a benefit which expands my soul with a joy which can only be equalled by the sentiment of acknowledgement & gratitude; and to express which, one must possess that elevation—that sublimity of idea which nature has but rarely given to man—and which has been so happily bestowed upon you for the benefit of your country, & for the edification of those who are friends to virtue & liberty.
          My friend Mr Cazenove, carrys to your Excellency a copy of my Patriotic wishes towards France. After having essayed my zeal in favour of the regeneration of America, I ought equally to manifest my patriotic devotion towards France—my Count[r]y.
          I observe by the letter of the 12th of October last with which

your Excellency has honored me—that my transmissions to America have been retarded; I hope, however to be more fortunate at this time, and that this little work will get quickly to your Excellency, and will be honored with your attention. I have the honor to be, my General, with the most perfect veneration Yr Excellencys most Hble & Obedt Servt

            Jos. Mandrillon

            P.S. I have but one desire—but one Ambition capable of filling my soul with unalterable felicity—this is the Glory of possessing Your Excellency’s portrait. Ah! Great man deign to be interested in my favour & fulfil my expectation.


Title: To George Washington from the North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 4 December 1789
From: North Carolina Ratifying Convention
To: Washington, George

          Fayette Ville, State of North Carolina
          Sir,4th of December 1789.
          By order of the Convention of the People of this State, I have the honor to transmit to you the Ratification and adoption of the Constitution of the United States by the said Convention in behalf of the People. With sentiments of the highest consideration and Respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most faithful and Obedient Servant

            Samuel JohnstonPresident of the Convention.


Title: To George Washington from Christian Febiger, 5 December 1789
From: Febiger, Christian
To: Washington, George

            Sir
            Phila. Decembr 5th 1789.

          Pardon this Intrusion and believe me, when I solemnly aver, that I have no other Motive, than a real Inclination to promote by every means in my power the Prosperity of our dear Country. At the Time, when we first attempted the manufactury of Cotton in this City, I was one, who paid much Attention to it, I usd every Endeavour to obtain Information on a Subject then little understood, This drew me into a Correspondence with various people, among others with Thomas Diggs Esqr. of Virginia then in Ireland, from whom I have receivd a Number of intelligent Letters, among others the one inclosd. Permitt me Sir to introduce the Bearer of both Mr Thomas McCabe junr of Belfast, he has been here about a Week and much with me, he appears to be a young Man of Probity and well vers’d in his Bussiness, he has won my Friendship, which prompts me to sollicit in his Behalf your Excellencys Patronage & Protection.

          He has a great Desire to bring his Family to this Country, he will more fully explain his Intentions & Motives to your Excellency; if your Excellency will condescend to inform me through Mr McCabe, whether & through what Channel a Loan of the Brass Model mentiond by Mr Diggs could be obtaind, it would lay me under singular Obligations.
          I further beg Leave respectfully to inform your Excellency, that I had lately the honor of being appointed Treasurer of this State, if in that Capacity or as an Individual, I can render any Information or other Service to Your Excellency or my Country; none will more chearfully do it than he, who has the honor to be with every Sentiment, which the sincerest Veneration & Respect can dictate Your Excellencys Most obedient and most humble Servt

            Christian Febiger


Title: To George Washington from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 5 December 1789
From: Fenwick, Mason, & Company
To: Washington, George

          Bordeaux [France] 5 December 1789. The dealer’s catalog description of this document notes that it deals with GW’s order for wine which included twenty-six bottles of claret and twelve dozen “vins de grave. We have taken much pains to procure this Wine and are well persuaded it is the best to be had. But we fear it (the claret particularly) may not be found fit for drinking immediately though it is old pure & of one of the first growths since it has just been bottled. Since the best wine is always bought in cask we beg leave to recommend to you to order always somewhat in advance that it may lie six or eight Months in bottle to ripen.” The catalog description notes that the firm informed GW that “no good Champagne wine is to be had but through a friend in Rheims they have secured a case of two dozen bottles which they are taking the liberty to send him.”


Title: To George Washington from Harry Innes, 5 December 1789
From: Innes, Harry
To: Washington, George

            sir,
            Kentucky Danville Decr 5th 1789

          I have the hono’r to acknowledge the receipt of your very polite Letter of the 30th of September with the several papers therein inclosed, permit me sir to return my most grateful thanks for the attention paid & the hono’r confered on me by the supreme Executive of the United States.
          The Office of Judge is of the first Magnitude, and when I reflect on its importance & my own imbecility it is with diffidence that I accept it, my situation being different from that of any other Judge in the Union; because great will be the business that will come before the Fœderal Court in this District, relative to Landed Property founded on the Laws of this State, which from their ambiguity, & want of certainty, will require certain principles to be established, as rules of decission & which are to be done without the aid of Precedent or a Coadjutor.
          Impressed with a due sense of the importance of the Trust I can but accept the Commission with fear & trembling; however, my most active exertions shall be caled forth to support me under it—should I err—I hope & trust it will be imputed to the common frailties of Mankind, for I have the broad Basis of Opinion to Combat. I have the honor to be with great respect & esteem your mo. ob. servt

            Harry Innes


Title: To George Washington from William McNamara, 5 December 1789
From: McNamara, William
To: Washington, George

            Sir,
            [5 December 1789]

          I would have conformed to my promise of troubling you no more, were I not actuated by the sincerest regret for having undesignedly offended your Excellancy, by my last letter. I was far from imagining, when I wrote it, that it would have been taken as an insult: tho its being wrote in the anguish of disappointment,

arrayed it in attire, which it was never intended it should ware; even then, it was far remote from my thoughts to use the smallest insolence to your Excellancy, as the letter was intended, at most, but as a remonstrance. I am not so irrational as to be the least displeased with your Excellancy for not granting my reques[t], when unacompanied by recommendations that seem indispensably necessary; but which are so far removed from my attainment, that before I could possibly receive them, the indigence of my circumstances would constrain me to seek some other mains of support, distant from hear; and were I to receive them, they could not insure me success; nor do I wish, for my private interest, the inovation of a custom that might be very ingerous to the public good. I suppose that I have appered so insignificant to your Excellency, that you are very cairless about my esteem or aversion; and tho you’l neither see me, nor ever hear of me after this, yet I could not perfectly quiet my mind, untill I ask your forgiveness, and recall the words that have offended you. To commit an unjust action would be more pain-ful to me than poverty: and it would be a piece of injustice that admits of no apology, to censure that unblemished character, that has deservedly gained the admiration of every people and country, as far as the American history is known; and that you deserve nothing but respect and esteem from all men, the annals of the world, and the personal knowledge of multitudes, can sufficiently avince. I ever had the utmost respect, admiration, and reverance, for them illustrious virtues you possess; for thirteen years disinterested, and unremitted endeavours to benefit mankind, which the almight[y] has blessed with success; and for that mild, an[d] gentle disposition, which is a greate ornament to you, than the station you possess (and that you deserve no other from me, or any other person, is an incontestable truth) and tho I have not the honour to be known to you, yet it would pain me for you to imagin, I thought otherwise.
          I hope your excellancy will do me the justice to think, my present declerations sincere, since they proceed from no motives of interest, nor expectation of favour, as I never intend to enter your abode, nor ever to adress you any more.
          Forgive, great Sir, what you are pleased to term insolence, and believe me, no person alive can have a truer respect, or more real esteem, for them excellant qualifications, of which the illustrious

Washington is possessed, than, Your Excellancies most obediant, humble servant

            William McNamara


Title: To George Washington from James Madison, 5 December 1789
From: Madison, James
To: Washington, George

            Dear Sir
            Orange [Va.] Decr 5. 1789.

          Since my last I have been furnished with the inclosed copy of the letter from the Senators of this State to its Legislature. It is well calculated to keep alive the disaffection to the Government, and is accordingly applied to that use by the violent partizans. I understand the letter was written by the first subscriber of it, as indeed is pretty evident from the stile and strain of it. The other it is said, subscribed it with reluctance. I am less surprized that this should have been the case, than that he should have subscribed at all.
          My last information from Richmond is contained in the following extract from a letter of the 28th Novr from an intelligent member of the H. of Delegates. “The revenue bill which proposes a reduction of the public taxes one fourth below the last year’s amount is with the Senate. Whilst this business was before the H. of Delegates a proposition was made to receive Tobacco & Hemp as commutables, which was negatived; the House determining still to confine the collection to specie and specie warrants. Two or three petitions have been presented which asked a general suspension of Executions for twelve months; they were read, but denied a reference. The Assembly have passed an Act for altering the time of choosing Representatives to Congress, which is now fixed to be on the third Monday in September, suspending the powers of the Representative until the Feby after his election. This change was made to suit the time of the annual meeting of Congress. The fate of the Amendments proposed by Congress to the Genl Government is still in suspense. In a Com[mitte]e of the whole House the first ten were acceded to with little opposition; for on a question

taken on each separately, there was scarcely a dissenting voice. On the two last a debate of some length took place, which ended in rejection. Mr E. Randolph who advocated all the others stood in this contest in the front of opposition. His principal objection was pointed agst the word “retained” in the eleventh proposed amendment, and his argument if I understood it was applied in this manner—that as the rights declared in the first ten of the proposed amendments were not all that a free people would require the exercise of, and that as there was no criterion by which it could be determined whether any other particular right was retained or not, it would be more safe and more consistent with the spirit of the 1st & 17th amendts proposed by Virginia that this reservation agst constructive power, should operate rather as a provision agst extending the powers of Congs by their own authority, than a protection to rights reducible to no definitive certainty. But others, among whom I am one, see not the force of the distinction; for by preventing an extension of power in that body from which danger is apprehended, safety will be ensured, if its powers be not too extensive already, & so by protecting the rights of the people & of the States, an improper extension of power will be prevented & safety made equally certain. If the House should agree to the Resolution for rejecting the two last I am of opinion that it will bring the whole into hazard again, as some who have been decided friends to the ten first think it would be unwise to adopt them without the 11 & 12th. Whatever may be the fate of the amendments submitted by Congress, it is probable that an application for further amendments will be made by this Assembly, for the opposition to the federal Constitution is in my opinion reduced to a single point, the power of direct taxation—those who wish the change are desirous of repeating the application, whilst those who wish it not are indifferent on the subject, supposing that Congs will not propose a change which would take from them a power so necessary for the accomplishment of those objects which are confided to their care. Messrs Joseph Jones & Spencer Roane are appointed Judges of the Genl Court to fill the vacancies occasioned by the death of Mr Cary & the removal of Mr Mercer to the Court of appeals.”
          The difficulty started agst the amendments is really unlucky, and the more to be regretted as it springs from a friend to the

Constitution. It is a still greater cause of regret, if the distinction be, as it appears to me, altogether fanciful. If a line can be drawn between the powers granted and the rights retained, it would seem to be the same thing, whether the latter be secured, by declaring that they shall not be abridged, or that the former shall not be extended. If no line can be drawn, a declaration in either form would amount to nothing. If the distinction were just it does not seem to be of sufficient importance to justify the risk of losing the amendts of furnishing a handle to the disaffected, and of arming N.C. with a pretext, if she be disposed, to prolong her exile from the Union. With every sentiment of respect & attachment I am Dr Sir Yr Obedt & hble servt

            Js Madison Jr


Title: Farm Reports, 6–12 December 1789
From: Washington, George Augustine
To: Washington, George

            [Mount Vernon, 6–12 December 1789]

              Decr

              6th
              Murcury in the Morng
              48
              SWt
              Clear
              Noon
              50
              Clear
              Night
              55
              NEt
              Clear

              NEt

              7th
              Morning
              56
              SWt
              Clear
              Noon
              58
              Cloudy
              Night
              60
              SWt
              Cloudy

              SW

              8th
              Morning
              56
              SWt
              Cloudy
              Noon
              59
              Cloudy
              Night
              62
              SWt
              Cloudy

              SWt

              9th
              Morning
              44
              NW
              Clear
              Noon
              45
              Clear
              Night
              45
              NW
              Cloudy

              NW

              10th
              Morning
              41
              NW
              Clear
              Noon
              42
              Clear
              Night
              44
              NW
              Clear

              NW

              11th
              Morning
              44
              NEt
              Cloudy
              Noon
              45
              Rain
              Night
              46
              NW
              Cloudy

              NEt

              12th
              Morning
              41
              NW
              Clear
              Noon
              41
              Clear
              Night
              41
              NW
              Clear

              NW

              12th Decr

              Days

              Dr. Dogue Run Plantn for the work of 7 Men & 11 Women Amtg ⅌week to

              108

              Cr. By breaking up ground in No. 1

              4

              By breaking up a p[iec]e of low ground next to the Tumbling dam joining No. 7

              12

              By breaking up ground at River plantn in No. 5

              8

              By hauling Corn

              6

              By gathering ditto

              18

              By Husking ditto

              42

              By Sickness Lucy in Child bed 6 days, Brunswick 6, Matt 6 days

               18

              Total
              108

          Sent to the Mill 60 Bushels of Oats to grind, 16 Bushels of Corn, 3 Barrels Soft ditto for the hogs, Recd from ditto 3½ Bushels B. Meal and 5½ ditto Ship stuff; Sent to Mansn House 30 Bushels Oats, Used by the Horses 10 Bushels of ditto, fed to the Hogs 3 Barrels soft Corn. Stock 56 head Cattle, 92 Old Sheep, 35 Lambs, 8 working Horses, 16 Calves from Mansn House.

              Days

              Dr. Ferry & Frenches Plantn for the work of 7 Men 16 Women and 3 Boys Amtg ⅌ week to

              156

              Cr. By breaking up ground in No. 2

              42

              By hauling Corn

              10

              By ditto wood at the Mansn House

              2

              By gathering Husking and lofting Corn

              72

              By Spinning

              6

              By Lucy Confined to the House on acct of her Swell’d legg, & sowing

              6

              By Sickness, Cupid 6 days, Lucy 6, Daphney 6 days

              18

              Total
              156

          Recd from the Mill 11½ Bushels B. Meal, Sent to ditto 9¼ Bushels Corn, Sent to Mansn House 4¾ Bushels black Eyed pease, 4¾ Bushs. red ditto and 3 pecks small round ditto, Stock 81 head Cattle, 88 old Sheep, 28 Lambs, 15 Working Horses, 2 ditto Mules, 2 ditto Spring Mules Ferriages 20/.

              Days

              Dr. Muddy Hole Plantn for the work of 3 men & 10 women

              Amtg ⅌ week to

              78

              Cr. By breaking up ground in No. 6

              24

              By hauling Corn and Housing ditto

              2

              By hauling Corn at Dogue Run

              4

              By gathering Corn

              19

              By rip[in]g a House for the Overseer

              17

              By grubing in No. 6

              6

              By Sickness Sacky 6 days

               6

              Total
              78

          Increase 7 Cows Sent from Mansn House, Sent to the Mill 5 Bushels Corn Recd from ditto 11 Bushels bran and Oats Mixed for horse feed and 5½ Bushels B. Meal, Measured this week 7 Barrels Sound Corn 9 ditto of Nubbings, 2 ditto of Soft ditto—Stock 29 head Cattle 20 old Sheep 4 Lambs, 9 Working Horses.

              Days

              Dr. River Plantn for the work of 7 Men 17 women 3 Boys and 1 girl Amtg ⅌ week to

              162

              Cr. By breaking up ground in No. 5

              34

              By hauling Corn; and at Mill 1 day

              22

              By dressing Flax

              12

              By Striping Tobo

              15

              By threshing Oats

              18

              By gathering and Husking Corn

              55

              By Sickness Essex 6 days

                6

              Total
              162

          Decrease 1 Sheep Sent to the Mill 11½ Bushels Corn 10½ Bushl. Oats fed to the Horses this week 21 Bushels Oats, 1½ to D. Run Horses Stock 91 head Cattle, 129 Old Sheep, 53 Lambs, 14 Working Horses.

              Days

              Dr. Mansn House for the work of 14 Men 9 Boys & 6 Girls Amtg ⅌ week to

              174

              Cr. By waggon hauling Hay

              4

              By hauling wood for the House, lime kiln, and at Mill

              2

              By 1 Cart hauling wood and water

              6

              By 1 ditto hauling lime and Sand to the green House

              6

              By Cuting wood

              6

              By diging post holes and puting up post and rail fence

              64

              By baking bread 3 days, tending dairy 2 ditto

              5

              By Cuting and Clearing the New road by the Mill

              2

              By Cuting Stuff for rails

              2

              By loading the waggon with Hay 2 days going to Alexa. with flower 1 Do

              3

              By Stoped by rain 6 days, Seting lime kiln 2 ditto

              8

              By tending the brick layers

              24

              By feeding beeves and Stowing away Hay

              6

              By beating out timothy Seed and Stowing away Hay

              6

              By Carrying Shells to lime kiln 6 days, Sifting lime 6 days

              12

              By Making Baskets

              6

              By tending Stock and heaping up Manure

              6

              By tending Jacks and going of errands

                6

              Total
              174

          Decrease 7 Cows Sent to Muddy Hole Recd from the Mill 27 Bushels B. Meal Stock 17 head Cattle, 38 Old Sheep, 3 wethers, 18 Lambs, 5 last spring Mules 1 ditto 2 Years Old, 4 ditto spring ditto, 3 ditto Spring Colts, 2 ditto Spring Jennies, 3 ditto Old ditto, 3 ditto Jacks, 1 ditto spring ditto.

              Days

              Dr. ditchers for the work of 5 Men Amtg ⅌ week to

               30

              Cr. By ditching finished 28½ roods

              20

              By Mortising posts and lost on Acct of rain

              2½

              By Sickness, Charles, 4 days, Botswain 3 ditto Robin ½ ditto

                7½

              30

              -

              Dr. Joinners & Carpenters for the work of 4 Men Amtg ⅌ week to

              24

              Cr. By Thos Mohony About the green House window Shetters

              4

              By Isaac engaged about ditto

              6

              By James & Sambo Sawing 8 pieces for the green House & 8 laths 16 feet long

              2

              By James Confined to the House having fallen from the saw pit & wounded himself

              5

              By Sickness Thos Mohony 2 days

              2

              By rounding Shingles

              1

              By hewing 10 Stocks 16 feet long 10 Inches deep

               4

              Total
              24

              Mill Grist
              Dr.
              Wht
              Corn
              Rye
              Oats

              Rem[ainin]g in the Mill

              890½
              14½
              2¼

              To toll this week

              9½
              14

              To Dogue Run plantn

              15½
              60

              To River plantn

              11½
              11

              To Muddy Hole Plantn

              5

              To Ferry & Frenches Plantn

              9

              900

              53¼

               6

              Remg in the Mill

              900

              Contra
              Cr.

              Ship

              B. Ml
              st[uff]
              Brn
              Hoy
              Oats

              By D. Run plantn

              3½
              5½
              4
              3

              By Muddy Hole Plant.

              5½
              4
              3

              By F. & Frenches Pltn

              11½

              By Mansn House

              27

              1

              By Miller & Coopers

              1

              53¼
              10
              8
              1
              6

              Days

              Dr. Coopers for the work of 3 Men Amtg ⅌ week to

              18

              -

              By Cuting hoop poles Cr.

              5½

              By triming pales

              1½

              By going to Alexa. with flower

              7½

              By puting the flower on board of the boat

               3½

              Total
              18