Letter from George Washington to Joseph Jones (1783)
“From George Washington to Joseph Jones, 12 March 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/auhj. Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 27th. Ulto., and thank you for the information […]
Letter from George Washington to Henry Laurens (1779)
“From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 20 March 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/oqec. Dear Sir: I have to thank you, and I do it very sincerely, for your obliging favors […]
The Proclamation of Neutrality
“Neutrality Proclamation, 22 April 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/75ge. Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, on the […]
Fragments of the Discarded First Inaugural Address
(1) We are this day assembled on a solemn and important occasion. (2) not as a ceremony without meaning, but with a single reference to our dependence (3) upon the […]
Letter from George Washington to Arthur Young (1791)
“From George Washington to Arthur Young, 5 December 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/1hgk. Sir: In a letter which I addressed to you on the 15th of August, acknowledging the receipt […]
Letter from George Washington to Chiefs and Counselors of the Seneca Nation (1790)
“From George Washington to the Seneca Chiefs, 29 December 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/pw39. I the President of the United States, by my own mouth, and by a written Speech […]
Letter from George Washington to Hebrew Congregations of the City of Savannah, Georgia (1789)
“Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/m4nm. Gentlemen: I thank you with great sincerity for your congratulations on […]
Letter from George Washington to the Roman Catholics (1790)
“From George Washington to Roman Catholics in America, c.15 March 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/vbg8. Gentlemen: While I now receive with much satisfaction your congratulations on my being called, by […]
Sketch of a Plan of American Finance
Preliminary. Consider all requisitions heretofore made by Congress on the states, as if they had never been made. This gets rid of the adjustment of quotas for the past. The […]
Letter from George Washington to the Annual Meeting of Quakers (1789)
“From George Washington to the Society of Quakers, 13 October 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ojaa. Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from […]