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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TO G. W. SNYDER. 1 - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799)
TO G. W. SNYDER. 1 - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIV (1798-1799) [1893]Edition used:The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890). Vol. XIV (1798-1799).
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- Note.
- The Writings of George Washington.
- 1798.
- To James Anderson.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Jeremy Belknap.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Lloyd.
- To James Lloyd.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Sir John Sinclair.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Confidential.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Anderson.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Henry Knox.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To William Vans Murray.
- To Jonathan Boucher.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To — Mcdowell. 1
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private and Confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Henry Knox.
- To James Mchenry. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To G. W. Snyder. 1
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Spotswood.
- To General Lafayette.
- To William Vans Murray. 1
- To David Stuart.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- 1799.
- To Patrick Henry. [confidential]
- To Bryan, Lord Fairfax.
- To James Washington.
- To David Stuart.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private].
- To Timothy Pickering.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major General. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [confidential.]
- To John Adams, President of the United States.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Charles C. Pinckney, Major-general.
- To James Welch.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To John Marshall.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Archibald Blair. 2
- To John Trumbull.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry.
- To Robert Lewis.
- To Governor Jonathan Trumbull.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Alexander Hamilton, Major-general.
- To Lawrence Lewis.
- To Burges Ball.
- To William Vans Murray.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To James Anderson.
- River Farm
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- Extract From a Diary.
- Last Illness and Death. 1
- Particular Account of the Late Illness and Death of George Washington.
- Tobias Lear to William Augustine Washington.
- Tobias Lear to Col. Burges Ball.
- In Congress.
- Mrs. Washington to President Adams.
- Mrs. Washington to Governor Trumbull.
- The Will of George Washington. 1
- Appendix.
- To Lund Washington.
- The Washington Family.
- Washington’s Aides-de-camp.
TO G. W. SNYDER.
Mount Vernon, 24 October, 1798. Reverend Sir,
I have your favor of the 17th instant before me, and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter is, to explain and correct a mistake, which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged often to write letters have led you into.
It was not my intention to doubt, that the doctrines of the Illuminati and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am.
The idea that I meant to convey was, that I did not believe that the lodges of freemasons in this country had, as societies, endeavored to propagate the diabolical tenets of the former, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of separation). That individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects, and actually had a separation of the people from their government in view, is too evident to be questioned.
My occupations are such, that little leisure is allowed me to read newspapers or books of any kind. The reading of letters and preparing answers absorb much of my time. With respect, I remain, Sir, &c.
A Maryland clergyman who feared lest the Masonic lodges in the United States might be infected with the views of the Illuminati.
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