John Gardner LADD

  General Notes:

Notes from file: In the papers of George Washington there is a letter from John Gardner LADD of Alexandria, VA dated June 8, 1798. There is a mention of
General Greene inviting his brother, the famous Dr. Joseph Brown LADD, to
South Carolina - [where he was killed in November of 1796].

Alexandria 8th June 1798
George Washington, Esq.
Sir
Impressed with the highest sense of veneration for your Person and Character, and moved with a lively regard to the memory of an unfortunate brother - permit me Sir to approach you with my respect & to solicit your acceptance of the inclosed [sic] Volume: The writer of that little tract claimed not the advantages of education or fortune, but relying on his own merit & enterprize aided by the countenance of a respectable connexion [sic] (among whom the phylantropy [sic] of that eminent Patriot General Greene induced a proffer of his friendship) he visited South Carolina in the year 1784 to engage in his professional practice of Physic: but in the year of 1786 full in concern of pursuit this Lune of objects closed upon him in the affecting manner, which you may please to observe from the extract of a public print at that period. As an act of becoming sympathy towards him; and as a Testimony of my sensibility, for the highest distinguished services which you have rendered to this Country and to the cause of Liberty; I have presumed to make this offering and indulge me Sir to express my fervent wishes for your present and future happiness: that you may long live in health to enjoy the prosperity and the acknowledgments of our Nation possessing as you do a permanent claim to the blessings of its independence and to its lasting gratitude.
With Sentiments of perfect respect, I am Sir Your Obedient Servant
Jn. G. Ladd

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Newport RI.

John married Sarah EASTON. (Sarah EASTON was born on an unknown date and died on an unknown date.)