1Enclosure: Minutes of Creek Council, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
By the Kings Chiefs and head Warriors of the Creek and Cherickes Nations of Indians at a Genera⟨l⟩ meeting over black Drink at the Square of ⟨the⟩ Corvatas the 2d of the windy moon 1789. Master of the Talks John Galphin, Hula Mica the Hollowing King M. Daurazaux Linxter. Talk 1st That the Georgians comes on our land by Building houses on the Altamaha River on our hunting ground, and Driveing...
2From George Washington to Thomas Barclay, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you addressed to me, on the 18th of last month, has come to hand; and requires that I should write to you a few words on the subject of it. Previous to the receipt of your letter, I had been apprised of your desires by Colo. Humphreys, and made acquainted with the favorable opinion of your services, entertained by the several public Characters from America in Europe. You will...
3From George Washington to Henry Knox, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to accept my acknowledgment of and thanks for your obliging favors of the 12th 16th & 19th of last month, and particularly for the trouble you have had in procuring and forwarding for me a suit of the Hartford Manufacture. It is come safe, and exceeds my expectation. I will take an early opportunity of paying the cost of it. The result of the late Elections will not only soon be...
4From George Washington to William Persse, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your polite letter, dated the 11th of October last, has been duly received; & merits my particular acknowledgment. I have also to thank you very sincerely for the Gooseberry plants, which have arrived at Baltimore, from whence I have not yet been able to obtain them on account of the ice in our river. I shall have your directions as to the mode of culture particularly observed, and hope the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Quesnay de Beaurepaire, 2 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Sur le point d’envoyer en Amérique, un autre professeur et differens articles qui sont dans ce moment necessaires à l’Academie de Richemond, nous sommes obligés de réaliser les fonds qui ont déja été souscrits. Voudriez vous me faire l’honneur de m’indiquer le jour qu’il plaira à votre Excellence de solder l’action qu’elle a eut la bonté de souscrire. Celui qui sera chargé de l’aller recevoir,...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, 2 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
We have duly received Your Excellency’s Letter to us of 22d. Ulto. asking our separate Answers to it, if We should not concur in Sentiments respecting Your desire that We should supply you the Sums necessary to discharge two Objects of the Estimate You furnished us last year, for the Employ of the Monies We might receive on account of the United States. A Perusal of this Reply, must convince...
7To James Madison from William Lindsay, 2 March 1789 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of Col: Parker’s being Elected a Representative in Congress, He resigned the Naval office for the district of Norfolk, & I had the pleasure of being elected in his stead by the Honorable the Executive of this State. I shall be in N. York, by the first of April. I must beg the Favour of you to mention this, to the President & Senate. I hope when this is known, it will stop...
8From George Washington to Harry Innes, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored by the receipt of your obliging letter, dated the 18th of Deer last, just in time to send my acknowledgment by a person, who is immediately returning to Kentucky. This circumstance prevents me from expressing, so fully as I might otherwise have done, the sense I have of the very patriotic sentiments you entertain respecting the important matter, which is the subject of your...
9H. G. Letter VIII, 2 March 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
The second particular, which I have stated as evidence of Mr. Clinton’s enmity to the union, is, that he has treated Congress as a body in a contemptuous manner. A proof of this exists in his refusal to convene the legislature of this state, in the year 1786, upon pressing and repeated applications of Congress; sheltering himself under the frivolous pretence, that the constitution did not...
10From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am taking up my pen to present my acknowledgment for your letter of the 10th of Octobr last; and wish I had any thing to communicate in return, which might make mine equally acceptable to you. Notwithstanding my various endeavours to procure the articles I was desirous of transmitting to you, I have only been able to succeed in obtaining a couple of opossums, of the different sexes. I have...