1I. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 8 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the Commands of the President of the United States I have the honor to transmit herewith sundry communications of the proceedings of Government in the western Territory from Jany to July 1790 made by the Secretary of the said Territory to the President of the U.S. upon which the President requests your opinion as to what should be done respecting them. I have likewise the honor...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 10 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 10 Dec. 1790. By the President’s command he transmits resolutions of the Convention of Kentucky for forming that district into a separate state, and an application for its admission into the union, together with a letter from the President of the Convention to the President of the United States. FC ( DNA : RG 59, SDC ); at head of text: “United States”; at conclusion Lear...
3V. Tobias Lear to the Secretary of State, 16 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s Command I have the honor to transmit the enclosed letter from Winthrop Sargent Esqr Secy of the Western Territory, to the President of the United States: which the President requests may be put with the communications from the Western Territory.—I have the honor to be with the highest respect Sir. Yr most Ob. St. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure:...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 3 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State to be lodged in his Office one exemplified Copy of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey for vesting in the United States of America the Jurisdiction of a Lot of Land at Sandy Hook in the County of Monmouth, and a letter which accompanied said Act from the Goverr. of the State of New Jersey to...