271To George Washington from James Tilghman, Sr., 6 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Admidst the variety of important Objects which employ your attention, it would be no wonder if so small a matter as Miss Andersons Legacy under Colo. Colvills Will, should escape you And you will therefore be so good as to excuse my just reminding you of it. I would not interrupt you while on the publick business And I assure you, Sir, it is with reluctance I give you the least degree of...
272To George Washington from John Rice, 7 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 7 October 1790. Offers himself as an applicant for the command of the revenue cutter to be fitted from this port on the basis of his Revolutionary War service and recommendations he can procure from the most respectable characters of the state. LS , DLC:GW . In September 1775 John Rice (1744–1823) was commissioned commander of the Pennsylvania navy’s galley Dickinson, which he...
273To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to inform you, that the result of my enquiries concerning the character of Capt: Jonathan Maltbee, is, that he is a man of fair character and an experienced & good Seaman, who might be expected to execute his duty faithfully as the Commander of a revenue Cutter. I do not learn however, that either he or Capt. Law are remarkable for their activity. The principal point of...
274From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 26th and 30th of the last, & 3d of the present month, have come duly to hand. Without entering into the details, I can assure you that I am perfectly satisfied with the steps you have taken respecting the Vessel which is to bring the furniture & Servants to Philadelphia —With your agreements with Mr Macomb, & whatever you shall do with the Houses I was compelled to build,...
275To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 10 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 3d inst.—and, agreeably to the intimation therein given, shall not fail to communicate such interesting matters as may come to my knowledge, and are not contained in the news-papers. When I get to Philadelphia I shall make it a particular business to gain the information you request respecting Schools. The College, under the circumstances, and...
276To George Washington from Nicholas Pariset, 10 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Petition of Nicholas Pariset late Inspector of the Commissary’s department of the Allied Army Commanded by the Count de Rochambeau in America, Humbly Shewed, That, the infinite and unexampled fatherly goodness and benevolence with which your Excellency has ever deigned to permit every Citizen of America to approach your honorable Person, have emboldened your Exellency’s Petitioner to...
277Agreement of Georgetown, Md., Property Owners, 13 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The object of the subscribers to the paper annexed, is to accommodate —they will cheerfully consent to any other arrangement, that may be thought reasonable, should their Lands, or any part of them be selected for the Federal City. They are induced to make the offer of their Lands under the Idea, that if the Federal City should be erected on navigation, no place in the small distance from the...
278To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 14 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to my intention expressed in the letter which I had the honor to write to you on the 10th Inst. I left New York on Tuesday and reached this City yesterday. Neither of the vessels with the furniture and Servants have arrived; but I am in hourly expectation of seeing the one which sailed on Saturday. That which sailed on monday will not probably be in till the last of the week. The...
279To George Washington from Stephen Sayre, 15 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing you, more than once, some time since, when in England —I am sorry to find, that I am thought unworthy the shortest reply—Making every consideration for the important business & high situation you are now in; I must again trouble you, with my wishes and my complaints—relying on your justice, & will cease all applications to my friends who know better what I...
280To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 16 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Though my Letters cannot be worthy of taking up a moment of your Time, when you are to materialy engaged in the Internal plan for the future prosperity of the united states, And when your mind must be eventualy engaged in the present fluctuating Situation of European Politics; where we see the Gens-des-Armes deserting their Grand Monarch & Supporting the rights of Mankind, & in another Country...
281To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 17 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your letter of the 10th instant by the last post. It is certainly very possible, that motives, different from the one avowed, may have produced a certain communication; and in matters of such nature, it is not only allowable, but the dictate of prudence, to receive suggestions with peculiar caution. A British Packet arrived yesterday. The accounts she brings, are...
282To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 17 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
It is not in my power fully to express the pleasing satisfaction which I felt upon perusing your kind favor of the 10th Inst. with which I have been duly honored, to find that the steps which I had taken since your departure from New York meet with your approbation. It is a reward I shall ever prize above all others—and one that it shall always be my study to obtain. Since I had the honor to...
283To George Washington from Elizabeth Haynie, 19 October 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Elizabeth Haynie, 19 Oct. 1790. On 27 Dec. 1790 GW wrote Haynie : “Your letter of the 19 of October never reached my hands until a few days ago.”
284From George Washington to Elizabethtown, Md., Citizens, 20 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The cordial welcome which you give me to Elizabeth-Town, and the very flattering expressions of regard, contained in your address, claim and receive my grateful and sincere acknowledgements. Estimating, as I do, the affection and esteem of my fellowcitizens, and conscious that my best pretension to their approbation is founded in an earnest endeavor faithfully to discharge the duties which...
285To George Washington from Mary Harding Bristow, 22 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I once more take of Addressing a few lines to your Excellency: as I understand the Sale of my Son’s Brent Town Lands is set aside, not having legaly been sold. I flatter myself your known Humanity and Justice will Induce you to prevail on the Assembly of the States to restore that part of the Estate to my Child: which I shall always remember with the greatest...
286To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 24 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor of writing to you on the 17th Instant, we have got all the furniture &ca up to the house; and it is with great satisfaction I can inform you that, sofar as it has been examined, we find it safe and in as good order as when it left New York. The Images for the table, of which I was more apprehensive than of anything else, have not received the smallest injury—they are...
287To George Washington from Jeremy Belknap, 25 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
It was my happiness to receive from under your hand, and afterward from your Mouth an approbation of the first Vol. of my history of New Hampshire —After a long but necessary Interruption I have resumed & am continuing the work wch I hope will be ready for publication next spring. In searching for materials of information respecting the Controversy between N. Hampshire & Vermont toward the...
288From George Washington to William Temple Franklin, 25 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I did not receive your letter of the 13th instant until yesterday on my return from an excursion up the Potowmack, which will apologize for the delay of my answer. I am much obliged by your offer to take charge of my letters for Europe—but, having no communication to make at this time, I shall not be able to profit of your politeness. The reason, which you say has been suggested for your...
289To George Washington from Henry Knox, 25 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having been unavoidably longer detained at Boston, than I expected, I did not return to this place until the 22nd instant, and I shall this day set out for Philadelphia to make the necessary arrangements to remove my office and family to that city. No events of sufficient importance have arisen in my department to warrant my troubling you with particular details at present—But as the...
290To George Washington from Samuel Waldo, 25 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Portland [District of Maine], 25 Oct. 1790. Proposes himself as a candidate for the office of collector of excise if such is established and for his character refers GW to a letter James Bowdoin wrote some months ago to the president. ALS , DLC:GW . For an identification of Samuel Waldo, nephew of Elizabeth Erving Bowdoin, wife of former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, see Bowdoin to GW,...
291From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 26 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th inst: I received yesterday on my return from an excursion up the Potowmack. I acquainted you on the 15th instant that I had appointed Mr Woodbury Langdon Commissioner of Loans for the State of New Hampshire; but as it is probable from his brothers letter to you, that he will decline the appointment, I have now to inform you that I have no objection to Mr Keith Spence the...
292To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your several letters of the 12th, 13th, & 15th inst: which finding me in the act of removal from New York to Philadelphia, I have been prevented from the due acknowledgement of their reception at an earlier moment. The Baron Perin’s claim shall be examined as soon as the Officers of the Treasury can complete the arrangement of their Books & papers, which I trust...
293To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had intended to have set out about this time for Philadelphia, but the desire of having mister Madison’s company, who cannot return for some days yet, and a belief that nothing important requires my presence at Philadelphia as yet, induce me to postpone my departure to the 8th of the ensuing month, so that it will be about the 12th before I can have the honor of waiting on you at Mount...
294From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 27 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday last I returned from a twelve days excursion up the Potowmack & found your letters of the 6th & 10th from New York, and 14th & 17th from Philadelphia. I am very glad to hear that you are all arrived at the latter place, safe—and the furniture, as you conceive, in good order. It was very right to give Johns wife the same priviledge that was allowed to others, and Mr & Mrs Hyde’s...
295To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 28 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor duly to receive your two letters of the 3d and 6th inst:. The packet for the Baron de Steuben contained in the former, was delivered to him agreeably to your direction. The papers concerning Capt. Lyde were transmitted by the post following that which took my letter of the 29th Ulto. No more proper characters having been pointed out by further enquiry, I have, pursuant to your...
296To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 28 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed paper of this date will give a full account of the present state of the College in this City. It was the expectation of this, which I had been informed was about to be published, that prevented my entering so fully into the subject in former letters as I should otherwise have done. To this I will add, that, so far as I have been able to learn, the abilities and characters of the...
297To George Washington from John Mitchel, 29 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of informing you that some time since I was making a Survey adjoining a tract of Land belonging to you, lying in a Loop of the Potowmack River about twelve miles from the Berkely Warm Springs, when I heard some of the people in that Neighbourhood, remark that there was much more Land in the tract Calld Genl Washingtons that the patent Calld for, and that they designd making...
298To George Washington from David Humphreys, 31 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
(Secret) My dear General London Octr 31st 1790. Since my arrival here, on the 14th inst., I have written four letters to Mr Jefferson, by different conveyances, in which I have given him a detail of such political facts & reports as I supposed might be in any degree, interesting in America. As these communications will be submitted to your inspection, I forebear troubling you with any...
299From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 31 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 24th since the date of my last to you; and am very glad to hear that the most valuable parts of the furniture have borne their transportation without receiving damage, and that your expectation of equal success with respect to the remainder, is sanguine. I am pained, however, to find there is a doubt that the House will not be completely finished & ready for...
300To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 31 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I was last evening honored with your letter of the 27th Inst.—and am happy to hear that you have returned safe and well from your late excursion. When the rooms are finished the furniture shall be arranged according to their uses; and I am sure Mrs Morris will take a pleasure in giving any advice on the occasion. She had before offered her assistance in a very polite manner, and I had promised...