1From George Washington to Diego de Gardoqui, 1 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive the two letters which you wrote to me on the 21st of December last from Bilboa, giving information of your safe arrival at that place after a passage rendered peculiarly tedious by the weather & your indisposition. As impressions made by bad weather at sea seldom continue long after we get on shore—and your indisposition was almost removed at the time of your...
2From George Washington to Ségur, 1 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 24th of August last; and I beg you will be persuaded that I have a grateful heart for the congratulations which you offer upon the organization of our new government, as well as for the warm expressions of personal attachment & good wishes for my happiness which your letter contained. It is with singular pleasure I can inform your...
3From George Washington to the United States Senate, 2 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Henry Marchant to be Judge, William Channing to be Attorney, and William Peck to be Marshall of the Judicial Court of the United States within the District of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. I likewise nominate the following persons to fill offices in the Revenue Department of the United States, within the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations—viz. Ebenezer...
4From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 4 July 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 4 July 1790. On 16 July 1790 George Augustine Washington wrote to GW : “Your favor of the 4th Inst, gave me much satisfaction as it contained information of your health being well restored.”
5From George Washington to the People of South Carolina, 5 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
The congratulatory address of the People of the State of South-Carolina on my election to the office of President of the United States, expressed in such forcible and endearing terms affects me with the liveliest emotions of satisfaction, and induces me to request their acceptance of my sincerest acknowledgements. Flattering as it may be to find the extraordinary unanimity of the People of the...
6From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 7 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
This letter will be short—The intention of it being little more than to acknowledge the receipt of your several favors from London, dated the 7 and 13 of April and 1 and 2 of May, on the business which had been entrusted to you of a public nature; and of your other letters of the 12. of April and 3 of May, which more immediately related to my private concerns. Permit me to thank you, my good...
7From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 14th of June and a few days after a duplicate of the same each in closing a copy of the Constitution lately formed for your State. The address of the Convention, which you mentioned in your letter, has been presented by the Gentlemen in Congress from South Carolina; and I have endeavoured to express, in my answer thereto, the grateful sense...
8Planting Plans, 11 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
New York, 11 July 1790. Charts a proposed eight-year cycle of crop rotations involving clover, corn, wheat, buckwheat, and rye on fourteen fields of GW’s French’s and Ferry farms. AD , DLC:GW . GW recorded that he spent 11 July, a Sunday, “At home all day dispatching some business relative to my own private concerns” ( Diaries Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George...
9From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 20 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
The first request of this letter is that you would burn it as soon as you have read it and keep the contents to yourself; at least for the present. Some months ago farms lately in the tenure of Mr Abel James were advertised for sale by you and Mr Henry Drinker —These farms I have seen; but not, it is to be acknowledged with the eyes of a Purchaser—The ⟨one⟩ near Frankfort you inform the public...
10Indenture with Jedediah Sanger, 22 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
[New York?] 22 July 1790. GW and George Clinton lease for one year 234 acres on the south side of the Mohawk River in White’s Town, Montgomery County, N.Y., to Jedediah Sanger of that place, for £118.10, as witnessed by Tobias Lear and DeWitt Clinton. DS (partially printed), NUtHi , notarized by DeWitt Clinton before James McHughes, master of chancery, on 30 Jan. 1792, and recorded by Herkimer...
11From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States transmits to the Secretary of State, to report thereon, a memorial of Monsr deletombe, Consul of France, to the Legislature of Massachusetts, respecting certain parts of the Consular Convention agreed upon by and between his most Christian Majesty and the President of the United States—together with a Resolution of that Legislature upon said memorial; and a...
12From George Washington to the United States Senate, 2 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons to fill the Offices affixed to their names. viz. In the Judicial Department. William Peery, of the State of Delaware, to be one of the Judges in the Territory of the United States south of the River Ohio. John Stokes to be Judge of the North Carolina District, in place of William R. Davie who has declined his appointment. In the Revenue Department. Samuel...
13From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the general principles agreed to by the Senate in August 1789, the adjustment of the terms of a treaty is far advanced between the United States and the Chiefs of the Creek Indians now in this city, in behalf of themselves and the whole Creek Nation. In preparing the Articles of this Treaty, the present arrangements of the trade with the Creeks have caused much embarrassment....
14Enclosure: Secret Article of the Treaty with the Creeks, 4 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States states the following question for the consideration and advice of the Senate. If it should be found essential to a treaty, for the firm establishment of peace with the Creek Nation of Indians, that an article to the following effect should be inserted therein, will such an article be proper? vizt Secret Article. The commerce necessary for the Creek nation...
15From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Considering the circumstances which prevented the late Commissioners from concluding a Peace with the Creek Nation of Indians, it appeared to me most prudent that all subsequent measures for disposing them to a Treaty should in the first Instance be informal. I informed you on the 4th Inst: that the adjustment of the Terms of a Treaty with their Chiefs now here, was far advanced —such further...
16From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons to be Commissioners of Loans in the States to which their names are respectively affixed, viz. In the State of New Hampshire Nathaniel Gilman Massachusetts Nathaniel Appleton Rhode Island — Connecticut William Imlay New York John Cochran New Jersey James Ewing Pennsylvania Thomas Smith Delaware James Tilton Maryland Thomas Harwood
17From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 6 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have directed my Secretary to lay before you a Copy of an exemplified Copy of a Law, to ratify, on the part of the State of New Jersey, certain Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; together with the Copy of a letter which accompanied said ratification, from The Honorable Elisha Lawrence Esquire Vice President of the State of New Jersey to the President of the United States....
18From George Washington to the United States Senate, 7 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Jabez Bowen to be Commissioner of Loans in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. and Daniel Benezet Junior to be Collector of the Port of Great Egg Harbour in the State of New Jersey. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . A “c” was written in a different hand after each...
19From George Washington to the United States Senate, 7 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a Treaty between the United States and the Chiefs of the Creek-Nation, now in this city, in behalf of themselves and the whole creek-nation, subject to the ratification of the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate. While I flatter myself that this Treaty will be productive of present peace and prosperity to our southern frontier, it is to be...
20From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 8 August 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 8 Aug. 1790. On 20 Aug. 1790 George A. Washington wrote to GW and referred to “Your favor of the 8th I have had the pleasure of receiving.”
21From George Washington to James Wood, 8 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you was pleased to favor me, dated July the 8. came duly to hand; but business with Congress and the Senate (in their executive capacity) multiplying as the adjournment approached —and with the Creek-Indians; placed it out of my power to acknowledge the receipt of it until this time. I perceive by your letter that Thomas Mullen or his representatives, is allowed, by an...
22From George Washington to the Convention of the Universal Church, 9 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I thank you cordially for the congratulations which you offer on my appointment to the office I have the honor to hold in the government of the United States. It gives me the most sensible pleasure to find, that, in our nation, however different are the sentiments of citizens on religious doctrines, they generally concur in one thing, for their political professions and practices are almost...
23From George Washington to the United States Senate, 9 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Irvine of the State of Pennsylvania, John Taylor Gilman of the State of New Hampshire, and John Kean of the State of South Carolina, to be Commissioners for settling the Accounts between the United States and Individual States. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . “An Act to...
24From George Washington to Diego de Gardoqui, 10 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Colonel Humphreys, who, as you know, has been many years in my family, expects in his present tour to Europe to visit Spain. Should it be his good fortune to meet with you in that Kingdom, he will undoubtedly profit of the circumstance by renewing his acquaintance with you. In that case, he will have an opportunity of expressing on my part the sincere & great regard which he knows I entertain...
25From George Washington to La Luzerne, 10 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Early in May last, I had the pleasure of addressing a letter to you, My dear Marquis, in which I dwelt pretty copiously on the state of affairs in this country at that time. Since then nothing very remarkable has occurred. The two great questions of funding the debt & fixing the seat of the government have been agitated, as was natural, with a good deal of warmth as well as ability. These were...
26From George Washington to Thomas Paine, 10 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received in their due order, and have to acknowledge at this time my obligations for your three agreeable letters, in date Octr 16th, 1789, May 1st, and May 31st, of the present year. With the last I had also the pleasure to receive the Key of the Bastile; in acknowledgment of which I write to the Marquis de la Fayette by this conveyance. It must, I dare say, give you great pleasure to...
27From George Washington to Rochambeau, 10 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The little anecdote which you recall to mind, my dear Count, of your Countrymen at Rhode Island who burnt their mouths with the hot soup, while mine waited leisurly for it to cool, perhaps, when politically applied in the manner you have done, has not less truth than pleasantry in its resemblance of national characters. But if there shall be no worse consequence resulting from too great...
28From George Washington to the United States Senate, 10 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate John C. Jones, the present Collector of the port of Nanjemoy in the State of Maryland, to be Collector of the District of Cedar Point, when the Act to provide more effectually for the collection of duties &c. shall take effect. and Jeremiah Jordan to be Surveyor of the Port of Lewellensburg in the State of Maryland. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Executive...
29From George Washington to Lafayette, 11 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received your affectionate letter of the 17 of March by one conveyance, and the token of victory gained by Liberty over Despotism by another: for both which testimonials of your friendship and regard I pray you to accept my sincerest thanks. In this great subject of triumph for the new World, and for humanity in general, it will never be forgotten how conspicuous a part you bore, and...
30From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Although the treaty with the Creeks may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the South Western frontier of the United States, yet in order fully to effect so desireable an object the treaties which have been entered into with the other tribes in that quarter must be faithfully performed on our parts. During the last year I laid before the Senate a particular...
31From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 12 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
In reply to the wish expressed in your letter of this date, to go to Philada on monday next, I can only observe, that my concurrence therein will not be withheld if there are no obstructions of an official nature; and this you can best ascertain yourself. I would however, just mention, that as it may be necessary for me, in pursuance of the law to regulate trade & commerce with the Indian...
32From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 13 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The session of Congress having closed, and it being my intention to go to Virginia as soon as the public business will permit, and wishing to have my mind as free from public cares during my absence from the seat of government, as circumstances will allow; I am desirous of having such matters as may, by Law, or otherwise, require the Agency or sanction of the President of the United States,...
33From George Washington to Henry Knox, 13 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Session of Congress having closed, and it being my intention to go to Virginia as soon as the public business will permit; and wishing, during my absence from the Seat of Government, to have my mind as free from public cares as circumstances will allow; I am desireous of having such matters as may, by Law or otherwise, require the agency or sanction of the President of the United States,...
34From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 14 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have lately received a letter and my account from Wakelin Welch & Son of London, dated June 1st by which I perceive there was at that time a bala[n]ce of mine in their hands of only 95.16 Sterlg. This is a less sum than I imagined was there; and as their letter mentions their having informed you of the balance, and it is probable your draughts upon them may exceed that sum, exclusive of...
35Proclamation, 14 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
By the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, A PROCLAMATION. W hereas a Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States and the Creek nation, was made and concluded on the seventh day of the present month of August: And whereas I have, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in due form ratified the said Treaty, Now therefore to the end that the same may be observed and...
36From George Washington to the Clergy of Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The salutations of the Clergy of the Town of Newport on my arrival in the State of Rhode Island are rendered the more acceptable on account of the liberal sentiments and just ideas which they are known to entertain respecting civil and religious liberty. I am inexpressibly happy that by the smiles of divine Providence, my weak but honest endeavors to serve my country have hitherto been crowned...
37From George Washington to the Freemen of Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Answer Gentlemen, [Newport, R.I., 18 August 1790 ] I receive with emotions of satisfaction the kind address of the Citizens of New Port on my arrival in this State. Although I am not ignorant how much the worthy Inhabitants of this Town have been injured in their circumstances by their patriotic sufferings and Services, yet I must be allowed to say, that nothing on their part has been wanting...
38From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport, from all classes of Citizens. The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a...
39From George Washington to the Masons of King David’s Lodge, Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I receive the welcome which you give me to Rhode-Island with pleasure—and I acknowledge my obligations for the flattering expressions of regard contained in your address with grateful sincerity. Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the masonic fraternity is founded, must be promotive of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the...
40From George Washington to the Inhabitants of Providence, Rhode Island, 19 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Congratulations which you offer me, upon my arrival in this place, are received with no small degree of pleasure. For your attentions, and endeavours to render the town agreeable to me, and for your expressions of satisfaction at my election to the Presidency of the United States, I return you my warmest thanks. My sensibility is highly excited by your ardent declarations of attachment to...
41From George Washington to the Corporation of Rhode Island College, 19 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The circumstances which have, until this time, prevented you from offering your congratulations on my advancement to the station I hold in the Government of the United States, do not diminish the pleasure I feel in receiving this flattering proof of your affection & esteem. For which I request you will accept my thanks. In repeating thus publicly my sense of the zeal you displayed for the...
42From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 24 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 4th Inst. with its inclosures, just as I was about to embark on a visit to Rhode Island, which has prevented my answering it ’till my return from thence. Previous to the receipt of your Excellency’s letter I had nominated and appointed the three Gentlemen who had heretofore acted in that office, Commissioners for settling accounts...
43From George Washington to Richard Varick et al., 24 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States requests the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common-council men of the City of New York to dine with him on Saturday next at four O’clock. L , in Tobias Lear’s hand, NHi . This invitation was covered by a letter from Lear to Mayor Richard Varick of the same date, requesting that the mayor individually notify the gentlemen of the municipal corporation, including...
44From George Washington to the Governor and Council of North Carolina, 26 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I entreat you to be persuaded that nothing could have been more agreeable to me than the proofs contained in your affectionate address of the friendly sentiments entertained by you for my person as well as for the government which I have been appointed by my Countrymen to administer —And I reciprocate with heartfelt satisfaction your congratulations on the completion of the union of all the...
45Proclamation, 26 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Whereas it hath at this time become peculiarly necessary, to warn the citizens of the United States against a violation of the treaties, made at Hopewell, on the river Keowee, on the third and tenth days of January, in the year of our lord 1786, between the United States, and the Choctaw and Chicasaw nations of Indians; and to enforce the act, ⟨e⟩ntitled “an act to regulate trade and...
46From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 26 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I am exceedingly sorry for the cause of your detention in Philadelphia, of which your letter of the 24 inst. informed me. But as I expect to leave this place on monday next for Virginia, it would not be in your power to arrive here, by that time, after the rect of this. There will therefore be no necessity for your leaving Mrs Randolph in her present situation to meet me in New York. I am Sir...
47From George Washington to John Adams, 27 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Being very desireous of obtaining such aids and information as will enable me to form a just opinion upon the subject of the enclosed paper, in case the events therein mentioned should take place; I have taken the liberty to submit it to you for your consideration, requesting that you will favor me with an opinion thereon. With very great esteem & regard I am Sir, Your most Obedt Hbe Servt LS...
48Enclosure: To John Adams, 27 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Secret United States [New York] August 27th 1790 Provided the dispute between Great Britain and Spain should come to the decision of Arms, from a variety of circumstances (individually unimportant and inconclusive, but very much the reverse when compared and combined) there is no doubt in my mind, that New Orleans and the Spanish Posts above it on the Mississippi will be among the first...
49From George Washington to John Jay, 27 August 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Jay, 27 Aug. 1790. On 28 Aug. 1790 Jay wrote to GW about “the Case which I had Yesterday the Honor of recieving from you.” See also GW to John Adams, 27 Aug. 1790 (second letter), n.2 .
50From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is the report (I mentioned to you on our Passage to Rhode-Island) of the Officer who was directed to explore the Navigation of Big Beaver &ca —When you have read, & taken such extracts from it as you may be inclined to do, please to return to the papers to me, as they will have a place with some other Papers I mean to take with me to Virginia. The short and rough Extracts also...