61To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have just received a letter from Mr King in these words —“Mr Elliot, who it has been said was appointed will not come to America, owing say his friends here to a disinclination on his part which has arisen from the death of his eldest or only son. Mr Seaton yesterday read me an abstract of a letter from London dated February 2. & written, as he observed, by a man of information, which...
62From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you from Mount Vernon, your letters of the 3d. and 5th. Instant have been recd., the last at this place where I arrived yesterday to dinner. If the case is as you suspect, it is expedient and proper to remove Washington to a School in which he will make some progress in his learning; and that it is so, I have had some suspicions for some time, principally on account of his...
63From George Washington to the Officials and Citizens of Richmond, 12 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The very distinguished manner in which you are pleased to notice my public services, and to express your regard towards me, demands and receives a grateful and affectionate return. If to my agency in the affairs of our common-country may be ascribed any of the great advantages, which it now enjoys, I am amply and most agreeably rewarded in contemplating the happiness, and receiving the...
64To George Washington from Thomas Sumter, Sr., 12 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by my son that he will wait on you in Cha[rle]ston at your arrival, I am happy in having an Occasion of offering you the sincerest welcome to our State, together with my best wishes for your health & happiness, not only at present but in perpetuity In your travels you may yet remark the traces of British devastation, & I am afraid, the pernicious effects of impolitic counsels,...
65To George Washington from Samuel Coleman, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Having declined the Appropriation to your own private Emolument of certain shares in the Potowmack and James river Companies, which it was the intention of the Legislature of this State to have vested in you; and having given the preference to such public Appropriation of them as to you may appear most subservient to the enlightened and patriotic Views of the Legislature in that particular...
66From George Washington to the Commissioners for the Federal District, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to the assurance given to Mr Carroll, I applied, immediately upon my arrival in this city, to Governor Randolph for two thousand dollars for federal purposes under your direction. Although by the law of this State, the payments of the one hundred and twenty thousand dollars are to be made by installments, the Governor is well disposed to advance the money at earlier periods—but alas!...
67To George Washington from Robert Gamble, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I cannot suppress the impulse I feel at this oportunity to acquaint you, that I have honored one of my Children (now Six years old) with the name of Washington. Notwithstanding so many distinguished Characters have done themselves & family that honor; I flatter myself none were influenced with more respect for your person & character. Having intruded thus far, I trust the goodness of your...
68From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 2d came to my hands at this place. Part of it did as you supposed, & might well suppose, astonished me exceedingly. I think it not only right that Mr Carmichael should be furnished with a copy of the genuine letters to Mr G. Morris, but that Mr [Morris] should also know the result of his conferences with the Duke of Leeds at the Court of Madrid. The contents of my official...
69To George Washington from John K. Read, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have taken the freedom, to enclose for your perusal, a Copy of the preface to a work intitled, “the new Ahiman Rezon,[”] assigned to me for publication, by the Grand Lodge of Virginia, which work being now ready for the press (so soon as a competent number of subscribers are procured to defray the expence) I have adventured to sollicit the honour, of dedicating it to you. If you should find...
70To George Washington from James Simpson, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing Your Excellency 21st September last year by the American Brig Ann—John Martin Master bound for Philadelphia, accompanying a dispatch from Francis Chiappe Esqr. By this opportunity of the English Ship Roman Eagle—Samuel Glover Master for New York, I now send another packet for Your Excelly received a few days ago from Mr Chiappe. I have the honor to be with great...
71To George Washington from Samuel Waldo, 13 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Portland [District of Maine] 13 April 1791. Applies for the post of excise inspector for the District of Maine and reminds GW of the prior recommendation of the late James Bowdoin. ALS , DLC:GW . Samuel Waldo had applied to GW for an excise post on 25 Oct. 1790. Leonard Jarvis recommended Waldo to GW on 11 June, noting that Waldo had been “educated in my Counting house” and was a young man of...
72To George Washington from Martha Dangerfield Bland, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
When I did myself the honour to write to you upon the Subject of My Slave withheld by the Quakers of Phyladelphia it was by the advice of a lawer Eminent in the Country—that it was necessary to apply to a power Superior to the Executive of that State, I meant not Sir, to intrude my request upon you, as Mr Randolph seems to hint, but I have the pleasure to find, that however dignified you are...
73From George Washington to John Brown, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Although the deed of bargain and sale from Muse, dated in 1774, conveys all the right he had to lands in the patent for 7276 acres—yet as there must have been some inducement to take the subsequent deeds in 1784 I am inclined, though unable to account for them, to have them fully recorded—especially as the quantity of land thereby conveyed differs pretty considerably⟨.⟩ I am Sir, your most...
74To George Washington from the Commissioners for the Federal District, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
We take the Liberty to inclose you a rough Plat of the lands between the Eastern Branch and Rock Creek with several different back lines, and a copy of an Entry of this Day in our proceedings, which will perhaps Sufficiently explain our present Circumstances—But as the inclosed Letter was addressed to us with a view of its being laid before you, we also send that and a Copy of the Written...
75To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send herewith a copy of my letter of the 10th inst: and of that from Mr Short of the 2d of December to which it refers; and also the copy of another letter from Mr Short of the 25th of January. The result of my submission to the Vice President and the heads of Departments has been, that they have unanimously advised me to instruct Mr Short to proceed to open a second loan...
76To George Washington from Harriott Pinckney Horry, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Hampton, Santee [S.C] 14 April 1791. Requests that her house may serve as a stage on GW’s route to Charleston. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Harriott Pinckney Horry was the sister of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and the widow of Col. Daniel Horry (d. 1785). She lived at Hampton, her rice plantation in St. James Santee Parish, Charleston District. GW arrived there in time for...
77To George Washington from Louis Paronneau, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Oh! Glorious Deliverer of your Country; I most Humbly beg you to excuse my temerity in Daring to expose before your Highness a Picture of woes to which your mild Heart will be very sensible: I have left my Country, at that prayer of a beloved uncle: The most Horrid murder has Deprived me of this Dear father, and (Could your Excellency believe the sad tale) black injustice with all its most...
78From George Washington to Edmund Pendleton, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you were pleased to favor me—dated the 9th instt—overtook me at Littlepages bridge the 11th. The hurry into which I was thrown by a variety of occurrances at Richmond, prevented my acknowledging the receipt of it before I left that City. I now do it, with assurances that it gave me sincere pleasure to find by it that you were well. The general arrangement of the Surveys...
79From George Washington to the Officials of Petersburg, Virginia, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Receiving with pleasure, I reply with sincerity to your flattering and affectionate address. I render justice to your regard and to my own feelings, when I express the gratitude which the sentiments it contains have inspired—and you will allow me to say, that gratitude, so impressed, must be lasting. The government of the United States, originating in the wisdom, supported by the virtue, and...
80From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War having transmitted to me a copy of your Excellency’s letter to him, relative to the protection of the frontier counties of Virginia, with his answer thereto—I have now to observe that the Counties of Russell and Wythe, not having been considered as equally exposed with the others, were not included in the arrangements taken for defending the frontier —But, as the...
81From George Washington to William Tatham, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letters numbered 1,2,3, and 4. thanking you for your attention in presenting to me a copy of your map, and wishing you the best success in completing that in which you are now engaged, I return the subscription papers, with my name affixed for a copy of each map, on which, the money to be advanced, will now be paid—and I have to observe that there appears to me greater...
82To George Washington from Robert Douglas, 15 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
On the 26th Septr last I had a letter from Mr Robt Peter, Mercht in Georgetown, Potomack River Maryland who Acquaints me that a small Plantation that belonged to me on the Eastern Branch said River was confiscated by order of the State of Maryland, it consists of Fifty Acres of Land & upon it, there is a dwelling & some outhouses built[.] by a letter from Mr Peter to me of the 26th Novr 1788...
83To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 15 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor to write to you on the 10th Inst. we have had the pleasure of learning that you reached Fredericksburg on the 8th. Mr Jefferson has been so good as to furnish me with a copy of the Stages which you intended to make on your journey southward, and the times at which you expected to be in the principal towns, together with a list of the places through which you would pass on...
84To George Washington from John Rutledge, Sr., 15 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely sorry, that official Duty prevents (which nothing but indispensable necessity should,) my going, with my Son, to meet you, at the Boundary-Line of North-Carolina: He will do himself the Honour of waiting on you, from thence but I flatter myself, that I shall have an opportunity of paying my Respects, to you, in Person, on your Tour thro’ the upper Country, (where I must be for...
85To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Treasury Department [Philadelphia] 17 April 1791. Informs GW of the death of the comptroller of the Treasury, whose “loss is sincerely to be regretted as that of a good officer and an honorable & amiable man.” ADf , CtHi : Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Papers; LB , DLC:GW . Nicholas Eveleigh, whom GW had named comptroller on 11 Sept. 1789, had been in poor health since he took office, and Eveleigh’s...
86To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
You will probably recollect that previous to your departure from this place, anticipating the event which has taken place with regard to the death of Mr Eveleigh, I took the liberty to mention to you that Mr Woolcott the present Auditor would be in every respect worthy of your consideration as his successor in office. Now that the event has happened, a concern as anxious as it is natural, for...
87To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 2d which I supposed would find you at Richmond, and again on the 10th which I thought would overtake you at Wilmington. the present will probably find you at Charleston. According to what I mentioned in my letter of the 10th the Vice-president, Secretaries of the Treasury & war & myself met on the 11th. Colo. Hamilton presented a letter from mister...
88To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The last letter which I had the honor to write to you was dated on the 10th instant. Since which I have received your favor of the 7th instant. Colonel Hall having declined Colonel Darck agreably to your orders, will have the offer of the 1st regiment of Levies, and if he should decline, it is probable that Colonel Rawlings would accept it. We shall march between the 25th instant, and the 1st...
89To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Private Sir Philadelphia 17th April 1791 Mr Eveleigh the Comptroller of the Treasury died yesterday. There will be a number of candidates for his office, who will urge their several pretensions with some specious, and perhaps some weighty arguments. Having been taught by your goodness to address myself to you unreservedly, and knowing your desire to learn through different mediums, existing...
90To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 17 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor of writing to you on the 15th Inst. Young Fraunces has informed me that he has received a letter from his father, in which he mentions his intention of coming on here to take the place of Steward in this family, agreeably to the answer given to his application for that purpose. The reason which he assigns for not having made known his determination on this subject sooner,...