1To George Washington from a Citizen of Georgia, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Permit me a Member of the Community of the Free Citisens of the State of Georgia, to address you at this critical Period; The Lustre of the former Deeds executed by yr Magnanimity calls on every member of the Union to venerate and esteem you, and even to consider you as a Father to the People of the western World; but suffer me to imprecate you as a Parent fostering your dependant Children, to...
2To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States the draft of a report on the subject of the Act concerning distilled Spirits. There are one or two blanks in the draft, to the filling of which some additional examination & enquiry are requisite. The suggestions however to which they relate are true, as they stand, and the sense will be apparent. The...
3To George Washington from Reuben Harvey, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ I have often wish’d for an opportunity of communicating To The President of The United States my heart felt satisfaction that it has pleased our gracious Father to grant thee life & health for the great purposes entrusted to thy Care, yet I found an unwillingness to intrude or break in upon the important & numerous Concerns that daily attend thy time, Nor should I now take the liberty of...
4Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum of Conversations with Washington, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
1792. Feb. 28. I was to have been with him long enough before 3. aclock (which was the hour & day he received visits) to have opened to him a proposition for doubling the velocity of the post riders, who now travel about 50. miles a day, & might without difficulty go 100. and for taking measures (by way-bills) to know where the delay is, when there is any. I was delayed by business, so as to...
5To George Washington from Henry Knox, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a draft of a letter to general St Clair; and also, a representation from Judge Putnam relative to the situation of Marietta —If perfectly convenient, I will wait upon you to morrow morning, relative to these subjects, and some others, relative to the appointments of officers soon to be made. I have the honor to be Sir, with the highest respect, Your most obedient...
6From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Be so good as to examine the enclosed draught of a letter to Genl St Clair, and make such alterations (with a pencil) as you shall judge proper; as letter and answer will, it is presumed, be handed to the public. The bearer will wait to bring it back to me. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Henry Knox’s enclosed draft of GW’s letter to Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair has not been found (see Knox to GW,...
7To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letter to Genl St Clair. the only passage about which he has any doubt is the following “it does not appear by any information in my possession, that your exertions were wanting to produce a different result either in the previous preparations, or in the time of action. ” Th: J: never heard a statement of the matter from...
8To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your view the following facts and circumstances relative to the promotion shortly to take place in the first and second regiments, in order to enable you to make such determination as may best promote the public interests. The idea is submitted that the Lieutenant Colonel Commandant will be promoted to a brigadier. If this promotion should take place,...
9Deed to the Erie Triangle, 3 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Whereas by an act of congress, intituled an act “for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the state of Pennsylvania,” it was provided, that for duly conveying to the said state a certain tract of land, the right to the government and jurisdiction whereof was relinquished to the said state by a resolution of congress of the fourth day of September in the year one...
10From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of the return of the number of Inhabitants in the District of South Carolina, as made to me by the Marshal thereof; and the copy of a letter which accompanied said return. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW . For GW’s personal interest in the results of the U.S. census of 1790, see GW to...
11To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President of the U: States certain resolutions of the Bank of the U: States, in answer to communications from the Treasury. He will ask the President’s orders on Monday. the first resolution will particularly require attention. LB , DLC:GW . For the background to the establishment of the Bank of the United States in late...
12From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed came by the Post yesterday. I send it for your perusal. Have you had any conversation with Mr Ellicot respecting the completion of the Survey, & lots of the Federal City?—If so, what was the result?—He ought, if he undertakes it, to proceed to that place immediately—so as to be there at the proposed meeting of the Commissionrs. The Engravers say eight weeks is the shortest time in...
13To George Washington from John Belli, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The letter I had the pleasure to carry from Mr McDowell to you, was not of Sufficient magnitude to delever you in your own hands, consequently, destitude, of the opportunity of makeng you acquainted with my wishes—I now take the Liberty Sir, by this Present to Let you know I would be glad to have Some office in the Regular Army, if any adequate to my abilities Sould offer, my acquaintance in...
14To George Washington from Beale Gaither, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The memorial of Beale Gaither To the President of the united States Humbly Sheweth that in November last he the Said Beale Gaither being a Subject of the unitd States presentd an Order petition together with a manuscript Containg nearly Or about an hundred & eighty pages at the door of the House of Representatives directd to the Congress which was by the doorkeeper immeadiately Conveyd to the...
15From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 5–6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The catalogue of complaints, enclosed, is long. May not our loss of the Indian trade—the participation of it I mean—and the expence & losses sustain’d by the Indian War be set against Mr H——list of grievances, in behalf of the B——Merchants—as well as, by taking our Slaves away depriving us of the means of paying debts. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. George Hammond, who was appointed Britain’s...
16Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Upon submitting the enclosed note from Mr Bache to the President, he desired I would send it to you, that if you thought it right for him to be furnished with the letter wh. he requests it might be done. Should you determine in the affirmative & not have a copy of the translation at hand—I will have a copy of the note left with the President—sent to Mr B. The President has been informed that...
17From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 5 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Knowing the friendly interest you take in whatever may promote the happiness and prosperity of the French Nation, it is with pleasure that I lay before you the translation of a letter which I have received from His most Christian Majesty, announcing to the United States of America his acceptance of the Constitution presented to him in the name of his nation. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress,...
18From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jefferson, in a letter which he writes to you this day, will enter fully into the points touched upon in your letters to me of the 21st of December, and of the 7th 9th 10 & 21st of January and Mr Johnson’s letter of the 3d of february. I shall therefore, do little more at present (being much pressed with other important public matters) than acknowledge the receipt of these letters, and...
19To George Washington from John Hurd, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Presuming on the Candor with which Your Excellency receives Applications from persons of all Denominations—I take the Liberty with modest diffidence, to address you, & request the favor, that among the Number of Candidates for Official Business by Appointmts from Congress, I may have liberty to offer myself and beg your Indulgence to make Mention of the Circumstances & Situation I was in,...
20From George Washington to John Jay, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 27th of Jany came safely to hand (but not by Judge Cushing) as did your letter of the 23d of September for which I thank you. It is with pleasure I congratulate you on the increase of your family and the restoration of health to Mrs Jay—both of wch events we have heard. Mr B——’s motion, alluded to in your letter of the 27th of Jany, is only the prelude, I conceive to what is...
21To George Washington from Mirbeck, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer, à Votre Excellence, quelques imprimés, qui vous instruiront de l’etat actuel de la partie française dela Colonie de st Domingue. Je la prie d’en agréer l’hommage; c’est un tribut que Je Suis enchanté de Rendre aux talents et aux Vertus d’un grand homme qui fait, depuis longtems, mon admiration et celle du Monde. Je suis avec les Sentimens que Votre Excellence a...
22To George Washington from Josiah Parker, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
No applicants for commissions in the Army have been made to me from the District of Virginia I represent or should have presumed to have made them known to you. to day I have received letters requesting I would take the liberty to Name Henry Beverly Towles, son of Colo. Olliver Towles of Spotsilvania as a candidate for a Lieutenancy. I know nothing of the young gentleman but he is warmly...
23To George Washington from Two Frenchmen, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Two frenchmen who came to America to establish themselves upon the lands which they purchased of the Scioto Company, and who have remained there one year, not being able to obtain possession of their purchase, and having consumed their funds, implore the bounty of your Excellency to put them in a situation to return to their own Country. One of the Supplicants is he whom M. Le Marquis de...
24From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you the following Report which has been submitted to me by the Secretary of State. “The Secretary of State having received information that the Merchants and Merchandize of the United States are subject in Copenhagen and other ports of Denmark to considerable extra duties, from which they might probably be relieved by the presence of a Consul there; “Reports to the President of...
25From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
As it will require time to ascertain suitable characters, for the commissioned Officers of the Troops about to be raised, I shall occasionally make such nominations as shall appear to be proper. I now nominate the persons named in the list accompanying this Message, for the commissioned Officers of twelve Companies, intended to be raised upon the frontiers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. DS ,...
26Enclosure: Nominations of Commissioned Officers, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pennsylvania. Captains ✻Edward Butler Allegany County ✻John Guthrie Westmorland ✻Richard Sparks Allegany. ✻William Faulkner Washington. Uriah Springer Fayette John Cook Northumberland. Lieutenants ✻William Smith Washington. ✻John Cummings Westmorland. ✻Samuel Vance
27From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Appointments were made during the recess of the Senate, to carry into effect the act passed at the last Session of Congress, for repealing the duties heretofore laid upon distilled spirits, and laying others in their stead. And as these appointments must expire at the end of your present session, I nominate the following persons to be Inspectors of the Surveys and Ports annexed to their names...
28To George Washington from Brown & Francis, 7 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
We are exceeding sorry to be under the Necessity of a moment of your Attention on a subject which we think there was no Occasion, that the Judge of the Federal Court Living at Newburn in North Carolina should have compell’d us to apply to you upon, but the Fact is that the said Judge is the Cause of withholding from Capt. Low (the Bearer) & as a Considerable Sum of Money & other property which...
29To George Washington from Andrew G. Fraunces, 7 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
It has not been with a little hesitation that I have presumed to address you and to make a request which I fear may be considered an improper one; however I am encouraged to proceed from the knowlege I possess of the extreme goodness of your heart: On this ground I venture, buoyed with the hope that you will grant me the favor I ask, if I have been, or may be found to merit it. Having since...
30From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed, sent for Mr Jeffersons perusal, corrobates the idea held out in the communication of Mr H——d. ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. At the bottom of the letter, Jefferson wrote: “Extract from [Samuel] Kirkland’s letter [to Henry Knox], dated Kanandaiqua Feb. 25. 1792. ‘The British at Niagara, hold out this idea, that the U.S. will not be able to refund the confiscated Tory...