421Executive Order, 25 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
An act making allowances for certain services & contingencies in the collection of the Revenue during the year ending on the 30th day of June 1792. Whereas it has been found necessary to provide a compensation for the legal admeasurement of Stills during the year ending on the 30th day of June 1792. it is hereby established & declared, that there may & shall be allowed to the Collectors of the...
422From George Washington to James Wilkinson, 14 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
( private ) Sir, Phila. March 14th 1793 I had the pleasure to receive your polite letter of the 1st of Novr by the hands of Capt. Prior—and shortly after the two Kegs of fish therein mentioned came safe to hand. They were truly a novelty here—and if the Western Waters abound with such fine fish as these appear to be, it may be considered as no small addition to the many favours which nature...
423From George Washington to James Keith, 7 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter from Colo. Hooe, with a statement of Mr Bennett’s claim against Colo. Colville’s estate, will shew you how anxious he is to have that matter settled —and you well know how extremely anxious I am to have all the business relative to that estate closed as soon as it can possibly be done. I must therefore beg, Sir, that no time m[a]y be lost in settling the matter with the...
424From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
As I perceive there has been some mis-conception respecting the building of Vessels in our Ports wch may be converted into armed ones; and as I understand from the Attorney General there is to be a meeting today, or tomorrow of the Gentlemen on another occasion, I wish to have that part of your circular letter which respects this matter Reconsidered by them before it goes out. I am not...
425From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 29 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Land which was given to me by my mother, or as Heir at law I am entitled to without —I do, as I told you at Mt Vernon, make you a present of. It lyes near the Accoceek old Furnace and about eight miles from Falmouth on the Road leading to it containing, as I have generally understood, about 400 Acres of the most valuable Pine in that part of the Country; but which, as I have been informed,...
426From George Washington to William Paterson, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The resignation of Mr Johnson, one of the Associate Judges, having occasioned a vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, it is incumbent upon me to bring forward a suitable Character to fill that place. In performing this part of my duty, I think it necessary to select a person who is not only professionally qualified to discharge that important trust, but one who is...
427From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Late this afternoon, and in company, I r[e]ceived your letter of yesterday’s date. Proposing to set out early in the morning, and the trifling incidents wch happened to occur on the road being related in the enclosed letter, I shall conclude with best wishes for yourself, Mrs Lear and the Child —and assurances of being Your sincere friend and Affectionate Servant ALS , IGK . GW was on his way...
428From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 28 February 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Edmund Randolph, 28 Feb. 1793. In his letter to GW of 28 Feb. , Randolph wrote that he “did not receive the letter, with which you honored me this morning, until my return from the Statehouse at 4 O’clock this afternoon.”
429From George Washington to Elizabeth Willing Powel, February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed thoughts are well conceived. The sentiments are just; and altho’ the envy expressed in some of them is to be regretted, yet it is hoped that Mira, at the age of four score, will stand as much in the way of Cloe as she does at present; and will appear the Same in the eyes of all who may then see her, as she did on her anniversary of fifty. AL , ViMtvL . The enclosed poem reads:...
430From George Washington to the Cabinet, 17 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Sir, United States [Philadelphia] Feby 17th 1793. I transmit you a copy of a Letter from the Secretary of War to me, with the heads of instructions proposed to be given to the Commissioners who may be appointed to hold a Treaty with the Western Indians in the Spring. As I intend in a few days to call for the advice & opinion of the heads of the Departments on the points touched upon...
431From George Washington to William Moultrie, 15 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dr Sir, Philada March 15th 1793 I was exceedingly pleased to learn from your letter of the 15th ultimo, that a spirit of improvemt in military knowledge was rapidly taking place among the Militia of your State—and I should be happy to give a mark of my approbation of so laudable an emulation, by complying with your Excellency’s request, if it could be done with propriety. But...
432From George Washington to Henry Lee, 6 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia May 6th 1793. On Saturday last your favor of the 29th ulto was handed to me. My visit to Mount Vernon (intended to be short when I set out) was curtailed by the Declaration of War by France against Great Britain and Holland; for I foresaw in the moment information of that event came to me at that place the necessity for announcing the disposition of this...
433From George Washington to William Washington, 15 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
As it is possible the Letter, of which the enclosed is a copy, may have met with some mis-chance, I send a duplicate thereof. My Nephew (as I expected & intimated in my last letter to you) died about the first of February. With great regard, & best respects to your Lady, in which Mrs Washington joins me, I remain, Your Affecte humble Servant LB , DLC:GW . See GW to William Washington, 30 Jan....
434From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25 Ulto came duly to hand. The enclosed to Mr Keith (which I take the liberty of putting under cover to you as there is no postage to pay, because as he does not seem to be in the habit of sending regularly to the Post Office letters to him sometimes sleep there) is expressive of my consent to his receiving from Mr Wilson, & paying to you on Acct of Mr Bennett all the money...
435From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 29 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Whilst I was at Mount Vernon in the early part of this month, I recd your letter of the 20th of March, and was in hopes it would have been followed by the Oyster shells you gave me reason to expect; but none had arrived the 24th, when I last heard from Mr Whiting. If I am to relinquish all expectation of getting them I wish to be informed thereof, that I may try, through some other source, to...
436From George Washington to the United States Senate, 22 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The nomination of the following persons to fill up the existing vacancies of Ensigns are made provisionally, to be employed, or not, as the prospect of peace, by the proposed treaty, may render it expedient. If upon a further view of the subject, it should appear probable, that the proposed treaty would issue in a peace the services of these provisional Ensigns would not be required, and of...
437From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 3 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
On my way to, and at the landing of George Town yesterday, I had a good deal of conversation with Major Ellicott—who says, if you will give him an opportunity, he will make it appear to your satisfaction that there are not those errors in his work that have been reported; and that the work reported to have been done, and not actually executed he is persuaded he can expln to your entire...
438From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 26 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 17th & 22d instt came duly to hand. Scales, with such weights as you have required, will be sent to you by the first vessel bound to Alexandria: and as there is reason to apprehend a rise in the price of Iron, I propose to send you a tonn thereof by the same opportunity; let me know therefore, as soon as this is received, the sorts which will suit you best. I shall also...
439From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
If you are among the purchasers of Flour, be so good as to let me know what you would give for about 600 barrels—nearly half, superfine, 290 of which are in your own Warehouse—the rest at my Mill, but might be delivered as above. all of it, if reported to me truly, is of the best quality, of their respective sorts. I would allow a credit of Sixty days—or, to enhance the price 90 days for the...
440From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Being desireous of having a full and accurate knowledge of such things as are required to be done by or through the President of the United States, by the laws passed during the late Session of Congress, and which are deposited among the Rolls in your Office—I have to request, that the said laws may be examined for this purpose, and that you will furnish me with extracts of such parts or...
441Circular to the United States Senators, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Circular) [Philadelphia] March 1st 1793. The President of the United States to Senator for the State of . Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 4th instant, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then & there to receive & deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part. LB...
442From George Washington to Alice Delancey Izard, 20 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President presents his respectful compliments & thanks to Mrs Izard, for the information contained in the Charlston Gazette (herewith returned) of the arrival of M. Genet at that City. AL (photostat), ViMtvL . Edmond Genet, recently appointed by France as its new minister to the United States, arrived in Charleston, S.C., aboard the French frigate Embuscade on 8 April 1793. The enclosed...
443From George Washington to the Marquise de Lafayette, 16 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I addressed a few lines to you on the 31st of January, in a state of entire uncertainty in what country or condition they might find you, as we had been sometimes told you were in England, sometimes in Holland, & at sometimes in France. your letter of Octob. 8. 1792. first relieved me from doubt, & gave me a hope that, being in France, & on your own estate, you are not as destitute, as I had...
444From George Washington to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Chiefs and Warriors of the Tribes of Indians residi⟨ng⟩ on the Wabash and Illinois Rivers. As you are now about to return to your own Country, I take you by the hand and wish you a pleasant Journey. When you arrived here I was glad to see you, because I believed your undertaking so long a Journey, was a Strong assurance of your disposition to Cultivate peace and friendship with the United...
445From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 8 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to think I have cause to accuse you of inattention to my requests. When you were at Mount Vernon last, I told you I had been informed that, the Assignees of Semple, against whom I, as the Surviving Exr of Colo. Thos Colvill had obtained judgment on a Bond, either had thrown, or was about to throw the matter into Chancery; and I desired if this was, or should be the case that you...
446From George Washington to Richard Peters, 16 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Young informs me, by a letter which I have lately received from him, that the accounts, relative to the state of agriculture, which I had collected from various quarters and transmitted to him last fall, have set him afloat on the High Seas of conjecture with respect to the Agriculture of this Country. The account which you had the goodness to prepare for me was among the number of those...
447From George Washington to the Philadelphia Merchants and Traders, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Fully persuaded that the happiness and best interests of the people of the United States, will be promoted by observing a strict neutrality in the present contest among the powers of Europe; it gives me pleasure to learn, that the measure which I have taken to declare to the world their disposition on this head, has given general satisfaction to the Citizens of Pennsylvania. The friends of...
448From George Washington to William Washington, 30 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th of October to my Nephew—Majr G: Auge Washington—after some forward & a retrograde movement found him at Colo. Bassetts in New Kent, Virginia; to which place for change of Air, and a warmer situation for the Winter, he had embarked (by water) about the middle of that month—so much reduced—poor fellow! as to be hardly able to stand. From thence your letter was forwarded...
449From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The regular course which the affairs of The Federal City are likely to move in by the appointment of a Superintendant, who may relieve you from details, & from all sacrifices of time except your periodical meetings, enables me now to proceed, on more certain ground, to the subject of compensation. That a proper compensation should be made you, must undoubtedly be the public expectation as well...
450From George Washington to the United States Senate, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
United States [Philadelphia], 1 Mar. 1793. Nominates “Samuel Cooper Johonnet, of Massachusetts, to be Consul for the United States at the Port of Demarara . . . Michael Murphy of Malaga in the Kingdom of Spain to be Consul for the United States at the said Port of Malaga . . . [and] James Greenleaf of Massachusetts to be Consul for the United States at Amsterdam in the United Netherlands.” LS...