511To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President & will take the liberty of presenting to him to-day Colo. Von Rohr, who is the subject of the inclosed letter from Governor Walterstorf of Santa Cruz. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
512To George Washington from John Gibbons, 27 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 27 Feb. 1793. Asks “leave to approach Your benevolence . . . I am the Son of a respectable Merchan⟨t⟩, who lived many Years in Dublin . . . And in consequence of the insinuations of a certain publication which appeared there, of an Asylum to be found here for redressing the grievances of reduced Irishmen and their families, under the denomination of the Hibernian Society, which...
513From George Washington to James Craik, 9 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
On thursday, 1 Oclock afternoon, it is proposed to pay the last Office (in funeral obsequies) to my deceased Nephew; at which I should be glad to see you. The funerl Service will be in presence of a few friends only; & dinner for these will be ready at half after two Oclock; at which I shall expect you. Mrs Washington mentioned Mr Porter (as an intimate of Her late husbd) and I should be glad...
514To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 31 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 31 May 1793. GW, in his letter to Whitting of 9 June , wrote that “I have received your letters of the 31st of May & 5th instant.”
515From George Washington to the United States Senate, 27 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Paterson, at present Governor of the State of New Jersey, to be one of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States; vice, Thomas Johnson, resigned. LS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . For GW’s decision to nominate William Paterson, see Edmund...
516To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a communication of the 9th instant from the Commissioner of the Revenue, this morning received, transmitting a Contract with Abeshai Woodward as Superintendant of the workmen to be employed in completing the Lighthouse at Bald-Head. From what is said by the Commissioner of the Revenue, & information through other channels, I am of opinion, that a person in this...
517To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 22 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edward Newenham, c.22 May 1793. Newenham wrote GW on 7 June 1793, “I sent you all our Irish Papers by the Eliza (bound to New York) from the 8th of March to the 22d of may.”
518To George Washington from David Jameson, Jr., 23 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
In a meeting of the Dismal Swamp Company at this place yesterday it was determined that each Share should on or before the first day of July next Contribute Eighty Dollars for purposes in the resolution expressed, And as I was deputed to Represent my Uncle David Jameson of this place (who was unable to attend in person) And entered the proceedings; I was requested to write to the absent...
519To George Washington from Patrick Miller, 2 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have requested Mr Swift of Alexandria to deliver this letter and to present you in my name a small Essay on Naval Architecture, of which I have to beg your Acceptance as a Mark of Respect from a warm Admirer of your Character. A particular cast of Mind has led me to make numberless Experiments for the Improvement of Artillery and of Naval Architecture, fondly hoping that from a Combination...
520To George Washington from Samuel Brooks, 13 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Embolden’d by the fame of Your excelency’s complacent disposition, I have presum’d (tho a poor Widow’s son ) to adress You with the utmost Respect, Yet without restraint. The business upon which I have taken this liberty is, to beg that You may permit me to present a specimen of my abilities in Die sinking, which if found to contain suficient merit, and that my character with other requisites...
521To George Washington from Noailles, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
When Viscount Noailles accepted the invitation of Mr President he expected early this morning the Papers and things he left in the new Pigou, he has been waiting this morning after them without Succès. as Soon as the visit of the officers will be Made aboard the Ship he will have the honour to wait upon M. President and inquire which hour he may be introduced. L , DLC:GW . No written...
522From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 3 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25th of Jany came duly to hand; but the usual one, containing the Reports, is not yet arrived; detained, as is supposed with the Mail, by Ice in the Susquehanna. Under cover with this letter you will receive some Lima Beans which Mrs Washington desires may be given to the Gardener; also Panicum or Guinea Corn, from the Island of Jamaica, which may be planted merely to see...
523To George Washington from Thomas Pinckney, 13 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
M. de Noailles who is the bearer of this requires no introduction to you, his situation & services during the late War you witnessed, & are well acquainted with the subsequent events which have placed him in his present predicament. You will find him warmly participating in the anxiety we all feel for the welfare of our friend M. de la Fayette —on this subject I have only to say that I have...
524To George Washington from David Humphreys, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Secret & confidential) My dear Sir. Lisbon May 5th 1793 I wrote to the Secretary of State on the 29th Ulto by way of Boston. In that Dispatch, I mentioned having seen a letter of the 20th of March from Captn Obryen, on Algerine affairs. I now take the liberty of enclosing the copy of a letter from him to a Gentleman in this city, for your information. I pretend to make no comments upon it, as...
525To George Washington from William Moultrie, 26 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The very defenceless state of this Port, together with the earnest wish of the Citizens, has determined me in erecting a few Cannon to preserve the peace and secure the command of the Harbor; I do myself the honor of communicating this to you, and hope the measure will meet with your approbation. The expences cannot be great, as we already have the Cannon, the Batteries in contemplation to be...
526Tobias Lear to the Postmasters of Baltimore, Georgetown, and Alexandria, 27 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the U. S. intending to set off for Mount Vernon this day, has directd me to request that you will retain any letters that may come to your office for him after you receive this and will take from the Mails going to Philada that may pass thro[u]gh your Office, such letters as are addressed to the President —and cause them to be sent to him when he arrives in Baltimore. I am Sir...
527From George Washington to the United States House of Representatives, 19 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
It has been agreed, on the part of the United States, that a treaty or conference shall be held, at the ensuing season, with the hostile Indians north west of the Ohio, in order to remove, if possible, all causes of difference, and to establish a solid peace with them. As the estimates, heretofore presented to the House for the current year, did not contemplate this object, it will be proper,...
528To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 28 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have had the happiness to receive your favors of the 7th & 11th instants —the first did not come to my hands, for near a week after the usual time—Mr Dandridge was unacquainted with my short visit to Eltham, & sent my letters to this place, where I found them on my return —I shoud be very much concernd for this detention, if I had not reason to beleive that my last letters to my Aunt, woud...
529To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 14 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
private My dear Sir Paris 14 Feby 1793 I have receivd yours of the twentieth of October which was very long on its Way. You will find that Events have blackened more and more in this Country. Her present Prospects are dreadful. It is not so much perhaps the external Force, great as that may be, for there are always Means of Defence in so vast a Nation. The exhausted State of Resources might...
530From George Washington to the Cabinet, 21 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Circular) Gentlemen, United States [Philadelphia] March 21st 1793 The Treaty which is agreed to be held on or about the first of June next at the Lower Sandusky of Lake Erie, being of great moment to the interests and peace of this Country; and likely to be attended with difficulties arising from circumstances (not unknown to you) of a peculiar and embarrassing nature; it is indispensably...
531Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President sends to the Secretary of State the enclosed Extract which he has just recd from a respectable Gentleman in this City—who informs him that the writer is a person of respectability & good information in London—The President wishes it to be shewn to the Gentlemen if they are still together. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. The enclosed unsigned letter from John Vaughan to GW of 14 May...
532To George Washington from Richard Cromwell, et al., 22 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
the honourable to the president of the United states George Washington. Whereas a Certain Matthias Dych of the County and state aforesaid hath on the 6th of this instant Enlisted under Capt: Wm Lewis having a wife An four Small Children and Nothing to leave to maintain them; And being Desirious to be Releast: we therefore the hereunder mentioned subscribers do humbly petition to thee...