1To John Adams from Harry Innes, 30 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
Pardon me if my zeal for the public good hath induced an address to you in your official capacity different from the common rotine of business; yet sir when you reflect on both the importance & delicacy of the subject, I trust this deviation will be excused as I would not be willing to commit myself upon the occasion to any other person except yourself. Thro’ the medium of a correspondence...
2To John Adams from Harry Innes, 10 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
A desire to promote the happiness of our common country has induced me to address you at this time; this reason I flatter myself will be received as a sufficient appology for the freedom I have taken in writing this letter. It is reported that a change is proposed & will probably take place in the Judicial system of the U. States & that this change will require an additional Judge in this...
3To George Washington from Harry Innes, 18 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
Never was a person more perplexed than I am at the present moment. I have it in my power to communicate important intelligence, which not only affects the happiness of the Western Country but the prosperity of the Union. To what power then shall I make the communication? At the first view, it would appear to be most eligible to the Executive of Virginia; but this to me is exceptionable,...
4To George Washington from Harry Innes, 5 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have the hono’r to acknowledge the receipt of your very polite Letter of the 30th of September with the several papers therein inclosed, permit me sir to return my most grateful thanks for the attention paid & the hono’r confered on me by the supreme Executive of the United States. The Office of Judge is of the first Magnitude, and when I reflect on its importance & my own imbecility it is...
5To George Washington from Harry Innes, 18 March 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Harry Innes, 18 March 1795. On 8 May, Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., transmitted to Secretary of War Timothy Pickering “a letter of the 18 of March last, with its enclosure, from Harry Innes Esqr. to the President” ( DLC:GW ); and on 13 May, Pickering reported to GW on “The subject of the letter dated March 18. 1795, from Harry Innes Esq. of Kentuckey, to the President of...
6To James Madison from Harry Innes, 11 June 1801 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday I attended at this place agreably to the Act of Congress for the more convenient organization of the Courts of the United States in order to give effect to the laws of Congress within the two Territories. The organization of the Court could only be partially effected, no person being appointed Marshal within the District, or if appointed no commission has come to hand. It was...
7To James Madison from Harry Innes, 14 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
By the last Mail I was favoured thro’ my friend Mr. Breckenridge with a copy of the Document No. 8 accompanying the Presidents communications; upon the examination of which I was confident the statement relative to the suits in the Kentucky District Court was erronious in two instances, 1st. as to the number & 2d. as to the suits in which the United States were a party. Yesterday I went to the...
8To James Madison from Harry Innes (Abstract), 6 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
6 March 1805, Kentucky . “Desiorous of promoting the views & wish of a friend, & being informed that the Judicial appointments in the lower Dist. of Louisania were not filled, permit me to recommend for nomination the Honble. John Coburn. “To enable you to form an idea of the merits of this gentleman I shall state the following facts. “In organi<z>ing the Judicial courts of this State in 1792...
9To James Madison from Harry Innes, 25 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
The villanous & virulent attacks which have been made upon me by Humphry Marshall in certain Papers which were sometime since published in this State have produced a prosecution against him for a libel. In his defence by way of Justification, there will be an attempt to connect me with Genl. Wilkinson as having carried on an illicit & traiterous correspondence with certain Spanish Officers...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Harry Innes, 18 February 1782 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. Instant came safe to hand yesterday and I can not forbear returning you my most grateful thanks for the particular manner in which you answered my Letter of Novr . I am again going to mention something farther in behalf of those people who wish to contest the Titles of Patton’s and Buchannan’s Representatives, and in this I am encouraged by your polite and freindly Letter...