1To George Washington from Colonel Alexander Martin, 7 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
The within Proceedings of the Board of Officers of the N. Carolina Brigade I approve of, and do recommend the Gentlemen Officers within named—both from their Rank & Merit, to your Excellency, to fill the Vacancies aforesaid. ALS , DNA : RG 93, Revolutionary War Records, North Carolina. Beneath Martin’s letter GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison summarized the promotions of four field...
2To George Washington from Alexander Martin, 4 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to permit the enclosed little dramatic piece to wait on you in your present Retirement, it was written by me this Session of Congress partly for Amusement, and partly with a view by bringing forward in this Manner the most prominent Characters in our late Revolution, to reconcile in some Measure if possible the present jarring political Sentiments that unfortunately distract our...
3To James Madison from Alexander Martin, 27 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I rec’d your’s of the 19th proferring to my Gazette the publication of the Laws of the U. States, on the terms specified. I assure you, Sir, I feel highly grateful for the compliment and readily accept the terms. I am Sir, very respectfully Your Most Obt Sert RC ( DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters Received Regarding Publishers of the Laws). This is the first reply of record to JM’s circular...
4To George Washington from Alexander Martin, 1 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honour of transmitting to you herewith “An Act” of the General Assembly of this State passed at their last Session “to carry into Effect a Resolution of Congress passed the twenty-ninth Day of September in the year 1789.” which I have to request you will please to communicate to the Congress of the United States. I have the Honour to be with most respectful Consideration Sir,...
5Enclosure: From Thomas Rogers, 20 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
A Proposition of His Excellency the Governor. Having received information that the States of New York and South Carolina have funded their Public securities by Subscribing them on Loan to the United States, pursuant to an Act of Congress passed in their second Session intituled an Act “for making provision for the debt of the United States,” I consider it the duty of the Executive as the...
6To George Washington from Alexander Martin, 24 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honour to inclose your Excellency herewith a copy of an Act of the General Assembly of this State passed at their last Session at this place, “for the purpose of ceding to the United States of America certain western Lands therein described,” which your Excellency will please to lay before the honorable the Congress of the United States at their next Session. I have the Honour...
7To George Washington from Alexander Martin, 18 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
As Brigadier General Martin of Washington District in this State, Agent of Indian Affairs has been criminated as he is informed before your Excellency and Congress, by a certain Bennet Belew for some mal-practises in his Agency, more particularly for a Letter said Gen. Martin should have written to Alexander McGilveray one of the Chiefs of the Creek Nation, to whom some particular Resolutions...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Martin, 24 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 6th. of June last enclosing a copy of a letter from Governor Blount notifying you of certain grants being obtained from the State of North Carolina for lands in the ceded territory south of French Broad river, on supernumerary warrants from Armstrong’s office. One of the conditions of the Act of Cession hath authorized “any person or...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Alexander Martin, 1 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I do myself the Honour to inclose you herewith a bill of exchange payable to me as Governor of the State of North Carolina from Mr Daniel Carthy agent for Royal Flint Esquire in New york drawn upon that Gentleman for sixteen Hundred Spanish Milled Dollars being his first Bill dated 23d. of April 1790. The second and third of same Tenor & date in my possessetion and not yet forwarded but will...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Martin, 4 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last I did myself the honor to write you an answer to your letter respecting supernumerary warrants from entries made in Armstrong’s Office on lands lying south of French Broad river, between the waters of Tenassee and Pigeon rivers; I had not attended immediately (having the Cession Act then before me) to the Act of Assembly for opening the Land Office in the western Country, in which...