11To George Washington from George Clinton, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I transmit for your information, the enclosed papers respecting an event of national concern which lately took place on board the Ship of War Jupiter belonging to the French Squadron in this harbor, and the measures which were adopted in consequence thereof. The application of the Consul General of the French Republic on this occasion, you will readily perceive, placed me in a very delicate...
12To George Washington from George Clinton, 8 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honor of transmitting to you, a Copy of a corespondence with the Minister of the Republic of France, relative to the two french Privateers, mentioned in your last as having arrived in this Port, and also respecting a British Brigantine lately sent in here as a Prize alledged to have been captured within the territoria⟨l⟩ Jurisdiction of the United States, by the Cerf a French...
13To George Washington from George Clinton, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
In my last letter dated the 8th September (and to which I ⟨ mutilated ⟩ yet been favored with an answer) I have omitted to mentio⟨n⟩ the French vessel, called the Republican, a prize to the Brit⟨ish⟩ frigate Boston, had departed, and was without the reach of my a⟨ mutilated ⟩ previous to the receipt of the Letter from the Secretary of war, directing her detension. It will appear from the...
14To George Washington from George Clinton, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have recently received a Letter from the Secretary of War dated the 12th and also another dated the 13th Instant in Answer to mine of the 8th of September last. On recurring to my Correspondence with the Minister of France a Copy of which was enclosed in that letter it will appear that my Object was to procure the departure of the privateers Petit Democrat and Carmagnole Agreeably to your...
15From George Washington to George Clinton, 27 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia 27th Novr 1793 Not having the letters at hand, I am unable to refer to dates; but the one with which you were pleased to favour me, dated sometime in September, did not reach my hands before I had left this City. Immediately, however, upon the receipt of it (at my own house in Virginia) I put it under cover to the Secretary of War with directions to answer it...
16To George Washington from George Clinton, 18 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Clinton, 18 Dec. 1793. On 25 Dec., GW wrote Clinton : “Your favor of the 18th instt enclosing a statement of sales of lots in Coxburgh, belonging to us, has been duly received.”
17To George Washington from George Clinton, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Although Mr Williamson mentions in his Letter to me of the 26th of November that he has transmitted to the secretary of state the affidavit of George Rankin yet I have thought proper to enclose a duplicate of it together with a Copy of his said Letter It is my duty at the same time not only to solicit redress from the Union of the Injury this State sustains from a foreign power’s continuing to...
18From George Washington to George Clinton, 25 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 18th instt enclosing a statement of sales of lots in Coxburgh, belonging to us, has been duly received; and I thank you for the particular manner in which they are rendered. I did not mean to give you so much trouble. To know summarily what had been sold, and what remained on hand, was all I had in view. I hereby acknowledge the receipt of a Bank note (New York) for Sixteen...
19To George Washington from George Clinton, 20 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I conceive it to be my duty to communicate for your Information the Copy of a Speech made to me this Morning by Colo. Louis Cook, who with four other Indians of the Villages of St Regis is now at this Place; and also a Copy of a Speech, of Lord Dorchester to the Chiefs of the Seven Villages or Nations of lower Canada—The latter I this Moment received inclosed in a Confidential Letter from a...
20From George Washington to George Clinton, 31 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia Mar. 31st 1794. Your favor of the 20th instt, with its enclosures, came duly to hand; and for which you have my particular thanks. As there are those who affect to believe that Great Britain has no hostile intention towards this Country, it is not surprizing that there should be found among them characters who pronounce the Speech of Lord Dorchester to the...