1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 22 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am going to put you on a wild goose chace to find out the person to whom the inclosed letter is addressed. He moved to N. Carolina in 1782. and is settled somewhere up towards the mountains and not a great way from the Virginia line. This is all which his family here can tell me of him. A son of his here claims under him 100. acres of land which are in my possession, but he has no deed for...
2To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 28 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
Judging from my long acquaintance with and attachment to you, I have decided that a letter from me would not be unacceptable. Since ⟨my⟩ return from Philadelphia, I have been at Halifax during the session⟨s⟩ of one of our sup⟨erior⟩ circuit courts; and at two or three other places of public resort; and I am happy to be able to inform you, that much of that impurity which manifests itself...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Hawkins, 12 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Note of Yesterday inclosing the Resolution of the 11th. of January last, in the House of Commons of North Carolina, with a Request of Information. The Papers of the Commissioners are deposited in the Treasury—but it would not be thought consistant with its Duty to enter into Explanations and Exhibitions of the Nature of those contemplated by the Resolutions, without the...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Hawkins, 11 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 11, 1794. On March 12, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Hawkins : “I have received your Note of Yesterday.” Letter not found. ] Hawkins was United States Senator from North Carolina from November, 1789, to March, 1795.
5To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 21 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The gentleman who wrote the inclosed I have long known his character is unexceptionable, he is a brother of the late Colo. Richd Henderson, who purchased Kentuckey, one of the Royal Judges of North Carolina: He resides in the interior part of the State and is a native of it. I have no other intimation of the intention of Mr Thomas than this from Mr Henderson. With the most respectful...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 28 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
For the first time my dear sir, I have an opportunity direct for your house. Micajah Childs called on me this evening on his return to Charlottsville. I avail myself of it by his permission to send you some grape vines. No. 1 Burgundy, called Millers Burgundy, the berries oval and black, the leaves covered with a hoary down. 2 Auvorna second Burgundy or black Morillon esteemed the best of the...
7To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
There being a proba[bi]lity that an accommodation of our differences with the Northwestern Indians is to be effected by treaty in the course of the expected negotiations with them: Or their enmity placed in so strong a point of view, as to endure a general acquiescence in the measures, which must of necessity be persued, by the government, to compell them to embrace such equitable terms, as...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Strong Mr. Rutherford Mr. Hawkins The committee on the enclosed bill reported verbally in substance as follows. That the line to be run would be exparte, as the President of the United States was authorized to appoint the officers to be employed in running the line, although such line would have affected the jurisdiction of the States of Virginia and Kentuckey, and perhaps, would have...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 1 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you your share of the white bent grass, so much valued by Mr. Bassett. I have sent the half of the remainder to the President. Mr. B. being a farmer, we may count with certainty on its being a valuable acquisition from the experience he has had. If you have formd any thing interesting from the name I sent you, you can communicate it to the President with a translation of the botanical...
10To George Washington from Benjamin Hawkins, 11 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I send you herewith the papers mentioned this morning. Mr [Robert] Morris acknowledging himself in the Senate, a party concerned, (and as such, would not vote) moved to postpone the consideration of the last memorial, assigning as the reason, “that the Indians in question, would soon be in this city, that the company meant to apply to them, on the subject, and had reason to believe, that they...