1From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 17 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 8th of January and their duplicates. That of a public nature, on the subject of a proposed application from yourself to the Governor of East Florida, for the redelivery of certain fugitives charged with having forged the Indents assumed by the U. States will be answered by the Secretary of State. To your private favor I...
2From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 15 December 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Charles Pinckney, c.15 Dec. 1791. In a letter to GW of 8 Mar. 1791 , Charles Pinckney wrote that he had received “your obliging letter of introduction which had been previously left by Colonel Trumbull at my house.” GW wrote a letter of introduction for Trumbull to Edward Rutledge on 15 Dec. 1791 and almost certainly wrote a similar letter to Pinckney (and perhaps others)...
3From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 8 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform your Excellency that your letters of the 18th of August & 20th of September, with their duplicates and the several papers accompanying them, came duly to hand. The first was received at the time I was making arrangements to go to Mt Vernon, and the second when I was preparing my communications for Congress at the opening of the present session, This will account...
4From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Private. Dear Sir, New York, January 11th 1790. Altho’ it is not in my power to enter so fully as I could wish into an investigation of the interesting subjects discussed in your letter of the 14th of last month; yet I would not deny myself the satisfaction of acknowledging the receipt of it, and of expressing my obligations for the sentiments which your Excellency has been pleased to suggest....
5From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 29 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your Excellency’s obliging letter of the 8th instant last evening. I am thus far on my tour through the southern States—but, as I travel with only one sett of horses, and must make occasional halts, the progress of my journey is exposed to such uncertainty as admits not of fixing a day for my arrival at Charleston. While I express the grateful sense which I...
6From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 14th of June and a few days after a duplicate of the same each in closing a copy of the Constitution lately formed for your State. The address of the Convention, which you mentioned in your letter, has been presented by the Gentlemen in Congress from South Carolina; and I have endeavoured to express, in my answer thereto, the grateful sense...
7From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 8 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
To a Gentleman of your information it would not be new to say that the Marquis of Landsdown was the liberal friend of this country in its negociation of peace with Great Britain. The bearer, Lord Wycombe, his Son, is on a tour through America, and purposes to visit Charleston—I trouble you with this letter introductory of him to your civilities—You will find him agreeable well informed, and...
8From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 31 January–20 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia Jany 31st[–20 February] 1792. I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 22d of Novr last, with the enclosures from Genl Pickens & Colo. Anderson to yourself, respecting the deputation from the Cherokee Nation. I have likewise the pleasure to acknowldge the rect of your letter of the 6th of the same month. The Cherokees arrived in this City after a...
9To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 2 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to remind you that I shall expect the honour of your company at dinner on Thursday at four O Clock —and to a Ball on friday Evening at seven O Clock. I am with respectful Regard Dear Sir Your’s Truly ALS , PHi : Gratz Collection. GW landed at two o’clock in Charleston at Prioleau’s wharf to an artillery salute, pealing bells, and “reiterated shouts of joy” from “an uncommonly large...
10To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
My absence from Charleston has prevented my acknowledging sooner your favour of the 8th inclosing Mr Jefferson’s opinion on the subject of a proposed application from the Executive of this State for the redelivery of certain fugitives charged by the Grand Jury of this District with having forged the Indents assumed by the Union. The Constitution having very properly delegated the management of...
11To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 6 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you lately on the subject of the unfortunate situation of St Domingo & the application they made to me with my answer, which with the inclosures I hope you have recieved —The object of this Line is merely to introduce to your acquaintance Mr Barnwell one of our newly elected members of the house of Representatives & who I think will do much credit to his appointment —He will deliver...
12To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 4 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of writing you by the Maria some weeks ago —since which I have heard that Colonel Willett had proceeded by Land, with Mr McGillivray & a number of the Creek Chiefs on a Visit to New York. As this confidence in them in consenting to travel through the Country has induced the inhabitants of our frontiers to suppose that every thing either is accommodated or in a fair way of...
13To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 30 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you copies of Letters from General Pickens and Colonel Anderson on the subject of Indian Affairs —To me I confess their intelligence is unexpected, for I thought the justice and friendship the United States had treated the Creeks and Cherokees with, had entirely secured their confidence and respect; and that notwithstanding the attempts of the northern and western...
14To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 18 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
(Duplicate) Dear Sir Charleston [S.C.] 18th August 1791. I am much pleased to find by our last vessels from Philadelphia that you are safely arrived & escaped the dangers which might have been expected from a tour of such length & at so hot a season—hearing after you left us that it was your intention to have taken Ninety Six in your Route from Augusta & that you could not be at Columbia...
15To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 20 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour to write you lately by the Delaware since which an occasion makes it necessary for me to address you again, on the subject of the inclosed application to me from the general Assembly of St Domingo —By these inclosures you will percieve the wretched & distressed situation in which these unhappy people are & I am afraid if not checked in time it is a flame which will extend to...
16To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Upon my return to this City I found your obliging letter of introduction which had been previously left by Colonel Trumbull at my house during my absence in attending the meeting of the Legislature at Columbia. As soon as I am sufficiently recovered from my present indisposition arising from the accident of a fall from my carriage, I shall make a point of seeing him & endeavouring to make this...
17To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 14 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your avocations have been so numerous & important since your entrance into office that I have not troubled you with but one letter which was to recommend Mr Hall, & to very sincerely congratulate you upon your appointment to the supreme magistracy. I am well convinced that to increase the number of your correspondents unnecessarily is to do you a serious injury, for I should suppose with...
18To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir Charleston [S.C.] January 8: 1792 I am to lament that my absence from this place for nearly two months in attending the Legislature & other Business in the Country deprived me of the pleasure of seeing & shewing every civility in my power to Lord Wycombe during his short stay in Charleston. I am told his Lordship is now on a visit to the Floridas & that it is probable he...
19To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir. Charleston [S.C.] October 14: 1792 I have the honour to inclose you copies of my dispatches by Captain Burroughs lest any accident should have happened to him—not having recieved any Express since the first, I am not able to add to my former communications on that subject. As the four years for which I have been appointed to the office I hold will expire in December, and as...
20To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
If a law should be passed during the session of the Legislature for the government of the militia & any appointments should take place under the authority of the Union for the militia of the respective states, subordinate to that of an Adjutant for each such for instance as an Inspector I will take the liberty of mentioning to You the name of Mr Abraham Seixas for this state —I am well aware...
21To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 26 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Hearing that Colonel Washington will set out in a few days to meet you at Waccamaw, I take the Liberty of acquainting You that I have requested General Moultrie to ask the favour of yourself & the gentlemen of your family to dine with me on the day of your arrival in Charleston—the arrangements for the other days, the General will shew you & I trust they will prove acceptable—You may be...