11To 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...
12To 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...
13To 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...