21To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 6 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to you a copy of the proceedings of the General Assembly respecting our frontiers, in conformity to the request of the legislature expressed in those proceedings I have given orders to Col: D. Vance of Buncomb county to call into service the Scouts or patroles agreable to the instructions contained in the Secretary of Wars letter of the 19th Decem: 1792. I have...
22To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 6 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the request of the legislature I do myself the honor to transmit to you, a copy of the petition of Thomas Person and others proprietors of lands in the Territory South of the Ohio And a copy of the petition of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, together with sundry resolutions of the General Assembly on that subject. I have to request that you will be pleased to...
23To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the last post I received the Secretary of wars letter of the 12th Novem: in answer to my letter to you of the 21st of October last respecting the trunk of money which was taken from Captain Hervieux by the revenue officers and lodged in the hands of the deputy Marshal at Wilmington, and which I had given him in order to detain on a presumtion, it had been taken from on board the Spanish...
24To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 26 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 26 Nov. 1793. On 13 Dec., Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., sent to Henry Knox “a Letter from the Govr of North Carolina of 26 Nov. 93 to the President.”
25To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 21 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
In September I received a letter from the Collector of Wilmington informing me that the Captain of the Privateer, Vanqueur de Bastille had carried his prize the British Sloop Providence, down to the bar of Cape Fear river and had there shifted her guns &c. from on board the Vanqueur de Bastille to the prize sloop, proceeded to sea with her and was then cruizing off that Harbour, the Schooner...
26To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the 21st inst: I received information that a Schooner belonging to the port of Wilmington in this State had been fitted out as a privateer in South Carolina, on behalf of one of the parties at War, taken a British Vessel, and brought her into Wilmington as a Prize; at which place both the privateer and prize were then lying. In conformity to the instructions which I received from the...
27From George Washington to Richard Dobbs Spaight, 25 May 1788 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you honored me the 25th of last Month, and the Pease (by way of Baltimore) are safe at hand. I pray you to accept my thanks for them. I shall cultivate the Pease with care—this year in hills, to accumulate Seed—next year in broadcast, for a crop. I am sorry to find by your letter that the State of North Carolina is so much opposed to the proposed Government. If a better...
28To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 25 April 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 25 April 1788. On 25 May GW wrote Spaight that he had received the “letter with which you honored me the 25th of last month.”