1To Alexander Hamilton from William Hull, 29 June 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Newton [ Massachusetts ] June 29, 1789 . Requests Hamilton to accept “Mr. Charles Jackson, Son of General Michael Jackson,” as a law clerk. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Hull, after service in the American Revolution, practiced law in Newton, Massachusetts.
2From George Washington to Leonard de Neufville, 29 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the present month and the papers accompanying it have been handed to me since my late indisposition. As all public accompts and matters of a pecuniary nature will come properly under the inspection of the Treasury Department of the United States, I shall, when that department is organized & established, have those papers laid before the Secretary thereof —and so far as my...
3To George Washington from Zephaniah Turner, 29 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Port Tobacco, in Charles County Maryland, Sir, June 29th 1789. With diffidence and respect, I take the liberty to address you. As a Citizen—and I mean to be a good one—I know that I am free to express my sentiments, with decency, on any matter or thing, that may happen within my knowledge or observation. The Laws and proceedings in Courts, from the Jurisprudence of the State of Maryland, and I...
4Treasury Department, [29 June] 1789 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison Observed, that the committee had gone through the bill without making any provision respecting the tenure by which the comptroller is to hold his office. He thought it was a point worthy of consideration, and would therefore submit a few observations upon it. It will be necessary, said he, to consider the nature of this office, to enable us to come to a right decision on the...
5To James Madison from George Nicholas, 29 June 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter and enclosure not found. 29 June 1789. Calendared in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany). The two documents were offered for sale in the Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 694 (1892), which listed items from the McGuire collection of JM’s papers.
6To Thomas Jefferson from Veuve David & fils, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Morlaix, 29 June 1789. They appeal to TJ’s “Puissante Protection” to obtain justice for “Sujets” of the United States for whom they are correspondents.—Their friends in Providence shipped to them last February a cargo of various products of America, such as linseed, tobacco, tar, turpentine, whale and codfish oil, potash, pearlash, tallow and salt provisions. When they came to pay duty, they...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the 25th. gave you the transactions of the States general to the afternoon of that day. On the next the Archbishop of Paris joined the Tiers, as did some others of the clergy and noblesse. 26th On the 27th. the question of the St. Domingo deputation 27th came on, and it was decided that it should be received. I have before mentioned to you the ferment into which the proceedings at...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Amand Koenig, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Aeschynis Epistolae. Gr. Taylori. notis. 8vo. Lipsiae. 1₶-10 Aeschyli tragoediae. Schutz. 2.v. 8vo. maj. Halae. 1782.3.4. 30₶ Apuleii opera omnia. 24s. Amstel. 1624. apud Jansson. 2₶-10 Ciceronis questiones Tusculanae. 24s. maj. Lugd. 1733. 15s. Cicero de senectute et somnio Scipionis Graec. Theodori 8vo. Basil. 1524. 1.₶ Livii historiar. libri 91. mi Fragmentum. 4to. Romae 1773. 3₶...
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty on the 26th. inst. of troubling you with a packet for Mr. Jay giving him an account of the crisis into which the seance royale of the 23d. had thrown this country. I now trouble you with the inclosed, which will inform him that all is settled by a reunion of the three orders in one chamber in consequence of a letter from the king: so that all danger of civil commotion here...