1IV. Secretary of State to the Governor of Vermont, 28 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to transmit to your Excellency an authenticated Copy of the Act of Congress for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union, and of the Act regulating the Number of Representatives to be chosen by the States of Kentucky and Vermont, also two Copies of the Acts passed at the first and second Sessions of the Congress of the United States. Permit me at the same time...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, [ca. 28 February 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Cox and is much obliged to him for the inclosed pamphlet. He had received a copy the last year soon after it’s publication. It was the first acknowlegement publicly made that England was an importing country as to bread. The report was written by Ld. Hawkesbury. The same thing had been satisfactorily proved before by a private hand in 1784. Can Mr....
3From George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
If you have concluded nothing yet with Mr Burn’s; nor made him any offer for his land that is obligatory; I pray you to suspend your negotiations with him, until you hear further from me. With much Esteem I am, Gentlemen, Your &c. LB , DLC:GW ; ADfS , DLC:GW . David Burnes (1739–1799) owned a tract of some two hundred and twenty-five acres in the federal district, centered around the mouth of...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Freneau, 28 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The clerkship for foreign languages in my office is vacant. The salary indeed is very low, being but two hundred and fifty dollars a year: but also it gives so little to do as not to interfere with any other calling the person may chuse, which would not absent him from the seat of government. I was told a few days ago that it might perhaps be convenient to you to accept it. If so it is at your...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, [28 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
The President has commanded me to transmit the enclosed to you from Mr. Thatcher and request that you will give it the consideration it may merit. The President also requests that you will take occasion to converse with some others of the gentlemen from Massachusetts on this subject and to mention it likewise to some from New Hampshire. I have the honor to be very respectfully & sincerely ...
6Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The President has commanded me to transmit the enclosed to you from Mr Thatcher and request that you will give it the consideration it may merit—The President also requests that you will take occasion to converse with some others of the gentlemen from Massachusetts on this subject—and to mention it likewise to some from New Hampshire. I have the honor to be very respectfully & sincerely Your...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, February 28, 1791. Asks Hamilton’s opinion on the “Construction of the Law, relative to the 12 ⅌ Cent allowed for Tare on Sugars &c.” Asks if the same “deduction for Tare is allowed” for “Cocoa in Bags” as for coffee. ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives. This is provided in Section 35 of “An...
8From John Adams to Ebenezer Hazard, 28 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
M r Adams presents his Compliments to M r Hazard, and returns, with Pleasure, the Proposal for printing his valuable Collection of State Papers, with a Subscription. RC ( NHi :Gilder Lehrman Coll., on deposit); endorsed: “Vice Presid t. Adams.” New York City bookseller Ebenezer Hazard (1744–1817) widely advertised his plans to compile and print his Historical Collections; Consisting of State...
9Tobias Lear to Ebenezer Hazard, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
By the command of the President of the United States T. Lear has the honor to return to Mr Hazard the enclosed proposals for printing by subscription a collection of State-Papers, which Mr Hazard submitted to the President and which have been subscribed by him. The whole or any part of the money for the President’s subscription will be paid by T. Lear whenever Mr Hazard may chuse to receive...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Vail, 28 [February] 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
With an apology for intruding on your valuable time I beg leave to address you once more on a subject on which I have troubled you already several times. I have sir, some time past determined on residing some years in France where I have found some commercial, and other connections that, to me are very flattering. The owner of the packets a very respectable merchant at St. Malo, and myself...