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[ Philadelphia ] March 13, 1792 . “Unpleasant as the task is, to be the Bearer of bad tidings, it has fallen to my lot; and it is no less then the entire loss & destruction of one of the Piers at mud Island, by the Breaking up of the Ice on thursday last, when the whole body thereof moved at once, with the flood tide and a heavy easterly wind, which forced it with great Violence for A long...
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] March 13, 1792 . “… I wish for a supply of Registers having only seven on hand; and I should be very happy if an allowance and compensation for my services could be made to me before the adjournment of Congress.” LC , Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island. On April 5, 1792, H submitted to Congress his “Report on Compensation of Officers Employed in the...
A foreign attachment at the suit of Paulus Kok against Theodosius Gerhardus Bosch was served on the Secretary of the Treasury and on the Register out of one of the Courts of Pennsylvania by William Will, Esquire, Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia, with summons, as garnishees. The Defendant was supposed by the Plaintiff to be a Creditor of the United States, which, in fact, is the...
An Opinion has for sometime prevailed that peace with the Indians is attainable; That the War has arisen from a belief: that this Government seek to disposses them of their Lands, and will cease whenever these misapprehensions are removed. Unfortunately it does not appear that we have since the commencement of hostilities conveyed to them any direct assurances of our wishes and designs towards...
The Secretary of State incloses to the President the letter to the King of France with the alteration he proposes for incorporating the vote of the house. if the President approves it, he will be so good as to return it in time to be written at large to-day, signed & sealed. Th: J. thinks the copy of the resolution delivered the President with the signature of the Speaker will be the proper...
Although I have not the honor of being personally known to you yet I humbly wish the motive that induces me to this freedom of address may plead my Apology. In the early part of my life I was educated in the Medical line and received diaplomas from the Proffessors of medecine in the City of Philadelphia. For several years I was engaged in the different branches of my proffession, but at length...
My very good friend and neighbour Colo. Darke intending to wait on you, I could not forgo the pleasure of presenting my sincere good wishes, for your health and perfect happiness, and as you well know the spartan virtues of my friend, it becomes unnecessary to enlarge on the innate and Very amiable, quality’s of his heart and mind. I Indeed sympathize Very tenderly with him on the death of his...
Flattered by the Honor you conferred upon me, in appointing me to an Ensigncy in the first Regiment, in the Service of the United States, and conscious that implicit obedience to the Commands of a Superior officer, is one of the first principles of a Soldier, I have made it my study so to conduct myself as to merit approbation, and I pride myself in the opinion of having in some measure met...
I took the liberty to put into your hands (in the course of last summer) a letter from James Seagrove Esqr. mentioning the alarming emigration from Georgia into East Florida in consequence of a Proclamation of the Spanish Governor, and as I can not find it among my papers, may I request the favor, that you will please to direct, one of your Gentlemen, to make a search for it. my reason for...
Letter not found. 13 March 1792. Acknowledged in Jones to JM, 22 Mar. 1792 . Concerns the questions of the appropriate military establishment for prosecution of the war against the Indians, the funding system, and executive influence in legislative matters.