1To George Washington from John Armstrong, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Whatever may have been the constructions of others respecting the designs of Government, in marching an Armed force into the West; I shall in the present state of things reduce all other conjectures into the idea of Peace, viewing it with it’s natural consequences not only as the primary Object of the publick measures, but that whereby the farther concerns of the Union in that country may with...
2To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
We have to acknowledge the receipt of your several dispatches to us by the last Post —We regret you should have had any occasion to experience the untowardness of Majr LEnfants Temper—But without it, you could not have been so sensible of the very great disquietude which he has given us—As we were sincerely desirous, of retaining him as long as it was practiable, we cannot but lament the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 6th. Instant is now before us.—We doubt not but every advantage will be taken of the dismission of Major L’Enfant.—It is to be regretted that his temper made it a necessary measure. As far as our exertions can counter act any ill effects expected from it, they may be relied on. With respect to his compensation we have adopted the Presidents Ideas, in a letter to Mr. Stuart ....
4To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The plan of the loan from Mr. Blodget which you inclosed us, appears to us to be very eligible. It has therefore our warmest approbation. Though, we have not the smallest apprehension from the best attention we have been able to bestow on it; that we can in any measure be liable in our private capacities, yet, we think it prudent to express our desire, that this may be well understood by Mr....
5From Alexander Hamilton to William Duer, 14 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 11th. got to hand this day. I am affected beyond measure at its contents; especially as it was too late to have any influence upon the event you were apprehensive of—Mr. Woolcott’s instructions having gone off yesterday. I trust however the alternative which they present to the Attorney of the and the discretion he will use in managing the affair will enable you to avoid any...
6From Thomas Jefferson to George Walker, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 9. came to hand yesterday with the letter from several of the proprietors of Georgetown desiring the reemployment of Majr. Lenfant, and were duly laid before the President. He would be happy to satisfy the wishes of those gentlemen wherever propriety and practicability admit. The retirement of Majr. Lenfant has been his own act. No body knows better than yourself the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President having referred to me your letter of Feb. 16. covering information from Dr. Taylor as president of the Commrs. of the Marine hospital at Norfolk, informing you that a wing of that hospital is in readiness to be delivered to Congress I am obliged to ask your further information on the subject. Is it a new proposition ? If it is, we can find no provision made by any law for such a...
8Enclosure: Account with John Banister, Jr., 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When Mr. John Bannister junr. was about to leave Paris in Jan. or Feb. 1787. he found that he had not money to pay his expences there, and his journey to Havre, by a considerable sum. He applied to me to lend him what might be deficient. The distress to which he was exposed, his honest worth, and my friendship for him and his family were motives sufficient to induce me to do that and more for...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 14 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
By the 7th. section in the act for registering vessels &c it is provided that when an owner resides out of the district where the ship may be at the time a register is required that such owner may take and subscribe the oath before the collector of the district in which he resides. A Gentleman from Baltimore came here a few months since and purchased a vessel, loaded her and wished her to sail...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure I need not take up a Moment of your Time to tell you how much you have obliged me by lending me your Name on the present Occasion. Your indorsing this Note will enable me to take up the other at the Bank of N. America which will be delivered to Mr. Wheaton our Serjeant at Arms on the Day of negociating the Business at that Bank, when I will send it to you cancelled. I will take Care...
11To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 14 March [1792] (Madison Papers)
I am further Obliged by yr. Esteemed favr. of the 21st. & the Papers, a feast to a recluse shut up from Intelligence for a long spell of frosty weather. Yr. sudden Animadversions on the Subject of bounties to Classes of men in a few States, prove you needed not any hints from me on the Occasion, nor had I a conception you did, when I hazarded my thoughts on that important affair, or do so, on...
12To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 14 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 March 1792. Acknowledged in JM to Pendleton, 25 Mar. 1792 . Says “ ‘that the Northern Cocks are true game’” and “ ‘that they die hard in the Representation bill.’”
13George Washington to Louis XVI, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I receive as a new proof of friendship to the United States, the letter wherein you inform me that you have accepted the Constitution presented to you in the name of your nation, and according to which it is henceforth to be governed. On an event so important to your Kingdom, and so honorable to yourself, accept the offering of my sincere congratulations, and of the Sentiments of the Senate...
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, [14 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
The P—— put Mr. J——n’s suggestions, respecting the Post Office, into the hands of the Postmaster Genl. yesterday and requested him to be here at half past Seven (Genl. Knox being soon after) this Morning.—If Mr. J—— is at leisure the P—— would be glad to see him here at the same time, on that business. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr. Jefferson.” Entry in SJPL reads: “G. W. to Th: J. on the...
15From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The P—— put Mr J——n’s suggestions, respecting the Post Office, into the hands of the Postmaster Genl yesterday & requested him to be here at half past Seven (Genl Knox being soon after) this Morning. If Mr J—— is at leisure the P—— would be glad to see him here at the sametime, on that business. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. The entry under this date in Jefferson’s Summary Journal of Public...
16From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 14 March 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Otho Holland Williams, 14 Mar. 1792. Williams wrote GW on 22 Mar. : “The receipt of your obliging letter of the 14th Instant gave me very great pleasure.”
17From George Washington to William Moultrie, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 28th of november, and 29th of December, and to inform you that the plants which you had the goodness to send me, arrived safe at Norfolk (the ice not permitting the vessel to reach Baltimore) where they are put into the hands of a Gentleman, who will forward them to Mount Vernon by the first opportunity. Were I not assured...
18To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time Mr. Jeffersons letter to the President was put into his hands he was so much engaged as hardly to find time to read it. The general purport of it, however, he well recollects was agreeable to him [bu]t whether the following ideas if they are [not] already substantially expressed, might not with propriety be conveyed, Mr. Jefferson will judge of, and act accordingly. That no farther...
19From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
At the time Mr Jeffersons letter to the President was put into his hands, he was so much engaged as hardly to find time to read it. The general purport of it, however, he well recollects was agreeable to him but whether the following ideas if they are not already substantially expressed, might not with propriety be conveyed, Mr Jefferson will judge of, and act accordingly. That no farther...
20From George Washington to the United States Senate, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Appointments for twelve companies of Infantry. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Vermont. William Eaton James Underhill Charles Hyde New York Isaac Guion Robert Cochran Nanning I. Vischer. New Jersey ✻Zebulon Pike ✻John Read ✻John Polhemus. Pennsylvania ✻Jacob Slough ✻Robert Thompson ✻John Paine
21From George Washington to Louis XVI, 14 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I receive as a new proof of friendship to the United States, the letter wherein you inform me that you have accepted the Constitution presented to you in the name of your nation, and according to which it is henceforth to be governed. On an event so important to your Kingdom, and so honorable to yourself, accept the offering of my sincere congratulations, and of the Sentiments of the Senate...