1To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 4 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The following occurrence took place a few days since in this Office, which I take the liberty to state, that a rule may be established to govern in future or similar occasions. Solomen Marks Jr appeared at the Office with John McCulloh and in his presence wrote a transfer to said McCulloh on a Certificate for One hundred & eighty one Dolls & sixty one Cents. six ⅌ Cent Stock. Before the...
2From George Washington to Andrew Hamilton, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your polite letter of the 12th of December, together with a copy of “An Enquiry into the Principles of taxation,[”] which accompanied it, & for which I must beg your acceptance of my best thanks. The subject of your book is certainly of the first importance to society; and those who undertake works of this nature upon the extensive scale that yours appears to...
3Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
United States [Philadelphia] 4 May 1792 . Returns by GW’s command “the Instructions to Major Genl Wayne & a letter to Mr Seagrove, both of which meet the President[’s] approbation.” ALS (retained copy), DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . War Department clerk Benjamin Bankson had transmitted Knox’s proposed letter to James Seagrove to Lear on the previous day and had asked that it be submitted to the...
4To George Washington from John Lucas, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to communicate to you, for the purpose of perpetuating the evidence of a singular patriotic transaction of Elisha Brown, a poor man of this town, who in defence of liberty and the laws of his country, undauntedly stood alone as a barrier to our liberties, “Agreeably to the Inscription, on the Monument,” which I have the honor to forward to you, through the medium of General...
5From George Washington to Ségur, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I received with much satisfaction the information of your having made an acquisition in this Country, & of your intentions to take up your residence among us. Your letter of the 30th of Sepr giving me this information, did not get to my hands ’till some time in the last month. The United States opens, as it were, a new World to those who are disposed to retire from the noise & bustle of the...
6To James Madison from Jedidiah Morse, 4 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 May 1792. Mentioned in Morse’s docket on JM to Morse, 25 Apr. 1792 , and acknowledged in JM to Morse, 15 Aug. 1792 . Reiterates request for information on Virginia for Morse’s American Universal Geography .
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, Jr., 4 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by Mr. Jas. Taylor a Nephew of Doctor Taylors and Mine and Grandson to Mrs. Tucker. I beg leave to introduce him to you and hope you will excuse the Liberty I have taken; with an assurance that if any of your friends shou’d travel this way, that I will with the greatest attention render their time agreeable. I am respectfully Yr. Obt. Servt., RC ( MHi ); endorsed by...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found it more convenient to send you a bill for the money you were so kind as to pay for me, than a Hhd. of Tobacco; allmost every Hhd. of mine, having been considerably damaged in their passage down the river, by heavy rains. Yours I am much afraid has allso been injured. I feel myself disposed to continue your debtor rather than make such an ordinary return as my thanks for this...