1To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [6 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The bill relative to the debt having passed thro the House I hope an handsome conclusion will be made to the business of the Departments. I should not have troubled you again upon [it], but that I am well informed that a Member of the Senate, who opposed the bill in its present Shape said a week ago that “the whole of the Treasury clauses except the Compensations would be struck out in the...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Israel Ludlow, [6 May 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ May 6, 1792. Letter not found. ] This letter is listed as Item No. 23 in “List of Papers: Contract with John Cleves Symmes” ( Carter, Territorial Papers Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934– ). , II, 391–93).
3From George Washington to Henry Merttins Bird, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I request you will accept my thanks for your polite attention in sending me the copy of Genl Lloyd’s work which accompanied your letter of the 4th of February. Mrs Washington joins me in Compliments to Mrs Bird and in acknowledgements for the kind offer of your & her services. I am Sir, with esteem, Your most Obedt Servt. Df , in Tobias Lear’s hand, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB ,...
4From George Washington to Thomas Paine, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
To my friends, and those who know my occupations, I am sure no apology is necessary for keeping their letters so much longer unanswered than my inclination would lead me to do. I shall therefore offer no excuse for not having sooner acknowledged the Receipt of your letter of the 21st of July. My thanks, however, for the token of your remembrance, in the fifty copies of the “Rights of Man” are...
5From George Washington to Robert Sinclair, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 12th of December, in which you request information respecting Captain James MacKay, and likewise respecting the part of this Country which would be the most eligible for forming an establishment as a farmer or planter. The only information in my power to give you on the first head is, that my acquaintance with Captain MacKay commenced in the Army in the year...
6From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I made Mr Morris acquainted with the contents of your letter of the 14th of March, relative to your Son; and am informed by him, that if your son should be in Philadelphia, agreeably to your intention of sending him here, as mentioned in your letter, there is no doubt but many opportunities may occur of his making a voyage previous to the return of Captain Truxton from the East-Indies, which...
7To John Jay from Robert Troup, 6 May 1792 (Jay Papers)
Since my last to you I have rec d . a letter from M r . Laurence informing me that the two bills I sent him are accepted by M r . Bell to be paid at the house of Randall, Son, and Stewarts in this City. I have not had any further accounts from D r . Ramsay. I have this moment finished reading the different accounts from the Northern parts of the State respecting the election— All our friends...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William B. Giles, 6 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A written request from you was some days since, presented to me as one of the delegation in Congress for the state of Virginia, to communicate to you such information respecting the present state of Debts due to British subjects in that state, as had come to my knowedge; in compliance with which request, I now furnish you with the following state of facts.—Previously to my election to...