1Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy Adams, 3 July 1792 (Adams Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your kind Letter of the 18 th of May by Barnard and was much releived by being informed that our Mother was recovering her health as rapidly as could be expected— I feared from not having received a Single line from her; that she was not so well as my friends represented her to me we have had Letters from all my other friends except herself since our arrivall and...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 3 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Notwithstanding our wishes to the contrary, we are too often impelled to call your attention from the more important duties of your Office to circumstances trivial indeed compared therewith. However painful the measure we cannot avoid it & preserve that uniformity in the different Offices so much to be desired, as thereby the general interest is promoted & the minds of the People kept in a...
3Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to William Carmichael, 3 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Two Days ago I saw Mr. Le Couteulx, who told me that his friend had made application to the Spanish Court to obtain an assignment on the Debt from the United States in discharge of a Debt due to him; and that Mr. Gardoqui said the United States owed Spain above a Million of Dollars, being in part for advances made in America. This assertion struck me, and as I had formerly some knowledge of...
4From Alexander Hamilton to James Lingan, [3 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, July 3, 1792. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Acknowledges receipt of a draft in the amount of $1500.00.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Catalogue No. 92, Lot 47. Lingan was collector of customs at Georgetown, District of Columbia.
5To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “the translation of a letter from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, with the draught of an answer he proposes to them, & a letter to the Governor of Georgia. he incloses also a translation of the papers which accompanied the letter he received.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State;...
6To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Encloses “to the President a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from David Humphreys, U.S. minister to Portugal, to Jefferson of 3 May 1792 concerned the recent assassination of Gustav III of...
7To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “to the President a letter to mister Van Berckel on the subject of the infraction of the privileges of his house by a constable.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . For Dutch minister Franco Petrus Van Berckel’s letter to Jefferson of 25 June...
8From George Washington to Henry Lee, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 20th Ulto was presented to me yesterday by Mr Williams—who as a professional man—may, or may not be for ought I know, a luminary of the first magnitude. But to be frank, and I hope you will not be displeased with me for being so—I am so heartily tired of the attendance which from one cause or another has been given ⟨to⟩ these kind of people, that it is now more than two...
9To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Madison Papers)
No. 6. Since my last of June 29. I have received your Nos. 2. & 3. of June 24. & 25. The following particulars occur. Vining has declined offering at the next election. It is said we are to have in his room a mr. Roach, formerly of the army, an anti-cincinnatus, and good agricultural man. Smith of S. C. declines also. He has bought a fine house in Charleston for 5000. £ and had determined not...
10From Thomas Jefferson to John Carey, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Carey and will with pleasure give him access to any papers of his office which no longer require secrecy. The difficulty will be how to separate these from those still requiring secrecy, without giving Mr. Carey access to the whole, which Th:J. would not think himself free to do. Perhaps Mr. Carey can from the Journals of Congress, or other...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Ellicott, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a letter for Dr. Stewart, open to you, because I think, besides taking care that he receives it, you will have the goodness to make the same inquiries which I press on him, and that this will double my chance of finding out a level road which I am pretty sure exists, and would be an immense convenience to me. Be so kind as to stick a wafer in the Dr.’s letter. I am with great esteem...
12From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last of June 29. I have received your Nos. 2. and 3. of June 24. and 25.—The following particulars occur. Vining has declined offering at the next election. It is said we are to have in his room a Mr. Roach, formerly of the army, an anti-cincinnatus, and good agricultural man.—Smith of S.C. declines also. He has bought a fine house in Charleston for 5000. £ and had determined not even...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a letter to our bankers in Amsterdam covering a bill of exchange drawn on them by the treasurer for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current guilders which I have endorsed thus ‘Philadelphia July 3. 1792. Enter this to the credits of the Secretary of state for the United states of America. Th: Jefferson.’ to prevent the danger of interception. My letter...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you Petit’s statement of the stores sent round to Richmond to the care of Mr. Brown. They sailed from hence yesterday morning, and the winds have been and are so favorable that I dare say they will be in Chesapeak bay tomorrow, ready for the first Southernly breeze to carry them up the river. So that they will probably be at Richmond some days before you receive this. I wrote to...
15From Thomas Jefferson to David Stuart, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President, I suppose, informs you that he will be at George town on the 15th. to consult with you in the choice of plans for the public buildings. I expect to pass there on the morning of Wednesday the 18th. on my way to Virginia, and the purport of the present is to remind you that you were so kind as to promise to enquire for the road which would lead me from George town directly into...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Telfair, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to your Excellency the copy of a letter I have received from His Catholic Majesty’s representatives here in consequence of a complaint from the Governor of Florida that three inhabitants of the state of Georgia, to wit, Thomas Harrison, David Rees, and William Ervin, had entered the Spanish territory and brought from thence five negro slaves the property of John...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of June 26. with the papers accompanying it on the subject of the robbery supposed to have been committed within the territory of Florida by three citizens of the state of Georgia: and I have it in charge to assure you that due enquiry shall be immediately made into the transaction, and that every thing shall be done on the part of this government...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the first of a bill of exchange drawn on you by the Treasurer of the U.S. for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current Gilders, which please to enter to the credit of the Secretary of state for the U.S. Mr. Pinkney our minister at London is authorised to draw on you at times to this whole amount for particular purposes independant of the general ones...