1From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed are duplicates of letters formerly sent to Mr. Short by the Sion. Tho’ the vessel was lost, it is said the letter bag was saved. If so, and Mr. Short should have received the originals which were therein and under cover to you, and should be gone to Madrid, be pleased to keep these duplicates in your possession till he shall direct you what to do with them. But if he be still at...
2To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters just received. Colo. Fay having sent him a paper of Sugar-Maple seed, Th: J., on his request, asks the President’s acceptance of the within. 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 letters were probably...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You have before this I presume heard of the death of Colo. Geo. Mason which was about the 8th. of this month of the gout in the stomack. His patriotic virtues thro the revolution will ever be rememberd by the citizens of this country, and his death at the present moment will be sensibly felt by the republican interest. We intended to have rested a day or two with him on our way, and this event...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 16 October … (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you the triplicate of my letter of the 19th ultimo—and have by this opportunity barely to inform you that I have directed the Treasurer to draw upon you for one hundred thousand guilders in addition to the sum mentioned in my letter of the 26th of July last. I am &c. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury Department, 1792–1793, Vol. III, National Archives. This letter was enclosed in...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your letter of the 9th. inst. proposing a stipulation for the abolition of the practice of privateering in times of war. The benevolence of this proposition is worthy of the nation from which it comes, and our sentiments on it have been declared in the treaty to which you are pleased to refer, as well as in some others which have been proposed. There are in...
6Tobias Lear to Samuel Hodgdon, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of laying before the President the enclosed extract of a letter which you put into my hands for that purpose, and he has directed me to request that you would let him know the number & state of the arms & accoutrements which are under your care in this place, that he may be able to form a judgement whether it would be proper to spare the num[b]er wanted out of the public...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters just received. Colo. Fay having sent him a paper of Sugar-Maple seed, Th:J., on his request, asks the President’s acceptance of the within. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL .
8To George Washington from Michael Rudulph, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
It is with extreme diffidence I ask a moment of your time, I have lately learned that the Collectors Office of Baltimore will be vacated by the dissolution of Genl Williams. I wou’d not ask for what my qualifications were not equal to, I have a family. they have became common adventureers with me from Georgia to maryland where they now are, I have no more to support them on than my...
9Fact No. II, [16 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For the National Gazette. Genuine Truth never deviates into misrepresentation. That an impostor has assumed its name in the National Gazette of the 10th inst. is sufficiently evinced by the following circumstance. The writer, who appears under that signature, after endeavouring to torture certain expressions of the Secretary of the Treasury, into a meaning which, construed with candour, and in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters to Mr. Morris and Mr. Short are of a public and very important nature. Be so good as to forward Mr. Morris’s by some conveyance you can perfectly confide in, and keep that to Mr. Short in your possession till he shall call for it in person or by letter, as was desired with respect to some dispatches in April last. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble...