1From Alexander Hamilton to John Rutherfurd, [4 March 1793–31 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
I called at your Quarters a while ago to ask you to take with two or three friends a family Dinner with me to day. A word in answer by the bearer will oblige. Yrs Will you tell Mr. Frelinghuyssen that if he will be of the party I shall esteem it a favour. ALS , anonymous donor. Frederick Frelinghuysen, a lawyer and a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1782, was a United States...
2To Alexander Hamilton from John Bard, 4 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I dined a few days ago with a large Company at Judge Duanes, In the course of the after noon, you became the Subject of general Conversation. It gave me the greatest pleasure to hear that Just and greatfull applause which all the Company bestowed upon ⟨y⟩ou. Your Friend General Gates declared when ever ⟨y⟩our Idea was present to his mind, he could not help ⟨ap⟩plying to you the Beautifull...
3To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, [4 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The People of Massachusetts entertain the idea that a balance is due to the State more than sufficient to cover her State debt, & some anxiety has been excited in the legislature of that state lest she shou’d finally fail of receiving it. After the failure of the Assumption bill I intended to have had five minutes conversation with you on the subject, but saw that your time seemed to be...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 4 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I had too little time with you when in Philadelphia. Your particular engagments forbid my calling on you as often as under different circumstances I should have called. One question in particular was left unsettled the application of Mr. Joseph Blake respecting the quallity of some wines he imported. The Comptroller was in opinion that there could not any consideration be made for its being of...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Nicholas Low, 4 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The foregoing is extract of a Letter from Mr. Colt of 1 Instt. What can be the Cause of Maj. L Enfants extraordinary long Absence? Will you speak to him and advise him to come forward immediately. I suspect that strong Efforts will be made to take Pearse out of our Employ and at the same Time I do not beleive we can do well without him. His & Marshalls Salaries at £100: Stg are both too low...
6From George Washington to Burwell Bassett, Jr., 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Copy) Dear Sir, Philadelphia March 4th 1793. Your letter of the 18th Ulto, & its enclosure, came duly to hand. Expected as the death of my departed relation and friend was, I could not but feel sensibly when the news of it arrived. And I take the present occasion to offer you my condolence on the death of your father & my friend, Colo. Bassett, for whom, when alive, I had the sincerest...
7To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter from the Van Staphorsts & Hubbard quieting our apprehensions for the fate of the first dispatches sent to mister Short relative to our negociations with Spain. also another letter from mister Thatcher on the subject of the Marshal of Maine. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
8To George Washington from Mirabeau, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
You are again called to execute the high and dignified trust of a first magistrate of a free people, and that by unanimous consent. This is the greatest homage that ⟨ca⟩n be paid by freemen, and is the most flattering distinction which can be offered in a land of liberty.—As the friend of freedom you were resorted to, and placed in a sphere which must communicate the most exquisite...
9Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am again called upon, by the voice of my country, to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavour to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of United America. Previous to the execution of any official act of the P resident , the...
10From George Washington to David Stuart, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since writing my letter of yesterday, I have recd the enclosed from Mr Jefferson, w[hic]h I send to you just as I recd it. I am Dr Sir &c. Note the enclosed was the copies of 2 letters writte[n] by Mr Jefferson to Mr Ellicott, w[hic]h he says is all that he has written to him in the years of 1792 & 93. Copy, in Tobias Lear’s writing, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . The...
11From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I nominate William Paterson, at present Governor of the State of New Jersey, to be one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; vice, Thomas Johnson, resigned. Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey, to be Collector of the District of Champlain, in the State of New York. and William Thompson, to be Collector of the Port of Hardwick, in the District of Hardwick and State of...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith will be deliver’d to you a Table Sett of China contain’d in Two Boxes, which I had made for you at Canton, agreeably to your Excellency’s desire, when I had the pleasure to see you at the Isle of Wight in the year 89. It is so long ago, that possibly you may have supplied yourself already, or the China may not be executed to your liking, in either case, I beg you would not think it...
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President. Apprehensive that there has been some misconception of his correspondence with Mr. Ellicot, he incloses to the President full copies of the only letters he has written to Mr. Ellicot in the course of the years 1792. and 1793. The last of them was written with no other view than to prevent public altercation between Mr. Ellicot...
14From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter from the Van Staphorsts & Hubbard quieting our apprehensions for the fate of the first dispatches sent to Mr. Short relative to our negociations with Spain.—Also another letter from Mr. Thatcher on the subject of the Marshal of Maine . RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear....