1Agreement with the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, [31 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Articles of Agreement between Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, on behalf of the United States of the one part, and the president Directors & Company of the Bank of the Ud. States of the other part, made & concluded the 31st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety three. Whereas by the third section of the Act entitled, an Act making appropriations...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 31 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to furnish you with draughts for Sixty five Thousand Dollars, on the Office of Discount & Deposit of the Bank of the United States at Boston, to be applied by you towards discharging the Interest which will become due the 30th. of the ensuing month on the several species of Stocks standing on your Books. I have further to add, that if the...
3To George Washington from John Fitzgerald, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am duly honor’d by the receipt of your Duplicate under Cover of your letter of 24th Inst. since when I have made the most diligent enquiry rispecting the flour & Tobacco, & cannot say any thing more flattering on the Subject than was contain’d in my letter by Saturday’s Post, which I hope you have e’er this received—indeed I have not been actually offer’d more than 31/ & 33/ @ 90 days but I...
4To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. he shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
5To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has now the honor of inclosing to the President the draught of a letter to mister Genet on the subject of the departure of the privateer. also 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 . Tobias Lear’s docket on the AL
6Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State, the draughts & Copies of letters which he sent to the President this day —And to inform the Secretary, that the President is so much indisposed that he does not think he shall be able to meet the Gentlemen at his House tomorrow (the President having had a high fever upon him for 2 or 3 days past, and it still...
7Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Will you please to submit to the President of the United States, the enclosed extract of a letter from major Craig, dated at Pittsburg the 24th instant. Your’s sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Maj. Isaac Craig (1746–1826) of Pennsylvania, a Revolutionary War veteran, served as deputy quartermaster general 1792–96. Craig’s letter to Knox of 24 May contained information on the state of...
8Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Agreably to the directions of the President of the United States I transmit you the minutes of the proceedings on the 29th instant. Please to inform the President that Colonel Willet declines the preferred Mission to the Creeks, on the ground, that his broken leg will not admit his bearing the fatigues of the Journey. I am Dear Sir Your affectionate humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW ....
9To George Washington from the Citizens of Salem, Massachusetts, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Fully and deeply impressed with the wisdom, propriety and policy of the measure, which you have lately adopted in issuing your proclamation, wherein it is declared that the duty and interest of the united States require, that they should with sincerity, and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct, friendly and impartial towards the Belligerent powers therein mentioned; And Contemplating with...
10To George Washington from Warner Washington III, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
If I was not convinced of your benevolence from the consent of every one, I should not dare apply to you with the history of an embarrasment I am under. Without preface then, I am to inform you, that in consequence of not having heard from home (from What accident or miscarriage I am at a loss to decide) for almost five months—I have contracted a number of debts, which are urged against me for...
11To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 31 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 31 May 1793. GW, in his letter to Whitting of 9 June , wrote that “I have received your letters of the 31st of May & 5th instant.”
12To Thomas Jefferson from James Biddle, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken proper measures to discover the person complained of for the Insult to the national flag of France tending to provoke the french Citizens to Acts of Outrage and breach of the publick peace—and have issued a Warrant to apprehend the Offender which I doubt not will be executed. While I am now sitting in Court an Application is made on behalf of one John L. Steele Second Mate of the...
13From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael and William Short, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letters of Oct. 14. and Nov. 3. 1792, I communicated to you, papers and Observations, on the conduct of the Spanish Officers on our South Western frontier, and particularly of the Baron de Carondelet, the Governor of New Orleans. These made it evident that he had industriously excited the Southern Indians to war against us, and had furnished them with Arms and Ammunition, in abundance,...
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 15th curt., you mention that one of the points, stated in my memorial of the 8th of this month, has been reserved for future deliberation. That point appearing to me to be of the most serious magnitude, I shall be infinitely obliged to you, if you will have the goodness to inform me at what time I may expect to receive the determination of this government upon it; as my...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State, the draughts and Copies of letters which he sent to the President this day—And to inform the Secretary, that the President is so much indisposed that he does not think he shall be able to meet the Gentlemen at his House tomorrow (the President having had a high fever upon him for 2 or 3 days past, and it...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, with Jefferson’s Note, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The requisition of departure is, in my judgment, expressed in the most accurate and satisfactory manner possible. It gives me real pleasure to find the strong measure capable of such a softening of feature, while it retains full nerve. Were I to speak for myself, as an individual, I should assent with equal cordiality to the last clause. But I can’t help believing, that it would accord better...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A report of your having resigned your office is in circulation here and receives great credit from us mostly perhaps because we wish to have it so but considerably too from our not having received letters as usual by the two last posts: we conclude that the hurry of preparing for your departure and the expectation of seeing us soon have prevented your writing. We are strongly impressed with...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Stevens, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to Transmit you herewith Copys of the Letters (which I preserved) that passed between us during my Military Services under your Administration, in the time of the American Revolution. All those Prior to Genl. Gates defeat, I informed you before was lost among my Baggage in that unlucky affair. And I discover some Letters which I know I wrote you about the latter...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Underwood of Goochland, requests me to inclose some certificates respecting his son . He has forwarded such to the war office, but fearing the subscribers may not be so well known there as to yourself, solicits you to give them the weight they deserve. We both trust that our wish to promote a deserving soldier will be a sufficient apology for giving you this trouble. I am sir your obdt...
20From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. He shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
21From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has now the honor of inclosing to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Genet on the subject of the departure of the privateer.—Also a letter just received from Colo. Humphreys. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear as a letter of 1 June 1793. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Draft of TJ to...