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...