1To Alexander Hamilton from James Lloyd, 14 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
August 14, 1793. “… I have made application to his Excellency the President of the United States for the office of Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore. As the Office is connected with your Department I have thought that this intimation was a mark of respect which your Station as well as your personal character demanded of me.” ALS , RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters, 1790–1799, National Archives....
2No Jacobin No. V, [14 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
For the American Daily Advertiser. The observations hitherto made, have been designed to vindicate the Executive of the United States from the aspersions cast upon it by the Jacobin . Let us now examine what has been the conduct of the Agents of France. Mr. Genet, charged with the commission of Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Republic to the United States, arrived first at Charleston,...
3From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 14 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to communicate to the President of the United States the copy of a letter which has this moment been received from the Collector of this port, informing of the arrival of two prizes sent in by the privateers Citizen Genet & Carmagnole. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Sharp Delany’s letter to H has not been found.
4From Alexander Hamilton to John A. Chevallié, [14 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, August 14, 1793. “… Every thing with regard to Mr. Beaumarchais’ accounts is as far advanced as circumstances now permit.…” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Charles Hamilton Autographs, Inc., April 23, 1970, Item 96. For information concerning the contents of this letter, see Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais to H, October 29, 1796 ( PAH Harold C. Syrett, ed., The...
5To George Washington from “An American”, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. SIR, BEING an American by birth, an early admirer of your principles and conduct, and feeling a consciousness of the dignity attached to a free citizen of the United States, I take the liberty of addressing you in this public manner. Sure I am, that if you were acquainted with the secret recesses of my heart, you would excuse any improper expression, and...
6To George Washington from James Burn, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
The office of Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore being now vacant by the death of Robert Ballard, there have no doubt been numberless applications to your Excellency by different persons, whose pretensions have been well supported by strong recommendations from men of power and fortune. Under this idea, I have thought it needless to trouble your Excellency, with any recommendatory letters from...
7Tobias Lear to Andrew G. Fraunces, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
In the letter which I wrote to you by the President’s order on the 3d inst. you was informed that the President had directed the Secretary of the Treasury to report to him, in writing, on the subject of your letter to the President of the 31st of July. This Report has accordingly been made by the Secretary—and the President directs me to inform you, that he finds therein such cogent reasons...
8To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to communicate to The President of the United States the copy of a letter which has this moment been received from the Collector of this port, informing of the arrival of two prizes sent in by the privateers Citizen Genet & Carmagnole. LB , DLC:GW . The letter from Sharp Delany, the collector for the port of Philadelphia, to Hamilton has...
9Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State the enclosed letters & papers from the Judge of the District of Rhode Island relating to the Ship Catharine. After the Secretary shall have considerd the enclosed documents the President wishes his opinion of the measures which should be taken on the subject. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket...
10Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President wishes the Heads of the Departments to meet at his house tomorrow at ten o’clock. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket reads “recd Aug 14. 93.” For a description of this meeting, see Cabinet Opinion on the Recall of Edmond Genet, 23 Aug. 1793 .
11To George Washington from the Citizens of Kent County, Delaware, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of about five hundred of the Citizens of Kent County held at Dover, on Wednesday the fourteenth Day of August, to take into Consideration the Proclamation of Neutrality issued by the President of the United States: Resolved unanimously, That the Citizens now convened do approve of the Proclamation of Neutrality issued by the President of the United States; and that, in their...
12To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I submit to your consideration a draft of a letter to Major General Wayne—and also his letters to which the said draft is intended as an answer. I have the honor to be with the highest respect Your obed. humble servt LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . For Knox’s previous submission of Anthony Wayne’s letters of 20 June, 2 July, and 10 July, with their several enclosures, see Knox to GW, 9 Aug. 1793 ,...
13To George Washington from Howell Lewis, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 4th Inst. enclosing a Bank note of one hundred Dollars, came duly to hand. It is, now with pleasure, I can inform you of the great Service, which the rain of last Thursday has been to the growing Crop, it has made a very perceivable difference in the colour of the Corn, & in its Shooting, but I am affraid some of it which grows on the poor Knolls will never recover; you will...
14To George Washington from James Lloyd, 14 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose a letter to your Excellency from Mr Tilghman—It relates to the appointment of Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore. It is matter of delicacy to speak of onesself yet I trust there can be no impropriety in mentioning that I have served my Country in the field and in both branches of the Legislature of Maryland, during the most critical periods of American...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 14 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State the enclosed letters and papers from the Judge of the District of Rhode Island relating to the Ship Catharine. After the Secretary shall have considered the enclosed documents the President wishes his opinion of the measures which should be taken on the subject. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as a letter from...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have set George and his company to work in the canal according to your desire: Jupiter is with them and is constantly employed in blowing the rock at the upper end which it was their first business to lay bare for him. Part of the timber intended for the house has been brought up, and the remainder will be in place before the middle of next month. The two houses for the servants I am sorry...
17To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 14 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President wishes the Heads of the Departments to meet at his house tomorrow at ten o’clock. RC ( DLC ); in the hand of Tobias Lear; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Aug. 1793. Recorded in SJPL . For a brief description of this Cabinet meeting, see Cabinet Opinions on Edmond Charles Genet, 23 Aug. 1793 .