1To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have not been unmindful of Mr Anderson’s and Doctor Allan Pollocks propositions, of the importance of which I am favorably impressed—the utter want of any provision for this subject has rendered an answer nugatory. I have conversed with many members of Congress upon the affair: who have been of different opinions respecting the propriety of availing ourselves of the discoveries and the modes...
2To George Washington from the Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar, 17 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of the Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar , R espectfully S heweth : T HAT your memorialists, having, in vain, remonstrated to the respective Houses of Congress against the imposition of an excise upon their infant manufactures, are impelled, as a last resort, earnestly to solicit the interposition of your constitutional authority, to prevent the establishment of a measure...
3To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 17 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote you on the 10th inst: Mr Martinon having expressed a desire that the person who was to superintend the building of the fort at Occacock, should be appointed so as to be present at his surveys and the laying of his ground plan. I did on the 14 inst. appoint Mr Jno. Blanks to Superintend the actual execution of the works of the fort, agreable to the Secretary of wars letter of the...