3841From George Washington to William Fitzhugh, 5 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
My present want of a riding horse is great, but if I should be called to the field it will be much greater. As I am much out of the way of seeing, or hearing of such as would answr my purposes—especially in the latter case—and know that you are a good judge of the parts, and general symmetry of a horse of figure. You would do me a favour if such an one as hits your own taste should fall in...
3842From George Washington to William Heth, 5 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 30th Ulto was brought me by fridays Post. The sentiments you have expressed, relatively to the qualifications which ought to be possessed by the Aids de Camp of the Commander in Chief, or Officer Commanding a separate army (to go no further) accord precisely with my own. And although I do not chuse to be under any engagement, lest something might occur that would render...
3843To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 6 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have now the honor to inclose a copy of Mr. Gerry’s letter of April 20. to M. Talleyrand, which completes communication of every thing new received from him. A copy of his letter of May 13th I sent by last Friday’s mail; and a copy of his letter of May 12th by Saturday’s mail. Several cases of the yellow fever have occurred. I am with great respect, / Sir / your most obt. servt. MHi : Adams...
3844To John Adams from Samuel B. Malcom, 6 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
The injury, which I received on my right hand, prior to your leaving this City, has superceded every attempt until the present to congratulate you and your Lady on your Safe arrival at Quincy— The only foreign Advices lately received are those from the Eastward, suggesting the receipt of dispatches from Mr Gerry, that he remained at Paris on the 27th of May, but contemplated shortly to depart...
3845From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Dayton, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I received at Philadelphia your letter of the 27th of July the answer to which has been delayed by excessive occupation. You know, I trust, sufficiently my sentiments of you, not to need being told how much pleasure your appointment gave me, and how highly I value the confidence you express in me. It will probably be unexpected to you to be told that I am not yet in the exercise of the...
3846Enclosure: Remarks Upon the Proposed Regulations for the Recruiting Service, [28 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Article III The penalty on the officer in this article appears to be of questionable expediency. It may hurt the service more by discouraging exertion than benefit it by the œconomy which it may promote. It is believed the general responsibility of the Officer ought to be relied upon. Article IV The utility of this restriction is doubtful. There are men above the common class in qualification,...
3847To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Trenton, August 6, 1798. On this date McHenry wrote to Hamilton “stating that he is indisposed and feverish, and told of the rejection of the nomination of W. S. Smith as adjutant general, and of the need that the appointments should be hastened.” Letter not found. ] Executive Journal , I Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. , 292, 293. Steiner, James...
3848To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I am not surprized My Dear Sir that you found much had not been done in the execution of the important Objects, for I have some time since perceived that Mr McHenry had not a mind sufficiently extensive & energetic to embrace & execute all the Objects incident to the war department, and I foresee that you will be under the necessity to direct the principle operations of that department, to...
3849From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [6 August 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
You are probably apprised that in announcing to the General Officers their appointments, they are told that the emoluments are to be suspended until called into actual service and that as a consequence of this plan they are to remain inactive. The project suits admirably my private arrangements, by leaving me to pursue in full extent my profession. But I believe it accords neither with the...
3850To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Dayton, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Forseeing that Mrs. Dayton’s illness & other unavoidable causes of detention at home would prevent me from visiting N. York very soon, I was anxious to see and converse with you in this place upon your passage to, or from Philadelphia, relatively to some military arrangements. One, & not the least important, object of attention is to give efficacy to the third section of the provisional army...
3851To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Van Schaack, 6 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Under an impression of my having the Honor of being known to you I am surrounded by applicants to have their names transmitted to you for admission in the army of the united states. To repel this ardent spirit, so necessary in the present crisis, may not be advisable. to encourage it would probably would impose upon you too much trouble—In this situation I will once more give you the trouble...
3852[Diary entry: 6 August 1798] (Washington Papers)
6. Morning heavy with great appearances of Rain but none fell. Mer. at 74 in the morng. & 80 at N. Went to Alexa. to a meeting of the Poto. Co. Mr. Bur: Bassett came home with me. In May 1798 the president and directors of the Potowmack Company had been authorized by the shareholders “to mortgage as many shares as could be obtained and to borrow as much stock as could be had” to the amount of...
3853From George Washington to Archibald McClean, 6 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
The annual meeting of the Potomack Company requires my attendance in Alexandria to day. It will be held, I presume, at Gadsbys; If so, I shall be there from ten O’clock until three and shall be ready to see you at any hour between: the earlier the better. Enclosed is the Patent for the 587 acre tract (with a plat thereof on the back); and a memorandum of my understanding of our agreement; by...
3854To George Washington from James McHenry, 6 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
Feeling myself very much indisposed & feverish I think it best to acknowledge your letters of the 29th & 31st of July & the 1 & 2 of Augt. I have written a letter to the President relative to an arrangement for the speedy appointment of the officers to the 12 regiments &c. and other subjects relative to the army, in which I give it as my opinion that you have a right to appoint whenever you...
3855To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 1 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have already written to you by this Mornings Post since then, I have met Gosman the Mason in the Street who told me that he had been sent for by M r . Church to make another Vault under the Street before the front Door or else to inlarge the old one. I thanked him for the Information & told him that if the thing was to be done at all it must be on M r . Church’s Credit & not yours, but that...
3856To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 6 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
By this day’s mail I have addressed to you two copies of the laws passed at the last session of Congress. Of the ten thousand copies of the instructions to & dispatches from our envoys to the French Republic, I propose to send eight hundred to be distributed in the state of New-York. They are now ready, & I shall forward them to the Collector M r . Sands at the city of New York.— For the...
3857To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 6 August 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
You recieve a letter from me dated at this place because I had proceeded thus far with an intention to return to America in company with Mr Gerry—My intention of returning as well as the object of it has been for some time announced to you. When I left Spain near three years ago it was with the intention of going to arrange my affairs in America—different & successive circumstances have...
3858To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 7 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Some days before you left Philadelphia, I mentioned to you the petition of John Scotchlar, who had been convicted at a late Circuit court in Boston of a larceny, for which he had been sentenced to pay a fine and to be whipped; and that to avoid the indelible disgrace to himself and family of receiving the corporal punishment was the object of his petition. You were inclined to remit this...
3859To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Mangin, 7 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 7, 1798. “L’orsque vous m’avez demandé les plans des Batteries de Newyork, J’ai pensé que c’etait pour les remettre au Colonnel Burr; c’est pourquoi Vous avez vu une Lettre à Son adresse, dans Laquelle Je donne quelques explications. J’ai prié un Monsieur que J’ai trouvé dans votre bureau, de Vous engager à ouvrir cette Lettre; ce matin J’ai eu L’honneur de passer Chez vous et...
3860To Alexander Hamilton from Lewis Tousard, 7 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I was extremely Sorry that my being on a public Mission at Baltimore prevented my waiting on you when you were lately in Philadelphia, and presenting you, or rather to the whole Army, my most Sincere congratulations on the choice the President has made of you for an Inspector General. Entirely devoted to the career which I have followed from my youth, which your kind interest procured me to...
3861[Diary entry: 7 August 1798] (Washington Papers)
7. Morning—clear & calm Mer. 76. Clear all day. Mer. 85 at Noon & 80 at Night. Mr. Lear & the boys dined here & with Mr. Basset went afterwards.
3862To George Washington from Bushrod Washington, 7 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
I recieved a few days ago; a letter from Mr John Nicholas in which after speaking of the violence of a certain party in that County, and the lengths to which they go he says, “among other things, you will see in Davis’s paper of the 24th July a hint at the affair with which you are acquainted from the celebrated John Langhorne himself. I am hinted at as the ‘dignified character of an...
3863To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 8 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I propose to embark for the United States this day, & have only a moment to inform you that Mr Skipwith will transmit you from Paris the letters which passed between the minister of foreign affairs & myself, just before my departure from that city— The aspect of affairs between the two republicks is very pacific at present on this side the Atlantick; God grant it may be so on my arrival the...
3864To John Adams from James Greenleaf, 8 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
By the demise of Mr Innes, the Office of Commissioner for Liquidating the claims of British Citizens under the Treaty, has become vacant. My long acquaintance with the arbitration of Exchanges, and with the most complicated & difficult modes of Account keeping both in Europe and America, would, I presume, enable me to fill the place of the late Mr. Innes, with becoming ease and propriety—I beg...
3865To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 8 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter from Huberd Rees of Claremont County, So. Carolina, I received to-day, and with great pleasure forward it, with the address from the people of that county to You and both Houses of Congress expressing such just sentiments of the “perfidious” French Republic, and of duty towards their own country. I have the honor to be / most respectfully / sir, your obt. servant MHi :...
3866To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 8 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I recollect your once expressing to me your uneasiness that nothing had then been effected towards raising the additional corps of Artillery. Since that time Congress have authorized the raising forthwith twelve additional regiments of Infantry and six troops of horse. Little seems to be done in this business; which excites real uneasiness in the minds of those who know the fact and consider...
3867To John Adams from Samuel Dexter, 8 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
To have the best government in the world, and that government administered in the best manner, is the distinguished lot of our happy nation. Ever since the adoption of the constitution we have felt its benign effects; but in an increased, and increasing degree of late; since all have now learned the important lesson, to respect themselves, and despise foreign influence. This we owe, in a high...
3868To Alexander Hamilton from Loomis and Tillinghast, 8 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 8, 1798. “We have recd. a Letter from the party interested in the Policy of the ship Elizabeth.… We have seen Mr. Murray on the … subject & he refers us to you & says that if the present evidence be insufficient he will procure what may be wanted if you will Obtain a Commission from the Court for the purpose.” LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Libeus Loomis and...
3869From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Stoddert, [8 August 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Capt. Robert Hamilton , a first cousin of mine, is desirous of entering into our naval service. He is regularly bred to the sea which he has followed since he was fourteen years old. His opportunities have been of the best, among others that of voyages to the East Indies. I feel myself warranted in recommending him as an able well informed seaman—who adds to this qualification the sentiments...
3870[Diary entry: 8 August 1798] (Washington Papers)
8. Morng. clear, but the Sun rose red. Calm & Mer. at 74 in the Morning 88 at Noon & 84 at N.