4001From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 27 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
Information having been received here that some persons acquainted with the appropriation made at the last Session of Congress in favor of the officers & soldiers of the Virginia & N. Carolina lines of the late army, are taking advantage of the claimants who are ignorant of that provision, by purchasing their claims for very inconsiderable proportions of their amount, it became a question...
4002From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 26 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a copy of the instruction given by the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of our inspection laws, which has been put into my hands for that purpose; and am with the highest respect, Sir, Your Most Obedt. humble servant, RC and enclosure ( Vi ). Enclosure in a clerk’s hand. Addressed and franked by JM. Docketed by a clerk, “Done June 5h. 1790.” See Governor of...
4003Circular to the Governors of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, 29 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you will find the Copy of a Proclamation, which I have thought proper to issue, in consequence of certain irregular and refractory proceedings which have taken place in particular parts of some of the States, contravening the Laws therein mentioned. I feel an entire confidence, that the weight and influence of the Executive of North Carolina, will be chearfully exerted, in every...
4004Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 13 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Commissioners for settling the accounts between the united States and the Individual States having made their final report to the President, dated the 29th of June 1793 I am to announce to Your Excellency, that a Balance of [Seventy five thousand and fifty five Dollars] has been reported by the said Commissioners in favour of the State of [New Hampshire.] I have the honor to be with...
4005War Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 18 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary at War being absent from the Seat of Government, I am directed by the President to write to you on the Subject of those French privateers, fitted out in our ports which you have been heretofore informed were to be denied asylum within the United States, except upon the condition of being dismantled of their military equipments. The subsequent conduct of some of these Vessels is a...
4006Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 14 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It is necessary to the adjustment of the public accounts, that the officers of the Treasury should be informed what sums in final settlement certificates were paid over to the several states by the agents for settling the accounts of their respective lines in the late army. The statements of those agents are the only documents on the subject of which the United States are possessed, and it...
4007Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 21 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Not having received any acknowledgement of my Letter of the 26th Septr, transmitting the Copies of two resolutions of the house of Representatives of the 21st of the Same month; and conceiving the information which relates to the debts of the Several States, and the public securities of the union in their Treasuries, to be an object of a very important nature, I have the honor to inclose...
4008Circular to the Governors of the States, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you herein enclosed two copies, duly authenticated, of an Act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein; also of an Act to establish the Post office and Post roads within the United States; also the ratifications, by three fourths of the Legislatures of the several States, of certain...
4009Circular to the Governors of the States, 8 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As Congress have not yet established any Department through which communications can be officially made from the General Government to the Executives of the several States, I do, agreeably to the foregoing Resolution, transmit to your Excellency the enclosed Act, and have the Honor to be, with due respect, Your Excellency’s Most Obedient, and Most Humble Servant LS , to John Eager Howard, MdAA...
4010Circular to the Governors of the States, 2 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance of the enclosed resolution I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency a copy of the amendments proposed to be added to the Constitution of the United States. I have the honor to be, with due consideration, Your Excellency’s most obedient Servant. LS , to John Collins, R-Ar ; LS , to John Hancock, DLC : U.S. Constitution—Amendments to the Constitution; LS , to Samuel...
4011Circular to the Governors of the States, 3 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to your Excellency a Proclamation for a general Thanksgiving which I must request the favor of you to have published and made known in your State in the way and manner that shall be most agreeable to yourself. I have the honor to be your Excellency’s most obedient Servant LS , to Thomas Mifflin, CSmH ; LS , to John Sullivan, MB ; LS , to George Walton, NcD :...
4012Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 27 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The legislature of the United States have directed in the 18th. Section of the Act making provision for the public debt that the payment of interest should be suspended in respect to the debt of any State which may have issued its own certificates for those of the ⟨U⟩nited States “until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that certificates issued for that...
4013Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States, 26 September 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
In obedience to an order of the House of Representatives of the 21st. Instant (Copy of which I have the honor to enclose) it becomes my duty to request your Excellency to procure and transmit to this Office the Documents and Information therein required. As the next Session of the Legislature will be on the first monday of January ensuing, it is greatly to be wished that the whole of the above...
4014From George Washington to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 19 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
At the same time that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the first of march with which I have been honored, let me request you to accept my thanks for your polite attention in sending me the pamphlet which accompanied it. The importance of the subject, which has called forth your production and numerous others, is so deeply interesting to mankind that every philanthropic mind, however...
4015From George Washington to Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 10 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
At the sametime that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June last, with which I have been honored, I must beg you to accept my best thanks for your treatise on Education which accompanied it. The anxiety which you express for the welfare of this Country demands a proper acknowledgment; and the political sentiments which are contained in your letter merit a more particular reply than...
4016From George Washington to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 9 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your obliging letter, dated in October last, has been received; and, as I do not know when I shall have more Leisure than at present to throw together a few observations in return for yours, I take up my Pen to do it by this early occasion. In the first place, I thank you for your congratulatory sentiments on the event which has placed me at the head of the American Government; as well as for...
4017From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Graham, 8 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your letter of Nov. 26. and after due acknolegements for the offers of service you have made, I have to observe that the measures already taken by the Executive of the US. for the establishment of their right to the navigation of the Missisipi, would not at all comport with those you are pleased to propose in your letter. I should have been happy...
4018From Alexander Hamilton to Theodorus V. W. Graham, 11 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June 11, 1795. On June 23, 1795, Graham wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Yours of the 11th. current.” Letter not found. ] Graham was an Albany attorney and alderman.
4019From Thomas Jefferson to Grand & Cie., 9 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Haskell, being employed to act here on behalf of a company, and likely to have occasion to deposit and pass thro the hands of a banker considerable sums of money, is disposed to give a preference to your house. He wishes therefore to be made known to you. I had not the honour of an acquaintance with Mr. Haskell in America, but he brought to me from thence the most...
4020From Thomas Jefferson to Grand & Cie., 14 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
You have been so long without hearing from me on the subject of the monies I have received under your letter that you will think me gone without sending a draught of reimbursement. But I am still here, the vessel which is to carry me, having been detained by contrary winds above 16 days, in the Downs, and still incertain when she will get out. I received from Messrs. Begouen Desmeaux & co....
4021From Thomas Jefferson to Grand & Cie., 21 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The person who has furnished me with money at this place preferring to take a bill on Amsterdam rather than on Paris, I have only to reimburse you for that furnished me by Messieurs Begouen Demeaux & co. at Havre three thousand livres and my order in favor of the Sieur Petit for two thousand six hundred and thirteen livres two sous, in all five thousand six hundred and thirteen livres two...
4022Enclosure: William Short to Ferdinand Grand, 3 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Votre lettre du 25. du mois dernier, Monsieur, m’est parvenue hier. Les remboursements dont vous me parlez ont eté faits depuis plusieurs moi & d’apres les mesures prises de concert avec M. le Directeur du Trésor Royal selon le desir du Ministre des Affaires étrangéres. Les seules parties que me paraissoient interesseés s’etant ainsi concerteés, je suis obligé de vous avouer, Monsieur, que je...
4023From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 4 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Our government having thought proper to dispose otherwise of my services than I had expected, instead of paying my respects to you in person, I have to perform the less pleasing office of writing you a letter of Adieu, thanking you, as I do sincerely, for all the kindnesses and attentions you were so good as to exercise towards me during my residence in Paris. I hope that by this time the...
4024From John Jay to Ferdinand Grand, 31 December 1793 (Jay Papers)
My I have had ^the pleasure^ of rec g the Letter which you did me the favor of writing on the 2 d Day of May last, and it is the only one from you which has reached come to Hand since the ^your^ Revolution. We consider your amiable Friends as an agreable addition to our Society, and nothing on our part shall be wanting to convince them of our Respect for your Recommendation and for their...
4025From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 23 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that we were together at the Hotel de la Monnoye, to see M. Drost strike coins in his new manner, and that you were so kind as to speak with him afterwards on the subject of his coming to America. We are now in a condition to establish a mint, and should be desirous of engaging him in it. I suppose him to be at present in the service of Watts and Bolton, the latter of whom you...
4026From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, Jr., 27 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not arrive at this place till the last of March, and an illness which came on me soon after put it long out of my power to attend to any business. I have at length obtained information on the subject of the loan office certificates which you desired me to enquire after. This is contained in the inclosed papers, and being stated by a person more familiar with the subject than I am, I...
4027From George Washington to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, 3 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I receive your kind Congratulations with the purest sensations of fraternal affection: And from a heart deeply impressed with your generous wishes for my present and future happiness, I beg you to accept my thanks. At the same time I request you will be assured of my best wishes and earnest prayers for your happiness while you remain in this terrestial Mansion, and that we may hereafter meet...
4028Tobias Lear to Daniel Grant, 8 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mrs Washington requests me to present, and begs your acceptance of her best thanks for the very excellent mutton and pair of canvas-back Ducks which you have been so polite as to send to her. I have delayed acknowledging the receipt of your letter or informing you of the safe arrival of the mutton until we should have an opportunity of judging of its goodness otherwise than by the eye. This...
4029Tobias Lear to Daniel Grant, 28 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
About 3 or 4 weeks ago I wrote to Philadelphia to know if a good Cook could be had from that City for the family of the President of the United States—I received for answer that a complete one could not be found there at that time, but that it was probable one might be obtained from Baltimore, and Mr Moyston had accordingly written to Baltimore for one who had lately gone thither from Philada....
4030Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Auguste de Grasse, 29 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States has been made acquainted, by a letter from you, with the situation in which you &, your family are at Charleston. Such representations are daily made to him from various parts of the United States, by your Countrymen, in the same unfortunate predicament with yourself. No man feels more for your distresses than the President, nor is any one more willing to...
4031From Alexander Hamilton to Vincent Gray, 25 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I am favoured with your two letters of the 10th and 11th Instant, the former transmitting a Letter to the Treasurer said to contain One hundred and fifty Dollars in Notes of the Bank of North America, the latter a Letter to the Same Officer Said to contain Two hundred and Seventy Dollars in notes of the Said Bank and that of New york. I am sir Your Obt hble Servt LS , RG 36, Collector of...
4032From Alexander Hamilton to Vincent Gray, 21 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 21, 1789. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Birch’s Sons, March, 1893, Lot 492.
4033From Alexander Hamilton to Catharine Greene, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It is not an uncommon thing for you women to bring us poor men into Scrapes. It seems you have brought me into one. You will wonder how—Hear the tale. Shortly after I came into Office, Wadsworth informed me that Baron Glauback was indebted to General Greene (to whom he had behaved in a very exceptionable manner) and that it was intended to endeavour to purchase of Glauback some pay which had...
4034From Alexander Hamilton to Catharine Greene, 2 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You are right My Dear friend in conjecturing that your letter from Charles Town did not reach me. I am still to learn whether you received mine in answer to one you wrote me from Georgia. I hope in ten days to be able so far to extricate my self as to report on your Memorial. Indeed I will do it & if possible sooner. God forbid I should think it possible that my departed friend could violate...
4035From Alexander Hamilton to Catharine Greene, 8 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 26th of January did not reach me till the 4th instant, the day after the adjournment of Congress; of course it was impossible that I could obey your wish, by making a report on your Memorial. But my dear friend, I love you too well not be be very candid with you. I am afraid my report will not promote your interest. I had too much reverence as well as friendship for General...
4036From Thomas Jefferson to Catharine Greene, 25 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson presents his most respectful compliments to Mrs. Greene, and will with great pleasure write to Mr. Morris, on the subject of her son’s return, forwarding her letter at the same time. He thinks Mrs. Greene concluded that he should return by the way of London. If he is mistaken she will be so good as to correct him, as his letter to Mr. Morris will otherwise be on that supposition....
4037From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington Greene, 2 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Peale the bearer of this letter proposing to go to Georgia to collect curiosities in Natural history, for his father’s Museum, now become considerable and worthy of encouragement, I take the liberty of recommending himself and his object to you. If I did not mistake symptoms in an early part of your life, your dispositions and your attention to these subjects will be in his favor. Permit...
4038From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington Greene, 12 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I took occasion by young Mr. Peale, who was going to Georgia, to congratulate you on your return to your native country. I now take the liberty of troubling you on a subject in which I feel an interest. During the invasion of Virginia in the years 1780. and 1781. the greater part of the records of that state were burnt by the British. Among these were all the proceedings of the Executive...
4039From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf, 30 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have carefully reflected upon the subject of your letter of the 27th. instant. Though the data which it presents authorise an expectation of large pecuniary advantage and though I discover nothing in the affair which an Individual differently circumstanced might not with propriety enter into—yet in my peculiar situation, viewed in all its public as well as personal relations, I think myself...
4040From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf, 9 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
You request my opinion of your title to the lands lately purchased by you of James Gunn and his Associates called the Georgia Company. I wish it was more in my power than it is to give you one embracing the whole subject, but never having had an opportunity of examining the title of the state of Georgia, I can pronounce nothing on that head. I can only say that from all that came under my...
4041From Alexander Hamilton to James Greenleaf and James Watson, 10 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I received on Saturday your letter of the . I have, from a wish to accommodate, reconsidered my instruction with regard to the payment of intire dividends only; but I cannot satisfy myself that a department from it will be consistent with that exact order in the conduct of the business, which so complicated an operation as the payment of interest in thirteen different places accompanied with...
4042From Alexander Hamilton to the Editor of The Argus, [6 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
For the Minerva . The Defence No. 22, if I recollect aright was sent you on Sunday last, accompanied with an intimation that the subsequent numbers would be transmitted with greater frequency, and requesting that their publication might be accelerated. You could be at no loss to conjecture the motive. Since that time, to facilitate dispatch, two other numbers have been sent you. Instead of...
4043From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Greenleaf, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of making a collection of the best gazettes which have been published at the seats of the present general government I take the liberty of troubling you to make up for me a collection of your’s of the years 1789. and 1790. either unbound or half-bound. The stages will furnish the best method of conveying them to me, the price of which conveyance shall be paid here, and that of...
4044From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Greenleaf, 28 [June] 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time your favor of May 5. and the Volume of your papers which I had desired and now inclose you the price as stated in your letter towit 6D—16c. with thanks for your attention to the request, and am Sir your most obedt servt PrC ( DLC ); misdated; at foot of text: “Mr. Greenleaf.” Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy misdated 28 Jan. 1793. Recorded under 28 June 1793 in SJL .
4045From George Washington to Thomas Green, 4 November 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Green, 4 Nov. 1792. GW wrote Anthony Whitting on this date : “I have written, as you will see by the enclosed, long letters, both to Thos Green and the Gardner. . . . The letters are left open for your perusal & delivery.”
4046From George Washington to Thomas Green, 6 January 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Green, c.6 Jan. 1793. On 6 Jan., GW wrote Anthony Whitting : “You will See by the enclosed to Thomas Green (which Seal before you send it to him) on what footing I have placed his continuance, or discharge.”
4047From George Washington to Thomas Green, 23 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
It is eight weeks this day since I left Mount Vernon—and what have you done? Not a stroke to Crows House so late as the 15th of this month (the date of the last report)—Not a stroke to the sheds at Dogue run Barn. Very little that I can discover to the Barn itself; and scarcely any thing else, except running to Alexandria and repairing your own house. In doing which (by your own reports) you...
4048From George Washington to John Greenwood, 20 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your last letter, with its accompaniment, came safe to my hands on tuesday last. Enclosed you will receive Sixty dollars in Bank notes of the United States. In addition to which, I pray you to accept my thanks for the ready attention which you have at all times, paid to my requests; and that you will believe me to be, with esteem, Sir Your very Hble Servt ALS , DLC:GW , series 9; copy, DLC :...
4049From George Washington to John Greenwood, 16 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th and the box which accompanied it came safe to hand. The contents of the latter were perfectly agreeable to me, and will, I am persuaded, answer the end proposed very well. Enclosed I send you Twenty dollars in payment for them and the repairs of the old ones, and, etc. P.S. That I may be certain that this letter and its contents has got safe to hand, be so good as to say...
4050From George Washington to John Greenwood, 4 September 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Greenwood, 4 Sept. 1791. Greenwood wrote GW on 10 Sept. that “I Received yours dated the 4th by the hand of sr John Jays son.”