4021To George Washington from Donald Fraser, 30 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I am about publishing a book, entitled the young Gentleman and Lady’s Assistant. The manuscript Copy of which, I have submitted to the President and professors of Columbia College, who have been pleased to give their approbation of the same. The universally and justly establish’d Character, of the President of the United States, for beneficence and affability—and his known desire of promoting...
4022From George Washington to Joseph Mandrillon, 30 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
In replying to your several letters of the 15th of June and 4th of December 1789, and the 10th of January 1790, I must request you to accept my acknowledgements for the very polite terms in which you express your attachment to me—and my best thanks for the several enclosures which accompanied your letters. The unremitting attention which my public duties require, will, I am persuaded,...
4023From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
An Act of the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for ratifying certain articles as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was yesterday put into my hands; and I have directed my Secretary to lay a copy of the same before you. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; copy,...
4024Navigation and Trade, [30 June] 1790 (Madison Papers)
Debate on JM’s bill resumed on 29 June. The substance of it was lost when the Committee of the Whole agreed to FitzSimons’s substitute amendment: “That from and after the day of next, there shall be laid and collected on all ships and vessels not built, or registered in the United States, a duty of per ton. That on all ships and vessels arriving in any part of the United States, from places at...
4025From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 30 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 25th. came to hand last night, for which I give you many thanks. The conversion of 36.71428 pouce[s] into 39.1923 inches was an error in division, and consequently the mean taken between that and Graham’s computation is wrong. It has rendered it necessary for me to suppress the note on that subject, and to put it into the form now inclosed. In this I state the reaso[n] for...
4026To George Washington from William Moultrie, July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you a Resolve of this States Society of the Cincinnati enter’d into the 8th instant, expressing the Society’s disapprobation of the conduct of the Secretary General in not sending forward in proper time the notice required by the letter from the Chairman of their standing Committee & addressd to him dated the 2nd March 1790. The conduct of the Secretary General...
4027[July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday July 1st. Exercised between 5 and 7 Oclock on Horseback. Announced to the House of Representatives (where the Bills originated) that my signature had been given to the Acts above mentioned. Having put into the hands of the Vice President of the U: States the communications of Mr. Gouvr. Morris, who had been empowerd to make informal enquiries how well disposed the British Ministry...
4028To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, 1 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Frenchman’s Bay [ District of Maine ] July 1, 1790 . “Herewith I have the honour to transmit to you one Register, one Enrolment, my Account current for the last Quarter, Abstract of Duties on Tonnage, Abstract of pay to Inspectors &c with the necessary Vouchers.… I have concluded to remit the Ballance in my hands to the Bank of Boston agreeable to your letter of March 29th.… The Schooner...
4029To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, [1 July 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, July 1, 1790. ] Recommends Barzillas Delano “as a suitable person” to be the keeper of the lighthouse at Portland Head. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives.
4030To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 1 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, July 1, 1790. States that the lighthouses on Thacher and Plum Islands need to be repaired and that the cost of the work will be $137.83⅓. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives; LC , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letter Book, 1790–1797, National Archives; copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Boston, National...
4031[Diary entry: 1 July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday July 1st. Exercised between 5 and 7 Oclock on Horseback. Announced to the House of Representatives (where the Bills originated) that my signature had been given to the Acts above mentioned. Having put into the hands of the Vice President of the U: States the communications of Mr. Gouvr. Morris, who had been empowerd to make informal enquiries how well disposed the British Ministry...
4032From George Washington to Diego de Gardoqui, 1 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive the two letters which you wrote to me on the 21st of December last from Bilboa, giving information of your safe arrival at that place after a passage rendered peculiarly tedious by the weather & your indisposition. As impressions made by bad weather at sea seldom continue long after we get on shore—and your indisposition was almost removed at the time of your...
4033From George Washington to Ségur, 1 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 24th of August last; and I beg you will be persuaded that I have a grateful heart for the congratulations which you offer upon the organization of our new government, as well as for the warm expressions of personal attachment & good wishes for my happiness which your letter contained. It is with singular pleasure I can inform your...
4034To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 1 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I was this day honourd with your favour of the 27th ult, in which you are pleased to express your satisfaction with respect to the vibrating rod, which I proposed as a standard of measure. I shall think myself still further honourd, and you have my hearty consent, that you report the same to Congress as the standard of measure for the U.S. I would just further beg leave to observe that since...
4035From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
A bill has past two readings in the Senate for removing the seat of government immediately to Philadelphia, there to remain ten years, and then to be established permanently in Georgetown. It is to receive it’s third reading to-day, and tho’ it depends on a single vote, yet I believe we may count surely that it will pass that house. As it originated there, it will then have to pass the lower...
4036To Alexander Hamilton from Peter Anspach, 2 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In my memorial of yesterday to Congress and which I am informed has been referred to you I forgot to deliver a Copy of the a/c paid by Mr. Quackenbush, to his attorney for defending suits brought against him by Public creditors; I also in a letter from Col. Pickering to me, dated in March 1789 I recd one inclosed from him, addressed to the late Board of Treasury; which not reaching me until...
4037To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Harwood, 2 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Annapolis ] July 2, 1790 . “I received your Letter of the 18th. Ulto. and in obedience to your direction, I have concelled the Indents, blank Loan Office Certificates, New Emission Money in the manner directed, the package I have forwarded to Otho H Williams at Baltimore with directions to Ship it to you.…” LS , Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Letter not found.
4038[Diary entry: 2 July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Friday 2d. Exercised between 5 & 7 on horse back. About one oclock, official accounts of the safety of Major Doughty (who was sent on important business to the Chiccasaw and Choctaw Nations of Indians) were received; together with the detail of his proceedings to the Country of the former, and the misfortune that attended him in ascending the River Tenessee to the intended place of meeting the...
4039From George Washington to the United States Senate, 2 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Henry Marchant to be Judge, William Channing to be Attorney, and William Peck to be Marshall of the Judicial Court of the United States within the District of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. I likewise nominate the following persons to fill offices in the Revenue Department of the United States, within the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations—viz. Ebenezer...
4040To James Madison from James Monroe, 2 July 1790 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 17th. of June I have recd. & am sorry to find the most important measures of congress still remaining unsettled & in a very fluctuating state. The assumption will be dislik’d here from what I can learn, under any shape it can assume. Under the discussion it has recd. the publick mind appears to be made up on the subject, & will not readily yeild to any accommodation...
4041To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 2 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding all my assiduity since having Mr. Rumseys interest much at heart, and also being sensable of the evil consequences of delays by unprincipled men availing them selves of Mr. Rumseys inventions in those States in which there are no existing Laws in his favor, Yet having so many models to make of his several inventions, which from their different principles and construction...
4042To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 2 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I did myself the pleasure of writing you two Posts ago, but in closing up my letter I neglected putting into it the receipt for your Cask of hams, which was delivered me by the Skipper of the Vessel by which I forwarded it to Norfolk. The Truth of the matter is, that I had some Friends dining with me that day, and we made rather too free with the Juice of the Grape. A Gentleman called here two...
4043To Thomas Jefferson from David Rittenhouse, 2 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have troubled you with my Algebraical Calculations but for your present inconvenient situation. I am however pleased to find your results, tho’ obtained a different way, the same with mine, having never that I remember turned to any Book on the Subject.—The rod used as a Pendulum does indeed require no correction, if it be no thicker than you propose, which will perhaps have...
4044To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 3 [July] 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia , [ July ] 3, 1790 . “Having returned by this day from a visit of Inspection to the several establishments in the Bay & River Including the light house, it was not without Concern I found your letter of the 22d of last month. Accompanied by the Contract made with abraham Hargis and communicating the disinclination of the President of the United States to approve the allowance of...
4045From Alexander Hamilton to Eli Elmer, 3 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, July 3, 1790. On July 29, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Elmer : “Your letter of the 19th ultimo was duly received and I am apprehensive that an answer to it which was written on the 3d of July has been mislaid.” Letter of July 3 not found. ]
4046From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, [3 July 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The Collection law rates the ruble of Russia at 100 Cents. The 3d. Section of the act to explain the act “for registering and clearing vessels” &c declares that so much of the Collection law as rates the ruble of Russia at 100 Cents be and that the same is thereby repealed and made null and void . Discounts have been allowed by some of the Collectors on bonds taken prior to the passing of the...
4047To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 3 July 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, July 3, 1790. “Your favour of the 24th Ulto. came by the last post. I have seen one of the Gentlemen to whom was committed the building the light-house at Portland and find that the house is fifty eight feet in height that it must be raised Eight feet higher which will cost about one hundred dollars. The whole expence which has been incurred for the land the Light-house and for a...
4048[Diary entry: 3 July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 3d. Exercised between 9 and 11 in the Coach with Mrs. Washington and the Children. The policy of treating Colo. McGillivray, & the Chiefs of the Creek Nation who were coming with him, with attention as they passed through the States to this City induced me to desire the Secretary at War to write to the Governors of Virginia, Maryland & Pensylvania requesting that they might be...
4049To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 3 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Duplicate Sir, London 3 July 1790 This Letter will accompany Copies of what I had the Honor to write on the first and twenty ninth of May. I have heard nothing since from the Duke of Leeds. On the tenth of June the King prorogued the Parliament, which was dissolved on the eleventh. The Elections will be compleated in about ten Days, and then the Ministers will feel themselves more at Liberty...
4050To George Washington from Hugh Nelson, 3 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Yorktown, Va., 3 July 1790. Applies for the imminent opening of federal commissioner of loans for Virginia. ALS , DLC:GW . Hugh Nelson (1750–1800) of York County, Va., was the younger brother of former Virginia governor Thomas Nelson and uncle of Hugh Nelson (1768–1856) and GW’s secretary, Thomas Nelson, Jr. He attended the College of William and Mary before the Revolution, was appointed a...