3951From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 27th. of June. Since that we have had great appearance of an explosion between Spain and England Circumstances still indicate war. The strongest fact against it is that a British Ambassador is actually gone to Madrid. If there be war, France will probably embark in it. I do not think it can disturb her revolution. That is so far advanced as to be out of danger. Be these...
3952From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 15 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved only two days ago your favor of Oct. 9. by Mr. Everett. He is now under the smallpox. I am rejoiced with the account he gives me of the invigoration of your system, and am anxious for your persevering in any course of regimen which may long preserve you to us.—We have just received the glorious news of the Prussian army being obliged to retreat, and hope it will be followed by some...
3953From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, Robert Gilmor, and Samuel Sterett, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 18th. and called to-day on Mr. Hammond. He said he could not give a passport of any kind which would be an absolute protection to either the French passengers or their baggage, but that he would give a letter of recommendation to all commanders of ships and others exhorting them to permit the passengers and what might be properly called their baggage to...
3954From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, Robert Gilmor, and Samuel Sterett, 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 29 . was brought to me in the country yesterday. I immediately sent to town by express in hopes of being able to procure what you desired to be sent by the post of this day. Mr. Van Berkel however was out of town, as also the Spanish Commissioners, and not to be in town soon. I inclose you my note to Mr. Taylor, my chief clerk, and his pencilled statement of what Mr. Hammond...
3955From George Washington to George Gilpin, 4 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
A pressure of public business just at the moment Mr Roberdeau was about to leave this, allowed me no time to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th Ulto—and now I have little more than to thank you for the communication which was given by it. As the exactitude of the District called for a Scientific character I have engaged Mr Ellicot to make the Survey, and hope that every aid...
3956From George Washington to George Gilpin, 15 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am favored with the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, and thank you for the information, which you have been so good as to communicate. Every circumstance which serves to shew the utility, and which explains the progress of an undertaking so advantageous to the Community, as the navigation of the Potowmack, is at once grateful and interesting. When your leisure allows an opportunity...
3957From George Washington to George Gilpin, 29 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
As I know you are well acquainted with the lands, and the encreased price of them, of late, in the vicinity of the Great falls of Potomack, I take the liberty of asking your opinion of the value of a small tract of (about) 300 acres, which I hold in Loudoun County, at difficult bridge, on the road from Alexandria to Leesburgh. That you may be enabled the better to judge of this matter, I shall...
3958From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Girard, 28 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, February 28, 1794. “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th. Instant, a Copy whereof I have immediately sent to the Secretary of State, to whom all such applications are to be made, and who I doubt not will pay due attention to your representation.” LS , The Papers of Stephen Girard, Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, permission granted by Board...
3959From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Girard, 11 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 11, 1793. “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. informing me that the … Bills of Exchange (of which you are the holder) drawn by the Administration of the French Colony of St Domingo on the late Consul General of France, were sent to Clement Biddle Esqr to be protested.… I have therefore to inform you that if the minister of the French...
3960From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander S. Glass, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your memorial praying that your sloop Betsey, a prize to the Citoyen Genet, might be delivered to you, by the Executive. As this is done by the interposition of a military force only, I have inclosed the memorial and documents to the Secretary at war, with whom it will rest to consider whether it can be done, and to give you an answer. I am with regard Sir Your most obedt....
3961From George Washington to Henry Glen, 8 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
As it appears by the Secretary of Wars letter to me, that you have lately been to the Forts of Oswego and Niagara and must have a competent knowledge of the time and manner of making a tour to the latter, I request the favor of you, as well for my own satisfaction, as to enable me to answer the enquiries of others, to solve the following question, in detail—viz. How long would it take a small...
3962From John Jay to Henry Glen, 11 October 1796 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of recieving your Letter of the 5 th . ult: mentioning that the British Garrisons had retired from Oswego and Niagara, and that our Troops were in Possession of those Posts— I am happy to learn that this Business was conducted in a manner so satisfactory to both Parties— The officers on both Sides deserve Credit for the Decorum & Propriety which they observed on the...
3963From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Glen, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 10th of May duly came to hand. When Mr. Van Ingen was in Philadelphia on your business he communicated to me his errand—and though the constitution of the department refers the settlement of Accounts exclusively to the Auditor and Comptroller, I interfered so far as to converse particularly with the latter Officer, and it appeared to me that the difficulties, which remained,...
3964From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Goodhue, [29 October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I am duly favoured with your letter of the Eighteenth instant, and receive the observations you have been so obliging as to make, not only with candor but with thanks as a mark of your friendship and confidence. I am far from relying so much upon my own judgment, as not to think it very possible, I may have been mistaken in both the constructions on which you remark. Indeed I see abundant room...
3965From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Goodhue, 30 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As Mr. Coxe, who I think informed me he had a letter from you on the same subject undertook to say all that could be said in relation to Mr. Gray’s affair; I permitted the hurry of business to keep me silent. Nothing further concerning the affair has since come to me; so that I am wholly ignorant what turn it may have taken. It must have given you pleasure to learn how much the constitution of...
3966From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Goodhue, [1790] (Hamilton Papers)
As the subject of the inclosed letter is of consequence to the Whale Fishery I send it to you to read & will be glad to converse with you about it tomorrow. Yr Obed serv ALS , New York Society Library, New York City. Goodhue, a merchant in Salem, Massachusetts, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1789. J. C. Hamilton ( JCHW John C. Hamilton, ed., The Works of Alexander Hamilton (New...
3967From George Washington to Hannah Meredith Gordon, 19 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your letter of the 3rd of march with which I have been honored, I am under the necessity of observing, that circumstances put it out of my power to afford you any assistance in recovering your lands which you mention to have been confiscated during the late war in the State of Pennsylvania. Situated as I am in respect to the General Government of this country, you must yourself,...
3968From George Washington to William Gordon, 25 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
However highly I might be gratified by attending to my private correspondencies, as I used to do, yet so numerous and important are the public duties which my situation calls upon me to discharge, that to do justice to one I must, in some measure, give up the other—In this case it requires not the consideration of a moment to decide. I presume, therefore, it will hardly be necessary to offer...
3969From George Washington to William Gordon, 9 March 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Gordon, 9 Mar. 1791. GW wrote to Gordon, 19 July 1791: "I am . . . able to . . . refer you to a letter which I wrote on the 9 of March."
3970From George Washington to William Gordon, 19 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
As it has ever been a rule with me to make my private concerns give way to my public duties, when both cannot be accomplished, I now find myself under the necessity, from the weight of public business, which is at this time much encreased by an absence of more than three months, [(]on a tour thro’ the southern States) of refraining to enter so fully into my private correspondencies as my...
3971From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 23 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of May 20. and have now the honour to inclose you a post note for 5 D. 84 C. which will be taken up by any custom house officer of the U.S. This should not have been so long delayed, but that I have been absent on a journey from which I am but just returned. The continuance of your attention to procure the laws between 1772. and 1780. which you are so kind as to...
3972From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President is informed through the channel of a letter from yourself to Mr. Lear , that Mr. DuPlaine Consul of France at Boston, has lately, with an armed force, seized and rescued a vessel from the officer of a court of justice by process from which she was under arrest in his custody: and that he has in like manner, with an armed force, opposed and prevented the officer, charged with...
3973From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 29 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The recess of Congress now permits me the honor of acknowleging the receipt of your favor of Sep. 27. together with the copies of the laws you were so kind as to send, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. Our collection now stands thus. The only chasm in this seems to be from 1772. to 1780. to which I will continue to ask the attention you are so kind as to promise, as occasions arise...
3974From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the inclosed gazette is a paper purporting to be a Protest of the Consul Dannery against the revocation of the Exequatur of Mr. Duplaine issued by the President. Before the President proceeds to consider what notice such a protest would call for from him, he thinks it requisite to be assured that the paper is genuine. I have therefore to ask the favor of you to endeavor to procure authentic...
3975From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 13 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received from the British Minister here, a Memorial on the Case of Thomas Pagan, a British Subject, supposed to have been wrongfully condemned and imprisoned by Authority of the Courts of Massachusetts, I take the liberty of asking you to procure for me a complete Copy of the Record of Proceedings in this Case. I understand there has been something done by the Legislature and Executive,...
3976Enclosure III: Edmund Randolph to Christopher Gore, 23 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, giving information of the dismission of the prosecution against Mr Juteau. Mr Fauchet, however, is exceedingly dissatisfied with the manner in which this business was conducted. He says, that he would have preferred, that the trial should go on, to the compulsion of Mr Juteau to appear at the bar. It is very certain, that the wish of the...
3977From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 8 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that the legislature of Massachusets some time ago ratified some of the amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution, I am now to beg the favour of you to procure me an authentic copy of their proceedings therein, certified under the great seal of the state, letting me know at the same time the office charges for the copy, seal &c. which shall be remitted you. The...
3978From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The date of the inclosed bank post note for 19 Dol. 50. cents, will shew you how long it has by an accident been delayed. Being put into a bundle of papers where it would regularly have come under my eye to be forwarded, it slipped into the fold of one, and by it’s extreme thinness escaped observation, and hazard alone brought it at length into notice. I lose no time now in conveying it to you...
3979From Alexander Hamilton to Christopher Gore, 28 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 28, 1795. On April 20, 1795, Gore wrote to Hamilton : “I have hitherto delayed answering the letter, you did me the honor to write under date 28 Febry.” Letter not found. ] Gore was the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
3980From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Gorham, 19 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
It being intended to station Officers upon the recruiting Service at Portland, Salem, Boston, and Worcester, I have to request that you will enter into contract with any person or persons, who may be disposed to furnish the rations, Quartermasters articles, and medical assistance required for that service, at the most reasonable rate. You will be governed by my letter to you of the 26th of...
3981From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Gorham, [8 December 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I am favored with your Letter of the 24th of last Month Enclosing Proposals from yourself and Mr. Oliver Phelps, for the Supply of the Garrisons of West Point, and Springfield for the Ensuing Year; and agreably to your request have to inform you that the Supply has been Undertaken by the former Contractor at Eight Cents, and four tenths of a Cent per Ration. I am, with Sentiments of Esteem, ...
3982From George Washington to Nathaniel Gorham, 9 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 10th of march, and must beg you to be assured that your good wishes and kind gratulations were very pleasing to me, and have my warmest acknowledgments. I shall feel a degree of confidence in the execution of my office in proportion to the assurances of support which I receive from respectable and worthy Characters in every part of the Union. I beleive I need...
3983From George Washington to Henry Dorsey Gough, 4 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your polite letter of the 1st instant, and to inform you that the very fine mutton which you have had the goodness to send me has come to hand in the best order. While I beg your acceptance of my thanks for this mark of polite attention, permit me to express the satisfaction which I feel in learning from your letter the success you have met...
3984From Alexander Hamilton to Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble, 19 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] January 19, 1797 . “You are hereby requested to produce on the Trial of this cause during the present term whensoever the same shall be the letters from the Plaintiff to you whereof a list is at foot.…” ADfS , Free Library of Philadelphia; ADf , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. This is a reference to the case of Louis Le Guen v Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble , which was...
3985From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste de Gouvion, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that money is now deposited in the hands of Messrs. Grand & co. for paying the arrears of interest due to the foreign officers who served in the American army. I will beg the favor of you to notify thereof as many of them as you may find convenient, and if you can furnish the addresses of any others to Messrs. Grand & co. they will undertake to give notice to...
3986From George Washington to the Governor and Council of North Carolina, 26 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I entreat you to be persuaded that nothing could have been more agreeable to me than the proofs contained in your affectionate address of the friendly sentiments entertained by you for my person as well as for the government which I have been appointed by my Countrymen to administer —And I reciprocate with heartfelt satisfaction your congratulations on the completion of the union of all the...
3987From George Washington to the Governor and Council of North Carolina, 19 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
It was scarcely possible for any Address to have given me greater pleasure, than that which I have just received from you: because I consider it not only demonstrative of your approbation of my conduct in accepting the first office in the Union, but also indicative of the good dispositions of the citizens of your State towards their Sister States, and of the probability of their speedily...
3988From Alexander Hamilton to the Governor and Directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, 16 August … (Hamilton Papers)
The bearer of this Mr. Trenet is a person whom Col Duer entered into a speculation with for the establishment of a manufacture of brass and iron Wire. He is just returned from France, from which place he has brought tools and one or two hands. And he now with Mr Duers consent offers himself to the Society. There is no doubt that the manufacture of iron & brass Wire would be an extremely useful...
3989From Alexander Hamilton to the Governor and Directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, 16 August … (Hamilton Papers)
More from the interest I take in the institution than from any supposition of the usefulness of my presence, it would have given me great pleasure to have been able to meet you on Monday next at New Ark. But very particular circumstances will I fear render it impracticable. As Major L’Enfant may not be well known to all the Directors, I cannot omit the opportunity of saying that from much...
3990From Alexander Hamilton to the Governor and Directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, 14 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Among the disastrous incidents of the present juncture, I have not been least affected by the temporary derangement of the affairs of your Society. If however no real misfortune shall have attended any considerable part of your funds, the mere delay will be no very serious evil. It will not be difficult to put the business in Train with more promising prospects. The following appears to me to...
3991From George Washington to the Governor and Legislature of New Hampshire, 3 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Allow me, Gentlemen, to assure you that grateful as my heart is for the affectionate regards which my fellow-citizens have manifested towards me, it has at no time been more sensibly impressed with a consciousness of their goodness than on the present occasion. I am truly thankful for your expressions of attachment to my person, and approbation of my conduct—and I reciprocate your good wishes...
3992From Thomas Jefferson to the Governors of Georgia and South Carolina, 15 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you an authenticated copy of the Articles agreed on between the Governor of East Florida and Mr. Seagrove acting for the United States by order of the President, on the subject of fugitive negroes; and to be with sentiments of the most perfect esteem and respect Your Excellency’s Most obedient & most humble Servt. PrC ( DLC ); in Remsen’s hand; at foot of text: “His...
3993From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Georgia, 27 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from the Governor of East Florida dated St. Augustine Aug. 18. 1790. wherein he notifies me that he has recieved the king’s order not to permit, under any pretext, that persons held in slavery within the United states introduce themselves as free persons into the province of Florida. The dispositions which the Governor expresses on this, as he had done on a former...
3994Enclosure I: Philip and Anthony Filicchi to the Governor of Leghorn, 21 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
We have the Honor to lay before Your Eccelency a Copy of the Certificate of the Oath taken in New York by every Individual of the Crew of the American Brig the Minerva (as well as the Extract of the Articles of Navigation, by which every Seaman who without leave of the Captain is absent from the Vessel for the space of 48 Hours loses every right to claim his Wages). Alexander Haterton Mariner...
3995Enclosure II: Antonio Serristori to the Governor of Leghorn, 23 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
Having spoken to Lord Hervey, & shewn him Your Eccel⟨ys⟩ Letter dated the 21 inst. as well as the Paper No. 1, therein a⟨n⟩nex’d, he has inform’d me by writing that he has represented t⟨he⟩ matter to the Commander of the Squadron who is now in t⟨he⟩ City, & who has written to the Commander in his Absence ordering him not to take any Step against the America⟨n⟩ Vessel. I remain &c. Your humble...
3996Report to the Governor of North Carolina, [31 July 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury on the Letter from the Governor of North Carolina of the 25 of February last and the accompanying documents referred to him by the President respectfully makes the following Report. William Skinner Commissioner of Loans for North Carolina, by two letters dated at Hillsborough the 22 of July 1791, informed the Secretary of the Treasury of certain resolutions of the...
3997From John Jay to the Governor of Pennsylvania (Thomas Mifflin), 9 September 1795, enclosing To John Charlton, 4 … (Jay Papers)
Your Excellency’s Proclamation of the 31 of last month, prohibiting all Intercourse between this City and Philadelphia, induced me to write the following Letter to the President of the medical Society in this City— (here was inserted the preceding letter) By a Proclamation of the Governor of Pennsylvania dated the 31 of last month, all Intercourse between this City and Philadelphia is...
3998From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 22 July 1792 (Madison Papers)
The Report of which the inclosed is an authentic copy having been made to the House of Representatives, it is possible that the Executive may not have been furnished with it by the Senators of this State. I take the liberty therefore of forwarding it and am with the highest respect & esteem Your most Obedt. hble servant RC and enclosures ( Vi : Executive Papers). The enclosures are clerks’...
3999From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 25 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
Previous to the receipt of your favor on the subject of the arrears to the Virginia line, a proposition for remedying the abuses which have taken place, had been made and was under consideration. It has since passed the two Houses in the form which corresponds with the idea suggested by you. I take the liberty of inclosing a copy, though it has not yet been submitted to the President. As soon...
4000From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 11 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
On the recipt of your letter on the subject of the Inspection law of Virginia, I communicated the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury. He sees no impropriety in his giving the requisite instruction to the Custom-House officers and having promised to do so, I shall decline an application to Congress. Since the late separation of the State debts from the national, the House of Reps. has been...