1101Enclosure: Wilhelm and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard to Thomas Jefferson, 13 … (Hamilton Papers)
We had the honor to remit Your Excellency £169,718.16 the 10th. Inst. in 23 Bills of Exchange and now inclose 110,281. 4 in 22 Do. ⅌ inclosed List. together £280,000 for accounts of the United States; being the Amount requisite for payment of the Arrears of Interest due to Foreign Officers and for completing the Article of Medals; The Receipt whereof We request Your Excellency’s...
1102To George Washington from Henry Knox, 13 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
The detail of the estimate of the expences for treating with the Southern indians which was formed the 20th of May 1789. It is supposed that at least 1500 Creeks will attend at the treaty, each of whom according to custom, must have one and an half rations ⅌ day; this would require for each day 2250 rations. The treaty may be presumed to last 25 days. 56,250 Rations at ⅛th of a dollar ⅌ ration...
1103To George Washington from Thomas Nelson, Jr., 13 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I reciev’d your favour two days ago, and have to return you my most grateful thanks, for the very great attention and friendship which you have been pleased to shew me—The offer which you have made, Sir, is so very flattering, that I can not hesitate to accept it. The whole family are equally sensible with myself of the very great favour which by making me this offer, you have done them....
1104Amendments to the Constitution, [13 August] 1789 (Madison Papers)
On 21 July, JM moved that the House take up amendments in the Committee of the Whole, as provided in his resolution of 8 June. After some debate, the House referred the 8 June resolution and all the amendments proposed by the state ratifying conventions to a select committee of one member from each state. This committee reported on 28 July ( JM to W. C. Nicholas, 2 Aug. 1789 and n. 1). On 13...
1105To Thomas Jefferson from William Carmichael, 13 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
By a Letter which I received last week from Governeur Morris, I am informed that your Excellency is still at Paris. In consequence I take the Liberty of inclosing to you the accompts of the disbursements made for our Captives at Algiers No. 1–2.—I transmitted to Mr. Jay the first accompt in June 1787, but have not been favored with an answer. On the 11th Inst. I received the second accompanied...
1106To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 13 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
We had the honor to remit Your Excellency £169,718.16 the 10th. Inst. in 23 Bills of Exchange and now inclose 110,281. 4 in 22 Do. ⅌ inclosed List. together £280,000 for accounts of the United States; being the Amount requisite for payment of the Arrears of Interest due to Foreign Officers and for completing the Article of Medals; The Receipt whereof We request Your Excellency’s...
1107To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 14–26 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing to your Excellency last week by Captain Geddes bound to Philadelphia, & Sent the only authentic Account of part of the Revolution in France; Since that day, all the foreign as well as the British Papers agree that it will be compleated & the old Constitution restored. I fear, I am only repeating what your Excellency has already heard from better Authority & more...
1108To George Washington from the Board of Treasury, 14 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
In a communication we had lately the honor of making to you, on the subject of the Foreign and Domestic Debt; we observed that the Indents of Interest computed in circulation on the 12th of June last, was Dolls. 2,128,694, and that this amount might perhaps in future enter into the general mass of the Domestic Debt. We have since directed an Estimate to be made at the Treasury, of the Interest...
1109To James Madison from “Pacificus,” 14 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
In a debate upon the Impost Bill, you declared yourself an enemy to local attachments, and said you considered yourself not merely the representative of Virginia , but of the United States . This declaration was liberal, and the sentiment just. But Sir, does this accord with the interest you take in amending the constitution? You now hold out in justification of the part you take in forwarding...
1110Amendments to the Constitution, [14 August] 1789 (Madison Papers)
Under consideration was an amendment providing for one representative for every thirty thousand people until the number reached one hundred. Ames proposed a ratio of one for every forty thousand. Mr. Madison. I cannot concur in sentiment with the gentleman last up, that 1 representative for 40,000 inhabitants will conciliate the minds of those to the government, who are desirous of amendments;...
1111To Thomas Jefferson from Veuve David & Fils, 14 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received the honour of your Excellency’s answer to our Letter of the 29th. of June Last with regard to the Excessive Duty required from us upon Salted Beef and Pork imported from the United States. We take the Liberty to beg you to observe, that whilst that no Complaints are made to the Earl of Montmorin, and to M. Necker, no Amendment to the Wrong is to be hoped for. We Dare to...
1112To John Adams from Stephen Hall, 15 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
Permit me overwhelmed with grief & chagrined at disappointment to beg your kind attention for a minute. I am grieved, because my pretensions to the Office I sollicited were certainly far better grounded than his, who holds the Appointment: I am chagrined, because my expectations were with reason high. I think it not vanity to say I have some degree of personal merit; and some publick Seals of...
1113Receipt from John Murray, 15 August 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 15, 1789 . On this date Hamilton wrote and Murray signed a receipt which reads as follows: “the above account is in consequence of directions given me by Mr. Hamilton from motives of Charity to provide for the burial of Abbe Mott & the amount is now paid to me by him Aug 15. 1789.” DS , in writing of H, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Murray was a New York City merchant....
1114To George Washington from Thomas Edwards, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
At the close of the late War I returned to this my native place and applied myself to my former profession of the Law, where I yet remain and have a small family—But having been absent for so long a space of time in the Army, I had the mortification to find that I made but small progress in business, owing, my Vanity will say, to a number of younger men having come forward in the Profession &...
1115To George Washington from John Livingston, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
From a desire, to be servicable to my Country, I take the liberty of offering myself to your Excellency, as a candidate, for the office, of a Commissioner, for Indian Affairs, oppertunities have presented, which have given me an extensive Acquaintance, with the principal Sachams, and Cheifs of many of the Northern & Southern Nations of Indians, and I flatter myself, it is No Vanity to Say,...
1116To George Washington from William Mercier, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having been Appointed by the State of New York to the Suply and Care of the Light house on Sandy Hook, and have Acted therein Ever Since the Peace—I have to Request the favor of Being Continued therein under the United States. Sr your Most Humbe Servt ALS , DLC:GW .
1117From George Washington to the Moravian Society for Propagating the Gospel, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I receive with satisfaction the congratulations of your Society and of the Brethren’s Congregations in the United States of America. For you may be persuaded that the approbation and good wishes of such a peaceable and virtuous Community cannot be indifferent to me. You will also be pleased to accept my thanks for the Treatise which you presented; and to be assured of my patronage in your...
1118To George Washington from Walter Stewart, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I Observe your excellency has Recommended to the House of representatives an Early Attention to the Orgonization of the Malitia of the United States. This is Certainly a subject which will require great Investigation, and no doubt the Committee to whom it is refer’d will View it in the Consequential light it merits. I hope your Excellency will Attribute to good motives, and Pardon the Liberty...
1119To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave, with diffidence, to offer myself as a candidate for an appointment under the government of the United States. If I may be allowed to judge of my own qualifications, they are most suitable to some business in the Finance or Treasury Department. The gentlemen who represent the State of Connecticut, in the Senate and House of Representatives, are best acquainted with the degree of...
1120From George Washington to Arthur Young, 15 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Recollecting that in one of your letters to me you had requested me to send to you a sample of the wool produced by my sheep, I directed that a fleece of a middling quality should be sent to me at this place after the season of shearing, which has been done, and I now transmit it to you by the british Packet, directed to the care of Messrs Wakelin Welch and Son in London. I am Sir, your most...
1121To James Madison from the Reverend James Madison, 15 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
I am much obliged for your Favr. of the 29h. July, and also for the Papers inclosed. Nothing gives me more Pleasure than hearing from you, but I have been always unwilling, to add to the Burthen of those Correspondences, in wh. you must be engaged. Mr Randolph generally gives me a sight of the Papers you send him, so that I shall think myself sufficiently attended to, by occasional Instances...
1122Amendments to the Constitution, [15 August] 1789 (Madison Papers)
The committee took up the fourth amendment (containing a bill of rights) proposed by the select committee. The first clause, “No religion shall be established by Law, nor shall the equal rights of conscience be infringed,” was under discussion. Mr. Madison Said he apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it...
1123From James Madison to George W. Smith, 15 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 August 1789. Acknowledged in Smith to JM, 22 Sept. 1789 . Discourages Smith’s hopes for a federal appointment.
1124From Thomas Jefferson to Cambray, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that money is now deposited in the hands of Messieurs Grand & co. for paying the arrears of interest to the beginning of the present year to the foreign officers who served in the American army. Neither Congress nor their servants have ceased one moment to feel the justice due to those gentlemen, but this is the first moment that their efforts to command such...
1125From 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...
1126From Thomas Jefferson to La Lande, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur de faire part à Monsieur de la Lan[de que] Messieurs Grand & co. banquiers rue n[euve] des Capucins, sont munis d’argent [actu]ellement pour payer aux officiers etrangers qui ont servi dans l’armée des etats-unis d’Amerique, les arrera[ges] d’interets qui leur sont dues jusqu’au commencement de l’année ac[tuelle.] Si la personne pour laquelle Mons[ieur] de la...
1127From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 15 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The present serves to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 10th inst. inclosing bills to the amount of one hundred and sixty nine thousand seven hundred and eighteen livres sixteen sous, which I immediately endorsed to Messrs. Grand & co. for negotiation, and to be paid by them to the foreign officers. I expect within a few days to be able to decide what is to be done with the 30,000...
1128Farm Reports, 16–22 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
A Meteorlogical account of the weath<er> kept at Mount Vernon 1789. [Mount Vernon, 16–22 Aug. 1789 ] 16th Mercury In the morng 80 Calm Clear Noon 86 S. Wt Clear. Night 86 S. Wt Cloudy and sprinkle of rain 17th Morng 72 S. Wt Clear. Noon 75 N. Et Clear. Night 75 S. Et Clear, in the night a fine rain 18th Morng 70 S. Et Cloudy. Noon 73 N. Et Clear. Night 73 Calm Clear. 19th Morng 69 No. light...
1129To John Adams from Roger Sherman, 16 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
M r. Sherman returns his respectful compliments to the Vice-President, and would have done himself the honor of Waiting on him to Dine on Thursday next but he was previously engaged. RC ( MHi :Adams-Hull Coll.); docketed by JA : “Card.” By early August, JA and AA had oriented themselves to the social responsibilities that came with the vice presidency. Owing to the city’s summer heat and a...
1130To George Washington from Benjamin Lincoln, 16 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I received this morning your Excellencys very welcome favour of the 11th there on I beg leave to observe that immediately on my receiving the commission with which I was honoured appointing me Collector for the port of Boston & Charlestown I entered upon the duties of the office—I have appointed Majr Rice, not him of the late army, my deputy, he is a Gentleman very pleasing to the people, of...