23511To George Washington from James McHenry, 14 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
If you have a few minutes to spare I could wish you to examine the within conditions for a new contract for cannon. The old contract was too defective to serve as a model or guide in any one respect. The public must be a considerable looser by it; and the cannon which we shall be obliged to recive by no means to be relied on. With the greatest respect I have the honour to be Sir your most ob....
23512To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to join a few lines to Pages of our friend Mr de la fayette —I think I cannot, under better auspices, express to your Excellency my heart-felt Satisfaction on being appointed Minister plenipy of france near the United States. It was under your comand, I begun my public life and learned to value and defend the cause of liberty: and it will be my constant endeavour in the new Station...
23513From John Jay to George Washington, 28 August 1790 (Jay Papers)
The Case which I had Yesterday the Honor of recieving from you, gave occasion to the following Remarks & Reflections. Whether the Issue of the Negociations depending between the british & spanish Courts be Peace or war, it certainly is prudent to anticipate & be prepared for the consequences of either Event. In the present State of Things it would doubtless militate against the Interests of...
23514To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 28 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President of the U. States and encloses herewith the draft of a passport for Capt. Montgomery, to which (if found right) the President’s signature is requested, in order that the vessel may be dispatched. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed passport for Capt. James Montgomery of the General Greene , the revenue cutter for Pennsylvania, has not...
23515From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 22 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been duly honored with your Letters of the 7th and 17th instant, and perceive with much pleasure a confirmation of the expectation which your former communication had given that your view of the measures proper to be pursued respecting the proceedings therein referred to, would correspond with the impressions entertained here. I flatter myself that the Proclamation will answer a very...
23516Introductory Note: To George Washington, [8 March 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
When this letter was written, the United States appeared to be closer to war with Great Britain than at any time since the end of the American Revolution. Henry Lee wondered whether Congress intended “to pick a quarrel with G.B.,” and the latest advices from Thomas Pinckney in London left little doubt that he considered the outbreak of war with Britain only a matter of time. In a dispatch...
23517To George Washington from Samuel Magaw, 15 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
In venturing to lay before You the discourse herewith presented; my diffidence is overruled, only by a Desire to pay some Tribute of Duty and Respect, where much is owed. The instance, indeed, is, of itself, quite inconsiderable: Yet, it appreciates in my view, as under the immediate direction of those Gentlemen, whose sentiments I can with greater safety rely upon, than on my own. They have...
23518To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I assure myself that your moments of leasure are, some times, passed in the contemplation of rural concerns. Your known attachments to subjects of domestic, as well as public, utility; and your former attention to the improvement of Stock, encourage me to mention to you that I have had, for more than two years, an order, in the hands of an American in London, to procure for me one of the...
23519To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 9 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor most respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, copies of certain documents in respect to the official conduct of Edward Wigglesworth Collector of the Customs for the District of Newbury-port in the State of Massachusetts; by which it appears— 1st. That the said Collector has omitted to give bond with sureties for the faithful...
23520To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United states for his consideration, a Contract (with the letter that accompanied it) betwen William Allibone Superintendant of the Light-house, Beacons, Buoys & public Piers on the river and Bay of Delaware and Abraham Hargis, Keeper of the Light-house at Cape Henlopen—The yearly Salary of £130. altho’...