23551To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 25 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Pittsburg mail is arrived, and no accounts yet from General Wayne. The dispatches for Mr Pinckney are ready for the first conveyances which shall present; and these will be sought for. I am most respectfully your obedient servt ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . See Pickering’s letter to Thomas Pinckney, 23 Sept., in Pickering to GW, 23 Sept. , n.4.
23552From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 3 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Aug. 30. Since that I have received your Nos. 84. 85. 86. 87. and one of Sep. 17. without a No. Congress having closed their session on the 8th. Ult. I now forward you a copy of the laws passed thereat.—Mr. Pinkney is now here on his way to London as our Min. Plenipotentiary there. You will therefore, in cases of need, correspond with him of course. I will ask the favor...
23553To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I cannot refrain from trespassing on Your time by expressing to you the perfect satisfaction which the people of New England possess by the operations of the general goverment. The unanimity of the legislature of this state was such as to overbear all dispositions of a disorganizing nature. Had the legislature conceived it proper or constitutional they would have expressed their approbation in...
23554To Alexander Hamilton from Meletiah Jordan, 20 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Frenchman’s Bay [ District of Maine ] February 20, 1790 . Acknowledges Treasury Department circulars of October 20, and November 20, 1789. States that the question “of receiving Bank Notes payable for Duties” does not arise “there being no vessels in this District that carry on any foreign trade.” Copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Gloucester, Machias, Frenchman’s Bay, National Archives.
23555Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 27 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
I this day received your Letter of the 23 d inst and was rejoiced once more to see your own hand writing— I have for some time feared that you were more indisposed than you would permit me to be informed of, I have suffered much anxiety on your account— inded my hands head and heart have been fully employed since I left you the former in preparing for my voyage and the latter by the...
23556From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is Major Jackson, formerly of the army, and afterwards of the President’s family. Supposing it possible he may see you at Madrid, I with pleasure make him known to you, as a gentleman of information talents and worth. He merits well any attentions you can shew him, and I also will be thankful for them. Should he, from the circumstances of the times, need your official...
23557To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 20 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just spoken with a gentleman who promises to put a line for me in the letter bag of Capt. Woolsey when he arrives at Gravesend. I embrace the opportunity of inclosing a newspaper or two, additional to those I have already inclosed. The accounts from Brussels of the riot do seem likely to be true from the intemperate violence of the priests and other agents of the aristocracy, who with...
23558I. Joseph Anderson to the President, 23 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last did myself the Honor of waiting upon your Excellency, on the Subject of my application, now before you, Mr. Lear inform’d me, that something had been Suggested, to my disadvantage, respecting a transaction between Major Jaquet and myself, relative to some Certificates. In Order to set that business in a proper point of View, I have for your Excellency’s satisfaction Obtain’d from...
23559From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment favored with the letter you did me the honor of writing yesterday, covering the extract of a British statute forbidding the admission of foreign vessels into any ports of the British dominions with goods or commodities of the growth production or manufacture of America. The effect of this appears to me so extensive as to induce a doubt whether I understand rightly the...
23560To George Washington from James McHenry, 26 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
The agent of the department of war in Tenessee having requested that the vacant office of deputy paymaster and store keeper might be filled up; and it appearing, that Mr Henley the agent cannot go through the business himself; and if he could, that it would be improper, inasmuch as it would center in one person, 1st. the keeping and distribution of stores, and 2dly the power to determine the...
23561To James Madison from Charles Carter, 16 December 1791 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 4th I duly recieved, and am much pleased, at the acct of my Dr Boys situation, & that he pleases his master. From my last letter from the Atty, I feard there woud have been, some dificulty as to the time, of his continuance with Mr Hunter, but hope all obstacles are removd. Shoud any thing be yet unsetled, I hope your aid will not be wanting, to accomodate, the business. I have...
23562Receipt from William Pearce, [7 September 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Received Philadelphia Sep 7. 1791 of Alexander Hamilton, Fifty Dollars towards providing Machines for a Cotton Manufactory. D , in writing of H and signed by Pearce, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. For a list of these machines, see “Receipt from William Pearce,” August 20, 1791, note 2 .
23563Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the U. States requests the attendance of the Secretary of State at his House, tomorrow morning at Nine o’Clock. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket indicates that he received this letter on 22 July. According to Jefferson’s private notes on the cabinet meeting of 23 July, the topics discussed included payment of the French debt, problems caused by French and...
23564To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 23 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having had the honor of serving in quality of Secretary of Congress from the first meeting of Congress in 1774 to the present time, a period of almost fifteen years, and having seen in that eventful period, by the interposition of divine Providence the rights of our country asserted and vindicated, its independence declared acknowledged and fixed, peace & tranquility restored & in consequence...
23565To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 1 September 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
It may appear presumptuous in me to address you, since I have not been honored with any reply to a letter which I took the liberty of writing to you about April , 1795. However, as that letter did not absolutely require an answer, and as, possibly, you may have sent an answer which miscarried, possibly, on the other hand, my letter may have never reached you, I venture to trouble you with a...
23566From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 12 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your private letter of Feb. 10. and am very sensible of the friendly sentiments you are so good as to express on the event of my retiring. I have, for particular reasons, deferred it for some time, but not for a long one. However I am sure you will be secure of a friendly correspondence with my successor, whoever he may be. I think it very certain that a decided majority...
23567Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
I hope you are agreably lodgd and that your Company will be to your mind. I rejoice in the ReElection of mr Ames, and mr Smith of Carolina. tis Said mr Freeman is chosen for Barnstable a clasmate of our Son JQA, a Lawyer, a worthy Sensible Man as I have heard. for this district mr Reed I hear is chosen. I do not however approve of Clergymen becomeing politicians. you may mak a Chaplin of him....
23568To George Washington from James Gibbon, 17 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Coll Carrington as Supervisor of the district of Virginia having been obliging enough to suggest to me the resignation of Coll Newton as Inspector of the th4 Suvey and that twas his intention to recommend me to succeed him—I have taken the liberty, in aid of his good offices in my behalf to trouble you with my own application[.] Having already acted under the Supervisors orders it is left for...
23569To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 9 December 1796 (Madison Papers)
I have yours of the first of this month. Was absent when it arrived or shod. have answered it the last post—that of the 5th. I have just recd. From both I collect it is very uncertain who will be the President. I have long apprehended the consequence which now appears probable that in the struggle between the principal Candidates and the friends of each voting for Pinkney or generally so as V....
23570To Thomas Jefferson from Jedidiah Morse, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlestown, 25 June 1793 . In conformity to the copyright law, he encloses for deposit in the office of the Secretary of State a copy of The American Universal Geography, of which he is author and proprietor. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); 1 p.; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Secretary of State Philadelphia”; endorsed by George Taylor, Jr., as received 1 July 1793. Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), a...
23571[Diary entry: 15 October 1794] (Washington Papers)
15th. Left Bath by seven oclock; & crossing the Cacapohon Mountain, & the Potomack River by a very rough road, we breakfasted at one Goldens—distant about 7 Miles—Bated our horses at a very indifferent place abt. 13 Miles further on—and lodged at the Old Town 33 or 34 Miles. This distance from the extreme badness of the Road, more than half of it being very hilly, & great part of it Stoney,...
23572To Thomas Jefferson from William Smith, 22 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to submit to your perusal the inclosed letter, which was transmitted to me, a few days past, from a merchant in Baltimore. The prohibition therein complained of, Strikes deep, at our East India trade. The article of cotton, from that country, is become a very considerable import, and together, with sundry other East India commodities, serve as good remittances to Europe. If...
23573Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, [8–12] July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of two questions lately proposed to me, the first upon the impost Act., and the 2nd. upon the 41 section of the Collection law, I signify to you my opinion on the following points. 1st. That the teas called “ Young Hyson ” and “ Hyson skin ,” are not subject to the duties which, in the several cases are laid on Hyson, but to those only which are imposed on other Green teas;...
23574From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [7 July 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have had some conversation with some influential Members of the Bank of New York who are disposed to do all that shall be found possible. But I wish to know without exaggeration the least sum that will be a material relief to you & when & how the payments will be desired. Yrs. ALS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. For an explanation of the contents of this letter, see H to Wolcott,...
23575To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 29 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th. Instant and I shall act conformably to it with respect to the clauses of the Collection Law, to which it refers. As to the appointment of a person to measure vessels, in considering the parts of the Coasting Law, which apply to the subject, more particularly the third and thirty first sections, I have conceived that the measurement of every vessel ought...
23576To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 7 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Having many reasons for wishing an interview with you at this meeting we cannot but express our regret at the Circumstances which have prevented it. We have the pleasure to inform you that it will be in our power from the Arrangements we have made with Mr Peter, the Proprietor of the Square on which your lots lie to accomodate you agreeably to your desire with the whole Square. The...
23577To George Washington from Samuel Witham Stockton, 20 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The necessity of the information contained in this letter, on my part will I hope apologize to your Excellency for the liberty I now take of addressing you. You have probably received from the Attorney General, official information of the death of that worthy citizen David Brearley Esquire, by which event, the office of Judge of the District Court for this State became vacant; and however...
23578From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The last post brought us your favor of the 17th. My nail machine with the hoop iron is safe arrived by Faris as also my wine by Billy. The roads were so bad that he was obliged to put out the rest of his load at Elisha Lake’s about 20. miles above Richmond. I shall get Colo. Bell to engage some waggon to bring them up. Robertson has fallowed about 100 acres. He has done the rich nole, and is...
23579Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 24 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Will you please to submit the enclosed letters of the 27th and 30th July from the Secretary of the South Western Territory, and their enclosures to the President of the United States. I am Sir with great esteem Your humble servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Daniel Smith’s letter to Knox of 27 July, from Knoxville, reported that the unauthorized attack on some Cherokee Indians by a party of...
23580To George Washington from George Morgan, 1 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having been engaged here some days in the Examination of the deceased Mr Hutchins Papers, I have found amongst them, a Letter to your Excellency from the Marquis de la Fayette, accompanied by one from you, requesting Mr Hutchins Attention to the forming a Vocabulary of the Indian Languages, for the Empress of Russia; who has ordered an Universal Dictionary to be made of all Languages. If your...