23761[Diary entry: 19 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
19. Do. Do. Very warm.
23762To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 19 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Immediately upon leaving your house this morning, I went to the office for the department of state, where I directed the room, in which I usually sat, to be locked up, and the key to remain with the Messenger. My object in this was to let all the papers rest, as they stood. Upon my return home, I reflected calmly and maturely upon the proceedings of this morning. Two facts immediately...
23763To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 19 [August] 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have been delayed in seting out for Loudoun longer than I expected. I move on Tomorow but not the rout I intended as the person I wished to see has left home and not yet returned—the cause of his departure is matter of conjecture. Mr Patton lately from Philaa. and Picket of Richmond say it is generally beleived that the Pres: approves of what has been done by the Senate respecting the Treaty...
23764To John Adams from George Washington, 20 August 1795 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10th. inst. with its enclosures.—They contain a great deal of interesting matter;—and No. 9 discloses much important information, and political foresight.—For the proof of your kindness, and confidence, I pray you to accept my best, & most cordial thanks.— Mr. J. Adams, your son, must not think of retiring from the walk he is now in:—his prospects, if he...
23765[Diary entry: 20 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
20. Do. Do. Do. Rain in the Eveng.
23766From George Washington to John Adams, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10th instt with its enclosures. They contain a great deal of interesting matter; and No. 9 discloses much important information, and political foresight. For this proof of your kindness, and confidence, I pray you to accept my best, & most cordial thanks. Mr J. Adams, your son, must not think of retiring from the walk he is now in: his prospects, if he...
23767To George Washington from Culpeper County, Va., Citizens, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a Numerous meeting of Sundry Inhabitants of Culpeper County at the Courthouse on the 20th day of August 1795 agreeable to a previous notice given to take into consideration the Treaty lately negociated by Mr John Jay with the King of Great Britain. It is the opinion of this meeting that it is a right of the Citizens of the united States, on occasions of moment to assemble and calmly...
23768From George Washington to Robert R. Livingston, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I received your favor, dated the 8th of July (on the subject of the treaty with Great Britain) the day preceeding my departure for Mount Vernon; from whence I intended to have acknowledged the receipt of it: but so many letters of a public nature were poured upon me at that place, and the urgency of the business in which I have since been engaged, have prevented my doing it until now. Aiming...
23769To George Washington from Philadelphia Subscribers, Merchants, and Traders, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Address of the Subscribers, Merchants and Traders of the City of Philadelphia. Respectfully sheweth That confiding in the Wisdom, Integrity, and Patriotism, of the constituted Authorities, We have forborne to offer our Opinions on the Merits of the Treaty, pending between Great Britain and the United States; tho’ as Merchants and Traders our Interests are more immediately concerned than...
23770From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your resignation of the Office of State, is received. Candour induces me to give you, in a few words, the following narrative of facts. The letter from Mr Fauchet, with the contents of which you were made acquainted yesterday, was as you supposed, an interscepted one. It was sent by Lord Grenville to Mr Hammond; by him put into the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury; by him shewn to the...
23771To George Washington from James Ross, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have agreed to sell your lands on Millers Run in Washington County to Colo. Matthew Ritchie, at four Dollars per Acre strict measure. One fourth part of the purchase money to be paid upon the first day of next June, The residue to be paid in four equal Installments commencing on the first day of June 1797. & Interest to run on the whole sum from the first day of January next. The purchase...
23772To George Washington from George Walker, 20 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Impressed with a high idea of your desire to patronize those Arts which improve & embellish life, I beg leave to sollicit your Acceptance of the Prints which accompany this letter. My intention of presenting them made me take the liberty to insert Your Name in the list of Subscribers, a circumstance which, considering the motive, I hope you will have the goodness to excuse. It would not become...
23773From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 August 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Watkins arrived here yesterday evening, and besides the 120. Dollars (which were perfectly in time for my purpose) he lodged with me £20–8–4 to be forwarded to you. I have accordingly been to Charlottesville this morning and deposited the money with Colo. Bell, to be forwarded to the sweet springs if any direct and trusty conveyance occurs; if not, to be sent to Gamble & Grattan in...
23774The Defence No. IX, [21 August 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
It was my intention to have comprised in two numbers the examination of the second article; but on experiment it was found expedient to add a third. I resume for a moment the subject of indemnification for the detention of the Posts. As an inducement to persist in this claim, we are assured that the magnimity of France would have procured for us its establishment. In the first place this...
23775[Diary entry: 21 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
21. Do. No. Et. Cool & raing. more or less.
23776From John Jay to William Livingston, 21 August 1795 (Jay Papers)
I was this moment favored with yours dated the 16 July, instead of 16 Aug t ., when I presume it was written. The two Papers that were enclosed in it viz t . the Copy of your Letter of the 16 Aug t . to B. Livingston and M. Clarkson Esq r ., and of the Certificate of Doc r . J. Griffith of the same Date, respecting the State of your Health, shall be immediately transmitted to Judge Hobart,...
23777To James Madison from Pierce Butler, 21 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have been favourd with two letters from You, the Dates I can not immediately refer to, not having the letters at hand. I shoud have written to You before this day had I been able to take a pen in my hand. I have been constantly indisposed since June. I wish now to write You a long letter, coud I be ascertained of it’s reaching Your hand unopend. Curiosity is so prevalent that I must desist...
23778To John Adams from Isaac Lothrop, 22 August 1795 (Adams Papers)
This will be delivered you by John Davis Esqr. who is honored with the appointments of Comptroler of the treasury under the federal Government, is now on his way to Phila. in order to enter on the duties of that office & wishes to pay his respects to you Sir, and as it appears to me right & proper he should so do, I have thus taken the Liberty to recommend him to your kind notice.—mr Davis is...
23779[Diary entry: 22 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
22. Do. Do. Do. Thick mist all day.
23780Address to the Chickasaw Nation, 22 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Talk of the President of the United States to Major William Colbert, John Brown the Younger and William MGillivray, Chickasaws, and Malcolm MGhee Interpreter, representing the Chickasaw Nation. My Children I have considered the written Talk from the Headmen of the Chickasaw Nation, which you delivered to me four-days ago. The subject I had before considered in consequence of the written...
23781From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 22 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to your request & my promise, and as soon as it has been in my power, I send you a copy of Mr Fauchet’s letter No. 10 to the “commissaire du départment des relations extêrieures.” LB , DLC:GW . For Randolph’s request and GW’s promise, see Randolph to GW, 19 Aug. (first letter), and GW to Randolph, 20 August. For discussion of then-French minister Jean-Antoine-Joseph Fauchet’s letter,...
23782From George Washington to James Ross, 22 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 3d instant; am perfectly satisfied with all your transaction with Colo. Shreve; and will ratify them, whensoever the papers shall be produced. The Sea-port towns (or rather parts of them) are involved—and are endeavouring to involve, as much as in them lye, the Community at large, in a violent opposition to the treaty with Great Britain (which is...
23783To George Washington from “Valerius,” 22 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
22 Aug. 1795. He understands that GW has signed the Jay Treaty with Great Britain. In doing so, GW pledges the United States “to the performance of stipulations, the inevitable operation of which the benevolence of the good man laments, and the spirit of the proud man abhors.” The writer asks: “ Shall Freemen despair? … No … citizens of an enlightened and gallant Republic” must “view...
23784To George Washington from Gabriel Peterson Van Horne, 22 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Conscious of the delicacy, As the importance of the Subject—If Unfortunately in this Address, I have intruded, The President will I hope Attribute to a Zealous Ardor, those Sentiments which flow from the purest intentions. Notwithstanding those recent instances which required the Virtuous Exertions of the Executive, to restore Order, and Tranquillity; And it is no less Apparent, that to the...
23785[Diary entry: 23 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
23. Do. Do. Cleared abt. noon & grew W[arm].
23786To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 23 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
private Just before I left Town I receiv’d a Letter from Mr Mountflorence informing that Mr Skipwith whom Mr Munroe had appointed to the Consulate at Paris intended to resign and that Mr Munroe had promised to recommend him to that Place. He at the same Time desir’d me (if I thought him fit for the Place) to mention it to my friends in America. After this Introduction I take the Liberty to...
23787From George Washington to William Pearce, 23 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 16th instant, covering the ⟨wee⟩kly reports, came to my hands yesterday. As ⟨you⟩ have begun upon what is called Davy⟨’s field⟩ at Dogue-run, I do not wish any change; and when to this is added the high, and dry parts of the Mill swamp Corn, & one of the lots by the Barn, the quantity of ground in wheat, at that farm, will be pretty well. But I wish your sowing had kept pace...
23788To George Washington from William Pearce, 23 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 23 Aug. 1795. On 30 Aug., GW wrote Pearce, acknowledging “yours of the 23d instant.”
23789From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 23 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
This draft letter is bound together with another manuscript that the editors have identified as the first draft of the petition to the General Assembly of Virginia bearing the date 12 October 1795 (see Draft of the Petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, ca. September 1795 , Editorial Note). On the verso of the draft petition JM wrote: “To On Jay’s Treaty / Augst. 23....
23790[Diary entry: 24 August 1795] (Washington Papers)
24. Do. Do. with sunshine & showers.