3541To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 4 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Mr. Tench Coxe who has been called upon to share in the toils of our new Goverment, has solicited the honor of an introduction to you. He has acquired great reputation and many friends by his singular zeal, and industry in promoting the Adoption of the federal Goverment. His valuable publications discover genius, taste and extensive information. The two inclosed essays in the...
3542To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 5 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] May 5, 1790 . “I take the Liberty of troubling you with the inclosed Acct of the Marshall for the purpose of shewing You the necessity of making some allterations in the mode of process. You will at once perceive there can be no inducment to any of the inferior officers of the Revenue to give information—as in the End unless the seizure should be very valuable no emoluments...
3543From Alexander Hamilton to William Webb, 5 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, May 5, 1790. “In answer to yours of the 16th. of April I have to observe, that the rate of foreign Tonage may be waved in the case you state.… With regard to the 40th. Section of the Collection law, it is to be understood that American as well as foreign vessels are within the provisions of the Section and subject to seizure and forfeiture.” LS , United States Finance...
3544[Diary entry: 5 May 1790] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 5th. Requested General Rufus Putnam—lately appointed a Judge in the Western Government and who was on the eve of his departure for that Country to give me the best discription he could obtain of the proximity of the Waters of the Ohio & Lake Erie—the nature of their Navigations—Portages—&ca.—Also of the occurrences in the Country—the population of it—Temper of the people &ca. &ca....
3545To George Washington from James B. Pleasants, 5 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
As soon as the power of Granting Patents is vested by Law in the President, Angelheart Cruse intends to make application for Exclusive rights to a machine invented by me some years since, and for which he has my leave to take a Patent in his own name, The object in ⟨view⟩ is to apply Liquid force, as is apprehended, ⟨wi⟩th more simplicity, and superior power, ⟨tha⟩n has hitherto been done;...
3546To Thomas Jefferson from James B. Pleasants, 5 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as the power of Granting Patents is vested by Law in the President, Angelheart Cruse intends to make application for Exclusive rights to a machine invented by me some years since, and for which he has my leave to take a Patent in his own name. The object in [vi]ew is to apply Liquid force, as is apprehended, [wi]th more simplicity, and superior power, [th]an has hitherto been done;...
3547To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 6 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 6, 1790. Proposes that supplies for the following year be purchased immediately to take advantage of favorable prices. Plans to inspect all navigational aids in Delaware River and Delaware Bay at the end of May. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives.
3548To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Higginson, 6 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been confined several Weeks by the fashionable disorder called the influenza, which has made sad work here. My Eyes were so affected by it, that I have wrote but little & read less. By the papers, & letters I have received, you must have had an unpleasant time of it too for several Weeks. I sympathised with you, & felt the force of various passions at different times, which must have...
3549From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 6 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to inform the President of the United states of America, that he has received a letter from the Governor of Virginia intimating that it is necessary an election should be made of the particular spot upon which it may be deemed proper to erect the intended Light house on Cape Henry, after which the Cession will be completed. The said Secretary having...
3550[Diary entry: 6 May 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 6th. Exercised on horseback in the forenoon. The following, out of several others who were invited, but prevented by sickness, dined here—viz.—Mr. Wingate, Mr. Maclay, Mr. Walker (of the Senate) and Messrs. Gilman, Aimes, Genl. Muhlenburg, Wynkoop, Page and Lady, Smith So. Carolina & Lady, and Mr. White & his Lady of the House of Representatives. William Maclay noted in his diary that...
3551To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to inform the President of the United states of America, that he has received a letter from the Governor of Virginia intimating, that it is necessary an election should be made of the particular spot upon which it may be deemed proper to erect the intended Light house on Cape Henry, after which the Cession will be completed. The said Secretary having...
3552To George Washington from John Nicholson, 6 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
It is not with a view that your mind should descend to the Matters which concern an individual that I beg leave to present the inclosed for your perusal: but As the subject relates to the interests of the states over whose concerns you preside And as the public paper both here And at the seat of General Government have exhibited representations of one side of the affairs therein refered to A...
3553From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 6 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of Apl. 27. is this instant put into my hand. I have written to you all the letters that were promised, and have forborne to write others, because the cessation of yours led me to conclude that you had set out for N. Y. I am extremely sorry to find that this was not the case, but cheifly, on acct. of the cause of your delay. I can not suppose that under your circumstances any criticism...
3554To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, Jr., 6 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Post will go off in the morning at 8 OClock for falmouth, I have but very little time for informing you of an unexpected event, which at this moment agitates the minds of people in this country, and which seems to make a war inevitable. On getting up this morning I received a Note from a friend of mine, who is a member of Parliament, telling me that three thousand seamen had been...
3555To Alexander Hamilton from James Duane, [7 May 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Be so good if in your power to acquaint me of the issue of our friend the Baron’s afair in the house of Representatives? I know you will pardon my Sollicitude as I embark in the morning for the North. I am affectionately your’s ALS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. Baron von Steuben had petitioned the House of Representatives for compensation for his services during the American...
3556From Alexander Hamilton to James Duane, [7 May 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The form of the bill has been changed to day. He is to be paid 7000 Dollars & an annuity for life but the blank is not filled up. Nobody talks of less than 1500 Dollars. The Baron says his contract or nothing; but you & all his friends must join me in telling him that to act upon this would be to act like a boy. This must be done before you leave town. Yr affect & Obling ALS , New-York...
3557To Alexander Hamilton from Andrew Ellicott, 7 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 7, 1790. Will depart for Lake Erie at the end of May to complete the survey of the northeastern Pennsylvania lands ceded to the United States by New York. Expects to be in New York next week and will furnish Hamilton with an estimate of the expenses involved. ALS , Andrew Ellicott Papers, Library of Congress. Ellicott was a surveyor and mathematician who had worked for both...
3558From Alexander Hamilton to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 7 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Triplicates of your letter of the 25th. of January last have duly come to hand. As the success of the negotiations for the purchase of the Debt due from the United States to France would have been an unwelcome circumstance; I learn with pleasure that it had not taken place. The distinguished zeal you have in so many instances shewn for the interests of this country, intitles you upon all...
3559[Diary entry: 7 May 1790] (Washington Papers)
Friday 7th. Exercised in the forenoon. Endeavoured through various Channels to ascertain what places required, and the characters fittest for Consuls at them. As the House of Representatives had reduced the Sum, in a Bill to provide for the expences of characters in the diplomatic line, below what would enable the Executive to employ the number which the exigencies of Government might make it...
3560To George Washington from Henry Hill, 7 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor as one of the Executors of the late Doctor Franklin to present you by the hands of Major Clarkson a token left by him in the following words—“My fine Crab tree walking stick with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty I give to my friend & the friend of Mankind General Washington—If it were a sceptre, he has merited it, & would become it.” I am with...
3561To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 7 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the Honour to inclose you a Letter from Colo. Clendenen Lieutenant of Kanawha covering Letters received by him from Colonels Lewis, and Rankins, on the subject of Indian depredations, and am with the highest Respect &c. LB , Vi : Executive Letter Book. Among the enclosures was probably “a letter from Robert Rankins, of Kantuckey, directed to Col. Thomas Lewis at the mouth of...
3562To James Madison from the Governor of Virginia, 7 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honour to acknowlege the receipt of yours, of the 27th. Ultimo. Upon inquiring into the subject of the 4 months pay and Subsistence due to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, I am informed that the privates are not possessed, of any evidences of their Claims. The officers, have received warrants for the pay but have no acknowledgement from the public, for the subsistence...
3563Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
I wrote to you ten days ago and informd you that my Family were very sick. I did not then conceive it to be, what I have since found it the Influenza. I have got better, but my cough & some other complaints still hang about me. Polly Tailor is so bad with it, that if she is not soon relieved the concequences threaten to be fatal to her. Louissa is very sick confind to her chamber I keep a...
3564From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, 8 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, May 8, 1790 . The endorsement on the letter which Lincoln wrote to Hamilton on April 6, 1790 , reads: “Answered 8th May.” Letter not found. ]
3565From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 8 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 23d of february, an acknowlegement of which has been postponed by very urgent avocations connected with the Session of Congress. I am now to inform you, that Edward Carrington Esquire has been requested to visit the Cape, and make a selection of the spot; upon whose report to you it will be satisfactory that the Cession be completed. This step...
3566[Diary entry: 8 May 1790] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 8th. Exercised in the Coach with Mrs. Washington & the Children in the forenoon. Received from Genl. Knox Secretary Genl. of the triennial Genl. Meeting of the Cincinnati held at Philadelphia the first Monday of this Month, the Copy of an Address from that body to me to which I was to return an answer on next. The address of the triennial meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, 4...
3567To James Madison from William Davies, 8 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
As the Virginia commissioner charged with settling the state’s accounts with the Union, William Davies had been in New York since early 1789 arranging and presenting vouchers and other evidence of the Virginia expenditures during the war. In conducting this business the commissioner worked closely with the Virginia delegation in Congress, particularly with JM, who was “zealous on this subject”...
3568To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 8 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 8 May 1790 . He is dispatching this day to the bankers of the United States in Amsterdam “les Acts de Rymer in folio 10 vol. Lahaie 1745” for the use of administration as promised in his dispatch of 4 Mch.: “ Puisse mon humble Offrande, acceptée gracieusement, en étant utile quelque jour à ceux qui auront occasion de consulter cette collection, leur rappeller le souvenir de leur...
3569[Diary entry: 9 May 1790] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 9th. Indisposed with a bad cold, and at home all day writing letters on private business. GW’s cold rapidly developed into pneumonia. Local physicians Dr. Samuel Bard, Dr. Charles McKnight, and Dr. John Charlton were summoned to the president’s bedside, but in spite of their efforts GW grew steadily worse. On 12 May, William Jackson wrote to Clement Biddle in Philadelphia enclosing a...
3570From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 9 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of April 23. with those of the 25th. from the girls. The object of the present is merely to acknowledge their receipt and to inclose you the newspapers; an attack of the periodical head-ach, which came on me about a week ago rendering me unable as yet either to write or read without great pain. It has been abating for some days, and has been so slight to-day...