3751To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Dayton, 3 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ June 3, 1790. On June 9, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Dayton : “I duly received your letter of the 3d. of June.” Letter not found. ]
3752Report on the Petition of Stephen Moore, 3 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] On the petition of Stephen Moore of the State of North Carolina referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, by order of the House of Representatives, of the 4th. of May 1790; The said Secretary respectfully reports: That it is the opinion of the Secretary for the Department of War, that it is expedient and necessary that the United States should...
3753From Alexander Hamilton to John Scott, 3 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th Ulto. and particularly notice the information on which you found your opinion, that a Boat would be useful in the prevention of frauds on the Revenue. On such representations heretofore I have consented & on the present case, I am willing to permit that an open Boat be purchased that will enable the Officers of the Customs to go on Board Vessels in your...
3754Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 3 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
New York, 3 June 1790. “The Cook arrived and entered upon his duty on the 1st of may; he gives us good dinners, and the Steward says he conducts himself well. We are much obliged by your agency in obtaining him.” ALS , PHi : Washington-Biddle Correspondence; copy, in Lear’s writing, ViMtvL ; LB , DLC:GW . For the search for a cook for the presidential household, see Tobias Lear to Daniel...
3755To George Washington from Robert Crooke, 3 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of being appointed by this State, to the office of Collector of Impost for the county of Newport, in the year 1783, and continued in said office with general approbation until the year 1787, and gave full satisfaction to the public; but was removed therefrom by a change in administration, for the sole cause of my disapproving of their opposition, to the new constitution, and...
3756From George Washington to Lafayette, 3 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your kind letter of the 12th of January is, as your letters always are, extremely acceptable to me. By some chance its arrival had been retarded to this time. Conscious of your friendly dispositions for me and realising the enormous burden of public business with which you was oppressed, I felt no solicitude but that you should progress directly forward and happily effect your great...
3757From George Washington to David Ramsay, 3 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
A copy of your history of the american Revolution has been presented to me by Mr Allen of this city, in compliance as he informs me with your orders. I therefore beg, Sir, that you will accept my acknowledgments and best thanks for this mark of polite attention, from which I expect to derive much pleasure and satisfaction in the perusal, with very great esteem, I am Sir, your most obedient...
3758To Thomas Jefferson from David Howell, 3 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I may not be among the foremost, I assure you, I am among the most sincere in Congratulating you, at once, on your return to your native Country, and, on your appointment to the place of Secretary of State. Since the adoption of the Federal Constitution by this state I can inform my friends that I am alive, and make mention of the place where I live with more pleasure, than I could...
3759II. The Opinion of Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The accounts of the souldiers of Virginia and North Carolina having been examined by the proper officer of government, the balances due to each individual ascertained, and a list of these balances made out, this list became known to certain persons before the souldiers themselves had information of it, and those persons, by unfair means, as is said, and for very inadequate considerations...
3760From Thomas Jefferson to John Steele, 3 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
There are in my office the proceedings of six States on the subject of the amendments proposed by Congress to the federal Constitution. These are the following 1. A vote of the Legislature of New Hampshire rejecting the second article of the said amendments, and accepting all the others. 2. An Act of the Legislature of New York intituled “an Act ratifying certain articles in addition to, and...
3761To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 4 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Baltimore, June 4, 1790. “By a provision in the act for Registering and clearing vessels, regulating the Coasting trade &c. See 25th Section —Goods, wares, or merchandise of foreign growth, or manufacture, may be transported to and from the respective Ports of Philadelphia and Baltimore, into each other, through and across the State of Delaware, a manifest certified by the Officer of that one...
3762Enclosure V: Letter from Nathaniel Pendleton, 4 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In consequence of an application from the executors of the late General Greene, to relate what I know, concerning his securityship, for the payment of certain monies for John Banks and others, I have written the following statement of facts, which is all, I can remember; and many of them happening so long since, and having no written memorials to refer to, I cannot exactly ascertain or...
3763From George Washington to Arthur Fenner, 4 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
In acknowledging the Rect of your Excellency’s letter of the 20th of May, I cannot forbear to congratulate you and the people of your State upon the happy event which has since taken place by the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the Convention of Rhode Island. Having now attained the desireable object of uniting under one general Government all those States...
3764Dominick Lynch to Tobias Lear, 4 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I hope you will excuse the Liberty I take in addressing you on a subject which my Inclination wou’d lead me not to interfere in, but the wish to serve a most respectable friend induces me to intrude upon you. Mr John Street of Fyal who in consideration of his services to American Prisoners &c. was by the Portuguese Senate for the western Islands appointed during the war American agent &...
3765To George Washington from John Steele, 4 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
A sincere desire that the office of district Judge for No. Carolina, may be bestowed upon a worthy character induces me to offer you my opinion at present. I have been told that Colo. Davie’s name has been mentioned to you already, he is unquestionably better calculated for the office, than any other man in the State; but acquainted as I am, with his practice as an attorney, his plans, and his...
3766From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate, June 4th 1790. I nominate the following persons to be Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the United States of America for the Ports which are affixed to their names. viz. Cadiz Richard Harrison of Virginia to be Consul of the United States of America for the Port of Cadiz in the Kingdom of Spain, and for such parts of the said Kingdom as shall be...
3767To James Madison from the Governor of Virginia, 4 June 1790 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 25th. of May inclosing a resolution of both Houses of Congress, on the subject of Arrears due to the Virginia Line, has been recieved. So soon as the Resolution shall be officially communicated to me, you may be assured that the Executive, will take every possible step to prevent impositions upon the claimants. I have lately received a letter from Colonel Davis, inclosing a...
3768To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 4 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall make no appology for the trouble I am going to give you, because I have the strongest sense of your disposition to serve me. I see by the papers that Commissioners for negociating the loans are going to be appointed for the different states in the Union, and, if it should be thought proper in all respects, I would be glad to discharge the duties of the office either in Massachusetts,...
3769From Thomas Jefferson to José Ignacio de Viar, 4 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of the letter of May 18th with which you honored me, I transmitted it to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information, and have now the honor to enclose you his answer with that of the Auditor. You will be pleased to observe, that certain explanations had been promised by Mr. Gardoqui after he should arrive in Spain, and it is believed that this promise was subsequent to...
3770John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 5 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Phillips delivered me at Exeter a half sheet of paper from you, I trust I need not say it was very acceptable; I would only observe by the way, that I am no great friend to half-sheets. Sat verbum— We had a comfortable ordination. Phillips can give you any particulars that your curiosity may wish to be informed of. He was however by an unfortunate accident detained from the dance in the...
3771To John Adams from John Trumbull, 5 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Since I had the honor of receiving yours of April 25 th. , my time has been wholly taken up in attending on our Supreme Court of Errors, & the Session of our General Assembly, which with us is a kind of extrajudicial Court for the trial of private causes on Petition— I had also to conduct an application from the Mercantile Interest for the Repeal of our Excise-Laws—in which by influencing the...
3772To Alexander Hamilton from Bennett Wheeler, [5 June 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Providence, June 5, 1790. On June 14, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Wheeler : “I have received … your letter of the 5th Instant.” Letter not found. ] Wheeler, a native of Nova Scotia, was the publisher of the [Providence] American Journal and General Advertiser from 1779 to 1781 and The [Providence] United States Chronicle from 1784 to 1802. The second of these two papers supported ratification of...
3773To George Washington from John B. Ashe, 5 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having been this evening informd you wish to have the opinion of the No. Carolina Representatives, of Persons, proper to fill the offices of the Government South of the Ohio, also those of the Federal Judiciary in No. Carolina, I beg leave to give mine Sir, and will do so, with candor and disinterest’dness, Colo. William Blount, who I may presume, you are acquainted with, has long and on...
3774To George Washington from Thomas Bird, 5 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Permit a stranger to inform your Excellency, that about twelve months since, I was apprehended & committed to Goal, in the Town of Portland, within the District of Maine, charged with the murder of Capt. John Conner, of the Sloop Mary, upon the Coast of Africa. That yesterday I was tried & found guilty of the Crime, & that the District Judge, a few hours since pronounced the fatal sentence,...
3775To George Washington from Timothy Bloodworth, 5 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
with the utmost defidence I proceed to exercize a priviledge founded in youre indulgence. that of Mentioning Carrecters to fill offices, created by the Adoption of the Constitution, & Ceedure of the Western Country, By North Carolina thiss subject are more irksom, as I consider it out of the line of my Duty, and only warrentable by youre permission. through thiss Chanel I venture to mention...
3776To James Madison from John Dawson, [ca. 5 June] 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have been favourd with your letter of the 27th. uto. inclosing some papers for which I request that you’ll accept my thanks. I hope that the speculations on the officers and soldiers who were to the south at the close of the war have not been so extensive as you apprehended, and that the plan adopted will prevent the injury & do justice to this meritorious class of our citizens. Our clerk...
3777To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 5 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Bancroft being about to set off immediately for London I make use of his conveyance merely to send you the gazettes of France and Leyden, and journals of the national assembly, which have considerably accumulated in my hands for the want of some means of forwarding them to New-York. I shall add to them some other papers relative to the pension list and which are the continuation of those...
3778Enclosure V: Arthur St. Clair to the Inhabitants of Prairie du Rocher, 5 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Beard, the Surveyor appointed to survey the Lands held by the Inhabitants at the Prairie du rocher, having executed that business as far as claimants appeared, is to be paid for his services at the rate of two dollars and a half per mile, reckoning upon one line in the length of each survey, and two dollars for each Lot in the Village. When that expence is defrayed, new concessions will be...
3779Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy Adams, 6–16 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
your letter my Dear Brother of May 1 st I received three or four weeks past —just at the moment when I was removeing, and Commenceing, again Housekeeping it takes three or four weeks to settle our minds to new Situations—and domestick Concerns employ a Considerable portion of the attention of good Housekeepers—even if they are favoured with good Servants— thease causes must Constitute my...
3780To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, 6 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 6, 1790. Encloses “A Contract with Abraham Hargis as keeper of the light House” at Henlopen. ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives.