3851To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
In the afternoon of the day after your departure from Philada I went on board the vessel bound for Alexandria & did not reach the chesapeake ’till Saturday last & landed at Hampton yesterday morning. Owing to calms & head winds the passage was unusually long. On my arrival at Hampton I determined, as you thought it best, to visit my friends in New Kent in my way to Mount Vernon, & am...
3852From George Washington to George Lewis, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th instt from Fredericksburgh, was received on thursday, and I should have answered it by the Post of Saturday, but was hurried in preparing letters for the northern mail, which I was obliged to dispatch on that day. I thank you for the enquiries you made concerning my land on Green River, in Kentucky, and am glad to hear the reports of it continue to be favorable. I can...
3853From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Not having heard from you for sometime, I am desirous of knowing whether you have purchased any of my Berkeley, or Frederick Leases? and if not, whether the prospect of doing it is so favorable as to amount almost to a certainty of accomplishing the measure? If neither, I desire you would give up the idea of purchasing, and let me have the money you have collected; with the names of the...
3854From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
On Saturday morning I received your letter of the 21st instt; with its enclosures. The Post of tomorrow from Alexandria is the first by which I could answer it. If the meeting of the Commissioners, appointed to treat with the Onondagoes, Cayugas and Oneida Indians took place at Albany on the 15th instant, as was expected by the extract of Genl Schuylers letter to the Governor of New York; any...
3855To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the time this reaches Mount Vernon, you will have received the memorial of the philadelphia meeting against the treaty with Great Britain. I attended as a spectator, to see the mode of proceeding and to make an estimate of the number present. The memorial, I suppose, will be presented to you as expressive of the sense of the citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District...
3856From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
My letters for the Post office in Alexandria, had been sent off some hours before the enclosed dispatches were put into my hands, by the young Gentleman whose name is mentioned in Govr Clintons letter to me, also forwarded. Not willing to lose a Post day, I hasten to send the resolutions above alluded to, late as it is, to Alexandria; to go on tomorrow— with a request similar to the one made...
3857To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 27 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Saturday evening was appointed for the last meeting on the treaty in the state-house yard; and five o’clock was the hour. I waited in town until After six, in hopes of hearing the result. But nothing having transpired, I went into the country, where the rumors of the proceeding were very various and extraordinary. I returned last evening, when I found a letter from Mr Hammond, complaining...
3858Drafts of Apology Required from James Nicholson, [25–26 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Draft I Mr. Hamilton declares & would repeat that when he interposed in the altercation between Mr. Nicholson & Mr. Hoffman what he said was addressed to both & was purely intended without offence to either to prevent the continuance of a controversy which might lead to disturbance & riot. Mr. Nicholson replied very harshly to Mr. Hamilton that he was not the man to prevent his quarrelling...
3859[Diary entry: 26 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
26. West—warm—then East.
3860To George Washington from William Thornton, 26 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
In dissenting from the Memorial of the 24th Instant which my colleagues sent to you by the last mail, I request you will not consider me as having differed in toto, for, in general it expresses my Sentiments. I shall in as few words as possible state wherein we do not coincide in opinion, and submit with great deference to what may be determined. It is agreed that every person shall be...
3861To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
I went to the State House yard last Saturday for the purpose of observing the proceedings—there were not in my opinion fifteen hundred persons present—and one half of this number took no part in what was done—the persons who voted, were of the ignorant & violent class of the community. Doct. Shippen was Chairman, & Dallas[,] Pettit, Swanwick, Muhlenbergh, McClenaghan[,] Barker, & Judge McKean...
3862To James Madison from James Monroe, 26 July 1795 (Madison Papers)
I had began a long letter to you in cypher, it appearing the British have commenc’d seizing my letters, but which not being complete I forward the enclosed by the present private opportunity, & which being on the moment of departure prohibits more being added than that the comn. is intended as a friendly deposit in your hands & for the purpose of guarding my reputation from unjust attacks...
3863To James Madison from John Swanwick, 26 July 1795 (Madison Papers)
I duly Received your favour of the 30 June last the House is secured for you at £200 per Annum as Originally Stated to you from the 1 August—more could now be obtained for it if you do not encline to keep it. I shall let Mr. Pancoast know to put in the Wood in the Cellar as I think he told me he had Mrs. Madisons Instructions to that Effect. My Compts. to the Ladies of your Family. I hope they...
3864From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Stuart having thought it best to associate a careful person at Staunton with James, they arrived here this morning with their sorrowful charge . They found here my sisters Bolling Carr and Marks. It is great consolation to us that your stay at Staunton had been so long as to render it impossible that the journey could have had any effect on the accident which happened. Anne and Jefferson...
3865From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for your kind attention to our lost infant. The person you sent arrived here safely with James and their charge, and will be properly rewarded . Knowing the disposition of James, I readily conceive his conduct, and would have wished that to have been properly rewarded too, were it not that it would have added new pain to the parents of the child. I write this line by...
3866The Defence No. II, [25 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Previous to a more particular discussion of the merits of the Treaty, it may be useful to advert to a suggestion which has been thrown out, namely that it was foreseen by many, that the mission to Great Britain would produce no good result, and that the event has corresponded with the anticipation. The reverse of this position is manifestly true. All must remember the very critical posture of...
3867From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Troup, 25 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Confiding in your integrity and friendship to me, I have made you Executor of my Will. My concerns are not very extensive and of course will not give you much trouble. Indeed I might have dispensed with the ceremony of making a Will as to what I may myself leave had I not wished that my little property may be applied as readily and as fairly as may be to the benefit of my few Creditors. For...
3868[Diary entry: 25 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
25. No. Wt. but warm.
3869To George Washington from Philadelphia Citizens, 25 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of the Citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and District of Southwark, in the State of Pennsylvania, Respectfully sheweth. That your Memorilists, sincerely and affectionately attached to you, from a sense of the important services, which you have rendered to the United States, and a conviction of the purity of the motives, that will forever regulate your public...
3870To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 25 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of inclosing to you a draft, which has been signed by the three other gentlemen. They had prepared drafts, which did not accord with my views, and therefore I was not deterred by any danger of giving offence from offering, that which they have subscribed. I think it best, however to send to you all the drafts; for it is a very difficult and critical subject to write upon....
3871To James Madison from the Right Reverend James Madison, 25 July 1795 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed Letter was delivered to me from the Post Office here, & as I often get Letters very differently directed, I opened it without Hesitation. Indeed I had read a Part of the Letter, & saw the general Tendency of it, before I perceived the Mistake; however, I can assure you, that no Secrets, if such they can be called, have leaked out, which have not my most hearty Concurrence. For...
3872To Thomas Jefferson from John Breckinridge, 25 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note for the clover seed came to hand a week ago, and an opportunity which I think prefereable to that by post now offers by Colo. Quarles, of sending you a few seeds. It is not easily got in my neighbourhood, having almost intirely disappeared. Pray ought I not to send you a little of the Soil also? I fear the seed will not acknowledge that about Monticello. I sincerely wish 1000 of the...
3873To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Pollard, 25 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 24th last month covering a Draft on Mr. John Barnes of Philadelphia for twelve hundred and seventy two dollars and half, came safe to hand. Mr. Heron has executed a Deed for the Six shares in the James River Company for Mr. Short, and I have a Deed drawn and ready to execute for the share I sold you for the Same Gentleman, which shall be executed previous to the next meeting...
3874To John Adams from Jeremy Belknap, 24 July 1795 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed was left with me by Mr Ledlie to be sent to you, He did not receive it till after he had made his visit to you. I have recd another letter from Mr Tucker of Williamsburg stating the difficulties attending the emancipation of the blacks in Virginia and requesting my advice—The letter is now not in my hands or I would enclose it, When I get it again I will send it to you & shall be...
3875To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 24 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the pleasure to forward the enclosed letter from our Treasurer which will give the best Light I can obtain on the question you submitted to me. Are the people mad! With the highest esteem and the warmest affection I am your friend & ob servant ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. See Lincoln to H, July 10, 1795 .
3876[Diary entry: 24 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
24. No. Wt. but very warm, Rain.
3877To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed Letter from the Secretary of State covering the charge made by Mr Greenleaf were received by the mail the Day you left town. Upon such an occasion we thought the sooner an Invitation to Greenleaf to come forward and substantiate his charges was handed to him the better. The enclosed answer to him open and under Cover to the Secretary of State which is also enclosed was forwarded...
3878To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Board have had under Consideration for some days past the Subject of regulating the building of wharves; according to the Powers delegated to them by the Act of the Maryland Legislature passed in 1791: An Abstract of which is herewith inclosed. On a Subject so extensive, it is not to be wondered at that considerable difficulties have occurred: and it is not probable that all will be...
3879From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
My letter from Baltimore, and the one written by Friday’s Post, dated the 22d instt renders it in a manner, unnecessary for me to add more on the score of the treaty with G. Britain, or on the movements which are taking place thereupon, in different parts than to inform you, that if circumstances should make it more eligable for me to repair to Philadelphia, than for you to come to this place,...
3880To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
You will see in Bache’s paper of this morning names upon the committee for preparing the address to you, of a very respectable kind. Whether they were present at the meeting, and whether they will act, I cannot yet learn. Mr McKean is understood, however, to be acrimonious against the treaty beyond measure. I hinted in a past letter, that there was something mysterious in one part of the...
3881To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
After a very mature consideration, we are unanimously of opinion, that an answer be returned to the papers, inclosed in the letter, which you honored me with from Baltimore on the 18th instant. At first, the sentiments contained in the sketch (No. 1.) seemed to prevail wi⟨th⟩ a majority. But the prospect of more and more popular meetings has converted us all to the idea, that an answer may be...
3882To George Washington from William Thornton, 24 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Thornton, 24 July 1795. On 29 July, GW wrote to the commissioners for the District of Columbia: “The memorial dated the 24th instt … came duly to hand; as did Doctr Thornton’s letter of the same date.”
3883[Diary entry: 23 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
23. Do. Appearance of Rain.
3884To John Jay from John Trumbull, 23 July 1795 (Jay Papers)
It is with the most real pleasure that I congratulate you on your safe Arrival in America, the Cordial Reception you have met from your fellow Citizens, and the flattering testimony they have given of their Respect and Esteem by Electing you to the first Office in their Gift.— may you long and happily enjoy the Reward of your labours. I returned to this place from France, three Days ago;—...
3885To James Madison from James Monroe, [ca. 23 July] 1795 (Madison Papers)
I received yours of the 26. of march and had before received those of the 4th. of Decr. 11 of march and 6th. of April which comprize all that I have received since my arrival here. I am happy to hear that you judged it expedient to deliver my letter of the 18th. of Decr. to Mr. R. because I think it could in no view do any harm, & might possibly in a particular view do some good. I wait with...
3886The Defence No. I, [22 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
IT was to have been foreseen, that the treaty which Mr. Jay was charged to negociate with Great Britain, whenever it should appear, would have to contend with many perverse dispositions and some honest prejudices. That there was no measure in which the government could engage so little likely to be viewed according to its intrinsic merits—so very likely to encountre misconception, jealousy,...
3887To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, [22 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
From the late hour of A Vissit from one of our Acquaintance & her frequent attempts to get Mrs. Nicholson alone in the Garden & from the Converasation I had with the Lady in waiting upon her home, I have no doubt on my mind She came to Alarm my family of what was likely to take place. I have therefore to insist upon the matter being determined at an early hour this Morning, (that all further...
3888From Alexander Hamilton to James Nicholson, 22 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of this morng. surprises me as one part of it seems to imply that I had been seeking further correspondence between us. This certainly is not the fact. I considered your last letter as closing the business—nor did any step originate with me, or that I know of with any friend of mine for opening anew the discussion. Measures it is true towards an accommodation have been subsequently...
3889To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, 22 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your last Letter was handed to me a few Minutes ago; If mine to you this Morning admits the implication you Suspect, I pledge my honour it was not intended—the measures which have been proposed for an accommadation arose, I have no doubt, through the medium of our friends, with none but honourable intentions on either side. As you persist in not altering the hour of our Meeting I must rest...
3890Enclosure: Thomas Davis to Benjamin Lincoln, 22 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your request have examined the books in the Treasury Office in order to ascertain the Amount of State debt which Massachusetts redeemed or sank from January 1. 1783 to the end of the year 1789 and the following is the result of that examination. Consolidated notes redeemed £ 91714.12.10 Army notes “ 285877. 9. 5 new Emission money 80140.3.6 } reduced to Specie at the rate of...
3891[Diary entry: 22 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
22. Do. Very warm.
3892To George Washington from Charleston, S.C., Citizens, 22 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
With the freedom of men who are sensible of their own rights; but with the sincere deference which true Republicans must ever pay to the constitution which themselves have framed, to the laws which themselves have authorized, and to the Chief Magistrate of their own choice; and with all that Reverence and Affection which Americans justly owe to the man who has most eminently distinguished...
3893To George Washington from Charlestown, Mass., Selectmen, 22 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
The treaty now pending between the United States of America and Great Britain having much engaged the attention of this part of the country. The Inhabitants of this town have been led legally to convene in their corporate capacity agreeable to the constitution of this Commonwealth, for the purpose of taking the same into consideration and have ⟨Vote⟩d. 1st That this town do disapprove of the...
3894From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 22 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Both your letters, dated the 17th instt, found me at this place, where I arrived on Monday. The letter from the Commissioners to you, I return; as I also do the Gazettes of Pittsburgh & Boston. The proceedings at the latter place are of a very unpleasant nature: the result I forwarded to you from Baltimore, accompanied with a few hasty lines written at the moment I was departing from thence;...
3895Notes on the Account with Richard Harvie & Company, 22 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the account of R. Harvie & Co. against me, and the bond given on it. My dealings with Kippen & Co. commenced in 1762. but I had never had a single account from them when Mr. Harvie and myself settled, which was Apr. 18. 1775. Consequently I had no means of correcting any errors in his account which related to transactions with Kippen & Co. or Henderson McCaul & Co. It is only on...
3896To Alexander Hamilton from James Nicholson, [21 July 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
In my answer to your first note I informed you that the peremptory nature of your invitation necessarily precluded an investigation of the merits of the Controversy since any overture on my part to this end might be attributed to the peculiarity of the occasion; to this Sentiment I still adhere. I do however by no means intend to admit that your charges are well founded. The precipitation of...
3897To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 21 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your explanatory letter to myself, and your permission for my inspection of the two addressed to your Southern correspondent . I had intended to drop you a few lines upon the depending subject. But hearing that you are to be at the Supreme court of the U.S; and not being able to say to you much sooner than the first day of their session, what I wish; it will be...
3898From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, July 21, 1795. On July 29, 1795, Washington wrote to Hamilton : “Your letters of the 20th and 21st Instt. found me at this place.” Letter of July 21 not found. ]
3899[Diary entry: 21 July 1795] (Washington Papers)
21. Do. Still warmer.
3900To George Washington from “Caius,” 21 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
21 July 1795. The “sentiments” given in this letter do not reflect “merely the emanations of a solitary individual” but those of thousands of Americans who have urged GW to withhold his approval of the treaty with Great Britain or to direct negotiations that will change it. His address proceeds to highlight selected objections to the treaty. “The first class” of objections concern “Omissions”...