3931From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 20 November 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved from Donald & Burton their account crediting me for your bill of excha. £37–10 stirling, as also Mr. Brown ’s account, who by consigning my tobaccoes to another house on the failure of the former, placed my credits in his own account while the debets were with Donald & Burton, and thus saved you the £37–10 and me the rest of my tobacco. Not having been indebted to Donald...
3932From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 27 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. came to hand by the last post. I have to thank you for the trouble you were so kind as to take in my demand on Mr. Bannister’s estate. Mr. Shippen by letter promised me paiment out of the first proceeds of a sale then making at Hatcher’s run on a twelve-month’s credit. I sincerely congratulate you on the great prosperities of our two first allies, the French and Dutch....
3933From James Madison to William Branch Giles, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have not forgotten my promise to drop you a few lines on the arrival of the Treaty in case it shd. happen during my stay here; but have hitherto omitted to write because, the arrival of the Treaty has not added a particle to the public knowledge of its contents. You will have known that the Senate are to meet for the purpose of receiving the communication on the 8th. of June. I am chiefly...
3934To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 26 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have permitted your much valued favor of the 31st. of December to remain unanswered until this time, because until now, no desicive event had occurred, by which a conjecture could be formed of the probable course, which the House of Representatives would take respecting the great question of the Brittish treaty, Because Europe afforded nothing interresting, and because I was unwilling to...
3935From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 17 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made Mr. Bannister’s affair the subject of a separate letter , containing a full explanation of it, because by giving in the letter, it will give you no more trouble. I will only add here, what would have been too urging if expressed there, that if any thing be said of early paiment, I would rather be allowed to draw on any one there for the money than to have it sent here. The attempt...
3936From James Madison to William Branch Giles, [3 April] 1795 (Madison Papers)
… I have not forgotten my promise to drop you a few lines on the arrival of the Treaty in case it sh’d happen during my stay here, but have hitherto omitted to write because the arrival of the Treaty has not added a particle to the public knowledge of its contents. You will have known that the Senate are to meet for the purpose of receiving the communication on the 8th of June. I am chiefly...
3937From Thomas Jefferson to William B. Giles, 1[3] December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Some two or three years ago. a Monsr. de Vernon of Paris applied to me to know how he might recover some property which he had in the hands of a Mr. Marck of Petersburg. I advised him to appoint an attorney here, and to furnish him with his proofs, and recommended the late Colo. Bannister. He did so. Colo. Bannister undertook the business, and I inclose you two letters he wrote me, containing...
3938From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 31 December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Dec. 15. and 20. came to hand by the last post. I am well pleased with the manner in which your house has testified their sense of the treaty. While their refusal to pass the original clause of the reported answer proved their condemnation of it, the contrivance to let it disappear silently respected appearances in favor of the President, who errs as other men do, but errs with...
3939From George Washington to John Gill, 13 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
It is now near two months since I sent you the Deeds for my land on Difficult run, from which to draw a conveyance to yourself, on the terms, and agreeably to the instructions contained in a letter to Charles Lee Esqr.—or, that they might be returned to me again. As I can see no cause for, or propriety in this delay, I do now take the liberty of declaring it as my intention, that unless the...
3940From George Washington to John Gill, 17 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th instt—and if writings drawn strictly conformably to the spirit of the instructions contained in the enclosed letter to Charles Lee Esqr. (left open for your perusal) will answer your views in the purchase of my land on Difficult run, they may be prepared by him, & sent to me for the signature on my part. If, on the other hand, adhering as strictly as I...
3941From George Washington to John Gill, 4 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
In every transaction of life I believe it will be found that candor and plain dealing (independent of the rectitude of the measure) is the best policy. Proceeding on this ground, I will frankly own, that the reason why I requested other security than the land, and your own bond for the performance of ⟨the⟩ Contract, which you ⟨were⟩ inclined to enter into, for my small tract on Difficult run,...
3942From George Washington to John Gill, 26 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
Our conversation of yesterday, has been the Subject of consideration with me. What follows is the result of it. I repeat now, what I said to you then; viz.—that renting the lands does not in the first place promote my Views—And in the second the measure may eventually be liable to serious disadvantages; for which reason, it would be much more agreeable to me to alienate the property...
3943From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Gilman, 10 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, August 10, 1790. “The Treasurer has my directions to draw upon you for the sum of One Thousand, Seven hundred and Sixty five & 63/90 Dollars, stated by you to be in the late Loan Office of the United States. You will be pleased to pay his Draughts, & a Warrant shall be issued to cover the amount of them, when transmitted hither as Vouchers for the settlement of your...
3944From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Gilman, [10 September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
I take the liberty to request you will name to me to be submitted to the consideration of the President such persons your way as appear to you best qualified, (and who would be willing to serve) as officers on Board a Revenue boat to be employed on your Eastern Coast. Prudence activity Vigilance and strict integrity are the desiderata . Yours with great esteem & regard ALS , from the Rokeby...
3945From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Gilman, 19 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 19, 1790. “Before I had the honor to receive your letter relative to Captain Hall, the President of the United States had appointed Captain Hopley Yeaton to the Command of the Revenue Cutter which is to be built in New Hampshire. As it has happened in other instances it is possible Captain Hall, tho’ recommended as Master may accept the Station of first Mate whose...
3946From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 28 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I give you sincere joy on the physical energies of which you have lately (or rather Mrs. Gilmer for you) produced such a living proof. I hope they will be repeated for years to come. Dumourier was known to be a scoundrel in grain. I mentioned this from the beginning of his being placed at the head of the armies: but his victories at length silenced me. His apostasy has now proved that an...
3947From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 27 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of May 21. and thank you for the details it contains. Congressional proceedings go on rather heavily. The question for assuming the state debts has created greater animosities than I ever yet saw take place on any occasion. There are three ways in which it may yet terminate. 1. A rejection of the measure which will prevent their funding any part of the public...
3948From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 11 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 1. has filled us all with joy. Madison, Monroe and myself have been constantly in council about you for three or four weeks past, the account we had recieved of your situation having filled us with anxiety. The moment I received your letter, I sent it round to chear them. We had before been made happy by an assurance that Mrs. Gilmer was restored to health. I am in hopes you...
3949From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 7 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not sufficiently recollect the case of Mr. Harmer’s will to venture any opinion. When I arrive at Philadelphia I hope to find there my papers arrived from Paris, among which is your letter stating the case. I will there revise it, and write you what I think of it. I will confer with Madison on it also. Perhaps he will be able to give me a sight of the act of assembly respecting it. I wish...
3950From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 15 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your favor of Jan. 26. and learn with great pleasure the reestablishment of your system, in which no one takes a more sincere interest than myself. I had indeed hoped by this time to have been with you. But it seems I must stay here a little longer in penance for my sins. This will give you the start in your manufactures of porter and maccaroni, in which however I shall...
3951From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 27th. of June. Since that we have had great appearance of an explosion between Spain and England Circumstances still indicate war. The strongest fact against it is that a British Ambassador is actually gone to Madrid. If there be war, France will probably embark in it. I do not think it can disturb her revolution. That is so far advanced as to be out of danger. Be these...
3952From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 15 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved only two days ago your favor of Oct. 9. by Mr. Everett. He is now under the smallpox. I am rejoiced with the account he gives me of the invigoration of your system, and am anxious for your persevering in any course of regimen which may long preserve you to us.—We have just received the glorious news of the Prussian army being obliged to retreat, and hope it will be followed by some...
3953From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, Robert Gilmor, and Samuel Sterett, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 18th. and called to-day on Mr. Hammond. He said he could not give a passport of any kind which would be an absolute protection to either the French passengers or their baggage, but that he would give a letter of recommendation to all commanders of ships and others exhorting them to permit the passengers and what might be properly called their baggage to...
3954From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, Robert Gilmor, and Samuel Sterett, 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 29 . was brought to me in the country yesterday. I immediately sent to town by express in hopes of being able to procure what you desired to be sent by the post of this day. Mr. Van Berkel however was out of town, as also the Spanish Commissioners, and not to be in town soon. I inclose you my note to Mr. Taylor, my chief clerk, and his pencilled statement of what Mr. Hammond...
3955From George Washington to George Gilpin, 4 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
A pressure of public business just at the moment Mr Roberdeau was about to leave this, allowed me no time to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th Ulto—and now I have little more than to thank you for the communication which was given by it. As the exactitude of the District called for a Scientific character I have engaged Mr Ellicot to make the Survey, and hope that every aid...
3956From George Washington to George Gilpin, 15 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am favored with the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, and thank you for the information, which you have been so good as to communicate. Every circumstance which serves to shew the utility, and which explains the progress of an undertaking so advantageous to the Community, as the navigation of the Potowmack, is at once grateful and interesting. When your leisure allows an opportunity...
3957From George Washington to George Gilpin, 29 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
As I know you are well acquainted with the lands, and the encreased price of them, of late, in the vicinity of the Great falls of Potomack, I take the liberty of asking your opinion of the value of a small tract of (about) 300 acres, which I hold in Loudoun County, at difficult bridge, on the road from Alexandria to Leesburgh. That you may be enabled the better to judge of this matter, I shall...
3958From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Girard, 28 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, February 28, 1794. “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th. Instant, a Copy whereof I have immediately sent to the Secretary of State, to whom all such applications are to be made, and who I doubt not will pay due attention to your representation.” LS , The Papers of Stephen Girard, Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, permission granted by Board...
3959From Alexander Hamilton to Stephen Girard, 11 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 11, 1793. “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. informing me that the … Bills of Exchange (of which you are the holder) drawn by the Administration of the French Colony of St Domingo on the late Consul General of France, were sent to Clement Biddle Esqr to be protested.… I have therefore to inform you that if the minister of the French...
3960From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander S. Glass, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your memorial praying that your sloop Betsey, a prize to the Citoyen Genet, might be delivered to you, by the Executive. As this is done by the interposition of a military force only, I have inclosed the memorial and documents to the Secretary at war, with whom it will rest to consider whether it can be done, and to give you an answer. I am with regard Sir Your most obedt....