3961From James Madison to John Dawson, 24 June 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 24 June 1790. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 4 July 1790 . JM has attended to Dawson’s business with Nathaniel Twining.
3962From Thomas Jefferson to the President of Pennsylvania, 24 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you an article taken from a newspaper, too interesting in it’s nature not to excite attention. If the persons therein mentioned be really in captivity with the Algerines, it is important that government be assured of it. At the same time there is within my knowledge a circumstance of strong presumption that we have no such captives there; and the suspicion is but...
3963To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 25 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Alexandria, Virginia, June 25, 1790. On July 4, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Lee acknowledging receipt of Lee’s “letter of the 25th Ultimo.” Letter not found. ]
3964To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 25 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, June 25, 1790. “Your favor of 17th. Inst. transmitting your instructions and communications to the several Collectors of the United States came to hand this day.…” Copy, RG 56, Letters from the Collector at Providence, National Archives.
3965From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris, [25 June 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton wishes to converse with Mr. Morris on the subject of the 44 Shares of bank Stock but being unwell he will be obliged to Mr. Morris to call on him at his house sometime before he goes to Senate. AL , Montague Collection, MS Division, New York Public Library. For background to this letter, see H to Morris, March 19, 1790 (printed in this volume).
3966[Diary entry: 25 June 1790] (Washington Papers)
Friday 25th. Constant & heavy Rain all day, prevented Company from visiting Mrs. Washington this afternoon & all kinds of Exercise.
3967To George Washington from Daniel Jenifer Adams, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
With very great diffidence, I beg leave to address your Excellency, on a subject to which I am moved, more from necessity, than either from real inclination, or ambition. Your Excellency I presume, is not unacquainted, that after near five years perilous & hard Service under your Command (in which I hope I merited your good opinion, in the station I held) I was one of those unfortunate...
3968From George Washington to John Canon, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 2. instant has reached my hands and in consequence thereof I have applied to Mr Scott for fifty pounds as you desired, who informs me that he did not expect a draught to exceed £15. or £20. and therefore had not made his arrangements for 50. however he says he will pay it if he can make it convenient. As the rents of my lands under your care were to be paid in wheat, and the...
3969From George Washington to George Clendinen, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have upon the great Kanawa and Ohio river, between the two Kanawas several large and valuable tracts of land, which I have been long endeavoring to settle, but without effect. Some three or four years ago I wrote to Colonel Thomas Lewis, who lives in that neighbourhood, requesting his assistance or agency in this business, transmitting to him at the same time instructions expressive of my...
3970From George Washington to Thomas Lewis, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
When I returned to your hands the instructions and papers respecting my lands in your neighbourhood, I thought I had sufficiently obviated the reasons which first induced you to decline any agency in that business, by putting it on a footing which might render it perfectly compatible with your own interest and convenience, and I was in a measure confirmed in the opinion that you had accepted...
3971To George Washington from “a Sailor”, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Of all the different classes of People in this Country Our New Constitution and subsequent laws has provided for the encouragement of all but Sailors, why those people Should be Neglected I cannot Conceive, they certainly are Necessary to every commercial Country, and ought to meet the Patronage of the Government, Our Harbours are crouded with foreign Ships, to carry our produce to Market, and...
3972From George Washington to David Stuart, 25 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
According to promise, you ought to have received the enclosed at an earlier period; but no inconvenience, I apprehend, will arise from my omitting to do it before now. Our best wishes attend you all and I am—Dear Sir Your Affecte Hble Servt ALS , ViHi . The enclosures were probably documents related to the suit brought by Robert Alexander against the estate of John Parke Custis that Stuart had...
3973To James Madison from George Hite, 25 June 1790 (Madison Papers)
As I am under the necessity of giving Mr Alexr. White notice of the time and place that I intend takeing a number of Depositions in a Suit depending in the High Court of Chancery of this State wherein I am complainant, and my Brother John Hites children and others are defendants; and there being no person in Ney [ sic ] York that I have the smallest acquaintance with except your self; I have...
3974Navigation and Trade, [25 June] 1790 (Madison Papers)
JM’s bill on navigation and trade (first presented on 17 May) was now under consideration. Jackson delivered a lengthy speech in reply to JM’s former arguments, quoting Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to show that it was against the interest of agricultural nations to cramp the trade of mercantile states by laying high duties. Laurance, Tucker, and Smith (South Carolina) also opposed the bill....
3975To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 25 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sincerely grieved to find that you been indisposed. Your obliging letter of the 13th. has given me some relief. I pray that your next may announce your perfect recovery. No man in the United States wishes you the full and compleat enjoyment of all earthly Blessings more sincerely than I do, and Good health is with great justice ranked amongst the very first of them. Colo. Heth’s letter...
3976To Thomas Jefferson from David Rittenhouse, 25 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last letter (and not before) I have read Mr. Whitehursts Book on the Subject of Measures. Amongst the many different ways of obtaining the Same End, the Method proposed by him seems to be a very good one. I see no reason to object to the lenghth he has assigned from experiments, to a pendulum vibrating seconds in the Latitude of London Vizt. 39.1196 inches. You Suppose (page 4.) the...
3977To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 25 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
[Since my last I have seen the General of the Mathurins, who gives little hopes of any thing being done for our captives through his chanel, although he continues assurances of his zeal in case of any opportunity presenting itself, and I am persuaded he may be counted on as to these assurances. He had begun by transmitting a small sum of money to a person of confidence at Algiers to relieve...
3978To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, [26 June 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
I am at a loss how to construe the late Act extending the Revenue Laws to R Island and request your opinion & directions as soon as may be on the subject. The Impost Laws lays a duty on all goods imported into the United States from & after the first of August 1789. R Island not being one at the time the Act passed, could not be looked on as in the Union. The Act extending the Impost & Tonnage...
3979From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 26 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United states, that he has received a letter from the Collector of Charleston in South Carolina, from which he learns that some misconception has arisen as to the nature of the qualifications of Mr. Thomas Hollingsby, who on the joint recommendation of the Collector & commissioners of Pilotage for that port...
3980From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 26 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United states that the Collector of Charleston in south Carolina has stated to him, that a proposal has been made by James Robinson of Newport, Rhode Island, to the Collector, through the Commissioners of Pilotage of that Port, to supply six hundred gallons of spermaceti Oil, for the use of the Light house,...
3981[Diary entry: 26 June 1790] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 26th. Exercised in the Coach with Mrs. Washington & the Children in the forenoon & by walking in the Afternoon.
3982To George Washington from Theodore Foster, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to inform your Excellency that on the Twelfth Day of the present Month, I was appointed by the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations One of the Senators to represent that State, in the National Government. That on the Evening before last I arrived in this City and yesterday had the Honor of being admitted and sworn as a Member of the Senate of the...
3983To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United states, that he has received a letter from the Collector of Charleston in South Carolina, from which he learns that some misconception has arisen as to the nature of the qualifications of Mr Thomas Hollingsby, who on the joint recommendation of the Collector & commissioners of Pilotage for that port...
3984To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United states that the collector of Charleston in south Carolina has stated to him, that a proposal has been made by James Robinson of Newport, Rhode Island, to the collector, through the commissioners of Pilotage of that Port, to supply six hundred gallons of spermaceti Oil, for the use of the Light house,...
3985To George Washington from William Pike, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
My friends in Congress have been so good as to inform me that the Excise Act will probably pass very soon. Mr Gerry has been so obliging as to write me that he would nominate me to you sir for the appointment of a Collr of Excise for the port of Newbury Port, and such part of Essex County as you may be pleased to annex to it—this State did several Years past divide the County for the purpose...
3986To George Washington from Daniel Tillinghast, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
It having been suggested to the Officers and Members composing the United Company of the Train of Artillery in the Town of Providence, which I have the Honor to direct, that some Proceedings had originated in the Department of War, which tended to affect their Charter of Incorporation, I have taken the Liberty to solicit the Interposition of your Excellency in their Behalf. It may not be...
3987To George Washington from Alexander White, 26 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
It is with great diffidence I offer the enclosed but having taken that liberty will not add to your trouble by Apologies, I will only state such Facts as may enable you to judge whether th⟨is⟩ institution is like to be useful —the nature of the Country in general, its salubrity and fertility you are well acquainted with—The Academy has been supported several years by private Donations, and the...
3988From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 26 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21st. came duly to hand, and I admit all your corrections with great thankfulness. The first was an inaccuracy of expression. I meant to say that there existed not in nature any one species of body or thing, such as a digit, palm, span, foot, cubit, barley corn &c. which furnished us with a constant uniform dimension. I have corrected it accordingly. The statement of the...
3989To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Newton, Junior, 27 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Norfolk [ Virginia ] June 27, 1790 . “Your favor of the 17th I received.…” Agrees to select the site for the Cape Henry lighthouse. Proposes that a small lighthouse be constructed at “old Point Comfort.” LS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives. For the background to this letter, see H to Randolph, June 19, 1790 . Letter not found.
3990[Diary entry: 27 June 1790] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 27th. Went to Trinity Church in the forenoon and employed myself in writing business in the afternoon.