4081[Diary entry: 6 July 1790] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 6th. Exercised on Horse-back betwn. 5 & 7 Oclock in the Morning. At 9 Oclock I sat for Mr. Trumbull to finish my pictures in some of his historical pieces. Anounced to the House of Representatives (where the Bills originated) my Assent to the Acts which were presented to me on Friday last—One of which Authorises the President to purchase the whole, or such part of that tract of Land...
4082Clement Biddle to Tobias Lear, 6 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Mr Heineken, Consul from the United Netherlands called on me last evening to request I would ask you if it would be convenient & proper for him to wait on the president, at any time and at what hour tomorrow, to introduce some gentlemen lately arrived & recommended to him from Holland one of whom is a gentleman of fortune, & bein in public offices of respectability there as they leave town on...
4083To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 6 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the fifteenth of April and also a Copy of it. In the Close of that Letter you mention my not having acknowleged the Receipt of your public Letter of the thirteenth of October. I have received the original Duplicate and triplicate of that Letter. I had the Honor to acknowledge the Receipt by mine of the twenty second of January with which I sent a private Letter of...
4084Franco Petrus Van Berckel to Tobias Lear, 6 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Coming to Town last Evening in my Phaeton I overtook one of the Presidents Carriages, which as I was about to pass (not Conceiving any impropriety in doing so) the Presidents Postilion drove his horses intentionaly across the road, so as to prevent my passing, altho’ he might have facilitated it, without any inconvenience to himself; & where by taking a different road from the other Carriages,...
4085Location of the Capital, [6 July] 1790 (Madison Papers)
The residence bill, fixing the permanent capital on the Potomac and the temporary capital at Philadelphia, was under consideration. Sherman moved to strike out Potomac and insert Baltimore. Mr. Madison. In order to decide this question rightly, we ought to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two places as they relate to the good of the United States. Now, I will defy any gentleman,...
4086To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of April. 30th. I mentioned in what manner my time had been imployed to that date; And as in the study of the law, there is no great variety (the mind being in pursuit of a single and fixed object) you must only suppose me to have gone on constantly and regularly in the course you have pointed out. Coke’s first Institute I have read thrice; And am now ingaged with the second....
4087To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty of writing you, dated at Sea, 5th. March ulto. A few days after that period, at Cape Mount on the Windward Coast of Africa, I had the pleasure of receiving the Letter wherewith you honor’d me under date 21st. Novr. ulto. Under March 30th. I acknowledged the receipt of that welcome notice of your arrival in Virginia. I dispatch’d my Letters for New York via the West Indies;...
4088To Thomas Jefferson from David Howell, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 23d. ult. came duly to hand.—I thank you for your polite attention to the business with which I reluctantly charged you, and hope I have the honour of standing, by your means, rectus in Curia. Having been informed that a Printer is to be Selected in each of the States, for promulgating the laws of the United States, the immediate object of this letter is to recommend for...
4089To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Jai beaucoup desiré mais bien peu esperé votre Retour, Monsieur, comment se refuser a être utile et heureux! Nous ne vous meritons pas. Et si vous eties assis parmi nos legislateurs vous seriés meconnu ou persecuté. J’estime, autant que mes foibles lumieres le comportent votre païs a ce periode ou les hommes de votre trempe commencent a pouvoir beaucoup pour le bien general qui ne s’opere...
4090From Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, 6 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor to present his compliments to Mr. Franklin. He is here without furniture, without housekeeper and faisant très mauvaise chere. If Mr. Franklin is disengaged to-day, and will do him the favor to partake of his little meal without ceremony, it will be so much the more obliging. He dines at half past three pretty exactly. RC ( PPAmP ). Not recorded in SJL .