501To James Madison from the Right Reverend James Madison, 25 November 1791 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Otway Bird wishes to obtain your assistance in some Business wh. he has with Congress, & has expressed a Desire that I should introduce him to you. Permit me then to assure you, that he is a Gentleman of real worth. We have few Citizens so distinguished for that disinterested Part, which he took in the late Contest, & none more, for a Conduct truely exemplary & respectable on every...
502To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 14 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your favor of yesterday, this moment, when I am on the eve of a journey to Virginia. The opinion which you have given as to its being necessary to submit the new article to the Senate being in direct opposition to that of the Secretaries and the Attorney general, has occasioned some embarrassments with me. For I always understood it to be the sense of the majority of the Senate,...
503To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 3 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, May 3, 1791. “Your circular Letter 8th April is received. An Account agreably to the form sent shall be transmitted as soon as possible. I now inclose you a Statement of the United States Act Current as it stands in my Book the balance of 26385.83 is deposited in the Massachusetts Bank.…” LC , RG 53, Massachusetts State Loan Office, Letter Book, 1785–1791, Vol. “259–M,” National...
504From George Washington to the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 29 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I return to you individually, and (through you) to your Society collectively in the United States my thanks for the demonstrations of affections, and the expressions of joy, offered in their behalf, on my late appointment. It shall still be my endeavor to manifest, by overt acts, the purity of my inclinations for promoting the happiness of mankind, as well as the sincerity of my desires to...
505To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Franklin, 8 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your Letter of the 31st past, relating to Encroachments made on the Eastern Limits of the United-States, by Settlers under the British Government, pretending that it is the Western and not the Eastern River of the Bay of Passamaquoddy, which was designated by the Name of St. Croix in the Treaty of Peace with that Nation; and requesting of me to communicate any Facts, which my Memory...
506To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Guest, August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New ] Brunswick [ New ] Jersey, August, 1791 . Urges Hamilton to establish at New Brunswick “the public Manufactory” of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Guest, who had originally been a tanner by trade, was one of New Brunswick’s leading businessmen.
507From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 23 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 23, 1794. On February 10, 1794, Ellery wrote to Hamilton and referred to “Your letter … of the 23d. of Jany. last.” Letter not found. ]
508James Keith to Tobias Lear, 15 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Line you did me the favor to drop me from George Town was not delivered untill Fryday Noon, I would have answered it immediately, but The Commissioners had not then taken the Accounts under Consideration, the next day was appointed for the purpose, untill this was done the exact Ballance could not be ascertained, as the Quantum of some Charges still to be made was to be determined by them....
509To George Washington from James Young, 18 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Great Dock Street No. 4— Sir, [New York] July 18th 1789 A Conscious Sensibility Of Your Native Goodness of heart, now Emboldens me to Address your Excellency, from Causes too of Such a Nature, As You only, with propriety, Can hear and determine—the Sole power, being Wisely and Judiciously placed in Your hands, of the Appointment, of all Officers, Necessary to Execute the Federal Laws. As an...
510From Thomas Jefferson to William Fitzhugh, 21 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11th. came to hand three or four days ago. As my servant Bob went from here to place himself at Fredericksburgh, I took for granted he would fall in your way, and give you an account of Tarquin . Some time after his arrival here he was taken with a lameness which continued perhaps three or four weeks, not severe, but so as to render him unfit to be used. By leaving him at...