901To George Washington from Robert Brough, 20 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have been sometime a Searcher at the port of Hampton in this State and as tis probable Congress will establish an Office something like that, as a Comptroller—a Surveyor: I beg leave to offer my Service to you in any Station of that sort either in this or some other port—the former I prefer—I have not the Honor to be known to you but Colo. Parker can give you information of me—I would say...
902To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 22 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letter came under cover to me from Wm Lithgow Attorney for the district of Maine, which he says contains his resignation. Daniel Davis Esquire of Portland is a lawyer well recommended by the Members of Congress to suceed Mr Lithgow, & I think has been doing the business of the office since Mr Lithgow’s indisposition prevented his attending the courts. The enquiries concerning a...
903To George Washington from Winthrop Sargent, 6 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honour to transmit by Major Vigo, a copy from the public records of the Territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio, to the 30th of June inclusive. The long absence of two of the judges from the Government, has prevented the adoption of laws for more than the six months last past, which is considered and lamented as a very great misfortune to the territory....
904From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday the letter you did me the honor to write on the 23d. inst. covering one from the Governor of Vermont. As the question Which party has a right to complain, depends on the fact Which party has hitherto exercised jurisdiction in the place where the seizure was made, and the Governor’s letter does not ascertain that fact, I think it will be better to wait his answer to my two...
905To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of observing to the President in reply to his queries; that the ruin of our merchants was expressed as strongly, as it is, in order to prepare Mr Short, in case some nervous measure should be adopted by government, with a general idea of the magnitude of the cause, before a particular explanation could be forwarded to him; and that, altho’ the jealousy mentioned by...
906From John Cooke to George Washington, 28 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Tipperary, 28 Mch. 1791 . Understanding that regulation of weights and measures is one object of American government, he sends the enclosed “invention” from “a poor individual, in an obscure corner of a remote nation, as a mark of that universal esteem, which your Excellency’s Merits have excited in all countries, and amongst every class of men.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by TJ: “To...
907To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 31 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honor of informing the President of the United States, that, having already accounted to him for the sum of thirteen thousand, two hundred dollars, destined for the relief of such of the exiles from St Domingo, as resided in the United States, he has offered the remaining eighteen hundred dollars, as follows: six hundred to Pennsylvania, which have been accepted:...
908To George Washington from William Tate, 25 August 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Tate, 25 Aug. 1789. In a letter to Tate, 28 Aug., Tobias Lear acknowledged a letter from Tate to GW of 25 Aug. 1789 . Lear’s letter to Tate states that the president “has directed me to inform you, that it does not lay with him to accept your offer of attending the Commissioners who are shortly to negociate a treaty with the Southern Indians. It is left to the...
909To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 18 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. the enclosed permit has been prepared on the intimation of the Secretary of State, for the Spanish Comissioners. The Secretary is not informed whether the doubt on the subject of mister Hammond’s application was removed. The return of the enclosed will be considered as the evidence that it was. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed...
910To George Washington from Henry Knox, 21 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration, the draft of an answer to the letter from the Governor of this State, dated the 18th instant; and also a draft of Instructions to Col. Pickering —The Secretary of State and the Attorney General concur in the approbation of these papers—If the outlines of the instructions should receive your approbation, arrangements and instructions, in...
911From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President French copies of the communications of Mr. Genet on the subject of our debt to France, as they will convey his sense perhaps more faithfully to the Secretary of the treasury should the President think proper to refer them to him.—He has changed the expression in the close of the 2d. paragraph of the letter to Mr. Van Berkel, so as to...
912To George Washington from Henry Knox, 17 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you a letter from Major General Wayne of the 27th May last. The Secretary of the Treasury and myself have conceived it essential to the œconomical administration of the public interests as connected with this department that an Agent therefrom should be sent both to Georgia and to the South western territory for the objects specified in the instructions to Captain...
913To George Washington from John Rutledge, Sr., 15 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely sorry, that official Duty prevents (which nothing but indispensable necessity should,) my going, with my Son, to meet you, at the Boundary-Line of North-Carolina: He will do himself the Honour of waiting on you, from thence but I flatter myself, that I shall have an opportunity of paying my Respects, to you, in Person, on your Tour thro’ the upper Country, (where I must be for...
914To George Washington from Edward Thurston, 1 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
Having been appointed by the General Assembly of this State at the two last Elections to the Office of Surveyor for the Port of Newport, and as such having discharged my duty to the Public to their intire Satisfaction, I do therefore humbly solicit your Excellency that I may be continued in that Office, and do assure You Sir that if it shall please You to continue me therein, my most earnest...
915To George Washington from the Oneida, 6 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Notre Frere, nous profitons de l’occasion de quelques uns de nos chefs, qui descendent à New York, pour nous rappeller a votre souvenir; Toute la nation à tressali de joie lorsque elle à appris que l’Amerique venoit de mettre à la tête de son gouvernment celui qui avoit toujours été si glorieusement à la tête de ses armés pendant la guerre: Nous felicitons l’Amerique de son choix, et desirons...
916To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, a contract made by the Collector of the District of Washington in North Carolina, for the stakage of all the shoals & channels of that State to the Northward of the District of Wilmington, which have been heretofore thus designated. The former stakes having generally fallen to decay, or...
917From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [14 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Hamilton presents his respects to the President. He has written the Letter to Mr Clarkeson which the President desired, & which if not countermanded will go by post. But in the course of writting it, the following reflection has pressed upon his mind with so much force that he thinks it his duty to submit it to The President. Clarkeson held the office of Marshal, a troublesome &...
918To George Washington from Pierce Butler, 6 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday received letters from the under named Gentlemen requesting me to mention them to You as Candidates for the Office, in the Customs at Charleston, lately occupied by Mr Weyman. I have the honor to be, with great Respect sir, Yr Most Obedt Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , ScU . The letters from Edward Weyman, Jr., John Mayrant, and Joseph Bee to Butler, which do not appear to have been...
919To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I submit to your consideration a letter received from an Indian by the name of David Fowler who resides at Brotherton, near Oneida, who is at present in this City with his Son. This man has been introduced to me by Colonel Pickering and his request for the support of a School seems to deserve a favorable consideration. I beg leave therefore to submit the idea that fifty dollars ⅌ Year be...
920To George Washington from Moreau de St. Méry & Company, 15 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Deign receive with Goodness the advise of our new Establishment in a City where Lives the precious and dear father of the all united states. our most exciting encouragement would be that it could inspire your Excellency with Some Benevolence. We are with the utmost Respect sir of your Excellency The most obedient & very humble servants ALS , DLC:GW . Médéric-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry...
921To George Washington from Benjamin Franklin Bache et al., 11 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The subscribers, a committee in behalf of a number of American, French & Dutch Citizens, request the honour of your company to a Civic Festival to be given on Friday, April 17, appointed to celebrate the late victories of the French Republic, and the emancipation of Holland. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedt hble Serts LS , DLC:GW . GW wrote below the docket that he considered the...
922To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 26 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed I have the honor to communicate to you, copies of a letter, which I have received from Mr Cassan, the Vice-Consul of the French Republic, and of the answer which I have transmitted to him, relatively to the intended departure of the Brigantine Peggy for the Mole and Jeremie. The sentiments, which I have expressed on this occasion, are in conformity to those that were lately...
923To George Washington from Andrew Ellicott, 28 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter was to have been delivered by me, to you, last June; but from an expectation founded on my own feelings, I supposed that the commissioners for the public buildings in the City of Washington would certainly in the course of the summer go into an enquiry respecting the conduct of Mr Dermott; which was fully stated to them in several reports, particularly one bearing date June...
924To George Washington from Daniel Carroll, 19 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the great attention requird, by the Trust reposd in me, & my precarious State of health, I mentiond some months past, to a few friends, my intention of requesting you to appoint some person, to take my place as a Commissioner—I must now request you to consider of a person for that purpose, as soon as circumstances will admit, after your return to Mount-Vernon. permit me to...
925To George Washington from Daniel Hopkins, 1 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
As the collection of the Excise duties, about to be imposed by Congress, will probably riquire a number of appointments; I humbly beg leave to offer myself as a candidate for the district of Hartford in the State of Connecticut; which is the place of my established residence. Should your Excellency think fit to notice this request, my character will be given by the Honble Members of the Senate...
926To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the translation of a letter he received last night from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes and which he supposes should be communicated to the legislature as being in answer to one communicated to them. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letter of...
927To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to the President a letter just received from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, and will have that of waiting on him in the evening. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy),
928From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 22 June 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State in referring to you the question of the answer to be given to Mr. Hammond concerning compensation for certain captured vessels will I presume transmit to you the opinions of the other Gentlemen as well as his own. Besides the reasons hastily sketched in the memorandums given to the Secretary of State—there is one of a delicate nature which I did not think fit to put on a...
929To George Washington from John Blair, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The honourable commission which you have been pleased to offer me in the service of the United States came to hand the tenth instt accompanied by your very polite letter, & the laws which have passed relative to the office. When I considered the great importance, as well as the arduous nature of the duties, I could not but entertain some fears, that I might find them well adapted neither to my...
930To George Washington from Julbin and Rapelling, 6 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Victimes de l’horrible Despotisme q’exercent à Saint Domingue, deux hommes aussi méchants que pervers, et Pressés par le Sentiment qu’inspirent les premiers besoins de la vie, en l’absence des moyens pour les Satisfaire, Deux Colons Infortunés enhardis, par L’Exemple de vos Vertus viennent avec confiance en epancher l’expression dans votre Ame Généreuse autant que Sensible et Solliciter auprès...