1From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 25 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
Previous to the receipt of your favor on the subject of the arrears to the Virginia line, a proposition for remedying the abuses which have taken place, had been made and was under consideration. It has since passed the two Houses in the form which corresponds with the idea suggested by you. I take the liberty of inclosing a copy, though it has not yet been submitted to the President. As soon...
2From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 11 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
On the recipt of your letter on the subject of the Inspection law of Virginia, I communicated the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury. He sees no impropriety in his giving the requisite instruction to the Custom-House officers and having promised to do so, I shall decline an application to Congress. Since the late separation of the State debts from the national, the House of Reps. has been...
3From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 27 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
Information having been received here that some persons acquainted with the appropriation made at the last Session of Congress in favor of the officers & soldiers of the Virginia & N. Carolina lines of the late army, are taking advantage of the claimants who are ignorant of that provision, by purchasing their claims for very inconsiderable proportions of their amount, it became a question...
4From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 26 May 1790 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a copy of the instruction given by the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of our inspection laws, which has been put into my hands for that purpose; and am with the highest respect, Sir, Your Most Obedt. humble servant, RC and enclosure ( Vi ). Enclosure in a clerk’s hand. Addressed and franked by JM. Docketed by a clerk, “Done June 5h. 1790.” See Governor of...
5From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 10th inst. with its enclosures has been duly received. It appears from the best information which I can obtain, that the place where Piamingo’s amunition was deposited, at the time of Colo. Campbell’s writing to the Executive of Virginia, is not such as to subject it to the danger which was apprehended; for the vicinity is pretty well inhabited, and the people...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 29 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter by the last Post without date I have had the honor of receiving. I perceive that you had concluded to defer directing the Amount of the State debt to be furnished, ’till a provision is made by the Legislature respecting Funds for discharging it. Allow me to remark Sir, that I am persuaded, for a variety of reasons, that the Amount of the debt, is the most material part of the...
7From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 4 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter to Colonel Carrington, requesting him to meet me at Richmond on the 11th of the present month, is transmitted to your Excellency’s care to ensure the certainty of it’s conveyance, and I beg leave to request, if there is no other immediate and direct opportunity, that you may cause it to be forwarded to him by express. I have the honor to be, with great regard and esteem,...
8From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 9 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with the request signified in your Excellency’s letter of the 23d ultimo, I now inclose copies of all the papers in my possession relative to the dispute between Messrs Beauregard and Bourgeois of New Orleans and Oliver Pollock Esquire agent for the State of Virginia; and have the honor to be, with very great esteem, Your Excellency’s most Obedt Servt LS , PHi : Dreer Collection;...
9From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 26 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s letter of the 13th inst. enclosing the duplicate of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, authorizing the Governor to convey certain lands to the United States for the purpose of building a Light-House. Upon receiving your letter of the 18th of December, covering the first copy of the above act, I immediately transmitted it to the Secretary of the...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 27 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 27, 1790. Acknowledges receipt of a certificate from the auditor of Virginia on the manner of calculating the state’s debt. LS , Archives Division, Virginia State Library, Richmond. See Randolph to H, January 11, 1790 .
11From Thomas Jefferson to Beverley Randolph, 28 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perceive by the inclosed letter from Mr. Harry Innes that some time the last year the Indians carried off, from a farm of his, three negro men. The method proposed for their recovery, in his letter, I knew would produce nothing, and therefore did not move in it at all. I presume that one of the subjects of your ensuing treaty will be the restoration of all prisoners, without regard to...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Beverley Randolph, 18 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A great assembly of the Northern and Western Indians is to be held at Sanduskey in the approaching spring, to be met by three Commissioners from the general government to treat of peace. It is highly important that some person from the Southward, possessing the public confidence, should be in the commission: and a person too who has firmness enough to form opinions for himself. Though I knew...
13From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 28 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, September 28, 1790. “I have the honor to inform you, that the funds necessary to discharge the arrears due to the Virginia line have been placed in the hands of the Pay-Master General, with instructions to remit them to John Hopkins Esquire Commissioner of Loans for your State, to whom the execution of the business is committed.…” LS , Archives Division, Virginia State...
14Enclosure: William Davies to Beverley Randolph, 21 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of an Order of the House of Representatives, that the Commissioners of the General Board should report the amount of the Claims of the several States, mr Gilman and mr Kean, Genl Irvine being absent, thought proper to report no. 1, which mr Madison calls a libel on the State. North Carolina and Georgia are also Stigmatized, but their Vengeance seems more particularly directed at...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Beverley Randolph, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Cassinove being on a visit to Richmond and perhaps Norfolk, I take the liberty of presenting him to your notice. He is a gentleman of distinction and merit from Holland, and under particular connections with the Van Staphorsts, bankers of the United States at Amsterdam. Satisfied that you will find a gratification in his society, and that any attentions you shall be...
16George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 7 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of Nov. 18. covering a resolution of the legislature of Virginia of Nov. 14. and a Memorial of sundry citizens of that commonwealth on the subject of their property carried away by the British, contrary, as they suppose, to the stipulations of the treaty of peace. A regular channel of communication with that government being now open, I shall not fail to pay due...
17From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 16 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
A letter of the 4th instant from Lt Governor Wood has been received with its inclosures, containing the information of some murders committed by the Indians on the 23d of last month at Dunkard creek which runs into the Monongahala River. It is with concern that I learn this circumstance, as a treaty has been lately concluded by the Governor of the western territory with the Wiandot, Delawar,...
18From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 19 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the Receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, containing a Cession of two Acres of Ground on Cape Henry to the United States, intended for the Site of the Light House. On the return of the President, who is now on a visit to Rhode Island, measures will be taken for the early completion of a Building, so necessary to the Commerce of the States on the Chessapeak....
19From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 10 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The Act for the establishment and support of Light-Houses &c having made it my duty “to provide by contracts to be approved by the President of the United States for building one near the entrance of Chesapeak Bay”; The President has been pleased to refer to me your letter of the 18th. of december last, transmitting the copy of an Act of the Commonwealth of Virginia, empowering you to make,...
20From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 8 May 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 23d of february, an acknowlegement of which has been postponed by very urgent avocations connected with the Session of Congress. I am now to inform you, that Edward Carrington Esquire has been requested to visit the Cape, and make a selection of the spot; upon whose report to you it will be satisfactory that the Cession be completed. This step...
21From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 19 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
It appearing from the representation of Col. Carrington that he will be unable to execute in convenient time the business committed to him, relative to the lighthouse on Cape Henry, the President of the united States has been pleased to transfer that duty to Thomas Newton Esqr of Norfolk. The necessary instructions for this Gentleman were dispatched to him by the last mail, and on his report...
22From James Madison to Beverley Randolph, 23 June 1790 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 June 1790. Acknowledged in Randolph to JM, 12 July 1790 . Reports that the House has passed a bill adding two members to the board of commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the states.
23From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 15 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor, last evening, to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 6th inst. enclosing one from the County Leiutenant of Green Briar on the subject of Indian affairs. When Congress have finished the necessary and important business which has occupied them since their first meeting, and in which they are now engaged, I shall seize the earliest moment to lay before them such information...
24From Alexander Hamilton to Beverley Randolph, 24 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been duly honored with your favors of the 28th. of November & 5th. of December, with their inclosures. And I beg leave to make my acknowledgments for the attention which has been paid to their early transmission. I presume in the account transmitted the arrears of Interest have been added to the principal. Should the contrary be the case, permit me to request, that a statement of those...
25From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 14 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I was surprized to find, by your Excellency’s letter of the 1st instant, with which I have been favoured, that my dispatches of the 3d of October did not reach you until the last day of November; and, in consequence thereof, I have inquired of the Post-Master in this City to know if they were detained in his Office. He informs me they were not—and, as a proof of it, he refers to the stamp on...
26From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 13 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The various and important business which required my particular attention in the beginning of the present session of Congress will, I presume, sufficiently apologize to your Excellency for this late acknowledgment of your letter of November last. I have attentively considered the request which your Excellency has made, by desire of the Legislature, that I would again open the business of...
27Enclosure: Arthur Campbell to Beverley Randolph, 20 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
By different communications particularly a letter from one of the Kentucky Delegates of which an extract is inclosed I am informed that the unfriendly Southren Indians have notice of the ammunition intended for the Chickasaws and are preparing a force to try to take it. Piamingo when he set out from Holstein for the Chickasaws Towns, assured us, he would if possible, be back by the first of...
28From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 14 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War having transmitted to me a copy of your Excellency’s letter to him, relative to the protection of the frontier counties of Virginia, with his answer thereto—I have now to observe that the Counties of Russell and Wythe, not having been considered as equally exposed with the others, were not included in the arrangements taken for defending the frontier —But, as the...
29From George Washington to Beverley Randolph, 24 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 4th Inst. with its inclosures, just as I was about to embark on a visit to Rhode Island, which has prevented my answering it ’till my return from thence. Previous to the receipt of your Excellency’s letter I had nominated and appointed the three Gentlemen who had heretofore acted in that office, Commissioners for settling accounts...