45751To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose several letters for the perusal of the President. when he wrote to the Governor of Kentuckey, on a former intimation from the Spanish representatives, there was no probability that the intervention of military force would be requisite, and as far as illegal enterprizes could be prevented by the peaceable process of law, his writing was proper. it is...
45752To George Washington from Howell Lewis, 6 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Howell Lewis, 6 Nov. 1793. On 10 Nov. GW wrote Lewis : “Your letter of the 6th instt came duly to hand.”
45753To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Smith supposes the bill he incloses must be laid before Congress. on a former suggestion of the same kind Th: J. being able to find nothing which rendered it necessary, consulted the Attorney General, who was of opinion it was not necessary, but promised make more diligent enquiry. the result will now be asked of him by Th: J. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
45754To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having received from the Secretary of the territory South of the Ohio a report of the Proceedings of the Governor of that territory from Mar. 1. to Sep. 1. 1793. has examined the same and Reports to the President That he finds nothing therein which will require his immediate agency. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers;...
45755From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 8 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear, The Gentleman who will have the honr of putting this letter into your hands, I can venture, & therefore shall take the liberty, to introduce as worthy of your Lordships civilities. He has lived seven or eight yrs in my family as my private Secretary, and possesses a large share of my esteem & friendship. Commercial pursuits have taken him to Europe & a desire to visit some of the...
45756From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 8 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I arrived at this place at the time appointed—to wit—the 1st inst. but did not receive your letter of the 3d until yesterday for want of a regulr Comn with the P. Office and this too at a time when as you have well suppos’d I was immerced in the consideration of Papers from the different Departments after a seperation from the heads of them almost two Mo. I have, however, run over your...
45757From George Washington to John Sinclair, 8 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear who will have the honor of presenting this letter to you has lived many years in my family & is a person for whom I have a particular esteem. Having lately engaged in a Commercial Scheme he goes to Europe for the facility of his Plan & being desirous of visiting some of the principal Manufacturies in Scotland I take the liberty of giving him this letter of introduction to you, being...
45758To George Washington from Charleston, South Carolina, Merchants, 9 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of James & Edward Penman & Co., North & Vesey and Jennings & Woddrop of Charleston South Carolina merchants Sheweth That your Memorialists, deeply impressed with the deplorable situation to which many of the Inhabitants of St Domingo, now residing in this City with their families, have been reduced, from Affluence, to Want of the necessaries of Life, undertook to send a Small...
45759To George Washington from Jacob Dūrang, 9 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Being informed that your Excellency was desirous to employ a Person, who could Shave, dress Hair, and otherwise wait upon you, in your Chamber, I have Presumed, to Address you upon that Subject; I Concieve myself, Sir, Competant to Such duty, and I trust, that I should be happy, in giving full Satisfaction was I to be favored with the Station, I therefore Present myself with hope for that...
45760To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 9 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
A thousand times after my letter to you, enclosing Observations on the Potomack &c. had gone, did I wish to recall it: for the more I reflected on your situation at this moment, in point of business, the more did I see the impropriety, as well as the unfriendliness of my adding to that burthen, which I could not but know was at least as great as it ought to be, and more especially as mine was...
45761To George Washington from Richard Chichester, 10 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I’ve to Apologise for this intrusion on Your time, with an Address of So trivial A Nature—And make No Doubt of Your Excuse, when You hear of my Afflicted Situation—I am and have been for Near three Years last Past, in So low a State of health, almost daily Expecting the Dissolution of my body, and cannot Depart in Peace without endeavouring to undeceive You, and Acquit myself of the charge of...
45762From George Washington to Howell Lewis, 10 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th instt came duly to hand, and I received pleasure in learning from it, that you participated in the fine rain I travelled in on the Road, and that the Wheat began to shew the effect of it. I hope the second rain which fell here about the middle of last week extended also to that quarter. admitting this, and that the quantity was equal to what we have had here, I persuade...
45763To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 10 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Sir. Spencer’s [Germantown, Pa.] Novr 10. 1793. After I parted from you last night, I obtained a promise from Mr Dunlap, the printer, to bring out on monday his file of newspapers. This renders it unnecessary for me to continue my request as to yours. But while I am thus led to recollect, that you meditate a visit to the city to morrow, permit me to suggest one consideration. The...
45764To George Washington from Anonymous, 11 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The purport of this Epistle will I presume apologize for the liberty I take in addressing you. By the accounts we receive from Philadelphia we are inform’d that a dreadful disease rages there which proves fatal to most people, & that the Contagion probably will spread to other parts of the Country; an Idea has occurr’d to me that this Malady may be obviated, & I therefore think it my duty to...
45765To George Washington from Alexander White, 11 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
It is with real pleasure I obey the commands of a respectable meeting of the Citizens of Frederick County, in communicating the enclosed Resolutions expressive of the result of their deliberations. I am with sentiments of the most perfect respect Sir Your Obt Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Woodville, White’s country estate, was near Winchester, Virginia.
45766To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 12 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The troubling you to read the enclosed oration may perhaps need an Apology, undoubtedly the liberty I have taken, to address it to you, without your express permission, renders one absolutely necessary. A number of concurring Circumstances, added to the subject & design prompted me to it, and a dependance on your known Candor & Friendship makes me hope, it will not give Offence. Mrs Boudinot...
45767To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 12 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Monsieur de la forét calld just now while I was at the Ministers’ to inform me that he shall probably leave Paris ToMorrow Morning I therefore write this as an Introduction to you and proceed to give a hasty Sketch of the Form in which the Business now stands. A Commission is named (the Appointments not yet gone through the Forms) to consist of four Persons. The Minister is a Mr Fauchèt...
45768To George Washington from John Rutherford, 12 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The very high esteem I have ever had for your excellency, as a Personage of the greatest abilities and integrity, encourages me to present you with this. It becomes me, as a stranger, to ask pardon for this my freedom, but I am fully persuaded that such are your views of Humanity, and of the Duties which we owe to each other as fellow citizens of the great theatre of the Universe that I shall...
45769Resolutions from Shenandoah County, Virginia, Citizens, 13 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of sundry Inhabitants of Shanandoah County, at the Courthouse in Woodstock on Wednesday the 13th day of November 1793 for the purpose of taking into consideration, the Proclamation of the President of the United States declaring the Neutrality of the said States in the present European War, William Aylett Booth, was appointed Chairman, & Richard Tutt Clerk. 1 Resolved, as the...
45770To George Washington from Richard Snowdon, 13 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Author of the enclosed Volume presents it to the Worthy President of the United States as a Small Tribute of that affectionate esteem which he with many thousands bear for his Person whose merit both as a Hero and Citizen hath captivated the feeling Heart that thrills with exalted pleasure at the loved name of Washington. As the Author is one of the People called Quakers he cannot...
45771To George Washington from the Inhabitants of Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, 13 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Möchten Sie doch unsere aus Dankbarkeit und Gehorsam entstehende Freudensbezeugungen, in diesem glücklichen Augenblick da wir die persönliche Gegenwart von Ihro Excellenz genießen, in Dero angebornen und gewöhnlichen Güte anzunehmen belieben. Die kluge und mit glücklichem Erfolg gecrönte Thaten, die Sie unter dem Schutz des Allerhöchsten Wesens in dem lezten glorreichen Krieg ausgeführet...
45772To George Washington from Mary Atlee, 14 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
the tears of distress, Could never give pleasure To the Friend of Mankind; the humane, Illustrious president: From his Beneficence, mine would Cease to flow; the unhappy Mary atlee Casts herself upon your Bounty sir, she asks but the means of subsistance. AL , DLC:GW . The date is taken from the docket of the letter.
45773From George Washington to Mary Atlee, 14 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President wishes Mrs Atlee to be assured that, his disposition to prevent tears of distress from flowing, is far beyond his means to accomplish; and that he should be extremely happy if the latter were adequate to the numerous calls that are made upon the former. Mrs Atlees case being entirely unknown to the President—Her application of course, is not well understood by him. ADf , DLC:GW ;...
45774To George Washington from John Graff, 14 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will have received a letter of the 22d Ulto containing two papers of the same import with those now inclosed. I was desirous of paying my respects to you Sir, & arrived here with that intent, but your Excellency’s being from this place has occasioned my troubling you with the present—Many Citizen of the mercantile line have not yet returned to Philada which has occasioned the...
45775To George Washington from George Clinton, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
In my last letter dated the 8th September (and to which I ⟨ mutilated ⟩ yet been favored with an answer) I have omitted to mentio⟨n⟩ the French vessel, called the Republican, a prize to the Brit⟨ish⟩ frigate Boston, had departed, and was without the reach of my a⟨ mutilated ⟩ previous to the receipt of the Letter from the Secretary of war, directing her detension. It will appear from the...
45776To George Washington from Jean Louis Du Rumaine, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Les malheurs Sans nombre que j’ai éprouvé et L’absolue detresse à La quelle je Suis reduit me forcent à avoir Recours à La commiseration Du congrès. Victime de L’insurrection arrivée dans Le quartier de jacmel isle de St Domingue, je m’embarquai en juillet dernier avec mon épouse enceinte de huit mois, Sur une goelette Venant à edenton caroline Du Nord. j’avais été assez heureux pour Sauver...
45777To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
As the period prescribed for the next session of Congress, approaches, I was solicitious to ascertain, whether the accomodations, directed to be prepared for that body, by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, would be compleated in due season: and I have the pleasure to communicate to you the answer of the Commissioners in the affirmative. I am, with perfect respect Sir Your mo: obedt Servt LS ,...
45778To George Washington from the Provisional Executive Council Of France, 15 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
En vertu de la Loi du quinze août 1792. qui attribue au Conseil exécutif provisoire toutes les fonctions de la puissance exécutive et du Décret de la Convention Nationale du 21 septembre suivant, lequel maintient les autorités publiques qui étoient en activité à cette dernière époque, Nous les Citoïens formant le Conseil exécutif provisoire de la République, aux Etats-unis de l’Amérique...
45779To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 16 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
We have been here about ten days, and are now tollarably fix’d. I have been making Enquiry about Buck Wheat, and have given notice that I will give 2/ ⅌ Bush: (a Price the Merchts told me I might purchase for) but, from the Scarcity of Corn, which now sells @ 12/ ⅌ Barrell, I fear I shall not be able to get the Buck wheat for less than 2/6—For this price I’m sure I can get any quantity in a...
45780To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose for his information the following letters written in consequence of the two last consultations preceding his departure. there being quadruplicates of most of them, the trouble of looking over them will be proportionably diminished to the President. Nov. 8. four letters to the foreign ministers on the extent of our...