7701To George Washington from Ernst Frederick Gayer (Guyer), 24 April 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ernst Frederick Gayer (Guyer), c.24 April 1793. Thomas Jefferson wrote Gayer on 26 April: “I have duly received your letter of the 24th inst. inclosing a Memorial to the President on the subject of an instrument and table of your invention for ascertaining the longitude at sea, and desiring that the patent-board might appoint a time for examining into the same” and that...
7702From George Washington to Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 24 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President and Mrs Washington present their complimts to Mr & Mrs Powell—and (agreeably to Mrs Powells request) have the honor to inform them that Mrs Washington is so much indisposed with a cold as to make her fear encreasing it by going to the Circus this afternoon. The President & rest of the family propose to be Spectators at the exhibition of Mr Rickets. AL , ViMtvL . GW’s Household...
7703To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 24 April 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 24 April 1793. GW wrote Whitting on 28 April , “Your letter of the 24th instt with the weekly Reports—except Greens—which was not among them, came to hand yesterday.“
7704Alexander Hamilton and John Armstrong, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 23 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Do me the favor to learn from the President, & inform me by the bearer, whether mister Lee’s resignation was purely voluntary on his part, or was occasioned by any circumstance dissatisfactory to the President. The reason to the enquiry is that I may regulate my expressions to him accordingly. I presume no such circumstance has occured; but for greater caution I ask. Yrs &c. LB , DLC:GW . For...
7705To George Washington from Edmund Hogan, 23 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Loganian Library, Philadelphia, 23 April 1793. Writes that “The person who addresses you, wants a place as a Clerk, He is thoroughly acquainted with accounts, & is well recommended; He has been employed in a conspicuous station some months past, is now unemployed because a necessity for a person in the station wherein he had been engaged, does not at present exist:” Hogan explains that “the...
7706To George Washington from Jacob Johnson, 23 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote Your Excellency a History of my Sufferings and Losses I had no tho’t or Expectation of Seeing Philadelphia —By the Hand of God upon me I am now in the City—Could wish were it consistent—And by Your Excellenies Permission to be favord with a Short Interview —To give Your Excellency Some further Relation of my Personal Sufferings and Dangers While Essaying to defend the Susqueha...
7707From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 22 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
You might, from appearances, suspect me of inattention to the honor of your corrispondence: and if you should, I can assure you it would give me pain. Or you might conceive that, I had rather make excuses than acknowledge, in time, the receipt of your favors, as this is the second instance of considerable lapse between the dates of them and my acknowledgments: this also would hurt me—for the...
7708To George Washington from Mordecai Hale, 22 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
New York, N.Y., 22 April 1793. Writes that “By the advice of a few respectable friends who are happy in being intimate with you, and from my acquaintance with your general disposition, to releive at all times those who have served and been disabled in the late war, I have been induced to address a few lines to you. . . . The Office of Supervisor to the district of New York, in consequence of...
7709Neutrality Proclamation, 22 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
W hereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great-Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers: I have therefore thought fit by these...
7710To George Washington from William Moultrie, 21 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Genet minister from the French republick will do me the honor to present you with this; I embrace the opportunity of offerring you my most respectfull Compliments, and to assure you of my very great regard & esteem. I am dear & respected Sir Your most Obt & very humle Servt ALS , DLC:GW . Edmond Genet, France’s newly appointed minister to the United States, had landed at Charleston, S.C.,...