45181To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 22 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary at War having stated in a letter of yesterday’s date, that he was commanded by you, to request me to order a party of the Militia on board the ship William, now in this port as a prize to the French Privateer, Citizen Genet, for the purpose of keeping her in safe custody, until you have decided upon an allegation, that the ship was captured within the limits of the protection of...
45182To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 23 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
We inclose to you a letter from Majr Ellicott respecting a change of part of the southern Branch of the Canal, and his reasons for a change or totally striking out the Eastern Branch of it in the course of our divisions of the Carrollsburgh property, and the knowledge of situation and circumstances collected from the plats laid before us—the change of the southern branch occurred to ourselves...
45183From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
If you should have leizure between this and my return, to furnish me with your thoughts on Mr Arthur Youngs queries—(Transmitted to you sometime ago—) It would enable me to solve his questions soon afterwards. Yours always and sincerely ALS , NNPM . Jefferson docketed this letter as “recd June. 24. 93.” For British agriculturist Arthur Young’s queries, see his letter to GW of 17 Jan. 1793 . GW...
45184From George Washington to Henry Knox, 23 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Under cover with this note, you will receive two letters and an enclosure from Govr. Mifflin, wch are sent to you for your information. Also the Journal of a Mr Ewing’s Voyage down, & his observations respecting the posts, Settlements &c. on the Mississipi. It is my earnest desire that you would prosecute these enquiries with assiduity. It merits investigation in order to decide whether the...
45185To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
We beg leave to refer you to Mr Blodget on the subject of the National University to which in general we have the most friendly disposition, and the site painted out by him we entirely approve if it can be had on the generous terms proposed, on its meeting your approbation we will do every thing in our power in favour of the important institution. We are &ca LB , DNA : RG 42, Records of the...
45186To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Pursuant to your requisition of the 20th inst. I have the honor to submit a statement of the application of the whole of the monies borrowed by virtue of the Acts of the 4. & 12. of August. The precise accuracy of this statement cannot be warranted, ’till there shall be a settlement at the Treasury of all the accounts on which it depends (a business now in train). But the items generally are...
45187To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Upon my reaching this place from Mount Vernon a few minutes ago, I had the honor to receive your letter of the 21st instant, and am much gratified to find that my having gone to Mount Vernon was an acceptable act. If you should leave Philadelphia on monday, as you propose, you will not receive the account of poor Whitting’s death (which was sent by the Post of Saturday) before that time. He...
45188To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Soon after I had the honor of writing to you from Annapolis, I found an occasion of entering into discourse with the governor of Maryland on the subject of our political situation. He appeared to have been caught by the same apprehensions, as had taken hold of the people of Baltimore; and was very minute in his inquiries. Some hours afterwards he called at my lodgings, and in the presence of...
45189To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 24 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the 21st inst: I received information that a Schooner belonging to the port of Wilmington in this State had been fitted out as a privateer in South Carolina, on behalf of one of the parties at War, taken a British Vessel, and brought her into Wilmington as a Prize; at which place both the privateer and prize were then lying. In conformity to the instructions which I received from the...
45190To George Washington from Théophile Cazenove, 25 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On my return from my house, at Alexandria, I learnt that a letter, transmitted to me, here, for your Excellency, from Madame de la Fayette, had been put into the post-office. As I am desired, by my friend in England, through whom it was sent me, to inform him, whether it reached your Excellency’s hands, I beg leave to request you will deign to let me know, whether you received that letter:...
45191To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 25 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have just receivd yours of the twenty fifth of March and do very sincerely condole with you on the melancholy Event which it communicates. Make I pray you my dear Sir the proper assurances of my Regret on this Occasion to Colo. Bassett as well as to Mrs Washington. Not having had Time to read the Gazettes which are but just (and but in part) arriv’d I cannot from them derive the Information...
45192To George Washington from Jedidiah Morse, 25 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honour herewith to present for your acceptance, a sett of “ The American Universal Geography. ” Compiled under the auspices of your Presidency over the United States, & describing, in a more particular manner, that distinguished country, whh is so deeply indebted to you, sir, for her present tranquillity & happiness—it is a tribute I owe you—& I most cheerfully pay it. I have...
45193To George Washington from Tubeuf, 26 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have promised myself the gratification of going to pay my devoirs to you for these two years that I have been in America; but it has been impossible for me to have that satisfaction. The Alarms in which I have been kept by the Indians, in the part of the County of Russel, upon the borders of Clinch, in Virginia, where I have purchased 55,000 Acres of land, have driven away a part of the...
45194To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The seventh section of an Act of the 2d of March last, intitled “An Act supplementary to the Act intitled An Act to provide more effectually for the collection of the Duties imposed by Law on goods, wares & merchandizes imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of Ships or Vessels,” provides “That the President of the United States may, if he shall judge it conducive to the public...
45195To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I should have taken time ere this to have considered the observations of mister Young, could I at this place have done it in such a way as would satisfy either him or myself. when I wrote the notes of the last year, I had never before thought of calculating what were the profits of a capital invested in Virginia agriculture. yet that appeared to be what mister Young most desired. lest...
45196To George Washington from the Commissioners for Settling Accounts Between the United States and the Individual States … (Washington Papers)
The Commissioners appointed to execute the several Acts of Congress, to provide more effectually for the settlement of the Accounts between the United States, and the Individual States, Report, That they have maturely considered the claims of the several States against the United States, and the charges of the United States against the individual States. That they have gone through the process...
45197To George Washington from Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin Ellicott, and Isaac Briggs, 29 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
We trust we have manifested, during our employment in the city of Washington, our zeal for its success, and the accomplishment of the main object: as a proof of this, we take the liberty of laying before you a statement of facts; and representing the mortifications to which we have constrained ourselves to submit, rather than relinquish an object which we wish to see accomplished and which has...
45198To George Washington from John Wilcocks, Jr., 29 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
From my Wifes Father, the Revd Mr James Madgwick, whose parents & other relations lived at Cerne[,] Wareham & Poole in Dorset, I learn, your Ancestors and his, were the same, Mrs Jolliffe of Poole, my Father-in-law’s Aunt, being a Washington, being some Years since, when he related it to me (viz.) in the Year 1777 when I married I perhaps may not have been correct— he has been Dead upward of 5...
45199To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 30 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I had the honour to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 22d of April and I am impatient to acquaint you that I received yours of the 1st of May 1792 which had been detained by Mr Robertson in expectation as he informed me of sending it with the Portrait which however has never yet arrived. I am charmed with the account your Excellency has been pleased to give me of the growing...
45200From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter from the Governor of New York, covering a communication to him from the Consul of the French Republic at that place, respecting the continuance of a British Letter of Marque in the Harbour of New York—reached my hands by the post of last evening; and I now transmit it to you, that it may be taken into consideration by yourself and the other Heads of the Departments, as soon...
45201From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
You will find by the enclosed letter from the Commissioners that Mr Hallet reports unfavorably of Doctor Thornton’s Plan “on the great points of practicability, time and expence:” and that I am referred “to Mr Blodget, Hoben, and Hallet, whose verbal information will be better than any we can give you"—on which to form ultimate Instructions. Mr Blodget I met at Baltimore in the moment I was...
45202From George Washington to the Citizens of Alexandria, Virginia, 1 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The very polite invitation which you have given me in the name of the Citizens of Alexandria, to celebrate with them the approaching Anniversary of American Independence —is received by me as a mark of attention meriting my warmest thanks—and as the best proof I can give of my feelings on the occasion will be to accept the invitation, I shall accordingly have the pleasure of meeting them at...
45203From George Washington to James Hoban and Stephen Hallet, 1 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have considered in the best manner my small knowledge in Architecture, & the peculiar situation of my own Private concerns (which brought me here) will enable me to do—the observations made by mr Hallet on the plan which has been exhibited by Doctr Thornton—& on acct of its exterior beauty, & the arrangement of the Apartments, had been adopted. But if this plan is as expensive as it is...
45204To George Washington from Richard Adamson, 2 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I humbly Submit to your Excellency the inclos’d for your consideration, and, conscious as I am of the boldness of this Intrusion, I shall not add to my presumption by attempting an apology where none is adequate to the occasion. I shall only therefore observe, that my distress is occasioned by a late Severe ilness, to shake off the Effects of which, I am advis’d to have recourse to the Berkley...
45205To George Washington from the Creek Nation, 3 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
A talk from the heads of the Upper and lower Creeks by order of the Mad Dog of the Tuckebatchees given out at the Cussetau Square at a meeting of a number of the lower Creeks, this 21st of July 1793. Cussitahs 3d July 1793. We the heads of the Creek nation wish to acquaint your Excellency that we are just informed by a runner of our own people from the Chickesaw Nation that there was some of...
45206Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President sends to the Secretary of State the enclosed letter from Mr Chiappe, which has been forwarded by Mr Simpson at Gibralter. If, upon translating this letter, there should be found in it any thing important to be communicated to the President—the Secretary will do it when the President arrives in Philadelphia. The President prosposes to set out from this place on sunday next. AL ,...
45207To George Washington from Alexander Smith, 3 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
this Spring when I was Saving fish at your landing known by the name of Dasays ferry, I had Some Conversation with Mr Whitting About takeing All the fish that might be Caught at that Landing for a term of years the time to Comence nex[t] fishing Season he told me that he would Comunicate my proposal to you it is Likeley that Mr Whitting being unwell that this business was not attended two As...
45208From the Citizens of Alexandria, Virginia, to the President of the United States, The Address of the Inhabitants of … (Washington Papers)
That America should remain in peace and enjoy the blessings of their free government undisturbed by European concerns We believe to be the earnest desire of every wellwisher to our Country, and We feel the most cordial satisfaction in expressing to you our conviction of the Wisdom of the part you have taken to preserve the publick repose and happiness—In declaring by your proclamation the...
45209To George Washington from “A CITIZEN”, 4 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
ONE great advantage resulting from a republican system of government is, the unrestrained privilege of scrutinizing public measures, and candidly investigating the conduct of those men, who are entrusted with the management of public affairs. No character, however dignified, no measure, however important, can possibly escape the exercise of this invaluable right. It is unnecessary, at present,...
45210From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I send, for the information and consideration of the Heads of the Departments, a letter which I received by the post of yesterday from the Governor of North Carolina, stating the measures which he has taken relative to a privateer fitted out from South Carolina under a French Commission, and which had arrived, with a prize, in the Port of Wilmington in North Carolina. I intend setting out for...