7621Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States requests that the Secretary of State will lay the enclosed letter before the Gentlemen who are to meet today—that it may be taken into consideration with the other matters which may be before them. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. At the bottom of the manuscript page, Jefferson wrote, “viz. a letter from T. Newton.” For the enclosed letter, see Thomas Newton,...
7622Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President sends to the Secretary of State the enclosed Extract which he has just recd from a respectable Gentleman in this City—who informs him that the writer is a person of respectability & good information in London—The President wishes it to be shewn to the Gentlemen if they are still together. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. The enclosed unsigned letter from John Vaughan to GW of 14 May...
7623Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States the enclosed letter, just received from Governor Lee, dated the 7th instant. Please to return it as soon as the President is done with it. I am, Your’s sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Henry Lee, in his letter to Knox of 7 May, described the danger of Indian depredations along Virginia’s southwestern frontier and explained the need...
7624To George Washington from William Augustine Washington, 14 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 29th Ulto I recd by the last Post—I should be very sorry that your Building should stop for the want of Lime, particularly, as you seem to have relyed on me for procuring it —The person whom I informed you in my last had engaged to deliver a load of shell by the 15th Apl has delivered a load of Lime & at our last Court said he should immediately proceed with a Load of Shells,...
7625From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Sometime last fall I sent to Mr Young transcripts of the accounts respecting the Agriculture of this Country, which I had collected from Gentlemen of the best information on this subject, with whom I was acquainted in the middle States—New York & Virginia. The account which you had the goodness to draw up was among the number. I have lately received from Mr Young a letter in reply to mine...
7626To George Washington from William McElhatton, 13 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Subscriber having served during the late War as an Officer in the Army of the United States, and being wounded in the said service, has come from Kentuckey the place of his residence to the City of Philadelphia, in order to apply for to be placed on the Pension List agreeable to the Act of Congress in that Case made and provided, and having gone thro’ his examination, a report is made to...
7627Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Conversations with the President, the Cabinet, and Tobias Lear, 6–12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
1793: May 6. the President shews me a draught of a lettre from Colo. H. to the Collectors of the customs, desirg them to superintend their neighborhood, watch for all acts of our citizens contrary to laws of neutrality or tending to infringe those laws, & inform him of it; & particularly to see if vessels should be building pierced for guns. I told the Pr. that at a conference a few days...
7628From George Washington to John Jay, 12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by Colo. Hamilton (yesterday) that you propose to commence your Southern tour tomorrow, I take the liberty of enclosing you letters to Gentlemen in the only places where I presume you will make any halt. I have not added one to Governor Lee of Virginia, because I conceive you are well acquainted with him; nor have I done it to Govr Lee of Maryland, because, unless you make a...
7629From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th with the Reports came duly to hand. From the constant Easterly Winds which have blown ever since I left Mount Vernon I expected the Fishery would end poorly, & therefore am not disappointed at your report on this head. The Clerks notes, which I return, must be paid; That from the Clerk of the District Court at Dumfries, I presume, comes against me as Executor of Colo....
7630To George Washington from William Hartshorne & Company, 10 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
We are much Obliged by thy favor of the 6th inst: should any provisions be called for by the French from this River and our Government undertake to pay their drafts for the Amount, we shall be happy to serve them. Yesterday we made a Sale of 250 barrels Spfine Flour for 33/ ⅌ barrel payable in Notes negociable at the Bank of Alexandria in 60 days—we would have sold more but the Purchaser did...