251To George Washington from Henry Knox, 22 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you a letter from the Governor of Georgia dated the 5 instant with the deposition of Owen Bowen relatively to the murder of eight white persons. I have the honor to be with the highest respect Your most obed. servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . On 24 Dec. 1792 Bartholomew Dandridge, at GW’s direction, wrote John Stagg, Jr., chief clerk of the War Department, that...
252To George Washington from Henry William DeSaussure, 1 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
I find on packing up my papers, one wch I had Intended for your use—Permit me now to enclose it. It gives a Correct view of the course of the Canal from santee to Cooper. Last Evening I recd a letter from General Pinckney, wherein he states Strongly the necessity of keeping up a Garrison of some force at Fort Johnson; at least a full Company & mentions that a good deal of disgust had been...
253Conversation with Ralph Izard, Pierce Butler, and Aaron Burr, 24 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mr Izard, Mr Butler and Mr Burr, three members of the Senate, waited upon the President at six o’clock in the evening of this day, in order to request his opinion upon the etiquette which might be proper to be established between the Senators of the United States and foreign Ministers in respect to visiting each other—viz.—whether it would be proper for the Senators to pay the first visit to...
254To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 15 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, for your information, copies of the various documents which I have received by Express from Genl Gibson, stating, among other things, the proceedings of a Council, held at Fort Le Bœuf on the 26th ulto, between Capn Denny and Mr Ellicot, and a deputation from the Six Nations in the presence of Genl Chapin. The requisition which has been made on this occasion, for...
255To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to inform you, that the result of my enquiries concerning the character of Capt: Jonathan Maltbee, is, that he is a man of fair character and an experienced & good Seaman, who might be expected to execute his duty faithfully as the Commander of a revenue Cutter. I do not learn however, that either he or Capt. Law are remarkable for their activity. The principal point of...
256From George Washington to William Pearce, 16 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the Post of yesterday I received your letter of the 11th instt, with the Reports of the three preceeding weeks; (except those of the Carpenters). I did not write to you last week, not having heard from you by the two Posts before. I am glad to hear that your Potatoes & Corn are likely to turn out well, & that the Wheat now in the ground looks promising. The last Crop of that article...
257Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Childs & Swaine, 6 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by the President of the United States to inform you that the business to which he is necessarily obliged to attend does not permit him to read the public prints which are now brought to him. He therefore desires you will not consider him as a subscriber for the Supplement to the daily Advertiser —& that you will discontinue to transmit it to him. I am Gentlemen your most Obt Sert...
258[Diary entry: 10 January 1796] (Washington Papers)
10. Lowering all the forenoon—about 2 oclock begun to Snow. Wind at So. Wt.
259To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 2 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to The President of the United States a paper received from the Commissioner of the Revenue, containing certain propositions of the proprietors of Montack-point on Long Island in the State of New York, relative to a tract of Land intended to be granted to the United States for the use of the Lighthouse now erecting on said Montack-point. It...
260From George Washington to Robert Bowyer, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have lately received your letter, giving me information of the death of the Right Honble the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon, and accompanied with an engraving of that Lady, from a painting of yours. Although I had not the satisfaction of knowing the late Countess personally, yet having been honored with her correspondence, and learning from others the amiable and benevolent character which...
261To George Washington from James Blanchard, 13 Feb. 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Blanchard, 13 Feb. 1795. On 13 Feb., Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., wrote Timothy Pickering: “By the President’s order B. Dandridge respectfully transmits to The Secy of War a letter from Jas Blanchard to the President, of this date; & informs the Secy that the President desires an enquiry may be made into the complaint stated in the sd letter, & the result reported...
262To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 10 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty of writing to you about 2 Weeks ago from Bath —At that time I expected my Wife wd have came there to me, but, she was then so sick she cd not, and I came down to her. We are now all at these Springs wch are only abt 8 miles from Colo. Washingtons & shall remain abt 10 days longer—Fanny is mendg but as to myself, ’tho I sometimes appear so, upon the whole I fear I do not. Our...
263[Diary entry: 25 February 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 25th. Engaged as yesterday. In the afternoon a Committee of Congress presented an Act for enumerating the Inhabitts. of the United States. an act : 1 STAT. Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . . . 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. 101 (1 Mar. 1790). This act provided for the...
264To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 7 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I found young La Fayette here and delivered him your letter, which much releived him. I fancy you will see him on the first day of April. Mr Livingston’s motion in the House of Representatives concerning the production of papers has attracted much attention —The opinion here of those who think is that if the motion succeeds, it ought not to be complied with—Besides that in a matter of such a...
265From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 18 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
More than once, the Spanish Minister expressed, with pleasing solicitude, the intentions of his Government to erect in the Federal City a suitable Building for the accommodation of its Representative, near the Government of the United States; provided a convenient & agreeable Site could be obtained for the purpose. I always answered that this measure would be very pleasing & agreeable to me; &...
266To George Washington from William Shute, 4 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Elizabeth Town [N.J.], 4 Aug. 1790. Having just learned from Senator William Paterson that application for the office of New Jersey loans commissioner should be made directly to the president, notes that he had earlier forwarded to Alexander Hamilton character references, which he trusts will be laid before GW in support of his candidacy for the position. ALS , DLC:GW . William Shute...
267From George Washington to Cyrus Griffin, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I think it expedient to acknowledge the receipt of your two Notes, dated the 10th of July & the 14th of Augst, for the purpose of assuring you that there was certainly nothing improper in the tenor of them. But it will be an instance of Justice to inform you, at the same time, that, without considering myself at liberty to give either encouragement or discouragement to the wishes of Gentlemen...
268[August 1795] (Washington Papers)
1. Wind at No. Wt.—flying clouds, warm. 2. Do. Easterly—violent Rain & wind aftn. 3. Do. No. Wt. Much rain fell last night. 4. Sml. Westerly breeze—quite clear. 5. Do. Do. Do. Clear. 6. Clear, still & warm. 7. Wind Southerly & very warm. 8. Same as yesterday with R[ain] af[ternoon]. 9. Still very warm with clouds. 10. Very warm rain afternoon.
269Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The sum of two thousand five Dollars is necessary to be advanced to take up notes which were given for money advanced for the household of the President of the United States previous to the organization of the Treasury Department. This sum added to two thousand Dollars which you have already advanced for the purpose of taking up Notes, will compleat the payment of all Monies advanced for the...
270Enclosure I: Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your several memorials of the 8th instant, have been laid before the President, as had been that of the 2d as soon as received. They have been considered with all the attention and the impartiality which a firm determination could inspire to do what is equal and right between all the belligerent powers. In one of these, you communicate on the information of the british consul at Charleston,...
271To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 2 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to lay before you the form of a pardon for Mitchell & Vigol, insurgents, for your signature. The petition inclosed for their pardon was received after you had decided to grant it. Some letters from Mr FitzSimons, & from me to Mr Deas are also inclosed for your information. I will wait on you to-morrow morning upon these subjects; and am most respectfully Sir Your obt servt...
272Conversations with Pierce Butler, Ralph Izard, and Aaron Burr, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
On the morning of this day the President requested Mr Butler (who had to pass by his house) to give him a call on his way to the Senate Chamber; and in this interview the President informed Mr Butler, that after the best consideration which time and circumstances had allowed him to bestow on the subject of etiquette, which had been submitted to him on the 24 instant, he thought it most...
273[Diary entry: 15 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Monday 15th. Received an Address from the Roman Catholics of the United States presented by Mr. Carroll of the Senate, Mr. Carroll & Mr. Fitzimmons of the House of Representatives, and many others, Inhabitants of the City of New York. Received a letter from the Executive of the State of Pensylvania, by the hands of a Mr. Ryerson one of the Representatives of that State in Assembly, respecting...
274To George Washington from Henry Knox, 16 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter of the 9th Instant from General Chapin, just received by express, and enclosing a Copy of the proceedings at Buffaloe Creek on the 4th Instant. The Secretary of State Attorney General and myself met this morning upon this business, and the Secretary of State was to draft a letter to the Governor conformably to our opinion, to be submitted for your correction...
275Agreement of Georgetown, Md., Property Owners, 13 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The object of the subscribers to the paper annexed, is to accommodate —they will cheerfully consent to any other arrangement, that may be thought reasonable, should their Lands, or any part of them be selected for the Federal City. They are induced to make the offer of their Lands under the Idea, that if the Federal City should be erected on navigation, no place in the small distance from the...
276To George Washington from John Steele, 4 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I concieve it my duty to communicate to Your Excellency the inclosed, and following information. One of these papers will shew the fate of a motion made in the General Assembly of No. Carolina the other a premeditated attempt to draw that state into a contest with the Union. About the same time a bill was introduced, to authorise the Marshals to make use of the Jails of that State should...
277From George Washington to John Jay, 8 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
You judged very right when in your letter of the 18th Ulto you observed I “can have very little time for private letters.” But if my friends will put up with the hasty and indigested ones I can write, under such circumstances, there are a few of them (among whom allow me the gratification to place you) with whom I should feel very happy to corrispond: and while I hold my present Office, to...
278To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 16 Mar. 1792. Sends GW “two letters just recd from Colo. Humphreys.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosures were two letters from the U.S. minister to Portugal, David Humphreys, which the secretary of state had received this day: a dispatch of 23 Dec....
279To George Washington from Henry Lee, 3 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
In my last I told you that I had contrived to get an unsuspected private friend to hire an express to carry a le[tte]r from me to Mr. H. as I found waiting for private conveyances too tedious. I have this moment reced his reply, after expressing himself very anxious indeed, to evidence (especially at the present crisis) by some public act his attachment to you & after declaring his sense of my...
280To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
My absence from Charleston has prevented my acknowledging sooner your favour of the 8th inclosing Mr Jefferson’s opinion on the subject of a proposed application from the Executive of this State for the redelivery of certain fugitives charged by the Grand Jury of this District with having forged the Indents assumed by the Union. The Constitution having very properly delegated the management of...
281To George Washington from William Pearce, 8 March 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 8 March 1795. On 15 March, GW wrote Pearce: “I have received your letter of the 8th instt, with the reports of the preceeding week.”
282To George Washington from William Gordon, 12 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Judging there is an advantage from knowing the particular tempers of those, with whom we have to transcrit business of the first consequence, I have taken up my pen to acquaint your Excellency with the following matters. I had an intimate friend, who was settled, as a minister, with an English Presbyterian church in Rotterdam; & who was acquainted with a teaching tutor of a prince of Wales,...
283To George Washington from Anthony Wayne, 10 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of addressing your Excellency in April, by Genl Jackson, & have since that period been extremely gratified by hearing of your happy arrival at the seat of Government, & acceptance of the supreme Executive Authority of the United States—an event, that I am confident affords the sincerest pleasure to every true friend of America. I also observe that the Impost Act was in...
284From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 13 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
This letter will be put into your hands by Mr Lear, who is well known to one, or more of you. He has it in contemplation to make (in conjunction with others) a considerable Mercantile establishment in the Federal City; if he should be able to obtain such a site therein, and upon such terms, as will answer his, and the views of his associates. What these are he can best explain to you; and you...
285To George Washington from John Gunby, 27 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
As there Will be under the New Goverment a number of Offices to dispose off, some of greator, and Others of less importance, I beg your Excellency would be pleased to consider me an applicant to fill one of them, (The Navel office for the port of Snow Hill,) For as Much as the business of that port have been small, and in all probability will continue so for a time to come, Could the business...
286From George Washington to John Marshall, 8 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
Private In confidence I inform you, that it has become indispensably necessary to recall our Minister at Paris; and to send one in his place who will explain, faithfully, the views of this government, and ascertain those of France. Nothing would be more pleasing to me, than that you should be this Organ; if it were only for a temporary absence of a few months. But it being feared that even...
287William Pearce to Tobias Lear, 11 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I now have my Machinery &c. at Work, and should be glad to be informed when the President of the United States and his Lady, would be pleased to Honor me with their Company, to take a look at them. Mrs Hamilton has likewise a desire to see them, when the President and his Lady, is pleased to fix the time, I will let her know, if it is agreeable to them. Your answer by the bearer, if convenient...
288From George Washington to George Lewis, 8 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I send you the enclosed Advertisement, that you may perceive thereby, I have restrained myself from selling the Land I hold on Green River in Kentucky, until the first of September; that all who are disposed to purchase may have notice thereof. Between this and then, I would thank you to give me, from time to time, and by duplicates (to guard against miscarriages) such information as you may...
289To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 20 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
I received your kind & respected favor of the 16th inst. with much pleasure. No apology, my dear Sir, can be necessary for your not having recollected my having put the Certificate for one hundred Bank Shares into your hands. I only wonder, that, under the multiplicity of important, and often anxious, cares which lay on your mind, you can recollect one half you do. I am rejoiced, however, that...
290To George Washington from Abraham Baldwin, 18 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
The office of Marshal in the district of Georgia being vacant by the death of Majr Forsyth, I have been requested to submit to your consideration the names of the following persons as candidates for that office. In Savannah and its vicinity John Berrien Richard Carnes Samuel Hammond In Augusta and its vicinity Amasa Jackson Philip Clayton James Mason Simmons Daniel Gaines Nicholas Bugg George...
291From 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...
292[Diary entry: 5 April 1790] (Washington Papers)
Monday 5th. Exercised with Mrs. Washington in the Post Chaize. Sent duplicates of the Acts received (as above) from the Executive of New York to both Houses of Congress for their information; & deposited the originals in the Secretary of States Office.
293To George Washington from John Jacob Ulrich Rivardi, 6 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty for the first time to address your Excellency concerning the difficulties which I meet in the performance of the Task, you did me the honor to entrust me with. I found in Baltimore the situation so advantageous, the soil so proper for fortification, & the zeal of the Inhabitants so favorable to my purpose, that after having given the necessary plans, I left the place with...
294To George Washington from Martha Dangerfield Bland, 4 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I do not Sir write to you in your official character⟨.⟩ I write to you as the friend of Colonel Bland, and (will you permit me to say) my friend! Were it known that I address you it woud be thought obtrusive & arrogant, but I have tryd, to disunite for a moment, your domestic character from your high Station. When Colonel Bland was by your orders on duty near Brunswick, Immediately upon the...
295To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 26 April 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 26 April 1793. In his letter of 5 May to Whitting , GW acknowledged receipt of “your letters of the 26th of April and 1st of this month.”
296Cabinet Opinion on French Privateers, 3 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
That The Minister of the French Republic be informed that the President considers the U. States as bound pursuant to positive assurances, given in conformity to the laws of neutrality, to effectuate the restoration of, or to make compensation for, prizes which shall have been made of any of the parties at war with France subsequent to the fifth day of June last by privateers fitted out of...
297To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you on the twenty ninth of April last. I shall not trouble you with a Recital of Events which Mr Jefferson has I know very amply communicated to the Office of foreign Affairs. But being here on my Way to London, and finding a Vessel bound directly to New York, I take the Opportunity to send some Tables which contain the political military pecuniary and commercial...
298To George Washington from Edward Lynch, 20 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having seen a Publication in the Baltimore newspaper of your intended resignation of being President of the United states I observed it with great regret and so did many others that you shold resign being the chief Majistrate of our Country. My Father who fought with others under you feel very unhappy on the occasion in the late happy Revolution in support of the Liberty of our country. The...
299Bartholomew Dandridge to Robert Lewis, 8 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
Being in Richmond last week Mr P. Lyons jur, who does business for John Hopkins, Esqr. put into my hands for the President U:S. some public paper which had been funded by you some considerable time ago. He has requested of the Prest a rect which was given you at the time, for the Certificates; & the President, supposing it must be in your possession, directs me to desire you will forward it to...
300From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 12 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
On the twenty ninth day of December 1794 the following nominations for promotions were laid before the Senate. First Sub Legion Bernard Gaines Captain 30 June 1794 vice Kersey promoted. Bartholomew Shomberg ditto ditto vice Hartshorne killed John Wade ditto 1 July vice Peters promoted. Ross Bird ditto 6 July