1From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 21 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege the Receipt of your letter to the Secretary at War of the 15 instant. The President, to whom it has been communicated, considers the determination of the Council to furnish the detachment of Militia called for from your State with Musquets Bayonets and Cartouchboxes as a new proof of their zeal for the support of the Government and laws of the United States. It...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 29 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am directed by the President of the United States to communicate to you his desire. That such part of the Militia of the State of Maryland which by a Letter from the Secretary at War of the instant You were requested to hold in readiness, as may have been allotted by you to the Eastern Shore of the State, may be assembled and marched without delay to the Town of Baltimore, there to receive...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 29 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
We have received by the last Pittsburgh Mail advices which give a hope that the disturbances there may terminate without bloodshed. Yet the symptoms thus far are too equivocal to be relied upon and may be a mere trick to produce a relaxation of efforts. Hence the President has concluded to proceed as if they might prove fallacious. I thought this hint might not be unacceptable to you. It is...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 6 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am directed by the President to notice to your Excellency that information has been received that some riotous proceedings have taken place, in the upper part of Baltimore County and in the neighbourhood of Hagers Town, connected with the Insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania. He instructs me to observe that it appears to him of the highest importance that efficacious measures...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 10 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your Excellency’s letter of the 4th Instant. I am now instructed by the President to request that the whole quota of Maryland may be assembled and marched as speedily as may be towards their general rendezvous, Williamsport. It was my intention to forward to Frederick town the tents and other articles of Camp Equipage, in order that they might be there furnished to the...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 15 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
War Department, September 15, 1794. “… It is the President’s desire, that no time should be lost in uniting the whole of the militia of Maryland at Fort Cumberland. If the commanding officer has not already taken the field, it is desirable that he should do it without delay, in order to combine, arrange and accelerate the ulterior movements.” LS , Hall of Records of Maryland, Annapolis. Samuel...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 17 September 1794. (Hamilton Papers)
I had the honor of receiving by the post of yesterday two letters from your Excellency which having been sent to the President I cannot quote the dates. Nothing could be more proper than the measures you announce to have been taken in consequence of the insurrection in the Western parts of your State. The movements of the Virginia Militia pursuant to the general arrangement will I trust second...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 18 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The intelligence received from the western Counties of Pennsylvania, which comes down to the 13th: instant, and announces as far as it was then known the result of the Meetings of the people in the several townships and districts, to express their sense on the question of submission or resistance to the laws —while it shews a great proportion of the inhabitants of those Counties disposed to...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Sim Lee, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of the 18. instant from the Executive Council of Maryland and to congratulate you & them on the disappearance of the insurrection in Maryland. The President has seen with great satisfaction the laudable vigour with which it was met by the Government, the excellent disposition manifested by the Citizens, and the speedy termination of the...
10From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 9 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 1st Inst. recommending Mr Benj’n Harwood to be Loan Officer for the U.S. in Maryland, and to express the satisfaction which I always feel in finding respectable & dignified Characters united in testifying to the merits & ability of those Candidates for office where I have not had an opportunity of being personally acquainted...
11From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 13 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Letter with which your Excellency was pleased to favor me, dated the 7th inst. was received on the 10th—& might have been acknowledged the next day; but I waited the arrival of Friday’s mail in hopes that I should have had a report from the Secretary of War relatively to the Ship Roehampton. Disappointed in this, I am not able to give any opinion thereon, uninformed as I am of the specific...
12From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 16 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Excellency’s Letter of the 11 instant. When the British Vice-Consul at Baltimore exhibits all his proofs respecting the capture of the Brigantine Coningham, a better judgment can be formed than at present, whether this act is an infraction of neutrality. In doing this he ought to make no delay; because there can be no decision before the evidence on both sides is heard....
13From George Washington to Thomas Sim Lee, 25 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia July 25th 1794. This letter will accompany an official one from the Secretary of State—written to you by my desire—It is unnecessary therefore for me to repeat what is contained in his letter; but I shall express with frankness, a wish that it may comport with your convenience to accept the proffered appointment—provided your health, inclination & habits, would...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 25 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s letter of the 20th. and have duly laid the same before the President. Measures had been already taken for prosecuting such American citizens as had joined in the capture therein mentioned, a letter to that effect having been written to the Attorney of the US. in the state of Maryland. With respect to the prize, the government did not think itself authorised...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 13 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s favor of the 3d. inst. The answers given to the French Consul are so perfectly proper that no further observation on the subject is necessary. It is really unfortunate that the agents of the French republic should be conducting themselves as if their object was to disgust and alienate all the friends of their nation. It is but an act of justice however to...