1To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 26 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 26 Nov. 1793. On 13 Dec., Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., sent to Henry Knox “a Letter from the Govr of North Carolina of 26 Nov. 93 to the President.”
2To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 15 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of the Secretary of war’s letter of the 20th of Novem: last respecting patroles on Western frontier of this State. At the meeting of the General Assembly which takes place on the 31st inst: I will lay General Knox’s letter with its enclosures before them and as they will then be in possession of every necessary information respecting the state of the...
3To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 23 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
In Conformity to my Letter to you of the day of last at the meeting of the Legislature I laid before them the Secretary of War’s letter wth its inclosures on the subject of the patroles on the frontiers of this State, and requested them to take the same into their Consideration and advise me thereon. I now do myself the Honor to enclose you a Copy of the report of the Committee to whom that...
4To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 27 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to the request contained in the Secretary of Wars letter of the 24 of March last I have endeavoured to get information of the cannon of & above the calibre of eighteen pounds the property of this State. There are at Edenton 13 twenty four pounders 8 eighteen pounders also 6 twelve pounders there are likewise one or two twenty four pounders at Swansborough, of these last I have not...
5To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 6 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the request of the legislature I do myself the honor to transmit to you, a copy of the petition of Thomas Person and others proprietors of lands in the Territory South of the Ohio And a copy of the petition of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, together with sundry resolutions of the General Assembly on that subject. I have to request that you will be pleased to...
6To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 25 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you herewith a copy of the Acts and resolutions of the last General Assembly of this State. I have not been furnished yet with authenticated copies of the Acts entitled, "An Act to cede to the United States of America certain lands upon the condition therein mentioned" And "An Act for raising the proportion of Militia required of this State agreably to the Act of...
7To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 16 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I now do myself the honor to enclose to you the papers which I enformed you of in my last letter respecting the Spanish brig St Joseph. I likewise enclose you copy of a letter from Edwd Jones esqr. Atto. for the Spanish Commissioners demanding from me a reimbursement of the monies expended by him as Atto. for said Commissioners, in sending expresses, seeing lawyers &c. and also for me to repay...
8To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to send you inclosed an authenticated copy of, “an Act to cede to the United States of America certain lands upon the conditions therein mentioned,” The original act having been mislaid, I had it not in my power to get a Copy until my arrival here. I have the honor to be with respect Sir your most obedient servant Copy, DNA : RG 46, entry 47; LB , Nc-Ar : Governors’...
9To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 10 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the course of the last month I received the Secretary of wars letter of the 22nd Feb: respecting the sloop L’amee Margueritte; but as I had on the 8th Feb: forwarded on to you copies of all the papers then in my possession relating to her; and as Mr Hill the Atto. of the United States had informed me in his letter of the 12th of the same month, that he had sent by post to the Secretary of...
10To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Martinon has been at Occacock inlet and has fixed upon Beacon island as the most proper place on which the fort for the protection of the shipping going out and coming in at that bar can be erected. his judgement in this particular coincides with the opinion of every person who is acquainted with the place. Beacon island contains about twenty five acres of land and is the joint property of...
11To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 17 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote you on the 10th inst: Mr Martinon having expressed a desire that the person who was to superintend the building of the fort at Occacock, should be appointed so as to be present at his surveys and the laying of his ground plan. I did on the 14 inst. appoint Mr Jno. Blanks to Superintend the actual execution of the works of the fort, agreable to the Secretary of wars letter of the...
12To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the Secretary of wars letter to me of the 18th of January giving me instructions to cause the money detained in the hands of the Marshall of this district to be delivered to the agent of the Spanish Commissioners, He informed me that the expences which had or might be incurred in the prosecution of the business were to be defrayed by the general government, upon accounts which shall be...
13To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 10 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the 5th inst: I received by the hands of Mr Martinon the engineer appointed to erect the forts in this State the Sec: of Wars letter of the 14 Apl. I have advised Mr Martinon to proceed immediately to Occacock and make the necessary surveys to enable him to form a judgement of the proper place on which to erect the fort. that by the time he had done that drawn his plans and made his...
14To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 6 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of the Secretary of the treasury’s letter of the 18th August respecting the proscribed privateers who were to be denied asylum in the ports of the United States except upon condition of their being dismantled of their military equipments. There have never been but two privateers of that description fitted in the ports of this state to wit the Vanqueur de...
15To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 10 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor to enclose to you an Authenticated Copy of an Act of the General Assembly of this State entitled “An Act ratifying an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America” also an Act entitled “An Act for Ceding to the United States the Jurisdiction of certain Lands on Shell Castle Island in the harbour of Ocacock.” I am &c. LB , Nc-Ar : Governors’ Letterbooks. The...
16To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 19 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the 10th day of June I appointed Wm E. Atkins to superintend the actual execution of the works to be erected on Cape Fear river he being recommended to me as a man capable of fulfilling the duties of that appointment. Mr Joshua Potts mentioned by Genl Knox, had been previously appointed by the collector of Wilmington agent for the same bussiness. Mr Martinon is of opinion that the fort at...
17To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 8 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the last post I received the Secretary of Wars letter of the 21st Jany 1794. At the time the legislature passed the resolutions which I did myself the honor to transmit you on the 6th July last they had grounds to apprehend an attack on our frontiers by the Indians. they had from the representations made to me in novem: been in the habit during the Summer and fall of committing depredations...
18To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 8 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the last Southern post I received Mr Hills letter dated the 25th January 1794 respecting the Sloop L’amee Margueritte, and enclosing me a copy of the instructions he had received from the Secretary of state. I find from them that he was directed in such cases in the first instance to call on the parties concerned to appoint by mutual consent arbiters to decide whether the capture was made...
19To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote to you on the 19th Decem: last application having been made to me by Capt: James Robertson the former master of the Sloop Providence of Montego bay (now called L’amee Margueritte) which was captured in June last by the Vanqueur de Bastille to cause the said sloop to be restored to him upon a principle of her having been captured within the distance of three miles from the coast...
20To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 8 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the 6th inst. I received the Secretary of Wars two letters of the 13th Jan: and his three letters of the 18th Jan: the latter directing me to restore the money papers and other property now in the custody of the Deputy Marshall, to the Agent of the Spanish Commissioners, I shall give the necessary orders for that purpose and send them on to Wilmington by the next Southern post which leaves...
21To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 25 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the Year 1791 Francis Child the comptroller of the state, by order of the Governor and council lodged in the hands of William Skinner esquire commissioner of loans for the state of No. Carolina, certificates to the amount of 409,570. Dolls. 17/100 the property of the state in order to be funded, agreable to an act of Congress making provision for the debts of the United States. in the same...
22To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 19 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the last post I received the Secretary of wars letter of the 12th Novem: in answer to my letter to you of the 21st of October last respecting the trunk of money which was taken from Captain Hervieux by the revenue officers and lodged in the hands of the deputy Marshal at Wilmington, and which I had given him in order to detain on a presumtion, it had been taken from on board the Spanish...
23To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 21 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
In September I received a letter from the Collector of Wilmington informing me that the Captain of the Privateer, Vanqueur de Bastille had carried his prize the British Sloop Providence, down to the bar of Cape Fear river and had there shifted her guns &c. from on board the Vanqueur de Bastille to the prize sloop, proceeded to sea with her and was then cruizing off that Harbour, the Schooner...
24To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 4 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the 28th May I received (via Wilmington) a letter from Mr Samuel Hodgdon enclosing an invoice and bill of lading of sundry ordnance and military stores shipped by him on board the brig Noah’s Ark Captain Skinner and to be delivered at Wilmington to me or my order. As soon as I received Mr Hodgdons letter I wrote to Coll Read the Collector of Wilmington and requested that he would be so...
25To 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...
26To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 6 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to you a copy of the proceedings of the General Assembly respecting our frontiers, in conformity to the request of the legislature expressed in those proceedings I have given orders to Col: D. Vance of Buncomb county to call into service the Scouts or patroles agreable to the instructions contained in the Secretary of Wars letter of the 19th Decem: 1792. I have...