3961To George Washington from William Tilghman, 25 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving, last night, a duplicate of your favor of the 21. instant & shall write immediately to some of my friends who will take pleasure in making the necessary Inquiries—On my return to Maryland, you shall be informed of the results of their researches, as well as of my own—It will give me infinite satisfaction if you should derive the least advantage from them. Mr Sydney...
3962From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 25 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a second complaint of Peter Le Maigre a merchant of this city, for a second vessel taken from him by the British. In the former case , which happened during the absence of the President, it was unanimously agreed by the heads of the departments that it would be proper to communicate the case to Mr. Hammond, and desire his interference. RC...
3963From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 24 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your enquiry of the 22d. inst. I have the honor to observe, that in the communications heretofore made, it is stated, that an additional two millions of Guilders had been already directed to be borrowed & a proposition is submitted to the consideration of the President for authorising a further loan of three millions of florins. One of the objects of the two million loan was the...
3964To George Washington from Castella, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Vous avez créé la puissance américaine, et c’est En l’afferminant que vous avez préparé un azile aux persécutions, et aux malheurs. la terre qui nous recoit, et l’aspect d’un peuple heureux, adoucit les regrets de nos pertes. nos riches habitations ont été pillées, brulées, et Détruites. nous avons laissé la martinique, En proye aux flammes et aux asasinats. Les mulatres De Cette Colonie, ont...
3965To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your enquiry of the 22d inst. I have the honor to observe that in the communications heretofore made, it is stated, that an additional two millions of Guilders had been already directed to be borrowed & a proposition is submitted to the consideration of the President for authorising a further loan of three millions of florins. One of the objects of the two million loan was the...
3966To George Washington from Robert Leslie, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of informing you, that I am now in London, whare I expect to stay three or four years, I had not time to finish the Clock and Pendulum, which I had the honour to propose to you, before I left Philadelphia, I have brought it over with me, and shall in the corce of this winter make all the necessary Experiments for fixing a Standard of weights and measure. The Secretary of...
3967To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Randolph has the honor of returning to the President Colo. Smith’s letter. Mr R. begs leave to suggest, whether it may not be proper to add to the instruction, to be given to Mr Jefferson concerning Mr Genet’s conduct, that he should state the verbal conversations with him, which respected the granting of commissions within the U.S., and the order, that the privateers, so commissioned,...
3968To George Washington from William Wadsworth, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I Beg leave to lay before your Excellency a Plan for Carrying on the Oyl Cloth Carpets Seven Yards without Seam in it’s Various Branches Equal in Goodness if not Superior to those Made in London Where I have been Eleven Years at the above Business, I am the Inventor of the Looms that Now Weaves the Seven Yard Wide Canvass for the Above Carpets—I therefore pray that your Excellence Will take...
3969Enclosure Memorandum from Henry Knox and Andrew Pickens, 24 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The substance of Information given to the Secretary of War by General Pickens the 24 July 1793 relatively to the Creek and Cherokee Nations of Indians. General Pickens from information, he not having been in the Country, judges that the upper Creeks residing upon the Waters of Coosa and Talliposaa rivers may be estimated at about 2000 or 2500 Warriors. That the lower Creeks residing upon the...
3970From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 23 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to The President a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 19 instant. The establishment of the compensation to the Keeper of the Portsmouth Light House at the rate therein mentioned appears to the Secretary to be a proper measure. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. For background to this letter, see H to...
3971To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to The President a communication from the Commissioner of the Revenue of the 19 instant. The establishment of the compensation to the Keeper of the Portsmouth Light house at the rate therein mentioned appears to the Secretary to be a proper measure. LB , DLC:GW . Tench Coxe’s letter to Hamilton of 19 July has not been identified. GW...
3972To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him some letters just received also the draught of a letter to the Judges. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letters to Jefferson from diplomats William Carmichael and William Short of 18 April and 5 May 1793...
3973From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him some letters just received also the draught of a letter to the Judges. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) William Carmichael and William Short to TJ, 18 Apr. , 5 May 1793
3974To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 21 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the pleasure of forwarding to you last week the reports of the Overseers, & an account of the weather —by a letter I have received from my Aunt, I understand that Mr Lewis is in Virginia, but as he is not yet come to this place, I shall again send the reports to you by tuesdays stage. so entirely occupied as I am conscious you are with publick business, it gives me pain to call...
3975From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [20 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President of the United States a Commission which has been returned by John Finley second mate of the Cutter Vigilant, he having resigned that office. John Tanner of New York is recommended by Capt: Dennis to the office of first Mate in the said Cutter. His recommendations from several merchants & others, which appear...
3976To George Washington from Jean-Pierre-Henri Elouis, 20 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
your humanity and generosity are so well known, that it is with the greatest confidence that I dare to adress myself to you, in a moment when I am distressed by unexpected bad circumstances. I have had much Imployment last winter; but my wife having been sick for these three months, it has been impossible to me, to follow my business as I could have done it, if I had not been detained at home....
3977To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 20 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President of the United States a Commission which has been returned by John Finley second mate of the Cutter Vigilant, he having resigned that office. John Tanner of New York is recommended by Capt: Dennis to the office of first mate in the said Cutter. His recommendations from several merchants & others, which appear...
3978To George Washington from the Supreme Court Justices, 20 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
We have taken into consideration the Letter written to us by your Direction, on the 18th Instant, by the Secretary of State. The Question “whether the public may with propriety be availed of the advice of the Judges, on the Questions alluded to?[”] appears to us to be of much Difficulty as well as Importance—as it affects the judicial Department, we feel a Reluctance to decide it, without the...
3979Enclosure: The Justices of the Supreme Court to George Washington, 20 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have taken into Consideration the Letter written to us by your Direction, on the 18th. Instant, by the Secretary of State. The Question “whether the public may with propriety be availed of the advice of the Judges, on the Questions alluded to?” appears to us to be of much Difficulty as well as Importance—as it affects the judicial Department, we feel a Reluctance to decide it, without the...
3980From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 19 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] July 19, 1793 . Transmits “a letter which he has just received from our Commissioners at Amsterdam.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard to H, May 1, 1793 .
3981To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 19 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President of the U.S. has the honor to send him for his information a letter which he has just received from our Commissioners at Amsterdam. LB , DLC:GW . The letter to Hamilton from the Dutch banking firm of Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard of 1 May 1793 reported that the United States “required a Loan for Two Millions of Guilders” to...
3982To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inform him that Judges Jay & Wilson called on him just now and asked whether the letter of yesterday pressed for an answer. they were told the cases would await their time, & were asked when they thought an answer might be expected: they said they supposed in a day or two. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG...
3983To George Washington from Henry Knox, 19 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the 3d of November 1783 all the troops of the late war were discharged excepting the few mentioned in the Act of that date, & all the rank of the Officers accordingly ceased to have any further operation. But subsequent to this period new troops were raised by virtue of several resolves & acts of Congress and it has been decided that Officers of the same grades should take rank in the...
3984From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inform him that Judges Jay and Wilson called on him just now and asked whether the letter of yesterday pressed for an answer. They were told the cases would await their time, and were asked when they thought an answer might be expected: they said they supposed in a day or two. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President...
3985To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a copy of the questions to be proposed to the judges, which he has endeavoured to make with exactness, but cannot be sure he may not have mistaken some of the interlineations of the original he has added at the end those from his own paper which were agreed to. they are the numbers 22. &c to the end. he incloses also the rough draughts of...
3986Address from the Citizens of Trenton, New Jersey, 18 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Deeply impressed with the wisdom and Policy which dictated your Proclamation declaring the Neutrality to be observed by the United States of America in the War between France and other Powers of Europe, We the Inhabitants of the City and Neighbourhood of Trenton take this manner to express the high satisfaction we feel upon this renewed Proof of that watchful Care you have ever testified for...
3987I. Alexander Hamilton’s Questions for the Supreme Court, [ca. 18 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
I Do the Treaties between the United States and France give to France or her Citizens a right , when at War with a Power with whom the UStates are at peace, to fit out originally, in and from the Ports of the UStates, vessels armed for War, with or without commission? Agreed x II If they give such a right Does it extend to all manner of armed vessels or to particular kinds only? If the...
3988II. Thomas Jefferson’s Questions for the Supreme Court, [ca. 18 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
✓ 1. < Are we free, by the treaty , to prohibit France from arming vessels within our ports to cruize on her enemies? > 2. If we are free to prohibit her, are we, by the laws of neutrality, bound to prohibit her? agreed. 3. What are the articles, by name, to be prohibited to both or either party? 4. May the prohibition extend to the use of their own means e.g. mounting their own guns,...
3989III. Henry Knox’s Questions for the Supreme Court, [ca. 18 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
First What distance on the sea Coast may be established, consistently with the usage and laws of nations as the limits of the protection of the UStates. May all rivers and all bays which are enclosed such as New York the Delaware Chesapeak, and the sounds of North Carolina and Long Island, be considered as within such protection? A cannon shot may be projected about 4 Miles. second Do the...
3990IV. Questions for the Supreme Court, [18 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
1. Do the treaties between the US. and France give to France or her citizens a right , when at war with a power with whom the US. are at peace, to fit out originally in and from the ports of the US, vessels armed for war, with or without commission? 2. If they give such a right , does it extend to all manner of armed vessels, or to particular kinds only? If the latter, to what kinds does it...