91To George Washington from Henry Knox, 15 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War respectfully submits to the President of the United States, the following ideas relatively to the frigates authorised by the law for providing a naval armament. That the said frigates be constructed upon the principles which shall after the most mature information and consideration appear to combine the greatest possible force, with adequate strength, and swiftness of...
92To George Washington from Henry Knox, 11 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
That he has had further conversations with Doctor White, and also perused a report of a Committee of Congress herein enclosed relatively to the defence of Mero district. That the Inhabitants of the said district amounting to about fifteen thousand, thrust out into the Wilderness and one hundred & sixty Miles from any succour and greatly exposed to Banditti Indians seem intitled to receive a...
93To George Washington from Henry Knox, 10 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
That it appears from an examination of the Acts which have passed during the present session of Congress, that the duties hereinafter enumerated to be performed by the said Secretary under the directions of the President of the United States to wit 1st. The act for the defence of certain ports & harbors. The purchase of the lands on which the fortifications are to be erected, provided such...
94To George Washington from Henry Knox, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration a letter from Doctor White who has come forward from the Southwestern Territory to solicit protection for Mero district. Governor Blount has a power to order the Militia of the said district into service at the expence of the United States in proportion to the danger. But the inhabitants request something further, the protection of permanent...
95To George Washington from Henry Knox, 8 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose, the copy of a letter, just received from the Governor of Maryland, dated the 3rd instant, and submit to your consideration, whether any measures ought to be taken respecting the defence of the harbor at Annapolis. I am Sir, Most Respectfully Your obedt: Servt: LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter to Knox from Thomas Sim Lee, written “In Council, Annapolis” on 3...
96To George Washington from Henry Knox, 7 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration, the propriety of embarking a detachment of recruits, of about fifty, now in this place, either for Charleston, or Georgia; in order to guard the batteries, for the present, which are to be erected upon the Sea coast of those States. I am Sir, Most respectfully, Your obedient Servant. LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . On the erection of coastal...
97To George Washington from Henry Knox, 7 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration the opinion of the Attorney General upon the act of the legislature of Pennsylvania for securing the trade, peace and safety of the port of Philadelphia, and defending the Western frontiers of the Commonwealth. I am Sir, Most respectfully, Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox wrote Attorney General William Bradford on 31 March...
98To George Washington from Henry Knox, 5 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave respectfully to submit as my opinion that General Chapin should be authorised to offer Captain Brant, an Annuity for life, a sum not less than One thousand nor more than one thousand five hundred Dollars, agreable to the tenor of the letter herewith submitted to General Chapin. If this letter sir should receive your approbation Captain Williamson will undertake to deliver it...
99To George Washington from Henry Knox, 4 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Capt. Williamson who is settled in the Genesee Country has given me the enclosed intelligence, and in a subsequent conversation which I have had with him he seems impressed with the Authenticity of the speech of Lord Dorchester, and also of his general ill dispositions towards this Country. I am sir respectfully Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Charles Williamson (1757–1808), a...
100To George Washington from Henry Knox, 3 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter from Governor Blount dated 10th March 1794. with the enclosures. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedient servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The 10 March letter to Knox from William Blount, the governor of the Southwest Territory, and its enclosures have not been identified. GW returned these documents to Knox on 4 April ( JPP Dorothy...
101To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I submit to, you the draft of instructions prepared for Mr L’Enfant—Similar instructions were yesterday transmitted, by the post, to Mr Vincent at Brunswick, and I presume he will be to day, or to morrow morning, in New York—I also submit, the copy of a letter to Governor Clinton, by Mr Vincent. Under therefore the circumstances of the case, I respectfully submit to your consideration, whether...
102To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration the draft of a proposed letter to General Wayne. It appears that Colonel Pickering would not dislike the proposal of joining him provided the arrangements consequent upon the Post Office Bill now under consideration would permit the measure which however he doubts. If the purport of the letter should meet your approbation it may either be...
103To George Washington from Henry Knox, 29 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration, a letter just received from Major Gaither dated at St Mary’s the 8th instant. I am, most respectfully, Sir, Your obedient Servt LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter from Henry Gaither to Knox of 8 March, written from Saint Marys, Ga., has not been identified. GW returned this letter to Knox on this same day ( JPP Dorothy Twohig, ed. The...
104To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed, being the opinion of the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury, I pray your directions whether the three French Gentlemen shall be employed as temporary Engineers—They are to be with me at 12 o’clock. The same direction is requested with respect to three Artillerists now at Baltimore. I have the honor to be Sir, With the greatest respect, Your most obt Servt LS ,...
105To George Washington from Henry Knox, 25 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit, the copy of a letter intended to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, relatively to arrangments to be made, for procuring the Iron Cannon and shot; contemplated in the Act, entitled, “An Act to provide for the defence of certain Ports and Harbors in the United States.” I have the honor to be Sir, with the greatest respect, Your most obedt Servt LS , DLC:GW ; LB...
106To George Washington from Henry Knox, 24 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I think it necessary that you should be acquainted with the following information received this day from Doctor Hutchins who set out from Fort Washington on the 17 of February and arrived at George Town in Kentuckey 12 Miles from Lexington on the 19th and remained in several parts of Kentucky among which two days were passed in Lexington which he left on the 24th of Feby. From the best of his...
107To George Washington from Henry Knox, 22 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration the proposed draft of an introductory letter to the Governors of the respective States relative to the intended fortifications. If you should approve thereof, Copies shall be prepared for the distant States by the Mondays posts. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedt Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox wrote the enclosed...
108To George Washington from Henry Knox, 19 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Private. Sir, War Department March 19. 1794 As it is understood that the bill for fortifying the ports and harbours has passed into a law, I beg leave respectfully to lay before you the following thoughts upon the manner of executing this business. The operation of the federal Government upon the State Governors and State Officers it is well known has been in general rather irksome than...
109To George Washington from Henry Knox, 19 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you a return of the commissioned Officers who served in the Navy during the late War, including the Officers of the Marines, together with a list of applicants for Offices in the Navy made out by Mr Lear & the documents accompanying the same. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedt Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosures have not been...
110To George Washington from Henry Knox, 6 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit the inclosed letter to Gove[r]nor Matthews relatively to the Indians in his possession requested by James Seagrove—Such other parts of Mr Seagroves letter, as require any further measures, will be considered & the result submitted to your consideration. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox’s letter of this...
111To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration a request from the Governor of this State for the loan of four brass Nine pounders. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Thomas Mifflin’s brief letter to Knox of 28 Feb. asked for “the loan of 4 Brass nine pounders, to be employed in the defence of our Frontiers,” which “shall be returned...
112To George Washington from Henry Knox, 20 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to the request of Major Thomas Cushing of the 3d Sub Legion, I submit to you his letter to me of the 4. of December 1793 and his correspondence relatively to his being arrested with Major General Wayne and his Aid de Camp and Brigadier General Posey. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter from Thomas Humphrey...
113To George Washington from Henry Knox, 19 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration the copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury enclosing a letter from Mr Habersham Collector of Savannah in Georgia, and an Agent for the Treasury department in that State, relatively to the supply of Rations there on account of the United States. As the number of Militia in Georgia have very far exceeded the number permitted by you on...
114To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter from major general Wayne of the 10th of last month with a number of enclosures which has been just received. I have the honor to be Sir, with the greatest respect Your most obedt Servt: LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The correct date of the enclosed letter from Anthony Wayne to Knox is 8 January. In this letter, written from his headquarters at Greenville,...
115To George Washington from Henry Knox, 30 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I submit to your Consideration a letter proposed to be written to the Governor of South Carolina in consequence of a private letter received by Mr John Ross of this Town of which the enclosed is an extract. The Secretaries of State and Treasury approved the draft now submitted. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox’s letter to...
116To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Having communicated to the Secretaries of State and the Treasury the purport of the recent communications from the frontiers of Georgia, We unite in opinion that it would be proper that the papers should be laid before Congress accompanied by a special message from the President, stating the importance of Congress taking into their immediate consideration the measures requisite to prevent a...
117To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
It is with great pain that I submit you the enclosed letters, giving an account of an infamous violation of the peace with the Creeks by some of the violent frontier people of Georgia. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In a letter to Knox of 1–2 Jan. 1794, Indian agent Constant Freeman described an unprovoked attack on 28 Dec....
118To George Washington from Henry Knox, 21 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you a draft of a letter to the Governor of North Carolina in answer to his of the 8. instant. I also submit to you the propriety of my transmitting by your order to both houses of Congress such parts of Mr Seagrove’s letter as may be necessary to give a complete idea of the result of his mission, but not to communicate any of the corrosive parts relative to...
119To George Washington from Henry Knox, 4 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I suggest to your consideration the propriety of creating by law, an Office of Commissary of Stores, the person who should be appointed thereto to have the superintendence and accountability of receiving, safekeeping and issuing all the public Stores under such regulations as the wisdom of Congress may devise. An Office similar to this existed and was found indespensible during the late War,...
120To George Washington from Henry Knox, 3 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration letters just received from General Wayne. I have the honor to be with greatest respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . After receiving notice of the failure of Indian commissioners Benjamin Lincoln, Timothy Pickering, and Beverley Randolph to achieve a peace treaty with the hostile Indians of the Northwest Territory, Gen....