1To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 23 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I am thus far on my return from New Hampshire to Philadelphia. I have been detained at Portsmouth a fortnight longer than I expected to have been, in order to settle some matters that were interesting to me. I shall leave this place tomorrow and proceed to Philadelphia at the rate of about 30 or 35 miles per day. I have neglected no opportunity of obtaining...
2To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 7 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I arrived in this place this morning when I was honored with your kind letters of the 21st of September and 1st of October, which were put into my hands by Mr Fraunces. I was detained in Portsmouth ten days longer than I expected to have been when I had the hononor of writing to you last from that place, in order to settle some affairs for my mother which I happily accomplished in a...
3Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secretary of the Treasury that the President has appointed William Lewis to be keeper of the Light-house on Cape Henry, with a salary of four hundred Dollars per annum. The President does not conceive that the circumstance of mister Cormicks being employed to oversee the building of the Lighthouse, tho’ in his favor, as...
4Tobias Lear to Samuel Hodgdon, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of laying before the President the enclosed extract of a letter which you put into my hands for that purpose, and he has directed me to request that you would let him know the number & state of the arms & accoutrements which are under your care in this place, that he may be able to form a judgement whether it would be proper to spare the num[b]er wanted out of the public...
5Tobias Lear to Samuel Hodgdon, 18 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President wishes to know if the Vessel which has taken the Arms for So. Carolina has sailed if she has not, when she expects to sail, as [he] has letters prepared for So. Carolina which he wishes to send by the first vessel. The President likewise desires to have an Acct of the number Arms furnished from the public stores for So. Carolina. With great esteem, I am Sir, Your most Obedt Servt...
6Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to inform the Secy of State, that the President desires Commissions to be made out for the following persons—and to bear the dates annexed thereto—viz. John Adams, the first, and Benjamin Gunnison, second mate in the New Hampshire Cutter—June 30th 1792. John Finley, second Mate in the New York Cutter—July 17: 1792. David Porter, Master of the...
7Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President requests, that if Mr Jefferson intends writing to Mr Pinckney by the British Packet (the mail for which is to be closed at New York on Wednesday) he will be so good as to transmit the enclosed letters to his care. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson docketed this letter as being from “Lear Tob.” and erroneously noted that it was “recd Oct. 4. 92.” The enclosed letters have not...
8Tobias Lear to Jonathan Dayton, 9 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your letter of this date, the President of the United States directs me to inform you, that he is ready to do, at any time, whatever may depend on him towards completing the “grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes and his associates,” in conformity to An Act of the Legislature passed during the last session of Congress. But as the President understands that...
9Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 14 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the dispatches from Mr Seagrove, which were submitted to the president yesterday. The President thinks there are some parts of these communications which should be laid before Congress, and requests that the Secretary will select such as may be proper & have them communicated accordingly. ALS (letterpress copy),...
10Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 21 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the enclosed letter from the Governor of Virginia, which has been submitted to the President; and to transmit a letter which the President has received from the Representatives of the frontier Counties in the Gene[r]al Assembly of Virginia. The President requests that the Secretary will take the subject of the...
11Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State the Commissions which were sent to the President for his signature, which they have received. T. Lear begs leave to observe that in the Commission of Mr Joy, it is expressed: “He demanding and receiving no Fees or Perquisites” —which appears to be contrary to the fourth Section of the Act passed during the last Session of Congress,...
12Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 23 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the two letters from Major General Wayne, with their enclosures, which have been submitted to the President, whose remarks thereon are herewith enclosed. ALS (letterpress copy), DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Lear wrote over his original date of 22 Nov. on the letterpress copy to change it to 23 November. Lear’s docket reads “23d Nov. 1792,” and...
13Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 24 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the letter to Govrnor Lee—to Thomas Wilson Esq. & others —and the Copy of a letter to Genl Wayne, which have been submitted to the President & to inform the Secretary that their contents meet the ideas of the President. ADfS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . For Knox’s letters to Henry Lee and to Thomas Wilson, see Lear...
14Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 25 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s Command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War General Sevier’s letter, which the President has refused, and to inform the Secretary that the President observes, that the Secretary will in his answer to Genl Sevier let him know that by accounts from the Superintendent of Indian Affairs to the Southward, the disposition of the Creek nation is very different...
15Tobias Lear to William Hilton, 2 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States has received at his seat in Virginia, a number of plants from the Island of Jamaica, which were accompanied with a particular description of the plants sent, and a catalogue of the plants in the Jamaica public Garden. As there was no Letter received with the plants, the President would not have known to whose politeness he was indebted for this mark of...
16Tobias Lear to John Lamb, 4 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I was this day honored with your letter of the 30th ultimo, enclosing one for Mrs Washington, the receipt of which she requests me to acknowledge, and beg your acceptance of her best thanks for the nuts and Apples which you have had the politeness to send to her, & which have come safe to hand. The Box, which was at the same time sent to the President, and which you mention to have arrived...
17Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 6 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation affixed thereto, the Contract entered into by Thomas Newton jur on the part of the U.S. with John McComb junr to execute certain additional objects specified in said Contract, to the Lighthouse lately erected on Cape Henry: And to inform the Secretary that the...
18Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s Command T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State the Draft of a Proclamation, which the President requests may be prepared for his signature. The President likewise wishes the Secretary’s opinion whether this Proclamation should be published in the papers here, or whether it would be proper to send it to Georgia only for publication. AL , DLC : Jefferson...
19Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 11 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the Speeches to the Chiefs of the Six Nations and to the hostile Indians which have been submitted to the President, and to inform the Secretary that their contents embrace the President’s ideas on that subject. The President observes that the Secretary will write to General Wayne respecting Corn Planter, and to...
20Tobias Lear to Lovell and Urquhart, 16 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 10th inst: to the President of the United States, I have to inform you, that upon receipt of your letter to him of the 8th of Novr, the sum of £25–10—Virginia Currency was paid to Messrs John Field & son agreeably to your desire expressed in said Letter—and their receipt therefor, dated the 16th of Novr is taken upon the Letter. As it was presumed that Messrs...
21Tobias Lear to Alexander Robertson, 16 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter to the President of the United States dated the 4th of November, did not get to his hands ‘till a few days ago; and in reply thereto the President commands me to inform you, that it is not at present in his power to give a decided answer to the request which you make for him to employ your brother in the management of one of his farms. Even if he was in immediate want of such a...
22Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to request that the Secretary of State will have Commissions made out for the following persons; Samuel Odiorne, third mate of the New-Hampshire Revenue Cutter; to be dated 18th December 1792. Ebenezer Perkins, third mate of the Connecticut Cutter; to be dated 18th Decr 1792. William Loring, first mate of the New York Cutter; to be dated Novemr...
23Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 18 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s commd T.L. has the honor to return to the Secy of War the letters from Genl Wilkinson wh. have been submitted to the Presidt—and to say that if there be any thing in these letters wh. in the Secy’s opinion should be communicated to Congress the President wishes it might be done. ADfS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox presented the Senate on 19 Dec. an extract of a letter that he...
24Tobias Lear to Henry Sheaff, 19 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States begs that the Germans of this City and State will accept his best thanks, for their polite attention in directing that the German News paper should be sent to him weekly, as a mark of their respect for & attachment to him. The expressions of personal regard with which the resolution of so respectable a body was communicated, merit & receive the President’s...
25Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the letter from the Treasurer of Virginia, which has been submitted to him —and to request that the Secretary would inform the President where he can obtain a copy of the New Impressions of the Federal City? The President wishes to know if it would not be adviseable, in the Secretary’s Opinion, to have a...
26Tobias Lear to Daniel Bowen, 28 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear presents his Compliments to Mr Bowen & will thank him to send by the Bearer the six framed pictures which Mr B. bid off yesterday for the President —Whenever Mr Bowen has leisure to draw off the Acct of the Prints &c. bo[ugh]t by him for the President Mr Lear will immediately pay it—and it would be pleasing to the President if he could know what would be a compensation to Mr Bowen for...
27Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 29 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secy of War the Speechs of Hendricks wh. have been submittd —likewise a letter from Mr Hoge to the Secy of War & the Secy’s answer, wh. expresses in its conclusion the President’s idea on the subject. ADfS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox, in his letter to Lear of 28 Dec., enclosed “speeches from Hendricks, to which I confess I...
28Tobias Lear to George Meade, 1 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President wishes to get from Ireland about 30 lb. or 40 lb. of the seed of the French Furze, which he is told may be had in Cork. The person who procures it must be careful not to get the seed of the Irish Furze which is vastly inferior to the French. Your politness in offering to have the above mentiond seed imported for the President will apologize for the trouble of this—The price of...
29Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President orders T. Lear to return to the Secretary of State the letter from Mr Pinckney—the one from Mr Johnson and that from Mr Livingston, which have been submitted to the President’s perusal; and to observe that the President thinks it is to be regretted that Mr Pinckney does not say anything in his letters relative to certain matters which he was instructed to be particularly attentive...
30Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
T. Lear is ordered by the President of the U.S. to transmit to the Secretary of State a letter and its enclosures, together with a draft of the survey of the federal district, which he has received from the Commissione[r]s. The President requests that the Secretary will take this matter into consideration and report to the President his opinion whether it should be laid before Congress or not....
31Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the letter to the Minister of France, relative to the supply of money to pay certain Bills drawn by the administration of St Domingo, which has been submitted to the President; and to inform the Secretary, that the President, presuming that the contents of said letter is conformable to the arrangements made on...