101To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
As we have not yet received your order for the Sales and the Time is near at hand, we think it proper (least it should have escaped you) to remind you of it —A few of the Plans executed, in Boston have Arrived, which we have dispersed, we have some expectation, that tomorrows Post may bring us some of those executed in Philaa—We take the liberty to send you one of the former. We are Sir &c. LB...
102To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 5 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s letter, inclosing a copy of a Proclamation, that you have issued, in consequence of certain irregular and refractory proceedings, which have taken place, in particular parts of some of the States, contravening the laws for raising a revenue upon Spirits, distilled within The United States: And it affords me the sincerest...
103To George Washington from the Citizens of Vincennes, 5 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
A Son Excellençe George Washinton Ecuier premier President des Etats unis de l’Amerique du nord. &c. suplie humblement. Les habitants de ce district qui ont l’honneur de vous Exposer que vu les mauva⟨ises⟩ Guerres qu’ils onts Eües a soutenir pendant plusieurs Années avec les Nations Indiennes de Ces Contrées, ce qui a Causée la perte generale de touts les Citoïens jusqu’a leurs tués femmes...
104To George Washington from the Citizens of Vincennes, 6 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
To George Washington. President of The United States of America. The Supplication of Laurence Bazadone, John Darguilleur, John Toulon, and Peter Troussereau; residing at Postvincents in the County of Knox. Most Humbly Sheweth. That your Suppliants being reduced to the most Indigent circumstances, by the greatest stretch of usurped Power, conceive their only remedy to depend on your Patronage....
105From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mount Vernon, 7 Oct. 1792. Forwards to Philadelphia Jefferson’s papers that were “found in the Road” by one of GW’s neighbors, except for a letter to Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek, Md., which has been sent to the Alexandria post office. ADfS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . Jefferson wrote to James Madison from Bladensburg, Md., on 1 Oct. that he had “unfortunately dropped”...
106To 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...
107From George Washington to Betty Washington Lewis, 7 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
As Mrs Washington and myself expect to set out to morrow for Philadelpa and the Majr & Fanny the day after if the Vessel which is to carry him to Colo. Bassets arrives in time, I have taken the advantage of the good opportunity afforded by Mr Robt Lewis of sending Harriot to Fredericksburg. It is done at this time (notwithstanding your proposed visit to Albemarle) 1st because it would be...
108Broadside: Sale of Lots in the Federal City, 8 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS declared by the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, this seventeenth day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, for regulating the Materials and Manner of the Buildings and Improvements on the LOTS in the CITY of WASHINGTON. 1st. THAT the outer and party-walls of all houses within the said City shall be built of brick or stone. 2nd. That all buildings on the streets...
109To George Washington from the Marquise de Lafayette, 8 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
( Translation ) Department of the upper Loire at Chavamac near Brioude Sir, 8t Octr 1792. Without doubt you have learnt our misfortunes—You know that your disciple—your friend has not ceased to act in a manner worthy of you, and of liberty—You know that his unalterable attachment to the Constitution which he swore to maintain, drew upon him the hatred of a powerful faction which wished to...
110To George Washington from the Merchants of Charleston, South Carolina, 8 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
To The Honorable President & Members of the Senate of the united States in congress assemble’d The Petition of the Subscribers, Merchants residing in Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, humbly sheweth, That by an act pass’d at the third Session of Congress, to regulate processes, in the Courts of the United States, “It is enacted that the same mode of proceedings shall be had, & the...
111To George Washington from George Walker, 8 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Confident of your extreme anxiety to execute faithfully, Such Laws of the Union as are revolved upon you, I hope you will pardon the freedom of claiming your attention, to the present Alarming manner of conducting the operations in the intended City of Washington. When the proprietors of land, contiguous to GeorgeTown and the Easternbranch, ceded by Deed of Trust, one half of the lots arising...
112To George Washington from Henry Knox, 9 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the mortification to submit you, the copy of a Letter this day received by express from Governor Blount—The enclosures he mentions are too lengthy to be copied this day, but are such as to leave no doubt of the authenticity of the information. I have consulted with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury on this disagreeable affair. Our unanimous opinion is, That as...
113From George Washington to Leven Powell, 10–11 October 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Leven Powell, c.10–11 Oct. 1792. GW wrote Robert Townsend Hooe on 29 May 1793 from Philadelphia that “on my way to this City last October I wrote a letter to Colo. Powell,” and Powell wrote GW on 15 June 1793: “On my return home from the [Virginia] Assembly about the first of December last, I found your favor from Baltimore.” While traveling from Mount Vernon to...
114To George Washington from Isaac Huger, 12 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
From the confidential hints given to me of the many essential services rendered by Mr John Clark (formerly of Pennsylvania) to the late Colo. John Laurens, who commanded the Light Troops in the late American Southern Army, some months before the British evacuated this City, who’s services were afterwards explained to me by the Late Genl Greene, induces me from Justice and Gratitude to...
115To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 13 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed we send you a list of our Sales, which were closed yesterday. Tho’ the average price is not entirely equal to that of the first sales, yet, when it is considered, that the Company assembled, was by no means such, as might have been expected, from the unlucky intervention of several circumstances; and allso, that it was the Public opinion, that the first sales were too high; and that...
116Tobias 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...
117To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters for his perusal. those from G. Morris & mister Short require immediate notice, because there are vessels about to sail by which answers should be sent. the President will see by mister Remsen’s letter the peculiar misfortune of the dispatches to Carmichael & Short, of which, from their particular delicacy, it was...
118To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor with great diffidence to submit hints of points in the War department which appear necessary to be mentioned to the Legislature at their approaching session. Arsenals are exceedingly wanted in the middle and southern states for the well ordering of the military stores—But as this is a ticklish subject it is omitted for the present. I have also the honor to submit a letter from...
119To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir. Charleston [S.C.] October 14: 1792 I have the honour to inclose you copies of my dispatches by Captain Burroughs lest any accident should have happened to him—not having recieved any Express since the first, I am not able to add to my former communications on that subject. As the four years for which I have been appointed to the office I hold will expire in December, and as...
120From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I arrived in this City yesterday afternoon, without encountering any accident except what you are acquainted with by the return of the Mare from George Town; and the indisposition of Richard; who, with difficulty, was able to travel from Baltimore to this place, on acct of the fever wch returnd on him. Recollecting that it was my desire that you should send the Reports to the Post Office every...
121Tobias 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...
122To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters just received. Colo. Fay having sent him a paper of Sugar-Maple seed, Th: J., on his request, asks the President’s acceptance of the within. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letters were probably...
123To George Washington from Michael Rudulph, 16 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
It is with extreme diffidence I ask a moment of your time, I have lately learned that the Collectors Office of Baltimore will be vacated by the dissolution of Genl Williams. I wou’d not ask for what my qualifications were not equal to, I have a family. they have became common adventureers with me from Georgia to maryland where they now are, I have no more to support them on than my...
124To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
In a letter from Monticello I took the liberty of saying that as soon as I should return here, where my letter books were, I would take the liberty of troubling you with the perusal of such parts of my correspondence from France as would shew my genuine sentiments of the new constitution. when I arrived in Philadelphia, the 5th inst. I found that many of my letters had been already put into...
125Tobias 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...
126From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) My dear Sir Phila. Octobr 18th 1792. I did not require the evidence of the extracts which you enclosed me, to convince me of your attachment to the Constitution of the United States, or of your disposition to promote the general Welfare of this Country. But I regret—deeply regret—the difference in opinions which have arisen, and divided you and another principal Officer of the...
127To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
An unexpected and important event has taken place, the late agression of the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Notwithstanding all that has happened, I cannot subscribe to the Plan, of immediately dispossessing them of their Country, and making sale of their lands. This may accord with the views of Georgia Purchasers; and their friends, but promises but little towards restoring peace, and a future...
128From George Washington to Andrew Ellicott, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Honble Mr Cushing one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the U. States has some thought of passing through the Federal City in the Circuit he is about to make. Should this happen, I shall be obliged to you for shewing him such parts of it as he may incline to view. I am Sir Your very Hble Servt ALS , DSI . William Cushing, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was currently...
129From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
The letters of Gouvr Morris give a gloomy picture of the Affairs of France. I fear with too much truth. If the order of Senate, dated the 7th of last May, is compleated, it must be with all Offices except the Judges. The Post Office (as a branch of Revenue) was annexed to the Treasury in the time of Mr Osgood—and when Colo. Pickering was appointed thereto, he was informed, as I find by my...
130From George Washington to Samuel McDowell, Sr., 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th of April, inclosing a copy of the Constitution formed for the State of Kentucky, did not get to my hands ‘till I was about leaving this place to go to Mount Vernon, and I embrace the earliest opportunity, after my return to the seat of Government, to acknowledge the receipt of it, and to thank you for the transmission. I am Sir, with esteem Your most Obedt Servt. Df , in...
131From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) My dear Sir, Philadelphia Octr 20th 1792 . Although your letter of the 10th of June, which I have received, did not paint the prospects of France in the most pleasing colours; yet the events which have since taken place give a more gloomy aspect to the public Affairs of that Kingdom than your letter gave reason to apprehend. A thousand circumstances, besides our distance from the...
132From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Where your Letter of the 21st of december last has been travelling since it left you, I cannot tell; but it did not get to my hands ‘till within a few weeks past, when I likewise received yours of the 15th of July introducing Mr Anderson. I was sorry to see the gloomy picture which you drew of the affairs of your country in your letter of december; but I hope events have not turned out so...
133From George Washington to William Davies Shipley, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 20 Oct. 1792. Acknowledged receipt of Shipley’s letter of 23 May 1792, “together with the works of your late Right Reverend father, Lord Bishop of St Asaph,” for whose “character & sentiments . . . I entertained the most perfect esteem; and have a sincere respect for his memory, now he is no more.” ALS , owned (1991) by Mr. Todd Axelrod, Las Vegas, Nev.; ADfS , MiU-C : Schoff...
134From George Washington to John Sinclair, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th of May, enclosing the Pamphlet & papers which you had the goodness to send me. While I beg your acceptance of my acknowledgments for the polite mark of attention in transmitting these things to me, I flatter myself you will be assured that I consider the subject therein recommended as highly important to Society, whose best interests I hope will be...
135To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
A few copies of the inclosed memoir have been extracted for the purpose of private distribution. If my beleif be well founded, that an attention to the directions it contains, would prevent shipwreck, & consequently save many lives, you will not think this intrusion upon your valuable time an unjustifiable presumption. If it should appear that I am mistaken, I trust to your goodness for an...
136From George Washington to Arthur Young, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I must beg your acceptance of my best thanks for the book that accompanied your polite letter of the 9th of June which came duly to my hands. I presume you have long before this received my letter which was committed to the care of Mr Pinckney, our Minister at the Court of Great Britain, and shall be very glad if the contents of it afforded you the information which it was intended to...
137From George Washington to the Alexandria, Virginia, Inspectors of Tobacco, 21 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
In 1790 I had 13 Hhds of Tobo Inspected at the Warehouses in Alexandria—and in 1791, 12 more were also Inspected at the same place. Not meeting a price which I was disposed to take, they remain there still. My Nephew Majr Washington either before, or since your care of those Warehouses was allowed to stow them in a secure place, therein; but as it is now more than a year since this happened,...
138From George Washington to David Stuart, 21 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
You informed me when I was at George Town on my way to this City that Colo. Mercer, upon receiving, or being told of Colo. Hamiltons letter to him requesting to know if the words with which he was charged by Major Ross as having uttered in his public harangues against the conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury were true expressed, if I understood you rightly much surprize at the application;...
139From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 21 October 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Anthony Whitting, 21 Oct. 1792. Whitting wrote GW on 31 Oct. , acknowledging receipt of GW’s letter “with the Bill of Scantling & List of plants from Norfolk.” An ALS of this letter was offered for sale in 1926 in James F. Drake, A Catalogue of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, number 177, item 357. According to the catalog entry, which provides the date of 21 Oct., this...
140To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 22 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour and pleasure of receiving your Excellency’s Letter of the 20th of September having been forwarded to me on the 12th of that month by Mr Rutledge, but I have been so unfortunate as not to have received the letter of the first of May which yr Excellency mentions in your last but still entertain some hope of its coming safely tho so long a time has elapsed. If it were not too...
141To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 23 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the twenty first of June is at length safely arriv’d. Poor lafayette. Your Letter for him must remain with me yet some Time. His Enemies here are virulent as ever and I can give you no better Proof than this. Among the King’s Papers was found Nothing of what his Enemies wishd and expected except his Correspondence with Monsieur de la Fayette which breathes from begining to End the...
142To George Washington from Benjamin Stoddert, 24 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I should apoligize for taking the liberty of addressing this letter to you, but the best apoligy I can make is to trespass as little as possible on your time; and though I have no doubt every person interested in the City of Washington would chearfully Join in the observations I shall make, I write alone considering it most respectful, as it will be less irksome to pass unnoticed the trifling...
143To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 24 October 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, c.24 Oct. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on Sunday, 28 Oct. 1792 : “By yesterdays Post I received a letter from you without date, but suppose from the contents it must have left Mount Vernon on Wednesday last,” which was 24 October.
144To George Washington from Major Swiney, 25 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Harrisburg, Pa., 25 Oct. 1792. Writes that he left Ireland “to participate in the asylum your laudable and ever memorable conflict with the arbitrary enemy prepaired for us in America.” He named his oldest son George Washington Swiney “in full hopes that some day . . . when he arrives at such an age as to be able to contemplate the character of the man he was named for, it will at least...
145To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President, and encloses him a letter received yesterday from the Supervisor of New York. The Secretary will have the honor of reminding the President of the subject when he has that of waiting upon him next. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from Richard Morris to Hamilton has not been identified. Morris apparently argued in this...
146Tobias 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...
147To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send for the perusal of the President the inclosed letters just received from mister Barclay. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson received two letters from Thomas Barclay, U.S. consul to Morocco, on 26 October. Both letters were written from...
148To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 26 October 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, c.26 Oct. 1792. Whitting wrote GW on Wednesday, 31 Oct. : “The bill of Scantling I took to Alexa. on Friday and inform’d You the price & time it could be deliver’d if I could Get Your Answer this Week which occasioned my writing from thence.”
149To George Washington from B. Francis, 27 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
An inquiry into the mineral productions of this country, appeared to me an object of so much importance, that I was induced to take the liberty of writing to you on the business from Boston, I think in June, and had the honour of receiving your reply in this City. The motives that occasioned my former letter (& the only excuse I can plead for taking this freedom) were similar to what dictate...
150To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that in a Madrid gazette of Sep. 14. is an article of Namur Aug. 23. which states circumstantially the capture of M. de la Fayette, and that he was carried from the place to Antwerp. it says that his intention had been to pass in the rear of the Austrian army, but ran foul of a picquet near Rochfort. there were 17 or 18. officers altogether....