31From George Washington to the United States Senate, 28 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Thomas Overton, to be Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No. 1 in the District of North Carolina; vice James Read, resigned. Thomas Benbury, to be Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No. 2 in the District aforesaid; his Commission as Inspector of Survey No. 3. being vacated in consequence of an alteration in the Surveys. Daniel McKissack, to be Inspector of the Revenue for Survey...
32To George Washington from Henry Knox, 29 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit the inclosed list of names, which have occurred to me as most suitable as Commissioners for the proposed treaty. I am sir With perfect respect and attachment Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed list contained the names of potential commissioners for a proposed council at Lower Sandusky with the hostile Indians of the Northwest Territory (see...
33Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 29 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States the enclosed draft of a speech for the Wabash indians. Yours sincerely— LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Neither the enclosed draft nor the final version of GW’s address to the Wabash and Illinois Indians of 1 Feb. has been found. These Indians sent a delegation to Philadelphia following a council with Gen. Rufus Putnam in September 1792. After...
34To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 29 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of Januy the 6the and 14the of this Month came duly to hand, the enclosed letter to my son Robert met with a speedy conveyance the same day, the other with the Money for Harriot, which I shall see that no part of it shall be laid out but in those things that is really necessary, it is unfortunate for her my living in Town for many things that could be wore to the last string in a...
35Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 30 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the letters from the Executives of Maryland and Virginia which have been submitted to the President; together with a draft of the Secretary’s answer to the Governor of Maryland, which meets the President’s approbation. The President desires however that matters may not be carried to extremity against Richardson....
36From George Washington to the Ministers and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayette County, Pennsylvania … (Washington Papers)
I was pleased to find by your representation, dated the 19th of December, and which did not get to my hands ’till a few days ago, that the opposition to the law of the United States laying a duty on distilled Spirits, is not so universal in the Counties of this State, west of the Allegany, as it has been generally represented; and that you are determined to use your influence in your several...
37To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 30 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Randolph presents his respectful compliments to the President; and incloses a memorandum of some intelligence, which he yesterday procured from Mr Campbell, the district-attorney, on the state of Virginia affairs. Mr R. thought, that it might not be unacceptable to the President; as it comes from a gentleman of Character, just from the theatre of the discontents. AL , DLC:GW . Randolph...
38From George Washington to Nicholas Van Staphorst, 30 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Expecting to have occasion to pay a small sum in Amsterdam, I embrace the opportunity of a Vessel sailing from hence to that place, to enclose you the first of Exchange, drawn by George Meade Esqr. on Henry Gildermeester Esqr., in your favor, for Two thousand three hundred & ten Guilders Holland Curry at 30 days, which I wish you to retain in your hands till further advice from me. I shall...
39From George Washington to William Washington, 30 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 15th of October to my Nephew—Majr G: Auge Washington—after some forward & a retrograde movement found him at Colo. Bassetts in New Kent, Virginia; to which place for change of Air, and a warmer situation for the Winter, he had embarked (by water) about the middle of that month—so much reduced—poor fellow! as to be hardly able to stand. From thence your letter was forwarded...
40To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 30 January 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 30 Jan. 1793. GW wrote Whitting on 10 Feb. , “Your letter of the 30th Ulto, enclosing the Reports of the preceeding week, is at hand.”
41To George Washington from Jeremy Belknap, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to lay before you a specimen of a monthly publication in which you will find an account of a new discovery in the pacific ocean, by one of our Citizens who has given the names of the principal Characters in the United States to several islands between the Tropics. It is a pleasing reflection that our Countrymen carry their zeal & patriotism into the most remote regions, and that...
42To George Washington from J. W. Böeleker, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The widow Hinricksen, living in Altona, wrote a Letter last Year to his excellency the President of the United States of North America, respecting the death of her brother, Weissenberg, informing that he died at or near New York possessed of Some considerable property. She has given a power of attorney over the estate that they should bequeath unto her the interest of the Said property during...
43From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The regular course which the affairs of The Federal City are likely to move in by the appointment of a Superintendant, who may relieve you from details, & from all sacrifices of time except your periodical meetings, enables me now to proceed, on more certain ground, to the subject of compensation. That a proper compensation should be made you, must undoubtedly be the public expectation as well...
44From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Gentlemen, Philadelphia January 31st 1793 I have had under consideration Mr Hallet’s plans for the Capitol, which undoubtedly have a great deal of merit. Doctor Thornton has also given me a view of his. These last come forward under some very advantageous circumstances. The Grandeur, Simplicity and Beauty of the exterior—the propriety with which the apartments are distributed—and the...
45To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste Drouet, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Daign to call to mind a french citizen who had the good fortune to fight for the conquest of liberty and the glory of your country. it is I who was groom to the M. de la Fayette and who was called Baptiste: you have not forgot General the important services which this young man has rendered to the united states of America, I have always fought by his side in every action where he was found,...
46To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment honoured with the receipt of your favour of this day and rejoice to hear that the Western Indians have proposed a conference. I hope as well for their sakes as for that of our country that it will terminate in an honorable & lasting peace. Short as the time is I can be at no loss to return you a direct and possitive answer in regard to myself whom you have been pleased to...
47From George Washington to Nicholas Van Staphorst, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday by the Ship Holland, and enclosed the first bill of Exchange for 2310 Guilders; At the same time, I observed, that if the vessel should not sail this day, as was expected, I would write to you further on the subject of the bill. Accordingly, I have now to request that you will be so good as to convey the enclosed letter to Madame L⟨a⟩ Fayette by some safe hand, if you...
48Enclosure: To the Marquise de Lafayette, 31 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
If I had words that could convey to you an adequate idea of my feelings on the present Situation of Mr de la Fayette, this letter would appear to you in a different garb. The sole object in writing to you now, is to inform you that I have deposited in the hands of Mr Nicholas Van Staphurst of Amsterdam, Two thousand three hundred and ten guilders holland currency, equal to two hundred guineas...
49From George Washington to the Massachusetts Masons, January 1793 (Washington Papers)
To the Grand Lodge of Free & accepted Masons, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Flattering as it may be to the human mind, & truly honorable as it is to receive from our fellow Citizens testimonies of approbation for exertions to promote the public welfare; it is not less pleasing to know, that the milder virtues of the heart are highly respected by a Society whose liberal principles must...
50To George Washington from Francis Mentges, January 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Francis Mentges, [January 1793]. Tobias Lear enclosed in his letter to Henry Knox of 2 Feb. 1793 “a letter from Colo. Mentges.”
51To George Washington from the Provisional Executive Council of France, January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The french nation, in declaring the Republic and in giving through all the extent of its possessions the most solemn sanction to the principles of Liberty and Equality which make the United States flourish, appears to have approached nearer its ancient allies. It is no more in the crooked paths of politics that one goes to seek the cause of the attachment of these two Nations. It is in the...
52To George Washington from Robert Townsend Hooe, 1 February 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Townsend Hooe, 1 Feb. 1793. GW wrote Hooe on 7 Feb. , “I have duly received your Letter of the 1st instant.”
53To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President the speech of De Coin, written at length from his notes, very exactly. he thinks he can assure the President that not a sentiment delivered by the French interpreter is omitted, nor a single one inserted which was not expressed. it differs often from what the English Interpreter delivered, because he varied much from the other who alone was...
54From George Washington to Thomas Johnson, 1 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
While I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th of January, I cannot but express the regret with which I received the resignation of your office of Associate Justice of the supreme Court, and sincerely lament the causes that produced it. It is unnecessary for me to say how much I should have been pleased, had your health & other circumstances permitted you to continue in office;...
55From George Washington to David Stuart, 1 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I wrote two letters to the Commissioners. One public, the other private. The first giving ideas of the compensation which ought to be made them for their past, and an allowance for future services. In doing this I did not, as the Law is silent, chuse to be governed wholly by my own Judgment; and therefore took the opinion of known friends to the District, and to yourselves. The...
56From George Washington to the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 1 February 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Address not found: to the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 1 Feb. 1793. In recording the speech given by Kaskaskia chief Jean-Baptiste Ducoigne on 1 Feb., Thomas Jefferson wrote that Ducoigne spoke after GW had “addressed the Chiefs” (see Speeches of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 1–4 February ).
57Speeches of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 1–4 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President having addressed the Chiefs of the Wabash & Illinois Indians, John Baptist De Coin, chief of Kaskaskia, spoke as follows. Father. I am about to open to you my heart. I salute first the Great Spirit, the master of life, and then you. I present you a black-pipe on the death of our chiefs who have come here and died in your bed. it is the calumet of the dead, take it and smoke in it...
58To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose for the President’s notice a small pamphlet sent to Th: J. by the author, containing some ideas which may merit attention, in due time, at the Federal city. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The letter-book copy is mistakenly dated “2d March...
59Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 2 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the Presidets Command—T. Lear has the honor to transmit to the Secy of War, for his inspection, a lettr from Govr Moultrie, enclosing a deposition relative to the murder of certain Cherokee Inds by a party of Geo[r]gians in Oct. last. And a lettr from Colo. Mentges respectg his late office & desiring another appointmt. ADf , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . See William Moultrie to GW, 8 Jan. 1793 ....
60To George Washington from Patrick Miller, 2 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have requested Mr Swift of Alexandria to deliver this letter and to present you in my name a small Essay on Naval Architecture, of which I have to beg your Acceptance as a Mark of Respect from a warm Admirer of your Character. A particular cast of Mind has led me to make numberless Experiments for the Improvement of Artillery and of Naval Architecture, fondly hoping that from a Combination...