1From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 29 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 23d inst: came to my hands by the Post of yesterday. I agree to take your offer for my flour; & will order mister whitting (my manager) to see & make arrangements with you for the delivery in Alexandria of the part which is at my mill. I wish, however, as Hay-time & harvest is, or soon will be heavy upon me, it had suited you equally, to have received it at my mill, or in the...
2From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 29 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have consented, in a letter written to Colo. Hooe this day, to accept his offer for all the fine and super-fine flour I have; and am to deliver that which is in my Mill, to him in Alexandria. The sooner therefore you set about it the better, as he is to have a certain number of days credit and may (though I do not know that he will) count these from the time of delivery, instead of my...
3From George Washington to the Baltimore Merchants and Traders, 27 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
At this eventful period when caution must be united with firmness to preserve to the United States the blessings of peace, & at the same time to maintain our rights as an independent nation, it affords me no small degree of satisfaction to find that my endeavours to promote these objects, by declaring the neutrality of the U. States, has met your approbation. While the measures of this...
4From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 26 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 17th & 22d instt came duly to hand. Scales, with such weights as you have required, will be sent to you by the first vessel bound to Alexandria: and as there is reason to apprehend a rise in the price of Iron, I propose to send you a tonn thereof by the same opportunity; let me know therefore, as soon as this is received, the sorts which will suit you best. I shall also...
5Executive Order, 25 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
An act making allowances for certain services & contingencies in the collection of the Revenue during the year ending on the 30th day of June 1792. Whereas it has been found necessary to provide a compensation for the legal admeasurement of Stills during the year ending on the 30th day of June 1792. it is hereby established & declared, that there may & shall be allowed to the Collectors of the...
6From George Washington to John Fitzgerald, 24 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Fitzgerald, 24 May 1793. Fitzgerald wrote GW on 31 May that he was “duly honor’d by the receipt of your Duplicate under Cover of your letter of 24th Inst.”
7From George Washington to the Provisional Executive Council of France, 24 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The citizen Ternant has delivered to me the letter wherein you inform me that yielding to his desire to serve his country in the military line, you had determined to recall him from his mission as your Minister plenipotentiary to the U.S. His conduct during the time of his residence in this country has been such as to meet my entire appobation & esteem; and it is with great pleasure I render...
8From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 19 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 10th & 15th are both received; & it gives me pleasure to find by them that appearances for good crops are still favorable. I hope they will continue. The Hessian fly is among the Wheat in these parts, & doing much injury to it. When I directed Frank to be employed in prosecuting the painting, it was under an idea, & from what I thought my recollection had furnished that...
9From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 18 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Edmund Randolph, c.18 May 1793. Randolph wrote GW on 18 May , “I was from home, sir, on the business of your letter, when you did me the honor of stopping at our house.”
10From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
If you are among the purchasers of Flour, be so good as to let me know what you would give for about 600 barrels—nearly half, superfine, 290 of which are in your own Warehouse—the rest at my Mill, but might be delivered as above. all of it, if reported to me truly, is of the best quality, of their respective sorts. I would allow a credit of Sixty days—or, to enhance the price 90 days for the...
11From George Washington to the Philadelphia Merchants and Traders, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Fully persuaded that the happiness and best interests of the people of the United States, will be promoted by observing a strict neutrality in the present contest among the powers of Europe; it gives me pleasure to learn, that the measure which I have taken to declare to the world their disposition on this head, has given general satisfaction to the Citizens of Pennsylvania. The friends of...
12From George Washington to Ternant, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
The first intimation, which I received of your mission to the United States, in the capacity you lately fill[e]d, gave me pleasure. I anticipated, on your part, a conduct, which, while it was calculated to promote the objects of your duty, would, in the manner, be pleasing to the Government and Citizens of this Country. My anticipations have not been disappointed. Uniformly attentive to the...
13From George Washington to Richard Peters, 16 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Young informs me, by a letter which I have lately received from him, that the accounts, relative to the state of agriculture, which I had collected from various quarters and transmitted to him last fall, have set him afloat on the High Seas of conjecture with respect to the Agriculture of this Country. The account which you had the goodness to prepare for me was among the number of those...
14From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Sometime last fall I sent to Mr Young transcripts of the accounts respecting the Agriculture of this Country, which I had collected from Gentlemen of the best information on this subject, with whom I was acquainted in the middle States—New York & Virginia. The account which you had the goodness to draw up was among the number. I have lately received from Mr Young a letter in reply to mine...
15From George Washington to John Jay, 12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by Colo. Hamilton (yesterday) that you propose to commence your Southern tour tomorrow, I take the liberty of enclosing you letters to Gentlemen in the only places where I presume you will make any halt. I have not added one to Governor Lee of Virginia, because I conceive you are well acquainted with him; nor have I done it to Govr Lee of Maryland, because, unless you make a...
16From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 12 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th with the Reports came duly to hand. From the constant Easterly Winds which have blown ever since I left Mount Vernon I expected the Fishery would end poorly, & therefore am not disappointed at your report on this head. The Clerks notes, which I return, must be paid; That from the Clerk of the District Court at Dumfries, I presume, comes against me as Executor of Colo....
17From George Washington to William Herbert, 9 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly recd your letter of the 3d of this month with the Bill enclosed. In wch I do not perceive my name is inserted. If it had, the enclosed would have been my answer. But before It is exhibited or any use made thereof I pray that the Records of the Trustees of Alexandria may be thoroughly examined to see if any Act of mine shall appear thereon for my memory is too treacherous to place...
18From George Washington to James Keith, 8 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is Colo. Hooes letter to me on the subject of Mr Bennett’s claim on Colvils Estate. I can only again express my wish that you would do in this case what, in your own judgment, is perfectly legal & just; or in points which appear doubtful, that which able Council shall advice you to as proper. I want most exceedingly to close this business. and am perfectly willing that Mr Bennetts...
19From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
As I perceive there has been some mis-conception respecting the building of Vessels in our Ports wch may be converted into armed ones; and as I understand from the Attorney General there is to be a meeting today, or tomorrow of the Gentlemen on another occasion, I wish to have that part of your circular letter which respects this matter Reconsidered by them before it goes out. I am not...
20From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25 Ulto came duly to hand. The enclosed to Mr Keith (which I take the liberty of putting under cover to you as there is no postage to pay, because as he does not seem to be in the habit of sending regularly to the Post Office letters to him sometimes sleep there) is expressive of my consent to his receiving from Mr Wilson, & paying to you on Acct of Mr Bennett all the money...
21From George Washington to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Chiefs and Warriors of the Tribes of Indians residi⟨ng⟩ on the Wabash and Illinois Rivers. As you are now about to return to your own Country, I take you by the hand and wish you a pleasant Journey. When you arrived here I was glad to see you, because I believed your undertaking so long a Journey, was a Strong assurance of your disposition to Cultivate peace and friendship with the United...
22Attachment: Letter of Protection, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
G eorge W ashington, P resident of the U nited S tates of A merica, To all to whom these Presents shall come: K now ye, That the nation of Indians called the Kaskaskia inhabiting the town of Kaskaskia and other towns, villages, and lands of the same community, are, in their persons, towns, villages, lands, hunting-grounds and other rights and property in the peace and under the protection of...
23From George Washington to Arthur Young, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
At the request of several Gentlemen of my particular acquaintance in this City, I have taken the liberty of putting this letter into the hands of Dr Edwards, as an introduction of that Gent[l]eman to you. I am informed that Dr Edwards has two objects in view by going to Europe—the establishment of his health—and a desire of obtaining a knowledge of the agriculture of that part of the world. In...
24From George Washington to Henry Lee, 6 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia May 6th 1793. On Saturday last your favor of the 29th ulto was handed to me. My visit to Mount Vernon (intended to be short when I set out) was curtailed by the Declaration of War by France against Great Britain and Holland; for I foresaw in the moment information of that event came to me at that place the necessity for announcing the disposition of this...
25From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, [Philadelphia] Sunday Noon— 5th May 1793. Before you dispatch the circular letter (of wch you enclosed me a Copy) to the several Collectors, I would speak to you respecting a particular clause in it. In the conversation you may have with a certain Gentleman to day I pray you to intimate to him gently, & delicately, that if the letters, or papers wch he has to present, are...
26From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I have reced your letters of the 26th of April and 1st of this month. I did not entertain the most distant Suspicion of your having charged anything in the acct exhibited to Mr Dandridge but what you had actually paid, for my use; for if I could suppose you capable of such a violation of the principles of honesty, and so lost to the trust reposed in you, my confidence in you...
27From George Washington to Samuel Powel, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
By one of the late ships from London, I have received from Mr Arthur Young two sets of his Annals—numbered from 98 to 108 inclusively. Although no direction is given concerning them, I take it for granted that one set is intended, as usual, for the Agricultural Society of this City, and to you, as President thereof, I send them accordingly. With estem & regard I am—Dear Sir Your Obedt Servt...
28From George Washington to John Joseph De Barth, 30 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
As there appears no prospect of your making the stipulated payments for the lands which you agreed to purchase from me, lying on the Kanawas &c. and the object of my disposing of them being thereby defeated—I think it would be best that the bargain should be cancelled (as you expressed to Mr Lear a readiness to do it if required by me); for it would be an unpleasant thing for me to pursue...
29From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 29 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Land which was given to me by my mother, or as Heir at law I am entitled to without —I do, as I told you at Mt Vernon, make you a present of. It lyes near the Accoceek old Furnace and about eight miles from Falmouth on the Road leading to it containing, as I have generally understood, about 400 Acres of the most valuable Pine in that part of the Country; but which, as I have been informed,...
30From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 29 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Whilst I was at Mount Vernon in the early part of this month, I recd your letter of the 20th of March, and was in hopes it would have been followed by the Oyster shells you gave me reason to expect; but none had arrived the 24th, when I last heard from Mr Whiting. If I am to relinquish all expectation of getting them I wish to be informed thereof, that I may try, through some other source, to...
31From George Washington to John Fitzgerald, 28 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Two or three days after my arrival in this City, I forwarded a Commission appointing you Collector of the Port of Alexandria; to be in force until the end of the next session of Congress, longer than which I could not issue one in the recess of the Senate but there is no instance of that body with-holding its consent to appointments thus made when offered to them for confirmation. I am now...
32From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 28 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th instt with the weekly reports—except Greens—which was not among them, came to hand yesterday. With respect to the Sheriffs acct, given in by Chs Turner, it is my desire now (and was so expressed in my last) that you would enquire of some person well acquainted with the taxes, whether the rates there charged are the legal ones? & by what authority, if the Parish tax was...
33From George Washington to William Washington, 26 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr David Clark, a Coach maker of this City, I inform you that he made the Carriage which I had with me at Charleston on my Southern tour, and which you saw there. I am told that this Carriage is pronounced a very handsome one in its appearance by persons of taste & judgement in that way, who have seen it & given an opinion upon it—As to the goodness of the materials &...
34From George Washington to James Anderson, 25 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
It was not until the 18th instant that I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 3d of November, enclosing one from Lord Buchan, and accompanied by the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th & 11th Volumes of the Bee—and a copy of the pamphlet on Wool. While I beg your acceptance of my best thanks for the polite attention you have shewn in forwarding the several Volumes of the Bee—and express my sincere...
35From George Washington to Samuel and Elizabeth Willing Powel, 24 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President and Mrs Washington present their complimts to Mr & Mrs Powell—and (agreeably to Mrs Powells request) have the honor to inform them that Mrs Washington is so much indisposed with a cold as to make her fear encreasing it by going to the Circus this afternoon. The President & rest of the family propose to be Spectators at the exhibition of Mr Rickets. AL , ViMtvL . GW’s Household...
36From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 22 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
You might, from appearances, suspect me of inattention to the honor of your corrispondence: and if you should, I can assure you it would give me pain. Or you might conceive that, I had rather make excuses than acknowledge, in time, the receipt of your favors, as this is the second instance of considerable lapse between the dates of them and my acknowledgments: this also would hurt me—for the...
37Neutrality Proclamation, 22 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
W hereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great-Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers: I have therefore thought fit by these...
38From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 21 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
On Wednesday last I arrived in this City to dinner, without meeting any interruption, or accident on the Road. and this day received your letter of the 17th instant, with all the Reports of the two preceeding weeks, except those of the Gardeners & Spinners; neither of which, for either week, were enclosed. I did not suppose that this was the season for demanding payment of taxes of any kind—I...
39From George Washington to Alice Delancey Izard, 20 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President presents his respectful compliments & thanks to Mrs Izard, for the information contained in the Charlston Gazette (herewith returned) of the arrival of M. Genet at that City. AL (photostat), ViMtvL . Edmond Genet, recently appointed by France as its new minister to the United States, arrived in Charleston, S.C., aboard the French frigate Embuscade on 8 April 1793. The enclosed...
40From George Washington to the Cabinet, 18 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The posture of affairs in Europe, particularly between France and Great Britain, places the United States in a delicate situation; and Requires much consideration of the measures which will be proper for them to observe in the War betwn those Powers. With a view to forming a general plan of conduct for the Executive, I have stated and enclosed sundry questions to be considered preparatory to a...
41From George Washington to James Keith, 13 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th has been duly received. You, better than I, can acct for the smaller judgment being for two hundred and odd pounds more than is due. Justice to all parties, & a speedy settlement of the whole, is all I am at. the latter, as I have often repeated, I am extremely desirous to have accomplished. Was I to see Colo. Hooe, which is not likely now to happen, as I am in the very...
42From George Washington to John Fitzgerald, 12 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is an open Letter to mister Lee, Collector at Alexandria, requesting him to deliver up the Office books & papers to you; tho’ it would be more regular, & in my opinion better that the matter should be suspended until I return to Philadelphia, (for which place I shall set out tomorrow) when a Commission will issue agreeably to Constitutional modes. I am Sir, &c. LB , DLC:GW . GW’s...
43From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 12 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
In due course of Post I have received your Letters of the 5th and 8th instant. & thank you for the information contained in them. Tomorrow I leave this for Philadelphia. the advices which I may receive this Evening by the Post, will fix my route by Baltimore (as usual)—or by the one I intended to have come—that is, by Reading, the Canals between the Rivers, Harrisburgh, Carlisle &a—In either...
44From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 7th instant was brought to me by the last Post. War having actually commenced between France and Great Britain, it behoves the Government of this Country to use every means in it’s power to prevent the citizens thereof from embroiling us with either of those powers, by endeavouring to maintain a strict neutrality. I therefore require that you will give the subject mature...
45From George Washington to Henry Knox, 12 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th instt with its enclosures came duly to hand. It is painful, after the exertions Government have made to keep the Southern Indians quiet, & the expence that has been incurred to effect it, to receive such unfavorable accts from that quarter as are contained in the letters of Mr Seagroves which you have forwarded to me. From Genl Waynes Representation of the want of...
46From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th., but as I am on the eve of my return to Philadelphia, and have many letters to write, I shall do little more than acknowledge the receipt of it. The advices which I may receive by the Post to-night, will decide whether I shall proceed by the direct rout—or by the one I intended to have come. The enclosed from the Attorney General I return to him through...
47From George Washington to James Craik, 9 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
On thursday, 1 Oclock afternoon, it is proposed to pay the last Office (in funeral obsequies) to my deceased Nephew; at which I should be glad to see you. The funerl Service will be in presence of a few friends only; & dinner for these will be ready at half after two Oclock; at which I shall expect you. Mrs Washington mentioned Mr Porter (as an intimate of Her late husbd) and I should be glad...
48From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 9 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
At One ’oclock afternoon on Thursday next, I mean to pay the last respect to my deceased Nephew—by having the funeral obsequies performed. If you will do me the favor to officiate on the occasion, it will be grateful to myself, & pleasing to other friends of the deceased. No Sermon is intended, and but few friends will be present; for these dinner will be ready at half after two Oclk, at which...
49From George Washington to David Stuart, 9 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
On Thursday next at one o’Clock, I mean to pay the last respect to the remains of my deceased Nephew, by having the funeral obsequies performed. Mrs Fanny Washington & myself would be very glad to see you, mistress Stuart & the Girls here on that occasion; for this reason, & knowing they have not the means of getting down, a carriage is sent for them: and I believe it would be extremely...
50From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 8 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you from this place, your letter of 3d instt has been received transmitting Colo. Cannon’s Rental, and Mr de Barth’s profession of inability to discharge his Bond. The latter seems to be a more candid acct than the former; but with both, I must be satisfied—presuming, I shall never obtain better, from either. Before you say any thing to Mr C——with respect to the lands which Mr...