21To 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...
22To 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...
23To 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.”
24To 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...
25To 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...
26To 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,...
27To 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...
28Speeches 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...
29To 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.”
30To 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...