1To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 6 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
below, and Francisco de Miranda to Henry Knox, 2 Feb. 1791,
2To George Washington from David Humphreys, 31 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
16:266–67, 294). On 8 July he wrote from New York to his friend Francisco de Miranda at London that “Hamilton est trés opprimé par tout le monde, et parmi ses plus grands ennemies ont compte Jefferson et Madison. . . . Le prémier de ces deux travaille contre lui dans le gouvernement, et le...
3To George Washington from Stephen Sayre, 15 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
For an identification of Stephen Sayre, a friend and associate of William Duer and Francisco de Miranda, see
4From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
has communicated to me, a letter from Mr. Daniel Parker to him, dated, London the 12th of July, which mentions that he had just seen Mr. De Miranda,...de Miranda was a Latin-American soldier and adventurer who had served with the French in the American War of Independence. After the war, he devoted his energies to promoting Latin-American independence. Following a visit to the United...
5To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
Doctor Craigie has communicated to me, a letter from Mr Daniel Parker to him, dated, London the 12th of July, which mentions that he had just seen Mr De Miranda, who had recently conversed with the Marquis Del Campo, from whom he had learnt that the Court of Spain had acceded to our right of navigating the Mississippi....1790 he informed Francisco de Miranda, a former Spanish army officer, that...
6To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15–22 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
William Grenville may have informed Lord Dorchester of his and William Pitt’s secret meetings with the Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastián Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816) during key phases of the Nootka Sound crisis. Miranda, a brevet colonel in the Spanish army in Cuba, was accused of smuggling and fled to the United States in 1783, protesting his innocence and harboring...
7To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
...Mexico and Central and South America. Hamilton and Henry Knox may have passed on information obtained from Venezuelan revolutionary Sebastian Francisco de Miranda, with whom they had earlier associated. In 1784 Miranda consulted the two about a filibustering expedition against the Spanish in South America and left a cipher with Knox for secure future communications, but the secretary of war...
8To George Washington from Eliphalet Fitch, 10 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
: Adams Family Papers). A native of Boston, he moved to Jamaica where he owned a sugar plantation, engaged in mercantile activities, and held the post of receiver general. In 1781 he was involved with Francisco de Miranda in supplying the Spanish with naval stores (
9To George Washington from Saint-Jean, 24 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Georgia where he held the post of colonel and adjutant general of the Georgia militia. In the mid–1780s he spent some time in Venezuela and, probably with the encouragement of his friend Francisco de Miranda, went to Spain to complain to the Spanish court of abuses he had suffered at the hands of colonial officials. By 1789 he was living in Bordeaux, forming plans for the establishment of a...
10To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 12 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...and in June 1786 he married Abigail Amelia, daughter of John and Abigail Adams. In 1787 he went to Spain and Portugal on a diplomatic mission for Congress. After a tour of Europe with Francisco de Miranda, he returned to the United States in 1788 and became heavily involved in land speculation and increasingly burdened by debt. On 20 June John Adams wrote to GW in support of his son-in-law’s...