108011To George Washington from James McHenry, 31 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
If you see no objection to the inclosed letter in answer to Mr Hawkins received to-day it may be sent by to-morrows mail. I have the honour to be Sir with sincere regard Your ob. st ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The ALS is docketed 31 May 1796, which matches the date on the letter-book copy. Neither the enclosed letter to Benjamin Hawkins nor the one to which it responded has been identified.
108012To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 31 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to inclose a letter from our Consul at Cadiz, with one for the President. The secretary recollects a Colo. Tatem’s calling on him last summer. He said he had been formerly in the southwestern territory—talked about very valuable maps of the U. States or some of them which he had made and was making; but needed pecuniary aid to complete & publish his...
108013[June 1796] (Washington Papers)
1. Clear, with the Wind varying, but chiefly Westwardly. 2. Clear all day with the wind at So. West & Warm. 3. Clear & warm with but little wind and that Southerly. 4. Warm with but very little Wind. In the afternoon there was appearances of Rain but none fell. 5. Clear morning & showery afternoon—with variable wind from So. W. to N. Et. 6. Raining a little in the forenoon—clear afterwards....
108014From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
According to an intimation I gave you at Philadelphia before I left it, I have now the Honour to request the favour of you to Send me a Quarters Salary, in a Post Note for Twelve hundred and fifty Dollars, and I hereby authorize you to discharge the warrant neccessary for that Purpose as fully as I could do, if I were present. The Political World in this Quarter of it, is as Still and calm as...
108015From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 1 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I am told the Executive Directory have complained of Mr. Parish our Consul at Hamburgh. Perhaps the complaint may be ill founded but perhaps also he was indiscreet in giving colour for it. Admit too that he is a good man. Yet we must not quarrel with France for pins and needles . The public temper would not bear any umbrage taken where a trifling concession might have averted it. Tis a case...
108016From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 29th was delivered me by Mr. King yesterday afternoon. I thought I had acknowleged the Receipt of the paper inquired for in a letter written speedily after it—or in one which transmitted you a draft of a certain letter by Mr. Jay. I hope this came to hand. I am almost afraid to appear officious in what I am going to say; but the matter presses so deeply on my mind that...
108017[Diary entry: 1 June 1796] (Washington Papers)
1. Clear, with the Wind varying, but chiefly Westwardly.
108018To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th was delivered me by Mr King yesterday afternoon. I thought I had acknowleged the Receipt of the paper inquired for in a letter written speedily after it—or in one which transmitted you a draft of a certain letter by Mr Jay. I hope this came to hand. I am almost afraid to appear officious in what I am going to say; but the matter presses so deeply on my mind that fearing...
108019To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
Feeling myself incapable of nourishing an implacable Resentment; and in conformity with your better and dispassionate Judgment I have after maturely considering all that passed Yesterday, determined to dine with you Tomorrow, when I will endeavor to meet your Ideas with Fortitude. With Sentiments of Respect & Affection I am Sir Your sincere Friend ALS , DLC:GW ; ALS , ViMtvL . The ALS at DLC...
108020Indenture with Matthew Ritchie, 1 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
1 June 1796. In consideration of $12,000 paid by Ritchie, GW and Martha Washington convey to him “A CERTAIN TRACT or piece of Land Situate lying and being in Washington County in Pennsylvania aforesaid formerly Augusta County in the State of Virginia on the Waters of Millers Run, One of the Branches of Shirtee Creek which is a Branch of the Ohio River and bounded as follows: to Wit, “BEGINNING...
108021Proceedings of the Sinking Fund Commissioners, 1 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund , at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of June 1796. Present, The Secretary of State, the Secretary of The Treasury The Attornay General. A Report of the Secretary of the Treasury dated May 31st 1796, respecting the measures proper to be adopted by this Board, for the due execution of the Act entitled “An Act...
108022From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 1 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons for appointments in the Army of the United States. John Wilkins of Pennsylvania to be Quarter Master General vice OHara resigned. Joseph Philips, Surgeon’s Mate in the First Sub Legion to be Surgeon of the third Sub Legion vice Heyward resigned. David Davis to be Surgeons Mate in the first Sub Legion vice Philips promoted. Cyrus Dart to be Surgeon’s Mate in the...
108023To James Madison from Richard Harrison, 1 June 1796 (Madison Papers)
I herewith return to you Mr. Russells papers with my objection, being in substance what I had the honor to state on a former occasion. His claim, though apparently founded in justice, cannot be admitted at the Treasury without violating a principle which has been rigidly and, I believe, necessarily, adhered to; and without besides, interfering with Congress, to whose decision a number of cases...
108024To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Pleasants, 1 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Concieving the Instruction of black Children to be a duty we owe to that much degraded part of our fellow Creatures, and probably would tend to the spiritual and temporal advantage of that unhappy race, as well as to the Community at large, in fitting them for freedom, which at this enlightened day is generally acknowledged to be their right, I have much desired to see some sutable steps taken...
108025John Quincy Adams to Joshua Johnson, 2 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
I arrived at Gravesend on Saturday, barely in time to get on board the vessel in which I had engaged my passage, and which was already under weigh. After a voyage of three days, I landed at Rotterdam, and came on here immediately. In the boat from Rotterdam I met M r: Bourne, who was on his return from Paris, and who goes on this day to Amsterdam As I understand there is a vessel going to...
108026John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson, 2 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
You remember I was ordered peremptorily to be at Gravesend on Saturday morning by ten or eleven o’clock at the latest, though it was impossible for me to procure the necessary order to embark, and of course impossible for me to leave London before twelve. To reconcile the two circumstances was not within my competency, and indeed I think it might be given as no easy task to an abler man. I had...
108027[Diary entry: 2 June 1796] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear all day with the wind at So. West & Warm.
108028[Diary entry: 3 June 1796] (Washington Papers)
3. Clear & warm with but little wind and that Southerly.
108029To George Washington from Jeremiah Claypole, 3 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I Propose to pay the President of the United States Eight Dollars pr accre for what is Call’d Round Bottem—on the Ohio river—Provided it will be accepted by the President—or his agant from Your Obedt Humble Servt ALS , DLC:GW . Jeremiah Claypole (Claypoole, Claypool), the stepson of a plantation owner in Hampshire County, Va. (now W.Va.), sold a “negro woman named Rachel and her children, with...
108030From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 3 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 30th Ulto was received yesterday. As I expect (nothing new & unforeseen happening to prevent it) to commence my journey for Mount Vernon in ten or twelve days, I shall enter into no details respecting any of the matters touched upon in your letter of the above date. The chief design of my writing to you by this Post, is to inform you that your good Mother, and lovely son,...
108031To George Washington from David Lenox, 3 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have till now deferred making application to you on behalf of a Man to whom I conceive myself indebted for life, from the consideration that it might be improper while the fate of others were undetermined, as well as the consideration of troubling you during the Session of Congress. The Person Sir who is the object of my addressing you, is a certain Benjamin Parkinson who was concerned in...
108032To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 3 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully lays before the President of the United States a note from Mr Liston, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister plenipotentiary, with copies of two letters, one from Lord Dorchester, the other from the Sheriff of Montreal; and expresses his concurrence with Mr Liston in the opinion, That while the reciprocal delivery of murderers & forgers is expressly stipulated in...
108033Charles Adams to John Adams, 4 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
The canvass of the votes for Senators for this district and for Members of Assembly to Represent the City of New York was finished yesterday by the Statement I send you herewith you will perceive that the politics of this State have begun to run in a vigorous stream in the proper channel. M r Burr is by this time pretty well convinced that his popularity is much less than he had fondly...
108034[Diary entry: 4 June 1796] (Washington Papers)
4. Warm with but very little Wind. In the afternoon there was appearances of Rain but none fell.
108035From George Washington to James McHenry, 4 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
Return the enclosed as soon as Mr Ross (under strong injunctions) have read it—Never put papers, improper to be seen, under a cover sealed with a Wafer—At any time, but especially when wet, the contents m⟨ay⟩ be seen and the cover closed ⟨mutilated ⟩ without suspicion, or appearan⟨ce⟩ of being opened. ALS (photocopy), DLC : James McHenry Papers. McHenry wrote a note dated 4 June 1796 at the...
108036From George Washington to James McHenry, 4 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
If it is not too late for Fenno’s Paper of this Afternoon, an extract from Chapins letter, respecting the removal of the artillery, Stores &ca from Niagara, to the other side of the River (British side) might afford pleasing information. I presume there can be no doubt of its authenticity. Yrs always ALS , PHi : Dreer Collection. The letter’s date derives from the publication of the suggested...
108037To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 4 June 1796 (Jay Papers)
In the last Article of the British Treaty, concluded between you and Lord Grenville on the 19 th : of November 1794, it is agreed that there shall be added to it other Articles which for want of time and other circumstances could not then be perfected. As it is intended to authorize M r . King to enter into further negotiations with Great Britain, I shall feel myself greatly obliged by your...
108038From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 4 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of May 29. Some time in the course of the last year I was informed by Mr. Meade that he held a draught of Mr. Ceracchi’s on me for 1000 D. and desired to know if it was good. I explained to him, too much at length to be here repeated, how unfounded the draught was, and that I should not accept it. Nothing further therefore is now necessary than to repeat to you that I...
108039To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 5 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to recommend to your attention the Bearer of this Letter Mr: Benjamin Huger, a Gentleman of family & fortune in this State; he is the Son of Major Huger who unfortunately fell at the lines of Charleston in 1779, & the Eldest Brother of the Mr: Huger who was imprisoned by the Austrians for attempting the rescue of the brave Marquis la Fayette. He intends to travel with his Lady this...
108040[Diary entry: 5 June 1796] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear morning & showery afternoon—with variable wind from So. W. to N. Et.