George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 28 February 1792 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from Edmund Randolph, 28 Feb. 1792. On 2 Mar. Tobias Lear wrote Randolph “that the President received the Attorney General’s letter of the 28th of february.”1

1. By the president’s command Tobias Lear wrote Edmund Randolph that GW was “of opinion that it would be inexpedient for a pardon to issue for a person against whom an indictment is depending for false swearing. The President observes that the other two pardons mentioned in the Attorney General’s letter have not been submitted to him” (Lear to Randolph, 2 Mar. 1792, DNA:RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters). GW apparently received those two pardons before 3 Mar., when Lear transmitted to Thomas Jefferson “two pardons which have received the President’s signature for the seal &c. to be affixed thereto” (DLC: Jefferson Papers).

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    To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 28 February 1792 [letter not found]
    Author
    Randolph, Edmund
    Recipient
    Washington, George
    Date
    28 February 1792

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    “To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 28 February 1792 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0370. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 23 September 1791 – 29 February 1792, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 606.]

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