78851Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
on thursday I received a Letter from Col Smith informing me of the Birth of a Grandaughter. this You may be sure was much more agreable to me than to have heard of an other Boy. Mrs Smith is finely too, he writes me. this is an additional Blessing, to hear of the safety of our Dear Children abroad, and to receive the news of our Daughters being well abed—and with a Daughter, has given Such a...
78852John Adams to Charles Adams, 7 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
I was So happy in the News of the agreable Circumstances of your Sister and her Infant, and of the Safe Arrival of your Brothers at the Hague and Amsterdam, that the melancholly Account in your Letter of the 5 th came upon me by Surprize and afflicted me very much. The detestable Cause of your sisters Misfortune the Infidelity or Negligence of the Apothecary, is alarming to every Body. The...
78853To Alexander Hamilton from Edward Carrington, 7 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
By the last Mail I had the Honor to receive yours of the 29th. Ult. communicating the Presidents offer of the place of Comptroller of the Treasury. Calls to public Office from that source can never be received by me but with immotions of the highest reverence and gratification, dictated as they uniformly are by motives of public good, they constitute the most flattering evidences of merit,...
78854To George Washington from Israel Shreve, 7 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I received your Excellencys letter dated the 14th of last month respecting the whole of the tract of land whereon I Live Containing near about 1744 Acres strict measure wherein you have been pleased to offer it to me for the sum of four thousand Pounds Pennsylvania Currency, one fourth part to be paid down by the first day of June next, and the Residue to be paid within five years...
78855To George Washington from Paine Wingate, 7 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The office of Destrict Judge in New-Hampshire having become vacant by the Death of General Sullivan, I beg leave to recommend John Pickering Esquire as a suitable person to fill that place. He is a Gentleman eminent in his law-profession, distinguished for his good abilities, and has an irreproachable moral character. He has sustained several of the most respectable offices in the State, and...
78856From John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 3–6 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
My last to you was of the 2 Jan y by the Packet— since which I have not had the pleasure of recs any Letters from You; nor have any opportunities of writing to you since offered, that I know of— This has hitherto been one of the most severe winters known in this Country for many Years. There has been so much Snow and Frost, that for a Fortnight Sleighs might have been used. The weather has...
78857From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 6 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
The time which has intervened between the receipt of your favor, covering D’Ivernois’ letter, and this answer, needs apology. but this will be found in the state of the case. I had received from him a letter similar to that you inclosed. as the adoption of his plan depended on our legislature, and it was then in session, I immediately inclosed it to a member with a request that he would sound...
78858From John Trumbull to John Adams, 6 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
I received yours of the 24 th. of Jan y. with the enclosures, & esteem myself honored by your confidence. The general idea among us relative to the treaty with Great Britain has been, that D r: Franklin scarcely extended his ideas beyond the hopes of a long truce, guaranteed by our Allies, without the acknowlegement of our Independence, or a settlement of the line of our Inland boundaries.—...
78859To Alexander Hamilton from James Gordon, [6 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed herewith you have the whole of the correspondence between the Governor and us. The first letter is in the News Papers and the other two are manuscript. I am with perfect respect your Most Obedt. servt ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Gordon was a Federalist member of the House of Representatives from New York. This letter concerns the attempt by Federalist members of the...
78860To George Washington from George Lewis, 6 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 18th Ult. with two Plats of land I receiv’d this day. my Mothers absence on a visit to my Sister Carter in Culpeper County, prevented my getting them sooner, as they were under cover to her, otherwise they would have been acknowledged ere this. It is not in my power to say any thing of my own knowledge respecting your lands, nor have I been able to make any enquiery as yet...
78861From John Jay to Edmund Randolph, 6 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
I was yesterday honored with yours of the 3 d . Dec r last. our Vessels here being confined by Ice, I think it best to send you some Dispatches by the Packet. In considering the Treaty, it will doubtless be remembered that there must be two to make a Bargain. We could not agree about the Negroes. was that a good Reason for breaking up the negociation? I mentioned in a former Letter that I...
78862From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 6 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The time which has intervened between the receipt of your favor , covering D’Ivernois’ letter, and this answer, needs apology. But this will be found in the state of the case. I had received from him a letter similar to that you inclosed. As the adoption of his plan depended on our legislature, and it was then in session, I immediately inclosed it to a member with a request that he would sound...
78863From Thomas Jefferson to François D’Ivernois, 6 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors on the affairs of Geneva found me here in the month of December last. It is now more than a year that I have withdrawn myself from public affairs, which I never liked in my life but was drawn into by emergencies which threatened our country with slavery but ended in establishing it free. I have returned with infinite appetite to the enjoyment of my farm, my family and my...
78864From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed Pamphlet and Papers I have received this Week from the Author, with his request to transmit them to you. I have before transmitted in the Course of this Winter, another Packet from the Same Writer; but have as yet no answer from you: so that I am uncertain whether you have rec d it— M r Jays Treaty with Britain is not yet arrived at the Secretary of States office; though there is...
78865From George Washington to Robert Morris, 5 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
If any land, of which I am possessed on the Ohio River, is thought an eligable site for a town; and those who wish to see one established thereon, and, at the sametime, are disposed to promote the measure; will come forward with some digested plan, in writing, for my consideration, no unfounded objections will, I am persuaded, be made on my part. I take the liberty of making this communication...
78866To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 5 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of inclosing to the President, a Letter from Mr Harrison of New York and some remarks wh. Mr Rutherford of Virginia desired him to transmit to the President. L , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Neither Mr. Harrison’s letter nor Robert Rutherford’s remarks have been identified. On 10 Feb.,...
78867To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 5 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor of returning to the President, the papers respecting the Ship of War to be built in Georgia. Nothing seems to be further necessary on the part of the President, unless perhaps it be to say to the Department, which has the principal superintendance of the Business, that a minute attention to economy is peculiarly desirable; and that it is recommended, that...
78868Memorandum to John Trumbull, 5 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
M r . Sibbald of upper Harley Street, is sollicitous to obtain Information of relative to M r . Hesilriggs late of Boulogne in France, sent to arras by order of the Convention with other English Gentlemen— Endeavour to learn whether he be dead or alive Deliver M r . Collets Letter to M r Dubignon Endeavour to learn whether the wife and Family of M r the Swedish Consul at Marseilles are well— M...
78869From James Madison to Samuel Dexter, Jr., 5 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. inst: did not fall into my hands till late last evening. As the conversation you propose can on no acct. be objectionable to me, I shall concur in it with the pleasure I ought to feel in complying with your wishes. Perhaps I ought myself to wish for an oppy. of removing one at least of the impressions you are under, which may not do justice to the consistency between my...
78870To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, Jr., 5 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
I received your favour of this Morning, & will with pleasure take a family dinner with you on Sunday. You mention an impression on my mind respecting difference in former & present political Conduct, if this be wrong, I shall be particularly happy in its removal. I really have believed, perhaps from misrepresentation, that the fact was unquestionable, & that the only question was as to the...
78871To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
Congress drawing to a close, I must trouble you with a bundle of little commissions 1. to procure for me a copy of the correspondence between Genet, Hammond & myself at large. 2. a pamphlet entitled ‘Sketches on rotations of crops,’ to be had I believe at Dobson’s. The author in a note pa. 43. mentions some former publication of his, which I should be glad to have also; as I am sure it must be...
78872To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 5 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed Pamphlet and Papers I have received this Week from the Author, with his request to transmit them to you. I have before transmitted in the Course of this Winter, another Packet from the same Writer; but have as yet no answer from you: so that I am uncertain whether you have received it. Mr. Jays Treaty with Britain is not yet arrived at the Secretary of States office, though there...
78873From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 5 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress drawing to a close, I must trouble you with a bundle of little commissions We have now had about 4. weeks of winter weather, rather hard for our climate—many little snows which did not lay 24. hours, and one 9. I. deep which remained several days. We have had few thawing days during the time.—It is generally feared here that your collegue F. Walker will be in great danger of losing...
78874From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well, and especially the children, who will forget you if you do not return soon. Jefferson is under daily discipline with our puppy. He mends a little of his fears, but very slowly. We have been all kept much within doors by a spell of very cold weather which has now lasted about 4. weeks. During this no ploughing done. The men Mr. Randolph hired for me arrived last Saturday with...
78875From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 4 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d your kind Letter of Jan. 24. and have read, Sealed and sent as you desired your Letter to General Knox, for whose bold Expressions, upon which you have remarked I was always sorry. I presume he did not mean that our Population had been destructive to Indians like the Cruelties of Pisarro &c but that it had prevented their Population as much— The Expressions however were not well...
78876From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The circumstances of having offered my late report to Congress to the two houses which rendered two copies necessary & the extreme press of business in the office in preparing for my resignation, prevented my sending you a manuscript copy of that Report. I have now corrected a printed copy for you which I have the honor to send herewith. With true respect & attacht. I have the honor to be...
78877To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 February … (Hamilton Papers)
Amsterdam, February 4, 1795. Concerns the foreign debt of the United States. LS , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. This letter is incorrectly addressed to H as Secretary of the Treasury. He had resigned from that position on January 31, 1795, and was succeeded by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. See H to George Washington, January 31, 1795 , and Washington to H, February 2, 1795, note 1 .
78878To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Board have for some time contemplated a statement of the affairs of the City, to be laid before you; which has been hitherto delayed by the difficulty of collecting the several Documents necessary to accompany it; and which even yet are very far from being perfect. Independent of the present circumstances of Affairs, there are strong reasons why our proceedings at certain stated periods...
78879To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The circumstance of having offered my late report to Congress to the two houses which rendered two copies necessary & the extreme press of business in the office in preparing for my resignation prevented my sending you a manuscript copy of that Report. I have now corrected a printed copy for you which I have the honor to send herewith. With true respect & attacht I have the honor to be Sir Yr...
78880To George Washington from Robert R. Livingston, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The favourable reception you were pleased to give to the first part of the transactions of the incorporated society for promoting agriculture arts & manufactures induces me to beg your acceptance of a vol: containing that & the second part. In this you may find some new ideas on agriculture & on the subject of luzerne more experiments than have before been published in America or Great...
78881To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of submitting to your consideration a letter from the late Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of an act passed on the 20th of March last, appropriating to our intercourse with foreign nations an additional million of dollars. He refers to a report, in which he has brought into view the necessity of some further provision, and transmits an extract of a letter from...
78882To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to send you inclosed an authenticated copy of, “an Act to cede to the United States of America certain lands upon the conditions therein mentioned,” The original act having been mislaid, I had it not in my power to get a Copy until my arrival here. I have the honor to be with respect Sir your most obedient servant Copy, DNA : RG 46, entry 47; LB , Nc-Ar : Governors’...
78883To George Washington from James Jones Wilmer, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been acting some time past under a Commission from Timothy Pickering Esqr. as Post master in this Town. The business is perfectly familiar and intelligible to me, but the compensation to the Post Master, tho’ equally obliged to be constant at his Post as in other places, will not exceed Fifty Dollars at the close of the year. I have a young, numerous and increasing Family of Children,...
78884To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been informed thro’ The Secretary of State, that you have been pleased to appoint me to the office of Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. It is with real diffidence that I undertake to discharge the important duties incident to this appointment; yet if constant exertions & strict fidelity can compensate for such qualifications as I may not possess, I indulge a hope that my...
78885From James Madison to John Adams, 3 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
I have been induced to this delay in acknowledging your Letter of the 23 d , inclosing one to you from M r. Belknap of the 2 d. Ult o by a desire to obtain from my memory all the information it might have ever possessed in relation to the error in Doc r. Kippis’ life of Capt. Cook. I was not a member of Congress till March 1780. It is probable therefore that, if his directions to American...
78886From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 3 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
My particular acknowlegements are due for your very kind letter of yesterday. As often as I may recall the vexations I have endured, your approbation will be a great and precious consolation. It was not without a struggle, that I yielded to the very urgent motives, which impelled me to relinquish a station, in which I could hope to be in any degree instrumental in promoting the success of an...
78887To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Willing, 3 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The President & Directors of the Bank of the United States acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st. Ulto. & feel with peculiar sensibility the notification of your Resignation; With sincerity they offer their best wishes, that you may be as happy in private, as your administration has rendered you useful, in public life. They recollect with extreme satisfaction the liberal and...
78888To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 3 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
My particular acknowlegements are due for your very kind letter of yesterday—As often as I may recall the vexations I have endured, your approbation will be a great and precious consolation. It was not without a struggle, that I yielded to the very urgent motives, which impelled me to relinquish a station, in which I could hope to be in any degree instrumental in promoting the success of an...
78889To George Washington from David Humphreys, 3 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I seize the earliest moment to inform you of my safe arrival here (after a most disagreeable passage of sixty one days) on the very urgent & important business, stated in my three last letters from Lisbon (Nrs 149, 150 & 151) to the Secretary of State. I hope the Originals will have reached him; or, if they should have miscarried, that the Copies (which I forwarded at Sea, on the 28th of...
78890To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 3 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to inclose for your perusal a letter of the first instant from Captain Bruff of the corps of artillerists and engineers, at Baltimore, respecting the arrest and character of William B. Smith of the same corps; and a letter of the 27th ulto from Lieutenant Smith, asking to be removed to Norfolk, under pretence that Baltimore disagrees with his health, and declaring, “if he is not...
78891From James Madison to John Adams, 3 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have been induced to this delay in acknowledging your letter of the 23d, inclosing one to you from Mr. Belknap of the 2d. Ulto. by a desire to obtain from my memory all the information it might have ever possessed in relation to the error in Docr. Kippis’ life of Capt: Cook. I was not a member of Congress till March 1780. It is probable therefore that, if his directions to American...
78892To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, Jr., 3 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
The subject of this is confidential. I have lately been told by a Gent. well acquainted with you, that he believed you were of opinion that a part of America is systematically struggling for a Government incompatible with equal rights, & that your political conduct is governed by this apprehension. This has induced me strongly to wish for a conversation with you on the subject, if perfectly...
78893To James Madison from Hubbard Taylor, 3 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed you will receive some papers respecting a late decision of our Court of appeals, which has given rise to great deal of argumentation respecting the Claims of Settlements & pre-emptions granted by the Commissione[r]s in the years 79 & 80. The Memorial is said [to] be drawn by Mr. Jno. Brackengridge, signed chiefly by the holders of Settlts. & preemptts. That great indavidual disstress...
78894Military Establishment, [3 February] 1795 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of the Whole rejected Nicholas’s report on the military establishment and took up Dayton’s resolution. Mr. Madison, after all that had been said, was still of opinion that there had been a change in our situation, and so there might be a possibility that a reduction was proper. By the arrangements made in this session, it might be practicable to reduce the numbers nominally and...
78895John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
This Morning I received your favour of the 21 st. of January. I am Sure your People do a great deal of Work, So dont be concern’d— I am very well Satisfied with your Agricultural Diary. The venerable Governor made the best Speech he ever made—but the old Leaven ferments a little in it.— I wonder you had not rec d two Letters from Thomas which I inclosed to you. I now inclose you one from M r...
78896John Adams to Charles Adams, 2 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
A Letter from M r Jay of the 24. of November informs me, that he had rec d two Letters from your Brother in Holland, one of the 14 th. and another of the 20 th. the first at the Hague the last at Amsterdam, which inform’d him that your Brother had been presented to their High Mightinesses, and rec d and acknowledged by them, and that he had Afterwards had an Audience of the statholder. so that...
78897Report on the Improvement and Better Management of the Revenue of the United States, [31 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully makes the following report to the House of Representatives. According to the present laws imposing duties on articles imported into the United States, not much Short of one third of the whole amount of the duties is derived from articles rated advalorem. In other nations, where this branch of revenue,...
78898To Alexander Hamilton from John Quincy Adams, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The Hague, February 2, 1795. Discusses the political situation and the money market in Europe. LC , Adams Family Papers, deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. This letter is incorrectly addressed to H as Secretary of the Treasury. He had resigned from that position on January 31, 1795, and was succeeded by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. See H to George Washington, January 31, 1795 ,...
78899To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston ] February 2, 1795 . Requests his salary “as Commissioner of the United States Loan Office in the State of Massachusetts, for the Quarter ending 31st Decemr. 1794.” ALS , RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts, 1790–1894, Account No. 6454, National Archives. This letter is incorrectly addressed to H as Secretary of the Treasury. He had resigned from that position on January 31, 1795,...
78900From Alexander Hamilton to William Frazer, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The near approach of the time of my departure from this City prevented my sending back Master Philip. I thank you for your obliging conduct in regard to him and my other boy & generally towards this family. Have the goodness, My Dear Sir, to send me your account with as little delay as possible. Mrs Hamilton also requests that you will send here by the first opportunity Philip’s Bedstead...