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...
78901Report on the Petition of Robert Oliver and Hugh Thompson, [2 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the President of the Senate] The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the Senate, the Memorial of Oliver and Thompson respectfully makes thereupon the following report. It is the object of this Memorial to obtain restitution for a sum of duties alleged to have been overpaid in the district of Baltimore in consequence of certain mistakes. The business of rectifying mistakes in...
78902To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
After so long an experience of your public services, I am naturally led, at this moment of your departure from office —which it has always been my wish to prevent—to review them. In every relation, which you have borne to me, I have found that my confidence in your talents, exertions and integrity, has been well placed. I the more freely render this testimony of my approbation, because I speak...
78903From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 2 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I forbear to make any comments on that violent sense of duty which at this late and critical hour has compelled the virtuous mind of Mr. Coxe to make to you the communication contained in his letter of yesterday. I shall proceed to submit to The President with candour and truth my view of the case. Towards this it will be useful to cite the expressions of the Act referred to. They are these...
78904To George Washington from John Taylor Gilman, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inclose herewith, an Attested Copy of an Act of the legislature of this State Entitled, “An Act to ratify an Article proposed in amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” and of being, with great respect, Sir, Your most obedient servant. Copy, DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, second session, entry 33. The copy was transmitted to Congress with GW’s first...
78905From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
After so long an experience of your public services, I am naturally led, at this moment of your departure from office —which it has always been my wish to prevent—to review them. In every relation, which you have borne to me, I have found that my confidence in your talents, exertions and integrity, has been well placed. I the more freely render this testimony of my approbation, because I speak...
78906To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I forbear to make any comments on that violent sense of duty which at this late and critical hour has compelled the virtuous mind of Mr Coxe to make to you the communication contained in his letter of yesterday. I shall proceed to submit to The President with candour and truth my view of the case. Towards this it will be useful to cite the expressions of the Act referred to. They are these “In...
78907From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Oliver Wolcott Junr to be Secretary for the Treasury Department of the United States, vice Alexander Hamilton, who has resigned that office. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . The Senate confirmed this nomination on 3 Feb. ( Senate Executive Journal Journal of the Executive...
78908From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons to fill the offices annexed to their respective names. Matthew Clarkson, to be Commissioner of Loans for the State of New York; vice John Cochran, resigned. John Burnham, to be Collector for the port of Gloucester in Massachusetts; vice Eppes Sargent, resigned. Enoch Sawyer, to be Collector of Camden in North Carolina; vice Isaac Gregory, resigned. Thomas...
78909To George Washington from William Williams, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
It is not without concern & anxiety That I dare undertake to do an act which I fear may be considered a transgression of the rules of propriety. Your Excellency will be surprized but I hope not deeply & durably offended, that so small an Individual as I am sho’d presume to address a Letter to such a Personage as yourself. Your Excellency’s very great & all important Services to your Country,...
78910To George Washington from Leighton Wood, 2 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
In consideration of my having spent many Years in the service of Virginia (eleven of them as Auditor & Solicitor) and of the present low Salaries to Clerks, I am most reluctantly compelled by necessity to intrude on your Goodness; soliciting your appointment to some office that you may suppose me capable of conducting without manifest disadvantage to the Interest of the United States. I have...