78881To 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...
78882To 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...
78883From 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...
78884To 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...
78885To 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...
78886Military 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...
78887John 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...
78888John 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...
78889Report 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,...
78890To 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 ,...
78891To 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,...
78892From 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...
78893Report 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...
78894To 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...
78895From 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...
78896To 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...
78897From 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...
78898To 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...
78899From 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...
78900From 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...
78901To 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,...
78902To 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...
78903From John Jay to Edmund Randolph, 2 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
It occurs to me that I have omitted to inform you that after signing the Treaty, I took the three first opportunities which offered of writing to our Minister at Paris, “that it contained an express declaration that nothing contained in it, should be construed or operate against existing Treaties between the United and other powers.[”] The following are Copies of those Letters— It gives me...
78904Military Establishment, [2 February] 1795 (Madison Papers)
On 20 January FitzSimons moved that the House request the president to submit a plan for the defense of the frontiers. After JM “doubted if it was agreeable to the Constitution,” FitzSimons withdrew his motion. On 21 January the Committee of the Whole took up Nicholas’s report, which recommended that the military establishment be authorized to continue in service until 1 June 1798 ( Annals of...
78905From James Madison to Alexander White, 2 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 2 February 1795. Acknowledged in White to JM, 14 Feb. 1795 . Apparently discusses news reports of Jay’s negotiations with Great Britain, the prospects for peace in Europe, and legislation pending in Congress.
78906John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
You have sometime since, I presume, received my Letters inclosing those of our son Thomas of the 19 th. of October: You have also I hope and doubt not been informed by Col smith or Charles of the good Fortune of our Daughter, who on the twenty Eighth of January went to bed in good health as could be expected with an healthy Daughter. I congratulate you on all these prosperous Events, and wish...
78907To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [1 February 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
I received the enclosed letter with the document therein, last night. For reasons which will appear obvious, I make you acquainted with the contents of them, being Yours ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. H endorsed this letter: “This covered a letter from Mr. Coxe of the 31 of January 1795 containing a charge against Mr. Woolcott for my having committed to him & he having exercised...
78908From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 1 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I received the enclosed letter with the document therein, last night. For reasons which will appear obvious, I make you acquainted with the contents of them—being Yours ALS , DLC : Alexander Hamilton Papers. See Tench Coxe to GW, 31 January. Hamilton summarized that enclosure on the cover of this letter: “This covered a letter from Mr Coxe of the 31 of January 1795 contains a charge against Mr...
78909From George Washington to William Pearce, 1 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
I write to you this week, more for the sake of letting you know that your l⟨e⟩tter of the 25th Ulto with the reports, came safe, than because I have any thing to communicate that is in any degree material. I have no doubt of Ceder making a good hedge—but I have very great ones of your getting them to live, when transplanted; and if they should not, your labour as well as the plants will be...
78910To George Washington from William Pearce, c.1 Feb. 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, c.1 Feb. 1795. On 8 Feb., GW wrote Pearce: “Your letter with its enclosures, came to my hands as usual.”