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...