82001From George Washington to William Pearce, 16–17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11th with its enclosures came to hand at the usual time; but not so as that, enquiry co[ul]d be made into the prices of linnen, & you to be informed, by the Post of tomorrow (this day being Sunday)—Go on therefore, until you hear further from me, to get linnen as fast as it can be worked up. The 11½ d. linnen is as good as any for the boys, girls & small people, who do...
82002Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
I received your two kind favours last Evening of march 2 d & 8 th . the seasons I belive have been very near alike both here and with you. we have had several days of warm & muggy weather, the Ground thawing the slug & miller very industerous, and as the Scripture assures us that tis Lawfull to do good upon the Sabbeth, my people are employd in Annoying these destructive Enemies, who make not...
82003John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of 8. March is just put into my hand.— My beloved Mother is very near my heart and has Spread a gloom over my Days from the first of her Illness. I must resign her to the Disposition of the supreme Ruler and prepare to follow her Example if I can in Life and in Death. My Love to my Brother and his Family who will be sincere Mourners with me and you upon this occasion. It grieves me...
82004Report on the Petition of Richard Wade and Others, [17 March 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred the representation of Richard Wade and others respectfully reports thereupon as follows: The paper A herewith transmitted (being a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue, who is charged with the immediate Superintendance of the Light House Establishments) exhibits the result of the investigation, which has been made in relation to the...
82005From Alexander Hamilton to William Seton, 17 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I thank you much for your friendly & expeditious attention to my late requests. All the papers you have sent will answer my ideas except the account of Amsterdam Bills. It is essential I should exhibit to the Committee the monies actually in deposit in each Bank from that source at the end of each quarter and not then passed to the account of the Treasurer. The statement sent me exhibits sums...
82006To George Washington from Benjamin Flower, 17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to present you with a performance which my Countrymen have favourably received, and which I request your acceptance of, as a small, though sincere token of respect, for a gentleman whose talents and virtues have excited the admiration of the great and the good, in every quarter of the Globe. I should not have presumed in the liberty I have now taken, had I not been assured by my...
82007From George Washington to Betty Washington Lewis, 17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Betty Washington Lewis, 17 March 1794. Betty Washington Lewis wrote GW on 23 March that “Your letter of the 17th Came safe to hand.”
82008To George Washington from Pastor Americanus, 17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The reason of my presuming to address you on the subject of the culture of Wool, is, because it is a matter on which the gradual abolition of our National Debt depend, i.e. upon industry and population of America, as the same is held forth in the following observations. That it is the real fact, I shall now undertake to prove: so always, and provided, That you will patronize the following...
82009From George Washington to Edmund Pendleton, 17 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 5th instt came duly to hand. I know not from what source a report that, the next associate Judge was to be taken from the state of Georgia, could have been derived. Nothing from me, I can venture to say, gave rise to it; first, because there is no vacancy on that bench at present. 2d because, whenever one does happen, it is highly probable that a geographical arrangement...
82010From James Madison to Alexander White, 17 March 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 17 March 1794. Acknowledged in White to JM, 30 Mar. 1794 . Asks for White’s opinion on proposals for an embargo; reports on Theodore Sedgwick’s plan for a military buildup.
82011To Thomas Jefferson from Diodati, 17 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Je Suis parti de Paris en May 1792, pour venir dans ce pays, Ou je Suis resté jusques a présent, et ou je resterai encore. En conséquence et venant de lire dans plusieurs papiers publics, qui l’annonçent comme une chose positive que Vous Vous étes mon cher Monsieur, chargé d’une commission en France, Je m’empresse de Vous offrir mon appartement a Paris, Rue le Pelletier, Sur le Boulevard, Vis...
82012From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
At length your clover-seed, and chocolate Nut shells, are on Ship board for Alexandria; consigned to the care of Colo. Gilpin. The Vessel was to have sailed this day, but whether she is gone, or not, I am unable to say—she has been going every day for ten days, but I would not put your things nor my own Seeds on board until the last moment, lest they should get heated in the hold. yesterday...
82013From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
You have not informed me yet, in what condition, or under what circumstances you found my lots in the Towns of Winchester and Bath—and my land above the latter: or whether you have visited all, or any of them since I see you last. I wish also to be informed how your collection stands, that I may direct the application of the money: and request you will furnish me with a correct list of all my...
82014To George Washington from John C. Ogden, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Foreign as the ecclesiastical affairs of our country may be from your immediate deliberation, yet as a member of the Church, it may not be unpleasant, to receive a line, on a new subject, which has excited some conversation. The Revd Doctr Peters of London, formerly of Connecticut, is elected Bishop of Vermont. The Revd Doctr Bass, knowing the embarrassments, as to The Church Land, and being...
82015To George Washington from One of the People, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I need not, I trust, make any apology for the freedom I now take in sending you these few lines—They are well intended, and cannot, I think, in reason, give any offence. The following truths are undeniable—There is a God—He is the supreme governor of the universe, both in a natural and moral sense—This God is holy, just, good, and merciful. Being holy, he cannot but hate sin; and being just,...
82016To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President a letter from Mr Short, received yesterday; and two books, containing his shares in the companies. Those in the James river company are a hundred, and in Potowmac fifty—See page 26. in the blue book, and 12. in the red book. [P.S.] A letter from the Superintendants of the people of St Domingo at Baltimore is also ⟨e⟩nclosed. AL , DNA : RG...
82017To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that the expression as to the merchants is changed, so as to give no possible offense, even if published. But the fact is, that amongst others Colo. Sam: Smith, of congress, yesterday declared himself to be ruined. Cyphers, by way of figures, uniformly indicative of the same word, are not beyond the reach of possible discovery—But they have...
82018To George Washington from George Lee Turberville, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Full of diffidence—And conscious of the multiplicity of essential concerns that occupy every moment of your important Life, believe me I do a violence to my feelings when I am tempted thus to tresspass on yr Leizure but the interests of a deserving and amiable Wife, and of a promising family of Children impell me to begin. I sat out in Life with the fairest prospects, and for five years...
82019To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 16 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor to write you last the inclosed have been delivered to me by a person, who received them from Europe. They were not accompanied by a letter, but were said to have come from the Editor. Last Evenings post brought us the information from London under date of the 20th. Decemr. in Fenno’s Gazette. It has added greatly to the former sensations on the Subject of the depredations...
82020To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 16 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madisons propositions are yet depending and their fate incertain. The probability is they will pass in the H. of R. and be rejected in the Senate. The steady zeal with which any thing like a systematic operation on the British commerce, or indeed any branch of her interest is opposed, you have long witnessed and can of course readily conceive upon the present occasion. The opposition as...
82021John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
I know not how to throw off, the Lassitude that hangs upon me.—weary of a daily round, which to me is more confined and more insipid than to any other. I would gladly go home: but at a time So critical as this, it would not be justifiable, to quit my Post if there were no particular Reasons against it. But as the Senate is nearly divided in all great questions, and the President pro tem, has...
82022To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, March 15, 1794. “Having duly examined the object of the petition of the Merchants, masters of vessels, and pilots of North-Carolina, referred to you on the 26th: instant by the House of Representatives, I have the honor to state to you what has occurred thereon.… The minute and accurate local knowledge requisite to the formation of a decided opinion,...
82023Edmund Randolph to William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 15 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State has it in charge from the President of the United States, to request the attendance of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, at his Room on Monday next 11. o’Clock. The following, among other subjects, will be submitted. 1. Whether it be expedient to send, to England with the complaints of spoliation, some agent to manage them,...
82024To George Washington from Pierce Butler, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am sensible You are troubled with the perusing of more letters than can be agreeable to You. I have therefore, to Crave your indulgence for intruding the inclos’d on You—It is an Act of Justice that I owe to the Citizens of So. Carolina to Convey to You their requests. ⟨I h⟩ad the honor once before, to Name Mr James Simons to ⟨you—⟩He served during the whole of the War in the Cavalry ⟨with...
82025Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be so good as to submit to the President of the United States the letter of Genl Chapin, with the accompanying speeches of the cheifs of the six nations at Buffaloe Creek on the 7th ultimo. Yours ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In his letter to Knox of 25 Feb., written at Canandaigua, N.Y., Israel Chapin wrote: “Inclosed are the proceedings of a Council holden at Buffaloe Creek, the 7th of this...
82026To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph begs leave to submit to the President the inclosed rough of a letter, just written to Mr Short, in consequence of information of the immediate departure of a vessel for Spain, which was received last night from the Spanish commissioners. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Earlier on this date, Randolph wrote...
82027To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of observing to the President in reply to his queries; that the ruin of our merchants was expressed as strongly, as it is, in order to prepare Mr Short, in case some nervous measure should be adopted by government, with a general idea of the magnitude of the cause, before a particular explanation could be forwarded to him; and that, altho’ the jealousy mentioned by...
82028To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the Secretary of wars letter to me of the 18th of January giving me instructions to cause the money detained in the hands of the Marshall of this district to be delivered to the agent of the Spanish Commissioners, He informed me that the expences which had or might be incurred in the prosecution of the business were to be defrayed by the general government, upon accounts which shall be...
82029From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th instt is at hand. Notwithstanding I have the best disposition to oblige you, & to promote the interest of your son John, yet it is impossible he can be contemplated by me as commander of one of the frigates (should the Bill now pending in Congress pass into a Law) because a number of the old Officers who served with great reputation through the whole of last war, thereby...
82030To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., [ca. 15 March] 1794 (Madison Papers)
Timothy looks well; but the last sowed is much turn’d out of the Ground: the new Seed will be sowed as soon as the ground is dry enough Wheat looks very well except the last 8 Bushels sowed L. C has got stuff enough for 8 Waggons except the Naves & some stuff for Bar Share brakes—& is getting Shingles for a Grainary: How large will you have it Apple Trees are all planted at Sawney’s—Money is...
82031Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
This Letter will not bear you so melancholy tidings, as from the close of my last, I apprehended. our Parent still lives; the ulcer which in my last, I informd you had broken upon her Lungs, and brought on the Symptoms of a speedy dissolution; she had Strength sufficient to Grapple with; all day on Sunday, we expected every moment would be her last, but she fell in to a quieter Sleep; and was...
82032To Alexander Hamilton from William Bradford, 14 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letters of the 5th instant and have considered the question therein stated for my opinion. It is, at what time does the credit upon the duties imposed on a cargo first entered for exportation and afterwards for landing, begin to run. Although this case does not appear to have been distinctly foreseen or provided for in any of the Impost...
82033From Alexander Hamilton to William Martin, 14 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Since mine to you of the 25 of July 1791 I have received sundry letters from you which have remained unanswered from a great and constant press of business cooperating with the reflection that I had at your request revised the transaction once and had explicitly informed you that the circumstances which had intervened had put the affair out of my reach. But Sir I cannot say that any thing has...
82034To George Washington from Israel Chapin, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
When I was in Philadelphia in December last Mr Jefferson gave me a copy of a letter from Charles Williamson one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Ontario dated the 26th Novr 1793 and also a Copy of an affidavit of George Rankin taken before him relative to a seizure of some property belonging to him and two others and desired me to Communicate to your excellency such...
82035From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Gentlemen, Philadelphia, Mar. 14th 1794 My object in giving you a sight of the enclosed letters from Mr Ellicott, is merely to let you see the temper; and tendency of his views; and what may be expected from his representations to others. After reading the letters, be so good as to return them to me. In September last, after having purchased four lots in Carrollsburgh (the doing of...
82036To George Washington from John Gwinn, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The division made by Hezh Veach, as referred to in the Deed to you from Colo. Mercer & others, was not transmitted to me for enrolment, owing, I imagine, to its having been omitted by Doct. Steuart, with whom the Deed was left. I shall take the liberty to inform the Doctor of its being referred to in the Deed, and of your wish to have it enrolled; and shou’d he furnish me with it, it shall be...
82037To George Washington from Thomas Mendenhall, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Being a considerable sufferer in the calamities which my fellow Citizens are at Present strugling with, has perhaps tempered my Disposition, and Excited sentiments of humanity towards the Injured Seamen of my Country, in proportion to the Indignation at the Cruel, and unpresedented Conduct of the British Cruizers which has brot these Misfortunes upon Us. the deep Impression of this sentiments,...
82038To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of informing you the other day, that the House of Representatives would probably remit to my office the documents, which related to the vexations and spoliations on our trade; conceiving, that they were of a nature, purely executive. Yesterday the Senate, as if they meant to take up the subject in some shape or other, passed a vote, as I have heard, calling for an...
82039To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The director of the mint informs me, in the inclosed letter of the 12th instant, that the treasurer is in advance to a considerable amount: that sixteen hundred dollars will be sufficient, up to the first of April next, and three thousand more, up to the first of July. I called upon Mr Rittenhouse, and represented to him, that it would be better to go no farther at present, than the 1600...
82040To George Washington from Charles Simms, 14 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 29th of January inclosing a letter to Mr Keith, I received in due time, and immediately deliverd the Letter to him, who paid me the amount of my account against you as Executor of Colvils will and took my receipt for that Sum—and informd me that he should write to you by the then next succeeding Post. I therefore did not think it necessary to trouble you with a Letter on...
82041From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1794 (Madison Papers)
The paper of yesterday inclosed, will give you a clue to the designs of the faction which has used Sedgwick for its organ. His immediate prompter will be seen both in his speech and in his propositions. Whether more be seriously aimed at than to embarrass the others which have been long depending, is by some doubted. Perhaps this may be one of the objects; but you understand the game behind...
82042Closed Sessions of the House, [14 March] 1794 (Madison Papers)
During debate on JM’s resolutions on commercial discrimination in Committee of the Whole, Parker asserted “that probably without France [i.e., French aid during the American Revolution] the legislature would not be deliberating within these walls.” When “two or three persons in the gallery, upon this made a faint attempt to clap,” Tracy moved that the committee rise for the purpose of clearing...
82043To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 14 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the satisfaction to receive your very Obliging Letter of the 3d. of Feb: from Monte Cello; it came to hand when I was Ill of a Fever, I am now thank God, quite recover’d; and have the pleasure to be able to acknowledge your kindness. I have never had the Smallest doubt, that if my letter book was in your hands but that it was as safe as in my Own; being satisfied of that, I am perfectly...
82044To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The paper of yesterday inclosed, will give you a clue to the designs of the faction which has used Sedgwick for its organ. His immediate prompter will be seen both in his speech and in his propositions. Whether more be seriously aimed at than to embarrass the others which have been long depending, is by some doubted. Perhaps this may be one of the objects; but you understand the game behind...
82045John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
This morning I had the Pleasure of your Letter of the 2 d of this month. The Town meeting did itself honour by its judicious Result. But there has not been the Same Wisdom in New York nor Philadelphia: nor is there equal Wisdom and Decision in either house of Congress. All that has been done has been to restrain and moderate the constant disposition to rashness Intemperance and Madness. M r...
82046From Thomas Welsh to John Adams, 13 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
Your Favor of 23 d Ult o: came duely to hand The Inhabitants of this Town you see by the result of the Town Meeting are fully impressed with the Propriety of pacific Measures. but notwithstanding they are extreamly irritated by the Capture of their Vessells by Great Britain how long they will continue to preserve restrain their Resentment I know not they think if this Practice is persisted in...
82047Edmund Randolph to William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 13 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I had a personal interview with Mr. Fauchet yesterday; and endeavoured to satisfy him of the difficulty, and, as I conceived, the impracticability of advancing the million of Dollars, which he requested. He described his distress, produced by the various draughts of the French Consuls, with great force, and in strong colours; and begged, that he might be permitted to state it on paper. This of...
82048To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [13 March 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the Secretary of the Treasury; that he supposed that the question on Maher’s claim of a Register was to become a subject of consultation. Otherwise he would have given his opinion before this time. That opinion is, 1. That, if the possessor of the Vessel will perform the requisites of the law, the Treasury department cannot inquire into the means, by...
82049From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 13 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I return you the papers concerning the Miamia Tract with one marked A, which will be directory to you, as to objects. You will be so good as to prepare without delay drafts of the respective instruments & to communicate them to me, for examination. The Grantees are to be described in the terms of the Acts. With consideration & esteem I am Sir Your obed ser ADf , Connecticut Historical...
82050To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. He sent yesterday for the papers necessary to furnish the particular instances of misconduct in certain officers of Pennsylvania, but on examination they prove not to be the right ones. There is probably not time to correct the error today; but the President may mention the circumstance to the Governor & inform him that he...