85401To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 2 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
We arrived last night after much fatigue to ourselves and horses. Indeed I have not been free from a fever since Wednesday last. From the small opporty., which I had, to ascertain the opinion of Phila. on the subject of your motion, I am inclined to believe, that if the holders of securities, the merchants and others, associated with them, or dependent on them, were excluded, the suffrage...
85402Assumption of the State Debts, [2 March] 1790 (Madison Papers)
Before the Committee of the Whole resumed consideration of JM’s amendment to the assumption resolution, White moved “that the secretary of the treasury be directed to ascertain the resources that may be applied to the payment of the state debts, provided they should be assumed by the United States.” Gerry objected to the motion as reflecting unfavorably on the secretary—”the house ought to...
85403From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Lewis, 2 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On conversing with Capt. Mullins the day I left your house I found that you had greatly miscalculated the amount of the interest on the price of my land. Supposing, as he told me, it would be upwards of £400, when in fact it will be only but £56–5 sterling or £75 currency. The paiments accomodated to your situation would be as follows in sterling money. £ 1st. paiment 625 £ 2d in 1791. 75...
85404To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 2 Mch. 1790 . She wrote last month “by the New York [packet] Capt. Domenick … to the care of Mr. John Beckley” to congratulate TJ and daughters on safe arrival in their native land. Thanks TJ “for the Many and great acts of friendship, and humanity” shown her and Mr. Paradise in Paris. Her distressed situation prevents her from showing gratitude except by letters. On arrival in...
85405Journal of the Office of Foreign Affairs, 3–20 March 1790 (Jay Papers)
March 3 d . Delivered to M r . John Pintard a passport for the Brig Grand Sachem bound to Madrass in India.— See book of Passports page 17.— Wrote to M r . Short informing him that his letters of September 30 th ., October 9. 11. 20. 25 & 28 and November 7. 8 & 19. 1789 had been received, and that M r . Jefferson had accepted the appointment of Secretary of State. See book of foreign Letters...
85406To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 3 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 3, 1790 . Acknowledges receipt of $8,300 for payment of invalid pensions. LC , Bureau of Customs, Philadelphia.
85407From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Howell, Junior, [3 March 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
If you have any monies in your hands for which there is not an immediate call, I request you to pay to the Honorable Jeremiah Wadsworth five hundred Dollars on account of the apprehension of certain persons engaged in counterfieting the securities of the United States; for which you will please to take his Receipt expressing the object. The reason of this mode of doing the business is that...
85408Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 3 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You will receive herewith an Act of Congress of the 8th. of february last entitled “An Act for giving effect to the several Acts therein mentioned in respect to the State of North Carolina and other purposes.” which I transmit for your government. I am Sir Your Obedt Servt. LS , to Charles Lee, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; L[S] , to Benjamin Lincoln, RG 36, Collector of...
85409To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 3 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Baltimore, March 3, 1790. States that in the Treasury circular of February 17, 1790, there is a discrepancy in the calculation of the discount for prompt payment of customs duties. AL , RG 53, “Old Correspondence,” Baltimore Collector, National Archives. The letter is incomplete.
85410[Diary entry: 3 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 3d. Exercised on Horse-back between 9 and 11 Oclock.
85411To George Washington from William Graves, 3 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I now beg the liberty of addressing you on the Subject of an appointment under the General Government, I was a Soldier in the late Amarican Armey as Soon as I was capable of bearing armes & continued untill the peace was Established, after that I was appointed by the Executive of Virginia, Searcher for the Port of Norfolk, and continued in the Execution of that office untill the General...
85412To James Madison from Adam Stephen, 3 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
We were Sorry to hear of your being taken ill at George Town, but rejoiced to see you Correcting the Schedule of the Census at New york. Mr Hamilton has discoverd great extent of Comprehension in his Report. He with great facility develops and simplifies the most Complicated Subjects. The funding the debts of the Individual States with the Others, is a masterly Stroke of Policy, and will...
85413Assumption of the State Debts, [3 March] 1790 (Madison Papers)
Carroll moved to discharge the Committee of the Whole from consideration of assumption. His purpose was to suspend the larger question until Secretary Hamilton reported (in consequence of White’s motion of 2 March) on the ways and means of paying the state creditors. Laurance suspected that the motion was intended to shunt the matter aside indefinitely. JM denied “that the motion was intended...
85414William Short to John Jay, 3 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of recieving your letter of the 11th. of Decr. after an uncommonly long passage. That which it inclosed for the Agent of the United States at Morocco has been confided to Monsieur de Rayneval who assures me it shall be forwarded with safety. It is the only conveyance from hence which can be relied on, particularly for letters passing through Spain. Your letter was...
85415Report on Funds for the Payment of the Interest on the States’ Debts, 4 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] In obedience to the Order of the House of Representatives, of the second Instant, The Secretary of the Treasury Respectfully Reports, That in his opinion, the funds, in the first instance requisite towards the payment of interest on the debits of the individual States, according to the modifications proposed by him in his report of the ninth of...
85416Enclosure: [Abstract of the Nett Proceeds of Duties on Imports and Tonnage], 4 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
States From what period Nett Product of the Duties Remarks 1789. Dollars. Cents New-Hampshire 11th. Aug. to 31st. Dec. 7.789.21½ The Product of the Duties of Boston are only ascertained, up to the 19th. of December. Massachusetts 10th ditto, to 31st. ditto 113.439.54½ Connecticut 11th. ditto, to 31st. ditto 20.352.87½ New-York 5th. ditto, to 31st. ditto 152.198.97.
85417[Diary entry: 4 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 4th. Sat from 9 until half after 10 Oclk. for Mr. Trumbull. The following Gentlemen dined here to day—viz.—The Vice-Presidt. Messrs. Langdon, Wingate, Dalton, Strong, Ellsworth, Schuyler, King, Patterson, Morris, McClay, Bassett, Henry, Johnson, Hawkins, Izard, Butlar & Few all of the Senate. According to an entry for this day in William Maclay’s diary, “it was a dinner of dignity....
85418To George Washington from William Irvine, 4 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose you a copy of the proposed Constitution for Pennsylvania, which was transmitted to me, by a member of the Convention for that purpose. I have the honor to be most respectfully Sir your most obedient & Most humble Servant ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. In November 1789 a constitutional convention convened in Philadelphia to replace the Pennsylvania...
85419From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 4 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
Your recommendation of Docr. Morrow was handed me some time ago. I need not tell you that I shall always rely on your vouchers for merit, or that I shall equally be pleased with opportunities of forwarding your wishes. The only act of much consequence which the present Session has yet produced, is one for enumerating the Inhabitants as the basis of a reapportionment of the Representation. The...
85420To James Madison from Henry Lee, 4 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
Since your illness at Georgetown I have heard nothing of you, only that you had so far recovered as to proceed, until yesterday, when a gentleman from Alexandria told me that you had taken your seat in Congress. This information gave me pleasure, as it seemed to communicate your complete recovery, as well as because it assured me that you was executing your duty at a time which seems big with...
85421To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 4 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote you last on the 10th. of Feby. I supposed that would be my last until I should have the pleasure of hearing from you. Every day augmenting my belief that you would return here I thought it useless to continue writing as I was persuaded you would leave America before the arrival of my letters. Although that belief has not changed I am induced to hazard this letter by a very...
85422To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5[–9] March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I observe that your report upon the public debt contains some intimations of an intention of establishing a national Bank, and I learn from other gentlemen at New York that something of the kind is proposed. I do not know any of the outlines of the plan but think it may be useful to lay before you the enclosed paper which was published here during the contest concerning our Bank. It was my...
85423To Alexander Hamilton from Josiah Parker, 5 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 5, 1790. Suggests changes in the customs service in the Norfolk, Virginia, district. Believes that Norfolk is too exposed to a possible enemy assault and recommends removal of the collector’s office to Portsmouth, Virginia. Advocates increasing the number of customs officials and placing them at strategic points in order to tighten customs enforcement. Discusses complaints of...
85424[Diary entry: 5 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Friday 5th. A very numerous company of Ladies & Gentlemen here this Evening.
85425Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letters of the 16th & 23d ultimo. We are furnished with a Carpet for the room which I had described to you; but are therefore no less obliged to you for the trouble you have had in making inquiries respecting it. The President will thank you to make an addition of two hundred bushels to the quantity of Buckwheat you have procured for him. It is probable that it...
85426From George Washington to Warner Lewis, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18 of last month, enclosing the copy of one dated the 26 of October came duly to hand —The best, indeed the only apology I can make for suffering the latter to remain so long unacknowledged, is, that on my return from a tour through the eastern States in november, I found such a multiplicity of public letters and other papers, which required to be acted upon, that those of...
85427To George Washington from John Van Sice, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Am Sensible of my presumption—when I trouble So great a personage with my little concerns, but the distressed circumstances of my family urges the necessity of craving your Interposition—I have from the commencement of the American War Served in Schenectady as a gun Smith for the Indians, for which I received no recompence, & of which I had the honor of informing your Excellency when last in...
85428To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I sent on Saturday the usual day of your Letters reaching Alexandria, but your favor of the 21st Ulto had not arrived, and did not come to my hands untill yesturday. I have informed Fairfax that it was your opinion and that I was directed to communicate it to him that £25. pr ann. is very ample wages for his Brother, or any untried man, and that it was your determination not to encrease his...
85429To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I flatter’d myself I shod. have been able by this, to have remitted you my proportion of the balance due Mr. Taylor for the land we bought of him—but my endeavors have been ineffectual, nor do any prospects that I have, warrant a hope, I shall be able to command it, within any short period of time. Thus circumstanc’d it wod. be more agreeable to me to disengage myself from the contract....
85430To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 5 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Spring Forest, Virginia. 5 Mch. 1790 . Agreeable to TJ’s request , he has searched “every book, and paper, which could possibly throw any light, on the transactions of my father with Dr. Walker, and can find nothing relative to them. If there exists any thing of the kind, my mother informs me, it will most probably be found in the hands of Mr. James Minor, of Albemarle, to whom some of the...
85431To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 5 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
At sea, Latt. 7° 40’ north, Long. 13° West from London, 5 Mch. 1790 . Hopes TJ arrived safely, found affairs there to his wishes, and “duly received the cordial congratulations of a grateful Country.”—Soon after seeing TJ off at Cowes, he left Le Havre on a long voyage “rather… of observation than immediate emolument.” In two years at Le Havre he found “the general intercourse between that...
85432To John Adams from William Ellery, [ca. 6] March 1790 (Adams Papers)
Engaged as you are in public business, and this State not having shown a disposition to join the Union I did not wonder, although I could not but regret, that my letter should remain so long unanswered.— I wish that our affairs now afforded a prospect of a speedy accession.— Before you receive this letter you will have heard of the proceedings of our Convention.— They met, framed a bill of...
85433[Diary entry: 6 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 6th. Exercised in the Coach with Mrs. Washington and the Children and in the Afternoon walked round the Battery. Received a letter from the Govr. of the Western Territory dated at the Rapids of Ohio giving an acct. of the State of Affairs in the Westn. Country. Arthur St. Clair was appointed governor of the Northwest Territory in 1787. His letter to GW from “the Rapids of the Ohio,”...
85434Tobias Lear to William Goddard & James Angell, 6 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to insert the enclosed advertisement in your paper for six weeks successively and charge the same in your annual account with the President of the United States—which account you will be good enough to present whenever it becomes due. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant LB , DLC:GW . William Goddard and James Angell (d. 1797) were the publishers of the Maryland...
85435To George Washington from Hans Alexander Siegfried von Steuben, 6 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Votre Excellence aura la Grace de me pardonner la Liberte que jose prendre de vous adresser ce peut de Ligne. Au Sujet d’un Frere unique qui a L’honneur de Servir sous votre Commandement dans le Prowince ùnie de l’amerique. Je lui ai Ecrit plussieurs fois, mais je n’ai jamais eu le Bonheur de recevoir une reponse que jai attendu avec Ardeur. N’etant pas Connu dans se⟨e⟩ Contrée et ne Sachant...
85436To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 6 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
In George Town and Alexa. your discrimination has, as it is said, few advocates. Dr. Stuart was my author concerning the opinions of the latter, Mr. Brook Beall concerning those of the former. But I collected afterward, from Mr. Laurence Washington, that Colo. Geo. Mason was strenuously in favor of your motion; and indeed what I recollect of his observations in convention coincides with this...
85437From Thomas Jefferson to John Bolling, 6 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have the happiness of seeing you and my sister, and sat out for that purpose the day before yesterday, but the day was so bitter cold that I was obliged to return back after getting to Manchester. I was anxious to settle the inclosed account with you, because that is all which is wanting to close the two administrations of my sisters estates. As I set out for New York the day...
85438Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 7 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter inclosing mr joys proposals and I have omitted answering it because I wished mr Adams to determine himself. he says that he had already offerd mr joy what he gave, which he considerd quite as much as the place was worth, that it will not yeald him half the interest of the Money unless he was to live at home & be able to improve it, that mr Joys present proposal of the...
85439To John Adams from Henry Marchant, 7 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
It is mortifying to be beat in a good Cause, without Sense or Argument, but merely by Self-Will and vile Principles— Our Convention sat all the last Week— Our News-Papers I suppose will give You the particulars— It was with Difficulty I could get a Motion for the main Question upon the Journalls— And Adjournment was determined upon by the Anties before they met Us, in their private...
85440To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, 7 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 7, 1790 . Encloses “weekly Acct of Cash” and a “list of such persons as I have sued.” Has “proceeded in paying the Invalids.” LC , Copies of Letters to the Secretary, 1789–1790, Bureau of Customs, Philadelphia. H’s letter to Delany concerning the payments to invalids has not been found, but see H to Jedediah Huntington, January 30, 1790 ; H to John Haywood, February 2,...
85441[Diary entry: 7 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 7th. At home all day—writing letters on private business.
85442From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 7 March 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 7 Mar. 1790. In a 19 Mar. 1790 letter to GW , George Augustine Washington refers to letters “of the 28th Ulto & 7th Inst.”
85443From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 7 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ your last favour of the 27 Ult: does not require any particular answer, I can not let this occasional correspondence drop, without thanking you for so interesting a supplement to your former remarks on the subject lately decided in the House of Representatives. It not only gives me pleasure, but strengthens my conviction, to find my sentiments ratified by those of enlightened and...
85444From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, 7 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I had much wished to have had the pleasure of visiting you at Eppington before my departure, but the letters I receive from New York do not permit me to protract my stay a moment. Yesterday we finished our great business and tomorrow I set out. Our family, the new part as well as the old, will pay their respects to you at Eppington as shortly as they can. I shall avail myself of that occasion...
85445From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Garth, 7 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The situation in which I have left Colo. Nichs. Lewis leaves me not without pain and doubt for the event of his disease. I hope the best, but it may turn out otherwise. Besides the general loss which will be sustained by such a death, mine will be particularly great, as I have left all my affairs in his hands. The letters I receive from the President are so pressing to go on to New York that I...
85446From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 7 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Some things have occurred since I left Albemarle on which it will be necessary for me to trouble you. Colo. Rob. Lewis is so near agreeing to the purchase of my lands in Cumberland that I think he will do it. The terms I proposed to him were 20/ sterl. an acre taking his own time but paying interest from the start. On an explanation of the monies he could command, our idea was that he should...
85447From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 7 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Lyle and incloses him the Observations on his account with R. Harvie and an order on A. Donald for £325. sterling which he supposes makes up his instalment of July next. He hopes Mr. Lyle will take the trouble of writing to Mr. McCaul to know the exact amount and date of his two former paiments . PrC ( MHi ). An entry in SJL under 24 Feb. 1790 shows the...
85448From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Howell, Junior, 8 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I wish you to inform me when Samuel Armstrong Paymaster to the eighth Massachusetts regiment received the Monies upon which a balance remains due from him. I am, Sir, Your obedt. Servt. LS , RG 93, Miscellaneous Records, National Archives. Armstrong had been regimental paymaster from 1780 to 1783. H probably wished the information in connection with Armstrong’s claim against the United...
85449Report on the Petitions of William Mumford, Samuel Armstrong, and the Weighers, Measurers, and Gaugers of Portland and … (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury, on the petitions of William Mumford, and Samuel Armstrong, and of the Weighers, Measurers and Gaugers of the District of Portland and Falmouth in the State of Massachusetts, referred to him by an Order of the House of Representatives of the twenty sixth of February past, Respectfully Reports, That the claim of...
85450From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Willing, 8 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 8, 1790. On March 12, 1790, Willing wrote to Hamilton : “I have consulted the Directors on the Subject of yr. letter of the 8th Inst.” Letter not found. ]