86701Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am grieved to hear of the fresh return of your old persecuter the Ague; I had flattered myself that the Air & Climate of New England would chase away all Billious complaints. I am suspicious that the Bark of which so free use is made in this disorder will not effectually remove it, at least I have found it the case with myself. There is a weed known here by the name of Cardis, which is much...
86702From John Adams to John Sinclair, 2 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I received the letter you did me the honour to write me last summer, with your projects of a Natural History of Sheep, and a Survey of Scotland. You could not have made a wiser choice. The natural history of that animal, so useful to man, must be very useful as well as very curious: and a detail of particulars relative to your native country, must be interesting to all, but especially to the...
86703From Stephen Hall to John Adams, 2 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
Permit me once more to ask your friendship on so probable a prospect of success, as I think I now have.— Gen l. Dearborn is chosen a Representative to Congress from the District of Maine. The Office of Marshal of consequence becomes vacant. I should like to fill the Office; and I think the President would willingly nominate me, if he should think of me. Your friendship therefore in the case...
86704From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 2 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I find that my letter of the 23rd ultimo (which was written in haste) proposing an arrangement for the accomodation of Merchants who are indebted to the Custom house, does not correctly express the idea which was contemplated. The mode of transacting the business as mentioned in your letter of the 28th ulto. is the true one to be pursued, that is, Notes of the parties indebted will be...
86705Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Proposals Made by William S. Smith Relative to the French Debt, [2 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The President communicated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States, a letter from William S. Smith Esqr. of the 28th of February past, to the Secretary of the Treasury, with sundry Papers—No. I. II. III & IV. relating to a negotiation for changing the form of the debt to France; and required their opinion what...
86706To Alexander Hamilton from James Hillhouse, [2 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 2, 1793. ] Recommends Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey “As a proper person to be Appointed Collector of the New District on Lake Champlain.” AD , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Hillhouse was a member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Woolsey was appointed collector of “the District of Champlain, in the State of New York” on March 4, 1793 (...
86707Report on Stills and Spirits Distilled Within the United States, 2 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to an order of the House of Representatives of the 8th of May last, I have the honor to transmit a general state of the Revenue on stills and spirits distilled within the United States, exhibiting the several particulars indicated by the said order, so far as returns have been received at the Treasury; to which I beg leave to add, the Copy of a letter of yesterday from the...
86708To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 2 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 2, 1793. According to an entry in JPP “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. for March 2, 1793, Hamilton submitted to the President “a letter from Colo. W. S. Smith of this date respecting the debt of the U.S. to France —with a Copy of a letter wh. he had written to Mr. Ternant on the subject —and an Extract of a...
86709From Alexander Hamilton to the President and Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit, Baltimore, 2 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I find that my letter of the 23d ultimo, (which was written in haste,) proposing an arrangement for the accomodation of merchants who are indebted to the custom-house, does not correctly express the idea which was contemplated. I therefore request that the following mode may be pursued: The directors are to judge of the safety of the notes which may be presented for discount for the respective...
86710Cabinet Opinion on the Proposal of William Stephens Smith, 2 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President communicated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States, a letter from William S. Smith Esqr. of the 28th of February past, to the Secretary of the Treasury, with sundry Papers—No. I. II. Ill & IV. relating to a negotiation for changing the form of the debt to France; and required their opinion what...
86711From George Washington to Thomas Harwood, 2 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to pay to Thomas Johnson, David Stuart & Daniel Carroll Esqr. Commiss[ioner]s of the Federal District, or to their Order, or to the Order of any two of them, Twenty four thousand dollars, being the third Instalment of the sum given by the Assembly of Maryland towards defraying the expenses of the public Buildings within that District. Copy, in Tobias Lear’s writing, DLC:GW ; LB ,...
86712To George Washington from James Hillhouse, 2 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hillhouse takes the liberty to hand in the Name of Col: Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey as a suitable person to be Appointed Collector to the New port established on Lake Champlain. Mr Benson & Col. Wadsworth know his character. AL , DLC:GW . The docket on this document indicates that Connecticut congressman Hillhouse wrote this letter on “2d March 1793.” GW submitted Woolsey’s nomination on 4...
86713To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration the appraisement of the Maps in the Care of Colonel Burr —the valuation is far below the idea contemplated by him, and he therefore absolutely rejects it—after a considerable conversation he has consented to take one hundred and fifty Guineas. My own opinion is that they are exceedingly valuable to the United States in their further views upon...
86714Advice to the President, [2 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
The President having some doubts with respect to the “Act for extending the time for receiving on loan that part of the Domestic Debt &c”—whether it might not prevent the Commissioners from closing the Accts. between the U. S. and Individual States within the time limited—desired the Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury on that head; who gave it decidedly, that it related only to the Debt...
86715Cabinet Opinion on the American Debt to France, 2 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President communicated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States, a letter from William S. Smith Esqr. of the 28th. of February past, to the Secretary of the Treasury, with sundry Papers No. I. II. III and IV. relating to a negotiation for changing the form of the debt to France; and required their opinion...
86716Notes on the Giles Resolutions, 2 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 2. 1793. See the papers of this date, Mr. Giles’s resolutions. He and one or two others were sanguine enough to believe that the palpableness of these resolutions rendered it impossible the house could reject them. Those who knew the composition of the house 1. of bank directors. 2. holders of bank stock. 3. stock jobbers. 4 blind devotees. 5 ignorant persons who did not comprehend them....
86717Report on the Proceedings of the Northwest Territory, 2 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State has examined the Journal of the Proceedings in the Executive department of government Northwest of the Ohio from July 1. 1792. to Dec. 31. 1792. referred to him by the President of the United States, and thereupon Reports That there is nothing contained in the said Journal which calls for any thing to be done on the part of the President of the United States. RC ( DNA :...
86718A Note on the Sources of Madison’s Speeches in the Second Congress, 22 November 1791–1 March 1793 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
One result of JM’s reduced role as a congressional leader after 1791 was that he spoke less frequently. While the editors selected over one hundred of his speeches for publication from the First Congress, only twenty-eight from the Second Congress merit full coverage when using the same selection criteria (Madison at the First Session of the First Federal Congress, 8 Apr.–29 Sept. 1789, PJM...
86719To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 29 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last of the 25th. (of which a duplicate is inclosed) I have had the honor of recieving from Amsterdam yours of the 31st. of Dec. acknowleging the reciept of mine up to the 9th. of Oct. inclusive. I have nothing at present to add to the contents of my last letter having as yet recieved no further advice from the commissioners at Amsterdam. No answer from them to my letter of the 4th of...
86720From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, 1 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d your favour of the 19 th of october 1792 informing me that my Number 1026 is entitled to the Premium of one Thousand Guilders. This Sum, together with the amount of all the Coupons inclosed I pray you to ship for me by the first good Vessell for Boston, to the address of the Honourable Cotton Tufts Esqr of Weymouth near Boston, either in Spanish or Portugal Gold or in Spanish...
86721From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
In consequence of the information I received from you on the first Wednesday in January that the list of votes for President & Vice President were received at the seat of government from all the states except that of Kentuckey, I sent a special messenger to the District, judge of Kentuckey for the list of the votes of that state lodged in his custody, and by the return of the messenger...
86722Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Time, Place, and Manner of the President-Elect Taking the Oath of Office, [1 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
It is our opinion, 1. that the President ought to take the oath in public. 2. that the time be on Monday next at 12 o’clock in the forenoon. 3. that the place be the Senate-chamber. 4. that the Marshal of the district inform the Vice-President, that the Senate-chamber, being the usual place of the president’s public acts, is supposed to be the best place for taking the oath; and that it is...
86723To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 1 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you a general state of Revenue on domestic distilled spirits exhibiting as far as returns have been received at the Treasury, the several objects contemplated by the House of Representatives in their order of the 8th of May last. The Supervisors of those Districts, wherein the distillation is principally from domestic materials in the Country, were in many...
86724From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Mercer, 1 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
You will readily comprehend, without explanation, the occasion of my having left your letter of the 31 of January unanswered, ’till this time. You acknowlege that what Mr. Key states is the fact, as far as he states facts; and that in general the Conversation related by Mr. Campbell is such as really passed; though you recollect to have declared, that you never had said, or thought, that I was...
86725Report on the Petition of Lewis Garanger, [1 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by an order of the House of Representatives of the 12th. of February, the Petition of Lewis Garranger, on behalf of himself and his brother Charles Garranger, thereupon respectfully makes the following Report: The petition among other objects sets forth that the interest due upon certain...
86726From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 1 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to assure you, in answer to your letter of the 26th. of February, that fully impressed with the importance to your Object, of speedy advances, it has been my aim to shorten the period of making them; as far as could consist with the general arrangements and prospects of the Treasury; having due regard to other Objects of expenditure which are indispensable. In consequence of your last...
86727From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [1 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President, and has the honor to transmit a communication this morning received from Colo. Smith —another from mr Ternant; concerning both of which he will wait upon the President tomorrow. March 1st 1793 LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. William S. Smith’s letter, which has not been found, was dated February 28, 1793....
86728Cabinet Opinion on the Administration of the Presidential Oath, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
It is our opinion, My opinion given yesterday was founded on prudential considerations of the moment; though I think it right in the abstract to give publicity to the Act in question. If this is to be done on the present occasion, I see no objection to the above form. I am not, however, satisfied that prudential considerations are not equally ballanced. LS , DLC:GW ; copy, NNGL : Knox Papers....
86729Circular to the United States Senators, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
(Circular) [Philadelphia] March 1st 1793. The President of the United States to Senator for the State of . Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Monday the 4th instant, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then & there to receive & deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you on my part. LB...
86730To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President, and has the honor to transmit a communication this morning received from Colo. Smith: another from Mister Ternant; concerning both of which he will wait upon the President tomorrow. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from William Stephens Smith to Hamilton of 28 Feb. 1793 has not been identified. According to GW’s executive...
86731From George Washington to the United States Senate, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
United States [Philadelphia], 1 Mar. 1793. Nominates “Samuel Cooper Johonnet, of Massachusetts, to be Consul for the United States at the Port of Demarara . . . Michael Murphy of Malaga in the Kingdom of Spain to be Consul for the United States at the said Port of Malaga . . . [and] James Greenleaf of Massachusetts to be Consul for the United States at Amsterdam in the United Netherlands.” LS...
86732From George Washington to the United States Senate, 1 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Benjamin Lincoln, of Massachusetts—Beverly Randolph, of Virginia—and Timothy Pickering, of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioners on the part of the United States, for holding a Conference or Treaty with the hostile Indians, agreeably to the proposal of said Indians. LS , in Tobias Lear’s writing, DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Senate Records of Executive Proceedings,...
86733From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 1 March 1793 (Madison Papers)
I red. yesterday yours inclosing a letter to Mr Chew, which I forward this morning. The one here inclosed from him came to hand a few days ago. For the news I refer to the inclosed papers, having not a moment to spare for adding more than that I remain Yr. Affee. son RC ( NjP ). Letter not found. Probably James Madison, Sr., to Joseph Chew, 19 Feb. 1793 ( ViW ).
86734Resolutions Censuring the Secretary of the Treasury, [1 March] 1793 (Madison Papers)
In the final political attack on Hamilton of the second session, Representative William Branch Giles on 27 February introduced nine resolutions censuring the official conduct of the secretary of the treasury. “Giles’s resolutions … were so worded as to carry innuendo that something was very wrong” (Freeman, Washington , VII, 4–5 nn. 23, 24). They were probably intended to influence the...
86735From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the information I received from you on the first Wednesday in January that the list of votes for President and Vice President were received at the seat of government from all the states except that of Kentuckey, I sent a special messenger to the District judge of Kentuckey for the list of the votes of that state lodged in his custody, and by the return of the messenger...
86736To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. P. Derieux, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Charlottesville, 1 Mch. 1793 . He has received TJ’s letters of 4 Jan. and 3 Feb., together with one from Mme. Bellanger, which frees him from anxiety, since his last letter from her was dated 22 June. Upon receiving TJ’s first letter, he informed Gamble of Fenwick’s 28 Sep. letter to TJ reporting that his bill of exchange for 5,000 livres had been paid, hoping that Gamble would repay him the...
86737To Thomas Jefferson from John Kendrick, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of enclosing to you the Copies of several Deeds, by which the tracts of Land therein described, situated on Islands on the North West Coast of America, have been conveyed to me, and my heirs forever, by the resident Chiefs of those districts, who, I presume, were the only just proprietors thereof. I know not what measures are necessary to be taken, to secure the property of...
86738Memorandum on Consular Appointments, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Demarara. Samuel Cooper Johonnet of Massachusets to be Consul for the US. at the port of Demarara and for all parts under the same allegiance in America which shall be nearer to the said port than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice consul of the US. within the same allegiance. Malaga. Michael Murphy of Malaga in the kingdom of Spain to be Consul for the US. at the said port of...
86739From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received information, on the first Wednesday of February, from the Vice-President of the US. that the list of Votes of the state of Kentuckey for President and Vice-President was not then received at the seat of government, I immediately, according to the injunctions of the law, dispatched to the district judge of that state a special messenger, to desire the list of votes lodged in his...
86740From Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed memoir has received no other Publicity than a reading before the Philosophical Society and a few Copies I had struck off for particular distribution: I shall think myself honoured by your acceptance of one Copy. Permit me also to avail myself of your Influence with the Accademy of arts & sciences and Humane Society in Boston, to make one acceptable to each of these Institutions,...
86741From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [February 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February, 1793. ] Sends list of recommendations for positions as Indian commissioners. AD , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. This list, which consists of twenty-six names arranged by states, is entitled “Characters for consideration as Commissioners.” On March 1, 1793, Washington nominated Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts, Beverley Randolph of Virginia, and...
86742From George Washington to Elizabeth Willing Powel, February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed thoughts are well conceived. The sentiments are just; and altho’ the envy expressed in some of them is to be regretted, yet it is hoped that Mira, at the age of four score, will stand as much in the way of Cloe as she does at present; and will appear the Same in the eyes of all who may then see her, as she did on her anniversary of fifty. AL , ViMtvL . The enclosed poem reads:...
86743Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 28 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I wrote to you by your brother making a proposal to you which you might not consider me in earnest about— Since then I have two additional motives to request the Col s consideration and your’s of the subject. If setting aside family connexions it is with respect to business a matter of indifference which city you reside in I certainly could wish it might be Philadelphia for four years to come....
86744To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Burrall, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, February 28, 1793. On March 2, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Burrall and referred to “your letter of the 28th ulto.” Letter not found. ] Burrall was cashier of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States.
86745Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Time, Place, and Manner of the President-Elect Taking the Oath of Office, [28 February … (Hamilton Papers)
If the qualification is to be in private, T.J, A.H H.K and E.R, are of opinion, that Mr. Cushing should administer the oath to the President at his own house, where such officers, or others, as he may notify, will attend. T.J. and A.H. think, that it ought to be in private. H.K. and E.R. on the other hand think, that the qualification ought to be in public: and that the Marshal of the district...
86746To Alexander Hamilton from Peter Colt, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
On examining mr. Pearce’s acct. I find he has recieved a considerable Sum of Money from you & that mr. Parkinson has also been furnished with Some Money in part of his act. There is no charges made by the Society against you to cut up this act. except three Hundred Dollars which mr Walker paid to your Order—neither is there any documents in this office which can serve to shew if you have been...
86747To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your circular Letter of the 22nd. of January, covering the “Act concerning the Registering and Recording of Ships or Vessels.” Your Instructions relative to which, and the lost Certificate of registry, shall be carefully attended to. I observe, that in the execution of the above mentioned Act, several different Oaths are required, which are to be so formed as to embrace a...
86748Report on the Exports of the United States for One Year Ending September 30, 1792, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you a return of the Exports of the United States for one year ending on the 30th. day of September 1792, exhibiting the Quantity of the various Articles thereof exported to the home dominions, and to the Colonial Dominions of all the foreign nations with whom the United States have commercial intercourse. I have the honor to be, With perfect Respect, Sir ...
86749To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 28 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 28, 1793. The account of a cabinet meeting on March 2, 1793, reads: “The President communicated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States, a letter from William S. Smith Esqr. of the 28th of February past, to the Secretary of the Treasury.” Letter not found. ] Smith, who was John Adams’s...
86750From Alexander Hamilton to William Hull, [28 February 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, February 28, 1793. “… The issue is contrary to expectation and is matter of regret. The best, however, must be made of circumstances. The object of your mission being at an end, I am to request that … you will return to this place.” Letter not found. ] The Collector: A Magazine for Autograph and Historical Collectors , LXIV, No. 3 (June, 1951), 128, Item W990. Hull, a native of...