87421From George Washington to Robert Lewis, 6 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed are copies of letters written to you agreeably to their dates. They are sent on the possibility that the originals may have miscarried, although the probability, I hope is much against it. In a late letter to Mr Whiting, at Mount Vernon, I have directed him not to sell the Stud horse, but to deliver him to your order. The sooner you send for him the better. Your Aunt unites with me in...
87422To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 6 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the Pleasure of writing to you on the twenty eighth of last Month I have seen Mr Genest and he has din’d with me. He has I think more of Genius than of Ability and you will see in him at the first Blush the Manner and Look of an Upstart. My friend the Marechal de Segur had told me that Mr Genest was a Clerk at £50 pr An: in his Office while Secretary at War. I turn’d the...
87423From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 6 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 2d instant with its enclosures came to hand yesterday —and I am glad to find by it that Mr James Butler had arrived safe for I began to apprehend that he might have fallen sick on the Road, as he had not reached Mount Vernon at the date of your former letter of the 26th Ulto. If this person performs all the duties I have Suggested to you as proper for him to be employed in,...
87424From Thomas Jefferson to James Carey, 6 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I will beg the favor of you to furnish the office of the Secretary of state with your paper , sending it by post sealed up, and addressed to the Secretary of state , not mentioning the name as that might produce confusion in the accounts of the office and the man . Be so good as to let me know the price, time of payment &c and it will be duly attended to by Mr. George Taylor, chief clerk of...
87425To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 6 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Short, who is so kind as to take Charge of my Letters as far as Bourdeaux, will go he says this Day. I therefore take the latest Opportunity to write, and to inform you that the Appearances have not at all changed since mine of the first. Dumouriez has been some Days in Paris; He stays at Home under Pretence of Illness, but in Fact to receive and consider the Propositions of the different...
87426Charles Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your affectionate letter of the first instant. In return for your kind wishes, I present my respects, with an ardent hope, that you may yet many years be spared to your children, your friends and your Country; and that each returning season may still, as they ever have, find you happy, in that greatest of blessings to the just, an applauding conscience. Many are the...
87427From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
The bearer of this Letter, M r: D’Hauteval, is a french Gentleman from the Island of S t: Domingo, where he had lately the misfortune to lose a plantation of great value, by the devastation of the insurgent negroes. He has been about two months in this town, where I have frequently had the pleasure of meeting him in Company, and where his amiable manners have entitled him to as much esteem, as...
87428From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 5 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Le Roy has not yet appeared, with the Powers and Receipts mentioned in your letter of the 31 of December. Every practicable facility will be given to the business, when it comes forward. But I believe, according to the course of the Treasury, a Certificate, not money, will be given for the ballance. Your account is returned with directory remarks upon it. I am sorry you should have the...
87429Report on the Petition of Timothy de Monbreun, 5 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 5, 1793. An entry in the Journal of the House for January 5, 1793, reads as follows: “The Speaker laid before the House a letter and report from the Secretary of the Treasury on the memorial of Timothy de Monbreun which were read.” Letter and report not found. ] Journal of the House , I Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), I....
87430From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 5 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to enclose to the President of the United States copies of certain statements No. 1. 2. 3 & 4, which have been rendered to the House of representatives pursuant to a resolution of the House of the 27 of Decembr. last. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See “Report on Foreign Loans,” January 3, 1793 .
87431To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
We enclose you a list of the Squares actually devided, of those certified ready for division, and a Copy of Majr Ellicott’s Return of those marked out but not yet certified for Division, as well as a Copy of Majr Ellicott’s Letter to us—From the Two last you will perceive that there is at least an Uncertainty whether we shall much longer have Majr Ellicott’s services, he has however shewn such...
87432From George Washington to Samuel Powel and the Members of the Pennsylvania Senate, 5 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States requests the pleasure of the company of the Speaker and members of the Senate of the State of Pennsylvania to dine with him on Saturday the 12th of January, at 4 O’clock. D , in Tobias Lear’s writing, ViMtvL . Powel wrote the last names of the following Pennsylvania senators at the bottom of the manuscript page: Robert Brown, Lindsay Coats, James Dunlop, John...
87433To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 5 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
I hope my dear Uncle will excuse my troubleing him again, Aunt Lewis has desired me to ask you for a little money there is a few thing’s I want, that I would be much obleiged to you for, she say’s if you will send me some she will keep it, & I shall not get any thing but what I really want, I hear the Birth night is to be kept, and as every one is a going here and as I should like to go I will...
87434Military Establishment, [5 January] 1793 (Madison Papers)
On 20 December 1792 Steele introduced a resolution to reduce the military establishment and to repeal the relevant sections of “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States” of 1792, which JM had reported from committee during the first session. Steele’s resolution was taken up in Committee of the Whole on 2 January 1793 (...
87435To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have your two favors of the 13th and that of the 17th of last month before us. It appears to us more and more desirable to expedite the Stone-cutting by machinery, not more on account of the expence, which the State of our funds require to be attended to, than to insure the quantity wanted in time for we have as yet only about ⅕ done of what would be wanted on the large scale of the...
87436To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Donald, 5 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This day I have recieved your much esteemed favour of the 11th. Novemr. I am sorry that you should think it necessary to offer any apology for commanding my services. I will only say once for all, that the oftner you do so, the more you will oblige me. The window sashes will be ordered tomorrow and sent to Virginia the ensueing Spring if possible. I will immediately apply to some of my Friends...
87437From Alexander Hamilton to George Bush, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 4, 1793. “Your letter under date of the 24th. ulto has been received. What you observe in regard to the … mercantile interest in your district, shall be duly attended to.” Copy, RG 56, Letters to Collectors at Small Ports, “Set G,” National Archives. Letter not found.
87438To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 4, 1793. “I have the honor to inform you that on the receipt of Mr. J. N. Cummings’s letter to you relative to the case of Mathias Brewer, I wrote to him for information on certain points, which appeared necessary. I desired him to communicate the same, with a general State of the Case, to the Supervisor.… I am in daily expectation of the papers and...
87439To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 4, 1793. Discusses a “plan of repairs of the light House on Tybee Island at the Mouth of the Savannah River.” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. According to a notice in the [Philadelphia] National Gazette for December 5, 1792, “Savanna Light House on Tybee island took fire about a month since, when the...
87440From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 179[3] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the Copy of a letter I have received from Mr Geo Latimer of this City relating to some concerns of his, with the Govt of St Domingo, to which I have answered in substance as heretofore communicated to you on a similar subject. I have the honour to be with Respect Sir Your Obed Servt LS , Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. H misdated this letter...
87441From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] January 4, 1793 . “… The Statements went in yesterday, and are copying for the President.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. This is a reference to copies of the statements enclosed in “Report on Foreign Loans,” January 3, 1793 .
87442To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Nourse, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, January 4, 1793. Encloses “three Statemts. from the Treasury Books of the Appropriation of Ten Thousand Dollars granted 26 March 1790 for the Purpose of defraying the Contingent Expences of Governt. leaving a Balance due thereon the first of this Month of Eight thousand Three hundred and two Dollars and fifty Cents.” LC , RG 53, Estimates and Statements...
87443From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 4, 1793. Submits to the President two communications from Tench Coxe “suggesting certain alterations in the arrangement heretofore made, within the Revenue, District of North Carolina.” Proposes minor changes. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Coxe to H, December 13 , 21, 1792 .
87444Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 4 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 4 Jan. 1793. Presents his compliments and writes that “The Statements went in yesterday, and are copying for the President.” LB , DLC:GW . Hamilton is referring to the four statements that comprised his “Report on Foreign Loans” of 3 Jan. to the U.S. House of Representatives. For the text of Hamilton’s report, see Syrett, Hamilton Papers, Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers...
87445To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States two Communications, one of the 13th & the other of the 21st of December last, suggesting certain alterations in the arrangement heretofore made, within the Revenue, District of North Carolina. These communications are accompanied with some supplementary documents, explanatory of them. The arrangement...
87446Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 4 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit the enclosed letter of General Wayne —Two month’s pay will go as soon as the Bank can prepare the notes. The further pay must depend upon the settlement of accounts, or the payments will get into great disorder—As general Wayne has again sent for the cornplanter, the question is shall Col. Procter go upon that business? Please to return the papers after the President shall...
87447To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 4 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 23d ultimo with one inclosed of the same date, came duly to hand this day. The contents I have noted well, and shall sett off the day after tomorrow for the purpose of carrying into effect your instructions with respect to the purchasing of Major Harrisons tract of Land in Fairfax County adjoining your Mill tract. Should we bargain (as I expect we shall) no time shall be...
87448To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith Barton, 4 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your note , I have waited on Mr. Michaux. He assures me, that he will relinquish all thoughts of his journey to South-Carolina, and that he will engage in his scheme, as soon as you think proper. He seems much pleased with the prospect of having so valuable a guide, to Kaskaskia , as the one you have pointed out, and will be happy to have an opportunity of conversing with the...
87449From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 4 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have been so long without a conveyance to Bordeaux that in the mean time I have recieved a letter from Mr. Fenwick dated Bordeaux Sep. 28. 1792. wherein he says ‘The bill Mr. Derieux drew for 5000.₶ is paid , and which closes the account of his legacy, his brother or uncle having received the other 10,000.₶’ I sincerely congratulate you on the triumphs of France over her enemies, and am...
87450From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 4 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The greatest council of Indians which has been or will be held in our day, is to be at the river Au glaise, about the South-West corner of L. Erie early in the spring. Three Commissioners will be appointed to go there on our part. Jack is desirous of accompanying them, and, tho’ I do not know who they will be, I presume I can get him under their wing. The route I expect will be through...