92551From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March, 1792 .] Sends list of names of persons recommended for positions of director of the Mint and treasurer of the Mint. AD , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. On verso H wrote: “Names which have occurred as for Director or Treasurer.” There are forty names in this list arranged by states. On April 13, 1792, Washington nominated David Rittenhouse of Pennsylvania...
92552To George Washington from Anonymous, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I know you to be good—and you are great, independent of public opinion—I mean intrinsically great, if you were not possessed of that opinion. But you are possessed of it, and stand higher, beyond all comparison in the estimation of persons of every description than any man. The virtuous part of the community who have for years put everything to hazard to obtain a Government, likely to insure...
92553List of Plants from John Bartram’s Nursery, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs & Plants, of Jno. Bartram. Nos. Plants feet high a 1. Rhododendron maximum 2 grow from 5 to 10. Evergreen, large maximum rose coloured blossoms. [“Mountain laurel,” great laurel, rosebay] E. d 2. Ulex europeus 2. 3 to 4. Embellished with sweet scented flowers, of a fine yellow colour. [Furze] a 3 Hypericum kalmianum 2 3 to 4. Profusely garnished with fine Gold...
92554To James Madison from John Carey, [March?] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Having this moment received from Mr. Claxton fifteen Dollars for your share of the three lots of books, I beg leave to enclose them to you, as Mr. Jefferson has already paid the whole thirty. With thanks for your liberal exertions on this occasion, as well as that of the Shorthand, I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obliged humble servt RC ( DLC ). Docketed but not dated by JM. Conjectural...
92555Hamilton’s Notes on Report of Instructions for the Commissioners to Spain, with Jefferson’s Comments, [1–5 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Jefferson’s comments ] [ Hamilton’s notes ] The General Tenor of the Report appears solid and proper. The following observations however on a hasty perusal occur. The Report is amended in conformity this observation. Page 2. Is it to put our Revolution upon the true or the best footing to say that the circumstances which obliged us to discontinue our foreign Magistrate brought upon us the...
92556Notes on Thomas Jefferson’s Report of Instructions for the Commissioners to Spain, [1–4 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Jefferson’s Comments ] [ Hamilton’s notes ] The General Tenor of the Report appears solid and proper. The following observations however on a hasty perusal occur. The Report is amended in conformity with this observation. Page 2. Is it to put our Revolution upon the true or the best footing to say that the circumstances which obliged us to discontinue our foreign Magistrate brought upon us...
92557From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States the draft of a Report on the subject of the Act concerning distilled Spirits. There are one or two blanks in the draft, to the filling of which some additional examination & enquiry are requisite. The suggestions however to which they relate are true, as they stand, and the sense will be apparent. The...
92558To Alexander Hamilton from William Banks, 1 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 1, 1792 . Recommends various ways by which the collectors of customs could improve their record keeping and reports on exports. Copy, Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Banks was a clerk in the register’s office of the Treasury Department. On at least one other occasion Banks made similar...
92559To George Washington from a Citizen of Georgia, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Permit me a Member of the Community of the Free Citisens of the State of Georgia, to address you at this critical Period; The Lustre of the former Deeds executed by yr Magnanimity calls on every member of the Union to venerate and esteem you, and even to consider you as a Father to the People of the western World; but suffer me to imprecate you as a Parent fostering your dependant Children, to...
92560To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to submit to the President of the United States the draft of a report on the subject of the Act concerning distilled Spirits. There are one or two blanks in the draft, to the filling of which some additional examination & enquiry are requisite. The suggestions however to which they relate are true, as they stand, and the sense will be apparent. The...
92561To George Washington from Reuben Harvey, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ I have often wish’d for an opportunity of communicating To The President of The United States my heart felt satisfaction that it has pleased our gracious Father to grant thee life & health for the great purposes entrusted to thy Care, yet I found an unwillingness to intrude or break in upon the important & numerous Concerns that daily attend thy time, Nor should I now take the liberty of...
92562Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum of Conversations with Washington, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
1792. Feb. 28. I was to have been with him long enough before 3. aclock (which was the hour & day he received visits) to have opened to him a proposition for doubling the velocity of the post riders, who now travel about 50. miles a day, & might without difficulty go 100. and for taking measures (by way-bills) to know where the delay is, when there is any. I was delayed by business, so as to...
92563To George Washington from Henry Knox, 1 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a draft of a letter to general St Clair; and also, a representation from Judge Putnam relative to the situation of Marietta —If perfectly convenient, I will wait upon you to morrow morning, relative to these subjects, and some others, relative to the appointments of officers soon to be made. I have the honor to be Sir, with the highest respect, Your most obedient...
92564To James Madison from John Waller Johnston, 1 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
I have not the honor to have a personal acquaintance with you; and have taken the liberty, to write you; for which I most humbly hope to be pardoned: My wish is to beg a favor of you, which if in your power; and you will oblige me; I shall ever acknowledge it a most greatful and Singular favor; my object is to get the place of keeper of the Light-House on Cape-Henry; and I observe that...
92565Memorandum on New Orleans, [ca. 1 March] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Information of Phil. Barbour, who resided long in West Florida After N. Orleans fell into the hands of Spain her Govr. forbade all British vessels navigating under the Treaty of Paris to fasten to the Shore, and caused such as did so to be cut loose. In consequence of this proceeding a British frigate went up near the Town, fastened to the shore and set out guards with orders to fire on such...
92566To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 March 1792. Mentioned in JM to Jefferson, 5 Mar. 1792 . Concerns settlement of David Owings’s and David Woods’s Revolutionary War claims.
92567To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 1 Mch. 1792 . He has learned of important developments in Morocco since his letters of 23 and 24 Feb.—Muley Yezid eluded Ben Assar’s army and arrived at the city of Morocco on 2 Feb. Four days later he captured and pillaged the city. The “devoted Jews” were given up to plunder, friends and enemies alike suffered at the hands of his army, and even Francis Chiappe’s property was...
92568To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Boyd, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When I took the liberty last summer to intrude upon your Excellency with a hasty line in favour of my Brother—in—law Mr. Hemming I flattered myself that I should soon have been able to indulge myself in the pleasure of writing you at great length on many subjects highly interesting to America and this Country: but such has been the accumulation of Business of various kinds in which I have been...
92569From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Much time has been spent in endeavoring to reduce Major Lenfant to continue in the business he was engaged in, in proper subordination to the Commissioners. He has however entirely refused, so that he has been notified that we consider his services as at an end. The plan is put into the hands of an engraver, and will be engraved within three or four weeks. About the same time Mr. Ellicot will...
92570To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A Flute belonging to the French Government, which was dispatch’d from hence for Philadelphia the beginning of last week, is wreck’d and totally lost on the Reef called Le mouchoir quarré. I am given to understand that all the Letters which were aboard her are lost, and therefore take the liberty of saluting you with the foregoing Copy of what I wrote you by that opportunity. The account of the...
92571Memoranda of Conversations with the President, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
1792. Feb. 28. I was to have been with him long enough before 3. aclock (which was the hour and day he received visits) to have opened to him a proposition for doubling the velocity of the post riders, who now travel about 50. miles a day, and might without difficulty go 100. and for taking measures (by way-bills) to know where the delay is, when there is any. I was delayed by business, so as...
92572From Thomas Jefferson to George Walker, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sorry that, being from home at the time you were so good as to call on me, I missed seeing you. The President being engaged also, was equally unlucky. As you left no letter for me, I took for granted that your negociation with Majr. Lenfant had proved fruitless. After your departure the President sent Mr. Lear to Major Lenfant to see what could be made of him. He declared unequivocally...
92573Circular to the Governors of the States, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you herein enclosed two copies, duly authenticated, of an Act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein; also of an Act to establish the Post office and Post roads within the United States; also the ratifications, by three fourths of the Legislatures of the several States, of certain...
92574From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Be so good as to examine the enclosed draught of a letter to Genl St Clair, and make such alterations (with a pencil) as you shall judge proper; as letter and answer will, it is presumed, be handed to the public. The bearer will wait to bring it back to me. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Henry Knox’s enclosed draft of GW’s letter to Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair has not been found (see Knox to GW,...
92575To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letter to Genl St Clair. the only passage about which he has any doubt is the following “it does not appear by any information in my possession, that your exertions were wanting to produce a different result either in the previous preparations, or in the time of action. ” Th: J: never heard a statement of the matter from...
92576To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your view the following facts and circumstances relative to the promotion shortly to take place in the first and second regiments, in order to enable you to make such determination as may best promote the public interests. The idea is submitted that the Lieutenant Colonel Commandant will be promoted to a brigadier. If this promotion should take place,...
92577From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 2 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
I have for some time past written once a week, inclosing always the Natl Gazettees as they come out. I now do the same now. The River having been all the Winter & still continuing blocked up, I have never executed the several commissions in your last. I have made enquiry as to Clover seed and I find that the white is not to be had, and that the red will cost about 16 dollars a bushel, which is...
92578To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 2 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 21st. last month and thank you for the communications it contains. Unquestionably the Secretary of State would have been a preferable arrangemt. to the one provided for by the act in case of a vacancy in the Executive office—whatever may be said in favor of the pro. tem. president of the Senate or Speaker of the H. R. as Officers (and it will be difficult to...
92579Statement on Major William Galvan, 2 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I well remember that Majr. Galvan was sent on to Cape Henry by Genl. Washington to look out for the French fleet, that he was recommended by the Genl. to me to be furnished with every thing necessary. I remember that the morning he was to leave Richmond, he wanted money, and having recd. from me an order on the Treasurer he would not give him any rect. for it, from some punctilious delicacy,...
92580To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 2 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Be so good as to examine the enclosed draught of a letter to Genl. St. Clair, and make such alterations (with a pencil) as you shall judge proper; as letter and answer will, it is presumed, be handed to the public.—The bearer will wait to bring it back to me. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 2 Mch. 1792 and recorded in SJPL . Enclosure not found, but see...
92581From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letter to Genl. St. Clair. The only passage about which he has any doubt is the following ‘it does not appear by any information in my possession, that your exertions were wanting to produce a different result either in the previous preparations, or in the time of action .’ Th: J. never heard a statement of the matter...
92582From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 3 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have received and read with much pleasure your kind letter of the 20 th: Ult; Your sympathy with me under the base effusions of mallice and falshood ought to be converted into shame for your Country, which wanted virtue, sense and spirit to discountenance what will remain a lasting disgrace to America to the press and to letters. A Brown, a Markoe, & a Finley, suffered to insult for a whole...
92583Deed to the Erie Triangle, 3 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Whereas by an act of congress, intituled an act “for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the state of Pennsylvania,” it was provided, that for duly conveying to the said state a certain tract of land, the right to the government and jurisdiction whereof was relinquished to the said state by a resolution of congress of the fourth day of September in the year one...
92584From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of the return of the number of Inhabitants in the District of South Carolina, as made to me by the Marshal thereof; and the copy of a letter which accompanied said return. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW . For GW’s personal interest in the results of the U.S. census of 1790, see GW to...
92585From John Jay to James Iredell, 3 March 1792 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav[ore] d . with yours of the 16 th . of last month — Judge Cushing accidentally carried it with him to New Haven, from whence he sent it to me by the Post. He mentioned to me what had passed at Ph[iladelphi] a . relative to the circuits. The Difficulties attending that Subject can in my opinion be removed by Congress only. The Objections heretofore stated to a Rotation strike me...
92586For the National Gazette, 3 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
A perfect theory on this subject would be useful, not because it could be reduced to practice by any plan of legislation, or ought to be attempted by violence on the will or property of individuals: but because it would be a monition against empirical experiments by power, and a model to which the free choice of occupations by the people, might gradually approximate the order of society. The...
92587From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Messieurs de Viar and de Jaudenes. Tho’ the arrangements on the negociation with Spain are not yet all taken, yet he has no reason to doubt they will be so in the course of a week or two, and that they will perfectly accord with the expectations of the gentlemen. PrC ( DLC ). TJ was responding to an anxious request for information the...
92588To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 3 Mch. 1792 . He has been informed by the “Lieutenant au gouvernement général” and the intendant of Saint-Domingue that the situation on that island is critical because of a shortage of funds in the colony treasury and the uncertainty of receiving any financial aid from France.—In this extremity he feels obliged to apply to the U.S. government for “l’avance immédiate d’une somme...
92589To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
United States, 3 Mch. 1792 . By the President’s command he transmits the “return of the enumeration of the Inhabitants of South Carolina” received from the marshal there, a letter from Governor Pinckney which, if necessary, the President wishes TJ either to answer or to report to him about, and two pardons signed by the President to which the seal must be affixed. The President wishes to have...
92590From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to inclose the List of appointments of Inspectors of the Revenue, which took place during the recess of the Senate, as well for ports as Surveys. The President will recollect that the Joseph McDowell who was truly contemplated is “ the younger ” of Pleasant Garden, though described in the Commission & in the List as “ the Elder. ” LC , George...
92591From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 4 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President of the U: States certain resolutions of the Bank of the U: States, in answer to communications from the Treasury. He will ask the President’s orders on Monday. The first resolution will particularly require attention. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The reports and letters of the Bank of the United...
92592To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to communicate to the President of the U: States certain resolutions of the Bank of the U: States, in answer to communications from the Treasury. He will ask the President’s orders on Monday. the first resolution will particularly require attention. LB , DLC:GW . For the background to the establishment of the Bank of the United States in late...
92593From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed came by the Post yesterday. I send it for your perusal. Have you had any conversation with Mr Ellicot respecting the completion of the Survey, & lots of the Federal City?—If so, what was the result?—He ought, if he undertakes it, to proceed to that place immediately—so as to be there at the proposed meeting of the Commissionrs. The Engravers say eight weeks is the shortest time in...
92594From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Oliver Pollock, a citizen of the United States, has stated to me that a sum of 9574¼ Dollars due to him at the Havanna, was attached by his Catholic majesty’s government there to secure certain sums due to Spanish subjects from the said Oliver Pollock, that he has since otherwise paid the sums he owed to those persons, and to all others within his majesty’s dominions,...
92595Plan for Expediting Postal Service, [4 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
It is proposed that there shall be one post a week passing along the main post road from North to South, at the rate of 100 miles a day. All intermediate post days, and all cross posts to remain as at present, unless it should be thought well to put the post towards Kentuckey, as far as practicable, on the quick establishment. Let this road be divided into stages of 25 miles each, as nearly as...
92596From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favor of Feb. 17. informing us you were all safely moored at Monticello. With still greater I learn that you are at length sure of Edgehill. It is a fine tract of land, and will make you happier by furnishing a pleasing occupation. It secures too, what is essential to my happiness, our living near together. It seems as if you had more snow Southwardly...
92597From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of the letter of Feb. 22. which I had the honour of writing you, covering the acts of the North-Western government, as called for by the Resolution of the house of representatives of Feb. 10. the acts of the same government passed in the year 1791. have come to the hands of the President and have been deposited among the records in my office. Supposing that these also might come...
92598To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed came by the Post yesterday.—I send it for your perusal. Have you had any conversation with Mr. Ellicot respecting the completion of the Survey, and lots of the Federal City?—If so, what was the result?—He ought, [if] he undertakes it, to proceed to that place immediately, so as to be there at the proposed meeting of the Commissionrs. The Engravers say eight weeks is the shortest...
92599From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 5–6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The catalogue of complaints, enclosed, is long. May not our loss of the Indian trade—the participation of it I mean—and the expence & losses sustain’d by the Indian War be set against Mr H——list of grievances, in behalf of the B——Merchants—as well as, by taking our Slaves away depriving us of the means of paying debts. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. George Hammond, who was appointed Britain’s...
92600From Robert Heysham to John Adams, 5 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
I flatter myself that your Excellency will not consider me as importunate, in addressing you on the subject of the conversation you indulged me the honor with a few Days’ since on my soliciting your Excellency’s interference in my behalf to be continued in employ during the recesses of the Senate particularly. I should not trouble your Excellency again, were it not for the circumstance of M r....