94101From Alexander Hamilton to William Ellery, 2 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 2, 1792. On July 16, 1792, Ellery wrote to Hamilton : “I have recd. your … letter of the 2nd. of July last.” Letter not found. ] Ellery was collector of customs at Newport, Rhode Island.
94102From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [2 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his respects to the President & has the honor to enclose the sketch of a letter to be written by Mr. Lear to Mr. Langdon. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Woodbury Langdon, the brother of Senator John Langdon of New Hampshire, was a New Hampshire merchant and politician. In June, 1790, after he had served five years on the state superior court, he was...
94103To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 2 July 1792. Encloses “the sketch of a letter to be written by Mr Lear to Mr Langdon.” LB , DLC:GW . For the appointment of Woodbury Langdon as one of the commissioners to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual states for the expense of the Revolutionary War, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 23 Dec. 1790 . For the acts of Congress regarding the settlement of...
94104To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your consideration certain principles for the formation of the four sub Legions, and for the arrangeme⟨nt⟩ of the commissioned officers thereof. And also in case of a reduction of any of the new troops that the officers should be reduced by Lot. I have the honor sir to be with perfect respect Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The...
94105To John Jay from a Committee of the Citizens of Albany, [2 July 1792] (Jay Papers)
A Committee of the Citizens of Albany, in behalf of themselves and Constituents, beg leave to pay their respects to you, in your passage thro this City on your tour of Official duty With the dignified feelings of Independant Republicans, we experience real pleasure in acknowledging our obligations to you, for the various services you have rendered, this your Native State as well as the States...
94106From Thomas Jefferson to Elnathan Haskell, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of June 23. and shall with pleasure do thereon whatever may serve yourself and Mr. Pigott, provided it may not lead me to implicate myself in any legal difficulties. It will be necessary for me to see beforehand, that whenever any danger of this kind may appear, I may clear my hands of it by transferring the deposit into other hands, as the Treasury office, the...
94107From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Knox, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Genl. Knox, and begs leave to submit to him the following paragraph of a letter from Mr. Hugh Rose a very respectable gentleman of Amherst county Virginia. ‘I must request you to make interest with General Knox to transfer John Newman from the Georgia to the Virginia pension list. He lost his arm at the siege of Savannah, and is allowed £15....
94108To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved yours of June 22. The sudden departure of the post who entered Charlottesville the morning and left it before dinner prevented my writing Last week tho Mr. Randolph did and sent his letter after him as far as fluvana courthouse before they could overtake him. To his iregularity is owing that which you complain of in the receipt of my letters. I am very sorry you cannot fix...
94109To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Ternant, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 2 July 1792. In conformity with orders just received, he sends copies of the new clearance form for French merchant vessels. He requests TJ to show it to the President and to ask him to issue the necessary orders to American ports so that these vessels can receive clearance in accordance with the law and sail without impediment. Tr ( AMAE : CPEU, xxxvi ); 1 p.; in French; at head...
94110From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with extreme concern that I learnt from your letter of June 25th. that a violation of the protection due to you as the representative of your nation had been committed by an officer of this State entering your house and serving therein a process on one of your Servants. There could be no question but that this was a breach of privilege; the only one was how it was to be punished. To...
94111To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 2 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Craving reference to what we had the honour of addressing you the 30 May, We have now principally to wait on you with an abstract of the Account Current of the Department of State up to the 30 June by which it appears that We retain in our hands a Balance of f69889.3 to face the further disposals of the American Ministers in Europe, which We have no doubt but you will find correct. We have the...
94112Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy Adams, 3 July 1792 (Adams Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your kind Letter of the 18 th of May by Barnard and was much releived by being informed that our Mother was recovering her health as rapidly as could be expected— I feared from not having received a Single line from her; that she was not so well as my friends represented her to me we have had Letters from all my other friends except herself since our arrivall and...
94113To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 3 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Notwithstanding our wishes to the contrary, we are too often impelled to call your attention from the more important duties of your Office to circumstances trivial indeed compared therewith. However painful the measure we cannot avoid it & preserve that uniformity in the different Offices so much to be desired, as thereby the general interest is promoted & the minds of the People kept in a...
94114Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to William Carmichael, 3 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Two Days ago I saw Mr. Le Couteulx, who told me that his friend had made application to the Spanish Court to obtain an assignment on the Debt from the United States in discharge of a Debt due to him; and that Mr. Gardoqui said the United States owed Spain above a Million of Dollars, being in part for advances made in America. This assertion struck me, and as I had formerly some knowledge of...
94115From Alexander Hamilton to James Lingan, [3 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, July 3, 1792. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Acknowledges receipt of a draft in the amount of $1500.00.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Catalogue No. 92, Lot 47. Lingan was collector of customs at Georgetown, District of Columbia.
94116To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “the translation of a letter from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, with the draught of an answer he proposes to them, & a letter to the Governor of Georgia. he incloses also a translation of the papers which accompanied the letter he received.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State;...
94117To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Encloses “to the President a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from David Humphreys, U.S. minister to Portugal, to Jefferson of 3 May 1792 concerned the recent assassination of Gustav III of...
94118To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “to the President a letter to mister Van Berckel on the subject of the infraction of the privileges of his house by a constable.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . For Dutch minister Franco Petrus Van Berckel’s letter to Jefferson of 25 June...
94119From George Washington to Henry Lee, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 20th Ulto was presented to me yesterday by Mr Williams—who as a professional man—may, or may not be for ought I know, a luminary of the first magnitude. But to be frank, and I hope you will not be displeased with me for being so—I am so heartily tired of the attendance which from one cause or another has been given ⟨to⟩ these kind of people, that it is now more than two...
94120To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Madison Papers)
No. 6. Since my last of June 29. I have received your Nos. 2. & 3. of June 24. & 25. The following particulars occur. Vining has declined offering at the next election. It is said we are to have in his room a mr. Roach, formerly of the army, an anti-cincinnatus, and good agricultural man. Smith of S. C. declines also. He has bought a fine house in Charleston for 5000. £ and had determined not...
94121From Thomas Jefferson to John Carey, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Carey and will with pleasure give him access to any papers of his office which no longer require secrecy. The difficulty will be how to separate these from those still requiring secrecy, without giving Mr. Carey access to the whole, which Th:J. would not think himself free to do. Perhaps Mr. Carey can from the Journals of Congress, or other...
94122From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Ellicott, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a letter for Dr. Stewart, open to you, because I think, besides taking care that he receives it, you will have the goodness to make the same inquiries which I press on him, and that this will double my chance of finding out a level road which I am pretty sure exists, and would be an immense convenience to me. Be so kind as to stick a wafer in the Dr.’s letter. I am with great esteem...
94123From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last of June 29. I have received your Nos. 2. and 3. of June 24. and 25.—The following particulars occur. Vining has declined offering at the next election. It is said we are to have in his room a Mr. Roach, formerly of the army, an anti-cincinnatus, and good agricultural man.—Smith of S.C. declines also. He has bought a fine house in Charleston for 5000. £ and had determined not even...
94124From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a letter to our bankers in Amsterdam covering a bill of exchange drawn on them by the treasurer for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current guilders which I have endorsed thus ‘Philadelphia July 3. 1792. Enter this to the credits of the Secretary of state for the United states of America. Th: Jefferson.’ to prevent the danger of interception. My letter...
94125From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you Petit’s statement of the stores sent round to Richmond to the care of Mr. Brown. They sailed from hence yesterday morning, and the winds have been and are so favorable that I dare say they will be in Chesapeak bay tomorrow, ready for the first Southernly breeze to carry them up the river. So that they will probably be at Richmond some days before you receive this. I wrote to...
94126From Thomas Jefferson to David Stuart, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The President, I suppose, informs you that he will be at George town on the 15th. to consult with you in the choice of plans for the public buildings. I expect to pass there on the morning of Wednesday the 18th. on my way to Virginia, and the purport of the present is to remind you that you were so kind as to promise to enquire for the road which would lead me from George town directly into...
94127From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Telfair, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to your Excellency the copy of a letter I have received from His Catholic Majesty’s representatives here in consequence of a complaint from the Governor of Florida that three inhabitants of the state of Georgia, to wit, Thomas Harrison, David Rees, and William Ervin, had entered the Spanish territory and brought from thence five negro slaves the property of John...
94128From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of June 26. with the papers accompanying it on the subject of the robbery supposed to have been committed within the territory of Florida by three citizens of the state of Georgia: and I have it in charge to assure you that due enquiry shall be immediately made into the transaction, and that every thing shall be done on the part of this government...
94129From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the first of a bill of exchange drawn on you by the Treasurer of the U.S. for one hundred and twenty three thousand seven hundred and fifty current Gilders, which please to enter to the credit of the Secretary of state for the U.S. Mr. Pinkney our minister at London is authorised to draw on you at times to this whole amount for particular purposes independant of the general ones...
94130From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Lee, 4 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to request that the Boat mentioned in your letter of the 11th of April last may be delivered to the Collector of Cedar Point. In your letter, under date the 21st of September last, was enclosed a copy of an order of the District Court for compensating Charles Page, who was called as a Witness in the suit against William Simpson, which, agreeably to my Circular letter of the 8th Ultimo,...
94131From Alexander Hamilton to Henry E. Lutterloh, 4 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 4, 1792. On September 9, 1792, Lutterloh wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 4th July … I had the honour to receive.” Letter not found. ] Lutterloh came to America from Germany during the American Revolution and served as a deputy quartermaster general of the Continental Army with the rank of colonel. He subsequently settled in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
94132To George Washington from William Carter, Sr., 4 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
William Wray, a Youth of a Reputable Family, & a Nephew of mine by Marriage, having lived with me from August 1784. in Order to study Physick & Surgery, is now very desirous of entering into the Army with a View of serving his Country & improving himself in the practical Part of his Profession & wishes to be appointed a Mate under a Surgeon for that Purpose; But in Case there is no Vacancy for...
94133From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 4 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th Ulto came to my hands yesterday —and this answer to it will be in Alexandria on Friday; &, more than probable, will reach you before Monday. As you think it will be best to sow Lucern alone, in the Inclosure by the Stable; I am content that it should be so; and will send, or bring some seed, in aid of what you have, to stock it w⟨e⟩ll. The Brick yard Inclosure I would...
94134To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 4 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Does not Marius on bills of exchange (p. 29) give satisfaction as to your bill; which I understand to have been drawn, payable to you or order, and similarly indorsed by you? Until my papers arrive from New-York, I cannot be more decisive in Leigh vs. West , than I have been. However, if Mr. John Brown, the clerk of the general court, will look into the order books during May’s and Pendleton’s...
94135To Thomas Jefferson from F. P. Van Berckel, 4 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu hier l’honneur de recevoir Votre Lettre du 2e. de Ce mois, et je m’empresse à Vous y faire parvenir ma reponse, en Vous temoignant dabord ma Sensibilité pour l’attention que Vous avez faite a ce que j’eus l’honneur de Vous representer dans ma Lettre du 25e. dernier. Mon intention ayant Simplement été de demander telle reparation, que les Circonstances permettroient, j’ai voulu m’en...
94136To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 5 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Circular of the 25th. June last, has been received in which among other things is explained how the additional 10 per Cent on the duties upon Goods, imported in Vessels not of the United States is to be computed; I shall conform to your instruction though I own had I not received it, the computation would have been made on the total Duties without distinguishing the old from the new...
94137To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 5 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Providence, July 5, 1792. “On Monday Morning, the 2nd. Instant, the Master of the Ship Hope from Surinam, the Cargo of which was discharged the preceding Saturday afternoon, informed me that from a hint given by one of his Sailors, he had discovered a bag and one keg of brown Sugar, weighing 109 lb, concealed within the Sealing of the Cabin, but by whom he could not learn: a design to defraud...
94138Draft of a Resolution for the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, [5 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
That a Committee of three be appointed to receive proposals and conclude contracts for conveying the requisite water from the River to the seat of the Mills on the following plans severally First to convey the Water across the Gully from to by troughs or trunks [supported] by a wall Secon[d] to convey the Water from the last mentioned point to the seat of the Mill so as to have at the Mill a...
94139Draft of Resolutions for the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, [5 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Resolved—[That the Water of the Passaick be conveyed across the adjacent Gully passing near a point or place distinguished as No. 16 upon the summit of a Wall to be erected for that purpose and preserving the head thereof] Resolved That the sd. Water be conveyed from a station or stake marked No. 1 to a place at or near another stake marked No. 2, from thence to a place at or near another...
94140Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to William Short, 5 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Paris, July 5, 1792. “I wrote to you on the twenty eighth and have since receiv’d yours of the same Date. I call’d on the Minister the Day before yesterday and he promis’d me to come to a Settlement of the Accounts in a few Days and to adjust at the same Time the Object of the late Decree. As the Affair is now left to the Responsability of the Executive I presume they will not longer delay it...
94141To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 5 July 1792. Encloses “a letter just recieved from mister Hammond, which will be difficult to answer properly.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . British minister George Hammond’s letter of 5 July to Jefferson reads: “I have the honor of submitting to your...
94142Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 5 July 1792. Asks Lear to submit “the enclosed important papers from Mr Seagrovet” to GW. ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . These enclosures have not been identified.
94143To George Washington from James Seagrove, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The information, which I am about to give appearing to me of importance to the United States, I hope will plead my excuse for thus intruding on your moments of retirement. In my dispatch of the 14th Ulto to the Secretary of War I promised to procure what information I could respecting a Spanish Officer which General McGillivray mentions in his letter to me of the 18th of May, a Copy of which...
94144From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1792 (Madison Papers)
My last acknowledged the last of yours that has come to hand. From the date of that I shall probably have the pleasure of another as soon as an opportunity from Fredericksbg. happens. I write at present merely for the sake of one thither which has just fallen in my way. The most remarkable occurrence of late date here, was the excessive heat on sunday the first instant. At two OClock the...
94145To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Blodget, Jr., 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I Informed you per Post and per Mr. Henry Otis of my having paid 5000 Dollars into the Branch Bank U.S. ( of Boston ). The other 5000 remains part in my hands, and part in the Union Bank lately established here. As this diviation was intended to favour a plan of mine and cannot operate to the Injury of the Commissioners for the City I hope for theirs and your pardon. Some unforseen...
94146To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received several plans for the public Buildings, which we had prepared to send forward; and expect several more will be presented; but as we have just heard, from the Presidents Steward, that he may be expected here, by the 15th Instant; we shall, to save the Trouble of carrying and returning, retain them for his inspection and choice here. Mr. Hoben , applies himself closely, to a...
94147To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of submitting to your consideration copies of certain papers, which I have received from Canada. They contain information that some persons, acting under the authority of the State of Vermont, have attempted to exercise legal jurisdiction within districts now occupied by the King’s troops, and have committed acts of violence on the persons and property of British Subjects...
94148To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last acknowledged the last of yours that has come to hand. From the date of that I shall probably have the pleasure of another as soon as an opportunity from Fredericksbg. happens. I write at present merely for the sake of one thither which has just fallen in my way. The most remarkable occurrence of late date here, was the excessive heat on sunday the first instant. At two OClock the...
94149To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Hemos Recivido con el mayor aprecio las dos de V. S. de 30 de Junio ultimo, y 3 del corriente. Por el contenido de la primera, y el de las copias, que se sirbe V. S. incluirnos quedamos mui persuadidos de la justicia, y amistosa disposicion, que Manifiesta la Resolucion que ha tomado el Presidente de los Estados Unidos, en vista de los Papeles, que suplicamos a V. S. le presentase, y a...
94150To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Olney, 6 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your several Letters of the 26, 27th. & 28th of June. The circular Letter, dated the 6th of February last, to which you refer has never come to hand; I am therefore under the necessity of postponing the notification of Mr. Arnold’s delinquincy until I do receive it. I have the honor to be &c. ADfS , Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence. For background to this letter, see...