94101To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Ward, 2 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Boston, May 2, 1791. On May 26, 1791, Hamilton wrote to Ward : “I duly received your letter of the 2d instant.” Letter not found. ] Ward was a Boston stockbroker and real estate dealer.
94102To Alexander Hamilton from George Cabot, [2 May 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Beverly, Massachusetts, May 2, 1791. On May 30, 1791, Cabot wrote to Tench Coxe: “I have the satisfaction of acknowledging the receipt of your obliging letter of the 14th in reply to mine of the 2d instant addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury.” Letter not found. ] ALS , Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Cabot was a...
94103[Diary entry: 2 May 1791] (Washington Papers)
Monday 2d. Breakfasted at the Country Seat of Govr. Pinckney about 18 miles from our lodging place, & then came to the ferry at Haddrels point, 6 miles further, where I was met by the Recorder of the City, Genl. Pinckney & Edward Rutledge Esqr. in a 12 oared barge rowed by 12 American Captains of Ships, most elegantly dressed. There were a great number of other Boats with Gentlemen and ladies...
94104To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 2 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
(Duplicate) Sir, Philadelphia May 2d 1791. Of the measures pursuing by general Knox, relative to Indian affairs, he doubtless makes to you the necessary communications. In those communications, he may, perhaps, have mentioned my being here, preparatory to my undertaking another mission to the Indians of the Six Nations, for the purpose of confirming the peace and friendship subsisting between...
94105To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 2 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to remind you that I shall expect the honour of your company at dinner on Thursday at four O Clock —and to a Ball on friday Evening at seven O Clock. I am with respectful Regard Dear Sir Your’s Truly ALS , PHi : Gratz Collection. GW landed at two o’clock in Charleston at Prioleau’s wharf to an artillery salute, pealing bells, and “reiterated shouts of joy” from “an uncommonly large...
94106From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 2 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. John Wilcocks junr. having in contemplation to visit different Countries of Europe, and perhaps that of your Residence, with a view to commercial arrangements, I take the liberty of informing you that he is a citizen of the United States, son of Mr. Wilcocks the Recorder of Pennsylvania, and of a respectable character. As such I beg leave to make him known to you, and to...
94107To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 2 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 26th. of last month by the English packet and mentioned to you that Petit had been here some time and would go by the French which sails the 15th. from L’Orient. By the arrangement of the stages he finds that he shall be obliged to leave this place the 5th. Of course my letters to you by him will not be of so late a date as I had hoped. I intended if he would not accept...
94108Account with John B. Church, 1 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] May 1, 1791 . A record of Hamilton’s administration of Church’s affairs “as ⅌ Account transmitted J B Church.… Dates not to be relied on. Entry having been subsequently made for memorandum.” ADS , Mr. Sol Feinstone, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Church, who had come to the United States at the time of the American Revolution, had married Angelica Schuyler, Elizabeth...
94109[Diary entry: 1 May 1791] (Washington Papers)
Sunday—May first. Left Georgetown about 6 Oclock, and crossing the Santee Creek [Sampit River] at the Town, and the Santee River 12 miles from it, at Lynchs Island, we breakfasted and dined at Mrs. Horry’s about 15 Miles from George town & lodged at the Plantation of Mr. Manigold about 19 miles farther. GW was rowed across the Sampit River “in the same manner, and by the same Captains of...
94110To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you on the 24th Ult. which I presume you will have recieved at Cambden. the present is ordered to go from Petersburg to Taylor’s ferry. I think it better my letters should be even some days ahead of you, knowing that if they ever get into your rear they will never overtake you. I write to day indeed merely as the watchman cries, to prove himself awake, & that all...
94111To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 1 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
We have not had the pleasure of hearing from you, since I had the honor to write on the 24 of last month; which letter was sent by the mail to Charleston, with a request to the Post Master to convey it by a private opportunity to Augusta or Columbia. As it would reach Charleston by the 12th of may there is no doubt but an opportunity will offer of sending it to either one or the other of those...
94112To George Washington from Benjamin Smith, 1 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letters were handed to me this day —I very much regret that they did not arrive in time—They are however forwarded, to shew you, that, the common Anxiety, which I believe pervades the Continent, to make your path smooth & your Journey light, was not wanting between this part of the Country & Santee; also in justice to the Parties, who perhaps would be mortified that their very...
94113From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1791 (Madison Papers)
Finding on my arrival at Princeton that both Docr. Witherspoon & Smith had made excursions in the Vacation, I had no motive to detain me there; and accordingly pursuing my journey I arrived here the day after I left Philada. My first object was to see Dorhman. He continues to wear the face of honesty, and to profess much anxiety to discharge the claims of Mazzei; but acknowledges that all his...
94114To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My silence hitherto has proceeded from a supposition that you had little leisure to attend to any thing but the duties of your office and I learn from Colo. Monroe that this supposition has been well founded. My time since your departure has been employed principally in the study of the law following the course you marked out. The evenings have been divided between History, Philosophy, and...
94115From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered you by Mr. Cassinove a gentleman from Holland of distinction, wealth and merit. An acquaintance of a year’s standing enables me to bear particular testimony to his worth as a man, and his talents as a man of business. Desirous that strangers of note should have opportunities of knowing the real character of my countrymen which I know will not suffer on the whole when...
94116From Thomas Jefferson to William Drayton, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My mortification has been extreme at the delays which have attended the procuring the olive plants so long ago recommended by myself, so long ago agreed to by the agricultural society, and for which their money has been so long lying in the hands of a banker at Paris. I assure you Sir that my endeavors have been unremitting. In addition to the first small parcel which were sent soon after the...
94117From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gilmor & Company, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just informed that there is arrived at Baltimore addressed to you by Mr. Cathalan of Marseilles 6. barrrels containing Olive trees, and a chest containing olives to sow, for me. I must beg the favor of you to send them by the first vessel to Charleston (S. C.) addressed ‘to Messieurs Brailsford & Morris for Mr. Drayton.’ As the success of this endeavour to introduce the culture of the...
94118From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Guide, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of Apr. 28. as well as those of your brother and Mr. Cathalan, and experience at the same time regret from the accident to your vessel, and the pleasure of seeing a commencement of commerce between the dominions of his Sardinian majesty and the United states. How far the assortment you have brought may answer here, I am not merchant enough to say; but the...
94119To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As Bob is going down the country to morrow we shall all write to you by this opportunity. We expect jenny and nancy Randolph here in july. Mr. Randolph has bought a horse called my heart and a saddle for me to ride out on also a pretty whip. My niece is prettier and prettier everyday. This place is beautiful now. The peaches cherrys and strawberries are very big allready and there are a great...
94120To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding on my arrival at Princeton that both Docr. Witherspoon and Smith had made excursions in the Vacation, I had no motive to detain me there, and accordingly pursuing my journey I arrived here the day after I left Philada. My first object was to see Dorhman. He continues to wear the face of honesty, and to profess much anxiety to discharge the claims of Mazzei, but acknowledges that all...
94121From Thomas Jefferson to James McClurg, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Cassinove, a gentleman from Holland of distinction, wealth and merit, being to pay a visit to Richmond and Norfolk, I am desirous of making him known to the men of worth of my own country, and them also to him. On this principle permit me to bring you and him together, persuaded you will find a mutual gratification in each other’s society. He is particularly connected...
94122From Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe, Assistant secretary of our treasury, interests himself in behalf of a Mr. Parkinson here, whose family is in your neighborhood, and who is desirous of having them brought here. I will thank you for your attention to any thing Mr. Coxe may desire on this subject, and as he is not known to you, I take a pleasure in assuring you that his faith and his ability to comply with whatever he...
94123From Thomas Jefferson to Beverley Randolph, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Cassinove being on a visit to Richmond and perhaps Norfolk, I take the liberty of presenting him to your notice. He is a gentleman of distinction and merit from Holland, and under particular connections with the Van Staphorsts, bankers of the United States at Amsterdam. Satisfied that you will find a gratification in his society, and that any attentions you shall be...
94124From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you the bearer hereof Mr. Cassinove, a gentleman from Holland of distinction and worth, who is paying a short visit to Richmond and the lower parts of Virginia. You will find in him the polished manners of a traveller with the plainness of retirement. Desirous that he should see our country advantageously, and particularly the charms of our country—situations, I will...
94125From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the reciept of your favour of Apr. 7. which came to hand on the 20th. I hope my letters on the subject of my tobacco have got to hand in time to prevent any contract there interfering with the sale I made here. I learn that 4. hhds. more are coming on. Being entitled to the highest price given before payment, I believe I shall be sure of 5⅓ dollars which will neat me 29/3...
94126To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Pierre, 1 May 1791 . The lack of an exequatur and tardiness of Congress in framing instructions or providing for consuls, the troubles of this island and consequent losses in commerce, added to the exhausted state of his finances, have driven him to the mortifying resolution to return to America until the obstacles can be removed and Congress “think proper to regulate the Consular Powers...
94127From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you on the 24th. Ult. which I presume you will have recieved at Cambden. The present is ordered to go from Petersburg to Taylor’s ferry. I think it better my letters should be even some days ahead of you, knowing that if they ever get into your rear they will never overtake you.—I write to day indeed merely as the watchman cries, to prove himself awake, and that...
94128Conversation with George Beckwith, [March-April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March-April, 1791. “… the Vice-president, Secretaries of the Treasury & War & myself met on the 11th.… I mentioned to the gentlemen the idea of suggesting thro’ Colo. Beckwith, our knowlege of the conduct of the British officers in furnishing the Indians with arms & ammunition, & our dissatisfaction. Colo. Hamilton said that Beckwith had been with him on the subject, and had...
94129From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [April 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
You will think me a sad delinquent and You will have reason. I plead guilty & crave the mercy of the Court. The two Credits of July 31. 1786 stand in my book as different 3500 } Dollars. This renders it less probable that they should sums— 3000 be one payment as you appear by your letter of the 24 of April 1791 to think possible. I have not on examination found any additional light. If none...
94130[April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 7th. April. Recommenced my journey with Horses apparently well refreshed and in good spirits. In attempting to cross the ferry at Colchester with the four Horses hitched to the Chariot by the neglect of the person who stood before them, one of the leaders got overboard when the boat was in swimming water and 50 yards from the Shore—with much difficulty he escaped drowning before he...
94131From John Adams to Wilhem Willink, 30 April 1791 (Adams Papers)
With this I inclose to you Coupons for the Year 1789— Twenty of ƒforty Holl ds Court each of the 1. of Feb. 1789 and twenty two of ƒ50 Holl ds Court each of the 1. of June 1789. I pray you to acknowledge the Receipt of them as soon as possible and if you please you may purchase new Obligations with them for your friend and keep them for him P.S. With the thousand Guilders drawn for me please...
94132To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Pettit, 30 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, concurred in by the Senate, and approved by the Governor, I do myself the honor to apply to you for the balance remaining unissued of that part of the Bills of Credit which were directed to be issued on the credit of this State by the Act of Congress of the 18th. of March 1780. By a statement which I...
94133[Diary entry: 30 April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 30th. Crossed the Waggamaw to George town by descending the River three miles. At this place we were recd. under a Salute of Cannon, & by a Company of Infantry handsomely uniformed. I dined with the Citizens in public; and in the afternoon, was introduced to upwards of 50 ladies who had assembled (at a Tea party) on the occasion. George Town seems to be in the shade of Charleston. It...
94134From George Washington to the Inhabitants of Georgetown, South Carolina, 30 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
I receive your congratulations on my arrival in South Carolina with real pleasure, and I confess my obligation to your affectionate regard with sincere gratitude. While the calamities, to which you were exposed during the war, excited all my sympathy, the gallantry and firmness, with which they were encountered, obtained my entire esteem. To your fortitude in those trying scenes our country is...
94135From George Washington to the Masons of Georgetown, South Carolina, 30 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
The cordial welcome which you give me to George Town, and the congratulations you are pleased to offer on my election to the chief Magistracy receive my grateful thanks. I am much obliged by your good wishes and reciprocate them with sincerity—assuring the fraternity of my esteem, I request them to believe that I shall always be ambitious of being considered a deserving Brother. LB , DLC:GW ....
94136To Thomas Jefferson from Pierpont Edwards, 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
New Haven, 30 Apr. 1791 . Encloses first code of laws enacted in Connecticut, published 1672. There are no laws extant of earlier date, perhaps because the charter obtained by Gov. Winthrop from Charles II in 1662, incorporating and uniting colonies of Hartford and New Haven which until then had been distinct and totally independent of each other, was procured without permission of New Haven,...
94137To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Hanson, 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Petersburg, Virginia. 30 Apr. 1791 . He has received TJ’s of 5th inst. and that of 7 Nov., which would have been “answered in course had you not mentioned writing me again soon.” He notes TJ’s making such an advantageous sale of his tobacco. Farell & Jones, owing a debt to Colo. Edward Carter, gave power to Dobson to receive it and Hanson paid latter TJ’s first bond “as it could make no...
94138To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mafra, Portugal. 30 Apr. 1791 . On 13th Samuel Harrison, at instance of Jacob Dohrman, sent messenger from Lisbon to inform Humphreys that Dominick Joyce, merchant of Philadelphia, had written his brother Edward Joyce on 25 Feb.: “A Minister is appointed to your Court; Colo. Humphreys is the person.” This and three others from Philadelphia received in extraordinary manner. An American...
94139To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We are unhappy at not being able to transmit you as regular accounts from Monticello as you are desirous of having. The discontinuance of the post throws us entirely on the Waggons for the conveyance of our letters, a method not only irregular but extremely uncertain. It is particularly painful to us to be frequently in doubt from the same cause about the state of your health as there is...
94140To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Harison, 29 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the Honor of receiving your Letter of the 26th. and shall pay due Attention to the Contents. The Questions proposed, are in themselves of great Importance & not free from Difficulties. They must therefore require mature and deliberate Consideration. Inclosed you will find the Contract entered into with John McComb Junr. & a Bond to secure the Performance of it. Mr. Cruger not having left...
94141[Diary entry: 29 April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Friday 29th. We left Doctr. Flaggs about 6 oclo[ck] and arrived at Captn. Wm. Alstons’ on the Waggamaw to Breakfast. Captn. Alston is a Gentleman of large fortune and esteemed one of the neatest Rice planters in the state of So. Carolina and a proprietor of some of the most valuable grounds for the Culture of this article. His house which is large, new, and elegantly furnished stands on a sand...
94142To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 29 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 29 April 1791. What is presumably the receiver’s copy of this letter was offered for sale in the catalog of George Smith, “Autograph Letters,” 1960, item 199.
94143To Thomas Jefferson from Sylvanus Bourne, 29 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Cape François, 29 Apr. 1791 . Arrived and presented credentials on 16 Mch. Still awaits recognition “but cannot obtain any decision of the business: being constantly put off by the most equivocal and evasive Conduct on their part. One Day am informed that the Convention does not extend to the Colonies—the next that as my Commission is unacompanied by a letter from the Secy. of State, they...
94144To Thomas Jefferson from Charles François d’Anmours, 29 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore, 29 Apr. 1791 . Introducing and recommending to TJ’s “special protection” M. Pierre Zacharie of Lyons, an “ingenious mechanician of a family that has produced many men of merit in the mechanical branch of mathematicks, and who have received … several rewards and privileges.” He is the inventor of a machine to clean harbors, found on examination there to be superior to a number of...
94145To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 29 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of orders which I have received from his Majesty, I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the law which fixes the disposition of the colours in the different kinds of flags, or other customary marks of distinction among ships of war and commercial vessels of the French nation. I request the favor of you to make this law known in the ports of the United States. And have the...
94146Enclosure E: Commissioners of Customs to the Lords of the Treasury, 29 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ London ], 29 April 1791 . [Charles] Long in his of the 6th indicating that he had placed before the Lords of the Treasury a letter from [J. B.] Burgess of 25 Mch. transmitting Johnson’s memorial together with the documents referred to therein and that he had been commanded to lay these documents before the Commissioners of the Customs, they report: that Rachel “was discovered on Monday the...
94147From Alexander Hamilton to Nathaniel Appleton, 28 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The bills of the old emmissions enclosed in your letter of the 22d December are now returned to you. Those which you have crossed are found to be counterfeit. That which remains unerassed is a true bill. It will derange the established plan of operations to draw a warrant on you for your Salary & expenditures. It will be best that you appoint, as heretofore, an agent to receive your Salary at...
94148[Diary entry: 28 April 1791] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 28th. Mr. Vareen piloted us across the Swash (which at high water is impassable, & at times, by the shifting of the Sands is dangerous) on to the long Beach of the Ocean; and it being at a proper time of the tide we passed along it with ease and celerity to the place of quitting it which is estimated 16 miles. Five Miles farther we got dinner & fed our horses at a Mr. Pauleys a...
94149To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 28 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Attwood Digges, c.28 April 1791. On 28 April Digges introduced William Pearce to Thomas Jefferson and wrote: “I have so little time before the Vessel sails to address The President and yourself. . . , that I hope You will escuse haste & inaccuracys” ( Jefferson Papers, Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J.,...
94150To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Digges, 28 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 24th. Ins. and am sorry to put you to the trouble of reading a second long Letter nearly upon the same Subject. It is of such importance to the Manufactures of our Country as to insure me your forgiveness. The Artist Mr. Wm. Pearce, mentiond in my former Letter and whose works you will have described at the end of this Letter, has finally determind to go for America with his...