97261To George Washington from Ellis Aspinall, 12 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
We shod have never ventured on the Liberty we now take if we did not conceive that the subject of this paper involved in its probable consequences circumstances Interesting to America as well as to ourselves Strangers in the New World and unacquainted with the Mode of Similar applications we look up to your Excellency not only as the Father of that Liberty which made America the Object of our...
97262From George Washington to Edward Carrington, 12 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Edward Carrington, 12 Feb. 1796 . On 24 Feb., Carrington wrote GW: “I have been honored with your favor of the 12th Instant.”
97263To George Washington from James Madison, 12 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Mr Madison presents his respectful compliments to the President of the United States, with a letter from Arthur Cambell Esqr. which an accompanying letter to Mr M. requests him to deliver to the President. Mr Cambell makes a further request of Mr M. to make any explanations that may be necessary. Mr M. is not sensible that he possesses any local or other knowledge that can elucidate the...
97264To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 12 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to lay before the President the translations of two letters from Mr Skjoldebrand at Algiers to Colo. Humphreys, part of the packet received with the treaty. Also the draught of a letter to Mrs Bradford, which if approved, the Secretary will send by to-morrow’s post. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His...
97265From George Washington to Isaac Craig, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I will thank you for causing the enclosed to be inserted three times in the Pittsburgh Gazette; with an interval of a fortnight or three weeks between each publication: and I should be further obliged to you for having one of them pasted up at the door of the most frequented tavern, or other conspicuous place in that Town. Have the like done, if you please, at Union Town, or place of...
97266From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
In the moment I was closing & dispatching my letters to the Post Office, I learnt from the Attorney General of the U.S. that you would be here on the 17th. My mind being continually uneasy on Acct of young Fayette, I cannot but wish (if this letter should reach you in time, and no reasons stronger than what have occurred against it) that you would request him, and his Tutor, to come on to this...
97267From George Washington to Thomas Lewis, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
You will perceive by the enclosed notification, one of which I request the favor of you to cause to be posted up in some public place (secure from weather) at Mount Pleasant that I am disposed to sell all the lands I hold on the Western Waters. Will you permit me to ask, what you conceive those Lands most within your knowledge would sell for, by the acre, or tract; on the credit which is...
97268From George Washington to James Madison, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for forwarding Mr Campbells letter; & whenever I shall have the pleasure of seeing you (for I would not put you to the trouble of calling for that purpose only) I will converse with you upon the subject of it. I confess, in the meantime, that I do not see upon what ground the application is made, to me. I can hardly suppose, Congress will disband the Troops now in Service, and...
97269To George Washington from James McHenry, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Without pursuing any official form, (with which I cannot say I am yet acquainted), I take the liberty to submit the thoughts that have occurred to me on reading the letters you were pleased to put into my hands on saturday last. Were you to conform to the dictates of friendship and receive publicly into your family the son of Mr La Fayette, it might be productive of certain political...
97270Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Timothy Pickering, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Resolved, that The President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House, the Treaty mentioned in his communications to both Houses of Congress, at the opening of the present Session, as having been negotiated with certain Indian Nations northwest of the river Ohio. By the President’s order B. Dandridge respectfully transmits to the Secy of State the above copy of a...
97271From George Washington to Rufus Putnam, 13 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
You will perceive by the enclosed, that I am disposed to sell the land I possess on the Western Waters—and on what terms. Let me request the favor of you therefore, to cause these notifications to be pasted up in some conspicuous part of the Town of Mariatte, and elsewhere lower down (but above Cincinnati) in such a manner as to give them a reasonable chance of remaining there, & legible, for...
97272To George Washington from William Pearce, 14 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 14 Feb. 1796 . On 21 Feb., GW wrote Pearce: “Since my last to you, I have received your letters of the 7th & 14th Instant.”
97273From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 14 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you, relative to my Executorship of Colo. Colvills Estate, I sent, as therein mentioned, to the person from whom I had purchased the Guinea, or Chinese Hogs which you saw at my Mill, and obtained two; a boar & a sow; the latter with Pig. He informed me, however, that they were not of the whole blood; but, in his opinion, improved from their mixture with another breed of Hogs...
97274From George Washington to James Anderson (of Scotland), 15 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you in December, I have been favored with your letter of the 15th of September, on the subject of Iron Bridges. The invention is ingenious, and if it answers as well in practice as it appears in theory it will be a valuable and useful discovery. I see no reason why it should not, as the construction is upon mathematical principles. I should fear, however, if you have not been...
97275From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 15 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
On thursday last I received your letter of —— (now in the hands of Colo. Pickering, & date not remembered). The business relative to the Arsenal at the mouth of Shenandoah, has been shamefully neglected: and, (but under the rose I make the observation) I fear with design; for I was continually reminding the Officer whose duty it was to carry the measure into effect, of the improvident delay;...
97276To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully lays before the President of the United States, the letter of resignation of Mr Benjamin Joy, late consul of the United States at Calcutta; and the recommendations of Mr William James Miller late of Philadelphia, now established at Calcutta, as a fit person to succeed Mr Joy in the Consulate. In addition to the testimonies inclosed in favour of Mr Miller,...
97277From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 15 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Herewith I transmit, for your consideration and Advice, a Treaty of peace and Amity concluded on the fifth day of last September, by Joseph Donaldson Junior on the part of the United States, with the Dey of Algiers for himself his Divan and subjects. The instructions and other necessary papers relative to this negociation are also sent herewith, for the information of the Senate. LS , DNA : RG...
97278Yundt & Brown to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 16 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 12th we had the honor of receiving on the 13th instant. The advertisement is inserted in this day’s paper, which is transmitted to the President, (to save postage) by mail. Our charge is twenty five dollars, (being a dollar per square for the three first insertions) which you will please to pay Mr Young, bookseller, to whom we shall give an order. It was our desire to make it...
97279To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 17 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have delayed answering your last letter until I had made another collection and examined more attentively into the exact situation of your property over the ridge and in this County—I felecitate myself extremely when I inform you that my success in the collection business has been far more favorable than my most sanguin expectations cou’d have supposed—Out of fifty or sixty tenants not more...
97280From George Washington to Harriot Washington, 17 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Harriot Washington, 17 Feb. 1796 . On 26 Feb., Harriot Washington wrote GW: “I now take up my pen to answer my dear and Honord Uncle’s letter of February 17th.”
97281To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 18 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Bearing in mind your polite invitation that you would consider it as a mark of personal attention to continue my communications to the Executive of the United States on subjects relating to the Western Country. The proceedings of the Convention lately met at Knoxville will no doubt reach you in a short time.—And it will be found of moment to the interests of the Union that Congress take...
97282To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 18 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honor to request the approbation of the President of the United States, of the purchase of copper made by the Director of the mint, agreeably to the inclosed account, amounting to three thousand two hundred & fifty one dollars & seven cents—being nearly 2½ cents per pound cheaper than the preceeding purchase. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA :...
97283From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 19 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Benjamin Walker, 19 Feb. 1796 . On 25 Feb., Walker wrote GW: “I have waited to reply to the Letter you honored me with of the 19 inst.”
97284To George Washington from Jabez Bowen, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The principal design of my Visit to this City at this time was to endevour to make a settlement of a Cannon Contract subsisting between the Ud States & The Owners of the Furnace Hope (of which I am one) I have had a Meeting of the Heads of the Departments but find no Incouragement from them. The contract is made and must be finished by somebody, as it particularly belongs to the Department of...
97285From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having seen several persons from the vicinity of your estate of Dryburgh Abbey, with your Lordship’s certificates of their honest and orderly deportment; (one or two of whom I have employed, and found deserving the charecter) I take the liberty of troubling Your Lordship with the perusal of the enclosed annunciation of a design, wch I have had in contemplation two or three years, but lately...
97286From George Washington to William Cooper, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The lands which I hold on, or near the Mohawk river, are in Partnership with Mr Clinton (late Govr of New York) who has had, & continues still to have (by a Power of Attorney) the disposal of them. It is not in my power to inform you at what price he has lately sold any—but of this you can easily be informed by a line to that Gentleman. Or if you desire it, I will write to him myself on the...
97287From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to intrust the enclosed dispatches to your care, and to request that they may be forwarded agreeably to their directions; but by private conveyances, rather than by the mail; as I am not disposed to saddle those Gentlemen with the Postage. Having come to the resolutions which are implied in the enclosed printed notification, I take the liberty of transmitting them to you; for no...
97288From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th of October from Madrid, has been duly received. With regret, I read the request which is contained in it; but the footing on which you have placed the matter, forbids opposition, or even persuasion on my part that you would recede from it; altho’ the difficulty of supplying your place to my satisfaction; to the satisfaction of your country; or of the Court you will...
97289From George Washington to John Sinclair, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
When I last had the honor of writing to you, I had hopes—tho’ I must confess they were not of the most sanguine sort—that I should have been enabled ’ere this, to have given you a more satisfactory account of the business you had been pleased to commit to me, than will be conveyed in this letter. Doubts having arisen, from peculiar calls on the Treasury of this country for money (occasioned by...
97290From George Washington to William Strickland, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on your safe arrival in England, from your visit to America; and to hope you have experienced no inconvenience from the voyage. Having resolved to rent my farms at Mount Vernon—a measure which has been in contemplation two or three years, but not matured until lately—I take the liberty (as you have some knowledge of them) to trouble you with the perusal of a...