27421From George Washington to the United States Senate, 9 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons for Appointments and Promotions in the Army of the United States. Major General Anthony Wayne vice Arthur St Clair, who has resigned. Brigadier General Daniel Morgan Virginia. Brigadier General Marinus Willet New York. Brigadier General John Brooks Massachusetts Brigadier General James Wilkinson Kentucky. Adjutant General and Inspector Winthrop Sargent North...
27422George Washington to the Senate, 9 April 1792 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee to report that the President does not think that circumstances will justify, in the present instance, his entering into absolute engagements for the ransom of our captives in Algiers, not callg. for money from the treasury, nor raising it by loan, without previous authority from both branches of the legislature If the President should enter into a Provisional convention with...
27423From George Washington to John Carroll, 10 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have recd, & duly considered your memorial of the 20th ultimo, on the subject of instructing the Indians, within and contiguous to the United States, in the principles & duties of Christianity. The war now existing between the United States and some tribes of the Western Indians prevents, for the present, any intercourse of this nature with them. The Indians of the five nations are, in their...
27424George Washington to the Senate, 10 April 1792 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
If the President should enter into a Provisional convention with the government of Algiers for a sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars, will the Senate advise & consent to it’s ratification, the government of Algiers being made clearly to understand that we are not to be bound by the treaty until it shall be ratified? If this sum appears too high, what lower limit would the Senate approve? If the...
27425From George Washington to the United States Senate, 13 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate David Rittenhouse, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Mint. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . The Senate received this message from Tobias Lear this day and ordered it to lie for consideration after reading it. On 14 April the Senate considered the nomination and resolved to...
27426From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 13 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have thought it proper to lay before you a communication of the 11th instant from the Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, to the Secretary of State relative to the commerce of the two Countries, together with their explanatory correspondence, and the Secretary of State’s letter to me on the subject. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings,...
27427From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of a letter from the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States held for the New York District; and of their opinion and agreement respecting the “Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to Invalid Pensions.” D[S] , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793,...
27428From George Washington to the United States Senate, 17 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate James O Hara, of Pennsylvania, to be Quarter Master General of the Army of the United States, vice Samuel Hodgdon. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Executive Proceedings—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . Tobias Lear delivered this message to the Senate on 18 April. On the next day the Senate considered the nomination, advised and consented to the...
27429From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 21 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you the Copy of a Letter which I have received from the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States held for the Pennsylvania District, relatively to the “Act to provide for the settlement of the Claims of Widows and Orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to Invalid Pensions. ” DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records...
27430From George Washington to Elizabeth Willing Powel, 23 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
I pray you to accept my Compliments and thanks for having favored me with the perusal of the enclosed “Strictures &ca” — And an assurance that the sentiments and charges therein contained, have not given me a moments painful sensation. It is to be regretted, however, that the Author, if his object was to convey accurate information to the public mind had not devoted a little of the time and...
27431Message to the Five Nations, 25 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
You were invited here at my request, in order that measures should be concerted with you, to impart such of the blessings of civilization, as may at present suit your condition, and give further desires to improve your own happiness. Colonel Pickering has made the particular arrangements with you, to carry into execution these objects, all of which I hereby approve and confirm. And in order...
27432From George Washington to Betty Washington Lewis and Sarah Carlyle Herbert, 26 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr James Robardet, who has taught my two Grand children dancing, proposes going into your part of the Country to establish a School, if he should meet with sufficient encouragement, and has requested that I would give him a line of recommendation to some of my friends. Mr Robardet’s attention to my grand children, and the progress which they have made under his instruction, induce me to...
27433From George Washington to Otho Holland Williams, 26 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia April 26th 1792 Your letter of the 18th Instt came duly to hand, as did the one to which it alludes. To the latter I could make no reply for reasons which will (perhaps have) occurred to you. Sensible however, if you had not assured me of it, that you meant not to give me pain by the proposition therein contained, I can assure you that I feel none, and that,...
27434From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
In strict confidence the President of the U.S. sends the enclosed letter for the perusal of the Secretary of State. No other person has seen, or been made acquainted with the contents. It is necessary the Secretary should be informed of the circumstances related in the letter—’Tis possible, these politics may have contributed to the change in the Spanish Ministry. I wish Mr Short was, or soon...
27435To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 28 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In strict confidence the President of the U.S. sends the enclosed letter for the perusal of the Secretary of State.— No other person has seen, or been made acquainted with the contents.—It is necessary the Secretary should be informed of the circumstances related in the letter.—Tis possible, these politics may have contributed to the change in the Spanish Ministry.—I wish Mr. Short was, or...
27436From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 1 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I should have had the honor of acknowledging sooner the receipt of your letter of the 28th of June last, had I not concluded to defer doing it ’till I could announce to you the transmission of my portrait, which has been just finished by Mr Robinson (of New York) who has also undertaken to forward it. The manner of the execution does no discredit, I am told, to the Artist; of whose skill...
27437From George Washington to Isaac Heard, 2 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 7th of December was put into my hands by Mr Thornton; and I must request you will accept my acknowledgments, as well for the polite manner in which you express your wishes for my happiness, as for the trouble you have taken in making genealogical collections relative to the family of Washington. This is a subject to which I confess I have paid very little attention. My time...
27438Enclosure: Washington Genealogy, 2 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
In the year 1657—or thereabouts, and during the Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell John and Lawrence Washington—Brothers Emigrated from the north of England, and settled at Bridges Creek, on Potomac River, in the County of Westmoreland. But from whom they descended the subscriber is possessed of no document to ascertain. John Washington was employed as General against the Indians in Maryland, and...
27439From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Edward Church of Georgia, heretofore appointed but not received as Consul for the United States at Bilboa, to be Consul for the United States at the Port of Lisbon in the Kingdom of Portugal, and for such other parts within the allegiance of her most Faithful Majesty as shall be nearer to the said port, than to the residence of any other Consul, or Vice-Consul of the United States...
27440From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Tristram Dalton, of Massachusetts, to be Treasurer of the Mint—Aquila Giles, to be Marshal of New York District, vice Mathew Clarkson, resigned—and Edward Wigglesworth, to be Collector of the Port of Newbury-Port, vice Stephen Cross, superseded. DS , in Tobias Lear’s hand, DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive...
27441From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I nominate the following persons to fill vacancies which have taken place in the late military appointments—to-wit— Rank . Names . States . Brigadier General Rufus Putnam Territory of the United States North West of the Ohio—vice Marinus Willett, declined. Captains of Cavalry Jedediah Rodgers New York—vice John Craig, declined. Henry Bowyer Virginia—vice Lawrence Manning, declined. Lieutt of...
27442From George Washington to Andrew Hamilton, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your polite letter of the 12th of December, together with a copy of “An Enquiry into the Principles of taxation,[”] which accompanied it, & for which I must beg your acceptance of my best thanks. The subject of your book is certainly of the first importance to society; and those who undertake works of this nature upon the extensive scale that yours appears to...
27443From George Washington to Ségur, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I received with much satisfaction the information of your having made an acquisition in this Country, & of your intentions to take up your residence among us. Your letter of the 30th of Sepr giving me this information, did not get to my hands ’till some time in the last month. The United States opens, as it were, a new World to those who are disposed to retire from the noise & bustle of the...
27444From George Washington to James Madison, 5 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
If Mr Madison can make it convenient to call upon the P——between eight and nine this forenoon and spend half an hour it would oblige him. If inconvenient, then at Six in the Afternoon. AL , PWacD .
27445From George Washington to William Moultrie, 5 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of last month, and the seeds you had the goodness to send me by Mr Pinckney. The plants & trees which arrived at Norfolk, have reached Mount Vernon in pretty good order. My thanks and acknowledgements are due to you, my dear Sir, for the kind attention which you have paid to my wishes with respect to the seeds, plants &c. You must likewise accept...
27446To James Madison from George Washington, 5 May 1792 (Madison Papers)
If Mr. Madison can make it convenient to call upon the P—— between eight and nine this forenoon and spend half an hour it would oblige him. If inconvenient, then at Six in the Afternoon. RC ( PPAmP : Feinstone Collection); Tr ( MH : Sparks Transcripts). RC addressed by Washington. See Paltsits, Washington’s Farewell Address , p. 10, for the relationship of this note to the address.
27447From George Washington to Henry Merttins Bird, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I request you will accept my thanks for your polite attention in sending me the copy of Genl Lloyd’s work which accompanied your letter of the 4th of February. Mrs Washington joins me in Compliments to Mrs Bird and in acknowledgements for the kind offer of your & her services. I am Sir, with esteem, Your most Obedt Servt. Df , in Tobias Lear’s hand, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB ,...
27448From George Washington to Thomas Paine, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
To my friends, and those who know my occupations, I am sure no apology is necessary for keeping their letters so much longer unanswered than my inclination would lead me to do. I shall therefore offer no excuse for not having sooner acknowledged the Receipt of your letter of the 21st of July. My thanks, however, for the token of your remembrance, in the fifty copies of the “Rights of Man” are...
27449From George Washington to Robert Sinclair, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 12th of December, in which you request information respecting Captain James MacKay, and likewise respecting the part of this Country which would be the most eligible for forming an establishment as a farmer or planter. The only information in my power to give you on the first head is, that my acquaintance with Captain MacKay commenced in the Army in the year...
27450From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 6 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I made Mr Morris acquainted with the contents of your letter of the 14th of March, relative to your Son; and am informed by him, that if your son should be in Philadelphia, agreeably to your intention of sending him here, as mentioned in your letter, there is no doubt but many opportunities may occur of his making a voyage previous to the return of Captain Truxton from the East-Indies, which...