1To George Washington from Daniel Brodhead, 4 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I most sincerely congratulate you upon your election to the most dignified station in the nation, and I pray God to continue your services to your Country for many years. As you will soon be involved in a multiplicity of Business, I take the liberty to beg the favor of such Testimonial of my Services in the late army, as you may think me entitled to. I have with reluctance made this...
2From George Washington to James Mercer, 4 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th Ulto and likewise one from your Brother Colo. J.F. Mercer of the 29th As nothing can be more disagreeable to me than to put the securities which I have against the Estate of your deceased father John Mercer Esqr. in suit, I have provided he shall fulfill the terms of payment, which he has proposed himself—Namely £200 by the 20th of May—half the remainder...
3To James Madison from David Ramsay, 4 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
Presuming on our ancient acquaintance I take the liberty of solliciting your attention to an affair of mine that is now before your Honorable House. One of the elected federal representatives of this State is, in my opinion, ineligible. The case is in short thus: the Gentleman alluded to left Carolina in the year 1770 his parents died about the same time and he was absent from America during...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Jones, 4 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 4 Apr. 1789 . Encloses a letter sent him by Mr. Sauvage, ship broker; the accompanying book and two parcels of newspapers have already been forwarded, addressed in care of Jacques Texier, “ Rue notre Dame de bonne nouvelle à Paris.—The Receveur General of the Domaine here pays without difficulty the bounty on american Wheat, and flour; on producing the general clearance: for this...
5To Thomas Jefferson from MacCarthy Brothers, 4 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 4 Apr. 1789 . On receiving TJ’s letter of 23 Mch. they “were struck with the Justness” of TJ’s comment on the impropriety of making a special application to government in behalf of the ship Marquis de la Fayette . Having troubled him, they feel it a duty “to Acquaint you, that the Kings Council has vouchsafed, to grant our request, and has ordered the full Bounty to be paid, on the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Payne, 4 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time of my departure approaches and I hear nothing from you as to my commission of Jan. 28. nor what remained of the former, I take the liberty of reminding you of them and of desiring you to send without delay what you can procure and to forward me your account that I may have it paid. With respect to the books which cannot be immediately found I shall hope you will continue to look...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 4 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you an extract from the proceedings of the Executive of this state, in consequence of a law passed, by the Legislature at their last session for funding and ultimately discharging their foreign debt. A copy of the Ordinance is also inclosed, and a list of the foreign creditors with the nature of their debts, whether due by bond, indent or open account as obtained...