October 2 d . Wrote to M r . Carmichael (by M r . de Gardoqui) mentioning the Receipt of his Letters of 5. 8 & 28 November and 2 d . December 1788, and 6 th . May 1789; that M r . Jefferson is appointed Secretary for foreign Affairs, and he reappointed Chargé des Affaires for Spain; requesting to know what he has done on the Subject of the Asylum, given in Pensacola to fugitive Negroes from...
2To John Adams from James Sullivan, 2 October 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have to aknowledge the honor of receiving yours of the 17 th & 21 st. instant In my Letter of the 18th of agust, I suggested to your consideration, the idea of encreasing the circulating medium of the united states, by some kind of paper Credit. I hinted that I beleived, the duties, and Impost, Established, would call for more cash than is in circulation within the union, and that there was...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Clay, 2 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 2, 1789. On December 30, 1789 , Clay wrote to Hamilton: “I received your very obliging favour of the 2d Octr.” Letter not found. ] Clay was a Savannah merchant and planter who had served as paymaster general of the Continental Army in the Southern Department.
As in the first establishiment of Revenue systems, imperfections and inconveniencies will naturally present themselves in practice, which could not have been foreseen in their formation; it is of the greatest moment, that the best information should be collected for the use of the Government as to the operation of those, which may have been adopted. To the obtaining this information, as it...
5[Diary entry: 2 October 1789] (Washington Papers)
Friday 2d. Dispatching Commissions &ca. as yesterday for the Judiciary. The Visitors to Mrs. Washington this evening were not numerous. Martha Washington held her levees, lasting about three hours, on Friday evenings at 8:00, and GW usually attended. “She gives Tea, Coffee, Cake, Lemonade & Ice Creams,” Abigail Adams noted. “The form of Reception is this, the servants announce & Col. Humphries...
6Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 2 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 30th ultimo came to hand last evening accompanied with the Padusoy for Mrs Washington, the bill of which was enclosed. The President will thank you to get from Mr Bartram a list of the plants & shrubs which he has for sale, with the price affixed to each, and also a note to each of the time proper for transplanting them, as he is desireous of having some sent to Mount Vernon...
7Circular to the Governors of the States, 2 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance of the enclosed resolution I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency a copy of the amendments proposed to be added to the Constitution of the United States. I have the honor to be, with due consideration, Your Excellency’s most obedient Servant. LS , to John Collins, R-Ar ; LS , to John Hancock, DLC : U.S. Constitution—Amendments to the Constitution; LS , to Samuel...
8To George Washington from John Moriarty, 2 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Salem [Mass.] May it please your Excellency— 2d October 1789 I came here from Ireland in the begining of the late war & Cheerfully Contributed to the Cause of freedom & to maintain our rights, and amply bore my share of the burthen. In the year 1782. my losses in trade by Capture and other Casualties were great; & to Compleat my ruin £32000. of the old Emmission died in my hands, which the...
9From John Jay to William Carmichael, 2 October 1789 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your Letters of the 5. 8. & 28 of Nov r . & 2 d Dec r . in the last year, and of the 6 May in this— My two Letters of the 9 Sept r . and the 24 Novem r . 1788 covered Papers of Importance, and as yet I am uninformed whether they have come safe to your Hands. The long period ^Time^ before their Dissolution, during which the late Congress had not