1From Alexander Hamilton to Roger Alden, [21 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
If you have in the Office the laws of North Carolina, I will thank you for the perusal of them. As I want them in haste, I shall be glad they may be sent by the bearer. I am, Sir Yr Obed serv ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Alden, a deputy secretary of the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1789, accepted a clerkship in 1789 in the new Department of State under the temporary...
2[Diary entry: 21 January 1790] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 21st. The above report was accordingly transmitted to both houses of Congress by the Secretary at War in a written message from me. The following Gentlemen dined here—viz.—Messrs. Elsworth, Patterson, Elmer Bassett and Hawkins of the Senate and Messrs. Sherman, Cadwalader, Clymer, Hartley, Heister, Smith (Maryland) & Jackson of the House of Representatives and Major Meridith,...
3From George Washington to David Forman, 21 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Acknowledging the receipt of your letters of the 3rd and 18th instant, I desire to assure you that I have not been inattentive to your communications. In order that the most prudential steps might be taken on the subject, to which your letters related, they were laid before the Chief-Justice of the United States, who thought that a reference of them to the Executive of this State was the most...
4From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive duly your letter dated the 15th of Decr last; but I thought proper to delay answering or mentioning the contents of it, until after the arrival of Mr Madison, who I understood had been with you. He arrived yesterday, and I now take the earliest opportunity of mentioning to you the result of my reflections; and the expediency of your deciding, at as early a period...
5From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 21 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary for the Department of War, has submitted to me certain principles to serve as a plan for the general arrangement of the Militia of the United States. Conceiving the subject to be of the highest importance to the welfare of our Country, and liable to be placed in various points of view, I have directed him to lay the plan before Congress for their information, in order that they...
6To George Washington from John David Woelpper, 21 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
To his Excellency the President of the United States of America The Petition of John David Wœlpper of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania Most humbly sheweth. That Your Petitioner in the late War with Great Britain took an early and Active part on behalf of the United States, and was on the 17th Day of July 1776 honoured with a Captains Commission in the German Battalion...
7From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 21 January 1790 (Madison Papers)
An indisposition on the road retarded me so much that I was not able to take my seat in Congs. till yesterday. It began at Dumfries with a slight complaint in my bowells. On my arrival at George Town it took the form of a Dysentery and was pretty severe for some days. With the aid of my friend Docr. Stuart who was so good as to see me every day, I was in a condition to prosecute my journey in...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Vernes, 21 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 21 Jan. 1790 . Encloses duplicate of his letter of 9th Jan. [i.e., 10th] and is sending under care of Messrs. Samuel & John Smith, Baltimore “12 Gorsas’s Numeros—2 Extracts of the principal discourses on the parliaments of Rennes affair—1 Excellent work adresse aux amis de la paix du celebre Mr. Servan—1 Mauvais pamphlet en vers, qui donnera à votre Excellence une idée des...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 21 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive duly your letter dated the 15th. of Decr. last; but I thought proper to delay answering or mentioning the contents of it, until after the arrival of Mr. Madison, who I understood had been with you.—He arrived yesterday, and I now take the earliest opportunity of mentioning to you the result of my reflections; and the expediency of your deciding, at as early a...