1To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 5[–9] March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I observe that your report upon the public debt contains some intimations of an intention of establishing a national Bank, and I learn from other gentlemen at New York that something of the kind is proposed. I do not know any of the outlines of the plan but think it may be useful to lay before you the enclosed paper which was published here during the contest concerning our Bank. It was my...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Josiah Parker, 5 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 5, 1790. Suggests changes in the customs service in the Norfolk, Virginia, district. Believes that Norfolk is too exposed to a possible enemy assault and recommends removal of the collector’s office to Portsmouth, Virginia. Advocates increasing the number of customs officials and placing them at strategic points in order to tighten customs enforcement. Discusses complaints of...
3[Diary entry: 5 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Friday 5th. A very numerous company of Ladies & Gentlemen here this Evening.
4Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letters of the 16th & 23d ultimo. We are furnished with a Carpet for the room which I had described to you; but are therefore no less obliged to you for the trouble you have had in making inquiries respecting it. The President will thank you to make an addition of two hundred bushels to the quantity of Buckwheat you have procured for him. It is probable that it...
5From George Washington to Warner Lewis, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18 of last month, enclosing the copy of one dated the 26 of October came duly to hand —The best, indeed the only apology I can make for suffering the latter to remain so long unacknowledged, is, that on my return from a tour through the eastern States in november, I found such a multiplicity of public letters and other papers, which required to be acted upon, that those of...
6To George Washington from John Van Sice, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Am Sensible of my presumption—when I trouble So great a personage with my little concerns, but the distressed circumstances of my family urges the necessity of craving your Interposition—I have from the commencement of the American War Served in Schenectady as a gun Smith for the Indians, for which I received no recompence, & of which I had the honor of informing your Excellency when last in...
7To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 5 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I sent on Saturday the usual day of your Letters reaching Alexandria, but your favor of the 21st Ulto had not arrived, and did not come to my hands untill yesturday. I have informed Fairfax that it was your opinion and that I was directed to communicate it to him that £25. pr ann. is very ample wages for his Brother, or any untried man, and that it was your determination not to encrease his...
8To James Madison from James Monroe, 5 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
I flatter’d myself I shod. have been able by this, to have remitted you my proportion of the balance due Mr. Taylor for the land we bought of him—but my endeavors have been ineffectual, nor do any prospects that I have, warrant a hope, I shall be able to command it, within any short period of time. Thus circumstanc’d it wod. be more agreeable to me to disengage myself from the contract....
9To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 5 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Spring Forest, Virginia. 5 Mch. 1790 . Agreeable to TJ’s request , he has searched “every book, and paper, which could possibly throw any light, on the transactions of my father with Dr. Walker, and can find nothing relative to them. If there exists any thing of the kind, my mother informs me, it will most probably be found in the hands of Mr. James Minor, of Albemarle, to whom some of the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 5 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
At sea, Latt. 7° 40’ north, Long. 13° West from London, 5 Mch. 1790 . Hopes TJ arrived safely, found affairs there to his wishes, and “duly received the cordial congratulations of a grateful Country.”—Soon after seeing TJ off at Cowes, he left Le Havre on a long voyage “rather… of observation than immediate emolument.” In two years at Le Havre he found “the general intercourse between that...