1From Alexander Hamilton to John Beale Bordley, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, March 23, 1791. “The President having been pleased to appoint you one of the Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, you will find in this in-closure his commission.…” LS , Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Bordley, a lawyer and landholder on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, moved to Philadelphia in 1791. See H to Tobias Lear, March 23,...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I find it necessary to request of you the Commissions of the several gentlemen, whom the President was pleased to appoint as Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. The persons appointed are Thomas Willing } of Pennsylvania David Rittenhouse Saml. Howell John Beale Bordley of Maryland and Lambert Cadwalader of New Jersey. You will oblige me by procuring the...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] March 23, 1791 . “I have the honor to transmit you agreeably to your request the five commissions for the Commissioners to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. H to Lear, March 23, 1791 .
4To Alexander Hamilton from John Nicholson, 23 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I was yesterday informed by the Auditor that the quarterly payment will be made from the Treasury of the United States for the Interest of Certificates of the registered Debt as the Credits of the same appear on the Books of the Treasury as to non subscribers on the first of April next. By an Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed in 1786 a Loan was opened by this State for Certificates...
5[Diary entry: 23 March 1791] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 23d. Set off at 6 Oclock—breakfasted at Warwick—bated with hay 9 miles farther and dined and lodged at the House of one Worrells in Chester; from whence I sent an Express to Rock-hall to have Boats ready for me by 9 Oclock tomorrow Morning—after doing which Captn. Nicholson obligingly set out for that place to see that every thing should [be] prepared against my arrival. The lame...
6To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 23 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor last evening to receive your commands, through Major Jackson, to deliver the letter for Colo. Clandenen to General St Clair, unless Genl Knox thought Genl Sevier a more direct conveyance or knew of a better, and in obedience thereto I made the inquiry of Genl Knox, who thought Genl St Clair would be most likely to give the letter a direct & speedy conveyance; I therefore...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 23 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 23 Mch. 1791. TJ will no doubt share his regret in recalling that “we were the principal means of engaging” John Paul Jones to accept Russian proposals in 1788. “Never were more brilliant prospects held forth to an individual, and never individual better calculated to attain them.” Campaign on the Liman in 1788 added luster to Russian arms and ought to have fixed forever the fame and...