1From Alexander Hamilton to John F. Mercer, December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I called upon you this morning, at your lodgings, to resume and finish the subject of our late conversation; but not having seen you, I have concluded to put what I had to say upon paper. Since our last interview I have perused the papers to which you referred me. They exhibit the affair in a form essentially different from that under which it had come to me; yet they do not entirely free what...
2To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused your statement of the conversation between us relative to my Accounts & do not perceive in what it is variant from that which I placed in the hands of the President. In that I declar’d that I did not take what fell from you as a serious proposition but on the contrary—thus far I now repeat—but I can only answer for myself & my own impression—farther I should deem it improper for...
3To John Adams from Abraham Whipple, 1 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
About two Years since by Governor St. Clair I sent a Memorial which he informs me was presented & placed on the files of the Honourable the Congress of the United states—I find by enquiry that the subject has never been considered.— In said memorial I was particular in discribing my honest demand for the advantages the United states had received from monies loaned them & for which I have never...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Mifflin, 1 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, December 1, 1792. “Mr. Hamilton presents his respectful Compliments to Governor Mifflin and requests he will be so obliging as to send by the bearer the papers he was kind enough to offer a perusal of to Mr. Hamilton.” Letter not found. ] AL , sold by American Art Association, March 3, 1925, Lot 272. Mifflin was governor of Pennsylvania. The papers, which have not been found,...
5From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [1 December 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President has the honor to submit to him the enclosed communications concerning which he will wait upon The President on Monday. 1st Decemr. 1792 LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
6To George Washington from Paul Boughman, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pleas to Except of one Barrel of apples from one of your houner’s old Soldiers who Enterd Early in the Caus of freedom, and Received Two Wounds wich now makes me labour under many Defiquelties as I haveig no Traid but am Exposed to wet and Cold. The Reason of my wrighting thus is to let you Know Sir that I having applied to Congress for Som Relief but Could obtain none becaus I Did not make...
7To George Washington from Charles Carroll (of Carrollton), 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
By an act of this Legislature, passed yesterday, Mr Thomas Harwood, who is treasurer of this Shore, will be obliged to resign his place of Commissioner of loans, the duties of which have in fact been performed by his brother Mr Benjamin Harwood. Mr Thomas Harwood has requested me to recommend to you his brother, and wishes that he may be appointed Commissioner of loans. I assure you, Sir, you...
8To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President has the honor to submit to him the enclosed communications concerning which he will wait upon The President on Monday. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed papers that Hamilton wished to discuss on Monday, 3 Dec., have not been identified.
9From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Hammond starts three to one against you. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson docketed this letter: “Washington President recd Dec. 1. 9⟨ mutilated ⟩.” For background on Jefferson’s negotiations with George Hammond, British minister to the United States, see Jefferson’s notes on two conversations with Hammond later this month, c. 10 Dec. and c. 12 Dec. 1792, and editorial notes, in...
10To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President the inclosed draught of a clause which he has thought of proposing to the committee to whom the President’s letter with the accounts of the Department of state are referred. he will have the honor of waiting on the President at one aclock, as well to explain any parts of it as to take his pleasure on the whole matter. AL , DNA : RG 59,...
11Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to submit the enclosed letter to the President of the United States from Colonel Willet which I have just received. Yours sincerely ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from Marinus Willett has not been identified.
12Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to submit to the President of the United states, the enclosed from Genl Wayne. Yours sincerely ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In his letter to Anthony Wayne of 1 Dec., Knox acknowledged receiving on the previous day “your letter of the 23d November with the enclosures of a letter from Capt. Hughes and your correspondence with the Contractors” ( Knopf, Wayne, Richard C. Knopf, ed....
13Petition of Oliver Evans to the Patent Board, [ca. 1 December 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
To Thos Jefferson Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph Esres. The petition of Oliver Evans of NewCastle County delaware State Miller Respectfully Sheweth That your Petitioner did as early as the year 1774 begin diligently to search for an inanimate power that he might apply to the purpose of propelling land Cariages without Cattle and by a long course of study and practical experiments he in the...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harrison, 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When the nomination of Consuls, at the present session of Congress shall be proceeded to, I will take care that Mr. Gouverneur’s recommendation of Mr. Stevenson be duly laid before the President. I thank him for his attention to the little commission for the Chinese Gong. I had desired Mr. Remsen of New York to get the favor of some person going in the vessel bound from that port to China, to...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Jones, Jr., 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to acknolege the receipt of a copy of the Transactions of the society for Agriculture &c at New York, and to return his thanks for the acceptable present to the President, as also to Mr. Jones for the transmission of the same, with Dr. Mitchill’s Outlines of Natural history &c. PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. Samuel Jones junr.” Tr ( DLC ); 19thcentury copy....
16To Thomas Jefferson from James Maury, 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Liverpool, 1 Dec. 1792. He annexes a copy of his last letter; the enclosed price current shows “the amazing Fall of Stocks.” This port will probably be opened to foreign wheat and flour on or before the next quarter day in February. He strongly recommends that American mariners in vessels bound for British ports be given “regular Documents of their Citizenship.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.;...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Tracy, 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Joy, who is the subject of your letter of Oct. 27. has been nominated to the Consulship of Calcutta. In acknoleging the receipt of your letter I am happy in the occasion of renewing your remembrance of me, and of assuring you of the constant and unabated esteem I have entertained for you from the commencement of our peregrination together. Accept this tribute of friendship from Dear Sir...
18From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President the inclosed draught of a clause which he has thought of proposing to the committee to whom the President’s letter with the accounts of the Department of state are referred. He will have the honor of waiting on the President at one aclock, as well to explain any parts of it as to take his pleasure on the whole matter. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR...
19Enclosure: Draft Clause on Foreign Intercourse, [1 December 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
To the bill which shall be brought in for continuing the act of July 1. 1790. c. 22. ‘providing the means of intercourse between the U.S. and foreign nations’ it is proposed to add the following clause. And be it further enacted that where monies have issued, or shall issue, from the Treasury, for the purposes of intercourse or treaty with foreign nations, under the authority of the said act,...
20Enclosure II: Relation of Ugulayacabe, [after November 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Copy of the relation of Ugulayacabe of the occurrencies of his journey to Cumberland. He said that on his return from visiting his father the Chief of New Orleans, from whence he came with a very handsome present, which had contented and satisfied him much, he met in the road two Americans, who persuaded him pressingly to go to Cumberland, where he would receive (as they told him) a good...