1To John Adams from John Trumbull, 27 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I enclose to you, Frederic Bull’s Account & Receipt. It was with difficulty, & not till I had called on him four or five times, that I could persuade him to exhibit it. He said he had no account against you, & did not want any of your money. He was irritated by the stories told him by Mr. Pease , the Post-rider, who called on you for payment at Philadelphia. It seems that Pease thought You did...
2Conveyance by Lease and Release to Gulian Verplanck, 27 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 27, 1793 . “… Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Two thousand four hundred pounds current money of the State of New York … paid by the said Gulian VerPlank … HAVE granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released and confirmed, and by these Presents DO grant, bargain, Sell, alien, release, and Confirm unto the said Gulian VerPlank...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 27 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 27, 1793 . Returns “with the President’s approbation annexed, the Contract made by the Superintendant of the Lighthouse &c. on the Delaware, with Matthew Van Dusen, for a mooring chain for one of the floating beacons & the proposal of Samuel Wheeler to make two iron lanterns—one for Tybee & one for Cape Fear lighthouse.” States that “The President approves of the...
4From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 27 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, April 27, 1793. “… The enclosed Letter just received from the Collector of Charleston contains information & raises a question, which are proper for the eye of the President.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Letter from Isaac Holmes not found. This letter is described in an entry in JPP “Journal of the Proceedings of the President,” George Washington Papers,...
5To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. The enclosed Letter just received from the Collector of Charleston contains information & raises a question, which are proper for the eye of the President. LB , DLC:GW . Isaac Holmes’s letter to Hamilton of 16 April has not been identified. GW’s executive journal states that Hamilton delivered Holmes’s letter to the...
6Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 27 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
I submit to the President of the United States the enclosed draft of a message to the chickasaw Nation. If approved I propose to enclose it in a letter to General Wayne to go by the post this Morning. Yours ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . GW ordered no alterations to Knox’s message. However, the president’s executive journal states that if given time, GW would have added an appeal for an alliance...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your Excellency’s favor of the 19th. inst. with the exemplification of the treaties accompanying it as also the Bill of the secretary, amounting to 12½ dollars, for which I take the liberty of inclosing him a bank post note thro’ your Excellency, as I know not his particular address. Be pleased to accept my thanks for your attention and assurances...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By my private Letters from Madrid of the 1st. March, just received via Baltimore, I have the pleasure to learn that His Excelly. Don Diego de Gardoqui had been authorized by his Majesty on the 27th. feby. to negociate with the American Plenipotentaries, which news as I supose will please you, I hasten to communicate them to you in this friendly manner. War was not declared at that period, but...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14. instant, I received yesterday. It gives me real pleasure to find that my efforts meet with your approbation. And as this is an object I have ever had in view; so through life, will it prove a powerful stimulus to close application, and whatever may be best suited to procure your esteem and entire confidence. I have not yet determined in what courts I shall practice. This...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 27 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yours of the 11h and observe you and Mr. Wilson have settled the time when you was to remove and he to take possession. This is a matter between you and him which I have nothing to do with only to have it fixed for as your rent and his are the same it can make no difference to me. But what respects myself and my interest I think I ought to have an opinion. It would appear from yours of...