1John Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 7 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
Colonel Smith spent the last evening with me, and presented me with your kind letter of the 29th of December. I have seen Mr. G.; he made me a visit which I returned. His conversation was agreeable enough; but he appeared, by all his discourse, to be a young gentleman of much ingenuity, a lively wit and brilliant imagination, enamoured to distraction with republican liberty, but wholly without...
2Report on Domestic and Foreign Tonnage for the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792, [7 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the Order of the House of Representatives of the 3d. instant, Respectfully Reports. The Statements A & B herewith transmitted. The Statement A exhibits a comparative view of the Domestic and Foreign Tonnage, aggregately taken, according to the inward Entries at the several Custom-Houses, with an extension to the year 1789, as far as that was embraced...
3To George Washington from William Pearce, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 7 Jan. 1794. GW wrote Pearce on 12 Jan. acknowledging receipt of “yours of the 7th Instt.”
4To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State, after reviewing the letters from our Ministers, unanswered, has the honor to report to the President as follows: Three of those letters are from Messrs Carmichael and Short jointly of June 6th Aug. 15th and Sep. 29th in the last year. The first, which is the only important one, pressed for new instructions, adapted to the new relations, which had sprung up between the...
5From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you an Official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1793, from the sum of Ten thousand dollars, granted to defray the contingent expences of Government, by an Act passed on the 26th of March 1790. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DNA : RG 233, Third Congress, 1793–95, House Records of...
6From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Experience has shewn that it would be useful to have an Officer particularly charged, under the direction of the Department of War, with the duties of receiving, safe keeping and distributing the public supplies, in all cases in which the Laws and the course of service do not devolve them upon other officers; and also with that of superintending in all cases, the issues in detail of supplies,...
7To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 7 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I hope My dear Uncle will excuse my troubling him so soon again, but as he is the only Freind, on earth that I can apply to, for any thing I am induced to think that my necesity will apologize for me. I have spent the winter in Culpeper with Cousin Carter, in a very retired manner, we have scarcely seen a person since we came up, and as I am just a going to return to Fredericksburg, I shall be...
8The Flag, [7 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
On 30 December 1793 the Senate passed “a bill making an alteration in the Flag of the United States,” which proposed to add two stars and stripes to represent the new states of Vermont and Kentucky ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 3d Cong., 1st sess., 23). In Committee of the Whole, opponents of the bill...