1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 March 1794 (Adams Papers)
I know not how to throw off, the Lassitude that hangs upon me.—weary of a daily round, which to me is more confined and more insipid than to any other. I would gladly go home: but at a time So critical as this, it would not be justifiable, to quit my Post if there were no particular Reasons against it. But as the Senate is nearly divided in all great questions, and the President pro tem, has...
2To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 15 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, March 15, 1794. “Having duly examined the object of the petition of the Merchants, masters of vessels, and pilots of North-Carolina, referred to you on the 26th: instant by the House of Representatives, I have the honor to state to you what has occurred thereon.… The minute and accurate local knowledge requisite to the formation of a decided opinion,...
3Edmund Randolph to William Bradford, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Knox, 15 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State has it in charge from the President of the United States, to request the attendance of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, at his Room on Monday next 11. o’Clock. The following, among other subjects, will be submitted. 1. Whether it be expedient to send, to England with the complaints of spoliation, some agent to manage them,...
4To George Washington from Pierce Butler, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am sensible You are troubled with the perusing of more letters than can be agreeable to You. I have therefore, to Crave your indulgence for intruding the inclos’d on You—It is an Act of Justice that I owe to the Citizens of So. Carolina to Convey to You their requests. ⟨I h⟩ad the honor once before, to Name Mr James Simons to ⟨you—⟩He served during the whole of the War in the Cavalry ⟨with...
5Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be so good as to submit to the President of the United States the letter of Genl Chapin, with the accompanying speeches of the cheifs of the six nations at Buffaloe Creek on the 7th ultimo. Yours ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . In his letter to Knox of 25 Feb., written at Canandaigua, N.Y., Israel Chapin wrote: “Inclosed are the proceedings of a Council holden at Buffaloe Creek, the 7th of this...
6To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph begs leave to submit to the President the inclosed rough of a letter, just written to Mr Short, in consequence of information of the immediate departure of a vessel for Spain, which was received last night from the Spanish commissioners. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Earlier on this date, Randolph wrote...
7To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of observing to the President in reply to his queries; that the ruin of our merchants was expressed as strongly, as it is, in order to prepare Mr Short, in case some nervous measure should be adopted by government, with a general idea of the magnitude of the cause, before a particular explanation could be forwarded to him; and that, altho’ the jealousy mentioned by...
8To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the Secretary of wars letter to me of the 18th of January giving me instructions to cause the money detained in the hands of the Marshall of this district to be delivered to the agent of the Spanish Commissioners, He informed me that the expences which had or might be incurred in the prosecution of the business were to be defrayed by the general government, upon accounts which shall be...
9From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 15 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th instt is at hand. Notwithstanding I have the best disposition to oblige you, & to promote the interest of your son John, yet it is impossible he can be contemplated by me as commander of one of the frigates (should the Bill now pending in Congress pass into a Law) because a number of the old Officers who served with great reputation through the whole of last war, thereby...
10To James Madison from James Madison, Sr., [ca. 15 March] 1794 (Madison Papers)
Timothy looks well; but the last sowed is much turn’d out of the Ground: the new Seed will be sowed as soon as the ground is dry enough Wheat looks very well except the last 8 Bushels sowed L. C has got stuff enough for 8 Waggons except the Naves & some stuff for Bar Share brakes—& is getting Shingles for a Grainary: How large will you have it Apple Trees are all planted at Sawney’s—Money is...