3101To George Washington from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am requested by several of my friends to name the Revd Daniel Storey as Chaplin to the Army —Col. Meigs by a letter says he is a Man of real learning & Religion has been the Minister at Marietta for a long time That since the Indian War they have not been able to give any reward for his labor. Col. Meigs is a Man of real piety and would not r[e]commend Mr Storey if he was not so. I have the...
3102To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 26–30 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Presuming on the wish which you had the goodness to express when I left you last, that you might sometimes hear from me after my arrival in Europe, I have ventured to write you one letter from Glasgow, and now improve the opportunity offered by the Ship Delaware, Capt. Truxon, to write to you again. I was between 3 & 4 weeks in Scotland, during which time I improved every occasion (and many...
3103To George Washington from Henry Knox, 30 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I submit to your Consideration a letter proposed to be written to the Governor of South Carolina in consequence of a private letter received by Mr John Ross of this Town of which the enclosed is an extract. The Secretaries of State and Treasury approved the draft now submitted. I have the honor to be with perfect respect Your obedient Servant LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Knox’s letter to...
3104To George Washington from William Patterson et al., 30 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
A Memorial in behalf of the distressed Emigrants from the Island of St Domingo now in this Town having been presented to Congress early in the Session and some Member’s of that Body doubting their Powers to grant them relief, We beg leave to call the Attention of the Executive to these unhappy Sufferers, Who without some Aid from the United States must soon perish in the Streets of Baltimore,...
3105To George Washington from Robert Taylor, 30 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I was favoured with two letters from you under date of the 10th and 17th December containing information necessary for the Trade of this Town to be acquainted with. I have delayed replying to them till I had something new to communicate or untill some matter came before Congress in which we were particularly interested. In the Debates of Congress on a Petition from Baltimore relative to the...
3106To George Washington from Edward Pemberton, 29 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
As I heretofore took the liberty of an address to Your Excellency, and of adding thereto a small Poetical Composition, which so far won Your approbation, as to gain from Your Excellency a letter of Notice in return; I again presume to rely upon your generous Candour to forgive another address to Your Excellency tho at a long interval of time from the first. herein I have no claim whatever to...
3107To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that he saw Judge Wilson yesterday, and Mr Madison last evening. The former, to whom E.R. took an occasion of bringing up the subject of the resolution of the senate in a general Shape, said, that what they might have, he thought, ought to be sent; and what they ought not to have, ought not to be sent. The latter expressed himself thus: “I...
3108To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of inclosing to the President a memorandum from Mr Taylor, accounting for the delay in the commissions, sent to him this morning. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed memorandum of this date from George Taylor, Jr., the chief clerk at the State Department, reads: “The...
3109Cabinet Opinion on a Resolution of the U.S. Senate, 28 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments Upon consideration of the resolution of the Senate, of January 24. 1794, calling for the correspondences, therein mentioned: General Knox is of opinion, that no part of the correspondences should be sent to the Senate. Colo. Hamilton, that the correct mode of proceeding is to do, what General Knox advises; but that the principle is safe, by excepting...
3110To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 28 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Major Ellicotts return in November, after being absent great part of the Summer, and soon after we had employed his Brother Joseph, was so plainly calculated to be heavy on the Funds, that we could not submit to it, and discharged him at our last Meeting: we flattered ourselves, that we should have more expedition and Quiet too with his Brothers, but he has continued here, and has, we believe,...