38401To George Washington from Richard Peters, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I was ashamed to send you so hasty & desultory a List of Observations on Mr Young’s Letter & on Reflection I find I have not paid sufficient Attention to some material Parts of it. By the Desire I had of speedily complying with your Request I have in a great Degree defeated the Object of the Trouble you were pleased to take in making it. It will however be now too late to do anything more, as...
38402To George Washington from James Smith, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of sending these few lines to you togather with my kind love hoping they will find you in a comfortable state of health & the best of happiness Sir, though I am an entire strainger to your person yet not so to your Name, caracter, & encreasing Fame, these are not confined within the bounds of America Ever since I read (in Gordon’s History of the united States ) of your...
38403From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 24 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter came to my hands agreeably to its direction; but on opening it I found it was addressed to & intended for you, and that the superscription, directing it to me, was probably a mistake in the writer; I have therefore transmitted it to you, and am, Dear Sir, with very great regard Your most Obedt Servt. Copy, in Tobias Lear’s hand, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB ,...
38404To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 24 June 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 24 June 1792. On 1 July, GW informed Whitting that “Your letter of the 24th Ulto came duly to hand.”
38405To George Washington from John Downing, 25 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
When I consider for a Moment the Importance of the Personage I am about to address My Pen is arrested As it were by some Invisible Power, and on the other side, I am Urged to this by an Impetuous Youth of 17 who has devoted his Future Life to the Profession of Arms; He encourages Me by Saying: Do not fear That General Washington, the Model Cincinnatus, will Receive Your offer of your Youngest...
38406To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to The President of the United States a Report of the Commissioner of the Revenue on the Subject of a certain Pier to be erected in the River Delaware, in lieu of one previously established there which was carried away by the Ice at the breaking up of the River in the last Spring. After the best examination which the Secretary...
38407To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 26 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
When I left Mount Vernon it was my intention to have returned there about this time, but three days detention on the road in consequence of bad weather, and ill health since my arrival here will procrastinate my return a week longer than I had determen’d when I set out—On my way up I increased my Cold and Cough very much and a disagreeable hourseness attended it—which so much disorderd and...
38408To George Washington from David Jenkins, 27 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The subscriber who now takes the liberty to address you was in the year 1755 a Lieutenant in the 44th Regmt in the British service under the command of Gen. James Abercrombie, and in Colonel Gage’s regiment; but was under the necessity of selling his commission on account of bodily infirmities; and being afterwards reduced to indigent circumstances has been employed for some time past in...
38409To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 28 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits to The President of the United States the copy of a Report of this date from The Commissioner of the Revenue, on the subject of certain provisional contracts, which have been entered into for the stakeage of certain waters in North Carolina. He sees no cause to doubt the reasonableness of these Contracts. The higher rate of that for Neuse...
38410Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 28 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 28 June 1792. Asks Lear to submit to GW “the enclosed letters from Governor Blount, Mr Allison and Judge McNairn, and others, by which the train of affairs with the Cherokees will be discovered.” LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . On 16 May, Southwest Territory governor William Blount wrote Knox that he agreed with the secretary of war that a post should not be established at the mouth...
38411From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I am grieved to find that Mr Short was, on the 22d of April, without his Comn & Instructions —and that Mr Morris was not then in Paris. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket on the cover of this letter and his Summary Journal of Public Letters ( DLC : Jefferson Papers) record that GW’s note was received on 29 June. For the appointment of William Short and William Carmichael to...
38412From George Washington to Samuel Powel, 29 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I feel much obliged by your kind offer of one of the tubs of Grape Vines from Madeira. If the remaining two contain plants enough to answer your own purposes, I will accept it with thankfulness; but let me entreat you not to disoblige yourself in order to accomodate me. A Vessel will sail in a few days for Alexandria, by which I shall send sundry parcels to Mount Vernon. Mrs Washington unites...
38413To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 29 June 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 29 June 1792. GW wrote to Whitting on 4 July that “Your letter of the 29th Ulto came to my hands yesterday.”
38414From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
For carrying into execution the provisions of the third section of the Act intitled, “An Act making certain appropriations therein specified,[”] passed the Eighth day of May in this present year. I do hereby authorise you the said Secretary of the Treasury in the name and on the credit of the United States to borrow of any body or bodies politic, person or persons whomsoever the sum of Fifty...
38415From George Washington to Henry Lee, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia 30th June 1792. Your favor of the 15th came duly to hand, but at a time when I was much engaged with the Secretary of State in dispatching Mr Pinckney to the Court of London—and in considering other business of importance. I shall repeat in this letter what I have declared to you on a former occasion—vizt—that wishing to promote the public weal, & to make...
38416From George Washington to John Francis Mercer, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I little expected that I should have had occasion, at this time (after the pointed assurances you gave me more than three years ago, of discharging what was due to me, fully) to remind you that I have received only Three hundred and eighty pds of the balance; and to ask what I am to expect from you in future. I delayed from day to day while you were in this City (until it was too late) to...
38417From George Washington to John Greenwood, 1 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the first of May and the box which accompanied it came safe, and duly to hand on the eve of my departure for Virginia; which is the reason why I have not acknowledged the Receipt of them sooner. The contents of the latter (with the alterations which were necessarily made) answered very well—and enclosed you have, in Bank notes, twenty dollars, the sum I have usually sent you,...
38418From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 1 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th Ulto came duly to hand, and I am glad to find by it that you have had some rains though not as much as has fallen in these parts—and that your Crops are deriving the benefit of them. If the Corn is standing, & alive, I do not, on account of its backwardness, despair of a Crop; if you are able to keep it clean, & the ground well pulverised; which I hope will be the case....
38419To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 2 July 1792. Encloses “the sketch of a letter to be written by Mr Lear to Mr Langdon.” LB , DLC:GW . For the appointment of Woodbury Langdon as one of the commissioners to settle the accounts between the United States and the individual states for the expense of the Revolutionary War, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 23 Dec. 1790 . For the acts of Congress regarding the settlement of...
38420To George Washington from Henry Knox, 2 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your consideration certain principles for the formation of the four sub Legions, and for the arrangeme⟨nt⟩ of the commissioned officers thereof. And also in case of a reduction of any of the new troops that the officers should be reduced by Lot. I have the honor sir to be with perfect respect Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The...
38421To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “the translation of a letter from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, with the draught of an answer he proposes to them, & a letter to the Governor of Georgia. he incloses also a translation of the papers which accompanied the letter he received.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State;...
38422To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Encloses “to the President a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from David Humphreys, U.S. minister to Portugal, to Jefferson of 3 May 1792 concerned the recent assassination of Gustav III of...
38423To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “to the President a letter to mister Van Berckel on the subject of the infraction of the privileges of his house by a constable.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . For Dutch minister Franco Petrus Van Berckel’s letter to Jefferson of 25 June...
38424From George Washington to Henry Lee, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 20th Ulto was presented to me yesterday by Mr Williams—who as a professional man—may, or may not be for ought I know, a luminary of the first magnitude. But to be frank, and I hope you will not be displeased with me for being so—I am so heartily tired of the attendance which from one cause or another has been given ⟨to⟩ these kind of people, that it is now more than two...
38425To George Washington from William Carter, Sr., 4 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
William Wray, a Youth of a Reputable Family, & a Nephew of mine by Marriage, having lived with me from August 1784. in Order to study Physick & Surgery, is now very desirous of entering into the Army with a View of serving his Country & improving himself in the practical Part of his Profession & wishes to be appointed a Mate under a Surgeon for that Purpose; But in Case there is no Vacancy for...
38426From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 4 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th Ulto came to my hands yesterday —and this answer to it will be in Alexandria on Friday; &, more than probable, will reach you before Monday. As you think it will be best to sow Lucern alone, in the Inclosure by the Stable; I am content that it should be so; and will send, or bring some seed, in aid of what you have, to stock it w⟨e⟩ll. The Brick yard Inclosure I would...
38427To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 5 July 1792. Encloses “a letter just recieved from mister Hammond, which will be difficult to answer properly.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . British minister George Hammond’s letter of 5 July to Jefferson reads: “I have the honor of submitting to your...
38428Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 5 July 1792. Asks Lear to submit “the enclosed important papers from Mr Seagrovet” to GW. ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . These enclosures have not been identified.
38429To George Washington from James Seagrove, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The information, which I am about to give appearing to me of importance to the United States, I hope will plead my excuse for thus intruding on your moments of retirement. In my dispatch of the 14th Ulto to the Secretary of War I promised to procure what information I could respecting a Spanish Officer which General McGillivray mentions in his letter to me of the 18th of May, a Copy of which...
38430To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 6 July 1792. Submits to GW the draft of a letter from Jefferson to George Hammond. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . GW replied to Jefferson later this date: “The enclosed will, I think, throw the labouring Oar upon Mr H—— & is approved of accordingly” (
38431To George Washington from Winthrop Sargent, 6 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honour to transmit by Major Vigo, a copy from the public records of the Territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio, to the 30th of June inclusive. The long absence of two of the judges from the Government, has prevented the adoption of laws for more than the six months last past, which is considered and lamented as a very great misfortune to the territory....
38432To George Washington from Mason Locke Weems, 6 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Sensible that it ever affords a heartfelt pleasure to your Excellency to promote the happiness of Mankind, and knowing how eminently Almighty God has put it into your power to Advance the Welfare of the Citizens of these States, I take the liberty of Solicting Your excellency’s Patronage to a Work which is evidently and most happily calculated to enlarge the Reign of Piety and Virtue among...
38433From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pray send me Mr Hammond’s communications to you on thursday & your letter to him in answer; and let me see you at Eight ’Oclock this Morng. Yrs ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket indicates that this note was received on Saturday, 7 July 1792. For British minister George Hammond’s letter to Jefferson of Thursday, 5 July, see Jefferson to GW, 5 July, n.1 ; for Jefferson’s response...
38434To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 7 July 1792. Sends “a recommendation of a candidate for keeping the lighthouse at Cape Henry.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosure was a recommendation of John Waller Johnston written by David Meade Randolph of Presque Isle, Va., on 30 June and...
38435To George Washington from John Kean, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Commission with which I have this day been honored is a mark of your approbation highly grateful to me—I shall endeavour by my actions to merit & preserve it. My present occupation will not permit me to appropriate to the expediting this business so much of my time as I could wish & the nature of the service may require; but no exertion shall be wanting on my part so far as my time will...
38436To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
I wrote You the 24th Ulto that I had contrary to my fixed resolution of returning to my Mount Vernon in a fortnight been tempted to procrastinate the time—from the flattering hope of benefiting my health, which is really so precarious that I am at a loss what to say about it—I am some times for three or four days tantalized with a belief that I am geting better but by the slightest cold (which...
38437To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States the inclosed Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse &[c]a and Benjamin Rice, for the making of two Mooring chains for the use of the Beacon boats on the River Delaware, together with sundry papers relating thereto. The object appears to be a necessary one, & the...
38438From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pray draught a proper answer to the enclosed, approving of what the Director of the Mint has done, and is about to do; and requesting an estimate of the money which will be wanted to enable him to proceed in the business of Coining agreeably to what he proposes. ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. The enclosed letter from David Rittenhouse to GW of this date reads: “Tho’ a long continued state of...
38439From George Washington to David Rittenhouse, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having had under consideration the letter of the Director of the mint of this day’s date, I hereby declare my approbation of the purchase he has made of the house and lot for the mint. of the employment of mr Voight as Coiner, of the procuring fifteen tons of copper, & proceeding to coin the cents and half cents of copper & dismes & half dismes of silver: and I leave to his discretion to have...
38440From George Washington to David Stuart, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Although I did not acknowledge the receipt of the letter you wrote to me some time ago respecting Bowl[e]s, I was not unmindful of the contents: but upon consulting some Professional Gentlemen I was informed that his being brother to the noted Bowls was not, without some overt act of his own, sufft to lay hold of him. If nothing more happens than I am aware of at present, I shall leave this...
38441From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 10 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Estimate of immediate Expenditures for the Mint. Dollars. Price of the House & Lot, to be paid on executing the Conveyance 4266.2/3 15 Tons of Copper, suppose 16 Cents ⅌ lb. 4800. Repairs of the Buildings, Workmen’s wages &c. 933.1/3 Dollars 10,000. David Rittenhouse United States [Philadelphia] 10th July 1792 The Secretary of the Treasury will cause to be paid to the Director of the...
38442Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 10 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
My lettre of to the President, directed to him at Mt Vernon, had not found him there, but came to him here. He told me of this & that he would take an occasion of speaking with me on the subject. he did so this day. he began by observing that he had put it off from day to day because the subject was painful, to wit his remaining in office which that letter sollicited. he said that the...
38443Tobias Lear to Henry Knox, 10 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
By the President’s command T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of War the enclosed letters from Governors Lee & Telfair which have been submitted to the President, and to inform the Secretary that the President requests that any answer to these letters which may require his inspection, may be submitted to him by twelve o’clock tomorrow, as he intends setting out for Virginia in...
38444To George Washington from John Francis Mercer, 10 July 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Francis Mercer, 10 July 1792. In his letter to Mercer of 23 July , GW referred to “Your favor of the 10th.”
38445To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 10 July 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Alexander Spotswood, 10 July 1792. On 23 July, GW wrote Spotswood a letter in which he mentioned “your favor of the 10th.”
38446To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends him a letter to received by which he will perceive that mister Blodget has deposited with the two Boston banks 10,000 Doll. subject to the draught of the Commissioners. also two proof sheets of the city: recd from Boston. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of...
38447Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the U.S. informs the Secretary of State that he has retained one of the proof Sheets of the federal City, and returns the others with the letter from Mr Blodget, which the President thinks had better be sent to the Commissioners by the mail, which will certainly reach G. Town on Monday. The President’s Cavalry are in such order that he cannot say with any precision when he...
38448From George Washington to James McHenry, 11 July 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to James McHenry, c.11 July 1792. McHenry wrote GW on 17 July that he had received GW’s letter, noting: “It has the Philadelphia post mark of the 11th.”
38449To George Washington from John Churchman, 14 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
J. Churchman presents his compliments to the President of the united States, having lately received several Letters from Baron Vall-Travers, in which one is mentioned to be sent by Captain Folgier, which has not come to hand, Understanding that Captain Folgier delivered some Letters last Spring to the President from the Baron, J.C. would be very glad to know, in anyway the least troublesome,...
38450To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The last post which left Pittsburgh on the 6th instant, brings information of entire tranquility on the frontiers. General Wayne has desired to know what conduct he is to pursue relative to the Small pox—that disorder being at Pittsburgh. I have informed him that it would be improper to innoculate at this time as well on account of the warm season of the year, as the crisis of affairs. The...