7641To George Washington from Thomas Taylor, 8 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 8 May 1793. Writes from “134 South front Street” that “In August 1791—by the advice & Recommendation of several respectable Gentlemen in New York . . . I applied to the Secretrary of the Treasury, to be employ’d in some department in the Mint, when it shou’d be establish’d, . . . at the same [time] the Secretary inform’d me there would need possitive demonstration of my Abilities...
7642To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 8 May 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 8 May 1793. GW wrote Whitting on 12 May , “Your letter of the 8th with the Reports came duly to hand.”
7643From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
As I perceive there has been some mis-conception respecting the building of Vessels in our Ports wch may be converted into armed ones; and as I understand from the Attorney General there is to be a meeting today, or tomorrow of the Gentlemen on another occasion, I wish to have that part of your circular letter which respects this matter Reconsidered by them before it goes out. I am not...
7644To George Washington from Jonathan Hastings, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have just received the inclosed letter from London under Cover, and now improve the first Opportunity of forwarding it. With Sentiments of Esteem and Respect, I am, your Excellency’s most Obed. humb. Servant ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Hastings, as deputy postmaster at Boston, was in charge of receiving and dispatching mail from Great Britain ( Journal of the House, 8:97, 269,...
7645From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25 Ulto came duly to hand. The enclosed to Mr Keith (which I take the liberty of putting under cover to you as there is no postage to pay, because as he does not seem to be in the habit of sending regularly to the Post Office letters to him sometimes sleep there) is expressive of my consent to his receiving from Mr Wilson, & paying to you on Acct of Mr Bennett all the money...
7646To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and incloses the draught of a letter to mister Pinckney in answer to one lately received from him. as Colo. Hamilton, the Attorney General & Th: J. had a meeting on another subject, Th: J. took the liberty of consulting them on it, and has altered it agreeably to their minds. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George...
7647From George Washington to the Chiefs and Warriors of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Chiefs and Warriors of the Tribes of Indians residi⟨ng⟩ on the Wabash and Illinois Rivers. As you are now about to return to your own Country, I take you by the hand and wish you a pleasant Journey. When you arrived here I was glad to see you, because I believed your undertaking so long a Journey, was a Strong assurance of your disposition to Cultivate peace and friendship with the United...
7648Attachment: Letter of Protection, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
G eorge W ashington, P resident of the U nited S tates of A merica, To all to whom these Presents shall come: K now ye, That the nation of Indians called the Kaskaskia inhabiting the town of Kaskaskia and other towns, villages, and lands of the same community, are, in their persons, towns, villages, lands, hunting-grounds and other rights and property in the peace and under the protection of...
7649From George Washington to Arthur Young, 7 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
At the request of several Gentlemen of my particular acquaintance in this City, I have taken the liberty of putting this letter into the hands of Dr Edwards, as an introduction of that Gent[l]eman to you. I am informed that Dr Edwards has two objects in view by going to Europe—the establishment of his health—and a desire of obtaining a knowledge of the agriculture of that part of the world. In...
7650Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 6 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Apr. 18. The President sends a set of Questions to be considered & calls a meeting. tho those sent me were in his own hand writing, yet it was palpable from the style, their ingenious tissu & suite that they were not the President’s, that they were raised upon a prepared chain of argument, in short that the language was Hamilton’s, and the doubts his alone. they led to a declaration of the...