1351To George Washington from the Board of Trustees of the New London, Va., Academy, 31 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
You have no doubt been app[r]ised before this of the resolution entered into by the Legislature of Virginia at their last session respecting an university to be established in this state and which you intend to endow with one hundred Shares in the James river canal company. While we view with admiration your accustomed disinterestedness and that you will not apply this valuable property vested...
1352From George Washington to John Sinclair, 31 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor of writing to you last, which, I believe, was by Mr Strickland, I have been favored with two letters from you both bearing date the 18th of July. The one respecting Mr Elkingtons discoveries in the art of draining with the [“]Extracts, and out lines of the 15th Chap: on the subjt of manures” came to my hands just before the meeting of Congress—the other, enclosing the...
1353From George Washington to John Trumbull, 31 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
A few days ago I recd your letter of the 3d of Octr, and yesterday (in very good order) the Prints you were so obliging as to send me; which are indeed very handsome, and much admired by those who have had the opportunity of passing a judgment on them. For this mark of your polite attention to me, I pray you to accept my sincere, & cordial thanks. When the whole are compleated they will form...
1354To George Washington from the U.S. House of Representatives, 31 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested, to cause this House to be furnished, with an Account of the number of Convictions for Crimes, that have taken place, under the Penal Laws of the United States; specifying the Crime, the date and place of the conviction, and the sentence. LB , DLC:GW . This resolution was introduced by Edward Livingston for the information of the...
1355Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 30 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Pickering incloses to Mr Dandridge a memorandum of the Director of the Mint, of copper he has purchased; for the payment of which Mr Dandridge will be so good as to make out an order in the usual form, & present it to the President for his approbation & signature. 6495 lbs. at 2/4 amount to Dollars 2020 67/100. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s...
1356To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, c.26–29 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to send you inclosed two letters one from Young La Fayette the other from his Preceptor —They appear reconciled to some further delay. I take the liberty to inclose copy of a letter to the Secy of State respecting Mr Cutting —I do not know upon the whole what sort of a man Mr Cutting is, and I have heared unfavourable whispers—But as to the particular subject of his ⟨claim⟩...
1357To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 28 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honour to lay before the President of the U. States a letter received to-day from Mr Deas with a copy of the ratification of the treaty on the part of his Britannic Majesty. Also a letter from Mr Fenwick, one from Mr Cathalan jr consul at Marseilles, & one from Mr Adams. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His...
1358To George Washington from John Rutledge, 28 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It is with great Reluctance that I feel myself under the Necessity of resigning the Commission, with which you honoured me last Summer, but, after having made a fair Experiment of the Strength of my Constitution, I find it totally unequal to the discharge of the duties of the office, & therefore consider it as incumbent on me, to quit the Station—permit me, however, to inform you, that on my...
1359To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 28 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It has been suggested to me, by Friends on whose Judgment & Sincerity I have reason to rely, that my long habits of Business, especially during ten Years Residence in Europe, render me a fit Person to serve my Country where the Investigation of complicated Accounts is the Object; and I feel a conscious assurance that a strict Scrutiny into my Character would not do me an Injury. I hope this...
1360To George Washington from William Pearce, 27 December 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 27 Dec. 1795 . On 3 Jan. 1796, GW wrote Pearce: “Your letter of the 27th with the reports came to hand yesterday.”
1361From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
This letter will be handed to you by Captn Myers, of whom I have made mention in a former letter. Being desirous of knowing whether the Directors of the Potomack Compa. are disposed to employ him as an Engineer & Superintendant of their lock navigation, and on what terms, he has resolved to wait upon them for those purposes. The testimonials of his skill as an Architect, and of his knowledge...
1362To George Washington from Henry Lee, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Till very lately have I felt myself well enough to discharge my daily dutys & now hardly fit for writing—But your letr (without date) recd last evg as well as my constant desire to administer to your information so far as I can, induces me to sieze the first opportunity of replying. Mr H. was written to by me in a way to obtain his answer by a direct opportunity which was presented in the...
1363To George Washington from James Maury, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor of addressing you the 16th Instant. I found it more difficult to procure the peas & Vetches than I imagined & was obliged to send to London for the latter. I expect both here next week. Small as this Matter is, I have been under the Necessity of applying to the Lords of the privy Council to permit the officers of the Customs here to admit it to Entry. A punctilio, which I...
1364Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Pickering incloses the proceedings from Winchester, with the draught of an answer under the same cover, which Colo. Pickering wrote a number of days since & locked up in a closet at the office of state, where it lay unnoticed till this forenoon. Mr Dandridge will also find inclosed two letters received to day from Mr Monroe, which Mr D. will have the goodness to lay before the President....
1365Proceedings of Sinking Fund Commissioners, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking fund on the 26th day of December 1795; Present, The President of the Senate, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Treasury. A Report of the Secretary of the Treasury was read, as follows. “That to provide for the payment of the Interest on the public debt which will fall due at the close of the present year, it will be necessary to...
1366To George Washington from Felix Frestel, 25 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I should wish to be able to transmit you faithfully the sweet and deep impression of happiness and gratitude made on my young friend by your expressions of consolation & affecting marks of interest which were conveyed to him by Mr Cabot, at Boston: I should be equally desirous to inform you what beneficent balm was poured upon his heart by the reading (a thousand times repeated) of the letter...
1367To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette, 25 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It would be very difficult for me to express to you the happiness which I experienced on the reception of the letter which you have done me the honour to write me. Respecting, as I ought, from the confidence that I have in your wisdom, the reasons which keep me at a distance from you, I shall only say, that I most ardently wish, I assure you, for the moment when they will exist no more. The...
1368From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 25 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your several letters relative to the state of the applications to the Assemblies of Maryland and Virginia, on the business of the Potomack Company, and the result thereof, have been duly received. The last, dated the 21st, I directed Mr Dandridge to shew to Mr Myers, (knowing the suspence in which he was held) and to add that, if upon the strength of the information therein, he inclined to...
1369To George Washington from Charles Simms, 25 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I Trust it cannot be deem’d improper in a Citizen who is willing to serve his country in any office, to make known his desire to that department of Government which has the appointment to the office he wishes to hold. Under that impression and being inform’d that Mr Blair has lately resigned the office of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I beg leave to inform you...
1370[December 1795] (Washington Papers)
1. Mild & pleast. Wind Southerly. 7. A good deal of rain fell last night with the wind at East. 12. Rain, with the Wind at East. 13. Misting and Raining a little through the day. 20. Snow, about 2 Inches deep. 24. Raining.
1371[Diary entry: 24 December 1795] (Washington Papers)
24. Raining.
1372From George Washington to James Anderson (of Scotland), 24 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
If I was more deserving of so interesting & valuable a correspondence as yours, your letter of the 6th of Decr last year would not have remained until this time unacknowledged. The truth is, so little time is at my disposal for private gratifications, that it is but rarely I put pen to paper for purposes of my own. This is offered as an apology for what might otherwise have the appearance of...
1373To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the [ ]. Young La Fayette is now with me—I had before made an offer of money in your name & have repeated it—but the answer is that they are not yet in want and will have recourse when needed. Young La Fayette appears melancholy and has grown thin—A letter lately received from his mother which speaks of something which she wishes him to mention to you (as I learn...
1374To George Washington from Christopher Richmond, 24 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your favor of the 20th yesterday. I am very much gratified by your acceptance of a Copy of my old friend Steel’s Labors—And I will be particularly careful to forward the Letter which you have favored him with to London by the first Vessel from this quarter, or from Baltimore—And this I hope will be soon; because I know Mr Steel will be made happy by the early receipt...
1375From George Washington to Edward Carrington, 23 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Receive, I pray you, my thanks for your obliging favor of the 6th Instt, and for other unacknowledged lettrs of antecedant date. As, except in a single instance, they contained information only, nothing more was necessary than to know they had got safe to hand: this they did, and I feel myself much obliged in your attention to my request; as I always shall be for such communications as you may...
1376To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 23 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Directors of the Potomac Company held yesterday, I was requested by the Board to beg your acceptance of their best thanks for the communications which you have had the goodness to make respecting Mr Myres, and to express their wish that the services of that Gentleman may be obtained to superintend the Works on this River. If Mr Myres be yet free to engage, the Directors...
1377Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Timothy Pickering, 23 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
By The President’s direction B. Dandridge respectfully transmits to the Secy of State a Memorial of sundry merchants of New York—The President requests the Secretary to return an answer to the Letter from the Committee, which accompanied the Memorial, informing them that the most pointed & strong remonstrances have been made against the Conduct of which they complain. B.D. also encloses a...
1378To George Washington from the Vicomte de Rochambeau, 23 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure of announcing to you my arrival at this place. Not being able myself to deliver the letter you did me the honor to confide to me, to Citizen Montesquieu, I have lodged the same in the mail for Bordeaux and recommended it to the care of the Representatives of the people in that City. Knowing the interest you take in the welfare of my father, I inform you with satisfaction...
1379To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 23 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor of your favor of the 20th & am happy to have it now in my power to say that the potk business is at lenth placed on a footing of perfect security. The bill tho at first rejected has at length past both houses, & arrived here last Saturday. A meeting of the Known friends to the measure was that Evening called; & every vacant share subscribed: and by Men both able & willing to...
1380From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 22 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Have you seen or heard more of young Fayette since you last wrote to me on that subject? Where did he go to? Did you deliver him the letter I sent under cover to you for him? His case gives me pain, and I do not know how to get relieved from it. His sensibility I fear is hurt, by his not acknowledging the receipt of my letter to him; and yet, if considerations of a higher nature are opposed to...