801To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Legislature, 11 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
[(]Copy) Sir In Assembly of Pennsylvania March 11. 1790 I have the honour to transmit an exemplified copy of the act declaring the assent of this State to certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States that you may be pleased to lay it before Congress. With the greatest respect I have the honour to be Your obedt Servt Copy, DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of...
802To George Washington from David Stuart, 11 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
As I have at length made an agreement with Mr Alexander, which will be binding, if it meets with your approbation, I shall endeavour to give you every information in my power, to enable you to judge of the propriety or impropriety of it —I informed you in my last, that I had little expectation of effecting any with him, as he had receded so far from his original proposals, as to demand a...
803To George Washington from Daniel Lyman, 12 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
For some time past I have had it in contemplation to apply to your Excellency for an appointment in the Revennue Establishment when this State shall accede to the Union. This intention has been intimated to some of my Friends, who have favored me with the enclosed letters on the subject, which would have been forwarded at an earlier date had not the conduct of this State rendered their...
804To George Washington from Warner Mifflin, 12 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Majestracy being an ordinance of God, I desire to revere it as such, and where the sword thereof is held up for a Terror to evil doers, and a Praise, to those who do well, Then is goverment a blessing to mankind, and no doubt but the blessing, Protection, and Preservation of the Almighty, by whom Kings reign and Princes only are enabled to decree justice will be witnessed—And a hope is with me...
805To George Washington from Samuel A. Otis, 12 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to state a few facts relative to the Impost for the District of Barnstable for your consideration. First. the District, comprehending all the towns in the County except one, is sixty miles in length and wholly maritime, abounding in harbours and inlets on all sides, and requires the constant vigilance of the Collector; For in no district can smuggling be effected with more facility....
806To George Washington from Michael Ryan, 12 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Some unforeseen accidents and a tedious indisposition have so derang’d my affairs that I am totally out of business, I would therefore willingly accept of any place in which I may be useful. Your former approbation of my conduct in a military line emboldens me to make this direct application. Should I be call’d forward on the arrangement of the militia or in any other Station it shall be my...
807To George Washington from Robert Morris, 13 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
(private) Dear Sir New York 13th March 1790 The letters sent herewith are from Madam De Miralles, after you have had them translated so that you can be informed of her wishes I will do myself the Honor to wait upon you in order to Converse on the Subject —with perfect respect your obedient & hble servt ALS , DLC:GW . Maria Josepha Elirio de la Puente Miralles was the widow of Don Juan de...
808To George Washington from La Luzerne, 14 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
M. Dowdall qui remettra cette Lettre à vôtre Excellence est un Gentilhomme anglois qui m’est Recommandé par plusieurs personnes de ce pays cy pour lesquelles j’ai une grande Considération. Sa famille lui laisse des Droits à réclamer sur des possessions très Considérables dans les Etats unis qui le déterminent à y passer. Si ces Droits sont fondés, je supplie vôtre Excellence de l’honnorer de...
809To George Washington from Claude-Boniface Collignon, 15 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to write you a letter in date April 28th 1780, which accompanied a work of my composition that I presented to you, “Respecting clearing all the uncultivated lands of the United States of America,” particularly those which might belong to you as proprietor: I have learned that the uncultivated lands in the extent of the Provinces & United States have since been cleared in...
810To George Washington from David Stuart, 15 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have just recieved the laws, and therefore embrace the earliest opportunity of sending you a copy of the one, which I have mentioned to you in my letter. Coll Grayson died on Saturday last—as his death has been expected for some time, I am informed the Executive have been endeavouring to fix on someone to fill up his place—Mr Henry has been applied to, it is said, but will not serve. It is...
811To George Washington from James Mathers, 16 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency the President, and the Honble Members of the Senate of the United States The Petition of James Mathers, Doorkeeper, Humbly sheweth, That during the Recess of your Honble House, your Petitioner was usefully, and constantly, employed in attending the Secretary’s Office, procuring Fuel and Stoves and in keeping your Chamber, and its Furniture clean. That no provision hath been...
812To George Washington from Stephen Higginson, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I am induced, by various considerations of a personal nature, to offer myself as a Candidate for some office in the treasury department. that of Inspector, as proposed by the Secretary in his report, would be very agreable. persuaded, that proper qualifications can alone recommend me, I shall only observe, that I have too high a veneration for you, & too much regard to my own reputation, to...
813To George Washington from Lafayette, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
It is with the Utmost Concern that I Hear My letters Have Not Come to Hand, and While I lament the Miscarriage, I Hope You do Not impute it to Any fault on My part —In these time of troubles, it Has Become More difficult to Know, or to Reach Opportunities, and How this Will be Carried I leave to the Care of Mr Payne Who Goes to London. Our Revolution is Getting on as Well as it Can With a...
814To George Washington from Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
The eminent Station, which you adorn in this Common wealth, obliges me to trouble you few moments with letters—respecting alone me private circumstances. I flatter myself Sir! that the Liberty, which I take wil easily find an excuse, if She want it, as Soon, as I have informed your Excellency, that honour and duty entreates me to this performance to which I am encouraged be the expectation wil...
815To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 17 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I assure myself that your moments of leasure are, some times, passed in the contemplation of rural concerns. Your known attachments to subjects of domestic, as well as public, utility; and your former attention to the improvement of Stock, encourage me to mention to you that I have had, for more than two years, an order, in the hands of an American in London, to procure for me one of the...
816To George Washington from Christian Philippe Carl Brenneysen, 18 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
When I intrude upon So high a character as I have now the honor to address I feel deeply mortified that I have no other excuse to plead than the cause of misfortune & distress; nor Should I think my Self justyfiable, even by the extreems of necessity, were it not for that benevolent & humane disposition which your Excellency have often manifested towards men of my profession. I have been an...
817To George Washington from Fraissinet & Company, 19 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Nôtre frere Consul General de LL: HH: CC. à Alger vient de nous adresser L’Incluse pour Vôtre Excellence, nous nous empréssons de vous l’acheminer et de vous présenter l’hommage des Voeux que nous adressons au tout Puissant pour la Conservation des Jours de Ve. E. à la quelle le Bonheur du Peuple Genereux que Vous gouvernés est si etroitement Lié. Nous Sommes avec un respectueux attachement...
818To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 19 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
On my return yesturday from Berkley I found Your two favors of the 28th Ulto & 7th Inst. —when I left this my intention was to have return’d on Monday last, but the most excrutiating pain in my jaws and teeth, attended with a severe inflamation kept me in a constant state of misery—deprived me almost wholy of rest and has very much reduced me. a tooth which had been very troublesome before,...
819To George Washington from Joseph Barrell et al., 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of Joseph Barrell⟨,⟩ for himself and the other Owners⟨,⟩ of the Ship Columbia & Sloop Washington Most Respectfully Sheweth That those Vessels were fitted at Boston, for the Pacific Ocean and sailed in the month of September in the year 1787, furnished with Sea Letters & Pass Ports from the United States, and the State of Massachusetts; together with Certificates from the Consuls...
820To George Washington from James Bowdoin, 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Letters of this kind would need apology, or rather would, in every view, be unwarrantable, if the writer had any reason for doubt concerning the character of the person recommended. But as I am sure no apology is needful on that score, I persuade my self your candour will induce you to think it unnecessary on any other. I have the honour of enclosing a Letter which I have lately received from...
821To George Washington from d’Estaing, 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Permit one of the least, but one of the most zealous assistants in the great work which you began, conducted, and have completed, to join a private letter to his official answer —and to commune freely with you. The small token which I take the liberty to send you begging your acceptance of (the Bust of M. Necker, and the engravings which accompany it) will better express the public opinion and...
822To George Washington from Friedrich von Poellnitz, 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
That encouragement and protection which You are pleased to grant to agriculture are my only apology for intruding on time so precious to the happiness of America: In hopes that this may plead my excuse, I humbly lay before You Sir, the following Ideas on a general improvement of this art, the plan there in sketched has a tendency to be of more effect, than the choicesd theory can be; and ’tho...
823To George Washington from Anthony Wayne, 20 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Nothing but the particular ⟨ illegible ⟩ of an Officer of merit which request I cou’d not refuse shou’d have induced me to intrude upon your Excellency’s time at a season when I know it must be precious—but as the Object which he has ⟨in View⟩ might be lost by any delay—I take the Liberty to mention Colo. James Armstrong —who wishes an Appointment in one of the Regiments which are expected to...
824To George Washington from John Hazelwood, 22 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial & Petition of John Hazelwood respectfully Sheweth That your Memorialist was early appointed to Command a Vessell of force in the Pennsy[lvani]a State Fleet when he was sent by the Council of Safty to New-York to Form some fire Rafts & Ships which he performed, was ordred by your Excellency to pokepsy to construct a Boom & Chain a cross the North river which was effected, that on...
825To George Washington from Hugh Williamson, 22 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Mr John Skinner of North Carolina who is at present in New York has been mentioned by severals ⟨of⟩ his fellow Citizens as a Gentleman who would discharge the Duties of Marshal with great Reputation. Mr Skinner having had the Misfortune to lose his Wife a short Time before the Sitting of our Convention had resolved to attempt the Relief of his Mind by Traveling, for this Reason Governor...
826To George Washington from Jeremiah Jordan, Edmund Plowden, and Joshua Thomas, 23 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
We hope we stand excused in recommending to Your Excellencys Notice Captain Henry Carbery, as nothing could induce us to do it, but a thorough conviction that he is not unworthy of it, and that he is well able to discharge with propriety the duties of any place he may be employed in. We have known him from his early Youth, and we can truly say, that we never heard, or knew any thing, either in...
827To George Washington from Jacob Wray, 24 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Virginia Port Hampton May it please your Excellency March 24th 1790 As I, find myself groing very short in Memory & of coarse my small abillities going in the same line & find publick business if ever so profitable so great a burthen to my mind without I could controll the business according to Law & Instructions which in my Opinion makes some nice reflections. Therefore if you will please to...
828To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 26 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 14th did not come to hand untill the day before yesturday owing as I was informed to a delay of the Mail north of Baltimore. Previous to my paying Messrs Porter & Ingrahams Acct I satisfied myself by Mr Lears statement on the Ledger and their last acct renderd that I was right in so doing. but in all matters of the kind where I have doubts, shall delay payment and take Your...
829To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 27 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to reccomend to your Excellency’s Countenance a Periodical work about to be circulated in the States by Dr James Anderson, whose view of it will be handed along with this Letter for your perusal. I have long wished for a publication of this kind that should be neither a Booksellers jobb nor a stalking Horse for party and such from my confidence in Dr Anderson I expect his...
830To George Washington from John Talbot Ashenhurst, 29 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Dame Street Dublin Ireland May it please your Excellency March 29th 1790 Being firmly attached to the cause of public Liberty and a zealous admirer of those virtues by the exertion of which America obtained her freedom, I take the liberty with all possible respect of introducing myself to your Excellencies notice upon the following occasion. Denmark and Spain may it please your Excellency have...
831To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury begs leave respectfully to inform the President of the United States of America, That, in order to be able to furnish in the course of the ensuing month for the compensation of the members of Congress, & the officers and Servants of the two houses, a sum of about sixty thousand dollars; for the payment of the Salaries of the Civil List to the end of the present...
832To George Washington from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 29 March 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 29 March 1790. Listed in McKay 3905, item 2192.
833To George Washington from James Walton, 29 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I humbly beg liberty to present your Excellency the small ship Pastime which accompanies this—It is the production of Liesure hours which hard fortune deprived me the priveledge of employing to better advantage—I never studied the mechanical art for any other purpose but to pass a lingering moment, & to keep disagreeable reflections from encroaching on my mind, which my unfortunate situation...
834To George Washington from Marinus Willett, 29 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Charleston, S.C., 29 Mar. 1790. “The sole designe of this letter is to signify to you Sir, That I have a very great desire of serving in some executive appointment under the Union—Should any office present itself for which in your opinion I am Qualified, no person shall be more carefull to do Justice to such appointment than Sir your most obedient & very humble Servant.” ALS , DLC:GW . For...
835To George Washington from Mary Mason, 30 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
MARY MASON and family, being the widow and children of the late Charles Mason, deceased, respectfully wait on you, and solicit your friendly assistance, towards paying their passage to England. The character of Mr. Mason, as an eminently useful Astronomer, is well known in Europe and America. He was for several years assistant to Dr. Bradley, the British Astronomer Royal, at Greenwich,: From...
836To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that mr Madison has just delivered to him the result of his reflections on the question How shall communications from the several states to Congress through the channel of the President be made ? “he thinks that in no case would it be proper to go by way of letter from the Secretary of state: that they should be delivered to the houses either...
837To George Washington from George Clinton, 2 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to your Excellency, herewith inclosed, Exemplifications of three Acts of the Legislature of this State, passed at their present Session, and to be with the highest Respect Your most Obedient Servant Copy, DNA : RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages. The enclosures were copies of three acts of the New York...
838To George Washington from John Paradise, 2 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I avail myself of the opportunity, afforded me by my friend Count Andriani, of conveying to you an ode, which Count Allien, the author of it, desired me long ago to convey to you. The rambling and of course unsettled condition I have been in since my return to Europe has entirely put it out of my power to comply sooner with Count Alfieri’s request; and this unpleasant condition added to an...
839To George Washington from David Stuart, 2 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
As it was my desire to give you the fullest information on the subject submitted to your judgement, I have to lament that I have failed; particularly, as I think it would have been of some importance, to have had the rents fixed, before the plantation was improved in its appearance, by the advance of the Spring—However, in a matter of such moment, a clear knowledge of every circumstance is...
840To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 2 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I now set down to write to my dear Uncle as I have not wrote to him since he left this place I should have done it but I thought you had so much business that I had better write to Aunt Washington yet I am sure you would be very glad to se me improveing myself by writeing letters to my friend’s. I am a going to ask you My Dear Uncle to do something for me which I hope you will not be against...
841To George Washington from Alexander Johnson, 3 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Complacent Attention generally granted to a Cause of Humanity makes me bold in the Liberty of bringing before You one of its Pleas, which were it not founded on the Basis of public Utility, discretion would forbid me to propose, considering the Interruption it must Cause in numerous Weighty Matters that engross Your Attention: Yet as the Subject in its Nature is analogous to a purpose,...
842To George Washington from James McHenry, 4 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
About two years ago Mr Copeley an English manufacturer did himself the honor to pay his respects to you at Mount Vernon: Being about to return to his own country he wishes to renew his homage and respects, and has intreated me to recal him to your remembrance by another introduction. I pray you to excuse this liberty, and am with the greatest and most sincere respect Sir your most devoted and...
843To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jefferson has the honor of inclosing for the perusal of the President rough draughts of the letters he supposes it proper to send to the court of France on the present occasion. he will have that of waiting on him in person immediately to make any changes in them the President will be so good as to direct, and to communicate to him two letters just received from mr Short. AL , DNA : RG 59,...
844To George Washington from Ferdinando Fairfax, 6 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Being informed that William Vans Esq. of Salem (a friend of mine) has received an appointmt from the General Court of Massachusetts, as Collector of the Excise for the South District of the County of Essex in that State, and that it is expected that Congress will take that branch of Revenue into their own hands; I take the Liberty of mentioning this appointmt to you, and (as it is probable his...
845To George Washington from Henry Knox, 6 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of your instructions, I have directed Captains Burbeck’s and Savage’s companies of artillery, and Captain Smith’s company of infantry, to be embarked, at the Garrison of West Point, on board of vessels, in order to be transported to Georgia, and I expect they will arrive at this city, and be in readiness to proceed to sea, by the 9th instant. All the said companies are to act as...
846To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 7 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I arrived in this City on Saturday Evening the twenty eighth of March and called the next morning on the Duke of Leeds minister for foreign affairs—He was not at Home, I therefore wrote to him a note Copy whereof is enclosed as also of his answer received that Evening. On Monday the twenty ninth I waited upon him at Whitehall and after the usual Compliments, presented your Letter telling him...
847To George Washington from Noirmont de La Neuville, 10 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I cannot determine myself to let my Brother to return to America, without charging him with a letter for your Excellency. I Beseech you to look upon it as a very inadequate testimonial of my constant and respectful gratitude for your past kind offices. they have been confered in too flattering a manner and are still too deeply imprinted into my mind to permit my heart ever to forget them. it...
848To George Washington from Rochambeau, 11 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Do you remember, my Dear general, of the first repast that we have made together at Rod island. I did you remark from the Soup the difference of the character of our two nations, the french in burning their throat, and all the americans waiting wisely of the time that it was cooled. I believe, my dear general, you have Seen Since a year that our nation has not change of character. We go very...
849To George Washington from Joseph Wheaton, 11 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
May it Please the President April 11th 1790 Sir Having had an oppertunity of learning that an additional force is to be aded to the present Establishment of the troops, I am constrained to mention to the President. The office which the House of Representatives have been pleased to appoint me to, is not altogether that popular Situation nor So profitable to our Country as one would wish to...
850To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 12 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have ordered at a capital manufacturers the plated Coolers which you desired. Nothing of this Sort has ever yet been executed here except in a coarse and clumsy manner in lacquered Ware. As far as I can judge from the Design which has been drawn consequent upon my Directions they will be very elegant, and cheaper than in a Form less beautiful. Still they will be expensive. I own that...