3101To George Washington from James McHenry, 10 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am extremely obliged to you for your letter of the 8th and received the exposition of your motives as a fresh mark of that confidence with which you have so often favored me. I should indeed, if I know myself, be the last person in the United States, who on a public account would wish you to feel any other; and as it respects your personal fame, I beleive the first to regret their being...
3102To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 10 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
In the course of the last month I received the Secretary of wars letter of the 22nd Feb: respecting the sloop L’amee Margueritte; but as I had on the 8th Feb: forwarded on to you copies of all the papers then in my possession relating to her; and as Mr Hill the Atto. of the United States had informed me in his letter of the 12th of the same month, that he had sent by post to the Secretary of...
3103From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [9 April 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 9, 1794. Letter not found. ] “List of Letters from General Hamilton to General Washington,” Columbia University Libraries.
3104Report from the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking fund, mentioned in the Act making provision for the reduction of the public debt, at the Senate Chamber, April 9. 1794. Present, The Vice-President of the United States, The Secretary of the Treasury, The Secretary of State, The Attorney General. A report from Joseph Nourse, register of the Treasury, was read, stating that the dividend of...
3105To George Washington from Henry Knox, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration a letter from Doctor White who has come forward from the Southwestern Territory to solicit protection for Mero district. Governor Blount has a power to order the Militia of the said district into service at the expence of the United States in proportion to the danger. But the inhabitants request something further, the protection of permanent...
3106To George Washington from William Pearce, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 9 April 1794. GW wrote Pearce on 13 April that “your letter of the 9th instt (which with the weekly reports) have been duly received.”
3107To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Among my first reflections upon the two letters, which you did me the honor of shewing to me yesterday and the day before, I could not forget, that they produced a degree of delicacy to myself. The authors of them are of the number of my friends; and one is closely connected with me by other considerations. However, I did not rest long upon any idea of this kind; being persuaded, that after my...
3108To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing for your consideration the request of Mr Philip Mark to be appointed consul of the United States in the Germanic Empire. His recommendations are also forwarded, and will be found to be satisfactory. As before an office is instituted, it ought to be seen to promise public utility, I have inquired into the effect of the establishment solicited. The benefits...
3109From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have analised the declaration which you have been pleased to make upon the copy of the paper of the first instant delivered by me to the committee of Inquiry into the state of the Treasury Department —and find, with regret, that the terms used are such as will enable those, who are disposed to construe every thing to my disadvantage, to affirm “That the Declaration of The President has...
3110To George Washington from James Duane, 8 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be pleased to accept my most thankful acknowledgments for the honor done me by your favor of the twenty third of March, the concern you are pleased to express for my ill State of health, and your benevolent wishes for my recovery—They are fresh proofs of the Attention with which you have always had the goodness to distinguish me, and which I shall not cease to remember with the utmost...