301From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this, as the day of its admission, it was thought that this would also be the first day on which any Officer of the Union might legally perform any act of authority relating to that State. I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several Officers necessary to put the federal Government...
302From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance of an Act intitled “An Act for raising and adding another Regiment to the Military establishment of the United States, and making further provision for the protection of the frontiers.” I nominate for the following Offices therein mentioned, Major General Arthur St Clair. Quarter Master Samuel Hodgdon. Chaplain John Hurt. LS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of...
303From George Washington to the United States Senate, 4 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Act intitled “An Act repealing after the last day of June next the duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from Abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same”, I have thought fit to divide the United States into the following Districts—namely— The...
304To George Washington from Robert Coram, 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty herewith to request your acceptance of a Small Pamphlet which I have wrote on the Subject of Education I wrote it chiefly with a design of being useful to my country, which I hope will in some measure apologize for the errors you may find in it. I have the honor to be &c. your Excellencys most obedt humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW . Robert Coram (1761–1796) was born in England...
305Tobias Lear to William Deakins, Jr., 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The President has directed me to enclose the within advertisement to you—and request that you will be good enough to hand one to the Printer at Georgetown, and forward the other to the Printer at Frederick Town, to be inserted in their papers for six weeks. I am Sir, very respectfully, Your most obedient Servant LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure has not been found. The Georgetown newspaper to which...
306To George Washington from Nathaniel Pendleton, 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am informed Mr Rutledge has lately accepted the appointment of Cheif Justice of the State of South Carolina, which will of course oblige him to resign his office of Assistant Justice in the supreme Court of the United States. When I solicited the Appointment of Judge of this District, I imagined Congress would have made a more ample provision for their Judges; but having, at my own...
307To George Washington from John Rutledge, 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
This State having thought proper to create the Office of Cheif Justice, & offer it to me, & the peculiar Circumstances of the Appointment being such that I conceive I could not with any Propriety refuse it, I beg Leave to inclose, & resign, my Commission, of an Associate Judge, of the United States. Permit me to return my Thanks for the Honour confer’d on me by that Commission, & to offer my...
308To George Washington from Wakelin Welch & Son, 5 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Prior to our being honored with your Excellency’s Letter of 22d Jany Messrs Fenwick Mason & Co. of Bourdeaux drew on us for £20.13.7 on your account which we immediately paid. We offered to repay Messrs Phyn & Co. the £60 but they say they knew nothing about it. should Gov. Morris draw on them they will call on us but do not chuse to receive it before. Therefore it may so happen, that Mr...
309From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The P. would thank Mr Jefferson for placing all, or such of the enclosed Papers (after he has perused them) in the hands of the Attorney General, as he shall deem necessary for the purpose of drawing the several conveyances of the ceded Lands, or, the form of one. For the former, it is conceived farther information than the enclosures contain, is wanting. For the latter, the agreement, and...
310To George Washington from Lafayette, 7 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Whatever Expectations I Had Conceived of a Speedy termination to our Revolutionary trouble, I Still am tossed about in the Ocean of factions and Commotions of Every Kind—for it is My fate to Be on Each Side, With Equal Animosity Attacked, Both By The Aristocratic, Slavish, Parliamentary, Clerical, in a Word By all Ennemies to my free and levelling doctrine, and on the other Side By the...
311To George Washington from William Lewis, 7 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The interesting nature of the following business will I hope apologize for my troubling you respecting it. On Saturday last, I received Information that several Persons were on some account or other, confined in the Jail of this City, and that one of them, of the name of Henry Smith, had informed the Attorney General of this State, that he, with two or three of his Fellow Prisoners, and...
312To George Washington from Christopher Richmond, 7 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
It is with great diffidence that I address Your Excellency, upon the subject I now do, but being encouraged by the good opinion expressed by my Friends Governor Johnson, Major McHenry, and Mr D. Carroll in their Letters enclosed, I take the liberty to solicit, that when any Office becomes vacant, either at the Seat of Congress, or in the State of Maryland; you will be pleased to favor me so...
313To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 7 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by Giles who arrived this morning that You expected being here as soon as he would or shortly after I cannot suppose that this will find You in Philadelphia unless You are unexpectedly detain’d—Very contrary to my expectation and wish I have been prevented returning untill last night. I was on my way as far as Westmoreland and should have been here by the time I mentioned in a...
314To George Washington from George Clymer, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I sought the earliest occasions, after my late appointment, to make you my personal acknowledgements; but on Saturday and Monday I found you either engaged in business or from home, and I am to day too much indisposed my self to go abroad—unwilling, however, any longer to defer a necessary duty, I beg, Sir, you will be pleased to accept, from me, in this form those acknowledgments, which are...
315To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Upon my return to this City I found your obliging letter of introduction which had been previously left by Colonel Trumbull at my house during my absence in attending the meeting of the Legislature at Columbia. As soon as I am sufficiently recovered from my present indisposition arising from the accident of a fall from my carriage, I shall make a point of seeing him & endeavouring to make this...
316To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 8 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to join a few lines to Pages of our friend Mr de la fayette —I think I cannot, under better auspices, express to your Excellency my heart-felt Satisfaction on being appointed Minister plenipy of france near the United States. It was under your comand, I begun my public life and learned to value and defend the cause of liberty: and it will be my constant endeavour in the new Station...
317From George Washington to William Gordon, 9 March 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Gordon, 9 Mar. 1791. GW wrote to Gordon, 19 July 1791: "I am . . . able to . . . refer you to a letter which I wrote on the 9 of March."
318To George Washington from Henry Knox, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I submit to your Consideration a draft of instructions for Brigadier General Charles Scott. And I will wait upon you in one hour for the purpose of receiving your orders upon this subject. I am Sir with the highest respect Your Obedient Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed draft of orders for Brig. Gen. Charles Scott has not been found. On plans for Charles Scott’s expedition...
319To George Washington from John Macpherson, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
May it please your Exclency to let me know, your opinion of my plan for the Federal City. If your Excelency approves of it, I will as soon as possible get one done by a person with two Arms. I mean to draw a plan for the whole City. I now form ideas, what it will be a Hundred years hence; nor, do I think, I am too sanguine, in firmly beleaving that if built as I hope it will be, it’s...
320To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowlege the Receipt of yours of the seventeenth of December which reached me several Days ago, but no good opportunity then presented itself to convey a Reply. The Idea you formed of the british Cabinet was I am perswaded perfectly just. This Government has lately taken some Steps which cannot but be advantageous to their Rivals for I am perswaded that the late Decrees laying a...
321To George Washington from Samuel Turbett, 9 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I take the earliest Opportunity after arriving in Town, of laying before you the within recommendation, and have the Honor to be with the greatest respect Your Excellencies Obedient Humble servt ALS , DLC:GW . Samuel Turbett moved from Chester County, Pa., to Lancaster County, Pa., before the Revolution. He was an early supporter of the Patriot cause, subscribing to a fund for the relief of...
322From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The P. has given the enclosed letters an attentive reading & consideration, and has found nothing in them but what is just, and in the hands of a prudent user proper; but at the end of the words of the letter to Mr C. “this wrong” 2d page 10th line may it not be well to add—“yet with that prudence & circumspection which will not commit the Government to the necessity of proceeding to...
323From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Jefferson, 10 Mar. 1791. In his Summary Journal of Public Letters ( DLC : Jefferson Papers) of 10 Mar. 1791, Jefferson recorded that GW returned Jefferson’s draft instructions to Thomas Barclay regarding his mission to Morocco and Jefferson’s draft letter to the new emperor of Morocco with a covering note, which has not been found.
324To George Washington from Henry Knox, 10 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit, to your consideration, dispatches received from Governor Blount. It will be perceived, that his idea of a boundary is materially different from the one suggested in his instructions; a draft of which is herewith submitted. Without deciding positively at this time upon the justness of his suggestions, as it respects the boundary, or the force of his reasons, to...
325To George Washington from John Mease, 10 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Had I indulged my own feelings, I should long since have imbraced the opportunities which circumstances afforded, of obtruding my self on you personally. But during the war I thought it greater kindness to keep aloof, and attend to the more essential points of Duty. It is now not without diffidence this Application is made to you for the appointment of Inspector for this City or District,...
326To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 10 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
In January last I had the Honor of writing to you & committed it to the Care of a Gentleman, who was to have gone directly to New Yorke on Board the Tristram Captain Warner, therefore you may easily Judge my Surprize at having my Letter returned this day, with a Note, that the Tristram was still in Harbour & was bound to Rhode Island; the Captain advertized for New York & that He would Sail...
327From George Washington to Daniel Carroll, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I write to you by this post in conformity with my promise so to do. But it is not yet in my power to determine whether I can set out on Monday or not. If I find the roads do not mend much between this time and that, I shall not be anxious about beginning my journey on that day, even if business would permit. As my fixing the day for meeting the Commissioners at George Town must depend upon my...
328To George Washington from William Deakins, 11 March 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 11 Mar. 1791. In his letter to Deakins and Stoddert of 17 Mar. 1791 , GW wrote: “In order to avail the public of the willingness expressed by the inhabitants of Washington-County, as mentioned in your letter of the 11th to sign a paper ceding their lots in Hamburg. . . .”
329To George Washington from John Jay, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the Honor of transmitting to you herewith enclosed, a Packet which I received last Evening from Ab. Ogden Esqr. the Attorney of the united States for New Jersey District. It contains three papers. (1)A Letter from Mr Ogden to me, mentioning the apprehension of a Doctr Freeman, on a charge of forgery &ca and his offer of giving Evidence against others, on an assurance of Pardon. (2)...
330Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Objects which may merit the attention of the President at George T. The Commissioners to be called into action. deeds of cession to be taken from the land holders. site of the Capitol & President’s house to be determined on. Proclamation completing the location of the territory, & fixing the site of the Capitol. town to be laid off. squares of reserve to be decided on for the Capitol,...