1From George Washington to Edward Rutledge, 16 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I can but love & thank you, and I do it sincerely, for your polite & friendly letter of the 11th of November, which came to my hands only the day before yesterday. The sentiments contained in it are such as have uniformly flowed from your pen and are not more pleasing than they are flattering to me. The present Congress can sit no longer than the 3d of March; and should it not be found...
2To 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,...
3To George Washington from Giuseppe Chiappe, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
J’ay eû l’honnoeur d’êcrire a Vôtre Excellence voye de Cadix & de Madrid le 13e & 28e du mois de May de l’année qui vient de terminer, affin de l’informer sur tout ce qui s’êtoit passé rapport a la mort inopinée du Feu Roy Sydy Mohamet Ben Abdalla & sur l’installation de son successoeur Sydy Mulay Liazid (q:D:g) J’ay appris ensuite de mon Frere Francisco qu’il avoit obtenu un Delai sur...
4To 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)...
5From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of an exemplified Copy of an Act passed by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, for vesting in the United States of America the jurisdiction of a Lot of Land at Sandy Hook in the County of Monmouth; and a Copy of the letter which accompanied said Act, from the Governor of the State of New Jersey to the President of the United States. LB , DLC:GW . The beacon on...
6From George Washington to Louis XVI, 2 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received the letter wherein you inform me that you have thought proper to give a new Mission to the Sieur de Moustier, and thereby to put an end to his Functions as Minister plenipotentiary here. His conduct during the Time of his residence in this Country, has been such as to meet my entire approbation and esteem, and it is with great pleasure I render him the Justice of this...
7To George Washington from Joseph Stanton and Theodore Foster, 3 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Act establishing the New Revenue System, imposing Duties on Spirits imported, and those distilled within the United States, requires a Supervisor to be appointed in each State, for carrying it into Execution, and considering it a Duty that we owe to the State which we have the Honor to represent in the National Legislature, to recommend to your Excellency such a Character for this Office...
8To George Washington from William Deakins, Jr., and Benjamin Stoddert, 9 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Immediately after we had the honor of seeing you on your way to Philadelphia, we sent up to Jacob Funk in Washington County for a particular state of the situation of the Lotts in Hamburg, and never ’till yesterday received his answer. We find there are 287 Lotts laid out upon 130 Acres of Land; and as far as we can Judge from the Book of Sales kept by Funk which he sent us, the whole of the...
9To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The opinion is, 1. that the attorney for the district of Kentucky do forthwith take the most effectual measures for prosecuting according to law O’Fallon; and that he be informed, that unless the testimony within his reach will clearly subject him to the charge of treason, the prosecution be for a riot. 2. that a proclamation issue, reciting the treaties, law and further proclamation on this...
10Enclosure: Extracts from Orders, 17 October–4 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Note The orders issued previously to the march of the troops and militia from Fort Washington and until they arrived at the Miami Village relate to the arrangement of the troops the order of march, of encampment, and of battle, and the discipline necessary to be observed, all of which are particularly detailed, General Orders Camp at the Miami Village, about 170 miles from Fort...
11To George Washington from Thomas Farrington, 29 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Custom has given sanction to what at first View in a modest Mind would seem too assuming; therefore I shall without any further Apology, offer myself to your Excellency as a Candidate for the Office of Collector or Inspector of Excise, (as the case may be) for the District of Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: To detail all my Pretensions would be needless (the sum of them are) that...
12To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 31 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
This day, I received most particular pleasure in a carefull & attentive reading of your address to Congress on the 8th of last December. I rejoice that Kantuc⟨ey⟩ is received as another State of the Union; it will now prove a Barrier towards Canada, but had it not been amicably settled, it might (at some futare Period) be a troublesome Nieghbour, & resent its being rejected by the original...
13To George Washington from John Steele, 4 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I concieve it my duty to communicate to Your Excellency the inclosed, and following information. One of these papers will shew the fate of a motion made in the General Assembly of No. Carolina the other a premeditated attempt to draw that state into a contest with the Union. About the same time a bill was introduced, to authorise the Marshals to make use of the Jails of that State should...
14To George Washington from N. G., 22 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
While you receive the Congratulations of your fellow Citizens on the Anniversary of your Birth permit one who has long Admired both your Public and private Virtues to address you as a Character under God who has been a principal Instrument of bringing about the late Glorious and Happy revolution which is justly acknowledged to exceed any thing of the kind ever recorded in the Annals of time....
15Enclosure: Extracts from the Report of the Governor of the Territory of the United States North-west of the Ohio., 17 … (Washington Papers)
A. “Among the claims for land that have been rejected, there are several that are founded on purchases made from individual indians, and the conveyances set forth that they were inherited from their parents, and were not the property of the Nation. It could not however be discovered that any division of the lands of the Kaskaskia indians had ever taken place among themselves, and the Chief of...
16To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inform the President that a gentleman leaves town early tomorrow morning for New-York from whence a vessel sails on Monday for Liverpool, on board which will go a passenger who may be trusted with any letters for London. Th: J. proposes to make up his packet to-night, can the President give him previously a half hour, for the communication of the letter to...
17To George Washington from Martha Dangerfield Bland, 23 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I thought Sir, when I received your Letter that it had forever Closed our Correspondence but I have now a Claim upon you in your public Charactor as well as a friend. I have a valluable slave in Philadelphia of the name of Alexander Aubury, who passes for a free man and lives near the Bettering house, Colonel Griffin informs me that he may be recoverd it has been attempted but the quakers...
18To George Washington from John Patton, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Should the Bill now before the Legislature for raising a Revenue from Distilled Liquors be approved by your Excellency & passed into a Law, I beg leave to offer myself a Candidate for the Office of this District. I hope you will excuse my laying before your Excellency the Motives which induce me to make the present Application—I have a large Family of Children & am considerably advanced in...
19From George Washington to the Miami Indians, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
To the head men and Warriors of the tribes of Indians of the Miami Towns and its neighborhood, and inhabiting the waters of the Miami River, of Lake Erie, and to the tribes inhabiting the waters of the River Wabash. Brothers, The President of the United States, General Washington the great chief of the thirteen fires, Speaks to you by this address. Listen attentively to him, for he speaks of...
20To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 4 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
In conformity to a Resolution of the General Assembly of this State herewith inclosed, I do myself the honour to transmit a Memorial from the Representatives of the Frontier Counties, & the Proceedings of the Executive respecting a temporary System of defence for the Western Frontier. I beg leave also to lay before you copies of two other Resolutions of the General Assembly together with the...
21To George Washington from Hannah Gordon, 3 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I hope Your Excellency will permit an American Lady to inform you that I am the Widow of the late Coll Harry Gordon of the Royal Engineers of Brittain and that when I was last in America in 1781 to which place I was ordered on account of my health, my late Husband having put into my hands at the beginning of the War all his papers Bonds and Bills to recover payment of what was due, I did apply...
22To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to The President of the United States—He has just ascertained that General Matthews would not accept—His son is older than was believed—29 years of age & has a family As he will have the benefit of his fathers influence which is considerable and is a young man of real merit & as the appointment of any other candidate would be subject to the...
23To George Washington from John Hudson, 10 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
To hear this petition of one of your soldiers I am a native of Virginia I was bread and born up Rappahanook River in Essex County and was unfortunately taken with the Ruhmactick Pains and have no friend to help me hear I have Rote to my friends but cant git no answer and am naked for Cloths I have not a shift to help my self I am in the Pensilvany Hospital and may it Please your Honnour the...
24To George Washington from William Buchanan, 15 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
There having been created by the Excise Law lately passed by Congress, Officers for ascertaining the quantity & quality of American distilled Spirits. & as I doubt not but one will soon be appointed by your Excellency for this place, I take the liberty of offering my services & of becoming a Candidate for the same. As I have not the honor of being known to your Excellency, Mr Smith of this...
25From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive the Powers & Instructions with which Gouvr Morris Esqr. is invested and his communications consequent thereof. You will give them the consideration their importance merit, and refer your opinion of the measures proper to be taken thereupon. The following extract from one of my private letters to Mr Morris contains all the notice I have yet taken of his public...
26From George Washington to John Greenwood, 16 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th and the box which accompanied it came safe to hand. The contents of the latter were perfectly agreeable to me, and will, I am persuaded, answer the end proposed very well. Enclosed I send you Twenty dollars in payment for them and the repairs of the old ones, and, etc. P.S. That I may be certain that this letter and its contents has got safe to hand, be so good as to say...
27To George Washington from Daniel Hopkins, 1 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
As the collection of the Excise duties, about to be imposed by Congress, will probably riquire a number of appointments; I humbly beg leave to offer myself as a candidate for the district of Hartford in the State of Connecticut; which is the place of my established residence. Should your Excellency think fit to notice this request, my character will be given by the Honble Members of the Senate...
28To George Washington from Henry Knox, 5 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to you three reports upon the following subjects. No: 1. Is a report upon the address of the representatives of the counties of Kentuckey and the other counties of Virginia bordering upon and contiguous to the Ohio as transmitted by general Charles Scott, in his letter of the fourth of December last. No. 2. Is a report upon the letter of his excellency the governor...
29From George Washington to the United States Senate, 23 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Woodbury Langdon of the State of New Hampshire to be one of the Commissioners for settling the Accounts between the United States and individual States, in place of John Taylor Gilman who has resigned his appointment—and William Gardner to be Commissioner of Loans in the State of New Hampshire, in place of Nathaniel Gilman who has declined his appointment. LS , DNA : RG 46, First...
30To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 December 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Alexander Hamilton, 24 Dec. 1790. Tench Coxe wrote to Tobias Lear on 29 Dec. 1790: “I find on examining the current papers that the communications which the Secretary of the Treasury had the honor to make to the President of the United States on Friday, was transmitted by one of the Gentlemen in the office without enclosing the papers therein refered to. I do myself the...