61To 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...
62To George Washington from William Gordon, 31 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
A sincere desire of promoting the good of the United States, & not merely my own concerns, will, I trust, prove a sufficient apology for the interruption I am now giving your Excellency. Your country I apprehend has the advantage of Europe, for the erection of particular towns, by reason of the several great falls to be met with in the American rivers. The papers have announced the...
63To George Washington from Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, 1 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The reports in Europe some months ago respecting yr Excellencies health gave the admirers of yr virtues and the friends to American liberty much concern. We are happy to heer that health is again restored to you. Some ⟨time in⟩ the course of the last summer I did my self the honor of sending you my thoughts on the important subject of education. I now send you my observations on Mr Burkes...
64To George Washington from John Greenwood, 6 February 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Greenwood, 6 Feb. 1791. In a letter of 16 Feb. 1791, GW wrote that “Your letter of the 6th and the box which accompanied it came safe to hand.”
65To 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...
66To 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...
67To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a Contract made by the Collector of New London, with Nathaniel Richards for supplying the Light house belonging to that Port. This Contract not having been originally made in a manner sufficiently explanatory of the business, was returned for the purpose of being put into such form as...
68To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to transmit to the President of the United States an account of the cost of a seal for the use of the District Court of Maine, on which he begs leave to remark, that there does not occur any reason to deem it immoderate. The Legislature having by their resolution of the 2nd of August last assigned a part of the fund provided for the...
69To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Bill supplementary to the Bank bill passed the House of Representatives Yesterday—General Schuyler informs me that the friends of the Bank proposed that it should pass to a second reading immediately, and that Mr Carroll opposed it, and moved that it should be printed—that by a rule of the House it was of necessity to comply with Mr Carroll’s objection, a departure requiring unanimous...
70To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 13 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit here with the copy of a report intended to be presented to the House of Representatives on the subject of a National Bank. This communication would have been earlier made if it had been in my power; but it has been impossible for me to prepare it sooner. With the most perfect respect I have the honor to be Sir, Your Most Obedient & Most humble Servant LB , DLC:GW ....
71To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 15 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United States that a wish of the Collector of Boston to spend a part of the time of the Session of Congress at the Seat of Government has been intimated to him. An absence from his Office at this season of the year being the least likely to be inconvenient, and it being probable that much useful information...
72Enclosure: Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank, 23 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury having perused with attention the papers containing the opinions of the Secretary of State and the Attorney General concerning the constitutionality of the Bill for establishing a National Bank, proceeds, according to the order of the President, to submit the reasons which have induced him to entertain a different opinion. It will naturally have been anticipated,...
73To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 2 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The day before yesterday I received a letter from Mr Woodbury Langdon declining the appointment offered him. there was a letter with it for you which I immediately forwarded. Since that time I have conversed with Mr Langdon I have heared from Mr Gilman; the former is warm in his recommendation of Mr Keith Spence; he states that his insolvency was owing to the loss of a valuable ship & Cargo,...
74To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States the propriety of appointing a Keeper for the Light-house at Portland in the District of Maine. The enclosed recommendations from that quarter were transmitted to the Superintendant of the Light-houses of Massachusetts under the idea that the appointment was to be made by him. An enquiry of...
75To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 5 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to inform the President of the United States that in pursuance of his instructions, due public notice was given in the Gazettes of Virginia and of the principal sea ports of the United States, that proposals would be received at the Treasury Office untill the 31st Ultimo, for building by Contract a Light-house, and the necessary...
76To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States a Contract which has been recently transmitted from South Carolina for the Keeping of the Light-house in that State. The terms are somewhat less than those of the Ligh[t]house Keeper at Cape Henlopen, and considering the expences of living in south Carolina it is humbly conceived they are...
77To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to transmit to the President of the United States a Contract made by the Collector of Portsmouth in New Hampshire with Titus Salter for furnishing the Light house on New Castle Island with oil, wick, fuel & candles, and for the care & lighting of the same from the 15th day of August 1789 to the 1st day of July next, including some small...
78To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 23 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President and sends him the opinion required which occupied him the greatest part of last night. The Bill for extending the time of opening subscriptions passed yesterday unanimously to an order for engrossing. LB , DLC:GW . See GW to Hamilton, 16 Feb. 1791 . See Journal of the House The Journal of the House of Representatives: George...
79To George Washington from James Muir and Samuel Hanson, 11 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Majr Washington informed us some time ago that it was your desire to be furnished with a State of the School founded upon your bounty. We should have obeyed your Commands immediately, but for the indisposition of Dr Brown, the other Visitor of the Academy, whose Concurrence we wished in the Communication requested. That Gentleman, however, still Continuing too ill to attend, we have ourselves...
80To George Washington from Thomas Hartley, 26 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
John Forsyth the Collector of Excise for the County of York in this State—applies—for an Appointment in the Excise Department including that County—under the United States—& has requested that an Application should be made in his Favour. I beg Leave to mention that Mr Forsyth—hath executed the Office for Collecting Excise in the County of York with great punctuality for several years past, and...
81To George Washington from Walter Healey, 10 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Calcutta, Jany 10th 1791. Proposes to convey his title to the village of Allenagur near Calcutta to the United States for the establishment of an American factory. Solicits the post of U.S. consul to India. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Walter Healey was apparently a British merchant living in India. His letter to GW of 10 Jan. 1791 runs to nearly five thousand words, filled with...
82To George Washington from Samuel Henley, 11 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have Serv’d the County of Midsx in this Common wealth, & the State of Massachusetts, as Collector of Excise, Nine years, to the best of my Capacity—this is to request your influence for an office in the Collecting of Excise, what ever may be denominated—Collector or Inspector—Gen’l Lincoln, the Honble John Lowell Esqr. & the Honble Elbridge Gerry Esqr., Can Certifie as to my Character—In...
83To George Washington from John Hodgson, 28 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
From that Universal well known Philanthropy and Condescension, that is the great Characteristic of your Excellency’s disposition, I am encouraged to request a favour, which your complying with, will render a most essential Service, to him who thus presumes to address you. The request I humbly make is, that your Excellency will be pleased to inform me, whether you had, or have not at this time...
84To George Washington from John Hoomes, 31 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
My being from home when Mr Washington passed this place was the Cause of the inclosed letter; I am willing to take Royal Gift to Stand here this Season & indeed wish it much; I am very fond of mules, & think it a very favorable Stand for him as I have a dozen mules, & there worth is well Known in this part of the Country & I wish to get a few more of a larger Size. I have no doubt but he will...
85To George Washington from Stephen Hooper, 29 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Awed by a sense of your Dignity, it is with extreme reluctance that a Citizen of Newbury Port in the County of Essex & state of Massachusetts, presumes to crave a Moment of your Excellencys Attention, or trouble you with his sollicitations. from late information, that Congress are progressing in a new System of Excise to increase the Revenue of the United states and if establish’d, Officers...
86To 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...
87To George Washington from Mary House, December 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Mary House, c. December 1790. On 28 Dec. 1790 Tobias Lear wrote to Alexander Hamilton, transmitting a letter from Mary House, soliciting an appointment on one of the cutters for her son George House. Lear noted that “an application from George House to the President was among the letters upon this subject, which were laid before the Secretary of the Treasury” ( DLC:GW )....
88To George Washington from John Eager Howard, 22 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose two Acts of the General assembly of Maryland; the one “An Act to cede to Congress a district of ten miles square in this State for the seat of the Goverment of the United States;” the other “An Act to condemn land, if necessary, for the public buildings of the United States:” also sundry resolutions for advancing seventy two thousand dollars for the purpose of...
89To George Washington from John Eager Howard, 11 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose an Act of Assembly of this State entitled “An Act to empower the Wardens of the Port of Baltimore to lay and collect the duty therein mentioned,” which cannot take effect until ratified and confirmed by an Act of Congress. I therefore request the favour of you to lay the same before Congress for their confirmation, if approved. I have the Honor to be Your...
90To 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...