61To George Washington from John Stadler, 25 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed is a Copy of a Letter to the Honourable James Madison, as I have been directed to apply tog. with an account against the State of Virginia attested by Patrick Henry, then Gouvernor, and with a Certificate of the Notary publick of Fredericksburg for two Commissions inclosed, one a Continental one, and the other of the State of Virginia. I had the Honour to wait last May in this...
62From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 25 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I meet you, upon the present occasion, with the feelings which are naturally inspired by a strong impression of the prosperous situation of our common Country, and by a persuasion equally strong, that the labours of the Session, which has just commenced, will, under the guidance of a spirit no less prudent than patriotic, issue in measures, conducive to the stability and increase of national...
63Conversations with Pierce Butler, Ralph Izard, and Aaron Burr, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
On the morning of this day the President requested Mr Butler (who had to pass by his house) to give him a call on his way to the Senate Chamber; and in this interview the President informed Mr Butler, that after the best consideration which time and circumstances had allowed him to bestow on the subject of etiquette, which had been submitted to him on the 24 instant, he thought it most...
64From George Washington to the United States Senate, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have directed the Secretary of War, to lay before you for your consideration, all the papers relative to the late negociations with the Cherokee Indians—and the treaty concluded with that tribe, on the 2d day of July last, by the Superintendant of the Southern district; and I request your advice, whether I shall ratify the same. I also lay before you the instructions to Colonel Pickering,...
65From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you copies of the following Acts, which have been transmitted to me during the recess of Congress viz. An Act passed by the Legislature of New Hampshire, for ceding to the United States, the Fort and Light House belonging to said State. An Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ratifying on behalf of said State, the first article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United...
66From George Washington to James Madison, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed I return you the list of Sales in the Federal City. You will oblige me, by drafting a short answer to the address, to be presented tomorrow, and sending it to me this Evening or in the Morning early. If you want the address let me know it & it shall be sent to you. Yours—Sincerely & Affectly ALS , H-Ar : Cartwright Collection. James Madison erroneously docketed the cover 22 Oct. 1791....
67From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have directed the secretary of War to lay before you for your information the reports of Brigadier General Scott, and Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Wilkinson, the officers who commanded the two expeditions against the Wabash indians, in the months of June and August last; together with the instructions by virtue of which the said expeditions were undertaken. When the operations now depending...
68From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you a copy of a letter and of sundry documents which I have received from the Governor of Pennsylvania, respecting certain persons who are said to have fled from Justice out of the State of Pennsylvania into that of Virginia; together with a Report of the Attorney General of the United States upon the same subject. I have received from the Governor of North Carolina a copy of an...
69To George Washington from Thomas Willis, 27 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
this is meant inform Your Excellency of A new and advantagous plan of Arming & fighting A Ship it was meant for the french nation but I thought it my duty to lay it before Your Excellency preveus to french ambassador. I Shall not trouble Your Excellency at present with the petticulars of this project but only the most material—that is A 74 Gun Ship or one of any other Rate Can fight the whole...
70To George Washington from Giuseppe Chiappe, 28 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mogador [Morocco], 28 Oct. 1791. Sends a duplicate of his letter of 31 Aug. by a Dutch captain bound for Saint Lucia with a cargo of mules and adds the following news: his brother Girolamo, consul for Venice at Tangier, has traveled to Madrid and Cadiz under the authority of Emperor Yazid Ibn-Muhammed of Morocco to arrange a ceasefire. A skirmish resulting in casualties occurred at Ceuta...
71To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War, to whom the President of the United States referred the letter of his Excellency the governor of Virginia of the 20th instant, enclosing a letter of the 6th instant from H. Smith commanding officer of the County of Russell, Stating the defenceless situation of his County. Respectfully reports. The enclosed draft of a letter to the said governor in answer to his letter....
72From George Washington to the United States House of Representatives, 28 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
The pleasure I derive from an assurance of your attention to the objects I have recommended to you, is doubled by your concurrence in the testimony I have borne to the prosperous condition of our public Affairs. Relying on these sanctions of your enlightened Judgment, and on your patriotic aid, I shall be the more encouraged in all my endeavours for the public weal; and particularly in those...
73To George Washington from David Stuart, 29 October 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from David Stuart, 29 Oct. 1791. On 20 Nov. GW mentioned to Stuart the “receipt of your letter of the 29th of October.”
74From George Washington to Harriot Washington, 30 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 21st instant, and shall always be glad to hear from you—When my business will permit inclination will not be wanting in me to acknowledge the receipt of your letters, and this I shall do more cheerfully as it will afford me opportunities at those times of giving you such occasional advice as your situation may require. At present I could plead a better excuse...
75To George Washington from Giuseppe Ceracchi, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose to you a Copy of a Memorial which I have the honor of presenting this day to Congress—Give me leave to submit it to the Friend and Patron of the fine Arts as well as to the President of the United States. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir Your most obedient and most humble Servant LS , DLC:GW . The son of a Roman goldsmith, sculptor Giuseppe...
76Enclosure: Giuseppe Ceracchi to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Joseph Ceracchi, a Roman Sculptor begs leave to submit to your Honors the annexed Design, which he has conceived of a Monument for perpetuating the Memory of the American Revolution. If Congress should think proper to encourage this Design, the Artist, satisfied with the Glory, which his performance will receive from the Subject itself, desires no pecuniary Reward, and only wishes to have the...
77To George Washington from Samuel Potts, 31 October 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Samuel Potts, 31 Oct. 1791. GW wrote to Potts on 18 Mar. 1792 : “Your letter of the 31st of October, on the subject of a Legacy left by Mr[s] Savage to Mrs Bomford, has been received.” For GW’s long, “tedeous and irksome” involvement in the settlement of the estate of the Rev. Charles Green and in the affairs of his widow Margaret Green Savage, see Diaries Donald Jackson...
78From George Washington to the United States Senate, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Certain Offices having become vacant, since your last Session, by the death, resignation or appointment to other Offices, of those who held them, I have, in pursuance of the power vested in me by the Constitution, appointed the following persons to fill these vacancies—vizt. Thomas Johnson, of Maryland, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, vice John Rutledge, resigned. William...
79From George Washington to the United States Senate, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
This manifestation of your zeal for the honor and the happiness of our Country, derives its full value from the share which your deliberations have already had in promoting both. I thank you for the favorable sentiments with which you view the part I have borne in the arduous trust committed to the Government of the United States; and desire you to be assured that all my zeal will continue to...
80From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I send you herewith the arrangement which has been made by me, pursuant to the Act, entitled “An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon distilled Spirits imported from abroad, & laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits, distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same,” in respect to the subdivision of the several districts,...
81From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 1 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday, from the Judge of the District of South Carolina, a letter, inclosing the presentments of the Grand Jury to him; and stating the causes which have prevented the return of the Census from that District; copies of which are now before you. LS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 233,...
82To George Washington from Henry Knox, 3 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to return the papers of Doctor Williamson—As he is upon the Committee, he has promised to consult upon the bill in its more mature stage. I am Sir with the highest respect Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed papers of Congressman Hugh Williamson of North Carolina have not been identified.
83To George Washington from Charles Vancouver, 5 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Being in England in the year 1786, and seeing there a very curiously invented plough, which seemed to embrace every requisite of a complete drilling machine, and having frequent opportunities of attending to the operation of it, was ordered to purchase one, and Ship it to Philadelphia for the use of the agricultural society of Pennsylvania—Agreeably to the directions I gave the Gentleman to...
84To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you a draught of a letter to Governor Pinkney, & to observe that I suppose it to be proper that there should, on fit occasions, be a direct correspondence between the President of the U.S. and the Governors of the states; and that it will probably be grateful to them to recieve from the President answers to the letters they address to him. the correspondence with...
85To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 6 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
If a law should be passed during the session of the Legislature for the government of the militia & any appointments should take place under the authority of the Union for the militia of the respective states, subordinate to that of an Adjutant for each such for instance as an Inspector I will take the liberty of mentioning to You the name of Mr Abraham Seixas for this state —I am well aware...
86To George Washington from William Shepard, 6 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
A cordial Friend of the Government at the Head of which you are unanimously placed by the Suffrages of our common Country, & one, too, whose Name may possibly be yet recollected by the Commander in Chief of the late Army, begs leave to approach you—& to acquaint you that, he has received Information that a Superintendant of Indian Affairs is speedily to be appointed by your Excellency. If,...
87To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have duly considered the letter you were pleased to refer to me, of the 18th of August from his Excellency Governor [Charles] Pinckney to yourself, together with the draught of one proposed to be written by him to the Governor of Florida claiming the redelivery of certain fugitives from justice who have been received in that Country. The inconveniencies of such a receptacle for debtors and...
88From George Washington to Lansdowne, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you were pleased to honor me—dated the 4th of July—was presented to me by Lord Wycombe. Permit me to thank your Lordship for introducing so worthy and intelligent a young Nobleman to my acquaintance —and to regret that his stay in this Country is so short as not to have allowed him to investigate it more. This Country has a grateful recollection of the agency your...
89From George Washington to Alexander Moultrie, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 1st of October, informing me of the alteration which had taken place in the plans and intentions of the south Carolina Yazou company, was received with much pleasure and satisfaction. This change of measures is highly worthy of the good sense which dictated it—To have proceeded on the former plan would have been acting in direct violation of the laws and proclamations made...
90To George Washington from Francisco Chiappe, 8 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Cadiz, 8 Nov. 1791. Observing that GW has yet to acknowledge his letters or issue him orders, encloses a duplicate of his letter of 22 Mar., as well as two lists of gifts presented by the ambassadors of Denmark and Sweden to the emperor of Morocco, and requests advice on how he and his brothers, who have long temporized and given many excuses, should respond to the emperor’s continuing...