1To George Washington from George Clinton, 24 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Confidential Sir New York, 24th February 1792 It is reported here that Colo. Smith either has or intends to resign the Office of Supervisor of the Excise for this District; Under this Impression and a Conviction that from the Nature of that Office there is none that it is more necessary should be filled with a Man of Discretion, Integrity and weight in the Community I begg leave to mention for...
2To George Washington from George Eimbeck, 15 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
I Am Under the Disagreeable Necessity of Informing your Excellency that Fort Wayne is in A very Defenceless Situation having Neither Men Nor Amunition and as I have Frequently made Application to the Goverment of the State of Georgia without Redress. Humbly beg your Excellency to Honor me with your Orders Respecting the Business—your Honor will Please Send Orders for A Flag Staff and that the...
3To 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.”
4To George Washington from David Shepherd, 30 December 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from David Shepherd, 30 Dec. 1791. GW wrote to Shepherd on 25 Feb. 1792 : “I thank you for the information which you have given me in your letter of the 30th of Decr.”
5To 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.
6To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 27 Feb. 1792. Sends a letter and enclosures received from Lt. Col. James Wilkinson and indicates that other letters “worthy your perusal” will also soon be submitted to the president. ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosures have not been identified, but Tobias Lear returned them to Henry Knox on 28 Feb. 1792 ( DLC:GW ).
7To George Washington from Daniel Carroll, 21 November 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Daniel Carroll, 21 Nov. 1791. GW informed Daniel Carroll of Duddington on 28 Nov. that “Your letter of the 21st came to my hands on thursday afternoon.”
8To George Washington from Alexander Moultrie, 1 October 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Alexander Moultrie, 1 Oct. 1791. GW wrote Moultrie on 7 Nov. , acknowledging “Your letter of the 1st of October.”
9To George Washington from Thomas Paine, 13 February 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Paine, 13 Feb. 1792. GW wrote Paine on 6 May 1792 : “I have received your letter of the 13th of February.” According to the 6th Report of the British Historical MSS Commission, Appendix, 474, Paine’s letter to GW of 13 Feb. 1792 was sold in 1891.
10To George Washington from Pierre L’Enfant, 10 December 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Pierre L’Enfant, 10 Dec. 1791. In a postscript to his letter of 13 Dec. 1791 GW wrote to L’Enfant : “Since writing the foregoing letter Yours of the 10th is come to hand.”
11To George Washington from Jacob Welsh, 14 February 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jacob Welsh, 14 Feb. 1792. GW wrote Thomas Jefferson on 15 Feb. : “I send for your perusal an address from Mr Welsh, which, (though dated yesterday) is but just received.”
12To George Washington from Ruben Slaughter, 21 November 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Ruben Slaughter, 21 Nov. 1791. In a letter to Slaughter of 25 Feb. 1792 , GW refers to “your letter of the 21st of November last.”
13To George Washington from James Seagrove, 30 November 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Seagrove, 30 Nov. 1791. On 20 Feb. 1792 Henry Knox wrote Seagrove: “Your letter to the President of the United States, dated at Trader’s Hill, on the river St. Mary’s, near the Indian line, on the 30th of November 1791, . . . ha[s] been . . . received within the last week.” Henry Knox’s letter appears in ASP, Indian Affairs, Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American...
14To George Washington from William Douleau, 1 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia, 1 Dec. 1791]. Solicits GW’s assistance in obtaining his release from the workhouse in which he is confined. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Douleau’s letter is almost indecipherable because of his limited ability to write English. The unidentified man was either poorly educated or a native speaker of another language. Apparently confined to the Philadelphia workhouse...
15To George Washington from Henry Knox, 29 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
War Department, Philadelphia, 29 Dec. 1791. Has the honor to submit letters of 19 and 21 October from Major General St. Clair received this day by the Fort Pitt post. LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Arthur St. Clair’s letters to Henry Knox of 19 and 21 Oct. 1791 have not been found.
16To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 13 January 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 13 Jan. 1792. In his letter to GW of 15–16 Jan. 1792 , Whitting stated: “In a Letter wrote on Friday last I informed your Excellency of the Loss of your letter by Dogue run Will.” As GW’s lost letter, which was subsequently found, was dated 8 Jan. 1792, Anthony Whitting’s letter to GW explaining the circumstances of its having been lost must have been...
17To George Washington from Daniel Carroll of Duddington, 21 December 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Daniel Carroll of Duddington, 21 Dec. 1791. In GW’s letter to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia of 27 Dec. , he referred to Carroll’s letter to him “of the 21st Instant.”
18To George Washington from Pierre L’Enfant, 22 December 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Pierre L’Enfant, c.22 Dec. 1791. GW wrote to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia on 27 Dec. : “I find by a letter which I have just received from Majr L’Enfant that the house of Notley Young Esqr. has (contrary to expectation) fallen into a principal Street.” No such letter to GW has been found, but Pierre L’Enfant wrote similarly to the Commissioners for the...
19To George Washington from Rodolph Valltravers, 19 November 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Rodolph Valltravers, 19 Nov. 1791. On 6 June 1792, in listing his previous correspondence with GW, Valltravers mentioned to GW “A further Letter to your Excellency, dated Novr 19th 1791.” Rodolph Valltravers might have been referring to his letter to GW of 30 Nov. 1791 (see Valltravers to GW, 21 July 1791, n.5 ).
20To George Washington from George Skene Keith, 14 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of writing your Excellency, which I hope you will excuse, and of sending you a few Copies of a Pamphlet on Weights, Measures and Coins of which I beg your acceptance. I write to you as a man of Mind, not as a man of Rank. But I should not have troubled you with this Letter, if the Treatise which accompanies it were not the work of much labour, and considered as the best...
21To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 October 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edmund Randolph, 1 Oct. 1791. On 10 Oct. GW informed Randolph : “I received your communications of the 1st instant.”
22To George Washington from Robert Bourne, 9 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
A Church is Requir’d to be Built in London—to be Call’d the American Church—The appointments with you with Great Respect I remain ALS , DLC:GW . On 10 Dec. 1791 Robert Bourne informed “the president of the Congress” that “General Washington has been wrote too on the Subject” of the American Church in London, and Bourne expressed his hope that “it will meet Your full approbation” ( DLC:GW ). No...
23To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 10 Nov. 1791. After examining the enclosed papers relating to the land purchase of John Cleves Symmes on the Great Miami River, he thinks it proper to lay them before Congress, to demonstrate not only the foundation of Symmes’s larger claim but also the “expediency of providing some speedy and regular mode of deciding this and other questions of a like nature which might arise...
24To George Washington from Thomas Maxwell, 17 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I am in great Straits to know what is Becom’d of a Brother of mine that came to America And Settled their before the Commotion of the war I was inform’d that he was an Officer in the American Service under your Honours Command His Name is William Maxwell, I have bean Inform’d by one Thos Hodgon that he died in new Providence and left a Daughter the rest of the Famley was all Dead and she has a...
25To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 6 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Mr Chew having confirmed the character received by you, of Mr Barratt, I have written to Mr Vining requesting him to ascertain whether the appointment will be acceptable to him. Mr Houston of Georgia declines the offer made to him, on the score of want of a familiar acquaintance with figures, and its being inconsistent with the State of his affairs, to translate himself wholly to the seat of...
26To George Washington from Samuel Gath, 13 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
Give me leave to offer you ray sentiments, or oppinion, what wou’d be the most reasonable, and prudent method to settle a lasting Covenant, or treaty of peace, with the Indians in the westren County—From what little I have read in my youth, I remember great crueltys practised by the Spanard Commanders in Maxico and Perew, and something has been practised Similer, in this here country called...
27To George Washington from Henry Knox, 18 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
I propose to send a duplicate of McGillivrays letter to Seagrove, and conform his instructions thereto. I submit you a motions of Colo. Guns. The division to day was 15 for inserting the additional regiments to 13 against it. Colo. Burr, voted for it under some restrictions. The bill is recommitted to Mr Elsworth Mr Read[,] Hawkins, Mr Burr, and Mr Gun. The object of the amendment is not...
28To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 1 February 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edmund Randolph, 1 Feb. 1792. In a letter of 2 Feb. to Randolph, Tobias Lear mentioned “the Atty Genls note of last evening” to the president. Tobias Lear informed Edmund Randolph: “the President thinks it proper that the Atty Genl should proceed in Cottrell’s case in the manner mentioned in the Atty Genls note of last evening as the result of the conference between him...
29To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, 3 February 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
from Thomas Johnson, 3 Feb. 1792. GW refers in his letter to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia of 6 Mar. to “Mr Johnson’s letter of the 3d of february.” Johnson’s letter apparently included a draft, which has not been found, of an advertisement for designs for the Capitol. Thomas Jefferson advised the commissioners on 6 Mar.: “You will doubtless also consider it necessary to...
30To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 6 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you lately on the subject of the unfortunate situation of St Domingo & the application they made to me with my answer, which with the inclosures I hope you have recieved —The object of this Line is merely to introduce to your acquaintance Mr Barnwell one of our newly elected members of the house of Representatives & who I think will do much credit to his appointment —He will deliver...