511To George Washington from "Christain Charity", 2 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
you are now in The Decline of Life and Lived To See Some Remarkable Events and you have now Time to Consider your own Transactions That you may Give an Account of all The Good you have Done and How you have Employd your Talents I hope Sir you will Take Some Pity on The Two Poor Children Belonging to Late French King and Prevail with The Present Ruling Power to Show them Some Respect if you Sir...
512To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 14 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Attorney for the District of Virginia has presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, a claim against the United States for his services in attending at Norfolk by direction from the Secy of State, in order to take depositions respecting a british vessel alledged to have been taken by a french privateer within the limits of the United States; which claim has been...
513To George Washington from James McHenry, 20 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
Before my setting out for the springs which will be on wednesday permit me again to bring into your recollection Mr George Salmon whose worth and qualities as a citizen has been the cause of my having heretofore ventured to solicit you in his behalf. I am very sensible to the difficulties attendant on your situation and the serious embarrassments you must frequently experience in deciding...
514To George Washington from William Groves, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
It is in the power of Men of Virtue and Rank, Like the Sun to gild all Objects within the Sphere of their Notice, without diminishing in the least their intrinsic splendour Your petitioner is a young Man of some family in England, and started like many others with Promising Hopes in Life—But Copying the World from the Susceptibility of his own Heart Soon fell a Sacrifice to disguis’d...
515To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit a letter from General Chapin just received by Express from Pittsburg, and what was dated at Fort La Beuf 26th June, There are two enclosures the first of which are the proceedings of the six nations at Buffaloe Creek, and the other an Answer of Capt. Denny and Mr Ellicot. I have the honor to be with perfect respect sir your obedien<t> Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB ,...
516To George Washington from George Clinton, 9 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I transmit, enclosed, certain Documents relative to some recent Seizures made by a Bermudian Privateer —It is well ascertained that there was no circumstance attending either of the three Vessels now referred to, which could excite a suspicion that either the Owners or Mariners had been guilty of the slightest departure from even British Constructions of the Rights and duties of neutrality....
517To George Washington from William Pearce, 6 May 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Pearce, 6 May 1794. On 11 May, GW wrote Pearce : "The Weekly reports enclosed in your letter of the 6th instant, have been duly received."
518To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 9 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send herewith sundry papers which relate to the Petition of William Martin & contain full information on the subject. Upon the whole as Mr Martin is undoubtedly an innocent sufferer, I incline to the opinion that a pardon may be adviseable which would operate to remit one half the penalty incurred. With perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . William Martin (1733-1814)...
519From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 28 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
You will be disposed to think I am very fickle & unsteady (if you have received the letter I wrote you abt a week ago) when you find that the purport of this letter, is to request that you will take no measures in consequence of my last. The reason for this request is, that since the date thereof, I have met with a man in this city (just arrived from Scotland) who from his character,...
520From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 21 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Compassion for a helpless woman and a number of small children, was the principal inducement to my retaining in service another year, the same man who has overlooked my Carpenters a number of years back—and consequently was the cause why I did not employ the person (whose name I have forgot) and his two negro Carpenters & white apprentice whom you recommended to me, last fall, as a...
521Edmund Randolph to John Wilcocks, Jr., 26 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
26 June 1794. At GW’s request, replies to Wilcocks’s letter to GW of 29 June 1793. Although always happy "to assist a stranger who meditates a settlement in our country," Randolph will not "attempt to give" Wilcocks "a direction in favor of any place." Rather, he assures him that "in the wide extent of the United States there may be found a variety of soil and climate, and perhaps even of...
522Enclosure: Resolutions from Philadelphia Manufacturers, 8 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a General & numerous Meeting of the Manufacturers of the City of Philadelphia and such other Citizens as reprobate the imposition of an Excise upon the Infant Manufactures of America held in the State House Yard on Thursday the eighth Day of May One thousand seven hundred and Ninety four the following Resolutions, together with the Preamble were proposed & unanimously adopted. Whereas it is...
523Statement about Stock, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Certificates on which the within Stock is founded, was endorsed by me, and left in the hands of Mr Nourse the Registr in order that the whole may be blended together & simplified for my use & benifit. ADS , PHC . This statement was endorsed on a wrapper titled "statement of Interest payable at the Bank of the United States to the President of the United States." The items to which it...
524Enclosure I: Rule Prescribed to Hostile Vessels, 20 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
When any vessel, whether of war or merchandize, public or private, belonging to any belligerent nation, shall depart from the United States, beyond the jurisdictional line of the United States, on the Ocean; and a vessel of war whether public or private, belonging to another of the belligerent nations, being adverse, shall at the time of the departure of the first mentioned vessel, be within...
525Notice of John Jay’s Powers as Envoy Extraordinary to Great Britain, 6 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
George Washington President of the United States of America. To all, and singular, whom these Presents shall concern—Greeting. Know Ye, That for the purpose of confirming between the United States of America, and his Britannic Majesty perfect harmony and a good correspondence, and of removing all grounds of dissatisfaction, and from a special Trust and Confidence in the Integrity, Prudence,...
526Proclamation, 25 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Whereas from a hope, that the combinations against the Constitution and Laws of the United States in certain of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania would yield to time and reflection, I thought it sufficient, in the first instance, rather to take measures for calling forth the Militia, than immediately to embody them; but the moment is now come, when the overtures of forgiveness with no other...
527Enclosure: Memorandum on Land, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Land belonging to the subscriber—West of the Alligany Mountain—and in the Great dismal Swamp in Virginia—which he would dispose of at the prices thereunto annexed. The above land, in my opinion, is richly worth the sum annexed to each parcel, & I have no doubt of its fetching it, or more, at the present moment, if I was in the habit, or in the way of disposing of land; but as neither of these...
528Alexander Hamilton’s List of Candidates for Minister to France, 19 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Georgia Nathaniel Pendleton (District Judge) Baldwin S. Carolina J. Rutlege E. Rutlege C. C. Pinkney Pinkney (late Governor)
529Proclamation, 7 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
Whereas combinations to defeat the execution of the laws laying duties upon Spirits distilled within the United States and upon Stills, have from the time of the commencement of those laws existed in some of the Western parts of Pennsylvania. And whereas the said Combinations, proceeding in a manner subversive equally of the just authority of Government and of the rights of individuals have...
530Cabinet Opinion, 13 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of the departments and the attorney General, at the house of the President, of the United States, the subject of affording an auxiliary force to Major General Wayne for the purpose of enabling him to make a vigorous and offensive campaign against the hostile Indians being considered, it is advised, that he be authorised, to call for two thousand mounted volunteers...