1From George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., 30 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the 22d instt—If there is a prospect of rise in the price of Tobacco I would await the chance of it—especially as Mr Jones has not compleated the collection. I wish the Order of Colo. Mercer on that Gentleman may be re-examined—if I recollect the purport of it, it is only for such Rents as arose on the moiety of Woodstock which fell to my share. Whether those...
2From George Washington to Henry Knox, 30 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Under the circumstances which exist to exceed your proposed time of absence so long, is to be regretted—but hearing nothing from you for a considerable time has given alarm, lest some untoward accident may have been the cause of it. Having occasion sometime ago to write to Colo. Ball on business, I observed that the land of which he was possessed was reported as a favorable spot on which to...
3To George Washington from Count de La Belinaye, 30 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The particular Kindness, your Excellency, was pleased to show my most dear but unfortunate Nephew Armand Marquis de la Rouerie, during the six year<s> he had the happiness to Serve under your Orders in America, encourage me to hope, you will honor me with your advice, upon the determination I have formed to leave Europe next Spring & End my Sad Career in North america should there not approach...
4To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 30 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The importance, and air of probability, which the inclosed narrative of General Wayne’s affair of the 20th of August bears, appearing to deserve an express; I have the honor of transmitting it to you; and of being, Sir, with the highest respect and attachment yr mo. ob. serv. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB , DNA...
5Agreement with James Donaldson, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Memorandum of the allowance proposed to be made to James Donaldson, and what is expected from him 400 lbs. of Porke } 200 do. Beef 1000 Herrings 200 Shad per Annum 200 lbs. of midling flour 20 bushels of Indian Meal or midlg flour equivalent One hundred & twenty dolrs To pay his, & families passage round to Mount Vernon, & furnish him with the use of Tools with which to work when...
6To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you two communications from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 24 & 25 instant, and to submit my opinion, that it is adviseable to ratify all the contracts to which they refer except that last mentioned with Green Parker. With perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . Tench Coxe’s letter to Hamilton of 24 Sept. enclosed "proposals from Mr John McCauley for the...
7To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of submitting to the President the draft of a letter to the commissioners. It is expected, that their report will be printed in a couple of days. In a conversation, which E.R. has just had with Mr Jaudenes, he observed, that Spain must ultimately coalesce with France; and that he had no communication of business with Mr Hammond, nor Mr Hammond with him. Duplicates of...
8Statement 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...
9Request for Alteration of Patent to John Cleves Symmes, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Be it known unto all men by these Presents that whereas in pursuance of certain resolutions of the United States in Congress assembled bearing date respectively the 23rd & 27th days of July and the 23rd day of October 1787, or some of them a Contract was duly made & executed between Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston & Arthur Lee Esqrs. Commissioners of the board of Treasury of the United States...
10To George Washington from William Chalmers, 28 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Tho I have not the honour of your acquaintance I am no Stranger to your amiable Character which encourages me to apply to you in this singular manner. My Inclinations, lead me to go abroad, & to visit these Lands of Liberty over which you preside, but my Friends & Relations oppose my Inclinations & are anxious to get a Settlement for me in the Church of Scotland. For some years past I have...
11From George Washington to William Pearce, 28 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 21st instt, and the Reports of the preceeding week. I am glad to find your seeding of Wheat is over, and that it is compleated in such good time. There cannot, in my opinion, be the smallest occasion for opening the new road, which under different circumstances than those which exist at present, was ordered by the Court at my particular request —Nor would it...
12From George Washington to William Pearce, 28 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
In a seperate letter of this date, I have wrote you pretty fully respecting the New Road which you are appointed Overseer of, with orders to open; that the letter may be shewn to the Court—to Mr Mason—or whomsoever is the mover in this business, without having other matters of a more private nature blended therewith. Since writing to you this day week, I have engaged a Scotchman, just arrived...
13To George Washington from William Pearce, 28 Sept. 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Pearce, 28 Sept. 1794. On 2 Nov., GW wrote Pearce: "I have received your several letters of the 28th of Septr—and 5th 17th and 23d of last month" ( ViMtvL ).
14From 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,...
15From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 27 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Pay to the Secretary of State, out of the fund appropriated to defray the Contingent charges of Government, the sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars, for the use of Colo. Innes. LB , DLC:GW . James Innes was being sent as a commissioner to inform the government of Kentucky about the state of negotiations on navigation of the Mississippi River (see Edmund Randolph to GW, 7 Aug. , and n.2). Secretary...
16From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 25 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th instt from the Sulpher Springs has been recd. When General Knox (who for several days has been expected) returns, I will deliver your letter to him —and from him (in whose department the business lyes) you will receive an answer to your proposition. I hear with the greatest pleasure of the spirit which so generally pervades the Militia of every State that has been...
17To George Washington from Christoph Diedrich Arnold Delius , 25 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I find myself honored with a Letter from Mr Randolph inclosing an appointment for me, as Consul for the United States of America; Your Excellency may be rest assured that I feel a singular pleasure in being appointed to the Honnor of serving the United States, and what adds much to my gratification is, the foreseing pleasure to convince every american of my zeal and wish to be of some Service...
18Proclamation, 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...
19From the Commissioners Sent to Western Pennsylvania, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Commissioners, appointed to confer with the Citizens in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, in order to induce them to submit peaceably to the laws, and to prevent the necessity of using coercion to inforce their execution, respectfully report to the President of the United States: That, in pursuance of their instructions, they repaired to the Western Counties; and, on their arrival...
20To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secry of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. He finds it will be impracticable for him without injury to the public service to leave town on Monday , but he will do it the day after & overtake the President. However he begs leave to inform the President that from the information received, there is no prospect of a pretty general assembling of the Pennsylvania & N. Jersey...
21To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Potomac Company yesterday, they did me the honor to elect me a director, by an unanimous vote, in place of Colo. Deakins who had resigned. As I have accepted this appointment, I thought it my duty to inform you thereof, lest, if you should first hear it from any other quarter, you might think my conduct inconsistent & unjustifiable in accepting this place when I had so...
22To George Washington from Daniel Morgan, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to understand the Dificulty in the state of Pensylvania to Raise their quota of men to suppress that Horrid insurecton on their frontiers —The state of virga seem to be unanimous and Determond to suppress it and it is my opinion that we shall in a very few Days have men Enough at this post to Do that business. for my own part I wish I was at Morgan Town at this time with 2000 men;...
23To George Washington from Lewis Nicolas, 23 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Casually going into a painter’s shop yesterday I there saw some Tent Poles which I was told were for your Excels. use, I did not particularly examine them, but they appeared to me to be in the usual mode, in which the Standards in the middle have always been complained of as great inconveniences, tho without seeking any remedy, that I know of, on account of its occasioning an augmentation of...
24To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that the word, which he has observed to be omitted, was not omitted designedly, but in the hurry of copying; and would have struck E.R. upon a reperusal of the draft. It is certainly a word, which is very direct, and as probably as direct as can be with propriety, under the circumstances, to which the President has alluded. In this view, a...
25To George Washington from William Deakins, Jr., 22 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have receved from Mr Jones—7143 lb. Neat Tobo in Seven Hhds, in part of your Rents due for Woodstock Manner—for the Years 1792 & 1793, there is about 2000 more yet due—which he expe[c]ts to Collect soon —this Tobo will Command 30/ ⅌ Ct Cash no Allowance for Cask, perhaps in a few Weeks the price may be a little better, I am with much Respect Dear Sir Your Obt Servt ALS , DLC:GW . Benjamin W....
26To George Washington from Hamburg Burgomasters and Senate, 22 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The increase of the Trade and Navigation of our City to and with the United States of America chiefly promoted since some years by Mr John Ross of Philadelphia and your Excellency’s condescendent offer made in the Commission granted last year to Mr John Parish Our Citizen as Consul of the United States for this Port to accept of any proper person in the same quality that should be recommended,...
27To George Washington from John Jay, 22 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
22 Sept. 1794. Introduces "Monsr De la Rochefoucauld de Liancourt, who was President of the national assembly and a Duke and Peer of France." ADf , NNC . François-Alexandre-Frédéric, Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) briefly presided over the Constituent Assembly in the summer of 1789. Both a democratic reformer and strong supporter of the French king, he emigrated to England in...
28To George Washington from Samuel Smith, 22 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Post of Marshall for the District of Maryland having become Vacant by the removal of Colonel Ramsay, I am solicited by the Friends of Mr Jacob Graybell (that Gentleman having marched against the Insurgents) to entreat your Excellency in his behalf. The Connections of Mr Graybell are very respectable & numerous—he has been employed by Coln. Ramsay as Deputy Marshall—In which Office from his...
29From George Washington to William Pearce, 21 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 14th instt and the weekly reports, have been recd. We left our Quarters at German Town yesterday, and are again fixed in this City. Thomas Green’s quitting my business of his own accord—whatever the pretence may be—is in my opinion a lucky circumstance, as my repugnance to turning him away was on account of his helpless family. These you may suffer to remain where they are,...
30To George Washington from William Pearce, 21 Sept. 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Pearce, 21 Sept. 1794. On 28 Sept., GW wrote Pearce : "I have received your letter of the 21st instt, and the Reports of the preceeding week."