91To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 22 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of returning to the President, the list, which was yesterday put into his hands; and at the same time incloses a letter from Mr Frelinghuysen as to Mr Burr—In a conversation with Mr Madison, his opinion appears to be decided, that the constitution does not incapicate Mr Burr; and that he is a proper person —An objection seems to be ready in the mouth of some for young...
92To George Washington from Lambert Cadwalader, 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer, Mr Nicholas Pariset, who has been naturalized in the State of New Jersey, intending to go to the West Indies, is desirous of procuring a Pass authenticated under the Seal of the United States, for the security of his Person & Property in Case he should meet with armed Vessells in the Course of his Voyage—I do not know whether it is usual to grant Passes of this Natur<e>—if it is, I...
93To George Washington from William Deakins, Jr., 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Peggy Captain Lunt has Just Arrived, and has brought a Number of Fruit tree’s for you, which I shall send this day to Mountain Vernon. I have delivered to my Brother Francis, the Order on Mr Benjamin Jones for the rent, of your Land, he lives near Mr Jones and will get of him a state of the Rents—my Brother desires me to inform You that the Tenants are Committing great Waste on the Lands...
94To George Washington from John Dixon, 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
My Son Joseph informs me that from Your Excellence’s high and Honorable Station—that it would be improper to give Letters of Introduction—at the same time I know the goodness of your Heart to be such—that I flatter myself some respect will be paid to my recomendation—I therefore pray leave to say that the Bearer of this is Thos Law Esqr. who comes with a design to Settle in America if he likes...
95Henry Knox to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War presents his Compliments to Mister Dandridge and begs the favor that the enclosed letter from Governor Mifflin, just received, may be submitted to the President of the U: States. L , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Pennsylvania governor Thomas Mifflin’s letter to Knox of 23 May enclosed "a copy of a letter from Brigadier General Wilkins, dated the eleventh current, relatively to...
96To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honor of transmitting the papers and message; taking at the same time the liberty of suggesting the propriety of instructing Mr Dandridge to inform the Speaker and Vice President, that this and the Secretary’s letter of yesterday are not in confidence. Otherwise, they will be concealed under the confidential message of yesterday from the public eye. To both...
97To George Washington from Peter Gongon, 24 May 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Peter Gongon, 24 May 1794. On 16 June, Edmund Randolph wrote Gongon, "I am desired by the President of the United States to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo from Elizabeth Town." Randolph indicated that GW sympathized with Gongon’s "distress" but was unable to assist him from his private funds and had "no public monies in his distribution for...
98To 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...
99From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State informs me, that as the intercourse with Europe will be opened on Monday, it is expedient that an arrangement should be made concerning the million of dollars directed to be borrowed for foreign purposes. I wish therefore to know, whether any steps have been taken upon the subject; and if not, that the loan should be set on foot in order that a proper disposition may be...
100To George Washington from Kentucky Citizens, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
To the PRESIDENT and CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; T he REMONSTRANCE of the S ubscribers , C itizens of the C ommonwealth of KENTUCKY, SHEWETH: THAT your Remonstrants have observed with concern and indignation, the injuries and insults offered to the United States by the king of Great Britain. He has violated in important parts, that treaty of peace, the observance of which might...
101Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the Presidents order B. Dandridge has the honor to send herewith enclosed to the Secretary of War, a letter just received by the president from the Govr of north Carolina; & to request the Secretary to cause such directions to be given, with regard to the subject thereof, as may be proper. A Letter to the President from Colo. Fitzgerald is also sent for the information of the Secretary, who...
102To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The information contained in the letter from Genl Wilkins, which I communicated to you yesterday; and the general aspect of our affairs on the frontiers; enforcing the necessity of an immediate exertion, to support the Detachment, which the Legislature of Pennsylvania directed to be formed, for the purpose of protecting the Commissioners, who were authorised to lay out a town at Presqu’-isle,...
103To George Washington from Richard Shepard, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am a native of No. Carolina bred to the Sea and wish the appointment of Lieutenant on board one of the Frigates to be fitted out by the United States, I understand that the Members of Congress from North Carolina have recommended me to the Secretary of war, If your Excellency appoints me as Lieutenant I shall do every thing in my power to merit your approbation. with the highest respect I am...
104To George Washington from Richard Dobbs Spaight, 24 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Martinon has been at Occacock inlet and has fixed upon Beacon island as the most proper place on which the fort for the protection of the shipping going out and coming in at that bar can be erected. his judgement in this particular coincides with the opinion of every person who is acquainted with the place. Beacon island contains about twenty five acres of land and is the joint property of...
105To George Washington from Adam Hoops, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
If the apprehension of a war which at present agitates the public mind should prove well grounded and an appeal to arms be the consequence I take the liberty to present myself as a candidate for the honor of serving my country in a military capacity. From the time that has Elapsed since the last war it is probable that many whose Rank and Talents would give them pretensions greatly superior to...
106To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have occasion to regret, that your opinion, on the expediency of suspending, for the present, the establishment at Presqu’-isle, was not communicated to me, previously to the receipt of the letter from the Secretary at War, dated yesterday, in which that opinion is, for the first time, explicitly expressed. I am apprehensive, indeed, that it is too late to prevent the execution of the...
107From George Washington to William Pearce, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I learn with concern from your letter of the 18th instant, that your crops were still labouring under a drought, and most of them very much injured. At disappointments and losses which are the effects of Providential acts, I never repine; because I am sure the alwise disposer of events knows better than we do, what is best for us, or what we deserve. Two or three fine rains have fallen here in...
108To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 25 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Aunt Lewis has desired me to inform you that she has received your letter to Cousin Robert and expect’s it will have a quick conveyance, as cousin Carter leaves this for Fauquier to day. I hope My dear Uncle will excuse my asking him for some Summer dresse’s, as nothing would induce me to be so troublesome if I was not in absolute want of them. those that I had last year are almost worn out I...
109From George Washington to James Anderson (of Scotland), 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you were pleased to favor me, dated the 15th of August last year, accompanying sevl pamphlets on interesting subjects, came safe; though long after its date, as you will perceive by the enclosed note from a Mr Callender; which serves as a wrapper of six guineas which I send for the vols. of the Bee (15 in number) which have come to my hands. As you have never authorised...
110To George Washington from James Bell, 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Persuaded that your important time must be occupied with the weighty Care of the public affairs, I feel, on this account, great embarrassment for trespassing one moment on your attention. I regret, Sir, that it has become necessary. But, your exalted Character justifies me in hoping that, tho’ surrounded by great and important public business, you will condescend to hear my Representations,...
111From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
It is no uncommon thing to attempt, by excuses, to atone for acts of omission; and frequently too, at the expence of as much time as (seasonably employed) would have superceded the occasion of their presentment. Sensible as I am of this—and ashamed as I am of resorting to an apology so common yet I feel, so forcibly, the necessity of making one for suffering your Lordships very polite and...
112From George Washington to Robert Morris, 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
As I have other unproductive landed property in the Western Country besides that which you seem disposed to become the purchaser of—and some also in Virginia, which, in my opinion, promises the richest future harvest of anything of the kind I have contemplated. I offer the whole to you upon the terms mentioned in the enclosed paper. Were my prospects different from what they really are, not...
113Enclosure: 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...
114To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
The secretary of state has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Adams is of opinion, that his son will and ought to accept the appointment; and that he himself will advise him to accept it. Mr Monroe assents to the nomination of himself. The inclosed is a draft of the message, which was mentioned to the President this morning. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
115From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives. The Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty having communicated to the Secretary of State the form of a Certificate, without which the vessels of the United States cannot be admitted into the ports of Spain; I think it proper to lay it before Congress. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793-95, Senate Records of Legislative...
116To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
For a considerable time past I have been in a bad State of Health, and to endeavour to regain it I took a Trip to Alexandria to put myself under the direction of Doctor Craik, & from thence made a Visit to Fredericksbg—I thank God, I find myself mendg, but have so little appetite I regain my flesh very slowly. I saw Mr Pearce 2 or 3 times, and being inform’d by him that he had only sowed about...
117To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In answer to the enquiry you have been pleased to make, I have the honor to inform you that nothing has been yet done upon the first section of the Act of the 20th of March last, which appropriates a million of dollars, to defray any expenses that may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations; authorising the President if necessary to borrow the...
118To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I sometime since communicated an intention to withdraw from the office I hold, towards the close of the present session. This I should now put in execution but for the events which have lately accumulated of a nature to render the prospect of a continuance of our peace in a considerable degree precarious. I do not perceive that I could voluntarily quit my post at such a juncture, consistently...
119To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 27 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with the request of Judge Addison, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of his letter, dated the 12th current, in explanation of the Extract communicated to you on the 18th of April last, relatively to the collection of the Excise in the Western counties. As it appears, that the information, which he enabled me to lay before you, has been used in a way that was not...
120Enclosure: Alexander Addison to Thomas Mifflin, 12 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
My last letter to you was intended merely as an answer to your circular letter of 21st March, and was drawn from me by an idea, that it was proper for me to notice, according to my sentiments, the different subjects of your letter. Had I supposed, that it was to claim the attention of the President, to assume the solemn form of an accusation, and to be subjected to the resentment of a...