1To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 20 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with your request, communicated by the Secretary at War, in his letter of the 19. current, I have the honor to inform you, that orders were immediately issued to the Adjutant General, for organizing, arming, and equipping, according to law, 10,768 of the Militia of Pennsylvania, officers included; agreably to your requisition, founded on the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act...
2To 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,...
3To 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...
4To 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...
5To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 9 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, for your information, a copy of a Report from the Master Warden of the Port of Philadelphia, stating the arrival of the Schooner Flora, Captain Westerhock, a Dutch Privateer, mounting ten Four-pounders. As the 22nd Article of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, between the United States and France, provides that it shall not be lawful for any foreign privateers, who...
6To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 10 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, for your information, a Copy of the Supplementary Report of the Master Warden, relatively to the Schooner Flora, mentioned in my letter of Yesterday’s date: and to be, with perfect respect, Sir, Your most Obed. Hble serv. Df , PHarH : Executive Correspondence, 1790-99; LB , PHarH : Executive Letterbooks. The enclosed copy has not been identified, but Master Warden...
7To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 13 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I think it proper to communicate the letters which I have received from the western Counties representing the hostile proceedings of the Indians, in that quarter and the dissatisfaction of the Citizens at the suspension of the Presqu’isle establishment in compliance with your request. As I wish to answer these letters by to morrows post I have for the sake of dispatch transmitted the originals...
8To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 14 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Answer (communicated in a letter from the Secretary of War dated this day—) to my letter of the 13th instant, stating that the reasons, which induced your opinion relatively to the Suspension of the Presqu’ isle establishment, continue to operate, and have not been weakened by any information since receiv’d. The nature of the trust reposed in...
9To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 16 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Having instructed the Attorney General to institute a prosecution against Robinson, the supposed murderer of a Friendly Indian at Fort Franklin, I have the honor to add to my communication of the 23rd Ulto on the subject, the inclosed copy of that Officer’s answer. With perfect respect, I remain, Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedt & most Hble Servt LS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; copy,...
10To George Washington from Thomas Mifflin, 19 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, for your information, a copy of the dispatches which I have this morning received from Genl Gibson, relatively to the hostile dispostion of the Six nations, instigated and supported, as it is alledged, by the British: and to be, with perfect respect, Sir, Yr Excellency’s Most obed. Hble Servt List of the documents, accompanying this letter: 1. A letter from Genl...