11To George Washington from Arthur Young, 25 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
With the yarn you will receive the Annals continued two setts; one I take the liberty of requesting yr presenting to the Agriculture Society as before....grass which I beleive will prove more beneficial than Lucern or any other; I sow 30 acres of it this spring. I have added to the packet a bag of the seed which you will sow with barley or oats, if it comes in time; if not alone when...
12May [1791] (Washington Papers)
GW was rowed across the Sampit River “in the same manner, and by the same Captains of vessels,” as he had been rowed to Georgetown the previous day. The artillery again saluted him from the foot of Broad Street, and “on the opposite shore [he] was received by the light-infantry company” ( ...branches, the North Santee and South Santee, between which lies Lynch’s Island, a marshy area patented to...
13Circuit Court Diary, 21 June–9 July 1791 (Jay Papers)
. Collins told me that in 1776 W.E. drew an association whereby the Subscribers bound themselves to support the british Gov . in that Island—that it was subscribed by W.E. & a considerable number of the Inhabitants. That it was offered to him by that Gent. that reprobated it in strong Terms—That he opposed it—that they became ashamed of it & suppressed it at least he never afterwards c...to set...
14Memorandum Books, 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave order on bank for a post bill for 116.67 paiable to TMRandolph junr. for a horse (Matchless)Do. for 70.53 to George Meade
15Circuit Court Diary, 15 April–1 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
April 15— Went to Rye— planted 2 Willow Trees—one in the Row between the wash House & orchard Wall—the other nearly opposite to the first between the Locust & Walnut Trees—also planted a Wallnut Tree in the place of a dead Locust, on the West Corner of the Row before the So. Side of the House— to be sent to Rye—
16From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 5 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
Since the date of my last dispatch to you of the 1st instant, I have received your Letters of the 26. & 30 ulto, and have affixed my signature to the arrangement of Compensations to the Officers of Inspection in consequence of additional latitude given to The President of the United States by the Act of the last Session, intitled “An Act concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the...
17Resolutions from Petersburg, Virginia, Citizens, 2 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Petersburg and its Vicinity held at Mr Edwards’s Coffeehouse in the said Town, on
Saturday the 31st of August 1793 pursuant to public Notice, for that purpose given, to
take into Consideration the late proclamation of the President of the United States....President’s proclamation being read on Motion made & seconded, Resolved, that a Committee be appointed to draw up &...to
18Enclosure: Resolutions from the Albemarle County, Virginia, Citizens, 10 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
...at the Town of Charlottesville on the tenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, being the day appointed by Law, for holding Court, within the said County on which day they had been requested to attend for the special purpose of taking into consideration the political subjects that now engage the Publick attention, and the matter being opened... ...being opened to them...
19Enclosure: [Expenditures], 15 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
October 12. To Henry Knox, assignee of Michael Hillegas, for the amount of a warrant No. 485, dated the 9th, May 1789, drawn by the late board of Treasury on William Imlay receiver of continental taxes for the state of...To the President of the United States, on Account of his Compensation.
20To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 5 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The disagreeable crisis at which matters have lately arrived in some of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, with regard to the laws laying duties on spirits distilled within the United States and on Stills, seems to render proper a review of the circumstances which have attended those Laws in that scene, from their commencement to the present time—and of the conduct which has hitherto been...