11From 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...
12Resolutions 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
13Enclosure: 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...
14To 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...
15George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
...States, and lately Pr⟨es⟩ident of the same, do make, ordai⟨n⟩ and declare this Instrument; w⟨hic⟩h is written with my own hand ⟨an⟩d every page thereof subscribed ⟨wit⟩h my name, to be my last Will & ⟨Tes⟩tament, revoking all others....mprimus. All my ⟨deb⟩ts, of which there are but few, and none of magnitude, are to be punctu⟨al⟩ly and speedily paid—and the Legaci⟨es he⟩reinafter... ...to be...
16Circuit Court Diary, 16 April–30 May 1790 (Jay Papers)
17. went to Bedford—wind at northeast & raw— dined at Holly’s— then went to my Farm that he had been removed to York State 28 Y
17Circuit 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...
18Circuit 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—
19John Jay’s Mission to London Editorial Note
(Jay Papers)
...of Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull Sr. He had important connections with Benjamin West, with whom he had studied, and Edmund Burke, who sponsored his parole after Trumbull was arrested as a spy. Peter Augustus, who was about to start studying law, proved to be charming and popular, a way for people to do favors for Jay by looking after his son. Peter Williams, much as he had done when...
20Report on Books for Congress, [23 January] 1783 (Madison Papers)
: Continental Congress Miscellany). Nine undated pages in JM’s hand, with the exception of one entry. Docketed by Charles Thomson: “Report of Comee. List of Books to be imported for the use of Congress Read Jany 24. 1783. Question taken to empower Superint: finance & Secy to import them. Passed in the Negative. Comee. Mr. Madison Mr. Williamson Mr. Mifflin.” The last ten unnumbered folios of