Title: To George Washington from William Jackson, 31 July 1790
From: Jackson, William
To: Washington, George

Sir,
New-York, July 31st 1790.

The subject of this address affects me too sensibly, in different relations, to admit of a personal explanation of my feelings—delicacy, duty, and the most respectful veneration towards you, Sir—propriety, personal wishes, involving the dearest affections of my heart, as it respects myself, all conspire, on this occasion, to agitate me in a manner, which precludes the possibility of explaining myself in any other way than by letter.
Allow me then, Sir, to entreat an additional exercise of your goodness towards me, in listening to an application which nothing short of these considerations could induce me to make.
I owe every thing to the generous manner in which you have befriended me—and I will not conceal a single sentiment of my mind from you. When you shall have weighed every circumstance of what I am about to mention, decide as you, yourself, shall think best—your happiness, in every sense, is too dear to me to allow that I should desire the least biass in my favor inconsistent with your own opinions.
Mr Otis, Secretary to the Senate, having signified his wish that he might receive an appointment in Massachusetts—several

Members of that Body (among them Mr Izard, Mr Butler, Mr Read, Mr Bassett, Mr Morris, Mr Paterson, and Mr Langdon) have spoken to me—and told me that in such an event I would probably be elected Secretary to the Senate.
Consulting only my own wishes on this occasion, as it respects the probability of my attaining a competency in life, and thereby being enabled to accomplish the dearest of my expectations, I should entreat you, by every consideration that could move your consent to a compliance with Mr Otis’s request: but my wishes, I well know, are not alone to be consulted—and, if they were, I would never presume to bring them forward in any manner that might accuse either my duty or my delicacy towards you. No, Sir, I hold it proper, before you consent to such an appointment, that you should be informed of a consequence that will probably flow from it—which is, that it may introduce to the vacant office One, who has the honor to be near to your person, and who, whatever may be the sentiments of the Senate in his behalf, might probably, on that account, be considered as being peculiarly favored. To mention this to you, Sir, is a discharge of the duty which I owe to a generous Protector—and it is the part of delicacy that I should mention it without reserve. That being discharged, I am well assured that your goodness will allow me to state such other circumstances as may incline you, under a belief of its propriety, to comply with Mr Otis’s wish—in which, pardon the declaration, I feel myself deeply interested.
When Mr Otis was elected to the office which he now fills, I was his competitor—a majority of the attending Senators decided in his favor. I mean not to disparage Mr Otis when I say that the preference pained me. Mr Otis is acknowledged to be a good Man, and those who know him are agreed in his attention to his duty and his disposition to oblige—but a majority of the Senate (perhaps I am warranted to go farther) think that his talents are not adapted to the different duties of his immediate situation—this has led to a wish, on the part of many, that he might occupy a place more consonant to his abilities, and more congenial with his wishes—and on this head I am authorized to say so much by the opinions of his friends who advocate his present wish—those opinions, Sir, as they may be expressed by some of the Senators themselves would inform you how far they consider the business of their house connected with the wish to procure

Mr Otis another appointment—his own feelings and the happiness of his family are, I am informed, also concerned in the wish.
Having said so much on the subject, as it respects Mr Otis—allow me to entreat your attention for a few moments longer while I disclose to you a concern of my own, which I lodge with confidence in so sacred a deposit, and which is dearer to me than all other considerations on earth.
Several years are past since my affections were given to a Lady in Philadelphia, whose name delicacy requires me to leave unconnected with a letter—they were returned, and my happiness wanted only the aid of fortune to have been complete—To obtain the consent of friends, whose consent was essential to my happiness, some certainty of income was necessary: but alas. I have not possessed that certainty, and I have hitherto been unhappy.
The present object, with the assistance of what I might derive from another pursuit, in the recess of Congress, would confirm to me an expectation of happiness dearer to me than all other hopes—I am aware, Sir, how improper it is to introduce such a consideration to your view at this time: but the feelings of my heart controul my reason, as it regards the relation of them—as it respects your decision upon my wishes I desire to repeat to you, with the most heartfelt sincerity, that your happiness and your fame are too dear to me to admit a thought incompatible with either. If you hold my wishes under all circumstances consistent with propriety, you will favor them, and in doing so, you will establish the happiness of One whose esteem, veneration, and affection for you are of the most exalted nature, and who in every event will continue to be, Sir, your obliged, grateful, and faithful Servant

W. Jackson


Title: To George Washington from Henry Latimer, 31 July 1790
From: Latimer, Henry
To: Washington, George

Newport, Del., 31 July 1790. Great fatigues on his slender constitution necessitating relinquishment of his current lucrative business, offers himself as an applicant for the office of loans commissioner for the state of Delaware if the Funding Bill passes Congress and refers to United States senators Richard Bassett and George Read for recommendations.


Title: To George Washington from Winthrop Sargent, 31 July 1790
From: Sargent, Winthrop
To: Washington, George

Sir
Vincennes, County of Knox [Territory N.W. of River Ohio]July 31st 1790

The Absence of the Governor having made it my Duty to carry into Effect as far as possible the Resolution of Congress of the 29th of August 1788 respecting the Inhabitants of Post Vincennes—I beg Leave to report, not only my Proceedings under that Resolution but, some Circumstances which, in my Opinion, ought at this Time to be communicated as very materially concerning the Interests of the United States as well as Individual Settlers.
The Claims & Pretensions of the People have very generally been exhibited, but notwithstanding they were early advertised upon this Business by Proclamation of Governour St Clair given at Kaskaskias, March last, & have since been repeatedly called upon by me, yet I have no Doubt there are a few Instances of Inattention & Neglect—which I have provided for by the Resolution No. 8—a Copy of which is hereunto annexed.
For all the Possessions which appear to have been made by French or British Concessions I have issued Warrants of Survey as by the last Page of No. 2, No. 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, of the Land Records for the County of Knox, Copies of all which, accompany this Report.
I have also directed that the four hundred Acre Lots to be given to every Head of a Family should be laid off for the Persons named in No. 1 & 2—and alloted—Excepting those, that

might fall to the Absentees mentioned in the Pages b & c of No. 2 which are to be retained as there set forth until the Pleasure of Government is known.
I beg Leave Sir to observe, that there are a few Instances where the ancient Inhabitants (by removing from Vincennes to the Illinois Country or from that Country to this Place) can not be included under the Description of Persons entitled to Donation Lands, And they humbly Solicit that Congress would be graciously pleased to consider their Situation & admit them to participate in the general Bounty.
I think it necessary here to remark Sir, that Although the Lands & Lots which have been ordered to be surveyed, appear from very good oral Testimony to belong to those Persons under whose Names they are respectively entered, either by original Grants to them made, Purchase or Inheritance yet, there is scarcely one Case in twenty where the Title is complete—owing to the desultory Manner in which public Business has been transacted, & some other unfortunate Causes—The original Concessions by the French & British Commandants were generally made upon a small Scrap of Paper, which it has been customary to lodge in the Notary’s Office—who has seldom kept any Book of Record, but committed the most important Land Concerns to loose Sheets, which in Process of Time have come into the Possession of Persons that have fraudulently destroyed them—or, unacquainted with their Consequence, innocently lost, or trifled them away—for by French Usage they are considered as Family Inheritance, & often descend to Women & Children—In one Instance, & during the Government of Mr St Ange here, a Royal Notary run off with all the Public Papers in his Possession, as by a Certificate produced to me, And I am very sorry further to observe that in the Office of a Mr Legrand which continued from the year 1777 to 1788, & where should have been the Vouchers for important Land Transactions, The Records have been so falsified, & there is such gross Fraud & Forgery as to invalidate all Evidence & Information which I might otherwise have acquired from his Papers.
In addition Sir to the ancient Possessions of the People of Vincennes under French & British Concessions Here is about one hundred & fifty Acres of Land constituting a Part of the

Village & extending a Mile up the Wabash River in Front of their improved Claims—which, was granted by Mr St Ange to some of the Pyankeshaw Indians; allotted into small Divisions for their Whigwhams And by them occupied & improved until the year 1786 when the last of them moved off—selling individually as they took themselves away their several Parts & Proportions. The Inhabitants now hold this Land, parcelled out amongst them in small Lots, some of which are highly improved & have been built upon before & since 1783—But imagining that a Confirmation of any Indian Purchase whatever might virtually involve some future Questions of Magnitude in this Territory, I have postponed all Order upon the Subject Until the Pleasure of Congress can be known—In the mean Time giving to the Claimants my private Opinion that they would be permitted to retain them, either by free Gift or for some small Consideration.
A Court of Civil & criminal Jurisdiction established at this Place by J. Todd Esqr. under the Authority of Virginia in June 1779 and who Eked out their Existence to the Summer of 1787 have during that Long Period continued to make large Grants of Lands, even by their own Acknowledgments, And without more Authority for so doing than is set forth in No. 9—Many of the Concessions which have been exhibited to me in their Name, They deny to have had any Knowledge of—and indeed there are some Reasons to conclude they may have been forged in the Office of the Mr Legrand before mention’d who was a Servant of the Court & in whose Hand Writing the Deeds have all been made out.
I can not find from any Informations I have been able to acquire that Mr Todd ever delegated any Power of granting Land in this Country or, in Fact, that he was endowed with it himself—On the contrary, I find by the Acts of Virginia of 1779, that the Lands Northwest of the River Ohio were expressly excepted from Location, And that it was declared no Person should be allowed Pre-emption or any Benefit whatever from settling on this Side the said River, And the Governour was desired to issue his Proclamation requiring all Persons to remove themselves & in Case of Disobedience to make use of an armed Force—this not to extend to French & other old Inhabitants actually settled

on or before that Time in the Villages of Post Vincennes & upon the Mississippi. It appears, however, by a Proclamation of Mr Todd, No. 10—given at Kaskaskias the 15th Day of June 1779, that a Kind of Authority was meant to be implied somewhere in the Country to grant Lands not only upon the River Bottoms & Prairies under the French Restrictions, but in larger Quantities & with more Latitude at a Distance therefrom—And twenty Six thousand Acres have been granted away from that Time to 1783 inclusive—and to the year 1787 (when General Harmar checked the Abuse) twenty two thousand more—generally in Parcels of four hundred Acres, tho’ some are much Smaller & do not exceed the Size of House Lots—The Court has also granted to Individuals in some Instances, Tracts of many Leagues square, but a Sense of the Impropriety of such Measures has prevented the bringing forward those Claims. Notwithstanding that some of the four hundred Acre, & smaller Lots, were possessed on & before 1783 yet, the Authority whence they were derived has been such that I could not consider them as “rightful Claims”; They are however Sir in a few Instances under considerable Cultivation & Improvement, and some of the Plantations & many of the small Lots which have been granted by the Court since that Time are now cultivated in Tillage, & have been possessed by the present Claimants at much Expense—but by far the greatest Number of them were obtained at the Cost of Office Fees only & remain to this Hour in a State of Nature—or with no other Alteration than has been necessary to convert them into Sugar Camps.
Upon the Subject of those Lands Sir, A Petition has been presented to me by, & in Behalf of Eighty Americans, setting forth that they were induced to come into this Country by the Court of Post Vincennes with every Assurance of their Authority to make Grants—that in good Faith of this, they have formed their Establishments at considerable Expense & must be involved in Ruin unless the Generosity of Congress shall permit their holding them.
The French Inhabitants have also petitioned me upon the Subject of Court Grants; some of which are now under Cultivation at no small Expense & Labour—I beg Leave Sir to lay the Situation of those People before Government—most respectfully representing that the Welfare and Prosperity of a Number

of Industrious & good Citizens in this Territory must depend very much upon their Order.
A Petition has also been presented by the Inhabitants of Vincennes, praying a Confirmation of their Commons—comprehending about 2400 Acres of good and 3000 Acres of sunken lands—they have been, it appears, thirty years under a Fence which is intended to confine their Cattle within its Boundaries & keep them out of their Wheat Fields—for contrary to the Usage of Farmers generally, the Cattle are here enclosed, and the cultivated Lands are left at large, excepting on those Parts which immediately approach the Common—But this Fence, & quiet Possession under the French & British Governments they seem to imagine entitles them to a good prescriptive Right—It has been the Usage of the Commmandants here to make all their Grants in Writing & as this has not been produced or any Evidence of it I think it my Duty to refer the Matter to Congress as I am not authorized to decide upon it.
One other Petition Sir, I am constrained to introduce—It has been signed by 131 Canadian, French and American Inhabitants, all enrolled in the Militia—setting forth that many of them were Heads of Families soon after the year 1783—that from their Situation they are liable to & willing to perform an extraordinary Proportion of Military Duty, And soliciting that Congress would be pleased to make them a Donation of Lands—In Justice to the Petitioners I think it incumbent on me to observe, that the commanding Officer of the regular Troops here has been obliged in some Instances to demand their Services for Convoys of Provisions up the Wabash River; and from the Weakness of the Garrison & the present Difficulties of Communication with other Posts, & the Ohio, that he may have frequent Occasion for their Aid, which I have no doubt will be yielded at all Times, with the greatest Cheerfulness.
Before I close this Letter Sir, I must take the Liberty of representing to Congress by Desire of the Citizens of this Country, and as a Matter which I humbly conceive they should be informed of, that there are, not only at this Place but in the several Villages upon the Mississippi considerable Claims for Supplies furnished the Troops of Virginia before, & since 1783, which no Person yet has been authorized to attend to—& which is very injurious to the Interests & Feelings of Men who seem to have

been exposed to a Variety of Distresses & Impositions by Characters pretending to have acted under the Order of that Government.
The People of Vincennes have requested to make known their Sentiments of Fidelity & Attachment to the Sovereignty of the United States & the Satisfaction they feel in being received into their Protection, which I beg Leave to communicate in their own Words by the Copy of an Address presented me on the 23d Inst.
If in this long Letter of Report & Representation I may appear to have tediously dwelt upon the Claims and Pretensions of the People of this Country, I request Sir, that it may be attributed to that Desire which I feel at all Times, faithfully to execute the Attentions necessary to Individual Interests and the great Duty I owe to Government. With every Sentiment of Respect To your Excellency & Congress I have the Honour to be Sir your most obedient Humble Servant

Winthrop Sargent


Title: To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 31 July–20 August 1790 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George Augustine
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from George Augustine Washington, c.31 July–20 Aug. 1790. In a letter to GW of 20 Aug. 1790, George Augustine Washington wrote, “my Letter subsequent to the 30th Ulto would give you information of the safe arrival of Will and the order in which the things were rcd sent in the same Vessel.”


Title: To George Washington from William Moultrie, July 1790
From: Moultrie, William
To: Washington, George

Sir
Charleston S. Carolina July 1790

I have the honor to transmit to you a Resolve of this States Society of the Cincinnati enter’d into the 8th instant, expressing the Society’s disapprobation of the conduct of the Secretary General in not sending forward in proper time the notice required by the letter from the Chairman of their standing Committee & addressd to him dated the 2nd March 1790.
The conduct of the Secretary General on this occasion carry’s

with it such marks of indignity and a want of respect to the Society, that they conceive themselves fully justified in calling for an explanation and that reasons may be assigned for a behaviour from which they feel an injury.
They not only have been unrepresented in the last Triennial meeting, but they have been precluded from having that general communication with their Bretheren which the other State Societies have enjoy’d & which is evidently calculated to preserve the Bond of union & to support the harmony of the whole.
The application made by letter from the Chairman of the Standing Committee was in consiquence of the directions which he had received—it was official—and ought to have been particularly attended to as such—Nevertheless no answer whatever was given to this Letter unless the enclosed copy of a letter from the Secretary General directed to Major Genl Moultrie can be taken as one, and which could not possibly answer any other end, than a continued mark of want of attention and respect, the very date of it shew’d the impossibility of its being useful in giving timely information.
Thus Sir in compliance with their desire I have given you, as President General, the sence of the society upon the behaviour of the Secretary General on this occasion. I have the honor to be—Sir Your Most Obed. huml. Servt

Willm Moultrie


Title: To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 1 August 1790
From: Biddle, Clement
To: Washington, George

Sir
Philada Aug: 1. 1790.

I am informed by the Friends of Mr Adam Gilchrist of his Application to your Excellency for the Appointment of Commissioner of Loans for the State of South Carolina and Conceive it my Duty to bear testimony to you of his long & faithful Services in my Department during the late War.
This Gentleman was a Lieutenant in Colo. Hartleys Regiment and on the reduction of that Regiment accepted of an Appointment under me and Acted as my Assistant until I left the Army—He was not only my principal Cashier & Accountant but was Employed frequently On difficult Cases & was made prisoner while on service in procuring & forwarding forage for the Army at the time of Colo. Bailors Regiment being ⟨surprized⟩ & remained a Prisoner for some time until Exchanged—Since the War he married a Daughter of Dr Budd One of the Members of Assembly for Charleston & has been settled there in Trade for some Years—He is a perfect Accountant and I should not have presumed to say this much in his favour but from the high opinion I have of his Integrity & Industry And his services in my Department will apologize for the liberty I have taken in his behalf.

I have the honour to be With the greatest Respect Your Mo. Obeidt & Very hume serv.

C.B.


Title: To George Washington from Winthrop Sargent, 1 August 1790
From: Sargent, Winthrop
To: Washington, George

Sir
Vincennes, County of Knox [Territory N.W. of River Ohio]August 1st 1790

By the Conveyance for my Official Communications I beg Leave to represent, that the Act of the United States which authorizes & directs the Secretary of their Western Territory to discharge (at certain Times) the Duties of the Governour has involved me in additional Expenses, Which they have not as yet been pleased to provide for, And which my private Finances do not capacitate me to defray.
It is to me Sir a most painful Task to make any Representations that may imply a pecuniary Request for myself—but situated as I am it becomes incumbent upon me.
In the Office of the Secretary, Advances of Money have been

made by me for Stationary, Printing, Public Seal &ca (and for some of those Articles have again become necessary) whilst all my Applications for a Reimbursement, to the Board of Treasury, have been passed by in Silence—To the Duties of this Office as pointed out & defined by the Ordinance For the Government of the Territory of July 1787—I found myself fully competent, but circumstanced as we now are & divided into many Counties & Districts, all of which are to be furnished with Copies of the Laws, Proclamations & Ordinances of the Governour, the Writings have consequently become so multiplied that no one Person, tho’ devoting his whole Time, can be adequate to performing them—And in Addition to all this Sir, I am informed by Governour St. Clair that it is expected I should consider myself as Secretary to the Indian Commission—a Business which in the Western Territory will probably for a long Time demand much Attention. I will beg Leave Sir to observe upon this matter that when Congress established the Offices of Governour & Secretary, the Superintendency of Indian Affairs was in a third Person—and that at the Time they were pleased to bestow this upon the Governour, they increased his Salary—May I not therefore Sir reasonably presume that some further Provision should also be made for my Office if, contrary to the original System, it is to comprehend & include the Records of Indian Business for tho’ I would not by any means ask or expect a Sinecure from Government yet I assure myself that I may with Propriety request such a Salary as shall enable me to discharge my Duty with Fidelity, & Reputation to myself.
Upon all those Subjects generally, I believe Sir it is the Intention of Governour St. Clair to express himself at this Time, if the Importance of more Public Concerns shall leave him Opportunity—but the Expenses which I must necessarily incur by his present Absence is a matter that has arisen therefrom And probably may escape his Attention—this Subject therefore as well as the Advances I have been necessitated to make I will beg Leave to lay before Congress by this Opportunity.
Most respectfully asking that they would be pleased to order for me such Provision as they may deem meet—with every Sentiment of the highest Respect I have the Honour to be Sir your most obedient devoted Servant

Winthrop Sargent


Title: To George Washington from Alexander Contee Hanson, 2 August 1790
From: Hanson, Alexander Contee
To: Washington, George

Sir,
Annapolis August 2, 1790

Mr Joseph Clark of this city, being desirous of an employment as architect surveyor or master-builder of the public works, which, he supposes, are about to be erected for the general government, has requested me to recommend him, so far as, in my opinion, his merits will justify.
Mr Clark, as I have been informed, was regularly bred to his profession in England; but on that circumstance I lay very little stress; as I consider the public works, which in this city he has planned, superintended, and conducted, to be monuments of superiour taste, judgement, and skill. From those works; from his drawings, which I have seen; from his activity & attention to business, which I have frequently remarked; from the manner, in which he exercised his authority; from the attachment and obedience of his workmen; in short, from every thing, which I have either seen or heard, I do not scruple to declare, that I believe no man on the continent better qualified than Mr Clark to act in that line, in which he is ambitious of serving the United States.
As I have always conceived it my duty, at the request of a fellow citizen, to give my testimony of those qualifications, concerning which I have had an opportunity to judge for myself, or to be accurately informed by others, I have taken the liberty of thus addressing you; and have the honour to be, with profound veneration Your most obedient servant

A. C. Hanson


Title: To George Washington from Joseph Hardy, 2 August 1790
From: Hardy, Joseph
To: Washington, George

Sir,
New York 2d August 1790.

I observe by the Act for Funding the Public Debt, which has lately passed the Legislature, that a Commissioner is to be appointed in each of the States, to carry that System into effect.
Having for several years past enjoyed the priviledges, and been considered as a Citizen of this State; and having from a long experience in the Treasury Department, obtained an extensive knowledge of the Public Debt of this Country and the various evidences of it, as also an intimate acquaintance with the

principles and rules practised in transferring Publick Stocks—I once more presume, but with the utmost deference, to bring myself into your view, as a Candidate for this State.
To these essential qualifications, and the documents I had the honor of laying before you on a former occasion (to which I beg leave to crave your reference) I will only add, the circumstance of a large, and now increasing, family, the future comfort and support of which, will probably depend upon the present success of a Man whose habits, acquired by a long and unremitted attention to public business, incapacitates him from seeking or obtaining a subsistence in private pursuits. Those, and other considerations which I forbear to mention, will I humbly hope, have due weight on your benevolent mind.
For my conduct, since I ceased to exercise the Office of Accountant of the Treasury, permit me to refer you to the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, Your most Obedient and devoted Servant

J. Hardy


Title: To George Washington from Abishai C. Thomas, 2 August 1790
From: Thomas, Abishai C.
To: Washington, George

New York, 2 Aug. 1790. Presents himself as a candidate for the appointment of commissioner of loans for the state of North Carolina. “With regard to my integrity and other qualifications, I can only say that should they be so represented as to make a favorable impression on your mind I confide that no act of mine shall ever reflect disgrace on such representations.”


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 2 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York]August 2nd 1790

I nominate the following persons to fill the Offices affixed to their names. viz.

In the Judicial Department.
William Peery, of the State of Delaware, to be one of the Judges in the Territory of the United States south of the River Ohio.
John Stokes to be Judge of the North Carolina District, in place of William R. Davie who has declined his appointment.
In the Revenue Department.
Samuel Russell Gerry to be Collector of the Port of Marblehead in the State of Massachusetts, in place of Richard Harris deceased.
Zachariah Rhodes to be Surveyor of the Port of Patuxet in the State of Rhode Island, in place of John Anthony Aborn who has declined his appointment.
Thomas Arnold to be Surveyor of the Port of East Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island, in place of Job Comstock who has declined his appointment.
In the Consulate Department.
Joshua Johnson, of Maryland, to be Consul of the United States of America for the port of London in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and for such other parts of the said Kingdom as shall be nearer to the said port than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States in the same Kingdom.
Francisco Sarmento of the Kingdom of Spain to be Vice-Consul of the United States of America for the Island of Teneriffe and for such other of the Canary Islands as shall be nearer to Teneriffe than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States within the same allegiance.
John Street of the Island of Fayal, to be Vice-Counsul of the United States of America, for the said Island of Fayal, and for such other of the Azores or Western Islands as shall be nearer to Fayal than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States within the same allegiance.
Ebenezer Brush of New York, to be Consul of the United States of America for the port of Surinam and for such other parts of the Colony of Guiana as shall be nearer to the said port than to the residence of any other Consul or Vice-Consul of the United States within the same allegiance.

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Title: To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 4 August 1790
From: Randolph, Beverley
To: Washington, George

Sir,
Richmond [Va.] August 4th 1790

I do myself the honour to forward to you a Copy of a letter with its inclosures received some time past from the Commissioner appointed in behalf of this State to settle her accounts with the United States.
The subject of these papers sir, is of great moment to Virginia—altho’ we are sensible that public Servants should be treated with delicacy yet we feel ourselves bound upon the present occasion to declare, that the enclosed extract from a report made, by two of the Board of Commissioners, appointed for the settlement of Accounts between the United States and individual States, to the House of representatives during their present session, has destroyed all confidence in the impartiality of our Judges.
We wish not to enter into a lengthy discussion of this subject, but shall content ourselves with presenting to you the information which we have received, being well assured that should our jealousy appear to be well founded, care will be taken to remove every cause which may excite suspicion in any of the parties interested in this very important business. I have the honour to be with the highest respect your obedient Servant

Beverley Randolph


Title: Enclosure: Secret Article of the Treaty with the Creeks, 4 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

United States [New York] August 4th 1790

The President of the United States states the following question for the consideration and advice of the Senate.
If it should be found essential to a treaty, for the firm establishment of peace with the Creek Nation of Indians, that an article to the following effect should be inserted therein, will such an article be proper? vizt
Secret Article.
The commerce necessary for the Creek nation shall be carried on through the ports, and by the citizens of the United States, if substantial and effectual arrangements shall be made for that purpose by the United States, on or before the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two. In the mean time, the said commerce may be carried on through its present channels, and according to its present regulations.
And, whereas the trade of the said Creek nation is now carried on wholly or principally through the territories of Spain, and obstructions thereto may happen by war, or prohibitions of the Spanish Government.
It is therefore agreed, between the said parties, that in the event of any such obstructions happening, it shall be lawful for such persons as The P. of the U.S. shall designate, to introduce into and transport through the territories of the United States to the country of the said Creek nation, any quantity of goods, wares, and merchandize, not exceeding in value in any one year Sixty thousand dollars, and that free from any duties or impositions whatsoever, but subject to such regulations, for guarding against abuse, as the United States shall judge necessary; which privilege shall continue as long as such obstruction shall continue.

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Title: To George Washington from William Patterson, 5 August 1790
From: Patterson, William
To: Washington, George

Sir
Baltimore 5th August 1790

By the arrival of a Vessel of Mine a few Days since from Havre d’Grace, I received the enclosed letter together with Bill of Lading for a Case for your Excellency, forwarded by Messrs Havd Le Mesurier & Co. from the Count d’Estaing at Paris, with directions to hold it subject to your Orders.
As I know not what the Case may contain it is necessary the Invoice be forwarded here to obtain permission at our Custom House to send it forward where you may think proper to direct, any Instructions you are pleased to give respecting it will be particularly attended to, there is no charge whatever to be paid on this package. I am very respectfully yr Excellencys Most Hble Servt

Wm Patterson


Title: To George Washington from James Schureman, 5 August 1790
From: Schureman, James
To: Washington, George

Sir
New York Augt 5th 1790

Mr James Ewing having suggested his intention of applying to be appointed Commissioner of loans for the state of New Jersey and requested my interference in his favor My duty to my Constituents will apologize for my troubling your excellency with a statement of some facts which I made to him as objections to his claim.
The supplies from the state of New Jersey to the late Army from the combination of several circumstances are supposed to have been furnished, in much greater proportions from the eastern than the western parts. The bulk of the public debt in the State is consequently in the hands of Inhabitants of the middle and eastern counties.
From the arrangement made by the Act providing for the debt of the U. States the Citizens of that State will I presume have it in their power to subscribe their loans at the offices of New York or Philadelphia.

The intercourse of the five Counties below Trenton is almost exclusively with the latter City[;] a large majority of the Inhabitants of those counties to transact business at Trenton pass through Philadelphia[.] It is therefore presumeable that they will prefer receiving the interest on their stock at the Treasury in Philadelphia even if the office for New Jersey should be established at Trenton.
The same observations will be applicable to the county of Bergen & part of the counties of Essex & Monmouth with regard to the loan office of N. York if that should be permanently established in the City of New York.
The remaining Counties then of Hunterdon Sussex Morris Somerset & Middlesex with part of Essex & Monmouth will principally depend on the loan Office of the State for their accommodation.
Mr Ewing if appointed would no doubt expect to keep his office at Trenton. This I need not observe would be an extreme excentric situation for the counties last mentioned and an inconvenient one for the holders of the debt in the State at large.
To Mr Ewing I trust I shall be understood to have no personal Objection. I beleive him to be qualified for the office; but as I am sensible the place of his residence will not be convenient for the people of the State whose accommodation should be a primary motive, I have thought it my duty to submit these circumstances to your excellency’s consideration. An attachment to the part of the State in which I reside may present them partially to my view, Your Excellency will judge without prejudice.
Some of my colleagues have been consulted who concur in sentiment.
Should your Excellency see any weight in the observations I have made, I trust it will not be deemed presuming to call to your recollection Col. John Neilson as a fit person for the appointment. with sentiments of the greatest respect I am Excellencies most Obt Hume Sevt

J. Schureman


Title: To George Washington from John Moylan, 6 August 1790
From: Moylan, John
To: Washington, George

Sir
Philadelphia 6th Augst 1790

At the Time I did myself the Honor of addressing your Excellency on your appointment I was Engaged in the Dissagreable Task of Extricating myself from a very painful Situation wch a Continued Series of Misfortunes had Involved me in. Until this was Effected, I could not be prevailed upon to add to the Number of applications you were then daily Importuned with by placing myself on the List of Candidates to your Favour; however Convinced I was at Same Time that to be Distressed was taking nothing from the Claim which the unfortunate in general have to yr Goodness & Attention—That I have been only unfortunate, is in my present Circumstances a very Consoling Thought & to my own Consciousness on the occasion, my Creditors have not long Since added the pleasing & honorable Testimonial of not only giving me an absolute Discharge, but of Intrusting me also with the Intire Management of the Property I have given up to them.
I now, Sir take the Liberty of offering you my Services if at any time you think them Capable of contributing to the advancement of the Public Good, & beg leave particularly to Solicit the appointment of Consul to New Orleans, shoud such a one, under this or any other denomination be taken into View in the present Commercial arrangements, which I hear are about to take place. I Shall only add Sir, that if I were so happy as to prove the object of yr Choice for this office It shall be my Endeavour to Execute the Trust Reposed in me with the same Zeal & attachment to the Interest of my Country, with which I can safely say it was my Constant Study to Justify the Recommendation you were pleased to Honor me with on a former occasion. I have the Honor to be with Sentiments of profound Respect—Esteem—yr Excellency’s very obedient & most Humble Servant

John Moylan


Title: To George Washington from Charles Peale Polk, 6 August 1790
From: Polk, Charles Peale
To: Washington, George

Sir,
New York Augt 6 1790

Encouraged by your Excellencys Known Affibelity and admirable Condesention; A Citezen of Philadelphia Humbly requests the Indulgance of an Interview.
His Errand tho’ far from being disenterested to himself, He hopes will be very far from being displeasing or Offensive to your Excellency.
His Object is if Possible to Obtain the Honorable priveledge of One Short Setting from the President to enable him to finish a portrait of your Excellency (in head Size) Prapaired with that design.
He has in the Course of the last year, Executed Fifty Portraits, tho his advantages ware not what he wished, But Imagines if your Excellencys leizure and Inclination will permit he shall hereafter be capable of Exebiting more Just and Finished performances—The resemblance of Him, whose Charector will never be Obliterated from the hearts of True Americans.
Should this request meet your Excellencys favour, not only will the desires of many Respectable Citezens be gratified; But the Interests of a depending Family greatly permoted—And the Pleasure Vastly Increased of your Excellencys most Obedient devoted Servt

Charles Peale Polk


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York]August 6th 1790.

Considering the circumstances which prevented the late Commissioners from concluding a Peace with the Creek Nation of Indians, it appeared to me most prudent that all subsequent measures for disposing them to a Treaty should in the first Instance be informal.
I informed you on the 4th Inst: that the adjustment of the Terms of a Treaty with their Chiefs now here, was far advanced—such further Progress has since been made, that I think measures may at present be taken for conducting and concluding that Business in Form. It therefore becomes necessary that a proper Person be appointed and authorized to Treat with these Chiefs, and to conclude a Treaty with them. For this Purpose I nominate to you Henry Knox.

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 6 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York]August 6th 1790.

I nominate the following persons to be Commissioners of Loans in the States to which their names are respectively affixed, viz.

            In the State of
            New Hampshire
            Nathaniel Gilman

            Massachusetts
            Nathaniel Appleton

            Rhode Island
            —

            Connecticut
            William Imlay

            New York
            John Cochran

            New Jersey
            James Ewing

            Pennsylvania
            Thomas Smith

            Delaware
            James Tilton

            Maryland
            Thomas Harwood

            Virginia
            John Hopkins

            North Carolina
            William Skinner

            South Carolina
            John Neufville

            Georgia
            Richard Wylley

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 6 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States [New York] August 6th 1790.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives,

I have directed my Secretary to lay before you a Copy of an exemplified Copy of a Law, to ratify, on the part of the State of New Jersey, certain Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; together with the Copy of a letter which accompanied said ratification, from The Honorable Elisha Lawrence Esquire Vice President of the State of New Jersey to the President of the United States.

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Title: To George Washington from Timothy Bloodworth, 7 August 1790
From: Bloodworth, Timothy
To: Washington, George

Sir
August 7th 1790

In compliance to repeated applications, I beg leave to Mention to the President of The United States som Carecters, who are Candidates for the Commissioner of Loans, in the State of North Carolina. Viz. Mr Abisha Thomas, now agent for setling accounts with the United States, the abilities of this Gentleman is generally Acknowledged. Mr Moore from North Carolina, whose Carrecter & Abilities are also unquestionable. Mr Binford with whome my acquaintance is but superficial, but am inform’d he is a Carrecter of known abilities. these Gentlemen have made application for recommendation. Mr Barry Grove of Fayette have signified in conversation his wilingness to accept the appointment, thiss Gentlemans Fortune, & Carrecter, are favourable to the appointment, his situation is at the present seat of Government, in that State. Hope You will pardon my freedom in Mentioning Mr Samuel Ashe Junr son of Judge Ashe, whose Carrecter I will venture to affirm are inferior to non in that State, who suffered in defence of his Country at the Capture of Charls Town, with a degree of fortitude that does him honour, & I flatter myself he would fill with dignity any appointment. With due regard to the Dignity of your Person, & Exalted Station, I remain Sir, Your Devoted Humble Servant

Timothy Bloodworth


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 7 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate.
United States [New York] August 7th 1790.

I nominate Jabez Bowen to be Commissioner of Loans in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. and
Daniel Benezet Junior to be Collector of the Port of Great Egg Harbour in the State of New Jersey.

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Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 7 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York],August 7th 1790.

I lay before you a Treaty between the United States and the Chiefs of the Creek-Nation, now in this city, in behalf of themselves and the whole creek-nation, subject to the ratification of the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
While I flatter myself that this Treaty will be productive of present peace and prosperity to our southern frontier, it is to be expected that it will also, in its consequences, be the means of firmly attaching the Creeks and the neighbouring Tribes to the interests of the United States.
At the same time it is to be hoped that it will afford solid grounds of satisfaction to the State of Georgia, as it contains a regular, full, and definitive relinquishment, on the part of the creek-nation, of the Oconee land, in the utmost extent in which it has been claimed by that State, and thus extinguishes the principal cause of those hostilities, from which it has more than once experienced such severe calamities.

But although the most valuable of the disputed land is included, yet there is a certain claim of Georgia, arising out of the Treaty, made by that State at Galphinston in November 1785, of land to the eastward of a new temporary line from the forks of the Oconee and Oukmulgee, in a southwest direction to the St Mary’s river, which tract of land the Creeks, in this city, absolutely refuse to yield.
This land is reported to be generally barren, sunken, and unfit for cultivation, except in some instances on the margin of the rivers, on which, by improvement, rice might be cultivated—its chief value depending on the timber fit for the building of ships, with which it is represented as abounding.
While it is thus circumstanced on the one hand, it is stated by the Creeks on the other to be of the highest importance to them, as constituting some of their most valuable winter hunting ground.
I have directed the Commissioner, to whom the charge of adjusting this Treaty has been committed, to lay before you such papers and documents, and to communicate to you such information relatively to it, as you may require.

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Title: To George Washington from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 7 August 1790
From: Wadsworth, Jeremiah
To: Washington, George

New York, 7 Aug. 1790. Encloses a recommendation of William Walter Parsons that he would have presented sooner if he had known of any appropriate vacancies.


Title: To George Washington from Caleb Gibbs, 8 August 1790
From: Gibbs, Caleb
To: Washington, George

Boston August 8th 1790.

Induced Dear Sir by motives of filial regard and the most affectionate attachment, and flattering myself that you continue to be interested in my fate, I have once more presumed to address you to take my leave, before I retire from this place to Barree about seventy miles into the country; The Ill chances of life have ditermined it so, and by the 18th Instant I shall sett off

(after having disposed of great part of my furniture by Auction) with Mrs Gibbs and her Little girl to incounter the wilderness, incompassed by an uncooth neighbourhood, and to occupy a house prehaps not tennantable. If any part of my military Life claims your least attention and you think me worthy of a line a Letter left at the Post-Office at Worcester and directed to me at Barree will certainly reach me.
I pray you to offer me in terms of the highest respect to Mrs Washington and compliments to Colo. Humphrey’s. And may the God of all mercies have you under his holy keeping is the sincere prayer of him who always was and ever will be Dear Sir, Your devoted Obedient and very humble servant

Caleb Gibbs


Title: From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 8 August 1790 [letter not found]
From: Washington, George
To: Washington, George Augustine

Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 8 Aug. 1790. On 20 Aug. 1790 George A. Washington wrote to GW and referred to “Your favor of the 8th I have had the pleasure of receiving.”


Title: From George Washington to James Wood, 8 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Wood, James

Dear Sir,
New York, August 8th 1790.

The letter with which you was pleased to favor me, dated July the 8. came duly to hand; but business with Congress and the Senate (in their executive capacity) multiplying as the adjournment approached—and with the Creek-Indians; placed it out of my power to acknowledge the receipt of it until this time.
I perceive by your letter that Thomas Mullen or his representatives, is allowed, by an act of Assembly, until the first of December next, to support his or their claim to the land in Hampshire—Although I am persuaded no equitable claim under him can ever be exhibited, it being many years since he run off, and my caveat (although it is not to be found among the papers of

the late Proprietor of the Northern-neck) was entered in consequence therof: yet as I do not want to hazard a dispute, I am most inclined to wait until the first of December before I enter or take any steps to secure the land—If at that time matters respecting it should remain in statu quo, and so unimportant a thing should occur to your recollection, I would thank you for pursuing the necessary measures to secure the land for me, and immediately upon notice therof, I will defray the expence.
The resignation of Major Parker will call for the appointment of another Major to fill his place, without occasioning a change among the other officers of the battalion. With great esteem and regard, I am dear Sir, Your most obedient humble servant

G. Washington

P.S. I am this instant informed by the Secretary of War, that Ensign Archer has resigned his commission, and that both the Lieutenants from Virginia, in the new battalion, were Seniors to Mr Heth—if, under these circumstances, Mr Heth inclines to supply the place of Mr Archer, I should be glad to be informed of it without delay, and the commission will issue accordingly.


Title: To George Washington from John Churchman, 9 August 1790
From: Churchman, John
To: Washington, George

Philadelphia, 9 Aug. 1790. Encloses his recent publication as a token of his best respects for the president. “Being convinced that no name would be likely to stamp so great a value on the work as that of the personage to whom it is dedicated, he hopes to be pardoned for the Liberty which he has taken in this respect.”


Title: From George Washington to the Convention of the Universal Church, 9 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Convention of the Universal Church

Gentlemen,
[c.9 Aug. 1790]

I thank you cordially for the congratulations which you offer on my appointment to the office I have the honor to hold in the government of the United States.
It gives me the most sensible pleasure to find, that, in our nation, however different are the sentiments of citizens on religious doctrines, they generally concur in one thing, for their political professions and practices are almost universally friendly to the order and happiness of our civil institutions—I am also happy in finding this disposition particularly evinced by your society. It is moreover my earnest desire, that all the members of every association or community, throughout the United States, may make such use of the auspicious years of Peace, liberty and free enquiry, with which they are now favored, as they shall hereafter find occasion to rejoice for having done.
With great satisfaction I embrace this opportunity to express my acknowledgements for the interest my affectionate fellow-citizens have taken in my recovery from a late dangerous indisposition, and I assure you, Gentlemen, that in mentioning my obligations for the effusions of your benevolent wishes on my behalf, I feel animated with new zeal, that my conduct may ever be worthy of your favorable opinion, as well as such as shall in every respect best comport with the character of an intelligent and accountable Being.

G. Washington


Title: To George Washington from Abiel Easterbrooks, 9 August 1790
From: Easterbrooks, Abiel
To: Washington, George

Sir
Warren [R.I.] August 9th 1790

Permit me to lay before you the History of a late transaction Respecting the Revenue and to Solicit your assistance that through your direction I may have a Reward for my Services—I had the honour to be Inspector of the Port of Warren and Barrington in the State of Rhode Island before this State adopted the Constitution and accepted it that I was to Remain in office until I was Legally discharged or untill I was Superceded by another and I acted accordingly and on the 21st day of June Last past I went onbard the Sloop Dolfin James Maxwel Master in the Narraganset Bay who had been hovering in said bay for two days before in order to Run her Cargoe of dutiable goods from the Port of Aux Cays in the Island of St. Domingo—the Captain Supposing he could avail himself of Landing his Cargoe before the New Government took place—but after many evasions and shifts by my Vigilince he was obbliged to enter his goods and pay the duties in the New Office where by the United States Received about three hundred dollars in the Revenue and altho my conduct was unexceptionable I met with nothing but Insults onboard from the Captain, mortified by being obbliged to pay duties on a cargoe which he intended to Smuggle. I was told by him that if possible he would prevent my being

Paid any wages for being onboard which I find too true I was onboard five days and have applied to Mr Ellery the Collector for my wages who Says I ought to be paid but he has nothing to do with it—now I Request your Excellency to give directions to Mr Ellery to pay my bill when it is properly authenticated as it is a Matter that affects the Revenue I wish that a Smuggler may not be so far gratified as to carry a favourite point and dfraud an honest officer out of his fee—I leave it with your Excellencys wisdom to persue the method above mentioned or any other that may be thought advisible & am with Due Regard, Your Excellencys Most Obedient Humble Servant

Abiel Easterbrooks


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 9 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate.
United States [New York]August 9th 1790.

I nominate William Irvine of the State of Pennsylvania, John Taylor Gilman of the State of New Hampshire, and John Kean of the State of South Carolina, to be Commissioners for settling the Accounts between the United States and Individual States.

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Title: From George Washington to Rochambeau, 10 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de

New York Augst 10th 1790.

The little anecdote which you recall to mind, my dear Count, of your Countrymen at Rhode Island who burnt their mouths with the hot soup, while mine waited leisurly for it to cool, perhaps, when politically applied in the manner you have done, has not less truth than pleasantry in its resemblance of national characters. But if there shall be no worse consequence resulting from too great eagerness in swallowing something so delightful as liberty, than that of suffering a momentary pain or making a ridiculous figure with a scalded mouth; upon the whole it may be said that you Frenchmen have come off well, considering how immoderately you thirsted for the cup of liberty. And no wonder as you drank it to the bottom, that some licentiousness should have been mingled with the dregs.
To view your Revolution in another & more serious point of light. It was impossible, in such a Country, and during such a struggle, but that disagreeable things, & even great enormities in some instances must have happened. Too many doubtless have occured. Not so many, however, have existed as the English News Papers have attempted to make us believe. For had we credited all the evil stories we have seen in them, we should almost have set it down for granted that the race of Frenchmen were about becoming extinct, and their Country a desert. So many of you, on different occasions, have they killed. Happily for you, we remembered how our own armies, after having been all slain to a man in the English News Papers, came to life again & even performed prodigies of valour against that very nation whose news Papers had so unmercifully destroyed them. Mr Jefferson, Mr Trumbull & some others have taught us to believe more cautiously & more correctly on these points.
Now I will conclude by saying a word about ourselves, as I am

certain your friendship is not less interested in our fate, than ours is in that of your Nation. We have a good government in Theory, and are carrying it pretty happily into practice. In a government which depends so much in its first stages on public opinion, much circumspection is still necessary for those who are engaged in its administration. Fortunately the current of public sentiment runs with us, and all things hitherto seem to succeed according to our wishes. In the mean time population increases, land is cleared, commerce extended, manufactories introduced, & Heaven smiles upon us with favorable seasons and abundant crops. With sentiments of the sincerest esteem & regard, I have the honor to be, My dear Count, Your Most obedient & Most Humble Servant.


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 10 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York]August 10th 1790.

I nominate John C. Jones, the present Collector of the port of Nanjemoy in the State of Maryland, to be Collector of the District of Cedar Point, when the Act to provide more effectually for the collection of duties &c. shall take effect. and
Jeremiah Jordan to be Surveyor of the Port of Lewellensburg in the State of Maryland.

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Title: To George Washington from George Lux, 11 August 1790
From: Lux, George
To: Washington, George

Sir
Chatsworth 11 August 1790

Mr James Simpson of this Town has just applied to me for a letter to your Excellency, recommending him as a Surveyor of the Back Lands, and I have told him, though the business is

taken up in Congress, yet I hardly expect, it will be compleated this Session; that as he was appointed by the old Congress Surveyor of the Back Lands for the State of Maryland, it is highly improbable you will not displace him, if no just complaints can be made against him, or unless a competition should take place between him & a Man of superior merit.
Mr Simpson is first Cousin to the late worthy Dr Boyd of this Town, and I have known him for several years to be worthy, honest, honourable, prudent, & industrious—How calculated he is for the Surveyorship, I cannot pretend to judge, but Mr Ellicott gave it from under his hand, that he is—His whole family were firm & inflexible Whigs during the war—As it cannot be supposed, your Excellency can know every man, who is appointed to subordinate Offices throughout the different States, & therefore must rely on the information of others for their characters, every one, recommending them, should consider himself as pointedly responsible, and therefore be cautious in asserting no more than what he knows to be true—The peculiar attentions & civilities I have met with from you, from my earliest youth, have made a grateful impression on me, and being generally known, induce many to apply to me for recommendatory letters, supposing my recommendations will have more weight, than I have a right to expect, and I take too much pride in boasting of the politeness, with which you have treated me, and of the friendship you bore to my late Hond Father & Father in Law, to admit the impropriety of occasionally trespassing on your attention, but I never recommend any, with whom I suppose your Excellency to be personally acquainted.
I am very happy in hearing of your perfect restoration to the inestimable blessing of health, and sincerely pray for the continuance of it, as an American & as a Man, and that Mrs Washington (to whom I beg leave to make my most respectful Compliments) enjoys a good state of health—The loss of my invaluable Partner has left me a desolate & forlorn being on the earth—Our Friend Dr McHenry has removed into the Country, within half a mile of me, since his Brothers death, where he is busily engaged in winding up his partnership affairs, & has, in a manner, secluded himself from the world, confining himself, to a small circle of particular friends—I have the honor to be respectfully Sir Yr Obedt Hume Servt

Geo. Lux


Title: From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: United States Senate

Gentlemen of the Senate,
United States [New York]August 11th 1790.

Although the treaty with the Creeks  may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the South Western frontier of the United States, yet in order fully to effect so desireable an object the treaties which have been entered into with the other tribes in that quarter must be faithfully performed on our parts.
During the last year I laid before the Senate a particular statement of the case of the Cherokees. By a referrence to that paper it will appear that the United States formed a treaty with the Cherokees in November 1785—That the said Cherokees thereby placed themselves under the protection of the United States, and had a boundary assigned them.

That the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands.
That the United States in Congress assembled did, on the first day of September 1788, issue their proclamation forbidding all such unwarrantable intrusions and enjoining all those who had settled upon the hunting grounds of the Cherokees to depart with their families and effects without loss of time, as they would answer their disobedience to the injunctions and prohibitions expressed at their peril.
But information has been received, that notwithstanding the said treaty and proclamation, upwards of five hundred families have settled on the Cherokee lands, exclusively of those settled between the fork of the French Broad and Holstin Rivers mentioned in the said treaty.
As the obstructions to a proper conduct on this matter have been removed since it was mentioned to the Senate on the 22nd of August 1789, by the accession of North Carolina to the present Union, and the cessions of the land in question, I shall conceive myself bound to exert the powers entrusted to me by the Constitution in order to carry into faithful execution the treaty of Hopewell, unless it shall be thought proper to attempt to arrange a new boundary with the Cherokees embracing the settlements, and compensating the Cherokees for the cessions they shall make on the occasion. On this point therefore I state the following questions, and request the advice of the Senate thereon.
1st Is it the Judgement of the Senate that overtures shall be made to the Cherokees to arrange a new boundary so as to embrace the settlements made by the white people since the treaty of Hopewell in November 1785?
2nd If so. Shall compensation to the Amot of  dollars annually, or of  dollars in gross, be made to the Cherokees for the land they shall relinquish, holding the occupiers of the land accountable to the United States for its value?
3rd Shall the United States stipulate solemnly to guarantee the new boundary which may be arranged?

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Title: To George Washington from “John A. Dingwell”, 12 August 1790
From: Dingwell, John A.
To: Washington, George

Newyork 12th of Augt 1790

I take the liberty to do myself the honour to Inform your Excellency, that I have it now in my power to give you an Information Such as you Cannot Concieve the importance off—an information that I am well assured will Inable you to Save many of the lives and pounds of the United States and also put it in your power to disopoint the Enimies of america by inableing you to Counter Act their Schemes and throw them In the pit they have made for America.
But Sir I never will without you Sign and Seal the articles I have the honour herewith to Send you, the Information I alude to is Equally Interesting to the King of Spain and I make no doubt but his Minester here will bare his part of paying a proper Reward for the Intelligence I’ll give you.
I am poor and my poverty is the Result of my being too much atteached to a Cause whoes Rulers Rewarded me with Insult. If your Excelly thinks proper to hear and treat with me on this Subject, please to Sign and Seal the inclosed Articles and have them put into the post office directed to John A: Dingwell Newyork to lie untill Called for, that is not my name but one I will assume Untill I have the honour of giveing you my own if Ever, fill the blank for the Sum, and be assured that were I Known to you nothing in life not the greatest torture will make me discover the least Sentance of what There mention, Untill your Excellancy Signs and Seals the articles[.] if you have any objections to them or any of them please let me Know and what alterations you Chuse to have, that if I think it ought to be done I may do it[.] if your treaty with the Indians is going foward the Sooner you get my Information the better[.] Indeed had you it before it began it would have been better but I incline to think it will be of great Service yet nor cou’d I give the whole Sooner. I have the Honour to be with all Respect Sir your most Hume & Obt Servt

John A. Dingwell

P:S: The Sooner I have the honour of hearing from your Excellancy the better as I have not all the Coppys taken off and has better then three miles to go to where I have the originals

lodged with my brother who Knows nothing of their Contents[.] if you think proper have this inserted in mortons peaper tomorrow as I need not go to take the other Coppys without this meets your approbation.
J. A. Dingwells Seven are Come to hand and will be duely attended to by his Corispondant.


Title: To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 12 August 1790 [letter not found]
From: Randolph, Edmund
To: Washington, George

Letter not found: from Edmund Randolph, 12 Aug. 1790. In a letter to Randolph of 12 Aug. 1790 GW referred to “your letter of this date.”


Title: From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 13 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Hamilton, Alexander

Sir
United States [New York] August 13th 1790.

The session of Congress having closed, and it being my intention to go to Virginia as soon as the public business will permit, and wishing to have my mind as free from public cares during my absence from the seat of government, as circumstances will allow; I am desirous of having such matters as may, by Law, or otherwise, require the Agency or sanction of the President of the United States, brought to my view before my departure—I therefore request that you will cause such business within your Department as may be necessary to recieve the aid or approbation of the President, submitted to me as soon as its nature will

permit; particularly such matters as relate to the revenue System, Loans & appropriations of money. I am Sir Yr most Obt Servt

G. Washington


Title: To George Washington from Samuel Meredith, 13 August 1790
From: Meredith, Samuel
To: Washington, George

Sir
New York Augst 13, 1790

My own affairs requiring my immediate attendance at Philada, which I communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury, and he is of opinion that I can be spared at this time with greater convenience than at any other, taking care to arrange my matters in such a way that the occasional business of the Office may meet with no delay, which I shall provide against, If under these circumstances you should have no objection to my Journey, I shall with your permission set out on Monday Morng &

should be happy to execute any Commands you may have. I have the honor to be with Perfect respect Sir Your Most Obedient Servt

Saml Meredith


Title: From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 14 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Morris, Gouverneur

Dear Sir,
New York August 14th 1790

I have lately received a letter and my account from Wakelin Welch & Son of London, dated June 1st by which I perceive there was at that time a bala[n]ce of mine in their hands of only 95.16 Sterlg. This is a less sum than I imagined was there; and as their letter mentions their having informed you of the balance, and it is probable your draughts upon them may exceed that sum, exclusive of those articles which I last requested you to get, I have requested Colo. Humphreys to put into your hands a bill of Exchange drawn by Wm Constable & Co. on Messrs Phyn Ellices & Inglis for 6o£ Sterlg—if he should see you in London. Should you not be there at the time of his arrival, he is requested to enquire if W. Welch & Son have answered your orders beyond the balance in their hands, & in case they have, he will leave the bill with them. He is also desired, if this bill is put into your hands, and should not be equal to the amount due you, to pay the balance for me. With very sincere esteem & regard I am Dr Sir, Yr most Obedt St.


Title: Proclamation, 14 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To:

[New York, 14 August 1790]

By the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States and the Creek nation, was made and concluded on the seventh day of the present month of August: And whereas I have, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in due form ratified the said Treaty, Now therefore to the end that the same may be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the said Treaty to be herewith published; and I do hereby enjoin and require all officers of the United States, civil and military, and all other citizens and inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfil the same.
GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the United States, in the city of New-York, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and in the fifteenth year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States.
G. WASHINGTON.
By the President, THOS. JEFFERSON.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States of America.—To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas a Treaty of peace and friendship between the United States of America, and the Creek nation of Indians, was made and concluded on the seventh day of the present month of August, by HENRY KNOX, secretary for the department of war, who was duly authorized thereto by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the one part, and the Kings, Chiefs and Warriors of the said Creek nation, whose names are hereunto signed, on the other part; which Treaty is in the form and words following.


Title: To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 15–28 August 1790
From: Newenham, Edward
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir
Dublin—15[–28]th August 1790

This day has been a Glorious day to the Rights and Liberties of the Metropolis, as we have carried the Election of the Lord Mayor in opposition to the utmost Efforts of Threats, Bribery, Corruption of Judges & Arbitrary conduct of the Privy Council—I send you the papers in which all the Latter Proceedings are printed—the Contest has lasted these four Months.
The intention of Government was to let no Alderman be Elected Lord Mayor, except a Police officer, by that means they would have entirely made the Metropolis a Castle Burrough—it rose so great a Ferment, that the Volunteers, which had been silent for 2 years, began again to Muster, nearly as strong as Ever—and they, with Multitude of Citizens, appeared with National Cockades—and had not administration acceded to the Law of the Land in the Election of a Lord Mayor, a General Assembly would have met in the Metropolis, and where that would end the wisest could not foresee.
There never was such an attempt since the Reign of James the 2d—it was an attempt to Supersede the Law of the Land—Annihilate the Charter and totaly Subvert the Constitution of the Metropolis—the dernier Vote is in the Commons of the Common Council—that body consists of about 126—103 attended; the other 23 are mostly infirm or in England—there were 97 for our Mayor and 6 against him, & these 6 were placemen—Is it not, my Dear Friend, the height of Folly & perverseness, that neither Age, Precedents, which have lately occurred, nor the History of other Countries, can teach Some Men Wisdom? was the Minister to have pushed Matters to another Tryal before the Privy Council—the Rubicon would have been passed, and 9 out of 10 in this Kingdom would have united in one Common Cause—In other points, Government may have had some Colour of Argument, as to the Construction of an Act, the Spirit of the Constitution or Precedents, but in this Dispute they want Even the Support of Pretence—the Law was against them, the Act was clear & decisive, they had not a single Supporter, ⟨in⟩ all the public meeting, Save only, an Apothecary & a Guager—all the Bar of Lawyers, against them; the Judges Silent—nay they had not Even the Prayers of the Clergy.

The world has lost Dr Franklin—he honoured me with a letter 18 Days before his Death—& he told me it would be his last, as he dayly Expected his Dissolution—he sent me a rememberance of him, which I have got, but I would have been highly honoured if he had reserved it to mention it in his will, for I should be truly proud of being recorded in the will of such a man with a ring, a seal, or any thing, let it have been Ever so Small—I appeared in Parliament in full Mourning for him & continued so for one Month—I lost a Friend whose personal friendship and Correspondence can never be Effaced from mine or my Familie’s gratefull Heart.
Your Brother Soldier has nearly Surmounted Every Difficulty—I only fear his Dispute with Orleans, & the Contest with Biron for the Command of the Troops; I fear a Commotion on the Election of Both, & Mayor of Paris; there are ⟨Some⟩ Commotions in the Soveregn Councils of the Brabanters, but I cannot wish success to the mis-called Patriots of that Country—for they are more inimical to the General Liberties of Mankind, than even a Spaniard or Portuguese; it was only to preserve Convents and Monasteries; they never offered Freedom of Religion or Property—they never lessened the Taxes, or moderated the Church contributions, which bear so heavy on the Poor—they did not give the people any share in the Election of Govenors or Majistrates—nor pass a Law to permit them to purchase Land—the People of Ghent have shewn some Symptoms of French Politics, but they are not Numerous, & Joseph will soon be at Leizure to Employ Force against them—they cannot Stand a Month, unless Supported by Some of the Surrounding Nations; which event depends on the long Expected War, but if we are to credit the reports of this day’s British Mail all is to be Peace, though the British Fleet has Saild in Force.
The King of Sweden seems to imitate, in Courage, some of the Ancient Heroes of that Nation, but he has been Severely defeated by the Vastly Superior force of the Russian; It was a bold attempt to attack 33 Ships of the Line with 28—& to attack 6 of the Line with a Fleet of Frigates & Gallies; he has lost (at least) 7000 men in that Battle; I am a Zealous Wellwisher of the Turks, for Austria & Russia are growing too potent for the rest of Europe.
our public papers give Various accts in respect to yours & the

Spaniards Disputes—when you have a fleet, I have no Doubt of your settling Colonies in South America, or it may happen, in Time, that, by an Alliance with England, her Fleet may assist you in recieving the Produce of the Mines of Peru, Chili & Mexico—the Spaniards could not oppose you with any Effect; the few remaining Natives would prefer your Countrymen, to the Butchers of Athaballiba & Montezuma.
This has been the most Damp, foggy, & wet Summer ever Known in Ireland, not one day in ten could be Called a Summers day; our Hay harvest much damaged, but the Greatness of the Crop makes some Amends for it; our wheat is not (as yet) hurted; it looks well, & if we, soon, have a Change of weather it will be abundant; the Potatoes are beyond our most Sanguine Expectation; the wall fruit, through the whole Kingdom was blasted in the Month of May—this damp season has occasiond Bad Colds & Fevers; those that ever had the Gout or Rheumatism feels the worst Effects from it.
Mrs Montgomery has been Cruely treated by her base Sister, Lady Ranelagh; we Endeavoured to shew her every respect, but Lady Ranelagh would not let us be intimate, as she said, it would hurt Lord Ranelagh in the Eyes of the Vice Roy, was he to be frequent in his Visits to me, & Mrs Montgomery had no way of Coming, but in his Carriage—It realy grieves Lady Newenham & I, that we could not oftener see her—she was admired fer her Good sence & behaviour by Every one here—but we most Sincerely regret that these Circumstances occured to prevent all the Family from paying due respect to your Introduction.

28th Augt 1790

By the public Papers which I have the Honor to send you, it appears all the Crown’d Heads, (one Excepted) in Europe, are leagued against the Improvement of the Constitution of their respective Countries, & that the Spirit of a Single Despot is to rule without a Check; I have no doubt, but Prussia & Austria would assist an English Despot to Govern without a Parliament.
I regret my Letters cannot be more worthy your reading, but I presume to trouble you with them, as a Gratification to me—your correspondence has Ever been Esteemed as an honour by me & I flatter myself that it will continue during our lives.
one of my Sons has Chosen to Continue in the Naval Line, he has served Eleven years, & passed for Leiutenant with the greatest

Credit at the End of his fourth year of Service, but as I am not on the side of Ministry, he can get no preferment; yesterday, Commodore Cosby was appointed Commander of the Impress Service in this Kingdom, & fer these 3 Days, the press has been the Hottest Ever Known; this looks like an Expected Brush between the two Great fleets—if they meet, I think they will not part without a Tryal of Strength.
I have just recieved a Letter from Mrs Montgomery, that she will be here in a few days, to go on Board the Adventure Brig for New York, which is the Ship that I send this Letter by.
All my family, particularly Lady Newenham, join me in best respects to Mrs Washington & you. I remain Dear Sir with perfect Respect & Esteem your most Obliged & most Obt Hble Sert

Edward Newenham


Title: To George Washington from John Hoomes, 16 August 1790
From: Hoomes, John
To: Washington, George

Sir,
Virginia Bo[w]ling Green Augt 16th 1790

Impressed with the highest Sense of the Obligations that lays on me, faithfully to discharge the trust reposed in me by the Post Master General in transporting the Public Mail through this State in my line of Stages; & conscious that it has been as well done as could be reasonably expected, & to my own Knowledge, it has not been better, or more regularly done any where to the Southward of Newyork, I confess that I felt myself extreamly hurt when I was informed on Monday last by letters from Mr Osgood & Mr Burral that a memorial had been Sent to you Signed by about 40 respectable Inhabitants of the City of Richmond complaining of the irregularity of the mail that came to that place, & desiring my particular attention thereto.
As this was the first information I had you will readily Suppose I lost no time in going to Richmond to examine into the Cause of the Complaint, for the Postmaster there, nor any where else in my rout had ever informed me that there was any Complaint Whatever.
I am not unacquainted with the great regularity & method that your Excellency has always done business, & did not in the least doubt but you would require it to be done in the Same manner by every one who undertook for the Public, this alone would have been a Sufficient Spur to me, if I had no regard for my Character & reputation.
I well Know that the Northern Mail has Several times failed to come on, the days it was expected, but my line of Stages going no farther North than Alexandria, I could not Possibly bring a mail when none was brought to me, & I do declare that I do not recollect that the Stages have lost one Single trip in the Course of the Year tho the water in Pamunkey caused it once to get into Richmond in the Morning when it ought to have been in the Evening before, but still the three trips were made good in the week.
I have inclosed you an instrument of writing Signed by the Gentlemen who Sent you the Memorial, also Several other Certificates from the different Postmasters that were convenient to get to in this Short time; & from the Clerks & Taverns where the Stage Stops, & if required can get them from all the Gentlemen

in this Country that is acquainted with the Stage: which I hope will convince your Excellency that I have done my duty, & that altho their might (as far as I Know) have been cause for the Memorial, still that I am not to blame, Perhaps it proceeded in some degree fron the great Speculation, that seemed to rage in an uncommon manner about that time in this State.
I beg leave to mention that I carry the mail as far each day as it is carried any where on this Continent & in one instance farther, it is carried from Richmond to Hampton (a distance of near one hundred miles) & it generally arrives about Sunset, an accident happened twice to the Stage that Kept them out untill near 11 OClock (but those were unavoidable), & the Instances are frequent of the mails arriving so early at Hampton that it gets to Norfolk that night by dark 18 miles farther by water, which circumstances Colo. Parker I believe is accquainted with, there has been some irregularity about the mails crossing from Hampton to Norfolk, tho That I cannot help as I am by Contract to deliver it in Hampton, should I contract again, (or the Postmaster General should direct me now) I will engage for its regular delivery in Norfolk so as to give Satisfaction, which is not the case at present altho the P.M. General pays the ferryman Sufficiently for attending to it I am Sir with the highest Esteem yr excellencys Mo. Obt Hble Sevt

Jno. Hoomes

N.B. I have & shall still be unhappy untill I Know that I have cleared up this matter to the Satisfaction of yr Excellency. J. H.


Title: To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 16 August 1790
From: Morris, Gouverneur
To: Washington, George

Dear Sir,
London 16 August 1790

My Letter of the sixth informed you that the plated Ware was finished. It goes by the same opportunity which takes this Letter, viz. the Ship Goliah Captn Stephen Jones, and it will I hope arrive speedily and in good order. I shall transmit the Bill of Lading to Mr Constable having taken it in his Name that he might get the Articles landed for you. They amount as you will see by the enclosed account to £265.3 including all Charges except the freight which is £1.13 Stg. The Lamps are about the Prices which you limited. The Coolers come to more than you perhaps expected but they are cheap, being finished in the best Manner: and you will observe that in this Kind of Ware the Differences of quality and consequently of Price is great but the inferior Sorts after very little Use are no better than common Copper. I took the Liberty to add Decanters because you might have found it difficult to get suitable one⟨s,⟩ and those sent will be worth more than the Cost should you incline to dispose of them.
I have already communicated my Reason for not applying to Mr Welsh for Payment. I directed the workmen to call on our Correspondents Messieurs Phyn Ellices and Inglis for Payment and I told those gentlemen that Mr Constable would remit them the Amount. they charge therefore only one half per Cent Commission on paying the Money, which is customary, and they add the Interest for six Months which is reasonable because they cannot be in Cash before that time upon a Remittance from America. This comes to the same Point as if Mr Welsh had paid (which he did not absolutely refuse because I did not press him) for he said he had no funds of yours in Hand, and therefore he would have charged you Interest and at least as high a Commission.
I hope my dear Sir that these things may prove agreable to

you and that you will freely command me in any thing by which I may be useful to you. I am with most respectful Compliments to Mrs Washington very sincerely yours

Gouvr Morris


Title: To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 16 August 1790
From: Morris, Gouverneur
To: Washington, George

public
SirLondon 16 August 1790
I had the Honor to write to you on the third of July of which Letter I now enclose a Copy. I have patiently waited since that Period for the Answer which had been promised on the twenty first of May to my Letter of the thirtieth of April. Had any Circumstance turned up which would in my opinion have justified a new application it should have been made, but this has not been the Case. You will have seen the Declaration and Counter Declaration of the Spanish and british Courts exchanged at Madrid the twenty fourth of last Month. These leave the material Ground of Controversy in it’s original State and the armaments go on with unremitting Diligence. The Event seems to turn upon the Ability and Inclination of France whose Condition is far from desirable, but I shall not attempt to describe it because I have no Doubt that Mr Short being on the Spot will transmit much better Information than I can pretend to. The poor King of Hungary pressed by Prussia and distracted by the interior Commotions of his various Dominions and unsupported by

France has been obliged to accede to Terms of Pacification by no means desirable. This leaves Britain and her friends more at Liberty to press the other Powers. The Proceedings of the Congress have of Course been very secret and if they had not a meer private Individual in this Country could not acquire an early Knowlege of them. There is however one Circumstance which let Things terminate as they may will I conceive have considerable Consequences. The King of Prussia has endeavored to obtain from Poland the Cession of Thurn and Dantzig. These Countries are you know already surrounded by his Dominions except towards the Sea and if he had succeeded or should succeed he will not only become at once a naval Power but will hold in his Hand the Key to the great Granary of Europe. This at a Period when from the Extension of Commerce and Manufactures in other Countries the Want of Bread is often feared and sometimes felt will give him immense advantages both in Peace and War besides those of rendering his Dominions more compact and of encreasing his Revenue. It is, I think, hardly possible that Britain and Holland should have wished for his Success, and if his Failure should be owing to their Resistance it may at no distant Period give Rise to new Connections and Alliances in the North. In the Baltic they have been very busy. The Seasons give but little Time there for any other naval War than that which Man must wage with the Elements. They make therefore the best or (if you please) the worst Use of their Time. Little however has been effected except the Havock of the human Race which is not over numerous in that Quarter. The King of Sweden with infinite Gallantry places himself in Situations where he can gain little and may loose all. Hitherto he has extricated himself by downright fighting and as it is too late for effectual Interference from England or Holland probably both Sides having sung Te Deum will take Breath and may perhaps be content to try what Negotiation can do next Winter.
I have little Doubt but that the Ministry here would have agreed to comply with the Treaty of Peace had they found themselves engaged in a War which they have been upon the Brink of for some months and I presume that in Proportion as the Clouds shall disperse they will be less tractable. I have taken Patience and remained here tho I had many private Reasons for going to the Continent but as I did believe that by being on the

Spot I might be useful especially if a favorable occasion should offer I thought it my Duty to stay. From some Circumstances too slight to be worth mentioning I incline to think that such occasion is not far distant, but never perhaps were the Affairs of Europe in a Situation which admits so little of forming any solid opinion; and this from the spreading of what is called the french Disease in other Words Revolt. Hungary Part of Germany Italy and Saxony with France and Flanders are already in different Stages of that Disease. Poland is constitutionally afflicted with it. In Sweden and Holland slight Circumstances would bring forward Seeds which have long been sown, and no Man can tell or even guess how far it may extend or what may be the Consequences. This Country is free from the Contagion and likely to continue so. Indeed the English seem in some Respects to have changed Sentiments and Manners with the french. They are as far gone in Loyalty as their Neighbours in Republicanism. Happy America where alone (I verily believe) both Freedom and Virtue have their real and substantial Existence.
I wait with anxious Expectation to hear what Congress may have done in Relation to this Country as well as upon the important Subject of Finance: for that also would have no small Influence on the british Cabinet. Having long been in the Habit of contemplating public Credit as the most certain and abundant National Resource they will naturally and indeed necessarily take up their opinion of us on that Ground. And if at the same Time their mercantile Interest should feel that we have a Government it might produce a general Conviction that we are not to be trifled with—Incidental Circumstances among foreign Nations may give us momentary Advantages and doubtless it is the Duty of all public Servants to watch those moments and turn them to the best Account. But it is by the Solidity of our domestic System alone that we can become permanently and intrinsically respectable. Consequently it is by that alone that we can hope for permanent and useful Connections. And altho we ought not from such Considerations become supine or inattentive to the Measures of the greater maritime Powers (which would indeed be very imprudent) yet we may certainly repose with greater Confidence on the Good Faith of others when they see and above all when they feel the Value of our Friendship.
I pray your kind Excuse Sir for giving Vent to these Ideas

which are as much the Sentiments of my Heart as the Dictates of my Understanding. As Conclusions of Reason they have naturally been adopted by every thinking Man in America, but he must come out of it perhaps if he would have their Emportance deeply impressed by the Impulsion of daily Experience.


Title: Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle, 17 August 1790
From: Lear, Tobias
To: Biddle, Clement

Dear Sir,
New York Augt 17th 1790

I acknowledge the rect of your favor of the 11th Inst.—and will thank you to get & deliver to Mr Lewis, the Presidents Nephew who will have the pleasure to deliver this, a German & English Dictionary for the Presidents German Gardner—and charge the same to the President’s Acct.
The President went on Saturday to R. Island—he will return

in about 8 days & I think will leave this for Virginia about the 1st of Septr—of which you shall have due information. In great haste I am Dr Sir, Yr most Obedt Servt

Tobias Lear


Title: “John A. Dingwell” to Henry Knox or Tobias Lear, 17 August 1790
From: Dingwell, John A.
To: Knox, Henry,Lear, Tobias

Gentlemen
Newyork 17th august 1790

In The incloased I Send you a letter I did myself the honour to write to the President yesterday in answer to one he honoured me with[.] in mine to him I have incloased a peaper that it or one to the Same purport must be Signed before I make the least discovery as in the peapers I Can lay before him there is that that might indanger the lives of Gentlemen I wou’d Sooner die then hurt who is doing nothing but what any good man ought to do trying to Serve their Country[.] his Excllys letter to me Seems to me as if he thought the information I Can give is of no great importance but he may assure himself he will not think so when he hears it if Ever[.] yesterd. morning I wrote a note to him adviseing him not to give any money to the Indians I do not Know if Either of you Reed it[.] the Reason I gave him the Caution was that I am Satisfied it wou’d answer no other End then to buy powder and lead to distroy the frontier inhabitants

which the peapers in my hands will make fully appeer let his oppinion be what it may he may depend on it that the informing of what I Know will put it in his power to Save many lives and pounds to the States[.] I this day got information of things I think and blives he when he hears them will Join in my oppinion that is of som importance[.] when the peaper is Executed to my likeing he shall Know the whole if Either of you gentlemen honours me with your oppinions please to let me Know when you Expect the President as tis too Expensive for one in my Circumstances to live long here and be from their family. I have the honour to be gentlemen with great Respect Your most Obt Huml. Servt

John A: Dingwell

I blieve I make many blunders due to my fear of being ⟨de[te]ctted⟩ you will Readily Know my meaning.
Direct to lie in the Post office untill Called for.
I think I can do good to the States but no force must be used or it turn to no good.
I Send you this to give you a hint of what you may Expect by the treaty with the Indians.
This day I had a talk with Capt. who is Stiled a Chief warrior by the Indians to this Efect he is Called their ambasador or minister.
He is to go from here to —— there to get his last instructions from —— L: who they are sent to he is then to go to the Mowhawks and Cherokees and all the tribes of Indians in that part of america Each tribe is to Send so many of their Kings and head warriors with him to the Creeks nation where all the tribes in that part is to send so many of their Kings and head warriors there to hold their talks which talks are to be Signed by the whole when Signed they are to be gave to Capt. —— who is Either to take a passage at Pensocola or to Come to —— and go in —— to —— with the talks and give them to the father and brothers there he then is to Return to the Creeks and has no doubt but he will bring them Every thing he is Sent for—I asked him what they wanted from there he told me Several articles but Chiefly powder and lead I asked him what they wanted that more then any other thing he told me to Shoot mice with and laught and said Insults wou’d on his Return which woud be in about twenty months be paid as he loved Ritalliation.

Johnston Butler and Brant is to be at the greet meeting in the Creek nation litle as this is it may in part tell you what great good is to be Expected from your Indian treaty I tell you the whole is to get what they Can from you and gain time to prepare themselves for to Execute some great design which design I think I Can make prity Clearly Known to you when at liberty by the peaper being Executed to my likeing—this is the third time the Capt. has taken this jurney since the begining of the year 1788 I have Coppys of his letters to greet men and their letters to him in the peapers aluded to with Kingly instructions you may wonder how I got them but I Can soon let you Know.


Title: To George Washington from Jacob Isaacks, 17 August 1790
From: Isaacks, Jacob
To: Washington, George

Sir
Newport [R.I.] August 17th 1790

The inclosed copies of certificates Signed By Several Gentlemen of this Town Will Inform You Respecting a discovery that I have Recently Made, and which if encouraged will I flatter myself be highly beneficial to Mankind, and Particularly to those concerned in navigation, As the apparatus is so simple, that an extraction can be performed on board any Vessell at a very trifling expence.
A Bottle of the water extracted agreeably to the last Certificate, I am emboldened from the Regard You have ever Shewn to the usefull discoveries of Americans to have presented to You, and ardently wish it may Meet your approbation and patronage. I have the honor to be Sir Your most Obedient Humble Servant

Jacob Isaacks


Title: From George Washington to the Clergy of Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
From: Washington, George
To: Clergy of Newport, Rhode Island

Gentlemen,
[Newport, R.I., 18 August 1790]

The salutations of the Clergy of the Town of Newport on my arrival in the State of Rhode Island are rendered the more acceptable on account of the liberal sentiments and just ideas which they are known to entertain respecting civil and religious liberty.
I am inexpressibly happy that by the smiles of divine Providence, my weak but honest endeavors to serve my country have hitherto been crowned with so much success, and apparently given such satisfaction to those in whose cause they were exerted. The same benignant influence, together with the concurrent support of all real friends to their country will still be necessary to enable me to be in any degree useful to this numerous and free People over whom I am called to preside.
Wherefore I return you, Gentlemen, my hearty thanks for your solemn invocation of Almighty God that every temporal and spiritual blessing may be dispensed to me, and that, under my administration, the families of these States may enjoy peace and prosperity, with all the blessings attendant on civil and religious liberty—In the participation of which blessings may you have an ample Share.

G. Washington.