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The papers of George Washington. 4 Presidential series 14 1 September - 31 December 1793

George Washington, Theodore J. Crackel, David R. Hoth
Print Book, English, 2008
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Univ. of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va, 2008
XXXVI, 741 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
9780813927596, 0813927595
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Introductionxxiii
Editorial Apparatusxxvii
Symbols Designating Documentsxxix
Repository Symbols and Abbreviationsxxx
Short Title Listxxxi
To Gouverneur Morris, 1 September1
To Thomas Pinckney, 1 September1
To William Short, 1 September2
To Nicholas Van Staphorst, 1 September2
To Arthur Young, 1 September3
From George Clinton, 2 September4
Enclosure: Edmond Genet to George Clinton, 30 August
7
Enclosure: George Clinton to Edmond Genet, 30 August
8
Enclosure: George Clinton to Francois Thomas Galbaud du Fort, 31 August
8
To Alexander Hamilton, 2 September11
From Thomas Jefferson, [2-4] September11
To Richard Law, 2 September see 14:16
From James Lloyd, 2 September12
Enclosure: Resolutions from Kent County, Md., Citizens, 31 August
13
From Thomas Mifflin, 2 September14
To New London, Conn., Citizens, 2 September15
Resolutions from Petersburg, Va., Citizens, 2 September16
Resolutions from York County, Va., Citizens, 2 September see 14:34
From William Augustine Washington, 3 September18
From William Willcocks, 3 September20
To James B.M. Adair, 4 September21
To Joshua Clayton, 4 September see 13:379
To Dorchester County, Md., Citizens, c.4 September see 14:22
To John Eccleston, 4 September22
From John Eager Howard, 4 September22
From "A true Friend to virtuous Liberty and Equality," 4 September24
Address from Annapolis, Md., Citizens, 5 September see 14:88
To the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 September27
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 5 September28
From Abraham Freeman, 5 September29
From Thomas Mifflin, 5 September32
To Robert Morris, 5 September33
George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 September34
From William Nelson, Jr., 5 September34
To John Eccleston, 6 September36
To Alexander Hamilton, 6 September36
Henry Knox's Report on Military Preparedness, 6 September37
From Jeremiah Banning, 7 September39
Cabinet Opinion on Relations with France and Great Britain, 7 September43
To Thomas Jefferson, 7 September47
Resolutions from Talbot County, Md., Citizens, 7 September see 14:39
From D'Acary, 8 September47
From George Clinton, 8 September47
To the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 9 September49
From Alexander Contee Hanson, 9 September50
From Moses Hazen, 9 September51
From Thomas Jefferson, 9 September52
To Henry Knox, 9 September52
From Elizabeth Willing Powel, 9 September54
To Elizabeth Willing Powel, 9 September55
To David Ross and Robert Townsend Hooe, 9 September56
To Robert Taylor, g September see 13:593
To Dennis Whelen, 9 September56
Resolutions from Caroline County, Va., Citizens, to September see 14:64
From Joseph Harper, to September57
Enclosure: Memorial on the Andrew, 9 September57
To Thomas Jefferson, 10 September61
To James Lloyd, to September62
Resolutions from Morris County, N.J., Citizens, to September see 14:72
From Harriot Washington, 10 September62
To Thomas Jefferson, 11 September63
From Edmund Pendleton, 11 September64
From Edmund Pendleton, 11 September67
From John Sinclair, 11 September71
Resolutions from Williamsburg, Va., Citizens, 11 September see 14:90
From John Doughty, 12 September72
Address from James City County, Va., Citizens, 12 September see 14:106
From Edward Newenham, 12 September74
From Arthur St. Clair, 12 September77
From David Humphreys, 13 September78
Enclosure: Extract of a Letter to Mr. Close, August82
From Tobias Lear, 13 September83
From M. Meifren, 13 September84
From John Butler, 14 September85
From Charles Fierer, 14 September87
From Alexander Contee Hanson, 14 September87
From Joseph Prentis, 14 September89
From David Ross, 14 September92
From Charles Carter of Ludlow, 15 September92
From Thomas Jefferson, 15-16 September93
From Henry Knox, 15 September96
From Alexander Spotswood, 15 September103
To Annapolis, Md., Citizens, c.16 September see 14:112
To Jeremiah Banning, 16 September see 14:42
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 16 September104
To the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 16 September see 14:104
To the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 16 September see 14:104
To John Eager Howard, 16 September see 14:23
To Henry Knox, 16 September105
From the Reverend James Madison, 16 September105
From Henry Lee, 17 September108
To Alexander Contee Hanson, 18 September111
From Henry Knox, 18 September112
Certificate for Lots Purchased in the District of Columbia, 18 September114
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 September115
Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 22 September118
To John Doughty, 23 September118
To the Reverend James Madison, 23 September119
To William Nelson, Jr., 23 September119
Agreement with William Pearce, 23 September120
To Edmund Pendleton, 23 September123
To Edmund Pendleton, 23 September124
To Joseph Prentis, 23 September126
From Jonathan Shaw, 23 September127
From David Austin, Jr., 24 September128
From Henry Knox, 24 September129
From Betty Washington Lewis, 24 September131
To Thomas Griffin Peachy, 24 September132
From Hezekiah Rogers, 24 September132
To James Greenleaf, 25 September see 14:137
To Charles Carter of Ludlow, 25 September133
From Derby, Conn., Merchants, c.25 September see 14:138
To Alexander Hamilton, 25 September134
To Henry Knox, 25 September134
To Tobias Lear, 25 September135
From William Powell, 25 September137
To Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 25 September138
From Thomas Blackburn, 26 September139
Enclosure: Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Barbados, 9 August
139
To Joseph Harper & Co., 27 September141
To Thomas Jefferson, 27 September see 14:191
From William Powell, 27 September see 14:138
To William Wootton Brewer, 29 September141
From Charles Carter of Ludlow, 29 September142
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Jonathan Shaw, 29 September143
From Beverley Randolph, 30 September143
Enclosure: Journal Extract about George Welbank's Information, 13-14 August147
To Edmund Randolph, 30 September152
Articles of Agreement for Mount Vernon Carpenter, C. September 1793 see 14:18
From William Claiborne, i October153
From Elizur Goodrich, 1 October155
From Henry Knox, 1 October155
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 October156
From John Brown et al., 2 October157
From William Greene et al., 2 October see 14:158
From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 2 October159
From Theodore Foster, 3 October160
From Thomas Jefferson, 3 October161
From Thomas Jefferson, 3 October163
From Thomas Jefferson, 3 October164
From Thomas Jefferson, 3 October164
From Thomas Jefferson, 3 October see 14:166
To Alexander Spotswood, 3 October168
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to William Claiborne, 4 October see 14:154
From David Howell, 4 October169
From Alexandria, Va., Citizens, 5 October170
To William Pearce, 6 October172
From Edward Savage, 6 October174
From Moses Brown, 7 October174
From Arthur Fenner, 7 October175
From David Humphreys, 7 October177
To Thomas Jefferson, 7 October179
From Henry Lee, 7 October180
From Thomas Sim Lee, 7 October181
From Jeremiah Olney, 7 October183
To John Fitzgerald, 8 October see 14:190
From Nathaniel Skinner, 8 October184
From Nathaniel Skinner, 8-15 October186
To John Fitzgerald, 9 October189
From Thomas Jefferson, 9 October191
Resolutions from Albemarle County, Va., Citizens, to October see 14:275
Exequatur for Jean-Baptiste-Thomas Dannery, to October see 14:163
Revocation of Exequatur for Antoine Charbonnet Duplaine, to October see 14:162
From Christoph Daniel Ebeling, to October192
From Tobias Lear, to October193
To Edward Carrington, 11 October195
From John Fitzgerald, 11 October195
To Thomas Jefferson, 11 October197
From Thomas Sim Lee, 11 October199
To Thomas Sim Lee, 13 October200
From Edmund Randolph, 13 October202
To Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 13 October203
From Charles Carter, Jr., of Culpeper, 14 October204
To Alexander Hamilton, 14 October205
From Samuel Huntington, 14 October see 3:264
To James Madison, 14 October206
To Timothy Pickering, 14 October211
To Edmund Randolph, 14 October212
To Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 14 October214
To Henry Knox, 15 October215
From Henry Knox, 15 October217
From Thomas Sim Lee, 15 October217
From Timothy Pickering, 15 October218
Enclosure: Charles Storer to Timothy Pickering, 4 October
219
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 October see 14:216
From Abraham Forst, 16 October222
To Henry Lee, 16 October224
To Thomas Sim Lee, 16 October225
From Thomas Jefferson, 17 October226
From Edward Carrington, 18 October228
From Thomas Sim Lee, 18 October228
From Gouverneur Morris, 18 October229
From Robert Bowyer, 19 October231
From Matthew Clarkson, 19 October232
From Thomas Lloyd, 19 October232
From Gouverneur Morris, 19 October233
From William Pearce, 19 October235
From Robert Rutherford, 19 October236
From James Abercrombie, 20 October237
From Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, 20 October237
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 October238
Resolutions from Culpeper County, Va., Citizens, 21 October see 14:285
Address from Fairfax County, Va., Citizens, c. 21 October see 14:243
From Thomas FitzSimons, 21 October241
From John Graff, 21 October241
From Ludwell Lee and Roger West, 21 October242
From Stephen Moylan, 21 October244
From Peter Muhlenberg, 21 October245
From Timothy Pickering, 21 October246
From Richard Dobbs Spaight, 21 October249
To William Augustine Washington, 21 October254
From Joseph Wharton, 21 October255
From Nathan Beers, 22 October257
From Archibald Engle, 22 October257
From Samuel Hanson (of Samuel), 22 October258
From Charles Pettit, 22 October see 7:604
From Edmund Randolph, 22 October258
From Alexandria, Va., Citizens, 23 October see 14:260
From John Fitzgerald, 23 October259
From Samuel Fraunces, 23 October261
From Vincent Gray, 23 October see 14:260
From Richard Henry Lee, 23 October261
From William MacPherson, 23 October262
From James Mease McRea, 23 October263
To Stephen Moylan, 23 October264
From Timothy Pickering, 23 October264
From Timothy Pickering, 23 October266
Enclosure: Matthew Clarkson to Timothy Pickering, 23 October
266
To Edmund Randolph, 23 October267
From William Willcocks, 23 October see 14:21
From Solomon Bush, 24 October269
From Alexander Hamilton, 24 October270
To Ludwell Lee and Roger West, 24 October272
To Richard Henry Lee, 24 October273
From Nicholas Lewis, 24 October274
From James Madison, 24 October278
From Edmund Randolph, 24 October281
Enclosure: Draft for a Proclamation, c. 24 October
284
To Edward Carrington, 25 October see 14:228
From J. Sandwich, 25 October284
From Edward Stevens, 25 October285
From Rayner Taylor, 25 October287
To Francis Willis, Jr., 25 October287
To John Cowper, 26 October289
To John Francis Mercer, 26 October289
From Edmund Randolph, 26 October290
From Elizabeth Foote Washington, 26 October291
To William Pearce, 27 October292
From "A Citizen of Virginia," 28 October294
From Philip Richard Fendall, 28 October295
From Timothy Pickering, 28 October295
From Edmund Randolph, 28 October296
From Philip Filicchi, 29 October297
Enclosure: Philip and Anthony Filicchi to the Governor of Leghorn, 21 October
298
Enclosure: Antonio Serristori to the Governor of Leghorn, 23 October
299
From Gouverneur Morris, 29 October300
From Robert Townsend Hooe and David Ross, 31 October300
From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 31 October301
From Edmund Randolph, 2 November303
From Hannah Fairfax Washington, 2 November309
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 3 November311
From Alexander Hamilton, 3 November312
From Tobias Lear, 3 November313
Enclosure: Observations on the Potomac River, c. 3 November
318
To Howell Lewis, 3 November332
Resolutions from Frederick County, Va., Citizens, 5 November see 14:359
From Thomas Jefferson, 5 November337
From James M. McRea, 5 November see 14:264
From Richard O'Bryen, 5 November338
From the Germantown, Pa., School Trustees, 6 November340
To the Germantown, Pa., School Trustees, 6 November341
From Thomas Jefferson, 6 November342
From Thomas Jefferson, 7 November343
From Thomas Jefferson, 7 November343
Notes on Tobias Lear's Observations, c. 7 November see 14:345
To the Earl of Buchan, 8 November344
To Tobias Lear, 8 November344
TO John Sinclair, 8 November346
From Charleston, S.C., Merchants, 9 November347
From Jacob Durang, g November348
From Tobias Lear, 9 November349
From Richard Chichester, 10 November351
To Howell Lewis, 10 November353
From Edmund Randolph, 10 November355
From Anonymous, 11 November357
From Alexander White, 11 November359
From Elias Boudinot, 12 November361
From Solomon Bush, 12 November see 14:270
From Gouverneur Morris, 12 November362
From John Rutherford, 12 November364
Resolutions from Shenandoah County, Va., Citizens, 13 November366
From Richard Snowdon, 13 November368
From Inhabitants of Wommelsdorf, Pa., 13 November370
From Mary Atlee, 14 November370
To Mary Atlee, 14 November371
From John Graff, 14 November371
From George Clinton, 15 November372
From Jean Louis Du Rumaine, 15 November373
From Jean Louis Du Rumaine, 15 November see 14:374
From Thomas Mifflin, 15 November374
From the Provisional Executive Council of France, 15 November375
From Burgess Ball, 16 November377
From Thomas Jefferson, 16 November377
From Henry Knox, 16 November380
To Nicholas Lewis, 16 November381
From the Saint Marc (Saint Domingue) Council, 16 November382
To Edward Stevens, 16 November see 14:286
From Harriot Washington, 16 November382
From Sharp Delany, 17 November see 14:242
Drafting GW's Annual Address, 18-28 November383
I. Alexander Hamilton's Outline for GW's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, November
385
II. Edmund Randolph's List of Topics to be Communicated to Congress, November
387
III. GW's Notes on Fifth Annual Address to Congress, November
389
IV. Edmund Randolph's Draft for Washington's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, November
390
V. Henry Knox's Draft for GW's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, c.19 November
393
VI. Alexander Hamilton's Draft of a Statement on the Neutrality Proclamation for Washington's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, C.21 November
395
VII. Thomas Jefferson's Notes for GW's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, c.22 November
396
VIII. Alexander Hamilton's Draft of a Statement on Financial Affairs for GW's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, November
400
IX. Edmund Randolph's Outline for Washington's Fifth Annual Address to Congress, c. 28 November
401
From Alexander Hamilton, 18 November407
From Alexander Hamilton, 19 November408
From John Marsden Pintard, 20 November408
From Post Vincennes Citizens, 20 November410
Record of Cabinet Opinions, 22 November412
To Thomas Jefferson, 22 November414
From Henry Knox, 22 November415
From Frances Bassett Washington, 22 November416
To Richard Chichester, 23 November417
From Alexander Hamilton, 23 November418
Enclosure: Report on Edmond Genet's Debt Proposal, 23 November
418
From David Humphreys, 23 November420
To Alexander White, 23 November423
To Burgess Ball, 24 November424
From George Clinton, 24 November425
From Thomas Jefferson, 24 November427
To William Pearce, 24 November427
From Edmund Randolph, 24 November428
From John Armstrong, 25 November430
From Joseph Barrell, 25 November433
From Stephen Cross, 25 November434
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Alexander Hamilton, 26 November see 14:407,408
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 26 November see 14:439
From Henry Knox, 26 November438
To Elias Boudinot, 27 November439
To George Clinton, 27 November440
To Thomas Jefferson, 27 November441
From Thomas Jefferson, 29 November441
From Henry Knox, 29 November442
From Thomas Marshall, 29 November442
From William Thornton, 29 November443
From Alexander Hamilton, 3o November444
From Thomas Jefferson, 30 November444
From Henry Knox, 30 November446
From John Francis Mercer, 30 November447
To Jaquelin Ambler, 1 December see 14:448
To the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 1 December448
To Thomas Jefferson, 1 December449
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 1 December see 14:446
From Alexander Hamilton, 2 December451
From Thomas Jefferson, 2 December453
To Thomas Jefferson, 2 December455
From Thomas Jefferson, 2 December see 14:456
From Thomas Mifflin, 2 December456
Enclosure: Nathaniel Falconer to Thomas Mifflin, 29 November
457
From James White, 2 December458
From Sundry Frenchmen in a Philadelphia Jail, 3 December460
To William Thornton, 3 December see 14:444
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 3 December462
From Matthew Clarkson, 4 December see 14:472
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 4 December469
Henry Knox's Statement of the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates in the Service of the United States, 4 December see 14:395
To Richard Snowdon, 4 December see 14:369
From Gimat, 5 December469
From Alexander Hamilton, 5 December471
From David Lenox, 5 December471
From Richard Peters, 5 December472
To the United States Senate, 5 December473
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 5 December474
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Childs & Swaine, 6 December477
From Robert Denny, 6 December478
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December see 14:473
From Julbin and Rapelling, 6 December479
From William Nichols, 6 December see 6:133
From Laurent De Saxy and Laurent De Verneiiil, 6 December479
Cabinet Opinion, 7 December481
From William Moultrie, 7 December482
Enclosure: Resolves, 6 December483
From Francisco Rendon, 7 December488
From the United States House of Representatives, 7 December490
To the United States House of Representatives, 7 December492
From Joshua Gayle, 8 December492
From Daniel Carroll, 9 December493
To the United States Senate, 9 December494
From the United States Senate, 9 December494
To Lund Washington, 9 December496
From Hugh Williamson, 9 December497
From Francis Willis, Jr., 9 December see 14:289
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December see 14:494
From Carl Andreas Kierrulf, 10 December497
From Carl Andreas Kierrulf, c. 10 December see 14:498
From Laurent de Saxy and Laurent de Verneail, 10 December see 14:480
From Stephen Sayre, c.10 December499
To the United States Senate, 10 December501
To Alexander Hamilton, 11 December502
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December502
Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 December see 14:589
From Henry Knox, 11 December503
To Thomas Pinckney, 12 December504
To Arthur Young, 12 December504
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 13 December514
From Henry Knox, 13 December515
From Nicholas Pariset, 13 December521
From Thomas Jefferson, 14 December522
Thomas Jefferson's Report on Morocco and Algiers, 14 December see 14:535
From Henry Knox, 14 December522
From Thomas Jefferson, 15 December524
From Henry Knox, 15 December525
To Frances Bassett Washington, 15 December525
To Daniel Carroll, 16 December526
From William Goddard, 16 December527
From G. Legal, 16 December529
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 6 December531
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 December534
From Burgess Ball, 17 December555
To William Aylett Booth, i8 December556
To Alexander Hamilton, 18 December see 14:600
From Thomas Jefferson, 18 December557
To William Pearce, 18 December558
Enclosure: Crop Rotations for Mount Vernon Farms
566
From George Clinton, 19 December580
Enclosure: Charles Williamson to George Clinton, 26 November
582
Enclosure: Affidavit of George Rankin, 26 November
582
From Thomas Jefferson, 19 December584
From George Meade, 19 December584
From Richard Dobbs Spaight, 19 December585
From Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, 20 December588
From Thomas Jefferson, 21 December588
From Thomas Jefferson, 22 December589
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 23 December590
To Hiland Crow, 23 December595
To John Christian Ehlers, 23 December596
To Thomas Green, 23 December598
From Alexander Hamilton, 23 December599
From Alexander Hamilton, 23 December600
From John Hyde, 23 December600
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December600
From Thomas Johnson, 23 December601
From Henry Knox, 23 December602
To Henry Knox, 23 December604
To Henry McCoy, 23 December604
To William Pearce, 23 December606
To William Stuart, 23 December616
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 23 December617
From Elizabeth Foote Washington, 23 December618
To Edmund Randolph, 24 December619
From Edmund Randolph, 24 December619
From the United States House of Representatives, 24 December see 14:626
To George Clinton, 25 December619
From Tobias Lear, 25 December620
From John George Gibson, 26 December623
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December626
From Thomas Mifflin, 26 December626
To George Read, 26 December627
To Laurent de Saxy and Laurent de Vernefill, 26 December628
Certificate, 27 December629
From Thomas Jefferson, 27 December630
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December see 14:627
Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December see 14:630
To the United States Senate, 27 December630
From Auguste de Grasse, 28 December633
From Thomas Jefferson, 28 December636
To Thomas Jefferson, 28 December638
To William Pearce, 28 December638
From Thomas Jefferson, 30 December639
From Thomas Jefferson, 30 December643
Enclosure: Lafayette's Revolutionary War Account, 24 December
645
From William Vans Murray, 30 December646
From Winthrop Sargent, 30 December see 6:175
To the United States House of Representatives, 30 December647
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December648
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 30 December649
To Thomas Jefferson, 31 December649
To Thomas Jefferson, 31 December see 12:471
From Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 65
From Thomas Jefferson, 31 December652
From Thomas Mifflin, 31 December652
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 31 December653
To William White, 31 December654
From Adhemar de Brethoux, December654
From Citizens West of the Allegheny Mountains, December655
From Carl Andreas Kierrulf, December see 14:498
From Nicholas Pariset, December see 14::521
Rotations of Crops for Dogue Run, 1793-99660
From Anonymous, c. 1793678
Index693