From George Washington to John Adams, 1 March 1791

From George Washington

Philadelphia March 1st. 1791

Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Friday the 4th Instant, I have desired their attendance, as I do yours by these Presents, at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such Communications as shall be made to you on my part.—1

Go: Washington.—

FC (DLC:Washington Papers); internal address: “The President of the United States / to / the President of the Senate.”

1. Washington convened a special session of the Senate on 4 March to consider his nominations for judicial, excise, and military posts. Members also approved the designation of districts in order to collect taxes on domestic spirits. JA remained in Philadelphia until 2 May, when he departed for Braintree with AA and TBA (vol. 20:xxxii; Annals of Congress description begins The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States [1789–1824], Washington, D.C., 1834–1856; 42 vols. description ends , 1st Cong., 4th sess., p. 1826–1830; AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 9:508).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: From George Washington to John Adams, 1 March 1791
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 1 March 1791

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Cite as: “From George Washington to John Adams, 1 March 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0001. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, p. 1.]

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