The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention...
I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.
I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Que...
I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.
I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informall...
I have received from the governor of Vermont authentic documents, expressing the consent of the legislatures of New York...
In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter,...
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the Unit...
I have thought best to await a survey of the territory before it is decided on what particular spot on the northeastern ...
I rely upon your wisdom to make such arrangements as may be essential for the preservation of good order and the effectu...
I have not by this first act given to the said territory the whole extent of which it is susceptible in the direction of...
I have by a proclamation bearing date this day directed commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act, to survey and ...
I do appoint them the said Thomas Johnson, Daniel Carroll and David Stuart, Commissioners for surveying the District of ...
I lay before you a representation of the charge' d'affaires of France.
I recommend the same to your consideration, that I may be enabled to give to it such answer as may best comport with the...
GO. WASHINGTON.
the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands
