Politics and Political Thought

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Title	Daily Entry
23 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote family friend Elizabeth Willing Powel about the pamphlet criticizing the departments of the executive branch she had sent him on 21 April.
22 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. He dined with twenty-two of the visiting Five Nations chiefs, their interpreter, and Rev. Samuel Kirkland.
21 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. GW sent Congress the 18 April letter from the U.S. Circuit Court Judges for Pa., which ruled that the Invalid Pensions Act of 1792 was unconstitutional.
19 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. GW’s sister Betty Washington Lewis wrote GW from Fredericksburg thanking him for his letter of 8 April.
18 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia.
17 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. GW wrote the Senate nominating former government contractor James O’Hara to be quartermaster general of the U.S. army.
16 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. GW submitted to Congress the letter and enclosure of 10 April from the U.S. circuit court judges for N.Y.
15 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. Governor of Surinam Juriaen François de Friderici wrote GW introducing physician and writer David Nassy, an immigrant to the U.S. from Surinam.
14 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. William Hull wrote GW and enclosed documents concerning the demands of the Mass. Line officers for compensation for their Revolutionary War service.
13 April 1792	GW at Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson forwarded to GW a letter from British Minister Plenipotentiary to the U.S. George Hammond of 11 April, discussing commerce between the U.S.

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