Letter from the Secretary at War to the Governor of Rhode Island

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Type

Letter Signed

Description

Letter, describes measures to prevent foreign arms and aggression; discusses fitting and manning vessels as privateers; discusses neutrality of United States; mentions militia.

Date

05/24/1793

Author

Henry Knox

Recipient

Arthur Fenner

Sent from

War Department

Repository

Rhode Island State Archives

Collection

Letters to Geovernor (L1).

Document number

1793052400301

Page start

1

Note

Circular letter from the Secretary of War to the State Governors. See Knox to Fenner, 05/24/1793, Knox to Lee 05/24/1793, Knox to Telfair, 05/24/1793, Knox to Huntington, 05/24/1793, and Knox to Clayton, 05/24/1793.

Notable persons

Arthur Fenner
Henry Knox

Notable locations

War Department
Charleston, South Carolina
United States

Notable items

proceeding by any of the parties at war or their subjects or citizens is an infraction of the jurisdiction and rights of the United States which
further instructed by the President of the United States to signify to your excellency in your capacity of commander in chief of the militia of your
detain any vessel in respect to which the proceeding shall take place
notify them of the circumstances of the case and the steps which you may have taken to the end that he may give such further direction thereon as may
deeming the toleration of such a practice to be inconsistent with the duties of neutrality and with the preservation of the peace of the nation
required by any treaty of the United States
concluded that effectual measures ought to be adopted and pursued to prevent a repetition of it
nature and tendency of such conduct
engaged his serious attention and deliberation
consequence of a representation to the president of the United states that lately at the port of Charleston in South Carolina two vessels were of one