Filling the Office of Secretary of State
Document 1795Pickering, currently serving as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War, discusses his reluctance to accept the office of Secretary of State on a permanent basis but he feels it is his patriotic duty to do so. [A confidential letter.]
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Pickering, currently serving as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War, discusses his reluctance to accept the office of Secretary of State on a permanent basis but he feels it is his patriotic duty to do so. [A confidential letter.]
Date
11/17/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795111700001
Note
Cited in Hamilton to Pickering, 11/20/1795.
A private letter.
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
Timothy Pickering
the President [Washington]
Judge [William] Patterson
Governor [Thomas] Johnson
General [Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney
Mr. [Rufus] King
Col. [Edward] Carrington
Patrick Henry
Mr. [Oliver] Wolcott
Mrs. [Martha] Washington
General [Henry] Lee
enemies of the government
Colonel William North
Capt. [Jonathan] Dayton
General [Edward] Hand
General [Jedediah] Huntington
General [William] Irvine
Col. Philip B. Bradley
Col. David Forman
Col. [John Eager] Howard
Col. William Heth
Col. Nathaniel Ramsay
General James Wood
Col. John Brooks
Col. David Cobb
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Maryland
Mount Vernon
Pennsylvania
New York
Notable items
great public offices
office of Secretary of State
treaty with Great Britain
department of war
department of state
internal politics
exterior relations