1Poor Richard Improved, 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Beneath the Hawthorn’s secret Shade reclines;
2From George Washington to William Byrd, 20 April 1755 (Washington Papers)
...April 1755 GW paid Lt. John Hart of the 48th Regiment £4 16s. 3d. “for a Field Bedstead & Curtains.” On 21 July, 12 days after the Battle of the Monongahela, he paid Lt. John Hawthorn, also of the 48th Regiment, £1 2s. 6½d. “for a Mattrass” ( ). Hart was killed in the battle, but Hawthorn survived unscathed.
3Memorandum Books, 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Dwarf Cherry. F. Cerasus. 5.—Clethra—Cockspur hawthorn, or haw. Crataegus. 4.—Laurel.—Scorpion Sena. Emerus.—Hazel.—Althaea F.—Callicarpa.—Rose—Wild Honeysuckle—Sweet briar—Ivy.—
4To James Madison from William Bradford, 2 June 1775 (Madison Papers)
, I, 235–36, 245; Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck,
5To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 26 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
, I, 234–36, 594–97; and Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck,
6From James Madison to Benjamin Harrison, 15 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
, 30 November and 7 December 1782; Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck,
7Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 1 November 1783 (first) (Madison Papers)
, XXVI, 124–25; Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck,
8Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
“The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp’ring lovers made” (Oliver Goldsmith,
9To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 1 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
‘whilst thro’ the sharp hawthorn keen blows the cold wind.’‘Whilst thro’ the sharp hawthorn still blows the cold wind.’
10To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 1 March 1789 (Adams Papers)
...Allegheny River, the Pennsylvania legislature on 11 Feb. passed “An act to enable aliens to purchase and hold real estate within this commonwealth,” which it renewed in 1792 and again in 1795 (Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck,