171221From George Washington to Anne-César, chevalier de La Luzerne, 29 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
The News of a general Peace, which your Excellency has been so good as to anounce to me, has filled my Mind with inexpressible satisfaction; and permit me to add, that the Joy I feel on this great Event, is doubly enhanced by the very obliging Manner in which you have been pleased to express your Congratulations to me & to the Army, on this very happy occasion. The part your Excellency has...
1712226th. (Adams Papers)
Finished the 4th. Book of the Cyropaedia; I shall have no more to do with this author while I remain here, and am heartily glad of it. It is not now, as in the first book. The Conquest of Empires is related, but in the same manner, that the trifles of the hero’s childhood were. Gobryas appears to me to tell his story, just as a crabberly boy complains to his mother, that he has been beat, not...
171223[Diary entry: 5 October 1797] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear & very pleasant with but little Wind—Mer. at 62. Mr. Basset & Mrs. Dunbar wt. away after breakfast.
171224To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 29 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
733. 1116. 140. 1509. 1490. 1116. 322. 1354. 972. 27. 1083. 1116. 623. 921. 1333. 632. 925. 1547. 1503. 417. 1078. 736. 1315. 1389. 972. 664. 1304. 430. 1116. 1165. 921. 716. 1065. 1268. 1090. 972. 857. 1562. 1354. 972. 1113. 31. 43. 1217. 1067. 1217. 211. 380. 1268. 1217. 805. 949. 582. 1090. 972. 1036. 1354. 31. 43. 1217. 1532. 1217. 126. 1354. 31. 43. 1217. 1134. 1484. 1116. 664. 1522....
171225To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 10 June 1758 (Washington Papers)
I have sent you 4 pss. Blankets wch contain 60 Blankets, as I have no receipt for them shall be Oblig’d to you to give one to Mr James Strawhan, or the Cash wch will be more acceptable as it often proves Troublesome gitting of it below. I am yr most Huml. Servant A Bale WW No. 2 R Colo. Washington for the Country Dr To 60 Blankets @ 11/6 £34.10.0 Package & Cord 2.6 34.12.6 Dotr Halkerston...
171226To James Madison from John Gavino, 16 December 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1802, Gibraltar. No. 106. Forwards dispatches just received via a British frigate from Malta, “where Mr: Cathcart was with Comodor Morris, from whom I have Letters to the 1st: Inst.” Has learned “by a Vessel just arrived from Mahon” that a U.S. frigate was there for repairs to a damaged mast. “They do not know her Name or the Capns: it can be no other than the New York.” Adds in a...
171227[Diary entry: 16 March 1768] (Washington Papers)
16. Ground froze. Morning thick and threatening—but clear afterwards with the Wind Southwardly.
171228To James Madison from James Eaton, 2 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ From James Eaton. Letter not found. 2 December 1805. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Eaton, 1[0?] Dec. 1805, as an inquiry about Eaton’s two impressed sons, in which Brent stated: “The Secy of State has duly received your letter of the 2d inst in relation to John & Wm Eaton, your two Impressed Sons, and enclosing sundry Documents concerning them, of the sufficiency of which you wish to be...
171229From George Washington to Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 12 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
Tomorrow Evening will answer very well for the movement I mentiond to your Excellency Yesterday. and I will arrange matters accordingly—2000 French Troops besides Lauzuns Legien with the Troops I shall order from the American line will be sufficient to make the reconnoitre out hazarding an Insult from the my. I shall have the honor of sp ing more in detail to your Excellen on this subject...
171230To Thomas Jefferson from M. Amoureux, 13 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 13 Mch. 1789 . As requested in TJ’s letter of 1 Mch., transmits a draft for 1900₶ payable to Admiral Paul Jones, “de Ve. Moullin et Kroux de Nantes, du 30. janvier dernier, à 3 usances, ordre J. Cormier,” forming, “à une bagatelle près, ce qui revient pour net produit des marchandises, compte du dit Sieur” ; Draft is drawn on a Nantes house because of lack of good paper on Paris. J....