21To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 9 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours in which you desire a Copy of the List of Tithe’s, and of my Journal of the Weather, came through such a circuitous Chanel that it was long after the Date of it before it reached me. As to the List I gave it in to the Society without taking a Copy of it, and suppose it is now in the Hands of the Secretary. My Meteorological Journal I took back, as I did all the Papers of my own...
22To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, [1 February 1781] (Jefferson Papers)
As I think it of Consequence that the Gentleman recommended should as speedily as possible receive his Commission, I have inclosed it by the first Conveyance I could procure. I think it proper to add that he served as a Captain in the Continental Army with Credit, and is esteemed as an excellent Officer, and was recommended by a full Court amongst whom was every field officer. I have not time...
23To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 13 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
As, by the Neglect of our Commissioners, The Assessment has not yet been returned we have been prevented from laying off our Divisions for the Draught; and as our County is at present in a very defenceless State and daily exposed to the Ravages of the Enemy I must entreat you in behalf of the County to suspend the Operation of the Act till the Situation of our Affairs may render it less...
24To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 15 March 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many Thanks for your Letter and much valued Packet by Col. Le Maire. I am the more obliged to you as I am conscious I so little deserved your Attention, but I hope when I shall have more Leisure I shall be able to apologise for a long seeming Neglect, give you some Satisfaction respecting several Matters you may wish to be informed of, and demonstrate to you that I can never...
25To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 28 April 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is possible that this may reach you before my other Letter of the 25th. Ulto., I think it proper in Justice to myself, to inform you that I then wrote a few Lines by a Monsr. Le croix, who afforded me the first Opportunity of acknowledging the Receipt of your kind Letter by Col. Le Maire, and of apologizing for a Long seeming Neglect. As I had but a Moment to write then, I promised to...
26To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 23 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote a few Lines acknowledging the Receipt of yours by Col. Le Mair, and sent them by Monsr. Le Croix, a Merchant of Wmsburg. I then wrote more fully by Mazzei, and sent you some Account of our astronomical Observations on the Delaware with the Result of them respecting the 5° of Long. run out to the S.W. corner of Pennsylva., together with our last Acts of Assembly. I mention this as...
27To George Washington from John Page, 9 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
A thousand Accidents have happened which prevented my writing to you since I had the Pleasure of seeing you at Richmond—for some Time I comforted myself with the Hope of being able to wait on you: & when I was appointed by the Convention one of their Deputies to the gen’l Convention to be held at Philada I then determined to wait on you in my Way —but the Situation of my Affairs has detained...
28To George Washington from John Page, 9 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
The little Time Mr Griffith has to spend with me, & my present State of Mind must be my Apology for this short Scrawl. The Directors of the Dismal Co. I am certain will be perfectly satisfied with any Plan which you would adopt. The one you hint at in your Letter, is I think the only one which suits the Finances & Disposition of the Company. The Members are too Lukewarm to advance Money if...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 7 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
You will pardon my long Silence my dear Jefferson when I tell you that in Addition to the many Reasons which I have given in my former Letters and which might be repeated here, I have to add that of the long Indisposition, and at length the Death, of my beloved Wife. It is true, she has been dead almost fourteen Months but many of these Months have passed off like a Dream, and the others have...
30To James Madison from John Page, 6 August 1788 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 27th. Ulto. inclosing the New York Papers, with the joyfull News of the Ratification of the Plan of the fœderal Constitution has just come to Hand. I return you many Thanks for communicating to me so early, an Authentic Account of that important & glorious Event. I heartily congratulate you on the brightening Prospect of our Affairs, & the Success of your Wishes & patriotic...
31To George Washington from John Page, 14 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
As the Time is now almost arrived when you will proceed to appoint the Officers of Government, I can no longer refrain from mentioning such Persons to you as have requested me to do so on this Occasion. That I might not be troublesome I have contented myself with stating with their Names the Offices they wished for & the Person recommending them. I have taken the Liberty of inclosing a few...
32To George Washington from John Page, 31 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
That I may not be troublesome & appear to others if not to yourself to obtrude myself too often on your Goodness, I take this Method of apologising for leaving a Letter with your Lady, & directing it to you without knowing its Contents but Sir Mrs Whiting’s Character & good Sense, induced me to comply with her Request, which was to direct her Letter & present it to you. At the Request of...
33To George Washington from John Page, 23 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
That I may not obtrude on you & to the Interruption of other Applicants, I again have Recourse to this Mode of Application in behalf of Gentlemen who wish to be recommended to you for Appointments. The inclosed Letter was left by Mr Andrews with a Friend the Day he set out on his Return to Virginia. I hope you will excuse my troubling you with it as I shall only add respecting him that I think...
34To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 11 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned when I last saw you the Scarcity of Money in Virga. my Disappointments there in Collections of Debts, and in new Sales, but then hoped that the Sacrifices I was making there, would gain me Credit for my Punctuality and that my Creditors would not disturb me here. I hoped that the Sale of my ¼ of a Share in the Dismall Swamp Co. and 500 Acres, adjoining the Company’s 40000 Acres,...
35To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 1[2] January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am infinitely obliged to you and do promise on my sacred word that you shall not be called at the Bank for before the Note can be demanded I will either pay the Money out of my own, or by a Loan at the other Bank, which I will negotiate with some other Person, and in Case of my Death I have the Promise of Mrs. Page who shall be able to fulfill it, that it shall be paid as punctually as if I...
36To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 1[2] January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed is such a Note, as with your Name on the Back of it (generally written across) will answer my Purpose and shall be no Inconvenience to you. I have now only Time to add that you have greatly obliged & relieved the Feelings of your Friend, RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 12 Jan. 1792 and so recorded in SJL . Appended on separate sheet is a copy of the enclosed note entirely...
37To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 14 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure I need not take up a Moment of your Time to tell you how much you have obliged me by lending me your Name on the present Occasion. Your indorsing this Note will enable me to take up the other at the Bank of N. America which will be delivered to Mr. Wheaton our Serjeant at Arms on the Day of negociating the Business at that Bank, when I will send it to you cancelled. I will take Care...
38To Alexander Hamilton from John Page, 22 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have snatched a few Minutes from my Business to scribble an answer to the Author of the Letter which I delivered to you in the Presence of Col. Hartley. I have inclosed it for your perusal according to my Promise & hope it will serve as a Proof to you that I disdain to be an accomplice in a Cabal against you & convince Mr. Blanchard that he has mistaken my Character. I am dear Sir with real...
39To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 15 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length taken up my Note. The manner of doing it (as I was disappointed in my Expectations of a Sale of my Lands, and had countermanded my Orders for Remittances from House in Consequence of those Expectations) was mortifying to me; but I am happy in being able to take your Name out of the Bank according to my Promise. I am much obliged to you for your friendly Aid.—Wish you all...
40To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unhappy and ashamed to be again under the Necessity of troubling you in the Manner I did the last Session—but an insufficient Number of Purchasers appearing at my Sales, which I honestly had sufficient to have paid every Debt, could I have sold the Lands and Negros which I actually set up to the highest Bidder, reduced me to the expedient of promising Payment here, hoping that my Sales...
41To George Washington from John Page, 30 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Multiplicity & importance of Business in which I have been engaged, prevented my making the Extracts from Mr Anderson’s Letter which I promised you on Tuesday last, till unfortunately it was mislaid so that I have not yet found it—but I recollect that he gave me his Opinion freely that Mr Gayle was an honest punctual Man, & he supposed capable of making such Payments as you might require—&...
42To George Washington from John Page, 14 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
On the Receipt of your Letter I made the necessary Enquiry respecting the Ability of Mr S[amue]l Anderson to comply with the Terms of Payment you propose for your Land, & being informed by his Neighbour Mr Phil: Tabb that he is a worthy industrious Man who if he should purchase intends to settle on the Place & that he is in Trade & has good Friends, I delivered him the Letter you inclosed. I...
43To George Washington from John Page, 25 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having received a Letter from a Person who writes from the United-States Prison, signed J. E. Guinet requesting me to supplicate you for his Pardon, of, what he calls, his supposed, Offence, in fitting out in this Port the french armed Ship Le Jemeaux; protesting his Innocence lamenting the Distresses of himself & Family, & stating that he had sent in to you a Petition in his Behalf signed by...
44To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
My long Absence from hence, occasioned by Sickness which prevented my return, & the Post-master’s officious good intentioned Effort to convey your letters to me at Rosewell, where he supposed I should remain during the present Session of Assembly, put it out of my Power to acknowledge the Receipt of them ’till now. I thank you for your Letter , & for Fauchet’s Pamphlet. At present I can not...
45To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 26 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received the Instructions to our Envoys & their Dispatches inclosed under two blank Covers, for which I thank you—for as much as I wish for your Correspondence, I can not desire you to with draw your attention from the greatly important Business of your Office, from the interesting subjects of various kinds which must be presented to you every day at Philada. & from your favorite...
46To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 21 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 6th. Instt. inclosing your Letter to a Friend respecting the malicious Attack on a Passage in your Notes on Virginia, & the President’s last Communication to Congress of the Proceedings of our Envoys happily came safe to Hand—Of the former I think it fully sufficient for your Purpose—it will satisfy every one who is not by the infernal Spirit of Party hardened against...
47To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 13 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you my dear Friend for your Letter & the Pamphlets inclosed. I see clearly through the Dark Windings, & turnings, dark as they are— War with France has long been the favorite Object of our Govt. Porcupine first prepared me for this Event, by his declaration in Novr. 1796, that the Ud. S.s would be “obliged to go to War with France, & with Spain too; & that the sooner you drive them...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, my dear Jefferson, yours of the 12th. Ultimo after its circuitous Rout through the Post Roads to Richmond, & thence by the Weekly Post-cross-Road to Gloucester Court House, where I suppose it arrived eight days later than it would have arrived had it not reached Richmond after the Gloucester weekly mail had been closed, or sent off. I mention these Circumstances as an Explanation...
49To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 6 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your highly flattering & friendly Letter , & to return as I do my best Thanks for it. That you should have proposed to hold me up as worthy of being the Successor of Rittenhouse in the Office of Director of the Mint, is to my Feelings in my present Situation highly gratifying, & to be informed of this in the manner I was, has afforded me much Consolation....
50To James Madison from John Page, 7 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I return you my best Thanks for your Friendly Answer to my Letter. I heartily condole with you on the Death of your Father, a Circumstance but lately made known to me: and lament the bad State of your Health. But I sincerely hope that you will be soon restored to perfect Health, and that no Circumstance may occur to interrupt you in the Exercise of the Office, in which every Friend of yours...