1—— —— to Abigail Adams, 23 February 1778 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams for a long time has been engaged by the Kennebeck Company in a cause in which Colo. Tyng is a Party, which was reduced in one or more points to a special Verdict and was to have been argued this Court, but unfortunately being deprived of Mr. Adams to conduct the cause, by his sudden departure for France, the matter is suspended untill April, to give us time to provide for the debate....
2To John Adams from Unknown, 9 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
The great Character he hath heard of you, induces a private Man to offer to your Consideration the following Hints, with an Assurance, that your Regard for your Country, will improve upon them for the general Good of all America. When one Colony is declared to be in actual Rebellion, when all the others are anounced to be accessary to, and Favourers of that Rebellion, when the Sword is drawn,...
3Enclosure: An Anonymous Letter to Edward Bridgen, 3 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
You have a friend who has suffer’d too much from the particular situation he was in lately, not to interest every honest man in his behalf to prevent his being the dupe of artifice, he has already been ill treated from a quarter unlookd for, and the same game is Continued to answr the end first proposed—Amcan. ministers in Europe have various politicks to pursue, and some of them understand...
4Enclosure: Extract of a letter to Mr. Close, 1 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have this day shipped the above on Board the William Penn, James Josiah, Comr for Philadelphia, by this post I have enclosed in a letter to Clement Biddle Esqr. the Bill of Loading, and have said to him that through the direction of Col. Humphrey’s, I have consigned it to his Care, and from whom I apprehended that his Excellency or himself woud hear farther on the Business—I have done this...
5Enclosure: Unknown to Tench Coxe or Daniel W. Coxe?, 7 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The information you requested concerning the Province of West Florida I find myself unable to give correctly having never committed any remarks to paper, and must rely entirely to memory for what I mention concerning it—it will however serve you as a clue to obtain better information. When west Florida was ceded to Great Britain it comprehended the territory situated between East Florida on...
6To Thomas Jefferson from “A Vermont Republican”, 3 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A man, who inhaled with his first breath the genuine spirit of republicanism, and who never abandoned or dissembled his principles in the darkest period of the late administration, a man who has long been a most zealous admirer of the name and character of the illustrious citizen who penned the immortal declaration of his country’s independence; whose predictions have been fulfilled, and whose...
7Bill for Food to Thomas Jefferson at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia, [17 September 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Jefersons Bill To 2 horsefeeds 2– 〃 Dinner 2– Servants Dinner 1–6 5 6 MS ( MHi ); written on a small scrap in an unidentified hand; undated; endorsed by TJ at foot of text: “1815. Sep. 17. Liberty ”; with unidentified map in pencil by TJ on verso.
8To Thomas Jefferson from “A. B.”, 2 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A paragraph lately appeared in a Gazette of this City, relative to the resignation or removal of the Director of the Mint; should this be founded in truth, I will take the liberty to remind you of one among many deserving Candidates for Office, whose modest, unassuming merit, you will know how to appreciate—I mean Doctor Thomas Tudor Tucker, whose warm attachment to your Person & Politics he...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, [ca. 6 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
In presence of John Samuel Sherburne Esqr. of New Hampshire, it was mentioned that you was a Deist. The pleasure with which he received the Intelligence, leads the writer of this to mention the fact—that you may early see whether he will not indeavour by artfully playing with such an idea—to warp you to his purposes. The truth or falsehood of the assertion, is not hereby intended to be...
10To Thomas Jefferson from ——, 26 September [1780] (Jefferson Papers)
Meeting with an immediate conveyance to Richmond by the bearer, I do myself the pleasure to give you the following agreeable intelligence. This morning on my return from the northward, I was overtaken by a Gentleman who left Philadelphia so late as last Saturday (the 23d instant) and had Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Gazette, in which I read extract of a letter from Bevernwick of the 18th instant,...