1November 5. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Jay likes Frenchmen as little as Mr. Lee and Mr. Izard did. He says they are not a Moral People. They know not what it is. He dont like any Frenchman. —The Marquis de la Fayette is clever, but he is a Frenchman. —Our Allies dont play fair, he told me. They were endeavouring to deprive Us of the Fishery, the Western Lands, and the Navigation of the Missisippi. They would even bargain with...
2From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 5 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
I have this day received by Captain Barney in a Short Passage from Philadelphia, the Ratifications of our Contracts, which are all here inclosed ten in Number, together with two Letters for you and one Packet and one Letter for Mr Dumas, which I pray you to transmit him with my Respects. Let me beg of you, Gentlemen to encourage and promote our Loan by all fair and reasonable Means, and...
35th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
This morning at about 10 o’clock we pass’d the russian frontiers and arriv’d at Abbo r fors which is the first place in Swedish Finland. Here we were visited. We arriv’d at Lovisa at about 12. o’clock. Mr. Gummer arrived last night about 10 o’clock. When you come into Swedish Finland you pay every thing in Swedish money. You give 4. schillings pr. horse for each Swedish mile which is 10....
4To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I was in hopes long before this to have been able to have given you some account of my Progress in the Administration of Mr Custis’s Estate, but such is the villany and cunning of Posey, and the situation of our Country that I have as yet been able to do hardly any thing in it, I soon began to suspect the dishonesty of Posey, and every enquiry that I have been able to make confirms me in it,...
5To George Washington from William Heath, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to the after general order of the 30. ultimo, I took immediate measures for completing an arrangement of the Massachusetts line by this day; but the field-officers of the line having requested some longer time to give the officers an opportunity to agree and accomodate the arrangement among themselves, and your excellency having been pleased to wave the completion of the...
6To George Washington from Richard Bennett Lloyd, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
A fever having attacked me very soon after I had the honor of Yr Excellency’s Letter, it hitherto has prevented me from returning many thanks for your kind suggestion—I am of opinion, the Gentleman who you mention will not remain long on this side of the Atlantic—I shall therefore endeavour to prevent such letters as may come to his care, for Mrs Lloyd, from following him to Europe. We had the...
7Notes on Debates, 5 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( LC : Madison Papers). See Notes on Debates, 4 November 1782 , ed. n. A Resolution passed authorising Genl Washington to obtain the exchange of 2 foreign officers notwithstanding the Resoln: of the 16 of Ocr. declaring that Congress will go into no partial exchanges until a general Cartel be settled on national principles. This measure passed without due consideration by the votes of N. H....
8From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, [5] November 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC (New York Public Library). Cover missing. Docketed by Pendleton, “James Madison Esqr. Nov. 4. 1782.” JM misdated the letter. His textual references to “yesterdays mail” (which could not have been that of 3 November, a Sunday), to “Yesterday” as the date of Elias Boudinot’s election to the presidency of Congress ( Notes on Debates, 4 November ), and to “my letter of this date to Mr....
9From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 5 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Unsigned but in JM’s hand. Docketed by Randolph, “J. Madison Nov: 5. 1782.” Except when otherwise noted, the italicized words are those written by JM in the official cipher. My last informed you that a proposition had been made in Congress for accepting the territorial Cession of N. York. The paper inclosed contains the proceedings which ensued. The acceptance of...
10To George Washington from Robert Morris, 5 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received the Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 31st last Month. I pray you will accept my Thanks for the Information and the Observations contained in it which shall meet my careful Attention. With perfect Respect I have the honor to be Sir your Excellency’s most obedient and humble Servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.