1To John Adams from James Bowdoin, 24 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
The Gentleman, by whom this will be delivered to you, is Nathaniel Appleton esq r the Commissioner of the Loan Office for the State of Massachusetts. At the first institution of the Office in the Year 1776 he was appointed to it, and has been continued in it by the Several Boards of Treasury to the present time. Besides the approbation of those, to whom he was immediately accountable, his...
2To John Adams from Stephen Higginson, 24 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your obliging letter of the 14 instant I have received, & thank you for the friendly intentions you therein express. I did not mean to request any activity on your part, in the case alluded to; nor was I aware, that any expression I used would convey an Idea of that kind—the intention you intimate, is all I wish for, or should have tho’t would have been proper for me to ask.— It is cheering to...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Sharp Delany, 24 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 24, 1790. On April 30, 1790, Hamilton wrote to Delany “I refer you to my Letter of the 24th march.” Letter not found. ]
4To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 24 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Boston, March 24, 1790. States that “General Warren is going in the Morning to the City of New York to settle his public accounts as a Member of the Navy board, in this State.” Recommends General Warren’s son, Henry, for “an office in the revenue.” Copy, RG 36, Collector of Customs at Boston, Letters from the Treasury and Others, 1789–1818, Vol. 11, National Archives. James Warren of Plymouth,...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Whipple, 24 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, March 24, 1790. On May 31, 1790, in a letter to Hamilton , Whipple referred to “your letters of the 30th January & 24th March last.” Letter of March 24 not found. ]
6[Diary entry: 24 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 24th. Prevented from Riding by the unfavourableness of the Weather.
7To George Washington from Jacob Wray, 24 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Virginia Port Hampton May it please your Excellency March 24th 1790 As I, find myself groing very short in Memory & of coarse my small abillities going in the same line & find publick business if ever so profitable so great a burthen to my mind without I could controll the business according to Law & Instructions which in my Opinion makes some nice reflections. Therefore if you will please to...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Sylvanus Bourne, 2[4?] March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
New York, 25 [i.e. 24?] Mch. 1790 . Having had the honor of an introduction to TJ he feels he may disclose his wish for public employment and refers to “the Vice President and Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretarys of the Treasury and War Departments” for information, but is conscious that capacity to serve the public is “the only proper ground of my expectations, as the only one...
9To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 24 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 24 Mch. 1790 . After ten days in the bosom of friendship with Luzac at Leiden, he has again met here with “ les mêmes Chevaux, Carosses, Laquais, qui, avec grand étalage, se font la cour réciproquement; les mêmes yvrognes, polissons, et gueux de tout age et sexe, courants et faisants du bruit la nuit dans les rues et gargottes.—Les braves gens, qui pourtant ne manquent pas ici, y...