1John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 November 1790 (Adams Papers)
I received with great pleasure, my dear Mamma, your favour of the 7 th: inst t: which relieved me in some measure from my anxiety on account of your health, though it is now again alarmed at having no letters this evening by the Post. I want exceedingly to hear of your arrival at Philadelphia, and of the thorough restoration of your health.— I hope nothing will induce you to spend another...
2John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 20 November 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have indeed, my dear Sister, been guilty of a neglect, in omitting so long to write to you, which I cannot upon any principle justify to my own heart; I am sure it has been totally inconsistent with the ardent and sincere brotherly affection which that heart invariably acknowledges for you, and which no length of time, no absence, no course of circumstances, shall ever impair: I have very...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Nathaniel Appleton, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote you 17th Inst. in answer to yours of the 1st Inst. This serves to enclose duplicate receipt for twelve books of Certificates recd. by Capt. Bray also a receipt for one Book of Certificates recd. by post from Mr. Gavett containg. Certificates for Non subscribers, for transferring Stock to other States & Certifts. bearing Interest of three pr Cent. In your letter 30th Sept. you say “if...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 20, 1790. Letter listed in “A list of 51 Papers Relative to Contract Between the United States and John C. Symmes.” Letter not found. ] Clarence E. Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United States (Washington, 1934), II, 390. Ludlow was a New Jersey surveyor and land speculator. Symmes, who had served as a member of the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786,...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Walter Livingston, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Sands informs me that you promised him to procure the Opinion of the Attorney General of the Union ; Whether the powers of the Comptroller extended to the Settlement of the Demand exhibited by Sands Livingston & Co. against the united States and by them, with the consent of the Parties submitted to Referrees. Our Claim is of such magnitude, that few persons can submit, without very great...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Israel Ludlow, 20 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, November 20, 1790. Commissions and instructs Ludlow to make “the Surveys which still remain to be made towards a complete demarkation of the boundaries of the several Tracts of land which have been contracted for with the persons respectively denominated The Ohio Company, The Scioto Company, and the Miami Company.” Extract, RG 217, Miscellaneous Treasury Accounts,...
7From George Washington to James Henry, 20 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I availed myself a few days ago of the presence of Mr B. Basset to reacknowledge before him and Dr Stuart the original conveyance from me to the deceased Mr Custis of the land which you are possessed of by purchase from him in King and Queen County —This reacknowledgement in the opinion of professional men is all that is necessary to give validity to the deed, and all that is proper for me to...
8To George Washington from Henry Putnam, 20 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Savannah, Ga., 20 November 1790. Having been impoverished by his service during the whole of the late war and reduced to great straits, he offers himself as a candidate for the command of a revenue cutter and submits certificates and recommendations for his character, abilities, and knowledge of the Georgia coast. ALS , DLC:GW . Henry Putnam of Maryland was commissioned in February 1780 to...
9From George Washington to the Rhode Island Legislature, 20 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
While I acknowledge, with grateful sincerity, my personal obligations to the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, for the very flattering manner in which they convey their congratulations on my election to the Chief-magistracy of our confederated republic, and for the approbation they are pleased to express of my public conduct —it affords me peculiar pleasure...
10To George Washington from Stephen Sayre, 20 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of sending you a short narative of my past conduct, as it respects the public, by one of the last Ships from this port. Since writing that Letter, the Marquis de la Fayette has promised to write in my favour; he remembers my having, during the war, stated my complaints—he also remembers my having suggested the mode, & pointed out the method, of having the Island of Porto Rico,...
11To Thomas Jefferson from James Maury, 20 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 6th Instant I had the Honor to inform you of the Convention between Spain and this Country. On this Day the ports of Britain are Shut against the Importation of foreign Wheat and Flour at the low Duties until the 28th February:—after which they will remain so or be opened as prices shall govern. I have the Honor to be with much Respect Sir your most obt St, RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD );...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Rutledge, Jr., 20 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival here I have received from Mr. Wedgwood, in england, some of his imitations of etruscan and roman antique lamps vases &c. Amongst the lamps he has sent me, one is fashioned and painted after an etruscan candelabras I saw at his manufactory. His copy I find a very exact one, and he has made it much more complete than the original by fitting to it Keirs patent hydrostatical lamp....
13To Thomas Jefferson from Schweighauser & Dobrée, 20 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just now learnt your nomination of Secretary of State, we beg leave to present you with our fellicitations and sincerely congratulate your Countrymen convinced that the greatest blessings a State can enjoy flows from a well chosen Ministry.—This Event destroys the hopes we have long entertained of seing you return to france and of bringing our unhappy affair against the Alliance to a...