1From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 26 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
You request a Service of Some difficulty, and more delicacy. The Number of Revolutionary Patriots in Massachusetts Patriots of the Revolution was not Small; and all have left Posterity and Connections to dispute with me. But if you demand my Opinion upon honour, I will give it, as it lies in my present Recollection. Samuel Adams, James Otis Junior, Major Hawley of North Hampton, Major General...
2From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the 24th I transmit two letters from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain to the Secretary of State with his answer. RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1). RC in John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . For enclosures, see n. 2. The resolution, introduced in the House of Representatives by Thomas B. Robertson...
3From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Commissions having issued during the recess of the Senate to the following persons, I now nominate them to the Offices respectively annexed to their names. … RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, followed by a list, in a clerk’s hand, of nineteen nominees to be principal assessors of the revenue throughout the nation, signed by JM . The...
4From James Madison to the Senate, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Josiah Simpson, of the Mississippi territory, to be one of judges of the same territory. Herman Visger, of New York, to be consul at Bristol in Great Britain. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A1). In John Payne Todd’s hand, signed by JM . The Senate confirmed the nominations on 9 and 28 Feb. 1816 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings, Journal of the Executive...
5Remission for George French, Charles French, and Richard Montgomery Boyer, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that George and Charles French and Richard Montgomery Boyer, all of George Town, in the District of Columbia, have been severally fined by a Court of Enquiry of the Militia of the said District for non-attendance in the Companies to which they respectively belonged, at and before the late attack of a British force on the City of Washington: and whereas it...
6Remission for Thomas Walker, 26 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that Thomas Walker, of the City of New york, was, some time ago, charged with a violation of the Revenue laws of the United States, in selling spirituous liquors in said City without a license for so doing, and that he has been judicially convicted of the offence with which he was so charged, and that thereupon he was sentenced to pay a pecuniary fine to...
7Elisha Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15 th ins. came to hand yesterday, inclosing a letter to my son , which I hope to forward to him in a few days by a Vessel, bound to Hamburg . He is now I suppose in Gottingen, Germany . I have received and heard nothing from him, since the 24 th Sept. last, at which time he writes, that he was in fine health—that he had arrived at a place, which he had long wish’d to visit, and...