1From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
I must begin my Letter by wishing you and yours, many returns of the Season, as pleasent, as delightfull as the present for the winter hitherto has been as mild, as the Summer was cold. “Sterne Says, God tempers the wind to the Shorn Lamb” and the winter as yet; has been temperd to the wants, and necessities of the people: altho their Herbage was cut off, and the Herds in their stalls will be...
2To James Madison from the Inhabitants of St. Lawrence County, New York, [8 January 1817] (Madison Papers)
To his Excellency the President of the United States and the honourable the Senate and house of Representatives in Congress assembled. The Petition of the undersigned humbly Sheweth. That your Petitioners Conceive it proper and expedient that a Law Should be passed annexing that part of Champlain District of the Customs Called the County of Franklin to the District of Oswegatchee in the State...
3To James Madison from George Thompson, 8 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have Not Seen you for Nearly twenty five Years. I am now an Old Man and Still I am as Much in love with our beloved Country as any Man in the United States. The time is Near at hand that you Are to quit publick life & Mr. Monroe to take the presidential Chair. I hope & believe that We Shall be As Safe under him as We have been for the last Sixteen years. When I think that I am Never to See...