1From John Adams to James McHenry, 26 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your Letter of the 24, I can only say that I have referred the Papers relative to...
2From John Adams to James McHenry, 26 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of 23 of this month relative to Col. Smith’s Letter: your letter of...
3From John Adams to James McHenry, 24 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have read and considered your report of yesterday & concur with you & the other gentlemen at...
4From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received your note of this date & have read all the papers. This whole business is so...
5From John Adams to James McHenry, 22 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President requests the candid opinion of the Secretary of War, upon the project in the...
6From John Adams to James McHenry, 15 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I request you to transmit copies of the law for reducing the twelve regiments which passed...
7From John Adams to James McHenry, 7 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the sixth day of this month, &...
8From John Adams to James McHenry, 5 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have read with attention, and duly considered, your letter of the 1st. of this month, and all...
9From John Adams to James McHenry, 10 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed resolution of the Senate of the 9th of this month is referred by the President of...
10From John Adams to James McHenry, 31 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States, requests the Secretary of War to send him without delay a...
11From John Adams to James McHenry, 31 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States requests of the Secretary of War, immediate information,...
12From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, Jr., 29 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States refers the inclosed law of Tennessee, and letter from the...
13From John Adams to James McHenry, 9 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President requests the Secretary at War to have an Extract made from the Precis des Evenemens...
14From John Adams to James McHenry, 18 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
As a few Weeks only intervene between Us and the Meeting of Congress I request the favour of you...
15From John Adams to James McHenry, 20 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter from Daniel Morrow I pray you to consider & if possible gratify the parents...
16From John Adams to James McHenry, 18 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 11, & have read the sentence of the court martial against...
17From John Adams to James McHenry, 18 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have ruminated so long, upon the case of Andrew Anderson, that I am under some apprehensions...
18From John Adams to James McHenry, 18 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 7th. I consent with pleasure to the appointment of Thomas Pinckney...
19From John Adams to James McHenry, 14 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I am out of patience with some body, I know not whom. Your letter of the 4th of August, reached...
20From John Adams to James McHenry, 13 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
If you can extract any meaning from the inclosed letter from Chilacautha, on Sioto, you will be...
21From John Adams to James McHenry, 9 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have no objection to the promotions or appointments proposed in your list, inclosed in your...
22From John Adams to James McHenry, 9 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from Col Loame Baldwin, a respectable character as I suppose you know,...
23From John Adams to James McHenry, 2 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from fourteen of the most respectable gentlemen in Rhode island,...
24From John Adams to James McHenry, 30 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Regretting with you on every account, public & private, the prevalence of the fever, I cannot but...
25From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have read all the papers inclosed in yours of the 14th & now return them as I received them....
26From John Adams to James McHenry, 22 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I consent to the appointment of Mr. William Hosack to be lieutenant in the first regiment of...
27From John Adams to James McHenry, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from Augustus de Grasse. I know not why his pay is withheld I pray you to...
28From John Adams to James McHenry, 14 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are is a letter from Judge Bourne of Rhode Island recommending Dr Benjamin Mason to be a...
29From John Adams to James McHenry, 12 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter from Mr Strong recommending Job Strong Jun. to be an ensign & another from...
30From John Adams to James McHenry, 12 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Freeport volunteers are so well recommended, that I pray you to send their officers...
31From John Adams to James McHenry, 12 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter of Mr. Thatcher recommending George Barrell to be a midshipman & I know of...
32From John Adams to James McHenry, 12 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I will not object to the surgeons & mates selected by Col Rice & Col Hunnewell for their...
33From John Adams to James McHenry, 10 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed certificates from a clergyman & two surgeons of good authority were brought to me...
34From John Adams to James McHenry, 7 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I return you Col. Hawkins of 23 of May inclosed in yours of 29. July and am happy to find that...
35From John Adams to James McHenry, 6 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Last night I received your favor of 31st July. Upon looking over the list of candidates for...
36From John Adams to James McHenry, 5 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I return you Col. Hawkins’s Letter of 23 of May inclosed in yours of 29. July and am happy to...
37From John Adams to James McHenry, 29 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter & petition of the officers of a company of Artillery at North Hampton,...
38From John Adams to James McHenry, 29 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
The talk of Methlogee & the answer of Mr Seagrove, copies of which were inclosed in your favors...
39From John Adams to James McHenry, 27 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 20th. and have no Objection to the plan you propose of raising a...
40From John Adams to James McHenry, 27 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter of Gen. Hamilton, inclosed in yours of 22 July, which I return as you...
41From John Adams to James McHenry, 26 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter is from a very respectable Senator of our State, to a gentleman, whom you...
42From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I am so continually entertained with applications to be chaplains & surgeons, that I pray you to...
43From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I return the recommendations inclosed in your letter of 18th, received last night & agree to the...
44From John Adams to James McHenry, 22 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
On Saturday Dr. Waterhouse made me a visit & introduced Dr Lyman Spalding whose appearance...
45From John Adams to James McHenry, 20 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 13th and am perfectly satisfied with the disposition you have...
46From John Adams to James McHenry, 19 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I agree with you, in your opinion expressed in your favour of the 12th, that both an Army and...
47From John Adams to James McHenry, 19 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 12th, & have considered the opinions of the heads of...
48From John Adams to James McHenry, 13 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8th of this month, & have read the letter from Major General...
49From John Adams to James McHenry, 13 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th & have examined the list of officers & read all the...
50From John Adams to James McHenry, 7 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
As It is an excellent Principle for every Man in public Life, to magnify his office and make it...