1To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Managers of the Philadelphia Silk Filature, 17 November 1772 (Franklin Papers)
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2A Public Notice by Franklin and Robert Morris, 5 December 1775 (Franklin Papers)
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3From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 January 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
: A rooming house at 5th and Market streets, Philadelphia (Philadelphia Directory for 1785), conducted by Mrs. Mary House. Here Madison roomed, as did Floyd and his daughters. Among the ladies
4To James Madison from the Reverend James Madison, 4 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
...good.” By May 1781 Scot had moved to Philadelphia, where he advertised himself as “Late Engraver to the State of Virginia.” His name is listed with various addresses in the Philadelphia directories from 1785 to 1822. On 30 December 1793 President Washington, with the approval of the Senate, appointed him engraver to the recently established United States mint—a position which he...
5[From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel House, 5 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
...whom TJ lodged in Philadelphia in 1782 and 1783, and brother of his much-admired friend Mrs. Eliza House Trist, was a merchant who kept a shop on Chestnut Street between Second and Third (Philadelphia Directory for 1785; letters of House to TJ in 1784–1785). House may have imported, or planned to import, some English copying presses of the kind recently patented by James Watt. The result of...
6To John Adams from Joseph Hague, 13 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
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7To Alexander Hamilton from Sharp Delany, [3 August 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Jared Ingersoll, a Philadelphia lawyer and attorney general of Pennsylvania, is the only Ingersoll listed in the Philadelphia directory for this year.John Leamy is listed in the Philadelphia directory as “Agent for his Catholic Majesty.”
8From Alexander Hamilton to Walter Stewart, 27 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
An entry in the Philadelphia Directory for 1791 reads: “Allen Mrs. gentlewoman, 155 Chestnut Street.”
9To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Clarke, 2 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
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10To George Washington from John Claypoole, 4 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
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