1Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Buttons (home manufacture)
2Account with St. Mary’s Seminary, [ca. July 1809] (Madison Papers)
Buttons, Silk Linen &ca $2. Making $4.
3To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
that it is said in England, “a button maker becomes a button & a buckle maker a buckle in the...
4From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
If a Button Maker becomes a Button at last; the Lord knows what I am to...
5To John Adams from William Cunningham, 28 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
...this kind, I could wish to see them with buttons down their backs, a badge of some others...
6From Archibald Young to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
5 doz pearl Buttons
7From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 16 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
...their blue Ribbons at their Black Button holes united cordially in express words with...
...it up. I would not undertake to make a Button hole in it, during the whole Remainder of...
9To James Madison from George Armitage, 28 January 1812 (Madison Papers)
...in the Aurora concerning the making of the yallow Metal Buttons—I make bold to state to You—
10Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Patrick Henry, [before 12 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
by a button of the coat, said to him pretty sternly, ‘...