1Import Duties, [12 May] 1789 (Madison Papers)
...part of the northern community—see loaf sugar, candles, cheese, soap, &c. He hoped...
2Enclosure: A Statement of the Troops in the Service of the United States, 8 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
1 pound candles
3To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 14–26 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
...My Neighbours being mostly Taxation Members only had a Candle or two to save their Windows; I...
4To George Washington from William Bedlow, 27 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
...excessive high this with Clerks Sallery. fire and Candle for the office left me not £200 a...
5October 1789 (Washington Papers)
...GW’s visit so they would show against the lighted candles (
6[Diary entry: 29 October 1789] (Washington Papers)
...GW’s visit so they would show against the lighted candles (
7Request for Bids, 4 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
One pound of candles,
8Enclosure: [Answers to Queries Concerning the Navigation of the Several States], [25 November 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
...Corn, Biscuit, Salted Beef & Pork, Hams, Candles, Live Stock, Cyder, Beer & Some Porter,...
9Draft of An Act Making Further Provision for the Payment of the Debts of the United States, [January–12 July 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Candles of TallowCandles of Wax or Spermaceti
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 3 January 17[90] (Jefferson Papers)
20. ℔ moulded candles, tallow if to be had, if not, then...
11VII. Contingent Expenses of the Department of State, 1790–1793, 14 January 1790–31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
..., including tea water for 4 months, candles, sweeping of chimneys, charge attending the yard...
12To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 5 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...a book keeper, office room fire wood Stationary, Candles &c &c these are very heavy deductions...
13From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 1 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
...—give more light—and are cheaper than candles. Order a sufficiency of spare glasses...
14Household Expenses, 15–22 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
Tallow Candles
15Contract with Melancton Smith, [15 March 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
One pound of Candles
16Report on the Memorial of John Cochran, 16 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...annually, in full for all charges for Office-rent, candles, firewood &c.”
17From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, Jr., 18 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...mere mouser of time; it is burning the candle of life in perfect waste for the individual...
18From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 8 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
..., 3½dozen bottles of port, “56 ℔. Tallow Candles (no Spermaceti to be got),” 4 loaves “...
19Tench Coxe’s Second Draft, [September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
...animals, Shipbuilders, riggers, soap & candle makers, and leather dressers consume the...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, Jr., 6 September 1790 [Document added in the digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
...6 Aug. 1790 for a method of manufacturing candles. It was the second patent issued under...
21To Alexander Hamilton from Jedediah Huntington, 22 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...the first of October next with Oil, Wick, Candles & Soap … for 380 Dollars.… I have...
22To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 17 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
...one corner where he sleeps; but neither a candle or fire could be carried there with any...
23To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 31 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
...the Kitchen as to render it necessary to have Candles in it for a considerable part of the day...
24To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 7 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
: 4 pairs of candle-sticks, 2 girandoles, 1 mahogany press, 5 boxes... ...silver-plated candle-...
25From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 19 November 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
that you can contract for Oil, wick, candles, & soap for three hundred and eighty dollars ⅌...
26III. Tench Coxe’s Notes on the American Fisheries, [ca. 23 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
...sea animals; Shipbuilders, Riggers, Soap and Candle makers, Leather Dressers and others use...
27Alexander Hamilton’s Fourth Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Oils of animals and seeds, Soap Spermaceti & Tallow Candles Candles
28Memorandum Books, 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...Lindsay. Norf. 11.6 D. for 54 ℔ myrtle candles.Pd. freight for candles 3/9.
29From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 January 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
...on New Castle Island with oil, wick, fuel & candles, and for the care & lighting of the same...
30To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...on New Castle Island with oil, wick, fuel & candles, and for the care & lighting of the same...
31Alexander Hamilton’s First Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [27 January–4 February] 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...animals, shipbuilders, riggers, soap & candle makers, and leather dressers consume the...
32No. 3: Abstract of the Produce of the Fisheries exported from the United States, from about August 20th. 1789, to … (Jefferson Papers)
Candles spermaceti
33No. 12: State of the Whale Fishery in Massachusetts from 1771 to 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
...to Great Britain, the remainder manufactured into Candles. The Spermaceti Oil, previous to the...
34Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 6 February 179[1] (Adams Papers)
...about, fine Ladies shew themselves, and as candle Light is a great improver of Beauty,...
35Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 11 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
...necessary upon our arrival viz a Box of candles part mould & part dipt a Barrel of...
36To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 12 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
...supply the lighthouse there with oil, wick, candles, and soap for $380 for the year...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
candles, which I understood were made in quantities in your... ...: the candles to be forwarded...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Adam Lindsay, 7 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...is happy his papers arrived safe.—The myrtle candles desired are plentiful in fall but not to...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 15 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...inclosing the note for 54. ℔. myrtle wax candles. I thank you for your kind attention to...
40To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 26 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
upon Sugars, Coffees, Tea, Coccoa, Candles, Cheese, Cotton, Indigo, Lead & Shott, Nails,...
41To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 15 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
...The consumption of oil in lieu of tallow candles, the application of it in the leather...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
..., gammon, lard, butter, cheese, spermaceti candles, beeswax, apples, potatoes, codfish, beer...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Carter, 10 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
..., and the boarder finds his own firewood, candles and washing, which may be estimated at 40...
44Enclosure: Moses Brown to John Dexter, 22 July[–15 October] 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
...80 to 130,000 lb Weight of Spermacity candles were Annualy Made here from the year 1760...Candles
45To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 25 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...by those hoping to import salt provisions, candles, timber, and other articles.—The...
46To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, [ca. 10 August 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
...by you for the study of history is after candle light, and the season does not admit of that...
47Receipt from William Pearce, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
...other purposes, likewise for roving tow suitable for candle wick by means of a feeding Cloth,...
48To Thomas Jefferson from William Tatham, [before 26 August 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
...their sitting, for which I shall have time by Candle light. A dificulty will then arrise as to...
49Tench Coxe’s Draft of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures, [Fall] 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
...other sugar, per pound, two and a half cents; candles of tallow, per pound, two cents; candles...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 15 September 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...Philadelphia for the two articles of Myrtle wax candles, and Hughes’s crab cyder, which can...