1Memorandum respecting the Militia, 16 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
By This time I had engagd 70 Carp⟨s⟩. from the Militia to work at 6d....
2From George Washington to Joshua Lewis, 6 June 1757 (Washington Papers)
“A Return of the Provisions Arms Amonition Carp[ente]rs Tools &C. at Maidstone June 7th 1757...
3II. Humphrey Ploughjogger to Philanthrop, 5 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
...and then an opening, Pedant as you are to carp, at Spelling and pointing when you are brought...
4Virginia Nonimportation Resolutions, 22 June 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
William CarpMathey Carp
5General Orders, 11 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
Carp,
6Pay Book of the State Company of Artillery, [1777] (Hamilton Papers)
...peculiar qualities; its rivers abound with fish; a thousand carp have been sold for a crown.
7From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 3 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Carp,
8“The Deformed and Handsome Leg” and “La Belle et la Mauvaise Jambe,” [before 23 November 1780] (Franklin Papers)
...little Attention may observe Signs of that carping fault-finding Disposition, and take the...
9[October 1782] (Adams Papers)
...Ponds, Grottoes and Waterspouts. And looked at the Carps and Swan that came up to Us for Bread...
101782 October 26. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
...Ponds, Grottoes and Waterspouts. And looked at the Carps and Swan that came up to Us for Bread...
11To George Washington from George Clinton, 17 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
...that he (the Inhabitant) believed he the said Abraham Carp
12To George Washington from Benjamin Harrison, Sr., 31 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Carp.
13To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 16 April 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
...found wanting as I already perceive a disposition to Carp at, & to elude such parts of the...
14From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 16 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
...found wanting as I already perceive a disposition to Carp at, & to elude such parts of the...
15The Abbé Morellet’s Song in Honor of Independence Day, 4 July 1783 (Franklin Papers)
..., and hare. There were six mackerel, a ray, carp, eels, cod, flounder, sole, and one hundred...
16[From Thomas Jefferson to John Key, 1 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
...live at Bellow’s—2 or 3 days work of Carps and Geo’s.—grass on level—Carr’s mare...
17John Quincy Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
...pond of water, in which there is vast number of Carps so tame, that you may take them in the...
18Notes of a Tour of English Gardens, [2–14 April] 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
.... Much neglected. The water affords 2000. brace of carp a year. There is a Palladian bridge of...
19To James Madison from George Washington, 18 November 1786 (Madison Papers)
...duty and his desire to escape political carping, Washington looked to JM and others for...
20Notes of a Tour into the Southern Parts of France, &c., 3 March–10 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...miles an hour.] The canal yeilds abundance of carp and eel. I see also small fish resembling...
21Notes of a Tour through Holland and the Rhine Valley, 3 March–23 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...about 8.f. broad. The Rhine yields salmon, carp, pike, and perch, and the little rivers...
22Notes on Emigration, [ante 19 November] 1791 (Madison Papers)
...Cod fish contains about 1,000,000 Eggs & A Carp spawns about 20,000—Bradley’s Phil: Acct. of...
23From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
...greatest profusion of Shad, Herring, Bass, Carp, Perch Sturgeon &ca.” Nevertheless,...
24Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
...of them all. from the debates there appears a jealous carping ill naturd spirit
25From George Washington to Arthur Young, 12 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
...greatest profusion of Shad, Herring, Bass, Carp, Perch, Sturgeon &ca. Several valuable...
26Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 5 May 1794 (Adams Papers)
upon fish, caught in the River called Carp, but the House was destitute of Liquor’s except...
27Memorandum Books, 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Pd. for a carp 1/6.
28Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Dennie Jr., 16 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
...15 March, complained of the “carping” condemnation of American literature put forward in an...
29Washington’s Slave List, June 1799 (Washington Papers)
Carp[ente]rDavy—Carp[ente]r
30Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
...I am sometimes disposed to become a cynic & carp indiscriminately at all that fa[ll] in my way...
31Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 September 1801 (Adams Papers)
...be Scaned not with loss of candour, but carping malice; Such is the Spirit of party....
32From Thomas Jefferson to the National Institute of France, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...the authentic letter “contains not one of the phrases carped at.” On 18 Apr., the editors of...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Hughes, 26 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...Congress for payment of his wartime accounts (E. Wayne Carp,
34From Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 5 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
..., and their new friends, will find enough to carp at. this is a thing of course, and...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Morris, 21 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
...tyrany and ruthless oppression; While carping malevolence lifts its envenomed voice...
36Charles L. Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 17 September 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
...thick moddy bottoms or bancks the buffalow and Carp can be caught in any season in abundence...
37Memorandum Books, 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Gave James 5.D. to procure carp at Ashlin’s for the pond....a 2d. time to buy live carp for...
38Thomas Jefferson to John Ashlin, 20 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
...me a fishpond and am desirous to get some carp fish to stock it. we used formerly when...
39Matthew Wills to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
a desire to get Some live Carp and I having the Seine that is halled at ...the Carps for you...
40Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Wills, 26 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
aid in procuring the carp, and you will further oblige me by presenting my... ...the carp,...
41Memorandum Books, 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
.... with Mr. Bacon for foreman James to pay for carp. to procure living carp for the
42To James Madison from Jonas Humbert Jr., 22 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
...and after undergoing all these difficulties to Carp at officers for takeing what the...
43Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 25 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
they catch some carp, I send the ...and cask to procure for me as many living carp as he can to...
44Randolph Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
to try and procure some carp for you and
will fernish you with the carp if they
cetch any
45Randolph Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 21 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
in respect to the carp for you but found it was all in vane
46Memorandum Books, 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
James (Isbel’s) to procure some living carp for the pond 5.D.
47To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 29 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
...s re-appointment is something for the Gazettes to carp at; but the fate of Napoleon is,...
48Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 3 March–24 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
1 pr Carp 2/3. . carp: “carpenters’ compasses.”
49John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you some Carp which at your suggestion I put into a Pond two...
50Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 1 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
carp and for the