1Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
...peculiar state of things, to make it necessary, or proper, in you, or any other American...
2Edmund Randolph’s Notes on the Common Law, [ca. September] 1799 (Madison Papers)
It is not necessary or proper (merely as being the Common law) to carry into...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 18 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
...ideas of the information and recommendations necessary or proper to be made to congress at...
4From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 12 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
...to both transactions, which you may judge necessary or proper & I pray you to have them...
5From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 9 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
.... My plan supposes that it is not necessary or proper in the fundamental school to do more...