183451John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress (Adams Papers)
The first session of the Second Continental Congress began on 10 May 1775 and ended officially on...
183452Notes on the Movements of the Mediterranean Squadron, on or before 16 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
1802, Nov. 3. sailed from Leghorn. took under convoy vessel bd. to Palermo 11. entered Palermo....
183453To Benjamin Franklin from George Read, 14 April 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from William T. Read, Life and Correspondence of George Read...
183454Memorandum from an Unidentified Correspondent, [post 1 July] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Can the President call forth the militia of the Union, or any part of that militia, without the...
183455Minutes of the New-York Manumission Society, 10 February 1785 (Jay Papers)
The Society met according to Adjournment and proceeded to Elect, by Ballot, their Officers and...
183456To Benjamin Franklin from James Johnson, [28 April 1766] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from George Everett Hastings, The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson...
183457To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 20 July 1821 (Madison Papers)
Excuse me of taking the liberty to send you one of the papers inclosed within concerning the...
183458Deed of Trust for the Loganian Library, 25 March 1760 (Franklin Papers)
Transcript: Commissioner of Records, City of Philadelphia; abstract: American Philosophical...
183459The Moot Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
An elite group of New York lawyers systematically continued their legal education by organizing...
183460Editorial Note: The Great Collaborators (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of that day’s dinner conversation—the French protest against the tonnage acts of 1789...
183461“F.B.”: On the Paving of Chancery Lane, 4 January 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , January 4, 1766 While there is no certainty...
183462Editorial Note on Promissory Notes, 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Seventeen escaped prisoners made their way to Passy and received financial assistance from...
183463Editorial Note on Franklin’s Purported Address to the Irish People, 4 October 1778 (Franklin Papers)
The Hibernian Journal: or, Chronicle of Liberty published in its issue of November 2–4, 1778, an...
183464Lafayette, John Jay’s Self-Appointed “Political Aide-de-Camp” Takes on the Spanish Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Several months after the victory at Yorktown Congress gave Lafayette permission to return to...
183465Editorial Note on the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety’s Regulations for Associators and Nonassociators, 26 August 1775 (Franklin Papers)
The drafting subcommittee appointed on August 3, to implement Congress’ plan for the militia,...
183466To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 12 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
I see with pain by the public papers that the British have burnt several places of no Importance...
183467Enclosure No. II: [Willink, van Staphorst, and Hubbard, Amsterdam], [18 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. 1793. Jan: 1st. To balance in their hands 1.744.750. “ Residue of the last 3/m loan, to be...
183468Minutes of the Provincial Commissioners, 20 July 1764 (Franklin Papers)
MS : Massachusetts Historical Society The provincial commissioners named in the Supply Act of May...
183469Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1768, William Dix, a pauper, was removed from Boston to Chelsea by virtue of the...
183470Receipt of Payment for Carriage Equipment, [3 February 1810] (Madison Papers)
1810 Coll. Robert Patten for the President of the United States, Dr, to Robert Fielding febr. 3....
183471Minutes of the New-York Manumission Society, 21 May 1789 (Jay Papers)
At a quarterly Meeting of the Society for promoting the manumission of Slaves and protecting such...
183472To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 9 September 1814] (Madison Papers)
The present Circumstances of our Country looks very alarming, & for want of resources makes it so...
183473Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Two leading natural resources of the North Shore, clams and salt-marsh hay, provided the stakes...
183474To Benjamin Franklin from Ann Penn, 16 September 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I hope you are Recoverd. from your late fatigue and...
183475Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
At twenty-four Adams could ask, “But Quere, if Dissonance of Dispositions is a sufficient Reason...
183476Editorial Note: Coinage and the Unit of Money (Jefferson Papers)
In late November Jefferson received newspapers from William Short that seemed to provide a means...
183477From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [27 September 1766] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; extract reprinted from [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters...
183478Memorandum: Preliminary Conference with the Indians, 26 September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society Peters, Norris, and Franklin were commissioned on September...
183479Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
The American dispositions on the east side of Brandywine Creek probably were complete by the...
183480Editorial Note: Jefferson, the Aurora, and Delamotte’s Letter from France (Jefferson Papers)
When the Philadelphia Aurora of 3 Apr. 1798 printed a translation of “a letter from a well...