183151Enclosure: Invoice for Freight and Duties, 4 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Paid freight to Washington for 1 Barrell Mississippi Water $ . 67 Porterage . 66 freight to the Owners of the Ship Eliza for 1 Butt of Sherry Wine 11. 00 Do. " " Edward for 2 pipes Lisbon Do 10. 50 Duties on 1 Butt Sherry Wine 55. 44 Do " 2 pipes Lisbon Do 82. 50
183152To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 19 February 1815] (Madison Papers)
The most lamentable delusion seems to have prevailed in the formation of every plan for the establishment of a national Bank which has hitherto been submitted for the consideration of Congress. Your objections to the Bill which you lately returned to the Senate are correct and conclusive as far as relates to its capacity of being useful to the public or private interests of the country during...
183153To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [19 November] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since the perusal of your late Message, I have been led to reflect upon the actual situation of our country, of which your communication to Congress professes to be a faithful exposition; and as I cannot bring my mind to the same results with your Excellency, I trust you will allow me the liberty of expressing some doubts, with my reasons for them, in regard to the prosperous state of our...
183154[From Alexander Hamilton to the Speaker of the House of Representatives], 10 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of December last, having been considered as contemplating foreign Loans only, the Statements rendered to the House on the 3d instant, were confined merely to those objects. But lest a greater latitude should have been intended by that resolution, I have the honor to transmit herewith a supplementary Statement, No. V, which contains the...
183155From Benjamin Franklin to the Speaker and Committee of Correspondence of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 22 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library In mine of June 10th. I acquainted you that I was about to make a Journey for the Establishment of my Health. I accordingly went to Pyrmont, where I drank the Waters some Days; but relying more on the Air and Exercise of Travelling, I proceeded to Hanover, and from thence thro’ Cassel to Frankfurt and Mentz, thence down the Rhine to Cologne, and so thro’ Treves to...
183156Note on an Advertisement for Land on the Ohio River, 15 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
The advertisement, dated July 15, 1773, and signed by George Washington at Mount Vernon, was printed in The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser and in the Pennsylvania Gazette ; it solicited applications for land grants in twenty thousand acres at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River. Its authorship has been attributed to Franklin, with no evidence but with admiration for his skill in...
183157The Origins of Freneau’s National Gazette, 25 July 1791 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
Alarmed by the blatant partisanship of John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States , which JM and Jefferson grew to distrust after the publisher’s support of Alexander Hamilton became more apparent in the winter of 1790–91, the two republicans began seeking a journalistic counterbalance. Philip Freneau seemed to have all the qualifications. He was a trustworthy republican (Freneau and JM had...
183158From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 25 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1833), p. 275. I can now only add, that I will endeavour to accomplish all that you and our friends desire relating to the settlement westward. The scheme for establishing an Illinois colony in which WF was one of the principal movers. See above, pp. 257 n,...
183159Madison in the Third Congress, 2 December 1793–3 March 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
During the last days of the Second Congress, JM made his longest speech of the session in support of William Branch Giles’s resolutions censuring Alexander Hamilton’s official conduct as secretary of the treasury ( PJM Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (1 vol. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984—). , 14:456–68 and nn.). The result was predictable....
183160Editorial Note: Documents on the Rice Trade (Jefferson Papers)
When Jefferson wrote Washington a conditional letter of acceptance of the office of secretary of state, he pointed out that “The ground I have already passed over enables me to see my way into that which is before me. The change of government, too … seems to open a possibility of procuring from the new rulers some new advantages in commerce which may be agreeable to our countrymen.” In the...
183161The Estate of Peter Jay Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
John Jay’s father, Peter Jay, made his last will and testament on 28 January 1778 and followed it with three codicils dated 22 June 1780, 11 September 1781, and 18 December 1781. Following Peter Jay’s death on 17 April 1782, the will and codicils were proved on 28 May 1782. Therein Peter Jay made the following disposition of his estate. To Augustus he bequeathed a trust fund for life in the...
183162Enclosure: Appointments by Authority, [25 July 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Alexander Hamilton, of New York, to be Inspector General of the Army with the rank of Major General. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina to be a Major General Henry Knox of Massachusetts to be a Major General Henry Lee of Virginia to be a Major General of the provisional army. Edward Hand of Pennsylvania to be a Major General in the provisional army. John Brooks of Massachusetts to...
183163To Benjamin Franklin from Joseph Galloway, 23 May 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have now the inexpressible Pleasure of informing you that we have, Via Poole, the great News of the Royal Assent to the Repeal of the Stamp Act. Upon its Arrival agreable to your Advice, Our Friends exerted their utmost Endeavours to prevent any indecent Marks of Triumph and Exultation. We opposed the Intended Fire Works Illuminations, firing of Canon...
183164Introductory Note: Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on the Depredations of the Creek Indians Upon the State of Georgia, 29 May … (Hamilton Papers)
Throughout 1792 and the early months of 1793 the Washington Administration had received reports of Indian depredations and Spanish intrigue on the southern frontier. In 1790 the Creek Nation under the leadership of Alexander McGillivray had signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the United States at New York, which among other stipulations had provided for a survey of the boundary...
183165Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On 21 Feb. 1818 the Virginia General Assembly approved “An Act appropriating part of the revenue of the Literary Fund, and for other purposes,” which authorized the creation of the University of Virginia . Under the provisions of the statute the governor was to appoint a commissioner from each of the state’s twenty-four senatorial districts to attend a meeting at the tavern in the Rockfish Gap...
183166Appendixes Nos. XLVI–LII: Letters from various authors, 22 July 1797–9 August 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
XLVI To James Monroe July 22, 1797 XLVII From James Monroe July 25, 1797 XLVIII To James Monroe July 28, 1797 XLIX From James Monroe July 31, 1797 L To James Monroe August 4, 1797 LI From James Monroe August 6, 1797 LII To James Monroe
183167To Benjamin Franklin from William Dunlap, 1 February 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is now upwards of a Twelve month since I sail’d from Philadelphia for Barbados, in order to inspect into the State of my Affairs there, and if possible procure some Kind of Subsistance on the Spot that might Support my Family: When I arriv’d, I found my little Interest on the Island badly regulated, and the Partnership Accounts in worse Order; the...
183168To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 15 December 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Not having received any more than one Letter from you since last May: and the Packet expected this Month not arrived, while this Opportunity offering by a Merchant-man, I take the Liberty to scribble again to you, especially as I this Post have News from Mr. Foxcroft that you consent to allow me £20, per Annum more, for which I return you my Sincere and...
183169Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
General Lincoln did not complete this extended account of Shays’ Rebellion for GW until 4 Mar. 1787, a month after he had defeated and dispersed Daniel Shays’ followers at Petersham on 4 February. Hence Lincoln’s letter, to which GW responded on 23 Mar. 1787, served for GW not as a running report but as a recapitulation of developments in Massachusetts. It was primarily Henry Knox, the...
183170Description of a Public Dinner held for Thomas Jefferson in Richmond, [21 October 1809] [document added in digital … (Jefferson Papers)
On Saturday, a Public Dinner was given at the Eagle , in honor of Mr. Jefferson . A large and brilliant company attended. The guests invited, were Mr. Jefferson , the three Judges of the Court of Appeals , Col. Monroe , Judge Cabell , Messrs. Jerman Baker , &
183171Enclosure: [Statement of the Balance Which Remains], [24 August 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
By the act passed 12th August, 1790, making provision for the reduction of the Public Debt, section 2d, it is enacted, that all such surplus of the product of the duties arising from impost and tonnage to 31st December, 1790, after satisfying the several appropriations therein specified, shall be applied to the purchase of the public debt: Dollars. The product of said duties were, 3,026,070...
183172Tax Receipt for Use of Carriages, 7 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
LICENSE is hereby granted to Thomas Jefferson Esqr. to use one Chariot, two Phaetons and one Gig in the City of Washington, to remain in force for one year from the first day of July 1804. , he having paid the tax therefor. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Washington, this seventh day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and five MoSHi :...
183173Enclosure: [Rank and Promotion Rules in the Army], [2 July 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
The following Rules have been adopted by the president of the United States relative to Rank and promotion in the Army. Rank The Field Officers of the Twelve Regiments of Infantry raised in pursuance of the Act of the 16th. July 1798 who served in the Regular Army during the late War and continued therein to the end thereof shall take rank of all others of the same Grade who were not in...
183174Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
The items below document Jefferson’s response to the insolvency of his friend and close family connection, Wilson Cary Nicholas . In May 1818 Jefferson had endorsed two notes totaling $20,000 for money that Nicholas owed to the Second Bank of the United States , thus making Jefferson personally liable for that amount if Nicholas could not pay. Large as it was, this sum was dwarfed by...
183175Constitution of the United States, 17 September 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787. Not only was Hamilton one of the signers of this document but the names of the states listed before the names of the signers are also in Hamilton’s writing. D , on display at the National Archives.
183176To Benjamin Franklin from Timothy Lane, 15 October 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: The Royal Society Being employed in some Electrical Enquiries about the beginning of the year 1762 it occured to me, that many Experiments on this Subject might be made with a much greater degree of precision if we could determine with any tolerable accuracy the comparative quantity of Electric Fluid, with which for any given Experiment, the Coated Phial is impregnated. An In[s]trument,...
183177Enclosure A: [Net Revenue and Appropriations], [3 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Amount of the Ntt Revenue arising on Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into the United States from the commencement of the Act to the 31st of December, 1790. 2.805.013.45⅓ Tonage for the same period 221.130.85. 3.026.144.30⅓ Amount of Storage & Interest received by the Collectors during said time } 66.35. 3.026.210.65⅓ Deduct Collectors salaries 140. Dollars. 3.026.070.65⅓...
183178Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
James Leitch , a merchant in Charlottesville , frequently sold Jefferson household items, loaned him money, or paid bills on his behalf. Often the only record of these dealings is a brief letter to Leitch listing the items desired that Jefferson dashed off on a small scrap of paper, initialed, and dated. A Leitch daybook survives, however, for the period from 2 Mar. 1820 through 8 May 1823....
183179Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, 20 August 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
The act of July last, imposing duties on the tonnage of vessels, provides for the restitution of the foreign duty which has been incurred, by ships or vessels of the United States, by reason of their not having a certificate of registry or enrollment and a licence, when trading Coastwise, or engaged in the fisheries. This refund is to be made in each instance, at the custom house where the...
183180To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Rush, 22 October 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society As I have the Happiness of being born in the Province where you have resided many years, I was anxious to come under your Patronage, as I well knew your great Love and Partiality to the Province of Pennsylvania would readily induce You to favour any One of its Natives even though unknown to You. With this view I have procured a few Letters from some of your...