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I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject of much importance to myself and a young family that daily look up to me for support—this last together with the experience of your extreme goodness with respect to my father will I hope plead an excuse. It is near four years since my appointment as Clerk to the Honorable Board of Treasury which Office I still fill and I hope with satisfaction...
I have this day received Mr Lears letter by your direction dated the 14th instant. I am induced from the nature of this letter and in order to justify my conduct publicly to my friends with regard to the purchase of the Warrants in question to state to you some facts which perhaps Mr Hamilton has not thought convenient to make known to you, and I think I can prove clearly that it has not...
As I informed you on the 30th. instant, I have written to the President, and have stated the claim I hold upon the public, on account of the Treasury warrants presented by me to you for acceptance, to which I have received no answer. I now inform you that I shall, unless I receive a more satisfactory answer than I have from you (seeing I have received none from the President) state every thing...
I cannot but with heartfelt anxiety think of your leaving so soon your sincere friends, together with your humblest of servants. However reluctant, we must acquiesce, since it is the resolution of one of the first and best of men. Your extreme goodness and generosity will pardon any impropriety in this small Address since the motive rises from the overflowings of a gratefull heart. Let me...
It is with the profoundest respect I presume to approach your Excellency on this most happy occasion the return of Peace to my bleeding Country: This Event so grateful in itself is still heighten’d in the preservation through so many toils and dangers of a life so valuable so dear to every individual. May I beg your Excellency to believe I shall ever esteem this the happiest moment of my life...
I have the honor of Conveying by an unexpected opportunity my most sincere & dutifull respects to your Excellency & a gratefull heart that is Fully sensible of the innumerable obligations your unmerrited favours has laid me under, therfor your Excellency’s native goodness will pardon any presumption that may seem in this; My prayers shall at all times be most devoutly, for the health &...
I received your letter last Evening —and it gives me the greatest Satisfaction that my conduct meets your approbation—was any accident to happen in the Famely it would not be for want of my care and attention I strictly adhere to your directions in every point—The House is clean and ready for your return and every thing in proper order—I long to see you home where I think you will be as safe...
With the utmost respect I have the Honor to address your Excellency and return my sincerest thanks for your kind interposition in my business with Mr White —I shall never be able to recompense with my poor services the many obligations your goodness lays me under—for still I am afraid Necessity forces me to be troublesome, I beg your Excellencys patience to hear my numberless misfortunes I am...
I rec’d yours pr Governor Clinton—and can but say I receive the greatest Honor in your kind Acceptance of the Grottesque Work. I know not in what manner to apologize to your Excellency for my boldness in enclosing Mr Whites Letter in this, but my reliance on your goodness so often experienced—My Circumstance has obliged me to quit the City and dispose of my House—I have put some dependance in...
Elija Huffman & Aaron Fray agrees to bore the pipes & put them down for six & a quarter cents per foot runing measure, the logs to be delivered in the most convenient place to suit ourselves, the diging & filling up and the boxes to be furnish’d by the institution —the worked to be executed in a masterly manner— Elija Hoffman & Aaron Fray to find themselves with all necessaries— MS ( ViU: TJP...
My Unhappy situation compells me to take the liberty of addressing your excellancey on a subject that I acknowledge myself to be liable to punnishment for the offense committed is that of taking the liberty of going to see my wife in Baltimore without the approbation of My officers the fact is I had made application for leave of absence for a few days prior to My departure from the Fort and...
This note is to inform you that I Hubbart Frazer, a soldier in the 14th regmt, was mustered for my pay and my discharge, but this moment the Inspector General informs that I am returned in for five years. It is wrong for I enlisted under Lieut. Becket for 18 month, but still if you will please to grant me my discharge I am willing to give up my land and the three months extra pay. Yours &c, RC...
4 May 1809, Washington. Frazer, a slave dealer, has lost a considerable sum owing to a peculiar circumstance. A cargo of his slaves consigned to the U.S. was forced into St. Kitts on a vessel “found to be unseaworthy.” While the ship was being repaired a U.S. law was passed prohibiting further slave importations. In St. Kitts, all the slaves were sold except four afflicted with leprosy. Frazer...
ALS : American Philosophical Society Inclosed is a Letter I recd from Mr. Geo: Anderson a young Gentleman of Virginia who was taken in a Vessell of his own by an English cruizer & carried into Lisbon, where he now is, at the House of Mr. Arnold Henry Dohrman the bearer of this, and who will have the Honour of delivering it to you himself. This Gentleman has been a particular Friend to all our...
ALS : American Philosophical Society I am agoing to America Immediately in a very large Ship well Armed & Man’d—if you have any commands (and will inclose them to Mr. John Bonfield American Agent here) I will with the greatest pleasure take particular care of them— The Fleet will depart from this the last of the Month, or the beginning of the next at furthest. I wrote to you some time ago at...
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received a Letter from Mr. Cradock Taylor by the last post, who has been detained as a prisioner at Aix in Provence this Twelve Months, he informs me that you want proof of his being a Native, and Subject, of the United States of America, before he can obtain his liberty— I have known him ever since he was a child, and am exceeding well acquainted with...
ALS : American Philosophical Society You will please to excuse me for taking the liberty of inclosing to you a Letter from one of our unfortunate countrymen, now a prisioner at Aix in Provence, he wou’d be very happy to obtain his liberty and return to his native Country, (Virginia) he is a young Gentleman of very good Family and Fortune in that Country—and is very capable of rendering some...
I shou’d have spoke to you on Sunday last as you returned from Williamsbg concerning your suit against me in our Court, but had desired Mr Wm Aylett to speak to you when at Wmsburge and not hereing from him prevented me: I am not able at this time to discharge my Debts, meeting with several misfortunes at Sea and elsewhere has occasioned it, and am now prevented from going about my business,...
I wrote to you the 20th Ulto, and inclosed you the King of Great Britains Speach, to his parliament, when they met Novr 26th. And as the Vessell is still here waiting for a Convoy; I take the liberty of writing you a second Letter, informing you that the Debates in parliament are much in favour of us; In the House of Lords we have Thirty Five Members against the present Ministry, and their...
Inventory of Ordinance and Ordinance Stores Found in Boston—Vizt: North Battery: 7 Cannon 12 pdrs, 2 Do 9 Do, 4 Do 6 Do, [all] useless. Cops Hill: 3 Cannon 28 pdrs, 178 Shott, 18 Inch Shell, 273 Wadds, 2 Handcrow Leavers, 2 Drag Ropes. Maga[zine] Battery West Boston: 3 Cannon 32 pdrs, 39 Shott, 20 13 Inch Shells, 113 Inch Mortar & Bed, 154 Wadds, 1 large Chain. Bacon Hill: 2 Cannon 12 pdrs, 23...
I hope you will excuse me for the liberty I have taken in writing to you, and at the same presenting you with Otway’s Art of War, a book very lately published in England, and much approved of by those that are judges —It comes by Capt. Willm Jones of an Armed Brigt. belonging to Maryland —War is not yet declared between France, and England, but it is Daily expected. Spain seems to be very...
Inclosed I have wrote you all the News of this Country til now; Except the distruction of the greatest part of a British Fleet which sailed from Portsmouth the 31st Ulto and it is said they were bound to the Continent of America, which I do not believe but be it as it will, the greatest part of them were lost, and drove on shore upon the coast of France, on the night of the last Day, of the...
I have taken the liberty to inclose you the King of great Britains speach to his Parliament, which met the 26th Ulto—It comes by Capt. Sandford of Alexandria, who was the first Vessell that sailed from this port, for America, after we got the inclosed speach here. The English Fleet commanded by Admiral Kepple is in port at Present, and a Division of the French Fleet is constantly out...
I now enclose you a more particular Accot of the Vessels, left by the Enemy at Boston; also an Inventory of the Ordnance and Ordnance stores. I have not included those that are at the Castle-Island, because General Ward informs me, that the Province claim the whole of them. we have found within this week, Anchors and Cables, worth at least £3,000 Sterling. they weigh from 35 hundred weight,...
Philadelphia, 20 May 1777 . “I am offered the Deputy Adjutant Genls place in the Northern Army, provided Genl Gates had not already appointed some one, which he had power to do. I shall set out for Ticonderoga on Wednesday Morning with a Letter from the President of Congress to Genl Gates requesting him to appoint me in that department, if it is still vacant, but I have some reason to think...
I understand there is some dispatches from the Governour and Council of Virginia lately come to you Gentlemen at Paris. If there shou’d be, a Letter for me by the same conveyance, please to have it put in the post office for Bordeaux—and if you have a Virginia news paper to spare, I shall be much oblige to you for one. Their is a Captain Richard Garde here who’s Vessell is detained, as well as...
I Wrote to Genl Wayne from Germantown about 2 Weeks ago, mentioning that Major Harper & myself were Prisoners; since our Capture the Number of Officers taken, belonging to the Army, Navy and Militia & now here has increas’d to near Fifty. Upon our arrival here a Number of Us were admitted on our Parole to continue in the City. On Tuesday last We were confin’d in the State House under the Main...
I this day arrived at Genl. Hopkins’s and found himself and family well, and possessing the same patriotic sentiments as when I left him on my way to Washington—At Breckinridge court house I was informed of a number of inquiries that some of the party (dispached to overtake & wrest from me my papers) had been making relative to my business at Washington— I shall take proper measures to bring...
3 January 1805, Vienna Customhouse, Collector’s Office. “In 1795 I recvd, two commissions from President Washington, one as collector of the customs for this District and the other as Inspector, which commissions was consum’d by fire as well as my dwelling house on the 30th. Janry. 1804. I have acted under the authority given me ever since, and has endeavored to discharge my duty with...
ALS : American Philosophical Society Pardonnez la Liberté que je prends de vous écrire; Auteur d’un traitté des changes de toutes le places qui négocient ou peuvent négocier avec la france, il manque á mon ouvrage de faire Connoitre au public la maniere dont la france pourrait changer avec les principales Villes des Etats unis de L’Amérique. Cette république, Monsieur, doit aux éfforts de...