49021To Thomas Jefferson from Md., Inhabitants of Frederick County, 18 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
To the President, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. The memorial of the subscribers, inhabitants of Frederick County in the State of Maryland, respectfully represents: That your memorialists have viewed with anxious solicitude, but with entire approbation, the unceasing and impartial efforts of the present administration to preserve...
49022Enclosure: Resolutions from Frederick County, Virginia, Citizens, 5 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a numerous meeting of the Inhabitants of Frederick County at the Court House in Winchester on Tuesday the fifth day of november 1793 for the purpose of taking under Consideration the Proclamation of the President of the United States, declaring the neutrality of the said States in the present European War—Alexander White is appointed Chairman and John Peyton Clerk. Resolved that in the...
49023To George Washington from Frederick County, Va., Citizens, 2 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It is with real pleasure we comply with the Request of our fellow Citizens of Frederick County, by forwarding to you the inclosed Resolutions, which express the Sentiments they entertain of your Conduct, in a situation the most delicate, and upon an occasion the most interesting and important, that has, perhaps, occured during your administration. Permit us, Sir, to seize this opportunity of...
49024To George Washington from Frederick Craig & Company, 3 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
We the Printers of the Delaware Gazette, beg leave to approach your Excellency in our professional line and to request your acceptance of our Paper: It is a trifling publication, but it is the only paper the State affords; and should your Excellency receive any information through its channel we shall be amply rewarded for our trouble[.] That your Excellency may long live, to the honor and...
49025To James Madison from Frederick I of Württemberg, 7 February 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Frederick I of Württemberg. 7 February 1816, Stuttgart. Announces the marriage of his son, the prince royal, to the Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia on 24 Jan. 1816. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Communications from Heads of Foreign States, Württemberg). 1 p.; in French.
49026To George Washington from the Fredericksburg Precinct Committee of Safety, 3 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Whereas at a Meeting of the Committee of Fredricksburgh Precinct July 3d 1776 a Gentleman of Carractor appeared before Said Committee and declared volontarily that in Conversation with a disafected Person he was told that the Ministerial Party had a Post rid to the northward from New York to carry News as Constantly as the other Posts and that Said Post was lately gone to the northward And the...
49027To Benjamin Franklin from Frédéric-Samuel Ostervald & Abraham Bosset Deluze, 23 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Nous nous proposions de rendre encore une fois nos devoirs à Votre Excellence, mais la crainte de la détourner de ses importantes occupations, nous fait préférer cette voye pour La Supplier de daigner nous apprendre, Si l’offre que nous avons eu l’honneur de luy faire de nos très humbles Services pour quelque entreprise Typographique pourroit lui paroitre...
49028To Benjamin Franklin from Alice Freeborn, 4 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I hope your Excellancy, will Excuse the liberty I take, in beging your assistance, to relieve my Newphew, who is now Closely confin’d in Forton Prison in England— His Name is Isaac Allen son of my Brother William Allen and Grandson to the late James Franklin your Excellancies Brother— He in the early part of the present War, enterd the cause of his Country,...
49029Thomas Freeborn to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been trying to make an excuse for severall years to pay thee a vissit—have for a few days past antiscipated the pleasure I Should have in seeing mine & my countrys Friend, but alas I have been disapointed I tried two days to get a Carriage in Fredericks town , to take me out to thy place, but could not succeed—however I hope to see thee & it may be in the fall— I have a letter of...
49030William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
W: Thornton ’s respectful Complim ts to his highly esteemed Friend m r Jefferson , and begs leave to present the Bearer M r Thomas Freeborn , as a very respectable Inhabitant of New York , who is desirous of paying his respects to one of whom he has heard so much, and whose Principles he has long admired.— RC ( MHi
49031Resolutions of the Freeholders of Albemarle County, [26 July 1774] (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the freeholders of the county of Albemarle, assembled in their collective body, at the courthouse of the said county, on the 26th day of July, 1774, Resolved , that the inhabitants of the several states of British America are subject to the laws which they adopted at their first settlement, and to such others as have been since made by their respective legislatures, duly...
49032To John Adams from Va. Freeholders of Prince Edward County, 20 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
At a meeting of the freeholders of Prince Edward county, in the state of Virginia, convened on Monday the twentieth of August 1798, for the purpose of considering the present state of American affairs, in consequence of five weeks previous notice: Resolved, by a large majority; that the following address be immediately transmitted to “The President of the United States.” Sir, If amidst the...
49033III. Petition of Mace Freeland to the House of Delegates, 7 June 1782 (Jefferson Papers)
To the honourable the Speaker and the House of Delegates the petition of Mace Freeland of the county of Buckingham humbly sheweth That James Freeland, your petitioner’s father being seised and possessed of a considerable estate in lands slaves and personalties, and having issue James Freeland your petitioner’s elder brother by one venter, and your petitioner by another, devised to the said...
49034II. Petition of Mace Freeland to the Governor and Council, 15 February 1782 (Jefferson Papers)
To his Excellency Benjamin Harrison esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the honourable the Council of state the Petition of Mace Freeland of the county of Buckingham humbly sheweth That James Freeland your petitioner’s father being seised and possessed of a considerable estate in lands slaves and personalties, and having issue James Freeland your petitioner’s elder brother by one...
49035To George Washington from Abraham Freeman, 5 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
The petition of Abraham Freeman a citizen of the United States, late of the State of [N]ew Jersey now of the territory of the United States North West of the river Ohio most humbly sheweth That Whereas Doctor Clarkson Freeman late of the State of New Jersey, a son of your unfortunate petitioner in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, was impeached for aiding and...
49036To James Madison from Constant Freeman and Others, [post–1 December 1816] (Madison Papers)
We the undersigned do respectfully recommend Mr. Edward Wyer for the vacant Consulate at Hamburg. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Wyer”). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on evidence in n. 1. Several other letters recommending Wyer for appointment were written to James Monroe in November and December 1816 (ibid.). JM nominated Wyer to the consulate in Hamburg on 28 Jan....
49037To Alexander Hamilton from Constant Freeman, 3 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of War has informed me that in the disposition which has been made of the troops I am to be posted to the Southward; and he has ordered me to repair to the Head Quarters of General Pinckney. I will be in readiness to obey his orders so soon as a packet shall sail for Charleston. If Sir, you should have any commands I shall be happy to receive them. It is by the directions of the...
49038To Alexander Hamilton from Constant Freeman, 30 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th. instant, which I received yesterday. Capt. Huger and his Company will sail from Charleston on the 6th of next month—The surplus men he will leave with me; are most of them unfit for Service, I shall, in obedience to your orders make you a circumstantial report so soon as I know the names of those he will transfer. I shall...
49039To George Washington from Constant Freeman, 9 July 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Constant Freeman, 9 July 1789. On 24 Sept. GW wrote to Freeman : “Your letter of the 9th of July has been received.”
49040To Alexander Hamilton from Constant Freeman, 8 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the fifth instant. I have engaged my passage in the Ship South Carolina, which will sail from this port for Charleston, on the seventeenth—If your dispatches should then be ready, I would consider it an honor conferred on me to present them to Genl. Pinckney. I am with the greatest respect Sir, Your obedient & humble servant ( ALS ,...
49041To James Madison from Edmund Freeman, 7 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 January 1805, New York. Described in Daniel Brent to Newburyport collector Ralph Cross, 1⟨5⟩ Jan. 1805 (DNA: RG 59, Correspondence with Collectors of Customs regarding Impressed Seamen, box 12), as protesting the impressment of Newburyport native John Martin from Freeman’s schooner Traveller at Jamaica on 1 May 1804 by a press gang from the British armed schooner Flying Fish .
49042Enclosure: Memorandum, [4 June 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
Memorandum of monies specified in a warrant No. 35 dated 30th. July 1790 drawn on Thomas Smith Esquire. Vizt. for Pennsylvania bills of credit of the new Emissions struck in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1780 74,100 loose money in ditto 544 Amount of new Emission of Pennsylvania of 18th March 1780 74,644 ditto of Maryland 27 ditto of New Jersey 347 ditto of...
49043To James Madison from Frederick Freeman, 25 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 July 1812, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. Informs JM that the “Baldwin Troop of Light Dragoons 5th. Squadron, 3d. Regiment of Georgia Cavalry” have observed the “belligerent outrages” that have interrupted “equitable commerce” between the U.S. and Europe for “the last three years.” Convinced that the claims of the U.S. government were just, “the members of the troop entertained a...
49044James Freeman to Thomas Jefferson, 2 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Freeman of Boston has visited Monticello , that he might have the honour of seeing M r Jefferson , and of enjoy ing the high pleasure of hearing him converse; and he regrets that his professional duties as a clergyman compel him to quit his hospitable mansion without indulging himself in the delight, which has long been the object of his ardent desire. He tenders his best respects to M r...
49045James Freeman to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately returned to Boston , where I had the pleasure of finding the note of October the 10th , which you did me the honour to address to me. I still regret, as do all my friends here, that I had not the opportunity of hearing you speak. But I shall always remember with gratitude the hospitality of those members of your family, whom I had the satisfaction of seeing; and I rejoice in...
49046To Thomas Jefferson from John Freeman, 2 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
i am sory to say or do any thing to Dis ples you I hope you will for to give me what i have done as you Wosh me to go with you rather then dis ples you i will go and Do the best i Can I hope you will not punish me the Cart brot every thing [melinded?] had when Davy was heare Last Mr Eppes says that there is such a Law as i told you I shall be oblige to Leave hir and the Children DLC : Papers...
49047Enclosure: Deed of John Freeman’s Indenture to James Madison, 19 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I hereby assign & convey to James Madison President of the Uni ted States the within named servant , John , otherwise called John Freeman during the remaining term of his service from the 11 th day of March last past when he was delivered to the said James for the consideration of two hundred and thirty one Dollars 81. cents . Witness m y hand
49048To Thomas Jefferson from John Freeman, 18 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorye to trubel you with a thing of this kind tho tho I am forced to do it: for I have been foolish anofe to in gage myself to melindors and I was in hops of when i came to Virginia this time to get hir Misstress consent with yours I have got the Consent of hir parence Tho I fear the deth of hir mistress: will make us meresibel unless you will be so good as to keep us botch: as to what I...
49049To Thomas Jefferson from John Holmes Freeman, 1 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My misfortunes has been such latterly, that I have a wish to change my occupation, from that of a farmer, to clerk of the circuit court for this county, but the obscure manner that I have always lived, will not, allow me that ellevated ground that the other two candidates command, as they ware both raised in the clerks offices of this county, and either of them would be prefered to myself by...
49050To Thomas Jefferson from John Holmes Freeman, 20 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Sir I regret to inform you that I expect every day to be sued on your account, by Mrs. Mary Stevens of Caroline, for the hire of the negro man called Moses, the miller last year at Monticello, the reason, of my being liable for this hire, Mrs. Steven’s’s son, would not let me have the fellow without I would give my own bond, & some man that he was acquainted with for security, and rather than...