17341From John Adams to United States Senate, 16 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Daniel Hall of Charleston South Carolina to be a Commissioner of Valuations in the first Division of that state in the place of John Huger Esqr resigned DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
17342To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 16 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Whilst the late envoys were in Paris, they recommended Mr William Lee, in a letter to Mr Pickering, as a suitable character for a Consul; & it was expected, he would apply for the consulate of Bourdeaux, which it was then supposed would be vacant: & he now proposes to renew his application. being informed of this circumstance, & having, after the fullest enquiry, & conviction of his merit,...
17343To John Adams from William Vans Murray, 16 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Should my letters to Mr. Talleyrand have the misfortune to be considered by you Sir as too complaisant—a thing I do not believe to be probable—I entreat your attention to the light in which I view’d the circumstances which produced them. These circumstances relate to the subject matter of the act which I was ordered to inform Mr. T. of;—to Mr. T. himself, as the minister of exterior Relations...
17344To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 17 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Agreeably to your direction the papers which were laid before you respecting John Marsden Pintard Esqr. Consul of the United States for the Island of Madeira, including his own communications to you, have been committed to the Heads of Departments and Attorney General for their examination and consideration: and their opinions thereon I presume will be submitted to you immediately: by own I...
17345To John Adams from James McHenry, 17 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
We have examined the papers in relation to Mr. Pintard, in the hands of the Secretary of State, including his exculpatory letters to the President, and to the Secretary of State. It appears that Mr. Pintard while acting as Consul, carried on trade with parts of the Dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, at that time in Zebullion, and that he persisted in this trade after our Minister Mr....
17346From John Adams to United States Army, 18 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The President, with deep regret announces to the army the death of its beloved Chief J. General George Washington. Sharing in the grief which every heart must feel for so heavy and afflicting a public loss, and solicitous desirous to express his high sense of the vast debt of gratitude which is due to the virtues talents and ever memorable services of the illustrious deceased, he directs, that...
17347From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Ambrose Gordon of Georgia to be Marshall of the district of Georgia in the place of Oliver Bowen to be superseded. John Lamson of Massachusetts to be consul of the United States at Trieste DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
17348To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury most respectfully reports to the President of the United States That the facts stated in the Report of the Secretary of State dated Decb. 19th. 1799. in relation to the official conduct of John M. Pintard appear to be proved, and are in the opinion of the undersigned, of such a nature and tendency as render his removal from Office necessary. All which is...
17349From John Adams to United States Congress, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The letter herewith transmitted will inform you that it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life our excellent fellow-citizen, George Washington, by the purity of his character and a long series of services to his country, rendered illustrious through the world. It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honors to his...
17350From John Adams to United States House of Representatives, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The letter herewith transmitted will inform you that it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life our excellent fellow-citizen George Washington, by the purity of his character, and a long series of services to his country, rendered illustrious through the world. It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honors to his...
17351From John Adams to United States House of Representatives, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I receive with great respect and affection the condolence of the House of Representatives on the melancholy and affecting event in the death of the most illustrious and beloved personage which this country ever produced. I sympathize with you, with the nation, and with good men through the world in this irreparable loss sustained by us all. Printed Source--A Compilation of the Messages and...
17352To John Adams from Speaker of the House of Representatives, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives, penetrated with a sense of the irreparable loss sustained by the nation in the death of that great and good man, the illustrious and beloved Washington, wait on you, sir, to express their condolence on this melancholy and distressing event. Printed Source--American State Papers. 38 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1831-61)..
17353To John Adams from Edward Tiffin, 19 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The General Assembly of the Territory north-west of the River Ohio, believing that the highest reward which a virtuous public officer can receive is the applause of his fellow-citizens, are anxious to embrace the earliest opportunity of declaring their confidence in your virtue and talents, and their approbation of your official conduct. With a degree of pleasure and exultation more easily...
17354From John Adams to United States Senate, 20 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Copeland Parker Esq. of Virginia to be Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Norfolk in that State in the place of Daniel Bedinger resigned. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
17355To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Secy of the Treasury in obedience to the Command of the President of the United States has considered the Letter of the Secretary of War dated novb. 27, 1799 & thereupon most respectfully submits the following Report. That by an Act of Congress passed on the 9th. of February 1793, it is declared, “that in all cases, where any sum or sums of money have been issued or shall hereafter issue,...
17356To John Adams from Arthur Campbell, 21 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Nothing can be more consolatory to the sober and reflecting past of the American People, than the peculiar marks of divine favour, that has blest your administration of the government of the United States. The present calamitous War in Europe was begun in the time of the administration of your renowned predecessor: He had the wisdom, amidst many alurements of false glory, to embrace an...
17357To John Adams from Arthur St. Clair, 23 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed Address from the General Assembly of the territory was put into my hands on the 19th. instant, the day on which it was prorogued, by a Committee of both houses, with a request that I would transmit it to You. In that, Sir, they imposed a very agreeable duty upon me: for, the sentiments seemed to be such as were proper for them to express; and having expressed them publicly as a...
17358From John Adams to United States Senate, 23 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I receive, with the most respectful and affectionate sentiments, in this impressive address, the obliging expressions of your regard for the loss our country has sustained in the death of her most esteemed, beloved, and admired citizen. In the multitude of my thoughts and recollections on this melancholy event, you will permit me only to say, that I have seen him in the days of adversity, in...
17359To John Adams from United States Senate, 23 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Senate of the United States respectfully take leave, sir, to express to you their deep regret for the loss their country sustains in the death of General George Washington. This event, so distressing to all our fellow–citizens, must be peculiarly heavy to you, who have long been associated with him in deeds of patriotism. Permit us, sir, to mingle our tears with yours: on this occasion it...
17360From John Adams to Tobias Lear, 24 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I recd—in due Season your Letter of the fifteenth of this Month, and immediately communicated it to both Houses of Congress in a Message. The melancholly Event announced in it, had been before communicated to the Legislature, but upon less authentic and regular Evidence. The American People are sincere Mourners, under the loss of their Friend and Benefactor. For General Washington it is a...
17361From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 13th and thank you for your Zeal for the honor of my “Defence”. That Work which was begun on the 4 of October 1786 and finished on the 26 of December 1787 was written in haste. It was not the fruit of twenty Years Labour like Montesquieus & Gibbons and as it was written in haste may be supposed to have marks enough of Inaccuracy. I am not yet sensible of any...
17362To John Adams from William Moubray, 24 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Should my Application not interfere with that of a Gentleman of much Superior merit, I would beg Leave, with the greatest deference and Respect, to offer my Services as Collector of the Customs for the Port of Savannah I have the honor to be, with the highest Respect, / Sir, / Your Excellency’s / most Obedient Servant MHi : Adams Papers.
17363From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 25 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 13th and thank you for your zeal for the honor of my “defence”. That work, which was begun on the 4th of October 1786 & finished on the 26th of December 1787, was written in haste. It was not the fruit of twenty years labor, like Montesquieu’s & Gibbon’s, and as it was written in haste, may be supposed to have marks enough of inaccuracy. I am not yet sensible...
17364From John Adams to United States Senate, 27 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate James Powell of Georgia to be Collector of the District of Savannah in the place of John Habersham deceased. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
17365From John Adams to Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, 27 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
In conformity with the desire of Congress I do myself the honor to inclose by Mr. William Smith Shaw my Secretary a copy of their resolutions passed the twenty fourth instant, occasioned by the decease of your late Consort Gen. George Washington assuring you of the profound respect Congress will ever bear to your person and character and of their condolence on this afflicting dispensation of...
17366To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 27 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of State has the honour to inform the President, that he received Mr. Pintard’s papers here inclosed, from Mr. Wolcott—read & handed them to Mr. McHenry—& has this moment received them back from Mr. Stoddert. It appears that Mr. Pintard himself first gave them to Mr Lee. The Secretary of State sees no remark upon them from any of the gentlemen; nor has he any to make himself. MHi...
17367To John Adams from John M. Pintard, 27 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I intended this Morning to have waited on you to Know if you had any Commands for Cadiz, for which Place I am under the necessity of Setting off by way of New London (tomorrow Morning) having protracted my stay to the Last moment. I have apply’d to the Secretary of State to be heard before those Gentn. to whom you Referred my papers and altho it is ten days Since I have Received no...
17368From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Charles Willing Byrd Esqr: of Virginia to be Secretary of the Territory North West of the River Ohio, in the place of William Henry Harrison Esqr: who has resigned. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
17369From John Adams to United States Senate, 31 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Timothy Pickering Secretary of State, Oliver Wolcott Secretary of the Treasury & Samuel Sitgreaves Esqr: of Pennsylvania;—To be Commissioners, to adjust and determine, with Commissioners appointed under the legislative authority of the State of Georgia, all interfering claims of the United States and that State, to territory, situate west of the River Chatahouchee, north of the...
17370To John Adams from Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, 31 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
While I feel with keenest anguish the late Dispensation of Divine Providence, I cannot be insensible to the mournfull Tribute of respect and veneration which are paid to the memory of my dear deceased Husbad—and as his best services, and most anxious wishes were always devoted to the welfare and happiness of his country—to know that they were truly appreciated and greatfully remembered,...