1231David K. Hopkins to Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote you last year, I have not been Idle, I understand the Subject on which I wrote much better.—I observed to you that all kinds of motion aught to be communicated by the Screw or, circularly inclined plane.—with water I wou’d (for to communicate motion to a Mill) inclose a circularly inclined plane, of or Screw, nearly equal in length to the fall of water, erect it perpendicular &...
1232To Benjamin Franklin from Nathaniel Falconer, 3 July 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society This is to acquaint you of my arrival after a Passage of five weeks and 3 Days. I left Mrs. Franklin and Mrs. Beech [Bache] well the 21st. of May and also the Governor having heard from him the Day before I saild. I have not sent your Letters at home by the Post. But shall waite on you with them as soon as I get up to London please to make my best...
1233Continental Congress Motion that Major General Howe be Directed to March Troops to Philadelphia, 30 June 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
That Major General Howe be directed to march such part of the force under his command as he shall judge necessary to the State of Pensylvania; and that the Commanding Officer in the said state be instructed to apprehend and confine all such persons, belonging to the army, as there is reason to believe instigated the late mutiny; to disarm the remainder; to take, in conjunction with the civil...
1234To Benjamin Franklin from Cadwallader Colden, 2 April 1754 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: New-York Historical Society I should have acknowleged your favour of the 1st of January sooner if you had not at the same time told me that you was to be from home for some time after the writing of it and I had my thoughts engaged in a chain of thinking that I was unwilling to interrupt as that season was the only time of the year in which I could hope to pursue it without...
1235Enclosure: Petty Vaughan’s Notes on Guinea Grass, 29 March 1819, enclosure number 2 in Petty Vaughan to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
The Guinea Grass succeeds well in Jamaica upon dry, stony uplands; & when well established, will last for 20 or 30 years.—Used as grass for cutting, it may be cropped 3 or 4 times annually.— If for pasturage, it should not be fed too low in the dry part of the season; as the sun then gets at the roots, & burns them up. The common rule is, to feed it about 4 times in the year, & not to reduce...
1236From John Adams to John Marshall, 9 October 1800 (Adams Papers)
Enclosed is a letter from Mr Adam Babcock a respectable merchant of Boston whom I have known and esteemed for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Spooner I also know and believe him to merit the character given him by Mr. Babcock. If it should be thought expedient to try a new experiment at negociation with the isle of France I dont believe we shall find a more proper person to conduct it as...
1237To James Madison from Frederick Degen, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you herewith a list of the American Vessels arrived at this Port from the month of December last to all June, and beg leave to observe that two more came in about a fortnight ago, which being still in quarantine are not comprized and will of course be included in the next List. One of these the Brig Fitz William Capn. Goldsbury of Boston, coming from Leghorn to...
1238To Thomas Jefferson from George Clinton, 7 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the pleasure to inform you that from the Returns I have seen from several Counties of this State and accurate information received from others our republican Candidates for Governor and Lt Governor, to wit, Chief Justice Lewis and Mr. Broome, will be elected by a majority of at least 8000, notwithstanding their Opponents were supported by the united and vigorous Exertions of the...
1239From George Washington to Alexander White, 14 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr Fraunces’s letters to you & to me, the last of which I also enclose for your perusal, are so expressive of his wants as to render it unnecessary for me to add ought, on the occasion of them. He has been considered (tho’ confined within the british lines) as a friend to our cause: It is said he was remarkably attentive to our prisoners in the City of New York; supporting them, as far as his...
1240To George Washington from the New York Provincial Congress, 20 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Congress have just now received Your letter of the 10th instant directed to the Chairman of our Committee of Safety they are extreamly sorry they have it not in their power to supply You with the Article You mention; as the Army raised here last Summer have entirely drained them of the Arms belonging to the Colony which have never been returned, and the more as they are by Order of...
1241From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Biddle, 12 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having asked the favor of Mr. Hollingsworth to look out for a person in his neighborhood who would be willing to go to Virginia and overlook a farm for me, he informs me that you will undertake it, for a hundred and twenty dollars a year. He seems to have mistaken me in the circumstance of time, as he mentions that you would expect to go about the new year. I had observed to him that I should...
1242To James Madison from William Jarvis, 15 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 March 1803, Lisbon. Notes that his previous letter was sent by the Eunice to Alexandria and enclosed copies of his correspondence with Almeida, the last semiannual list, Lisbon and Belém port charges, and his account. Since part of the charges in the account are probably not provided for by law, submits them entirely to the government’s discretion. Received “this day” a duplicate of JM’s 14...
1243From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, with Levi Lincoln, [17] March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison the Secretary of State being not yet arrived at this place, and a favorable apportunity of addressing you, offering itself by a government vessel going to France with our late convention with that country, I avail myself of it being authorized by the President of the United States to perform the duties of this department per interim. The Country in which you reside having as well...
1244To George Washington from William Greene, 13 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honour of receiving your Excellency’s favour of the 7th Instant, and inform you, that immediately upon the receiving your letter of the 24th of last May, I imbraced the earliest oppertunity of laying it before the Assembly, who very readily complyed with its contents, and ordered five Hundred of the Militia of this State to be raised and Stationed at the different Posts on Rhode...
1245To Thomas Jefferson from Williamson & Cowling, 25 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of our friend the Honbl John Milledge, we have Shipped to your address, to the Care of Messrs. Falls & Brown Merchants in Baltimore, Two tierces containing each two Bushels Cotton Seed—the one of Green Seed, the other of the Sea Island black seed—which we hope will get Speedily & Safely to hand, and, upon trial, equal your expectations. The Said Seed is shipped on board the...
1246Report on Negotiations with Spain, 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The appointment of Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Short as Commissioners to negociate with the court of Spain a treaty or convention relative to the navigation of the Missisipi, and which perhaps may be extended to other interests, rendering it necessary that the subjects to be treated of should be developed, and the conditions of arrangement explained, the Secretary of state Reports to the President...
1247To John Jay from Rufus King, 31 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
Our Envoys have been at Paris from the first of the month— during the last fortnight there has been no Person from France by whom I could have heard from them— Col. Trumbull is at Paris on his Return from Germany, and we expect him here in a day or two; we shall be better able after his arrival than at present to form an Opinion concerning the issue of our Negociation— It remains still...
1248[Diary entry: 12 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
12. Rid to Muddy hole Doeg Run and the Mill.
1249From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
Another Letter was yesterday brought me but it gave me no hopes of your return and I dare not flatter myself yet that you will obtain any answer more decisive to this last effort, than they have hitherto given upon any point. as I wrote you once before notwithstanding I am so anxious to see him you I could almost wish you might be detained untill the coming Spring, so fearful am I that this...
1250From George Washington to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, 8 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
It is very interesting at this moment to be well informed of the Enemy’s shipping which may take place in the Sound—I wish you therefore to station an intelligent officer in such a situation as may be perfectly adopted for this purpose—He is to be careful in observing the size & number of all Vessels and whether there may be Troops on board, either in coming to, or going from New York, and in...
1251To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Auguste Adet, 24 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
permettés moi de vous Remercier de La lettre pleine d’obligeance et d’amitié que vous avez daigné m’ecrire par M. Monroe. je ne saurois vous exprimer avec quel plaisir je l’ai lu avec quel plaisir je la relis encore, avec quel soin je la conserve. c’est pour moi un Thrésor dont je ne pourrois me séparer. vous devez être convaincu combien je regrette que les destins n’aient pas reglé ma...
1252From George Washington to Edward Giles, 12 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was last post favord with your Letter of the 31 January—inclosing a Letter from the Governor and Council of Maryland to Admiral Digby requesting a Passport for a Vessell to carry you to Burmuda. This Application should have gone thro Mr Morris as Agent of Marine. it being intirely out of my department—however as a delay in the transaction of this business might have been fatal to you—I did...
1253To John Adams from James Francis Armstrong, 2 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Armstrong wishes to insinuate to the President of the United States his wish to know whether the President proposes to communicate with our Church tomorrow as we expect the administration of the Lord’s Supper then by Dr. Woodhull—The Communicants sit with us not at a common Table, but in the Pews around the Pulpit—mine in which the President sat last Sabbath week is one, which I wish he...
1254To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 20 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Favor of the eighth Instant and am looking out for an Opportunity to send on the Plate, concluding you will some how or other take the whole Set. You say you have Forks and Spoons enough. In that Case it will be better to sell them, which can always be done to Advantage, and take those belonging to the Set which if I remember right are made of a Pattern to suit the Rest....
1255From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 July 1791. Acknowledged in Jefferson to JM, 24 July 1791 . In his list of letters to Jefferson (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers), JM noted that this letter, like that of 13 July, concerned “Publicola.” Perhaps this was JM’s letter of 21 July to an unspecified correspondent, listed in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 694 (1892), p. 262.
1256To John Adams from William McCarty, 15 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
Having been taken the 25th. January last, in the Brig Active, on my passage from Philadelphia to L’Orient and Carry’d into England, The British took from me, all my private paper’s and Bills of Exchange, among which were several setts, drawn by Congress, on Holland; Colo. Palfrey in the Shelaly, who had the Seconds, not being arrived, leaves me without any to Present untill I can receive the...
1257To John Adams from Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 17 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
After the letter we had the honour of writing to your Excellency having got a Conversation about the Prospectus of the Loan, we think it would be more easy and convenient for yr. Excellency, to pass five Bonds, each of one Million of Guilders in our favour, authorising and empowering us to divide them in Bonds of thousand Guilders each, under our hands, which Should be Saving a good deal of...
1258To Benjamin Franklin from Moses Brown, 23 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Youl please to Excuse my freedom in Troubling you with these few lines to ask the favour Wheather your Exelencey Ever granted one Mr. Benjn. Joy a pass for goods to be Shipt. in London for america as I had the pleasuer to Captor Sd Joy on my pasage here in a fine Copper Bottom Brig Mounting Six Six poundirs and the people I took out of her tells me that She...
1259From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 7 February 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). The cover is missing, but the contents of the letter permit no doubt that Pendleton was the recipient. The post has been very irregular for several weeks past & this week the Mail South of Annapolis has failed altogether; by which means I lose the pleasure of your alternate favor. A vessel from France informs us that the frigate freigted with the event at York had...
1260Constantine S. Rafinesque to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed answering your last favor until I could send you my Ichthyology of the Ohio , and the Western Minerva . The former I have now the pleasure to forward you, and shall be glad to know your opinion on it. But I cannot send you the Western Minerva , although the first number is printed , because this Journal is not to be published at present . It has been condamned before its...