1751To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 9 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Letter dated Augt. 25th. from James Breckenridge Esq. who was named Commissioner for the Third Division of Virginia—It seems that this Gentleman resides out of the Division and that this circumstance and expectations of being able to render more important services have induced him to decline the appointment.—I have good reason to believe that Mr. Breckenridges...
1752To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 April 1799 (Adams Papers)
By the decease of Robert Chesley, the offices of Surveyor and Inspector of the Port of St. Mary’s in the district of Nanjemoy in the State of Maryland, have become vacant. The names of Robert Chesley, son of the deceased, and William Hebb, are presented in the papers which I have the honour to enclose.—The weight of recommendation by Col. Howard of the Senate, Charles Caroll of Carrollton...
1753To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 5 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Letter from George Divers who was appointed the Commissioner for the eleventh Division declining the appointment and recommending Thomas Divers to be appointed in his stead. From the tenor of Colo. Carrington’s Letter of the 13th. of September and the express recommendation of Thomas Posey contained in his Letter of September 28th. I have no doubt that General...
1754To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipts of your letters dated May 27th. & 28th. and Mr Shaws letter dated June 5th. covering recommendations in favor of Noah Pease, Nathaniel Mayhew and Silas Daggot, for the appointment of Keeper of the Light House to be erected on Gay Head— The Light House is not erected, and there is not an immediate necessity any appointment;—to prevent the trouble of...
1755To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Letter dated April 8th. 1799 from Nathl. Burwell Esqr. one of the Commissioners of Virginia.—This Letter was received in due season, after the date.—By the operation of a late Law of the State, a new appointment is now necessary.—I have no reason to doubt that Mr. William Fleet is a suitable character to fill the vacancy.— I have the honour to be / very...
1756To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit certain Letters from Ebenezer Tucker Esqr. Collector of Little Egg harbour in New Jersey, mentioning his resignation of his Office; but as this proceeding cannot be said to be entirely voluntary, candour requires me to submit the whole subject to your consideration.— In April last, Amos Ridgway, a neighbour of Mr Tucker, preferred certain charges, in which his...
1757To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 July 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to enclose a copy of a Letter from John Couper Esquire, who was lately appointed Collector of the Customs for the District of Brunswick in Georgia, and Inspector of the Revenue for said Port, from which it appears that he declines a permanent appointment. The information which I possess of Mr. Coupers character, induces me to believe that his recommendation of Mr. Claud...
1758To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 14 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a letter from Isaac Parker Esquire Marshal of the District of Maine, recommending Josiah Reed, to be surveyor & Inspector of the Port of Thomaston in the District of Caldobourogh. After due enquiry I take the liberty to recommend Silas Foster to be Commander of the Revenue Cutter General Greene which place is vacant by the resignation of Captain George Price, who...
1759To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 21 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to the command of the President of the United States, respectfully reports his opinion on the following questions. 1st. Whether the refusal to receive Mr. Pinckney, and the rude orders to quit Paris and the Territory of the Republic with such circumstances of indignity, insult & hostility as we have been informed of, are bars to all further measures...
1760To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 7 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
Agreeably to the direction of the President of the United States—The Secretary of the Treasury, has the honor of transmitting for his consideration—two Official Statements; One of them exhibiting a view of the payments made at the Treasury on account of the President’s compensation to the 3d of March 1800—inclusive—the other in relation to the expenditure of the Sum appropriated for his...
1761To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 15 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Secy of the Treasy respectfully reports to the P. of the U.S. That the inclosed Letter from the Collector of the District of Baltimore and the documents therein mentioned, contain the result of the enquiry which has was instituted by the Presidents direction into the facts stated by in the petition of William Smith. As the conduct of the petitioner is believed to have been exceedingly...
1762To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
On the petition of Richard Graham, the Secretary of the Treasy. in obedience to the directions of the Presidt. of the U. S. respectfully submits the following Report. The petitioner Richard Graham, and Samuel Spring, both of the State of New York, but residing at Rehoboth in Massachusetts, were convicted, before the Circuit Court of the United States holden at Boston on the first day of June...
1763To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 19 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury in obedience to the direction of the President of the United States respectfully makes the following Report; That the Letter of Governor Mifflin to the President of the United States dated the 12th Instant contains the following requests. – 1st. That the President would direct the American Ministers in Europe to use their influence to obtain permissions from the...
1764To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 19 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to transmit a letter from John Huges Esquire Commissioner for the first Division of South Carolina resigning his appointment—Jacob Read Esquire Senator of the State recommends Doctor Robert Pringle as a Gentleman well qualified—I take the liberty to submit his name, to be inserted, if the President pleases in the enclosed Commission. If the President will be pleased to direct...
1765To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 24 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully transmits to the President of the United States, a Letter from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 20th. instant covering a proposal made by a Theodore Lincoln for building a Light House upon Cape Cod in the State of Massachusetts. It is the opinion of the Secretary, that all circumstances considered, it will be for the Interest of the United...
1766To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 24 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honour most respectfully to submit to the President of the United States the following Report.— That in consequence of strong suspicions that great disorders existed in the office of John Fitzgerald Esquire, Collector of the Customs for the District of Alexandria, an enquiry was instituted in March 1798, the management of which was committed to William...
1767To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 13 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, respectfully submits to the President of the United States, the following Report. That the official proceedings of John Halstead Collector of the Customs for the District of Perth Amboy in New Jersey, have for some time past appeared to be greatly deficient in point of prudence, firmness and consistency, in some instances, exceedingly negligent and remiss, in...
1768To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 11 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge with thanks, the Presidents oblidging Letter of yesterday. The time contemplated by myself for retiring from Office, is the last day of December next.—It will however be necessary for me to remain here several Weeks after my resignation takes place, whenever that event may happen, for the purpose of compleating the business, which will have been by me...
1769To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a copy of a Letter which I have written to several of the collectors of the Revenue, on the subject of a temporary provision for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.— It is found that by a Law of the last session, the Hospitals for the Army & Navy are to be established under the immediate superintendance of the Physician-General. The Secretary of War, will,...
1770To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 3 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to transmit a Letter from Alexander Freeland, dated July 12th. announcing the death of Constant Somers, late Collector and Inspector of Great Egg harbour in the State of New-Jersey. I desired Mr. Latimer the Collector of Philadelphia to make the requisite enquiries respecting Mr. Freeland, and am informed that the Candidate is reputed to be an honest man, and that he is...
1771To John Adams from Abiel Wood, 15 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
At the request of the Feild & Commision officers of the first and fourth Rigement of the first Brigade Eighth Division. I enclose you the their address. (those of the Second and Third Rigements with those of the several Companys of Artilery And Cavalry being allready forwarded—) I am Happy to find that every officer with out Exception—in the Brigade I have the honr. to Comand, feel that Just...
1772To John Adams from James Wood, 1 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
If we are late in declaring our confidence in a Government, established by the deliberate will of the people, and directed continually by their influence, in every department of which they act by their constitutional Representatives; it is because we thought it unnecessary. To doubt the confidence of the American people in their Government, might happen to foreigners, who, in their search...
1773To John Adams from Robert Worrall, 3 January 1798 (Adams Papers)
I hope your Goodness will not think me Troublesom in giving you this line, and Informing you of my being in the Building Branch of Buseness, and having nearly devoted all my Time, Since the begining of August last, with the Commissioner of Revenew, on the Light, and Beacon, House, Business, and makeing the best Plans, with Honest Estimates, delivered and fulley Approved of, with Bonds Men...
1774To John Adams from Robert Worrall, 17 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
In giving you this line and Informing you of my being in the Architectral, and Building Branch, and having had a greate deal of Experiance in the Bridge Business, and having Viewed the Breaking up of the Frost in your Rivers, prooveing to me what the Bridges have to Contend with, therefore Haveing made this part of the Science, my Practice, and Study for the last Thirty years, has Enabled me...
1775To John Adams from Joseph G. Wright, May 1798 (Adams Papers)
We the Inhabitants of the Town of Wilmington in the State of North Carolina legally convened together, feel it to be our incumbent duty to address you at this very important crisis of the affairs of the United States in relation to the French Republic. Permit us to assure you that we view with intire approbation the advances made by the Executive authority of our own Government to that of...
1776To John Adams from Henry Wynkoop, 16 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
At the Request of John & Phillip Hainey Brothers of the unfortunate Frederic Hainey, now under Sentence of Death for Treason, I do hereby certifie, that I was well acquainted with their Father John Hainey, who was at the time & for some years before our late revolutionary War, one of the Representatives of this County in Assembly his son the present John Hainey I have also known for several...
1777To John Adams from Carlos Martinez de Yrujo, 21 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have recent grounds to believe that it is intended to carry into effect the expedition on the part of the English against upper Louisiana, by violating the territory of the US. according to what I informed you in my letter of the 2d March last; I must add that I know to a certainty that the English have made propositions to General Clarke in Georgia, in order to obtain his powerful influence...
1778To John Adams from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 3 June 1797 (Adams Papers)
The American Consulate in this City, & destrict, having been left to my charge, by, & in the absence of my Son, who is the appointed Consul; I beg leave to assure you of my attention to the dutys annexed to that important trust, & that however arduous the task may now become on account of the present unhappy State of things: I have – with alacrity and firmness – asserted the grievances, and...
1779To John Adams from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 5 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
This is the second time I have taken the liberty of trespassing on your Excellency’s time & with due reverence have now to repeat my request that you will have the goodness to listen to the Justice of my cause. In case the false rumours that have been circulated & publish’d against me by my rivals & enemys should have in any degree alter’d the good opinion I meritted of your Excellency, in the...
1780To John Adams from Josef Yznardy, 23 October 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, I arrived at Baltimore, from Cadiz, on the 23d. august last: Since which have had the honor to present myself to the Secretary of State, and during my stay at the Federal-City, I was attacked with Sickness; and when at Baltimore it nearly cost me my life; while convalescent I came on to this City, where I have had a very severe relapse, which has prevented me...
1781Ratification Of Tunis Treaty, 10 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
Sicome un Trattato de Pace ed’Amicizia fu definitivamente accomodato e conchiuso, tra li Stati Uniti d’America representati da William Eaton e James Leander Cathcart Esquires Commessari specialmente deputati per tal oggetto ed illustrissimo ed Excelentissimo Il Bey ed il Gioverno di Tunis Il quale Trattato é come segue, cio é a dire … Conoscere Facciamo sapere Qualmente io John Adams...
1782Proc. Opening Trade With St. Domingo, 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
Whereas, by an act of Congress of the United States, passed the 27th day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof,” it is enacted, That, any time after the passing of the said act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by his order, to remit and discontinue for the...
1783Proc. Open. Trade W/ Cert. Pts. Of St. Domingo, 26 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed the 9th day of February last, entitled “An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” it is provided, that at any time after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, if he shall deem it expedient and consistent...