2491To Benjamin Franklin from the Regents of the University of the State of New York, 12 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Lieutenant Colonel Clarkson will have the honor of delivering your Excellency this Letter. His business in Europe is to solicit donations for the University of the State of New York. We have instructed him to consult with your Excellency on the most proper mode of effecting the Objects of his Mission And we flatter ourselves that notwithstanding the...
2492From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
After a long silence, more the effect of great hurry & business, than want of inclination; permit me to recall myself to your mind, by introducing to your recollection Mr Paine, the author of Commonsense, the Crisis &c. To say what effect the writings of this Gentleman has had on our public affairs at the epochas at which they were given to the world, would, to a person of your information, be...
2493To George Washington from La Luzerne, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I cannot quit the Continent, without renewing my assurances of the esteem towards you, with wc. I am inspired—From the five years residence I have made in America, and the share I have had in business; I have had a better opportunity than most, of admiring your Military talents, and those great qualities wc. have secured for ever, the Independance, and liberty of your Country—I share in...
2494From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Unsolicited by, and unknown to Mr Paine, I take the liberty of hinting the Services, and distressed (for so I think it may be called) situation of that Gentleman. That his Common Sense, and many of his Crisis[e]s were well timed and had a happy effect upon the public mind, none I believe, who will recur to the epocha’s at which they were published, will deny. That his Services hitherto have...
2495From George Washington to James Madison, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Can nothing be done in our Assembly for poor Paine? Must the merits, & Services of Common Sense continue to glide down the stream of time, unrewarded by this Country? His writings certainly have had a powerful effect on the public mind; ought they not then to meet an adequate return? He is poor! he is chagreened! and almost, if not altogether, in despair of relief. New York it is true, not the...
2496From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
At my return from Philada I met your favor of the 15th ulto—& since, have received that of the 28th. The rough draft of the conveyance from Colo. Bassett to me, appearing to be just in recital, &, I presume, legal in form; I return it with a wish that the business may be finally accomplished as soon as circumstances will permit. With respect to the Suit of Doctr Savage, you will be so good as...
2497To George Washington from Thomas Stone, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have considered the Institution of the Cincinati as amended and am happy to find every Objection to the order removed by the late Alterations—It has given Me much pleasure to find all sensible Men with whom I have conversed on the subject concur in this opinion, with sentiments of perfect Esteem & respect I am Sir Yr most obt & most humble Sert ALS , DLC:GW . Thomas Stone (1743–1787) was a...
2498From George Washington to James Wood, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 5th, I have to inform you that I can find nothing in my letter or orderly books confirmatory or disapproving the arrangments which have been made of the Virginia line of the army in the year 1782—the presumption therefore is, if they ever came to hand, that they either obtained a silent acquiescence, or that I did not care to intermeddle in them at all, as part...
2499Enclosure: Constable, Rucker, & Co. to Robert Morris, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
I return you the Generals letter on the Subject of his nephew. Tho’ a troublesome Charge to have the Care of a young man of Twenty distant from his parents, from the Character drawn of Mr Washington and from his Desire to learn Business I will take him as Apprentice. I presume he will not serve longer than Three years, less will not suffice the fee One Hundred Guineas. Rather than the young...
2500To James Madison from George Washington, 12 June 1784 (Madison Papers)
Can nothing be done in our Assembly for poor Paine? Mus[t] the merits, & Services of Common Sense continue to glide down the stream of time, unrewarded by this Country? His writings certainly have had a powerful effect on the public mind; ought they not then to meet an adequate return? He is poor! he is chagreened! and almost, if not altogether, in despair of relief. New York it is true, not...
2501Notes for a Speech Favoring Revision of the Virginia Constitution of 1776, [14 or 21 June] (Madison Papers)
Certainly by 1783 JM saw flaws in the 1776 Virginia Constitution that confirmed his early disappointment with it. As has been noted, he thought the Council of State, on which he served, was “a grave of useful talents,” and the jealousy displayed by the House of Delegates toward the other branches of government could scarcely have escaped his attention. This constitution, essentially the work...
2502From Alexander Hamilton to Marquis de Chastellux, [14 June 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
Colonel Clarkeson, who will have the honor of delivering you this, being already known to you, I give him this letter more for the sake of renewing to you the assurances of my attachment and esteem, than from a supposition that he will stand in need of any new title to your attention. I will therefore only say of him that his excellent qualities cannot be known without interesting those to...
2503From Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, 14 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Library of Congress I received yours of April 19 with the Information you obtained from our old Neighbour Reuben Haines respecting Marggrander, for which I thank you. I am much pester’d with Applications to make such Enquiries, and often obliged to promise that I will transmit them: but I would not wish you to take more Trouble than to ask Questions of the Members of Congress or others...
2504From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, 14 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Long as the enclosed letter & petition appear to have been written, they never came to my hands until thursday last; the latter, altho’ called a copy, having the marks of an original paper; another copy accompanying it, inducing a belief that it is so, I delay not a moment to hand it forward. My being perfectly ignorant of the laws of the Commonwealth, & unacquainted, if such confiscations...
2505Resolution to Expedite Settlement of Simon Nathan’s Claims, 14 June 1784 (Madison Papers)
It appearing from the information of the Attorney General, that accident hath hitherto prevented the settlement of the dispute between the Commonwealth and Mr Simon Nathan, and that he agreed with the said Nathan to submit the same to arbitration, on a case to be stated and supported by Arguments on both sides in writing provided a due Sanction should be obtained for his so doing: Resolved...
2506Resolution on the Pauly and Beaumarchais Claims, 14 June 1784 (Madison Papers)
On 27 May there was laid before the House of Delegates a petition of Lewis Abraham Pauly (1743–1828) (ViHi: Pauly Family Bible Records) and a letter from Governor Benjamin Harrison enclosing a memorial from Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Both petition and memorial contained claims against Virginia for military supplies purchased in behalf of the state during the late war ( JHDV Journal...
2507Amendments to Bill for Regulating Elections, [ca. 14 June] 1784 (Madison Papers)
If any Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff shall directly or indirectly so interfere in the election of Senators or Delegates as to show partiality for any of the Candidates he shall forfeit and pay the sum of to be recovered on bill, plaint or information in any Court of Record, one moiety to the use of the Informer and the other for the use of the Commonwealth, and more over be deprived of his right...
2508Rules of the Constitutional Society of Virginia, [ca. 14 June] 1784 (Madison Papers)
Philip Mazzei appears to have been instrumental in the formation of the short-lived organization known as the Constitutional Society of Virginia. Allegedly conceived when “some members of the Assembly proposed to revise the Constitution” of Virginia, the society was born during the session of the General Assembly in Richmond in June 1784. In his memoirs Mazzei asserted that he had organized...
2509John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
I this day receiv’d your favour of the 11th. instant and expect to send the Books away, in the course of this week, if I receive no contrary orders from you I shall leave this place, to morrow se’en nig ht, and shall attend Parliament, and the courts of Justice, which are now sitting, as often as possible, in the mean time. Mr. Whitefoord, who has been extremely polite and kind to me,...
2510John Adams to Jonathan Jackson, 15 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
The Day before Yesterday, M r Bingham arrived and delivered me the Extracts, for which I am obliged to you, they coincide with many other Letters and much other Evidence. There is no Commission or Instruction, in Europe, to negotiate any Treaty of Commerce with Great Britain. There is only a general Instruction to “meet the Advances and encourage the Disposition of the Commercial Powers of...
2511To Alexander Hamilton from John B. Church, 15 June 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
I arrived here three Days since, and cannot let slip the Opportunity which the Departure of the Marquis de la Fayette offers me to drop you a Line. I cannot say how long I shall remain here, but I shall not exceed next week, unless a Treaty that Wadsworth and myself are about entering on with the Farmers General to supply them with Tobacco should take Place in which Case I may be detained here...
2512To Benjamin Franklin from Dufriche de Valazé, 15 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Le Porteur de cette lettre Est M. Dufriche desgenettes mon neveu qui part pour londres, où il va voir Comme on traite la Médecine qu’il Ètudie depuis __ quatre ans à Paris. C’Est un jeune homme sage Et de Bonne Éspérance, à qui je m’interesse Comme à mon fils. Permettez moi, Monsieur, de vous demander pour lui quelques Recommandations pour votre ancienne...
2513To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Le Carpentier, with Franklin’s Note for a Reply, 15 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress Jai lhonneur de vous envoyer mon Specifique contre la gravelle. Jose vous le repeter, d’apres les guerisons quil a operé, vous ne courés aucun risque d’en faire usage. Vous voudrés bien, Monsieur, pendant le tems que vous le prendrés, ne point manger de Salade Surtout le Soir Si vous Soupes, vous interdire le Laitage, non pas deux cuillerées de Lait dans votre Thé,...
2514To Benjamin Franklin from Vicq d’Azyr, 15 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society J’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer le Rapport de Mrs. Andry & Thouret Sur les Aimans de M. L’abbé Le Noble, conformément a la Demande que vous avez bienvoulu m’en faire le 24 du mois dernier.— La Société R. de Médecine, à laquelle j’ai présentéce Billet que Vous m’avez adressé à ce Sujet, a été on-ne-peut-pas-plus flattée du Désir que Vous témoignez avoir de...
2515To Benjamin Franklin from John Witherspoon, 15 June 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The Bearer Mr William Brown has been a Teacher here & is strongly recommended to me as an excellent Classic Scholar he goes to Paris to finish his Knowledge & Pronounciation of the french Language & is desirous of being introduced to you & if you Should know of any Opportunity of directing him where he might teach either the english or learned Languages so...
2516From George Washington to Mary Bristow, 15 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your letter & the duplicate of it—dated the 27th of last November with the petition to the Assembly of this State, only came to my hands the 10th Instant. By the following Post I transmitted them to the Governor, as the Legislature was then sitting at Richmond. What effect the application may have on that body, is not for me, at this time, to announce; it is to be feared however, as the Lands...
2517To George Washington from La Touche-Tréville, 15 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
The marks of kindness with wc. you treated me when in America, are too dear to me to be forgotten. It is impossible to have known the Country rescued by your brave efforts, without a wish to become a Citizen of it—Convinced, that it is in such a Country only, that I can meet with happiness; I claim by the Marquiss La Fayette your friendship; who will aid me I hope in obtaining it, & inform you...
2518To George Washington from Robert Morris, 15 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Having no Intention of entering again into the details of Mercantile Business, on the receipt of your Letter of the 2d Inst. I applied to those with whom I am Connected here, but found no Vacancy in their Counting Houses. And as I had announced to Congress my determination to quit the office of Finance during their recess, I had in Consequence of an Arrangement which I hinted to you when here,...
2519To George Washington from Jean de Neufville, 15 June 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jean de Neufville, 15 June 1784. On 8 Sept. 1785 GW wrote Jean de Neufville : “your letter of the 15th of June last year indicated. . . .”
2520From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 15 June 1784 (Madison Papers)
Yours by Mr. Barbour was duly handed to me as have been several others of late. Mine by Mr. Craig will have answered the enquiries in most of them. I am now at a loss what step to take with the certificates of Mr. Winslow, having sent you all the money arising from your Tobo. which is now payable. I shall wait till I hear from you on the subject. If payment into the Treasury be immediately...