4361From Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt to Harriet Welsh, 28 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
I intended my dear Harriet to have written You before now—but it has not been in my power this morning I recd. you packet with E’s letter & yesterday the welcome information of C M’s being out of danger—remember me kindly to her father & mother I rejoice that she has recovered—My dear Caroline is very well & very lively—we are now very pleasantly situated at Mrs. Kinsey No 5 Broad way our bed...
4362From Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt to Harriet Welsh, 13 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have just obtained pen, ink & paper at the house we have stoped at for the night to commence a letter to my dear Harriet the first line I have written you since I left the Grove. I know you have affectionately sympathized with me in the mournful and solemn scenes I have lately passed through—& I was quite disappointed last eve at the valley when my brother recd. a letter from Mr. Johnson...
4363From Elizabeth De Windt to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Nothing could compensate so much for the disapointment of my Son’s not bringing your Caroline with him as the flattering letter he brought me from you, I Cannot describe my feelings when reading it, your Sentiments of him coincided So much with mine, that I could not help exclaiming he is all that this good & venerable lady thinks of him, to hear him praised for qualities that grace human...
4364From Katherine Dexter to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I lament that indisposition should have obliged me to defer so long acknowledging your kind letter; it was received with a deep sense of gratitude, with a mixture of feeling only to be produced by so generous a sympathy in a loss so severe as I have been called to meet. You have offered me Dear Madam, all that a wounded heart can ask—the sympathy of friendship; and to the departed the best...
4365To John Adams from Samuel Dexter, 9 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
In obedience to the intimation you were so kind as to make I now suggest that it would be gratifying to the claimants of Georgia land that you should say by letter as much as you think proper on the following points. 1st. That it is your opinion & that of the best informed men here that there title is good & valid. 2d. That they have also a strong equity, on these grounds, that the purchasers...
4366To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, 30 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
I resisted my inclination to present you my respectful congratulation on your accession to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation from an apprehension that as I had the misfortune to differ from the last Administration as to the best means of protecting some of the important rights & interests of our Country, it might wear the appearance of hollow civility to eminent station rather than of...
4367To John Adams from Samuel Dexter, 10 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
You would long since have received my acknowledgement of your very obliging favor of 8th. Ult. had it not been my intention to pay my respects to you in person. Various unexpected calls of business have successively disappointed this hope. It is strong proof that I was not in error in resisting the late proceedings at town meeting that my conduct meets your approbation. For the very Kind...
4368To James Madison from Asbury Dickins, 26 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
Presuming on the kindness and confidence with which you have honoured me, I beg leave to suggest, whether, under the Bill now before Congress for constituting a Board to settle claims on the United States for private property lost or destroyed in the public service, an opportunity may not be found for carrying into effect the disposition which you have been pleased to manifest to give to me...
4369To James Madison from Asbury Dickins, 14 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
I trust it will not be deemed a departure from the high respect which is due to your exalted station and eminent character, for me to present myself, in this manner, to your notice. Since I had the honour to see you, I have written to the Commissioners of the Navy offering myself for the Secretaryship of their Board. I learn, however, that several applications had been previously made to them:...
4370To James Madison from Asbury Dickins, 1 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
If the extraordinary change which has taken place in the Government of France should lead to any alteration in your intentions respecting the appointments to that Country, permit me to express a hope that I shall not be overlooked. From what I formerly heard of the sentiments and views of Mr. Skipwith, I should infer, that, under these new circumstances, the Consulship at Paris would not be...
4371Rodolphus Dickinson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am not flattered with the expectation that the little work enclosed will present you with any new views that will be interesting: but feel confident, whatever may be your decision, that this effort of youth will be regarded with indulgence. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq.”; endorsed by TJ as received 15 Apr. 1813 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Dickinson, A...
4372To James Madison from John Dick, 10 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
I deem it to be my duty to inform You of the total Suppression of the federal judiciary in this district, by military force, and of the arrest and confinement of the district judge and myself, by the Same power. The causes leading to events So novel and So unexpected I will take the liberty to detail, leaving it to yourself, Sir, to judge, whether the conduct of the commander of the 7:...
4373Lieutenants Fawcett and Dickonson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Lieutenants Fawcett , and Dickonson beg leave to return to their kind thanks to M r Jefferson for the attention shewn them while at Charlottesville ; and whould have done themselves the honor of waiting upon him, had time permitted— RC ( MHi ); in an unidentified hand; addressed (edge trimmed): “Thomas Jefferson Esq ue Monticello
4374William Dickson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith enclose the Min i ature & c of the late Gov r Lewis , which has been put into my hands by Maj r Anderson for that purpose. It seems when an inventory was taken at this place of the property of the deceased this article being wrapped up with a small parcel of medecines, was overlooked, and not discovered until some time after the Inventory had been sent on. It was matter of doubt...
4375To James Madison from Augustus Diemar, 25 November 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 November 1811, Batavia , “ Lands of Liberty & Equality .” Introduces himself as a native of France, born in Paris in 1766 the son of a colonel in the Irish Brigade. His father left France after a duel and took him to England, where his father held an appointment in the Hanoverian Troops. “Since I became of the age of Maturity was appointed in the Brittish army—have fought Some last American...
4376To James Madison from Thomas Digges, 30 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
In haste & almost fatigued to death I set down to address a line to You while my nephew Dr F. and a Gentn., whom you know, are taking a mouthful of refreshmt by one of whom you will I hope soon get this. You can more easily immagine than I can describe my own troubles & vexations, and the deep anxieties I have felt for you & Mrs. M since Wedy. last the 24th Int. nr the Capitol. Since which I...
4377To James Madison from Thomas Digges, 27 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
I hope my valued and highly esteemd Friends Mrs. and Mr Madison will not attribute my long absence & a seeming withdrawing from Them, to any want of respect regard or affection, but place it to the true causes—ie that of the eventful incidents during the autumn & fall of 1814, which occupied my whole mind and vocations, (adding thereto the weight of age: 76, with Sickness, Rhuematics & achs...
4378To James Madison from Thomas Digges, 9 February 1812 (Madison Papers)
Mr Digges’s Compliments & best regards to Mr Madison. He has been a miserable victim to confinement for the last fortnight or He would have waited on Mrs. & Mr Madison: But rubs , at the age too of 68, are the intermediate tributes that we are forced to pay, in some shape or other, to our wretched nature, ’till we pay the last great one of all. I cannot complete a white thorn Hedge at my lower...
4379Thomas A. Digges to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lamented extremely the not having it as yet in my power to pay You an intended visit at Monticello , as well as to have been with You nearly at the point of Your departure from Monticello the Presidoliad: And I trust You will not take my seeming neglect to any want of regard or my sincere wishes for Your health & preservation, (for there is none I regard more) but to my mind &...
4380Indenture for Land at Fort Warburton, 31 August 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Indenture for Land at Fort Warburton. 31 August 1815. “This Indenture … between Thomas Attwood Digges [and] William Dudley Digges both of Prince George’s County in the State of Maryland and Robert Brent of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia of the first part and James Madison President of the United States of America of the second part” conveys “unto the said James Madison...
4381Thomas L. Dillehay to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased not take umbridge at the following lines as they come from one you never saw, nor perhaps ever heard of.—Had I the least Idea that these lines would in any shape affront you, Be it far from me to have written them.— On the 14 th inst. I had two Sons born which were yesterday noon christened and named Thomas Jefferson and James Madison .— T My reason why I called my two sons after...
4382To James Madison from Thomas L. Dillehay, 26 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1812 , “ Near Hagerstown Md. Washington County .” Requests that JM take no “umbridge at the following lines, as they come from one you never saw, and perhaps, never heard of.” “On the 14th. inst. it pleased God to make me Father of two Sons! which was yesterday noon Christened and call [ sic ] James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.” Adds in a postscript, “The Hon. S. Ringgold knows me...
4383To James Madison from James Dill, 10 May 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 May 1812, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County. Refers to the letter he sent to JM “a few days since … on the peculiarly defenceless situation of this and the neighbouring counties of our Territory —since which time a fresh alarm has been created which is likely to prove destructive to our whole population.” “Intelligence lately reached us from the agent of the Delaware Nation of Indians,...
4384To James Madison from James Dill, 27 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 April 1812, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County. Encloses a handbill received “yesterday” by express from Vincennes. Points out that the handbill instructs colonels commanding regiments to “adopt such remedies as the Laws authorize to make up any deficiencies which may exist amongst the Militia relative to arms and accoutrements.” The laws authorize fines of up to $1.50 per delinquency for...
4385To James Madison from James Dill, 22 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honour last spring of addressing to you one or two letters, which amongst a multiplicity of business will no doubt have been forgotten, I again take the liberty of writing on a subject different from the former but from the same motive; the good of the people of this Territory. Ere this reaches you a number of petitions intended to reflect on the official conduct of Judge Taylor and...
4386To James Madison from James Dinsmore, 16 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I received by Sundays Mail your favour of the 12th inst. and Shall accordingly accommodate our work to the present height of the Ceiling. We yesterday Made a general examination of the Chimneys and find that it would not be prudent (if practicable) to Attempt any alteration in the Chimneys without takeing them down from the begining of the Shaft, the Shaft I beleive May be Saved: it is yet...
4387To James Madison from James Dinsmore, 20 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Understanding that your waggon is now on its way to washington I take the liberty of encloseing you a Memdm of articles that now are, or Shortly will be wanted here, that you May have an opportunity of Sending them by its return, Should the waggon not be able to fetch all you Can Curtail the quantity; I will also take it as a particular favour if you Can Send Me a Grindstone as those here are...
4388James Dinsmore’s List of Thomas Jefferson’s Tools, 15 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Mem dm of Carpenters tools belonging to mr Jefferson — 15 pair hollows & rounds ,. & 1 plane for making spouts 1 pair hollows & quarter rounds, 1 Do Snipe Bills 1 Do Side rabbitt planes—4 rabbitt planes & astragal 3 philasters. & one Spring plane— 4 pair Groveing planes & 1 Cut & thrust— 2 Plow planes & 9 plow bits 5 bead planes 9, ogees. & 2 quarter rounds— 2 Sash ovolos, 2 astragal Do—
4389To James Madison from James Dinsmore, 21 November 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 3d & one enclosed from Mr Latrobe of the 9th. have been received; the principal point on which I wished to be informed respecting the Sheet Iron is ommitted, Viz the breadth of it, for on that depends the arrangement of the Joist—with respect to Main gutters to receive the water from the Minor ones they would certainly be a great advantage & without them the water from the...
4390To James Madison from James Dinsmore, 26 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received yours of the 23. and shall proceed with the alteration of the Chimneys, as it will enable us to go on regularly with our work. Mrs Madison informs Me that She has not got the key of the upper front room, and thinks it was Carried to washington, if So you will Please to send it by next Mail. The key of the Closet leading to the garrett will not be neccessary as the Door will...