1Henry Dearborn’s Report on the War Department, [12 May 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The proposed Plan for a Fortification on Castle Island in the Harbor of , New Hampshire. Col. Nicholas Gilman has been requested to make report thereon which it is expected will soon be received.
2Report on the Ground Plan of the Capitol’s New Wing, 4 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your instructions I arrived at Washington on the 21st of March, and have since that time devoted my attention to the objects proposed by your letter of the 6th of March....the South Wing, which it is proposed to carry forward this season, I now submit to you the following report,—in which, that my motives in the alterations I shall propose may be fully understood,—I shall be under...
3Second Version: Speech to Federalist Nominating Convention for the City of New York, [20 April 1803] (Hamilton Papers)
, not content with straining every nerve to subvert government and religion—the old thing over again—the legislature made a formal & vigorous attack on the This excited a smile, and many regretted the absence of Mrs. Reynolds, who could have best answered the general on this point.…The parts of this account which have been omitted consist of the editor’s comments on H’s speech.
4Notes on the History of Mt. Wollaston, 19 October 1802 (Adams Papers)
..., Provisions &c to begin a Plantation. Deputy Governor Dudley says there came 30 with Capt. Wollaston; in his Letter to the Countess of Lincoln of March 28 1631 printed in 8.vo at Boston 1696. They pitch on a place in the Massachusetts Bay Since named Braintree, on the northerly mountainous part thereof which they call Mount Wollaston, among whom is one Thomas Morton, who had been a kind of...
5An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace, [ante–8 … (Madison Papers)
(Shaw and Shoemaker 10777). It was placed on the desks of
members of Congress on 16 January 1806 (Brown, ...and admiration,” Senator William Plumer stated that he had “never read a book that fatigued me more than this pamphlet has done,” and John Randolph declared on the floor of the House that he “could not get through this work,” that it was “such a tangled cobweb of contradictions that [...
6An Address to the Electors of the State of New-York, [21 March 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
We lately addressed you on the subject of the ensuing election for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor—recommending to your support ...which have been perpetrated, or the new ones which are projected? Is it the open profession of impiety in the public assemblies, or the ridiculous worship of a Goddess of Reason, or the still continued substitution of Decades to the Christian Sabbath...
7The Examination Number II, [21 December 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
of the public debt, and to ...of our financial arrangements, greater than could have been suspected: if but ostensible, it is then impossible to trace the suggestion to any other source than the culpable desire of gaining or securing popularity at an immediate expence of public utility, equivalent, on a pecuniary scale to a million ...expence of a very serious invasion of our system of public...
8To James Madison from George W. Erving, 1 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Adventures or otherwise, for which compensation has been given, and their places of residence at the time of capture; of the sums received from the British Government on account of the first and second instalments; the sums deducted therefrom and passed to the credit of the United States in my accounts, to reimburse their advances in the prosecution of the Claims, of the balances paid to the...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 October 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this moment recd. you favour of Septr. 25th. but being oblidged to set out on my Tour to Vermont in a few Hours, I cannot consult my papers, nor reply as particularly as would otherwise be in my power....informed that he was a junior Clerk in the Auditors Office, & that the duty assigned to him was copying the Reports which pass from the Auditor to the Comptr. I believe that he...
10To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 16 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
No. 8. “I had the honor of writing to you on the 7th. of May, and of adding thereto a transcript of my diary from the 17th. of Feby. to the 30th. of April, together with copies of my correspondence on public affairs, my account current with the United States, and sundry other documents. As no opportunity, in which I could confide, has offered for transmiting those dispatches, I have retained...