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Boston, 18 December 1765. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:265–266 . See Notes on the Opening of the Courts 19 Dec. 1765 , and Argument before Gov. Bernard 20 Dec. 1765 , below. Printed : ( JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and...
The letter you did me the honor of writing me dated October 19th. came to hand but a few days past. The notice taken of me by the Committee of Congress appointed to collect an account of hostilities &c. I own myself indebted to you for, and you may be assured that I shall do every thing in my power to forward that business: A Committee of both Houses of which I am one has been appointed in...
Burlington [ New Jersey ] May 9, 1785 . Ask for information and advice on the progress being made in the sale of 40,000 acres in the Otsego Patent. LS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Cooper, who later founded Cooperstown, New York, was the father of James Fenimore Cooper. From 1776 to 1786 Cooper and Craig, both of Burlington, New Jersey, purchased the greater part of the Otsego...
The inclosed Resolutions of this Town, passed at a very large Meeting of the Inhabitants, being conceived of importance to the United States, are dispatch’d by Express. At a legal and very numerous Meeting of the Freeholders, & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston at Faneuil Hall on Monday the 12th day of May 1794 Resolved, As the sense of the Inhabitants of this Town, that the General...
[ Cooperstown, New York, November 26, 1798 ]. Discusses his dispute with Benjamin Walker. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. See H to Walker, William Inman, and Cooper, September 9, 1798 .
The information that you Requested me to Furnish you with, relative to the best road from this to Albany, I with Pleasure State to you as follows. dine the first day at the Crooked billet , Lodge that night at the delleware—next day at Colonel Drakes Suckesunny Planes—the next day to goshen —the next day to Kingston or Esopus, the next day to Cattskill to the house of Samuel Vanve e ten . The...
Wm. Cooper Esq. member of Congress, requests that his son Richard Fenimore Cooper Esqr. may be appointed Agent to explore the copper mine on Lake Superior, and report; agreeably to the Resolution of Congress. Judge Lawrence knows R. F. Cooper, who is a lawyer, intelligent, and very fit for the Agency. Mr. Cooper says his son is 26 years old. A young man recommended by the Assayer of the Mint,...
You are nominated and will this day no doubt be approved Chiefe Justice of the United States in the Place of O. Elsworth Resigned. the french treaty may be Conditionally Ratifyed, but I think not as the Senators speak of it in bitter termes and count on many mischiefs that will follow. Jefferson and Burr is head and head. Burr or no President is the order of the day. Poor America how thou art...
By the provisions of the Act respecting the Judiciary, which has just become a Law—a new District in the Northern part of the State of New-York is created; In which the Offices of Attorney & Marshal are to be filld. by new appointments—relying upon the belief that your Excellency is willing to receive all information relating to the suitableness of persons for any employment which is vacant—we...
At a time when our enemy has avowed his intention to prosecute the war with the utmost rigor against our towns, villages, and citizens , it becomes the duty of every American to aid his Government in repelling them. I shall not be deterred by one disaster from respectfully submitting a plan, which I shall, I trust, demonstrate would completely banish them from our waters. Indeed, I am about...