1To John Adams from John Edwards, May 1798 (Adams Papers)
That your Memorialists learnt with the most sincere satisfaction the appointment, by the Executive Government of the United States, of a Solemn Embassy, duly empowered and wisely instructed, to endeavour to remove all differences with the French Republic, & to maintain the Relations of Amity and Peace between the two Countries That your Memorialists have understood with the deepest regret,...
2To James Madison from John Edwards, 7 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
John Edwards humbly sheweth that he hath been convicted at the present Term of the Circuit Court for Washington County in the District of Columbia on two Indictments (as appears by a transcript thereof hereunto annexed) & hath been sentenced by the Court to receive the punishment there mentioned. Your petitioner prays that in consideration of his extreme youth, & it’s being his first offence,...