1John V. Henry (for Patrick Henry [of Rockbridge County]) to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
by request of my Brother Patrick Henry I write to inform you of his Dissagreeable situation respecting the house in which he lives. by your permision after your land was run by M r Grahan & M r Douthat he built him the house mention within a hundred & fifty yards of the Bridge and is now theatend by oltletree ea ares of haveing it
2Enclosure: Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765 (Jefferson Papers)
Patrick Henry’s Resolutions copied from the Journal of the House of Burgesses in 1765. May 30 . 1 Resolved That the first adventurers and settlers of this his Majesty’s Colony and Dominion of Virginia brought with them and transmitted to their posterity, and all other his Majesty’s subjects since inhabiting in this his Majesty’s said colony, all the Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and...
3Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Patrick Henry, [before 12 April 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
My acquaintance with mr Henry commenced in the winter of 1759–60. on my way to the college I passed the Christmas holidays at Col o Dandridge’s in Hanover , to whom mr Henry was a near neighbor. during the festivity of the season I met him in society every day, and we became well acquainted, altho’ I was much his junior, being then in my 17 th year, & he a married man. the spring following he...
4To John Adams from Patrick Henry, 16 April 1799 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 26th ultimo did not reach me till two days ago. I have been confined for several weeks by a severe indisposition, and am still so sick as scarcely to be able to write this. My advanced age and increasing debility compel me to abandon every idea of serving my country, where the scene of operation is so far distant, and her interests call for incessant and long-continued...
5To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 12 February 1799 (Washington Papers)
Private Dear sir Charlotte [County] feby 12th 1799 Your Favor of the 15th ulto reached me a few Days since. I sincerely thank you for it, & for the flattering Sentiments you entertain for me—But most highly do I thank & honor you for your unremitting Care of the public Welfare—Think not Sir that I mean to flatter when I say that the wise Caution which avoided an Increase of Connection with the...
6To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 16 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of the 9th Instant is this Moment delivered to me at this place by an Express from Richmond. The Contents of it make a deep Impression on my Mind. To disobey the Call of my Country into Service when her venerable Chief makes a Demand of it, must be a Crime, unless the most substantial Reasons justify declining it. And I must trust to your Candour & Goodness to excuse me for not...
7To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 19 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
I was honor’d by the Rect of your Favor together with a Copy of the proposed fœderal constitution, a few Days ago, for which I beg you to accept my Thanks. They are also due to you from me as a Citizen, on Account of the great Fatigue necessarily attending the arduous Business of the late Convention. I have to lament that I cannot bring my Mind to accord with the proposed Constitution. The...
8[To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 17 May 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Richmond, 17 May 1786 . Entered in SJL as received 1 Aug. 1786. Not found. See TJ to Henry, 9 Aug. 1786 .]
9To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 6 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
There are six men in the public Goal who are pardoned for capital Crimes on Condition of laboring for Years more or less. I beg to know whether the Company over which you preside will accept of these people to labor in accomplishing the purposes of your Institution. It will be expected that their Labor shall be considered as a Compensation for all the Expences of supporting them in the...
10To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 18 January 1786 (Washington Papers)
Mr Oliver Pollock will have the Honor of delivering you this; & as he begs to be gratify’d in once seeing you, I take the Liberty of introducing him to you. Mr Wm Ronald who is a Delegate of considerable Weight in the House, & who was one of the Veiwers of the Ground most proper for the Canal from Eliza. River to Albemarle Sound, was fully impressed with the Utility & Importance of the...
11To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 11 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
The post Yesterday brought me your Favors. That which was official I have just sent down to the Assembly. The Result shall go to you as soon as I get it—The Report concerning the intended Canal I could not send you ’til now, having obtained a Copy of it only two Days ago. Mr Andrews tells me the Comrs could not take a very particular View of the Ground, having gone to it shortly after the...
12To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 14 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
I beg Leave to introduce to your Acquaintance the Bearer Capt. Lewis Littlepage who wishes for the Honor of being known to you. I have no Doubt but the Merits of this young Gentleman will render him agreable to you. I have spent some little Time in his Company very happily, & feel myself interested in his future Welfare. As soon as the Report concerning the intended Water communication with...
13To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 26 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor covering Mr Deakins’s Letter I received this Morning. As soon as Mr Massey’s Resignation was handed to me, the Appointment of Mr Neville was made & sent out to him with a Copy of the Resolution of Assembly. But for Fear they may have miscarry’d I inclose you a Copy, which I must beg you to put in a Way of being forwarded. With the highest Esteem & Regard I am dear Sir Your most...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 10 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honor’d with yours in the Spring, by which you inform me Mr. Heudon intended to come over to see Genl. Washington in person, by Means of which he would be better enabled to take the Likeness desired. I should have written you on the Receipt of yours, but as Mr. Heudons Arrival here was to be expected about the Time I received the Letter, I thought it needless to write on the Subject. I...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 10 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
While I was writing to you about Matters of a public Nature I supposed you would be glad to know of such Incidents as cannot properly make a part of our official Communications. Indeed our present Tranquility scarcely affords an Anecdote interesting enough to relate; but I am happy in reflecting, that it is in such scarcity of News and Materials for Narration, that political Growth and...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 16 June 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed resolution will inform you of the change which has taken place respecting the Bust formerly voted to the Marquis de la Fayette. I have to entreat that you will take the trouble to settle with Mr. Barclay the several Matters necessary to give Effect to the views of the Assembly in that particular. With the highest regard I am Dr. Sir Your most obed. Servt., FC ( Vi ). Recorded in...
17To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 10 June 1785 (Washington Papers)
You may remember that when you were at this place, I informed you my Son in Law Mr Fontaine was in Carolina, & that when he returned I would let you know the Situation, in which the Lands near the so. End of the dismal swamp, were. By the best Intelligence I can collect there is near pasquotank River, a few Miles from the Bridge, a pretty considerable Quantity of Swamp now vacant Say 6,000...
18To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 4 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I beg Leave to introduce to you the Bearer Mr Arnold Henry Dohrman. He is of Lisbon, but has spent a year or two in America, gratifying himself with the Sight of a Country to whose Interests he devoted himself & his Fortune in the very early Periods of the late War. Hundreds (I believe I am within bounds) of our captive Countrymen, bereft of Clothes Victuals Friends & Money, found all these in...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 30 March 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
You will see by the inclosed Advice of Council the nature of the business which I have committed to Mr. Barclay. I could have wished that the Sum to be laid out had been more adequate to our Want of arms. But the pressure of our Debts and the Circumstances of our Country seem to forbid for the present its encrease. However I am to hope that the great Business of laying up arms and military...
20To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 19 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Honor you are pleased to do me in your Favor of the 27th ulto, desiring my Opinion in a friendly Way on the Subject of the Act for vesting the Shares in the Patowmack & James River Navigation, is very flattering to me. And I should ill deserve the Confidence you are pleased to place in me if I should forbear to give you my unreserved Sentiments on it. I will freely own to you that I am...
21To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 12 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Honor you are pleased to do me in your Favor of the 27th ulto in which you desire my Opinion in a friendly way concerning the Act I inclosed you lately, is very flattering to me. I did not recieve the Letter ’til Thursday, & since that my Family has been very sickly. My oldest Grandson a fine Boy indeed about 9 years old lays at the Point of Death. Under this State of Uneasiness &...
22To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer hereof Mr Alexander Donald wishes to have the Honor of presenting himself to you, & has entreated of me to sollicit for him permission to do so. I take the Liberty therefore to introduce him to you, not doubting but you will find him agreable. With the highest Esteem & Regard I am Dear sir, your most obedient Servant ALS , ViMtvL . Alexander Donald, a close friend of Thomas...
23To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 February 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Patrick Henry, 5 Feb. 1785. On 27 Feb. GW wrote to Henry : “I have had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 5th.”
24To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 19 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor by the post I have received. I entirely accord in the Sentiments you express concerning Mr Paine, & I trust we may see some fit Testimonial of the public Gratitude towards him. Had I consulted only my own Inclination, I should long ’eer this have done myself the pleasure to write you. The Scene of public affairs you have so gloriously closed, did not admit Leisure for the...
25To James Madison from Patrick Henry, 17 April 1784 (Madison Papers)
After so long Time had passed without hearing from you, Mr. Mazzei did me great pleasure in telling me you were well, & not averse to render stil further Services to our Country. Altho’ from the Length & Importance of those you have so happily accomplished some Respite might be demanded for the present, yet I must tell you I think several Matters of the greatest Moment forbid it. Is not the...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 29 April 1781 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer Mr. Thomas Boush waits on you with a proposition , the Nature of which he will explain to you. Nothing but a Conviction of an almost Impossibility of complying with your Excellency’s Requisition for two hundred & fifty men from the County, could induce the Officers to trouble you on the Subject. I can only say that I am satisfy’d the Difficulty of getting provisions here & on the...
27Patrick Henry to Virginia Delegates in Congress, 23 May 1780 (Madison Papers)
RC ( NA : PCC , No. 71, I, 339–40, 342). I take the Liberty of introducing to you the Bearer Mr. George Anderson. A Ratification of the French Alliance, together with some other State Papers were sent to me very early while I was in Office & I put them all into Mr. Andersons Hands to go to Paris, but he was unfortunately taken by the Enemy & cary’d into Lisbon where he became acquainted with...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Henry, 15 February 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many Thanks for your Favor by Mr. Sanders . The kind Notice you were pleased to take of me was particularly obliging, as I have scarcely heard a Word of public Matters since I moved up. In the Retirement where I live, I have had many anxietys for our Commonwealth, principally occasioned by the Depreciation of our Money. To judge by this, which some Body has called the Pulse of the...
29Patrick Henry in Council to John Jay, 11 May 1779 (Madison Papers)
On Saturday last in the Evening a British Fleet amounting to about thirty Sail consisting of one 64 Gun Ship (supposed by some to be the Saint Albans, and fifteen or Sixteen large Ships, some of them either Frigates or armed Vessels it is not known certainly which, and the others Vessels of lesser Size) came into the Bay of Chesapeak, and the next day proceeded to Hampton Roads, where they...
30To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 13 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Reasons hinted in your Excellencys last Favor, are certainly of such Weight, as to prevent the Flag of Truce Vessells coming with Stores &c. for the convention Troops, from proceeding further than Hampton Road. Orders are therefore issued to Day for Vessells of our own, to be ready at that place to convey the Stores upwards to their Destination, under the Superintendance of proper...