1Receipt of John Francis Mercer, 11 October 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS (Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown, N.J.). Recd fm. Loan of the Honble Jas Madison Six hundred Dollars. JM and Mercer were in Princeton on 11 October ( JCC Worthington Chauncey Ford et al ., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (34 vols.; Washington, 1904–37). , XXV, 670–71). The “Dollars” were probably either the currency of Pennsylvania or New Jersey. In a...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 7 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Elijah Robesson of Ann Arundel County, a worthy freind of mine, is obliged to Philadelphia in order to recover a Slave there. As our Citizens have experienced great difficulties in similar cases, he requests to be made known to some characters, whose influence may secure that Justice the Laws entitle him to. I have therefore writen to Governor Mifflin and yourself persuaded that he will...
3To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, 16[–28] October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
You must attribute the delay of my answer to yours of the 26th. of September to the extreme indisposition of my family. In replying now I cannot avoid noticing the Letter which you address’d to Major Ross at the same time and on the same subject and which that Gentleman consider’d himself as authoriz’d to circulate in an hand-Bill whilst my Election was depending. Altho we naturally enter with...
4To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 28 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to request of you information which you alone perhaps can give me, and which I conceive there is no impropriety in asking—if there is however you will I know not answer—it is only to be ascertained of the fact whether Mr. Charles Carrol of this State, has actually and effectually resigned his Seat in the Senate of the U. States. I am always with true attachment Dr Sir...
5To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused your statement of the conversation between us relative to my Accounts & do not perceive in what it is variant from that which I placed in the hands of the President. In that I declar’d that I did not take what fell from you as a serious proposition but on the contrary—thus far I now repeat—but I can only answer for myself & my own impression—farther I should deem it improper for...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 13 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I put pen to paper to induce you to reply or rather to remind you of your promise to convey me some information from those interesting Scenes, France and our Amn . Parliament. Mr. Potts elected the Senator here is I fear at the acme of Aristocracy, Colo. Stone got 19 votes against him the only two polled for. There was certainly a very limited choice. Mr. A. got all the votes here as V.P. tho’...
7To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, 31 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I receiv’d a letter from you containing several enclosures the Evening before I left Annapolis, & in the hurry of departure the package was left behind. I have since repeatedly written to have it forwarded to me but as this has not yet been done, I conclude that it is mislaid & that I shall not receive it whilst here. I must rely altogether therefore on my memory for the contents & will only...
8To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, 5 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I was surprizd by a letter from you at the moment I was about to leave Philadelphia with Mrs. Mercer very much indisposed & still more astonished to find on my arrival here, that Major Ross had brought this subject again before the public in the Newspapers, in a manner calculated to make the falsest & most injurious impressions, where the progress of this business was altogether unknown. It...
9To Alexander Hamilton from John F. Mercer, 26 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have now to acknowledge the receit of yours of the 14th. of March which was handed to me on my way from Annapolis to this place. Your own discretion will determine you what course you are to pursue—confining myself as I have hitherto done to a line purely defensive, I shall assuredly not refuse any summons I may receive from you. As the last paragraph however of your letter contradicts what...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to request you to inform me the state of Philadelphia as to health at present and whether Congress are to set there. If I can attend with any tolerable safety I shall do it but, the probability of being exposed in Taverns or lodging Houses to infected furniture added to a number of melancholy domestic circumstances, urge me to decline a trust which some delicate...