1To John Adams from Jonathan Dayton, 16 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
We have the honor to address you on the subject of the appointment to an office, created by an Act lately passed for the establishment of a general Stamp-office, & to recommend Mr. James Greenleaf for the same. As an accurate Accountant, no one can be better qualified to discharge the duties of this office, and as a man of probity, we have good reason to believe, & indeed have seen very...
2To John Adams from Samuel Allyne Otis, 17 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I suppose by this time sober hill is in great glory, at least if your spring has been forward in any measure as ours has. And when we compare our peaceful Towns & happy villages with the garrisons & wasted fields of Europe we ought to bless God who has divided us by 1000 leagues of water. But the question occurs will this distance from that great awful & distressed Theatre of human misery &...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 2 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Otis respects to the President of the U States & replies that the committees on the nomination of Peter Walsh & others are Messrs. Tracy Worthington & Baldwin The committee on the nomination of the Legis. Council N Orleans are Genl. Smith of Maryland " Jackson & " Tracy The President of the U States will please to remember that some of Mr Lears communications were transmitted with the...
4To John Adams from Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 May 1792 (Adams Papers)
I hope this will find you agreeably reposing at your pleasant Seat after a tedious and fatiguing Session—which however is not ended nor do I know when it will be. They have agreed to Saturday next but such long speechifications as took place on the excise &c will protract the time two or three weeks.—The Senate are almost unemployed and wish for a recess, but it will hardly do for them to...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 27 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honour to transmit herewith a copy of the proceedings of the Senate in their Executive capacity during the last session, agreeably to a standing order I am very respectfully Your most humble Sevt DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
6To John Adams from Samuel Allyne Otis, 26 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose you the minutes of the last week and to repeat my wishes to see you here as soon as possible, and as I hear Mrs Adams has quite recovered her health and that your own is restored I flatter myself those wishes will soon be gratified. I have every day less fears of an unfavorable election of the two first officers in the Government—People seem to look with solemn...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request I return your message of 24th, having the permission of the V President & of the chairman of the committee to whom it was referred. You will have the goodness to return it to me when you have made such alteration as you may judge proper I have the honor to be very respectfully your most humble Sert DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
8Samuel A. Otis, Sr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
There is a standing order of Senate that I lay before the President of the United States, from time to time, a copy of their records, when acting in their Executive capacity. This I have done to the close of the last session, and left the book in which the proceedings are copied with the President of the U. States, which if you will procure to be returned by the bearer, I will continue the...
9To George Washington from Samuel Allyne Otis, 10 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
As my present employment is laborious in addition to the disagreeable circumstance of responsibility to numbers instead of one, I, by the advice of some friends take the liberty of soliciting the appointment to be Treasurer of the Mint; and if you think it expedient, the honor of your nomination to that office. I am Sir With profund respect Your most humble Servt ALS , DLC:GW . GW nominated...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the request with which you honoured me this morning, I have put into the hands of the committee appointed on your message 13th. respecting Hamet Caramalli, the copy of Caramallis letter to yourself, 5 Augt 85. The committee are Messrs Bradley Wright Baldwin Smith of Maryland Tracy The copy of the American Ministers letter, (Mr Monroe) to the British Secretary of foreign affairs,...