1From Benjamin Franklin to [William?] Bradford, 16 May 1775 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; draft: American Philosophical Society I have just now been urged to apply to you in behalf of a Stranger who is suppos’d to have spoken some disrespectful Words of you, and who is apprehensive of the Resentment of your Company, as he is told they are exceedingly exasperated against him. He declares that the Words ascrib’d to him, are much...
2From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 8 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter by express duly came to hand. The separate power has I understand been dispatched. General Nevil suggests that if a disposition to comply should appear, the best proof of it would be a request from the parties to Mr. Johnson to resume the exercise of his Office with assurances of support from them. This idea is well worth your attention; though I do not expect you will approach...
3From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 10 May 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, May 10, 1795. On May 21, 1795, Bradford wrote to Hamilton : “I thank you very sincerely for your letter of the 10th. inst.” Letter not found. ]
4From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 10 April 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, April 10, 1795. On April 10, 1795, Hamilton wrote to Oliver Wolcott, Jr. : “I send a letter to The Attorney General which you will read seal & deliver.” Letter not found. ]
5From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 25 April 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 25, 1794. On May 1, 1794, Bradford wrote to Hamilton and referred to “your Letter of the 25th ultimo.” Letter not found. ]
6From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 5 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, March 5, 1794. On March 14, 1794, Bradford wrote to Hamilton : “I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letters of the 5th instant.” Letters not found. ]
7[From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, Timothy Pickering, Edmund Randolph, and Oliver Wolcott, Junior], [28 July … (Hamilton Papers)
Hamilton, History John C. Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, a History of the Republic of the United States of America (Boston, 1879). , VI, 243. John Church Hamilton states that H wrote to members of George Washington’s cabinet on this date. No further evidence of this correspondence, however, has been found.
8From Alexander Hamilton to William Bradford, 13 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Yours of the 21st of May by going to Albany did not reach me till yesterday. The expectation of Mr. Adet properly varied the course of proceeding. I am glad the impression with you corresponded with mine. If Mr. Randolph shewed Fauchet any part of the instructions to Mr. Jay —I do not much regret that he manifests displeasure at the witholding of a part. When shall we cease to consider...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Bradford, 26 April 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
I am constrained by the subscribers to your paper in this neighborhood to trouble you with information of the uncertainty with which they seem likely to come. The first mail came about ten days ago open and loose, and containing not more than one paper for any subscriber, and none for several. The papers which came were of three several dates. The last mail, which would have been the second,...
10From Thomas Jefferson to William Bradford, 6 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
To be present at the meeting of Congress would have required me to set out on this day. But circumstances of necessity oblige me to ask of the Senate the indulgence of some time, probably of about a fortnight. Whether it be more or less I shall repair to my station the first moment it is possible for me to do so. A knolege that in the mean time it is so worthily filled, leaves me nothing to...