1Alexander Hamilton and Oliver Ellsworth to John Dickinson, [23 June 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
We have the honor to inclose for Your Excellency and the Council a copy of the resolutions communicated in our conference yesterday. Having then fully entered into all the explanations which were necessary on the subject, we shall not trouble your Excellency with a recapitulation. But as the object is of a delicate and important nature, we think it our duty to request the determination of the...
2To George Washington from Oliver Ellsworth, 2 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
Should you think proper to nominate a person from the State of Connecticut to the office of a Judge in the Western Territory in the room of General Parsons, permit me to name for your consideration Majr William Judd; of whom you probably have some knowledge from his having had the honor of serving in the late American Army. The appointment would be acceptable to him, and I beleive his services...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Ellsworth, 4 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A committee of the Senate on the judicial department, would be happy to receive from you, on Thursday morning next, at 10 oClock, in the Committee room if that time and place should be convenient for you, information relative to that part of the President’s speech at the opening of the session which alludes to “aggressions by our citizens on the territory of other nations and other infractions...
4To George Washington from Oliver Ellsworth, 19 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
I had the misfortune to pass you & Mrs Washington without knowing it. You will be pleased, however, to accept of my wishes that your present retreat may be undisturbed, and that you may know, for a few days at least, how much more happifying it is to converse with the works of nature than with the wiles of man. In the mean time I believe you may rest assured that the publick mind, as well...
5To John Adams from Oliver Ellsworth, 3 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Ellsworth wishes to be informed by the Vice President whether when he has been quallified as such, any other oath has been administered to him than the general one vizt. “J. A—I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States—”? And if any other what has it been, and by what law prescribed? MHi : Adams Papers.
6To George Washington from Oliver Ellsworth, 6 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
As preperation for your departure will not conveniently admit of your receiving any more visits, you will suffer me in this manner, to bid you a most respectful and most cordial, farewell. With the same ardour that I have sought the felecity and glory of your Administration: do I now implore for you in repose, those sublime pleasures from a review of the past and perspective of the future,...
7To John Adams from Oliver Ellsworth, 18 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
If the present convulsion in France, and the sumptoms of a greater change at hand, should induce you, as many seem to expect, to postpone for a short time, the mission to that country, I wish for the earliest notice of it. The Circuit Court here in this State and Vermont, fell thro’ last spring from the indisposition of Judge Chase, and must now fall thro’ again from the indisposition of Judge...
8From John Adams to Oliver Ellsworth, 22 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I recd last night your favour of the 18th. Judge Cushing called here yesterday in his Way to Vermont. This however may not perhaps make any alteration in your Views. The Convulsions in France, the Change of the Directory and the Prognosticks of greater Changes will certainly induce me to postpone, for a longer or shorter time, the Mission to Paris.—I wish you to pursue your Office of Chief...
9To John Adams from Oliver Ellsworth, 26 September 1799 (Adams Papers)
I am this moment honored with your letter of the 22d.—and must apologize for my mistake concerning Judge Cushing.—When I wrote I had only seen here his letter to Judge Law, in which he said he was “under the Docters care & could not attend the Court at Hartford”—and from thence inferred that he would not go to Vermont. Since then his letter to me, which had get to Windsor & lain there two or...
10To John Adams from Oliver Ellsworth, 5 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
Since you passed on, I have concluded to meet Governor Davie at Trenton, which he probably will expect; and which, besides putting it in our power to pay you our joint respects, and to receive as fully any communication of your views as you may wish to make; may enable me to accompany him Eastward, should you continue inclined to such suspension of our Mission as, under present aspects,...