1To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 16 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
My Servant informs me that you desire to know at what price I would sell my Horse Leopard. He cost me 300 Dollars about 2 Years since, when I was well assured that he was but 7 years old. Considering the extraordinary Expence of keeping a studd Horse I think 400 Dollars would barely replace my money. I have not found any defect in him, and I beleive him to be at this moment perfectly sound....
2To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 18 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Mount Pleasant [ near Philadelphia ], August 18, 1796 . “I wrote you, on the day of my last Interview relative to my affair with Mr Macomb, June 8. 1796.… By your silence it is evident that, as counsel for Mr Macomb you did not think yourself justifiable to enter farther into the Matter. My only reason for troubling you now, is to request your remembrance of the measures I have taken to...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself for having so long left unanswered your valuable favor on the subject of the mountains. But in truth I am become lazy as to every thing except agriculture. The preparations for harvest, and the length of the harvest itself which is not yet finished, would have excused the delay however at all times and under all dispositions. I examined with great satisfaction your...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 20 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time since I conveyed to you , through the medium of Mr. Maddison, a transcript of my barometrical Journal over some of the mountains in Virginia. As the philosophical Society are about publishing another Volume, and as the Committee of selection have put my paper on the list for publication, I am extreemly desirous of receiving your answer to my last, that I may avail myself of your...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 8 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 8, 1796. “I thank you for your friendly offer and, in conformity, request you to let me know what proposals Mr Macomb is willing to make. My Demand is $17530 Dollars, being the difference arising on the unperformed Contract made with me by Mr. Duer on the Companys acct. agreeably to the terms of the partnership. I bought the $50000 six ⅌ Cents and paid for them in specie...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 24 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
As you are now retired from public Business you will not, probably, consider a philosophical communication as an unpleasant Intrusion on your Leisure; If, however, I were to offer an Apology, it would be the Experience I have had of your Indulgence in many Conversations. In the Summer of 1791 I went with my Family to the Redsprings in Bottetourt, and took with me the best Thermometer and...
7Enclosure II: Height of Virginia Mountains by Barometrical Measurement, 24 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 80: 13925); entirely in Williams’s hand; endorsed by TJ: “Mountains. height of. Jon. Williams.” For the printed version of this diagram, see APS American Philosophical Society , Transactions , iv (1799), pl. facing p. 221.
8To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 28 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
It has been suggested to me, by Friends on whose Judgment & Sincerity I have reason to rely, that my long habits of Business, especially during ten Years Residence in Europe, render me a fit Person to serve my Country where the Investigation of complicated Accounts is the Object; and I feel a conscious assurance that a strict Scrutiny into my Character would not do me an Injury. I hope this...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 1 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Expence of provision and Forage for the Detachment that escorted you from Pittsburgh to Bedford, say six Horsemen, 100 miles, was Twenty two Dollars. I presume that this will be a sufficient Document for the Reimbursement. I am with great Respect Sir Your obedient Servant ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Williams, a native of Boston and a great-nephew of Benjamin Franklin,...
10Enclosure: Memorandum, [1 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Recd from Colel Hamilton seventy Dollars $70. Expence of the Escort from Pittsburgh to Bedford 22 48 Colel Hamilton’s proportion of the Expence from Bedford to the place of Separation on the Lancaster Road 8 40 Returned to Colel Hamilton. Forty Dollars
11To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, February 1793 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed memoir has received no other publicity than a reading before the Philosophical Society and a few Copies I had Struck off for particular distribution: I shall think myself honoured by your acceptance of one Copy. Permit me also to avail myself of your Influence with the Academy of Arts and Sciences and Humane Society in Boston, to make one acceptable to each of these Institutions,...
12From John Adams to James Hutchinson, 24 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honour to write me on the twenty Second of this month and I pray you to present to the American Philosophical Society established at Philadelphia for promoting Useful Knowledge, my Thanks for the honour they have done me, by my Election into that Body on the Eighteenth instant. My best acknowledgements are also due to you, Gentlemen for the polite and...
13To John Adams from James Hutchinson, 22 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
It is with particular Satisfaction that, in a Obedience to the Orders of the American Philosophical Society established at Philadelphia for promoting usefull Knowledge, We announce your Election to that Body, on the 18th Inst. Your Certificate of Membership will be presented as soon as it is can be compleated, in the mean time We hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at their meetings as...
14To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
A few copies of the inclosed memoir have been extracted for the purpose of private distribution. If my beleif be well founded, that an attention to the directions it contains, would prevent shipwreck, & consequently save many lives, you will not think this intrusion upon your valuable time an unjustifiable presumption. If it should appear that I am mistaken, I trust to your goodness for an...
15From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Williams, [12 September 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, September 12, 1792. The catalogue description of this letter reads: “On a financial matter.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., May 24, 1943, Lot 118. Williams, a native of Boston and a great-nephew of Benjamin Franklin, had been prize agent and commercial agent for Congress at Nantes during the American Revolution. After the adoption of the...
16Enclosure I: Extract from Jonathan Williams’s Meteorological Journal, 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Places Dates Therr: Barometer Fall Rise Assent in Feet Descent in feet Height above Richmond. Richmond June 26. 70. 29.80 Woods 29. 65. 29.70. 0.10 100 100
17Samuel Magaw, James Hutchinson, Jonathan Williams, and John Vaughan to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
Having been honored with the Vice Presidents consent to attend the Eulogium in Memory of D r Benjamin Franklin. We in the name of the Philosophical Society, presume to hope you will do them the honor of your presence on the Same important occasion We have the honor to be / with the greatest respect / Madam / Your obedient Servants RC ( Adams Papers ); internal address: “M rs Adams.—” Benjamin...