1From John Adams to United States Senate, 24 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Sherwood Haywood of North Carolina to be Commissioner of Loans for that state in the Place of Robert Rowan Esqr: deceased DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
2From John Adams to Willis Foreman, 24 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your Address of the twenty ninth of November has been presented to me, by your Representative in Congress Mr Baldwin. I rejoice to hear that you have shaken off supineness, and are in a state of readiness to oppose a foreign foe and that if occasion should require it you will sue for Peace, sword in hand Although you are all personally unknown to me, I wish you very sincerely every felicity....
3To John Adams from James McHenry, 24 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to submit, to your consideration and disposal, a Report relative to certain alterations, in the military establishment, which to me appear, to be necessary, and proper. I am Sir / with the greatest Respect / your most obedient / and very humble servant MHi : Adams Papers.
4To John Adams from John Penn, 24 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
Conscious of the sincerity with which I espouse the noble cause, from the conspicuous support of which your Excellency has derived so much glory among all true Englishmen; I mean the cause of national liberty; I do not scruple to presume that the publications which attend this letter may be thought worthy of your acceptance. Taste has been so perverted by the new opinions, that it seemed...
5[Diary entry: 24 December 1798] (Washington Papers)
24th. Clear all day with the Wind fresh from No. Wt. & Snow driving. Mer. 25. Doctr. Craik came to D. & Judge Cushing & lady in the afternoon—as did a Mr. Dinsmoor Agent in the Cherokee Country on his way to Philadelphia—with a Mr. . Silas Dinsmoor (Dinsmore), son of John and Martha McKeen Dinsmoor of Londonderry, N.H., graduated from Dartmouth College in 1791. In 1794 he received an...
6To George Washington from David Shepherd Garland, 24 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
I am informed that there is a quantity of Land lying between the Great Kanhawa and Sandy River in this State which was set a part for the payment of some Officers and Soilders who was on an Expedition Against the Indians about or before Braddocks Campain; which Land still remains undevided. I am some what interested in that claim, but from it’s antiquity can meet with no person who can give me...
7To George Washington from Richard Raynal Keene, 24 December 1798 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Raynal Keene, 24 Dec. 1798. On 28 Dec. GW wrote Keene that he was returning “the papers contained in your letter of the 24th instant. . . [and] the letter also.”
8To George Washington from Alexander Spotswood, 24 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
I received a letter last Week from Mr Short, dated Novr 1st—he Says Mr Hites absence from home, has prevented his doing any thing towards the purchase of Andrew Woodrows Survey—but so Soon as hite returns, he will have the bussiness closed to your Satisfaction. I have also recd a letter from Mr Feild, he acknowledges the Rect of mine, covering Sundry papers to enable him to find out the...