1Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
I received yours of the 9 th and thank you for the excellent matter which it contained. Mr Shaw has not sent you any papers from hence, because the papers have not been worth transmitting, a torpor appears to have seized every person and the query what can be done? what will be done? what ought to be done? seems to be the questions, amongst the three parties, into which not only the...
2From John Adams to United States Congress, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
I have received from Elias Boudinot Esq Director of the mint of the United States a Report of the Second of January instant, representing the State of it, together with an Abstract of the Coins Struck at the mint, from the first of January to the thirty first of December 1800: an Abstract of the Expenditures of the Mint, from the 1st of January to the 31. of December 1800 inclusive: a...
3To John Adams from George Churchman, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
Herewith cometh the transcript of a Letter, expressing some of the last exercises & religious concern of our late valued Friend Warner Mifflin, deceased; It was written at Philadelphia in the time of awful mortality with which that City was visited in the Year 1798; We the subscribers were in company with him at that season; He opened to us his concern on the subjects hinted in the Letter,...
4To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President of the US. and will have the honor of waiting on him to dinner on Thursday next NHi ; NNGL .
5To John Adams from Richard Stockton, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
The probable success of the Judiciary bill now before Congress, and the short time that will remain to select proper Characters to be appointed Judges thereto it be enacted into a Law, induces me take the liberty respectfully to mention to the President of the United States the name of William Griffith Esqr. of Burlington as a Candidate for the office of a Circuit Judge. The President is in...
6To John Adams from Richard Thomas, 17 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
I take the Liberty to hint to you, my Wishes in favour of a Friend & Colleague—Mr John W. Kittera of Pennsylvania after Serving in the House of Representatives Eight or Ten years—to the great Sacrifice of his Professional emoluments, has now, declin’d his Seat.—and being advanc’d to that time of Life that opposes descending into the Minutia of the business of the Law—and also of an Age that...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 17 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President of the US. and will have the honor of waiting on him to dinner on Thursday next RC (Gary Hendershott, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1992); addressed: “The President of the US.” Not recorded in SJL .
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 17 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with pleasure that I resume my pen to write to you after a silence of some years . It has not been from a want of respect, or from the smallest diminution of that affectionate regard I have ever had for you that I have thus long been silent. There are but few circumstances that coud have restrained me till this period, but a conviction that nothing which I coud communicate on my part was...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 17 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The vicissitudes of fortune which I have experienced, and continual uncertainty of my place of residence, have prevented for several years past my writing to you, or any of my friends in America.—My reason for importuning you at present is this.—I am informed by a letter from Virginia , that upon the supposition of my Death, a scandalous litigious dispute has arisen between some persons...