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The Inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, being Legally Assembled on the Ninth day of August instant, pursuant to Legall Warrants, made choice of the Honble. John Adams Esqr. to Represent them in a State Convention, appointed to be convened and held at Cambridge on the first day of September next, for the purpose of Framing a New Constitution. MS ( M-Ar : vol. 160, p. 190); docketed:...
The last post brought me your letter of the 25th of July, which I transmitted to Colonel Brooks, accompanied by some inquiries that appeared to me necessary. A copy of my letter to him, and of his answer, are enclosed. You will see that he insists positively on your having made the offensive observation before imputed to you; adds several aggravating particulars to his first relation; and...
You will find by the inclosed copy of a letter of the 25th. of July from Mr. Dana, that he mentions you as his author for a charge of a very singular nature, that has been brought against me, relative to a declaration which I am said to have made in the public coffee house at Philadelphia. Conscious that this charge is totally destitute of foundation, I owe it to myself to investigate its...
West Point, August 10, 1779. Discusses possible attack on Powles Hook. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Powles Hook (Paulus Hook) is now Jersey City, New Jersey.
LS : Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress The foregoing are the Articles requested by the States of Maryland & Virginia. If to these could be added Cloth, Linnen, Stockings, Shoes, & Hats for clothing 20.000 Men, and also ten thousand more Fusils, the whole addressed to the Congress, I am certain it would be a very seasonable & necessary Supply, as private...
ALS : American Philosophical Society Entre nous cecy, s’il vous plait; c’est a dire le secret, et prompte reponse. Il paroit que votre projet d’emprunt (par le moyen de M Grand et de M Le Pot d’Auteuil) n’a pas reüssi. Quelquun de ma connoissance croit qu’il est possible de le faire reussir en s’y prenant d’une certaine façon qu’il vous communiqueroit, et qu’il pense qui ne sauroit vous...
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania The last mail brought the needful for your Friend Mr. W. P——rs’s remittance, & I immediately placd it to His credit in the Bank he requested, taking the proper rects. &c. The Excha. being rather unfavorable he lost seven shillings by the Bill; but, from his late letters, I make no doubt the remittance will be highly acceptable to Him. From there being a...
ALS : American Philosophical Society When the inclosed was put under my care I promised myself the Honor of conveying it to you long before this. But an accident which obliged me to take a circuitous Voyage by the West-Indies, prevented, & will, I trust, be a sufficient Excuse for the length of time it has been on it’s way. I have the Honor to be most respectfully Sir Yr Excellency’s obt. &...
9General Orders, 10 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
The board of General Officers appointed in the orders of the 5th instant to settle the relative rank of the Colonel’s of Artillery so far as it still remains unsettled and the rank of the regiments have made the following report. The board are of opinion the arrangement of the Colonels of Artillery ought to stand as follows. Colonels Crane Lamb. Harrison Proctor, and the regiments in the...
Among the number of Letters which I am continually receiving & the multiplicity of papers which are put into my hands to peruse, your favor of the 25th of June was mixed, & for a time lost—nor did it come to light again till yesterday. this, though a bad excuse, is the truth, & consequently the best apology I can make for delaying so long an answer to the quære in behalf of your Son. I wish it...