1[December 7. 1779. Tuesday.] (Adams Papers)
December 7. 1779. Tuesday. About Eleven O Clock We discovered Land. Two large Mountains, one sharp and steep, the other large and broad, made their Appearance. We passed three Capes, Finisterre, Tortanes and Veillane. The Chevalier de La Molion gave me some Accajou Nutts. In handling the outside Shell, which has a corrosive Oil in it, in order to come at the meat, I got a little of this juice...
21779 December 7. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
About 11. O Clock discovered Land—two large Mountains, one sharp and steep, another large and broad.—We passed 3 Capes, Finisterre, Tortanes Torinaña and Veillane Villano . Yesterday the Chevr. de la Molion gave me some Nuts which he call’d Noix d’Acajou. They are the same which I have often seen, and which were called Cooshoo Nuts. The true name is Acajou Nuts. They are shaped like our large...
3Tuesday 7th. (Adams Papers)
Last night about nine o clock we saw a number of fish. We could not tell what they were; some say they are Dolphins some that they are Porpoises but it being dark we could not perceive them well only the path they made in the water. I write it in this days Journal because the Captain dont allow any light in the night for fear that there are some british frigates hereabouts; and I could not...
4To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 7 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 7 Dec. 1779 . Transmitting offer of soap and candles, the purchase of which has been recommended by the Board of War. Signed by Whiting and Rose. Countersigned: “In Council Dec. 10. 1779. The purchase is approved. Th: Jefferson.” RC ( CSmH ); 1 p.
5To Benjamin Franklin from Patrick Dowlin et al., 7 December 1779 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society We beg Leave to Express to your Excellency in the Warmest manner, our affliction in Seeing our Worthy Friend & armateur, Mr. John Torris, Injured in So gross & abusive a manner in the Bold petition Sent to your Excellency by our prisonners & foes Wm. Power & his gang. We beg Leave to Testisfy to your Excellency that the Motives asserted in the Said Petition...
6Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, 1779 [7 December 1779] (Franklin Papers)
Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces; … Written by Benj. Franklin, LL.D. and F.R.S. … Now first collected, With Explanatory Plates, Notes, And an Index to the Whole . London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. MDCCLXXIX. (Yale University Library) Benjamin Vaughan began to collect Franklin’s published political writings shortly after American independence had...
7To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The day before yesterday I received a packet from the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts bay Containing several papers, (of which the enclosed are Copies) and a number of Warrants for Officers they have promoted and by which they are to act untill they receive Commissions from the board of war, to whom there is a Certificate among the papers. The assembly desire that I would...
8To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am honour’d with your Excys favours of the 2d & 4th instant. You will receive herewith enclos’d two Acts of Congress of the 6th instant. By the one your Excellency will observe that Congress approve of Colo. Baylor’s Regiment of Dragoons being sent to South Carolina, and have directed the board of War to give the necessary orders for that purpose. The other is designed to regulate the...
9To George Washington from William Livingston, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Time of the Enlistment of our State Regiment will expire the 20th Instant; To raise a new one in its room the State really cannot afford; and to occupy the Posts on the Frontiers by the Militia is also attended with great Inconvenience as well as insupportable Expence—As the Troops under your Excellency’s command, will, as I am informed take up their Winter Quarters in New Jersey, Your...
10To George Washington from John Mehelm, 7 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
In my last I gave your Excellency an Acct of Near a Thousand pr of Shoes more than has been since delivered to the Clothier General’s Store. they were Shoes that Mr Caldwell had purchased by order of the board of war before he became an Assistant of mine. he therefore did not consider himself under any Obligation to deliver the Shoes to my order but kept them for the Jersy Brigade to whom I...