126th. (Adams Papers)
We recite again in Ferguson. Mr. Pearson gave a lecture this afternoon; it was still upon the article , very dry, and abstract, by no means the most entertaining that I ever attended. From six this morning when I arose till near twelve which was the time when I retired to bed, I have been as busily employ’d as I have any day these two years.
2New York Assembly. Motion for Leave to Bring in a Bill on Bankrupts and Their Estates, [26 February 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton moved for leave to bring in a bill respecting bankrupts and their estates. Ordered , That leave be given accordingly. Mr. Hamilton, according to leave, brought in the said bill, entitled An act respecting Bankrupts and their Estates . New York Assembly Journal Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York (Publisher and place vary, 1782–1788). , 1787, 67–68. The bill introduced...
3New York Assembly. Resolution on the Appointment of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [26 February 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
Resolved (If the Honorable the Senate concur herein) that Five Delegates be appointed on the part of this State, to meet such Delegates as may be appointed on the part of the other States respectively, on the second Monday in May next, at Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and to the several Legislatures, such...
4[Diary entry: 26 February 1787] (Washington Papers)
Monday 26th. Mercury at 33 in the Morning—44 at Noon and 32 at Night. Red Sky at Sunrising—Wind Southerly in the fore Noon and at East in the afternoon. Morning heavy and damp with great appearances of rain. About Noon the clouds broke and the Sun appeared after which it clouded and looked very much like rain. Rid to all the Plantations—to the Mill, and to the Ditchers. In the Neck, the ground...
5To George Washington from Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 26 February 1787 (Washington Papers)
Vos Lettres, que nous avons eu l’honneur de recevoir l’Année passée, par la main de Monsieur le Marquis de la Fayette, par les quelles vous avez eú la bonté d’agréer les Vers de ma chere Compagne, (hommage dû a votre magnanimité et a Votre Vertu,) nous donnent ⟨assèz⟩ de ⟨pardiesse⟩ pour vous presenter à prèsent Germanicus, Nous nous flattons, que votre admiration poúr le meilleur Héros de...
6Virginia Delegates to Edmund Randolph, 26 February 1787 (Madison Papers)
We are sorry to inform you, that we have inquired at the board of treasury respecting the indents of interest necessary for the State under the requisition of the last year, & that the Commrs. have informed us that from the uncertainty of the productiveness of the funds appropriated by the legislature as a compliance, they were doubtful whether they could with propriety issue them at all, but...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 26 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Octob. 1. covering the letter and bill to Captn. Capitaine did not come to my hands till yesterday. I wrote to him immediately to inform him it should be delivered him at any moment. We talk and think of nothing here but the Assemblée des Notables. Were all the puns collected to which this assembly has given rise , I think they would make a larger volume than the Encyclopedie....
8To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 26 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am most unlucky in my Corrispondence with you for when I expect my letters are in France they are either returned or I hear that they are still in Virginia. The Inclosed is just return’d. I suppose Mr. Madison (to whome it was derected) is gone to Congress. But as I have an Opportunity of writing to Peter I must scribble a little more to you and get him to contrive it.—I heard from Eppington...