114th. (Adams Papers)
The weather for this week past has been from day to day alternately very warm and very cold. These sudden transitions, which in this Country are very common, are almost too powerful for our constitutions: to foreigners they are almost intolerable, and I believe even the inhabitants, who from their birth have been used to them, suffer more from them than they are aware. This forenoon I received...
2[Diary entry: 14 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Friday 14th. Attended Convention. Dined at the City Tavern, at an entertainmt. given on my acct. by the City light Horse. Spent the evening at Mr. Meridiths.
3[Diary entry: 14 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Friday 14th. Dined at the City Tavern at an entertainment given on my Acct. by the City Troop of light horse. Spend the Evening at Mr. Meridithes.
4To George Washington from Henry Knox, 14 September 1787 (Washington Papers)
presuming that you will not set out from Philadelphia untill Monday the 17th I write you a line to congratulate you on the termination of your arduous business & to wish you a happy sight of Mrs Washington and your family. In every event respecting the reception of the propositions of the convention you will enjoy the high satisfaction of having performed every thing that could possibly be...
5Suspension of Impeached Officials, [14 September] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Rutledge and Morris proposed that officials under impeachment should be suspended from office until tried and acquitted. Mr. Madison. The President is made too dependent already on the Legislature by the power of one branch to try him in consequence of an impeachment by the other. This intermediate suspension, will put him in the power of one branch only. They can at any moment, in order to...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Boutin, 14 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ay reçu, monsieur, en meme temps que Le Billet que vous m’avés fait L’honneur de m’Ecrire, votre Interessant ouvrage sur la virginie, Et La greine de Juniperus que vous avés eu L’Extreme Bonté de m’Envoyer. J’ay L’honneur de vous en faire mes plus sinceres Remerciments. Je vais m’occuper de trouver Le ris sec de La cochinchine, s’il y en a a Paris, Et Je serois charmé de pouvoir contribuer...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Le Mesurier & Cie., 14 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor to acquaint you that the Brig Jenny Captn. David Peoples arrived here with a Cargo of Two Hundred and Thirty five Hogsheads of Tobacco belonging to Messrs. Willing Morris & Swanwick of Philadelphia, which those gentlemen trusted would be sold to the Farmers General at the price which they had fixed for Tobaccos of the same quality; but after getting the quality ascertained by...