1[October 1787] (Adams Papers)
I have not yet got over the consequences of our frolick on Saturday evening. Three whole evenings I have by this means entirely lost, for I cannot yet write with any comfort. How inseparably in all cases of intemperance, is the punishment allied to the fault! Stedman went this day for Portsmouth, will return here to-morrow, and take his final leave on Wednesday. He is going to open an office...
2Monday October 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
I have not yet got over the consequences of our frolick on Saturday evening. Three whole evenings I have by this means entirely lost, for I cannot yet write with any comfort. How inseparably in all cases of intemperance, is the punishment allied to the fault! Stedman went this day for Portsmouth, will return here to-morrow, and take his final leave on Wednesday. He is going to open an office...
3Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 1 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
I am very sorry to find by your Mammas Letters that you are unwell. I wish you could have made an excursion with me to have visited your Relations in this country We often talkd of you, and I always told them how good you all were, at which they appeard to be much gratified. Your cousin J Cranch who travelld a great part of the way with us thinks he has a very accurate knowledge of you. I am...
4William Cranch to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
Not to acknowledge the many favours I have recieved from you, and the obligations they have laid me under, would be ingratitude in the greatest Degree. The only method now in my power of Cancelling those obligations is to acknowledge them & perhaps prevent your being dissappointed, should Callahan arrive before Folgier. For upon the supposition that Folgier would sail first, all the Letters...
I have already written you a long letter giving you an account, of my journey, this must relate Chiefly to private affairs. your Letters by captain cushing and Folger came safe to hand. I thank you for your pleasing account of commencment, as well as for your care and attention to my sons, which it is unnecessary to solicit a continuance off because I am perfectly sure of it. I am sorry a...
6From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 1 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
Col. Forrest, informed me last Night that he delivered you the Letter I wrote by him. in which were orders upon the Bankers of Amsterdam to pay you your Salery, till then I was anxous about it, as you make no mention of it in yours of the 25 th of Sep r I am extreamly Sorry to hear of your unfortunate Situation, at the date of that Letter. but hope before this time there is some change for the...
7Memorial to the States General, 1 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
The Subscriber Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, has the Honour to acquaint your High Mightinesses that Congress on the twenty fourth Day of July last resolved that M r: Dumas be permitted to occupy and reside in the House of the United States at the Hague, untill a Minister of the United States shall arrive there, or untill the further order of Congress; And that M...
8From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 1 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
having understood with much anxiety and Concern the unfortunate and critical situation of Public affairs in your Republick and particularly in Amsterdam, and considering the Accidents that may Happen, it has appeared to me most safe and Prudent both for the Public and for you as well as myself that the Money you have on Hand or may receive Should be lodged in the Bank of Amsterdam at least...
9From Alexander Hamilton to James Madison, [October 1787–March 4, 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
If Mr. Madison should be disengaged this Evening Mr. Hamilton would be obliged by an opportunity of conversing with him at his lodgings for half an hour. If engaged this Evening he will thank him to say whether tomorrow Evening will suit. AL , James Madison Papers, Library of Congress. H’s note is undated. It probably was written between October, 1787, and March 4, 1788, a period during which...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Peter Van Schaack, [October 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October, 1787. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] ALS , sold by Robert K. Black, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 1949, Catalogue 13, Item 182. Van Schaack was banished to England in 1778 because of his Loyalist sympathies. The New York legislature restored his citizenship in 1784, and he returned to New York in 1785.
11October [1787] (Washington Papers)
October 1st. Thermometer at 56 in the Morning—64 at Noon and 62 at Night—Cloudy in the Morning but clear afterwds. with variable winds. Mrs. Fanny Washington, and the Children, and Mrs. Jenifer went up to Abingdon. Colo. Gilpin and Mr. Willm. Craik dined here. The latter stayed all Night. Rid to all the Plantations. Work at each as usual except that the Plows at Dogue run were putting in rye...
12[Diary entry: 1 October 1787] (Washington Papers)
October 1st. Thermometer at 56 in the Morning—64 at Noon and 62 at Night—Cloudy in the Morning but clear afterwds. with variable winds. Mrs. Fanny Washington, and the Children, and Mrs. Jenifer went up to Abingdon. Colo. Gilpin and Mr. Willm. Craik dined here. The latter stayed all Night. Rid to all the Plantations. Work at each as usual except that the Plows at Dogue run were putting in rye...
13[October 1787] (Washington Papers)
Oct.—Monday—1st. Rid to all the Plantations—work as usual—except that the Plows at Dogue run were putting in Rye in the same field No. . Mr. Craik went away Ditchers went to Muddy hole—& Tuesday. 2d. Rid to all the Plantations. Sent 2 Plows from Frenchs to Muddy hole—the other 2 preparg. ground within the Meadow for Rye & grass Seeds—on which 1½ bushels of Rye was sown and therewith 1½ bushls....
14[Diary entry: 1 October 1787] (Washington Papers)
Oct.—Monday—1st. Rid to all the Plantations—work as usual—except that the Plows at Dogue run were putting in Rye in the same field No. . Mr. Craik went away Ditchers went to Muddy hole—&
15To George Washington from John Rutledge, 1 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
I recd the inclosed by the last Packet, from my Son, at Paris—He requests me, to present, to you, his very particular Thanks, for the Letters of Introduction with which you were pleased to honour him—permit me to add mine. I returned, Yesterday, from New York, where, I think, the new Constitution will be very generally approved—It is, here, almost universally—to Morrow, I shall embark for...
16Draft of The Federalist 3, [before 3 November 1787] (Jay Papers)
It is not a new observation that the People at of any country (if like ours us ^ the americans ^ intelligent and left to the well informed) seldom adopt and steadily persevere in an for many Years, in an erroneous opinion respecting their Interests; and that Consideration leads me ^ naturally tends ^
17Draft of The Federalist 4, [before 7 November 1787] (Jay Papers)
The Parties and Divisions am gst us many [may?] several Ways bring Destruction upon our Country, at the same time that our united house w d secure us ag t . all the Attempts of a foreign Enemy Addison In My last Paper s assigned several Reasons why the ^ safety of the ^ People will ^ w
18Draft of The Federalist 5, [before 10 November 1787] (Jay Papers)
Queen Ann in her Letter of the 1 July 1706 to the scotch Parliament makes several ^ some ^ observations on the Importance of the union then forming between England and Scotland which merit our attention. I shall therefore present the public with some ^ one or two ^ Extracts from it in her own words. she remarks ^ observes ^ there that
19From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 1 October 1787 (Madison Papers)
I have received & perused with much pleasure the remarks on the proposed Constitution for the U.S. which you have been so good as to favor me with. They cannot fail I think to satisfy the most scrupulous & jealous citizens, that the Act of the Convention, whatever faults it may have in other respects, is not chargeable with a dangerous similitude to real monarchy or Aristocracy. Col. Hamilton...
20To James Madison from the Reverend James Madison, [ca. 1 October] 1787 (Madison Papers)
I was greatly indebted to you for your Favour by Mr. Blair. I do not know whether I should be justifiable in making any observations upon what I suppose, may be considered, as the Chef d’oeuvre of continental Wisdom. Yet to you I will venture a few. The general Plan for a federal Government, that is, the Idea of a Division of the Power of the united States into three Branches, is certainly...
21III. Further Observations on the Tobacco Trade, [ca. October 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Oservations sur L’Etat des Tabacs d’Amérique, Achetés du Commerce à L’Orient, depuis le 1er. Janvier 1786 Jusqu’au 3 Septembre 1787. L’Etat des Tabacs livrés à l’Orient depuis cette Epoque et paiés, suivant la décision de Berny, monte, en effet, à 8700 Boucauds environ. Tous ces Tabacs sont arrivés sur Navires français ou Américains, à l’exception de 5 à 600 Boucauds qui se trouvaient déjà à...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Buffon, 1 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of informing you some time ago that I had written to some of my friends in America, desiring they would send me such of the spoils of the Moose, Caribou, Elk and deer as might throw light on that class of animals; but more particularly to send me the complete skeleton, skin, and horns of the Moose, in such condition as that the skin might be sowed up and stuffed on it’s...
23From Thomas Jefferson to L. J. M. Daubenton, 1 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson, being informed that Monsieur le Comte de Buffon is absent, takes the liberty of recommending to the care of Monsieur D’Aubenton the objects of Natural history which accompany this letter. He leaves the letter to Monsieur de Buffon open, that Monsieur D’Aubenton may see under what names these objects have come, and he will beg the favor of him to seal and forward the letter when...
24[To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Vautelet, 1 [October] 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Sedan, 1 [ Oct. ] 1787 . Recorded in SJL as dated 1 Sep. and received 4 Oct. 1787. TJ obviously made an error in his entry and must have intended 1 Oct. because the letter in question is a reply to TJ to Vautelet, 27 Sep. 1787 , and was enclosed in TJ to John Sullivan, 5 Oct. 1787 , qq.v.]
25From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 1 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that I have drawn on you this day in favor of Mr. Grand, banker of Paris, for three thousand two hundred and one florins one sol de banque paiable at one day’s sight on account of the United states of America, which I depend on your honouring and am with great respect gentlemen Your most obedient & most humble servant, PrC ( MHi ).
26To Thomas Jefferson from Salmour, [October 1787?] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, Oct. 1787? ] Informs TJ that he has had his audience at Fontainebleau with the king and the royal family “en qualité de Ministre Plenipotentiaire de Son Altesse Serenissime Electorale de Saxe.” RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; addressed; without date and not recorded in SJL . Salmour is listed for the first time in the Almanach Royal for 1788 as the minister from Saxony. He was,...