119th. (Adams Papers)
I lodg’d at Mr. White’s again last night; went this morning up to Mr. Shaw’s and past an hour; and between 10 and 11, Set off for Newbury-Port. Got home at about I. Called at the office. Found Amory was gone to Salem for a week. Mr. Parsons says, he will spoil himself in spite of any thing that can be done. Town-send dined with me. We were not much in the office, in the afternoon. Little spent...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Lauzier, 19 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai Eû l’honneur il y á deux jours de me présenter chez Vous pour vous prier de Me dire si vous Connoissés M. Joseph harisson qu’on dit Etre Beaufrere de M. Morris de philadelphie. La personne qui m’a chargé de prendre Ces renseignemens auprez de vous dezirerait savoir si M. Joseph harrisson a une maison de Commerce avec Crédit a philadelphie, et S’il Jouit de la reputation d’un honnête...
3To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 19 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Havre de Grace, 19 Nov. 1787 . Did not have time to read the letter he wrote on 18 Nov. before it was sent; on reading the copy, notices that he or his clerk made some mistakes, including the mention of the year “1763” which should be “1783”; reminds TJ that he did not answer that part of his letter which asked an “opinion if that agreement with the British Court will last 6 or 7 months...
4To John Adams from Patrick Miller, 19 November 1787 (Adams Papers)
I had the honour to receive Your Excellencys letter of the 30 th. April. In the treatise on Naval Architecture which I requested you to transmit to Congress I signifyed my intention to make an Experiment with the Steam Engine as a Power to work my Water Wheel.— When preparing for this experiment, I conceived an Idea that the Capstorn might be employed as a Power better fitted to that purpose...
5To George Washington from Battaile Muse, 19 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
The Letters Put into my Care to Mr B. Fairfax and Colo. Warner Washington is delivered. at my arrival home I Found a Letter From you dated the 7th Instant Enclosed one From Mr W. Weathers that He Thought Mr Clymount a Tenant of yours was hard & unjustly Dealt by—I Know of no Foundation for Such a Suspicion—unless Mr Weathers Judges me to be Like His Brother E. Weathers who over charged in...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., 19 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your obliging, and esteemed Favour a few days since, and have communicated to Ammonett, what you mentioned. The poor Fellow makes his grateful acknowledgements to you, and I am now called on to follow him. Your proposed System of education for my Son Tom enlivens every spark of gratitude that my breast possesses. It will (I am sure) never be in my power to make you any returns for...
7[Diary entry: 19 November 1787] (Washington Papers)
Monday 19th. Thermometer at 40 in the Morning—53 at Noon and 51 at Night. Morning clear and calm, with a red sky in the Eastern horizon and some fog on the River. Rid before breakfast to the Plantations at Frenchs, Dogue run & Muddy hole. Had the Barley at the former fanned, cleaned and Measured—quantity 126½ bushls. from about 9 acres of ground. At Dogue run, laid down the Barley to tread...