125th. (Adams Papers)
Copies of all the actions which are to be entered at the next Court of Common Pleas were this day sent to Salem, to be filed in the clerk’s office; seven days before the sitting of the court, as the law directs: And as we have now got through the hurry of business, we have this day been very idle: Mr. Parsons has been talking all day with some one or other who came to the office: much of our...
2The Federalist No. 74, [25 March 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
To the People of the State of New-York. THE President of the United States is to be “Commander in Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States.” The propriety of this provision is so evident in itself; and it is at the same time so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in...
3[Diary entry: 25 March 1788] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 25th. Thermometer at 36 in the morng.—46 at Noon and 44 at Night. Morning clear, ground hard frozen, Wind from So. Wt. in the Morning early. Afterwards it veered to West, blew fresh & cold. In the evening it got to So. Wt. again and became moderate. Visited all the Plantations. The ground at all was too hard frozen and when thawed too wet to sow and harrow till afternoon. Mr. Benja....
4To George Washington from Richard Bland Lee, 25 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
After what passed between your Excellency and Col. Lee, and our subsequent conversation touching my undertaking to write a memoir of the events of the late revolution, for some time past you may have expected my determination: and undoubtedly I should have written to you long ago, if I could have removed those struggles in my mind, which were excited by the grandeur of the subject, and the...
5To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 25 March 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edward Newenham, 25 Mar. 1788. On 29 Aug. GW wrote Newenham : “your obliging letters of the 22th and 25th of March afforded me particular satisfaction.”
6From James Madison to Eliza House Trist, 25 March 1788 (Madison Papers)
Orange March 25 [1788]. The badness of the roads & some other delays retarded the completion of my journey till the day before yesterday. I called at Col Syms in Alexanda. but had not the pleasure of seeing either him or his lady. He was not at home though in Town and I was so hurried that I could halt a few minutes only; and she was confined to her chamber by indisposition. I had the...
7From James Madison to Cyrus Griffin, 25 March 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 March 1788 . Acknowledged in Griffin to JM, 14 Apr. 1788 . Reports election to Virginia ratifying convention.
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Jones, 25 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Copenhagen, 25 Mch. 1788 . Is sending the present letter in care of the Van Staphorsts at Amsterdam. “My mission here is not yet at an end, but the minister has promised to determine soon and I have wrote to claim that promise.” Before receiving this letter TJ will have been informed by Simolin that TJ’s “proposal to him, and his application on that Idea, have been well received.” Jones has...
9To Thomas Jefferson from La Blancherie, 25 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’eus l’honneur de vous écrire dernierement pour savoir si vous voudriez bien vous charger de faire passer un pacquet qui m’avait été remis, à M. franklin. J’ai trouvé une occasion pour le lui faire parvenir avec la Collection des feuilles de cette année dont je lui fais l’hommage. L’Etablissement, l’ayant eu pour juge et ayant obtenu son approbation publique; J’ai pensé que vous ne trouveriez...