1Friday September 12th. (Adams Papers)
I left Braintree to return to Newbury-Port. Found Bridge in Boston. Dined at Mr. Smith’s. We left Boston at about five o’clock and rode ten miles; to Newhall’s tavern; where we lodge.
2[Diary entry: 12 September 1788] (Washington Papers)
Friday 12th. Thermometer at 62 in the morn. 72 at Night and 72 at Night. Cloudy with the Wind to the Eastward of North in the Morning with clouds & Sunshine alternately thro the day. Wind continuing in the same qr. Visited all the Plantations. In the Neck. The Ploughs and harrows from the different Plantations were at Work, preparing for, and putting in Wheat—one harrow in the Corn and the...
On the 12 th . October last Congress was pleased, on a Report from the Board of Treasury, to resolve that the Balance of the Appropriation for the Barbary Treaties of the 14 th . February 1785 not then applied to that Object, be constituted a Fund for redeeming the American Captives at Algiers, and that the same be for that Purpose subject to the Direction of the Minister of the United States...
4Virginia Delegates to Board of Treasury, 12 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
We shall transmit to the Governor of Virginia for the consideration of the Executive the papers which you have inclosed us respecting the double settlement of Doctor George Draper with the U. S. and the state of Virginia for the same service in the late Army: But we conceive it proper to apprise you Gentlemen that the attention of the Executive will be called to the Resolutions of Congress of...
5Virginia Delegates to Edmund Randolph, 12 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 12 September 1788 . Mentioned in JCSV H. R. McIlwaine et al., eds., Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia (4 vols. to date; Richmond, 1931—). , IV, 286, and alluded to in Randolph to Virginia Delegates, 23 Sept. 1788 . Encloses copies of the following papers from the Board of Treasury concerning the disputed account of Dr. George Draper for his wartime military...
6To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 12 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
The mail has brought me this evening a resolution concerning the Scioto lands, which was really necessary for the peace of some people’s minds, and will, I hope, be effectual to quiet a general suspicion, which the former act had created. Mr. Bev. Randolph has lately returned from P. Edward; where he saw Mr. H, who grows in violence against the constitution, and is much pleased at the idea of...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Etienne Clavière, 12 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Le porteur de la presente est Monsieur Dupont Beaufrere de Monsieur Brissot de Warville . Il se propose de passer en Amérique plutot que plutard; et voudroit n’être pas dans la nécessité de s’embarquer en Angleterre. Il merite à tous égards l’interest que vous voudrez bien prendre à lui. La Guerre l’a obligé d’abandonner des établissemens qu’il avoit fait en Crimée et qu’il pourra remplacer...
8To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 12 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Je m’étois proposé l’honneur d’écrire aujourd’hui à Votre Excellence, selon ma Lettre d’hier, sur un Message singulier que je reçus hier. Toute réflexion faite, il vaut mieux différer cela jusqu’à la semaine prochaine, afin de mettre le tout en son entier sous les yeux du Congrès et de Votre Excellence, m’étant engagé d’ici à Lundi matin à répondre au dit Message, et à un autre reçu ce matin...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 12 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellencies humanity to my Cries to have things arrainged so as to have some supply not to be obliged to beg money of My Children has so indeared you and your family to me that I shall think of it, forever and ever. When your Letter came, Mr. P was not awake, therefore he desired me after he awoke to read it to him. I did, I said nothing to him, but your goodness melted me.—I hope he...