127. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Judge Greenleaf’s. Foster came home.
2[Diary entry: 27 December 1788] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 27th. Thermometer at 21 in the Morning—28 at Noon and 29 at Night—Wind at No. Et. and heavy all the fore part of the day; with a sleet at Night. At home all day.
3To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 27 December 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Clement Biddle, 27 Dec. 1788. GW wrote Biddle on 20 Jan. 1789 acknowledging Biddle’s letter “of the 27th Ulto.”
4To Thomas Jefferson from Brac de la Perrière, 27 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de Vous faire passer Comme Vous Le Desirés Les Deux Lettres Circulaires qui ont eté Ecrites par la ferme Generalle pour L’Execution De la prohibition prononcée Contre les huiles de baleine venant De L’Etranger, et pour la Suspension pendant 4 mois De Cette Loy. Je me. propose d’avoir Celui de vous voir La semaine prochaine. Si vous aviés quelques observations à faire, Je...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Vernes, 27 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de Vous envoyer les différentes pieces concernant la Saisie de deux Cutters Irlandois à Lorient, le 29 août 1788, dont je pense qu’il est important que Vous ayez connoissance par le rapport que les exportations des Irlandois et Ecossois des ports de France ont avec le commerce des Etats Unis en France; vous verrez l’etat actuel de l’affaire dans la piece intitulée Situation...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 27 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
An unexpected opportunity to Bourdeaux affords me a chance of contributing to your entertainment by the inclosed papers. Time will not permit me nor my limited sources of intelligence, to enter into any satisfactory details of the affairs of this state or the union, much more to obtrude any opinions of my own. I am unaffectedly to thank You for the communications you have heretofore made to,...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Père Chauvier, 27 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I will now, according to your kind permission, take the liberty of troubling you with the details relative to the American captives now at Algiers. They were taken on board two vessels, to wit, the Maria schooner, Isaac Stephens master, bound from Boston to Cadiz, taken July 24. 1785. and the Dolphin, Richard Obrian master, bound from Portugal to Philadelphia, taken July 30. 1785. There were...