1Enclosure: Observations sur la Potasse, January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Cette Potasse, quoique moins pure que celle du Nord de l’Europe, est néanmoins infiniment meilleure. Son effet etant plus actif à cause de sa causticité, elle peut par consequent etre substituée à l’autre dans tous les usages où cette matiere peut etre employée, mais quoique l’on fasse en Europe beaucoup de Savon avec la potasse, et qu’il puisse etre très bon lorsqu’il est bien fait, on ne...
2To George Washington from Robert Ballard, 1 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
I flatter myself the period is not far distant when we shall see the new Government in motion, and your Excellency elected President of the United States by the unanimous Voice of their grateful Citizens. I entreat your forgiveness in thus early soliciting an appointment under the new Constitution. I have been urged to the measure by a sad reverse of Fortune, and emboldened by the Idea of your...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Henry Banks, 1 January 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Richmond, January 1, 1789. “I recd. your letter of the 12 Ulto.… I suppose I shall be entitled to Costs of Suit with Foltz & Lorenz for the recovery of which ’tis my wish that you either take or cause measures to be taken.… Mr. Constable has a mercantile Reputation.… I shall at present leave him cloak’d under that Reputation until I see a fit oppy to attack him and it more seriously than to...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 1 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Marseilles, 1 Jan. 1789 . Has received TJ’s favor of 25 [Nov.] and has not loaded plants on vessel bound for Boston. Weather so cold he dares not send them to Bordeaux for fear they would be destroyed on canal, which is probably frozen. “We are covered with snow and Ice, and no Body [h]as seen yet such cold weather here; we fear that all the olive trees have greatly suffered in the Country if...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Delaire, 1 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La Rochelle, 1 Jan. 1789 . Ship Clementina, Captain Newland, John Ross, owner, registered at, and bound from Philadelphia to Bordeaux, was lost “on the 12th of the last month, near the coast of the Island of Olleron.” Captain and crew, mostly ill, landed here and were denied use of hospital “for want of bills of the office of the Navy, or of an agent or consul of their Nation.” But merchants...
6From George Washington to John Fairfax, 1 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
A View of the work at the several Plantations in the Year 1789. and general directions for the Execution of it. From the Plans of the Plantations. From the Courses of the Crops which are annexed to these Plans. And from the mode of managing them, as there prescribed—may be derived a full and comprehensive view of my designs, after the rotation is once perfectly established, in the succession...
7From George Washington to Henry Emanuel Lutterloh, 1 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have regularly received your letter dated the 27th of Novr. It would take up more time than I could well spare, to notice the applications which have been made to me in consequence of the new government. In answer to as many, as I have been at leisure to acknowledge, I have invariably represented the delicacy of my situation, the impropriety of bringing such things before me, the decided...
8[Diary entry: 1 January 1789] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 1st. Thermometer at 38 in the Morning—47 at Noon and 47 at Night. Clear Morning and wind tho’ not much of it at No. Wt.—clear all day & pleasant. Went out after breakfast to lay of or rather to measure an old field which is intended to be added to Muddy hole Plantation—after which marked out a line for the New road across from the Tumbling Dam to little Hunting Creek to begin [th]e...
9From George Washington to Henry Knox, 1 January 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received by the last Mail your favour dated the 21st of Decr and hasten to return this acknowledgment, together with the enclosed Certificate of Service for Major Haskell. I give that testimony with the greater alacrity, because it always affords me satisfaction, when I can gratify the wishes of a worthy man, in perfect conformity to my own judgment. I am much pleased to find that the...
10January 1789 (Washington Papers)
Thursday 1st. Thermometer at 38 in the Morning—47 at Noon and 47 at Night. Clear Morning and wind tho’ not much of it at No. Wt.—clear all day & pleasant. Went out after breakfast to lay of or rather to measure an old field which is intended to be added to Muddy hole Plantation—after which marked out a line for the New road across from the Tumbling Dam to little Hunting Creek to begin [th]e...