1I. Accounts as Minister Plenipotentiary in France, 8 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
1784. The United States of America to Th:Jefferson Dr. July 1. To pd. Capt. Grey for my passage from Portsmouth to Havre. 8. guineas ₶ s d 200– 0–0 31. To salary from Apr. 11. to this day inclusive @ 11,111 1/9; Dollars per ann. 3439.87 D. = 18,575– 6–0 Aug. 16. To pd. for copying press for my office, 5. reams paper, ink &c. £17–3–6. sterl. 412– 4–0 20. Stationary 3.₶—21. do....
2To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 8 July 1792 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter relative to the house, and have since confer’d with Mrs. Koppell on the Subject. She does not incline to take the lease off your hands, but is willing to let the house, if a satisfactory tenant shall offer, for a year after your time. If this can be effected the rent in the interum may be saved. I have therefore advised your Son by a note yesterday to put...
3From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 8 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, July 8, 1792. Submits “the in-closed Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse &c. and Benjamin Rice, for the making of two mooring chains for the use of the Beacon boats on the River Delaware.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. William Allibone was superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers for Philadelphia, Cape...
4To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor respectfully to submit to the President of the United States the inclosed Contract between the Superintendant of the Delaware Lighthouse &[c]a and Benjamin Rice, for the making of two Mooring chains for the use of the Beacon boats on the River Delaware, together with sundry papers relating thereto. The object appears to be a necessary one, & the...
5Deed of Sale, 8 July 1792 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. 8 July 1792, Orange County, Virginia. Indenture by which John Lee and his wife Elizabeth of Orange County sold to JM for £510 “current money” 800 acres of land in that county “Adjoining the land of Johnny Scott, John Daniel, Coleby Cowherd and Jonathan Cowherd.” Witnessed by Thomas Bell, Charles P. Howard, Ambrose Madison, and Alexander Shepherd. Recorded by James Taylor, Orange...
6IV. Jefferson’s Notes on the History of the Medals, [ca. 8 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Congress voted medals to several officers and directed Rob. Morris their minister of finance to have them made. He authorized Colo. Humphreys to have this done in Europe. Colo. Humphreys had contracted for some of them, had made some paiments, and left the whole business to be finished by me. I made contracts for the rest, and the whole of those named in Mr. Morris’s list , were compleated and...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 8 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favor of the 1st. Currt. covering Receipt of Captain Welsh and Bill Loading Capn. Chesoe for Sundry articles shipped by you to my care which will be attended to and forwarded as pointed Out. I have a letter from Mr. Randolph Yesterday by which it appears all is well at Montichello. Pray what effect will the War in Europe have On the produce, Carrying Trade and Stocks of this...
8II. Explanatory Notes on Accounts, [8 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Explanatory Notes In order to explain the principles on which some articles of this account are founded, it will be necessary to enter into a developement of the proceedings of Congress from the beginning, with respect to their ministers. When they made their first appointments, having themselves no experience or knolege of the allowance usually made by other nations, and confiding in the...