1Charles Adams to Abigail Adams, [after 5] December 1792 (Adams Papers)
Some years since you was so kind as to purchase for your children a certain tract of Land in Vermont. What number of acres the Lots contained I know not. I beleive that little or no pains has been taken to secure the title to them they were indeed thought but of Little value. The price of new Land has of late risen so much and the demand becoming greater every day It would I think be a prudent...
2John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
last night I arrived at Philadelphia in tolerable Health and found our Friends all well. I have concluded to accept of the kind offer of Mr and M rs Otis and taken a bed in their House. Thomas is charmingly accommodated and is very well. This Day decides whether I shall be a Farmer or a Statesman after next March. They have been flickering in the Newspapers and caballing in Parties: but how...
3John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
at 9 last night I arriv’d and this Morning have taken my Seat from whence I write this. I have just rec d yours of 22. Nov. with its Inclosure. I am told most confidently that all the Votes in N. Y. will be for Clinton and all the Votes in Pensilvania for me. I believe neither. If the People of the Union are capable of being influenced by Such Characters as Dallas and Edwards, I should be...
4To Alexander Hamilton from Arthur St. Clair, 5 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 21st. September enclosing a Copy of an Order of the Senate relative to the Salaries, Fees and Emoluments of Persons holding Offices under the United States, and the actual Expenses and Disbursements attending the Execution of their respective Offices for one Year, came to hand a few days ago. You desire from me an Account of the Offices I hold, as Governor of the western...
5Appendix No. XLII: From James W. Reynolds 5 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
too well you are acquainted with my unfortenate setuvation, to give you an explanation thereof, I am informed by a Note from Mrs. Reynolds this Evening, wherein She informed Me that you have bin informed that I Should have Said, if I were not discharged in two days. that I would make Some of the heads of the Departments tremble. now Sir I declare to god, that I never have said any Such thing....
6To George Washington from Matthew Flannery, 5 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of Matthew Flannery Humbly sheweth; that your Memorialist came to this Country in expectation to get employed as Clerk in a Compting House or in a Publick Office, and during three Months residence in the City of Philadelphia, he has not met with the least encouragement, his Money being now expended, and being no longer able to support himself out of Business, being destitute of...
7To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 5 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 5 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on 9 Dec. that his letter “of the 5th came yesterday.”
8To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Federal District, 5 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have now to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, inclosing to us the Presidents order on the Treasurer of Virginia for the second instalment due from that State. The plans are also received, and we shall have them distributed for sale immediately, at the price you have rated them. We beg you to inform the President, that we shall take into mature consideration, at our next meeting, the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from William Green, 5 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
From the moment of Mr. Pinkney’s departure for Great Britain, until the present, I have been making arrangements for a voyage thither; in obedience to what I understood to be the wish of the executive, as well as to that imperious necessity which arises from the sequestration of property so very considerable, as that it has been my singular fate to sustain, as a Citizen of these States, by the...
10Memorandum on James Traquair, 5 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Traquair, Stone cutter, corner of 10th. and Market streets Philade. now writes to his friend in Edinburgh to send me a person capable of laying and cutting stone @ £30. sterl. a year, to be found every thing but his clothes, and to be engaged 4. years. He can be in Virga. by May or June. He is to be delivered at Richmond, to Mr. Brown. I am to pay his passage (supposed 5. Guineas) and wages...