1Charles Adams to John Adams, 26 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I am very sorry that M r Bull has been so very dilatory that I received the horses but a day or two since He I find can make good promises. I am now looking out for a purchaser and hope to find one soon The horses do not look so well as I expected they would. We have accounts from Europe of the retreat of the combined armies from France. In this event I am only able to see a state of Anarchy...
2John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I rec d by the last post your favour of the 16. The Votes from New Hampshire to Maryland inclusively have been unanimous excepting the factious Voice of New York, and one D r Johnson of Conecocheague formerly a New Yorker a Particular Friend of M r Clinton and by his own confession under particular Obligations to him. Southward of Chesapeak all are for Clinton except S. C. I thank you for your...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Dobson, 26 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve your favor of the 18th. covering my bond No. 1. to Farrell & Jones. The paiments which have been made on that and the bill of exchange have been by different persons, at different times, in money and I believe tobacco. I am not certain that I possess an exact list of them. However, if I do, it is in Virginia where I left most of my private papers when last there, under...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Gaudenzio Clerici, 26 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
These lines come to You, Sir, from an acquaintance of Yours perhaps Long forgotten—I hope they find You in good health, and hope they find You favorably disposed to give them a Kind reception: I intend them merely as a mark of a never-ceasing gratitude which wanted to this day an opportunity to be displayed, and as a weak but candid demonstration of the highest esteem I preserve for Your...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 26 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to suggest, that it would be useful for the Consuls of the United States, every where to be possesed of the Laws of the U. States respecting Commerce and Navigation—giving it as a Standing instruction, to make known in the best manner possible, in the parts where they reside those regulations, which are necessary to be complied with abroad, by Merchants, and the Owners and Masters...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave to suggest, that it would be useful for the Consuls of the United States, every where to be possessed of the Laws of the U States respecting Commerce & Navigation—giving it as a standing instruction, to make known in the best manner possible, in the parts where they reside those regulations, which are necessary to be complied with abroad by Merchants, & the Owners & Masters of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Jones, 26 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By a catalogue of instruments and prices which you gave me when in London in 1785. I observe you make and sell for two guineas and a half a New Manual orrery and Planetarium, described in your pamphlet printed in 1784. If you will be so good as to pack one of these properly for me and deliver it to Mr. Alexander Donald of the house of Donald & Burton, Angel court, Throckmorton street, he will...
8To George Washington from Henry Knox, 26 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit two letters from Brigr Genl Wilkinson with their enclosures. These were received by express, who left Fort Washington the 1st of Decr. I have the honor to be respectfully Your obedient Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letters from James Wilkinson have not been identified, but they are probably those mentioned by Knox in his letter to Gen. Anthony Wayne of 28...
9To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 26 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 26 Dec. 1792. GW wrote Whitting on 30 Dec. : “I have duly received your letters of the 21st & 26th instt.”
10Repayment of Bank Loan, [26 December] 1792 (Madison Papers)
By the Bank Act of 1791, the federal government paid $2 million, from funds previously borrowed at 6 percent interest and appropriated for debt reduction, for its shares in the Bank of the United States. The bank in turn lent the government $2 million to be applied toward the reduction of debt as previously appropriated and to be paid off in $200,000 annual installments over the next ten years...