1John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
By your letter to my brother dated 3. January which he has just received I find that at the time when it was written you had received from us no advices later than the 16 th: of September, a circumstance equally surprizing and mortifying to me. After that date I wrote on the 19 th: and 21 st: of September to my father and on the 4 th: of October addressed to him some observations upon an...
2[Diary entry: 22 February 1798] (Washington Papers)
22. About an inch of Snow fell last Night—Mer. 32—morning clear. Wind So. Westerly till 10 Oclock—then No. Wt. & fresh. Mer. 42 at Night & 50 at highest.
3To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 22 February 1798 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Clement Biddle, 22 Feb. 1798. On 3 Mar. GW wrote Biddle : “your letter of the 22d has been received.”
4To George Washington from William Hayward Foote, 22 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
I enclose you Mr Anderson’s draft on you for £57.3.1½—The draft which you proposed to give me on the Bank you will please send by the Bearer Thomas. my recet for the same at the Bank will exonerate you. I am Sir Your Obt Servt ALS , DLC:GW . The enclosed draft on GW, dated 14 Feb. and signed by James Anderson, reads: “On Sight hereof pay Mr William H. Foote, on Order—Fifty seven pounds. Three...
5To George Washington from John Nicholas, 22 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you some time ago, in answer to your’s enclosing the copies of the correspondence with Mr Langhorne, that I would use my indeavour in sifting that very extraordinary, and I venture to say, infamous transaction, to the bottom; & now, agreeable to your request, have to inform you, that I have been able (from the nature of the thing) to make no further discovery of the design, than what...
6Message to the New York State Senate, 22 February 1798 (Jay Papers)
I think it my duty to lay before you a petition and a number of affidavits, from which it appears, that in the town of Livingston, combinations of disorderly person have been formed to obstruct the course of justice and by force to exclude certain proprietors from the possession of lands which have been adjudged to them by the courts, and laws of the land; that the service of legal process is...
7To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1798 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 12th. is recieved. I wrote you last on the 15th. but the letter getting misplaced, will only go by this post. We still hear nothing from our Envoys. Whether the Executive hear we know not. But if war were to be apprehended, it is impossible our envoys should not find means of putting us on our guard, or that the Executive should hold back their information. No news therefore is...
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 22 February [1798] (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12th. is recieved. I wrote you last on the 15th. but the letter getting misplaced, will only go by this post. we still hear nothing from our Envoys. whether the Executive hear we know not. but if war were to be apprehended, it is impossible our envoys should not find means of putting us on our guard, or that the Executive should hold back their information. no news therefore is...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 15th. since that we are quieted by an entire confidence in the account from the Natchez that the Spaniards will immediately deliver up the posts. the conduct of our agents there was so waspish as to have induced a suspicion that, if war was to take place against France, we meant to drive Spain into it also, that our Southern states might have something to conquer and...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of this morning yours of the 12th. inst. is come to hand. I very much doubt Bates’s not having recieved my bill. however it happens luckily that I have a copy of it with me, & therefore write him the inclosed letter subjoining the bill. he has still time to get it before the rise of the sap, & I will pray you to send Jupiter off immediately with the letter with orders...