1To John Adams from James McHenry, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I had the honour to receive your letter of the 10th of August inst. and shall cause the name of Dr. David King to be entered among the candidates for medical appointments, and his recommendations to be filed. I have the honour to be / with the greatest respect, Sir, / your most obt & most hble St— MHi : Adams Papers.
2To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Upon the receipt of your letter inclosing the letter and deposition of Capt. Ebenr. Giles of Beverly, I turned to some communications I had some time before received from Captain Truxtun, in which he had, and I still think justly, ascribed the beating given to Giles on board the British frigate Daphne, to his own extremely improper and insolent behaviour. This I think will appear from the...
3To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I inclose a letter from B. H. Phillips the Consul of the U. States at Curacao, which with the three papers accompanying it, exhibit the shameless conduct of the Governor and Council of that Island, in the protection of French pirates, & in their rigorous punishment of Americans for acting in their own defence when assailed by those murderers. The fact not least remarkable is, that a Dutch...
4To John Adams from Benjamin Stoddert, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
Agreeably to your Letter of 12th instant, I have the honor to enclose a Warrant for Mr. George Barrell, which requires your signature.—He is ordered to join the Congress Capt. Sever— I have the honor to be, / with the greatest respect, & / Esteem, sir, your most obed hbl servt. MHi : Adams Papers.
5John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received your N. 6. dated 3. June, about three weeks ago, at this place, and should have replied to it sooner, but for a violent fever which seized me on the first of this month, and confined me for about ten days— It was only an intermittent, and paid me no more than five visits; but they were long and severe enough to leave me very weak.— I think myself now altogether recovered, and can...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 16 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of June 21. since which I recieved yours of June 20. & 23. and this moment that of Aug. 6. I now inclose a letter for mr Roberts for a new supply of iron to be sent off by the 1st. of Sep. I observe you have paid mr Short’s instalment for Aug. 1. if my statement be right you have about enough in your hands of his money & mine to meet that of Sep. 1. & for that of Oct. 1. you...
7To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 16 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 16, 1799. On August 21, 1799, Hamilton wrote to McHenry : “Your letter of the 16 instant respecting Cloathing for the Western Army did not reach me till yesterday.” Letter not found. ]
8To Alexander Hamilton from Simeon Draper, 16 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
At the special request of William Richardson 2d. of Brookfield in the Couty of Worcester Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and his friends the following statement of facts are made and humbly submitted—On the 18th. of June last, said Richardson, having been previously arrested by, & escaped from a Sheriff, on mesne process came to me and inlisted in the service of the United States—the same day...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Elliott, 16 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of War on an application to him for some men to be with me at the commencing the building the Laboratory desired that I shall apply to you for them. in consequence of which I have taken the liberty of mentioning the mens names and the different places they are at; that belong to my company which are now wanted, ( Wm. Millard. Sergt. Lang, Francis Peters. ) Cullen. Hyland. Howard....
10To Alexander Hamilton from Daniel Bradley, 16 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You have forwarded a descriptive List of five deserters, Two from Capt. Brock, Two from Captain Diven, and one from Capt Grayson, I have forwarded Muster and Pay rolls to the War Office to include the Month of July, and it is of consequence to the recruiting business; that Money should be immediately be sent for the payment of the recruits, I wish to observe that there is no person appointed...