1Samuel Hardy and John F. Mercer to Jefferson and James Monroe, April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, April? 1784 .] Requesting “the favor of their Company to dine with them @ 4 oClock.” RC ( DLC ); without date or place; addressed: “Honble M[ess]rs. Jefferson & Monroe.” The blank verso of this note was subsequently used by TJ in his draft of an additional instruction to the Committee of States and therefore must have been received before 26 Apr. 1784; see Vol. 6: 529, note.
2To George Washington from John Francis Mercer, 10 December 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Francis Mercer, 10 Dec. 1786. On 19 Dec. GW wrote Mercer : “I received your favor of the 10th.”
3John Francis Mercer to Executive Council of Virginia, 10 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Having heretofore wrote divers Letters to his Excellency Benja. Harrison, but no reason existing that can induce me to suppose they have ever come to hand I can but imagine that some wickedly dispos’d Persons have intercepted all my correspondance, a practice become but too common by the relax’d morals of our people—to the great scandal of all government. I have therefore determin’d in order...
4To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 8 February 1785 (Madison Papers)
I have your favor of the 24. which pursuing me by a circuitous route, did not reach this untill within a few days. I place value on every mark of your friendship & to convince you that public business alone was not what induc’d me to revive impressions which were strongly imprinted on my breast. I now write you from a recess, where news of private happiness can be the only subject of...
5To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 23 December 1786 (Madison Papers)
I committed some hasty thoughts to paper in an illegible hand, which I sent you by Doctr. Griffin, relative to a clause in the British debt bill that you told me, pass’d the House of delegates by an almost unanimous assent, directing those who had paid British Debts into the public Treasury, to pay them over again. From the little consideration I had given this question myself. & from the...
6To George Washington from John Francis Mercer, 29 March 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Francis Mercer, 29 Mar. 1789. On 5 April GW wrote to Mercer : “The letter with which you was pleased to favor me, dated the 29th Ulto came to hand.”
7To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 12 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ I should have blush’d to have met you, after having so long delay’d repaying the money you kindly advanc’d me, yet the sincere pleasure I felt in the expectation of again taking you by the hand effaced every other impression & my dissapointment was real when I learn’d that you had return’d to the South without my meeting you. After you left me in Congress—I was subjected to the...
8To George Washington from John Francis Mercer, 4 October 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Francis Mercer, 4 Oct. 1786. On 6 Nov. GW wrote Mercer about receiving “your letter of the 4th Ulto.”
9To James Madison from John Francis Mercer, 26 November 1784 (Madison Papers)
The Gentlemen from the Eastward have at length made their appearance & I expect in a day or two a Congress will be once more form’d. This commencement however has discovered so great a relaxation in the Confœderal springs that I doubt the machine will not be long kept in motion, unless great & effectual repairs are made. For my part I have no hopes but in a convocation of the States. In this...
10To George Washington from John Francis Mercer, 20 November 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Francis Mercer, 20 Nov. 1786. On 24 Nov. GW wrote Mercer that “Your servant” has “this moment put your letter of the 20th inst. into my hands.”