361To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the assurance contained in my letter of yesterday by the Post, I do myself the pleasure of enclosing the Act of Congress referred to therein; and have the honor to be, with great regard, Your excellency’s Obedient & very humb. Servt DLC : Papers of George Washington.
362To George Washington from Benjamin Guerard, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 14th June—which, with chearfulness and pleasure, I will lay before our Legislature at their next Sitting. I thank you, sir, for your congratulations on the happy and glorious Event of the peace, an event, the more heartfelt and joyful, as our country is not only thereby relieved from the accumulated, and almost insuperable distresses it was...
363To George Washington from Christopher P. Yates, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency George Washington Esqr General and Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States. The Address of the Magistrates and Supervisors of the County of Tryon in behalf of themselves and the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said County. Sir While we congratulate your Excellency on the conclusion of a Peace favourable to the United States we request you to accept of our...
364From George Washington to Christopher P. Yates, 1 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I receive with the greatest pleasure your congratulations on the happy conclusion of a Peace—an Event which, as it establishes the liberties and independence of America must be pleasing to all, but particularly so to the worthy Inhabitants of this County who have had so large a portion of the Calamities of War. In the course of my tour thro a small part of this County, I have had an...
365Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 1 August 1783 (Madison Papers)
RC (Virginia State Library). In Arthur Lee’s hand, except for Theodorick Bland’s signature. Addressed to “His Excely. Govr. Harrison.” For the absence of JM’s signature, see Delegates to Harrison, 24 June 1783 , ed. n. Congress have directed the Superintendent of Finance to make public an order he has given to the continental Receivers in the different States, to receive the Notes issued from...
366“Apologue,” [during or after February 1783] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin … (3 vols., 4to, London, 1817–18), III , 309–10. When William Temple Franklin published this piece (for which no manuscript survives), he placed it among the undated bagatelles, noting only that it was “written at the period of, and in allusion to, the claims of the American Royalists on the...
367Continental Congress Unsubmitted Resolution Calling for a Convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation, [July 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas in the opinion of this Congress the confederation of the United States is defective in the following essential points, to wit: First and generally in confining the power of the fœderal government within too narrow limits, withholding from it that efficacious authority and influence in all matters of general concern which are indispensable to the harmony and welfare of the...
368Defense of Congress, [July 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
However men actuated by private pique or party views may take pleasure in stigmatizing the conduct of Congress with or without reason, considerate and good men who are solicitous for the honor of their country will act upon very different principles. They will view with regret those instances in which the measures of that body may be really intitled to blame, will be cautious how they bestow...
369To George Washington from Bezaleel Howe, July 1783 (Washington Papers)
An Accoumpt of the Expences of His Excelency—the Commander in Chiefs Table and Money Payd to his Servants By Lieut. Bezl Howe in the Month of august 1783 Dates Dols. & 90th 17th to Water Millions 1 20th Cabage & Beanes 2 27th thirty one Lb. of Gammon 4 15 to two Gallons of Rum 1
370From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 31 July [1783] (Adams Papers)
The last Evening, at Court, in the House in the Grove, where all the foreign Ministers supped, the Comte Montagnini de Mirabel, the Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Sardinia, took an opportunity to enter largely into Conversation with me. As he and I were at a Party of Politicks while the greatest Part of the Company were at Cards, for two or three hours, We ran over all the World,...