1Abigail Adams to George Cabot, post 17 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
Your obliging favour of the 17 of Jan’ ry reachd me a few days sine the polite and Friendly manner in which You communicate Your inttentions call for my acknowledgment. our Legislators never having considerd our Sex sufficiently dangerous to enact a salique Law or perhaps entertaining too good an opinions of us to suppose we would encroach upon their establishd perogatives have left us to the...
2Abigail Adams to George Cabot, 8 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
When I had the pleasure of visiting you in the Summer you may recollect Some conversation which too place respecting a young Gentleman whom You was pleasd to say you wishd to see engaged in writing upon a certain subject as You thought many circumstances concured to render him the most suitable person. at that Time he declined. But an opportunity has since offerd to discuss a subject, by which...
3From Alexander Hamilton to George Cabot, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 25, 1791. On September 6, 1791, Cabot wrote to Hamilton : “Being absent from home when your letter of the 25th ultimo arrived, it has been out of my power to answer the enqueries it contains until this day’s post.” Letter not found. ] Cabot, a wealthy merchant from Beverly, Massachusetts, had been elected United States Senator in June, 1791.
4From George Washington to George Cabot, 7 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
(Private & confidential) The enclosed letters (which after reading, be so good as to return to me) will be the best appology I can offer for the liberty I am about to take & for the trouble, if you comply with my request—it must necessarily give. To express all the sensibility wch has been excited in my breast by the receipt of young Fayettes letter—from the recollection of his fathers merits,...