201To John Adams from Elkanah Watson Jr., 26 December 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have unexpectedly been hon’d with a letter from your Excellency. The present edition of the Little performance I sent you, consists of only 350, most of which have run off beyond my expectations; some of my eastern friends have advised me to secure a copy right, & prepare for a 2 d. edition upon a more enlarg’d scale: should this be tho’t expedient or not any remarks you may please to...
202To John Adams from the Boston Marine Society, 3 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
In behalf of the Marine Society of this Town, we have the Honor of addressing you on a subject that has long engaged the attention of that Corporation.— The encouragement & preservation of our Seamen must interest every man who considers how valuable the labours of that class of Men are to a commercial Country, nor will the Interest be lessen’d from the veiw of them, in time of War, as the...
203To John Adams from John Jay, 4 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
a weeks absence on a visit to my friends at Rye, from whence I returned last Evening, prevented my having ’till then, the Pleasure of recieving your very obliging Letter of the 20 Dec r. — For the Invitation with which you honor me, be pleased to accept my cordial acknowledgements— It is conveyed in Terms which enhance the compliment, & I accept it with that Satisfaction which Politeness...
204To John Adams from John Redman, 5 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
It is with great pleasure I obey the Orders of the Corporation of the 2 d: Presbyterian Church, in Arch-Street, by communicating their Resolution of the 29 th. Ultimo, appropriating the large pew fronting the pulpit, & the two pews adjoining it, for the use of the Vice-President of the United States, & such members of both Houses of Congress, as choose, during their Sessions, to worship in...
205Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 6 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
We begin to feel the good Effects of our national Government— By the Presidents Speech at the opening of the present Session of Congress, our public Affairs wear a promising Appearance. His Speech gave a new Spring to public Credit; in the Course of Three or Four Days after it reachd us public Securities rose 10 or 15 P r C t — The several Departments of Government being well filld, from the...
206Abigail Adams Smith to John Adams, 7 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have received your two Kind letters of Decr 8 th and 17 th and am much obliged for your good wishes, and advice I have no desire to mix with the World or associate with any but my friends during the absence of my Husband—retirement from the World and an intercourse with, and attention, to ones family and friends are I presume Compatiable— the former it is my wish to observe the latter...
207To John Adams from William Smith, 16 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
By one of the last Posts, by direction of the Boston Marine Society, I forwarded you a number of Papers respecting a Marine Hospital. I now forward you by the Bearer M r Adams a Plan & Elevation of the Hospital that wou’d be erected by the Society cou’d they obtain permission you will please to make what use of it you may think proper. this Building on the place that is propos’d wou’d add...
208To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to enclose you a Postscript to the Report on Measures, Weights & coins now before your house. this has been rendered necessary by a small arithmetical error detected in the estimate of the cubic foot proposed in that report. the head of Superficial measures is also therein somewhat more developed. Nothing is known, since the last session of Congress of any further proceedings...
209To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 17 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
An unsealed letter from you came to my hand this day. for the letter I thank you. as it contained expressions of regard & esteem which I have been used to receive from your pen. for the manner I own myself at a loss— Dos not an unsealed letter from you sir appear like a diminution of that Confidential intercourse that long subsisted? and Conveyed warm from the heart the strong expressions of...
210To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a letter from one of our captive citizens of Algiers, if I may judge from the superscription and from the letters from the same quarter which I have received myself. as these relate to a matter before your house, and contain some information we have not before had, I take the liberty of inclosing you copies of them. I have the honour to be with sentiments of the...
211To John Adams from William Smith, 21 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
I take the freedom to introduce to your notice Major Kent. a Grandson of the late Cap Kent of Charlestown. he goes to Philadelphia, to procure from Congress the same compensation for his services as the other Officers of the late Army receiv’d.— He enter’d the Army as a private in Col. Henry Jackson’s Reg t. by his good conduct was soon promoted as an Officer and continued in the service ’till...
212To John Adams from James Lovell, 22 January 1791 (Adams Papers)
From the Borders of the Grave, revived, and even established in Health, I once more present my Respects with my accustomed Fervency to You and Yours. But, with my Respects I must also send my Complaints and Supplications. In a Transaction where you was only, according to your own chosen Expression, Teste di Legno, I was fretted disgraced & beslaved; and have taken some Measures for...
213To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
As the information contained in the enclosed extracts from a letter of M r. Short’s lately arrived, has some relation to a subject now before the Senate, I have thought it my duty to communicate them, and have the honor to be with sentiments of the most profound respect and attachment. / Sir / Your most obedient and / most humble Servant: FC and enclosure ( DLC :Jefferson Papers); internal...
214To John Adams from John Trumbull, 5 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
You cannot doubt how much I esteem myself honored by your Correspondence— But in a Correspondence with Great Folks, it is my rule to consider myself only an Echo—and like that, I will answer punctually— The Title of your Volumes is not a Misnomer, in the light you place it— Our Constitutions were indeed attacked by M r. Turgot on the only side capable of A Defence. But I think Sir, You have...
215To John Adams from Peter Thacher, 8 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
I must make an apology for asking you to accept of the sermon inlosed herewith. You knew and loved the man whose death occasioned it, and this circumstance may render it pleasing to you to receive it. Besides, you loved the father of the author and have always been kind and friendly to him in person, and by these means the candor which it needs will be secured in your perusal of it. Excuse me,...
216To John Adams from Samuel Tucker, 11 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
I Yesterday receivd Your very Polite Letter by which I think myself highly Honour’d on this reception, from so great a Character, and shall strictly attend to the Purport thereof. as it is Probable their will be more Cutters than one stationd on our Coast the sea part being so Extensive, I should be glad of such a command should this not be, Please to offer me a Candidate, to the President, to...
217To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 12 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
M r Brand Hollis having met with this second volume of the History of Bologna by Ghiradacci requests M r Adams to accept of it from gratitude to him for having produced to the publick the act of the 3 of June 1257 by which all the Slaves & villains were manumitted. The book containing it is intitled The Paradise of pleasure. 1605. Ghirardacci lib VI. p. 194 con Licenza de Superiori. There has...
218To John Adams from Stephen Hall, 19 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have not forgot the Chagrin I suffered in not obtaining the Collectorship of Impost at this Port. Mr. Thacher, I suppose, remains my determined enemy; & would gladly see me excluded from any share in collecting the Excise. I wish however to be employed in it. My natural activity I think is no objection to it. I have nothing to say of other qualifications. Those who know me are the best...
219To John Adams from Henry Marchant, 19 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Congress of the United States are once more seated at Philadelphia. I wish the People there may be more conscious of the Honor and Advantage of the Residence of that Body with them than heretofore—And that They will discover less of a mobish Disposition— I am sorry to see Petitions and Remonstrances beat up about the Streets against Acts merely in Contemplation— I wish also Virginia so...
220To John Adams from Hannah Adams, 21 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
Desirous to gain the patronage of so distinguished a character, with the utmost diffidence I request your acceptance of the inclosed dedication to my View of Religions. Your permission to adorn my book by prefixing your name will do me the greatest honour, I am with the highest respect, / Sir, / Your most obedient humble servant, RC ( Adams Papers ). For Adams and her dedication of View of...
221To John Adams from Perez Morton, 23 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
At the request of Miss Hannah Adams, I enclose & forward to you her Request to honor a publication, she intends making to the World, with Your Patronage by fixing your Name to it in a dedicatory Address—this is forwarded for your perusal.— The Merits of the Work I am totally a Stranger to having never perused—but being informed it is a correction, enlargement , & amendment of a former Work of...
222To John Adams from William Temple Franklin, 25 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
In the Letter you did me the honor of writing to me previous to my Departure from Philadelphia, you intimated a Wish to be informed of the Progress of French Liberty.— I have not yet been able to go over to the Continent—but shall in a few Weeks, when I will endeavor to comply with your Desire, relative to the Revolution that is effecting in France.— In the meantime, I have taken the Liberty...
223To John Adams from William Tudor, 27 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
I was greatly obliged by your Letter of the 15 th Instant, although it gave me some Mortification arising from the Reflection that I might set it down to my own Inattention that I have been so long without such a Mark of your Friendship. It is impossible not to smile at hearing M r. Oliver complain of his Misfortunes. No Man who deserved so little, has been more fortunate. Unless to be removed...
224To John Adams from George Washington, 1 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Friday the 4th Instant, I have desired their attendance, as I do yours by these Presents, at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such Communications as shall be made to you on my part.— DLC : Papers of George Washington.
225To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 1 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has signed several enrolled bills, which I am directed to bring to the Senate for the signature of the Vice President. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
226To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 1 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled “An act to amend ’An act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States.” They agree to the amendments of the Senate on the bill, entitled “An act supplemental to the act establishing the Treasury Department, and for a further compensation to certain...
227From George Washington to John Adams, 1 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Friday the 4th Instant, I have desired their Attendance, as I do yours by these Presents, at the Senate Chamber in Philadelphia on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such Communications as shall be made to you on my part. LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Senate...
228To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives recede from their two last amendments to the amendments of the Senate, to the bill, entitled “An act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States, and for making further provision for the protection of the frontiers;” and They agree to the amendments of the Senate on the bill, entitled “An act concerning the rates of...
229To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled “An act concerning consuls and vice-consuls,” with amendments, in which amendments they desire the concurrence of the Senate. They have passed the bill, entitled “An act in addition to an act, entitled ’An act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of government, with their...
230To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned.’ Printed Source--Senate Journal.
231To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled ’An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions,” with amendments, in which amendments they desire the concurrence of the Senate. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
232To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed a bill, entitled “An act to compensate George Gibson,” in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
233To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives insist on their amendments to the bill sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled “An act concerning consuls and vice consuls.” They have passed the bill, entitled “An act making further provision for the collection of duties by law imposed on teas, and to prolong the term for the payment of the duties on wines,” in which they desire the concurrence of the...
234To John Adams from George Washington, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has this day approved and signed a resolution, which originated in the Senate, requesting that the President of the United States would cause to be communicated to the National Assembly of France the sense which Congress have of the tribute paid to the memory of Benjamin Franklin.” Printed Source--Senate Journal.
235To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I am much in your debt for letters by mr Knox General Mansell & Mr Broome who seems an excellent citizen we had an American dinner all rejoiced in the welfare of America & remember’d our friend & the Patriots of that country. I have just recd intelligence of the Boxes of Books for cambridge have been recd. the former letter not coming to hand yesterday the 2 of march I sent on board the Apollo...
236To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed two enrolled bills, I am directed to bring them to the Senate for the signature of the Vice President; The House of Representatives adhere to their amendments on the bill, entitled “An act concerning consuls and vice consuls;” They disagree to the amendment of the Senate on the bill, entitled “An act for making compensations to the...
237To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives agree to the amendments of the Senate on the bill, sent from the House of Representatives for concurrence, entitled “An act supplementary to the act making provision for the reduction of the public debt;” They agree to some, and disagree to other, amendments of the Senate on the bill, sent from the House of Representatives for concurrence, entitled “An act...
238To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives agree to the amendment of the Senate to their amendments on the bill, sent from the Senate for concurrence, entitled “An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions;” They agree to the resolution, sent from the Senate for...
239To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have agreed shortly to adjourn to 6 o’clock this evening. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
240To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed “A resolve making a temporary provision for the safe-keeping of prisoners committed under the authority of the United States;” in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed several enrolled bills and resolves, I am directed to bring them to the Senate, for the signature of the Vice...
241To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives have passed a bill, entitled “An act for carrying into effect the convention between his Most Christian Majesty and the United States;” in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
242To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The House of Representatives concur in the bill sent from the Senate, entitled “An act to continue in force the act therein mentioned, and to make further provision for the payment of pensions to invalids, and for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers.” Printed Source--Senate Journal.
243To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed several enrolled bills, I am directed to bring them to the Senate, for the signature of the Vice President. The House of Representatives have passed a bill, entitled “An act for the relief of David Cook,” in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
244To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed several enrolled bills, I am directed to bring them to the Senate, for the signature of the Vice President. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
245To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed an enrolled resolve, I am directed to bring it to the Senate for the signature of the Vice President. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has this day approved and signed several acts which originated in that House; a list of which I am directed to bring to the Senate. Printed...
246To John Adams from United States House of Representatives, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has this day approved and signed several acts which originated in that House. I am directed to acquaint the Senate that the House of Representatives, having completed the business before them, intend shortly to adjourn without day. Printed Source--Senate Journal.
247To John Adams from George Washington, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has this day approved and signed the following acts: “An act to amend an act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States;” and “An act making an appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned.” Printed Source--Senate Journal.
248To John Adams from George Washington, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has this day approved and signed “the resolve for establishing the mint;” and “the resolve requesting the President of the United States to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress of the lands not claimed by the Indians.” Printed Source--Senate Journal.
249To John Adams from George Washington, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has this day approved and signed the following acts which originated in the Senate: “An act to continue in force the act therein mentioned, and to make further provision for the payment of pensions to invalids, and for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers;” and “An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes,...
250To John Adams from Charles Storer, 5 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
By direction of your son I take the liberty to enclose to your Care a letter for him, and have to request you to forward it on to him per first Post, in case he should have return’d to Boston before this reaches Philadelphia, as it respects a suit which he has undertaken in my behalf— This memorable day in the history of America will ever be an interesting Anniversary to Bostonians,...