1Benjamin Rush to John Brown Cutting, 18 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
D r Rush returns his thanks to M r: Cutting for the elegant & agreeable manner in which he conveyed M r Adams’s acceptable treatise on Goverment to him. The D r begs M r Cutting would inform M r: Adams that his work has been received & read with universal Satisfaction, & that a new edition of it is now in the press in Boston—new York & Philadelphia.— The principles & facts contained in this...
2[William Coxe, Jr. to John Brown Cutting], June–August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Our Ship Canton is just arriv’d from China with a cargo of 100000 dollars, 19/35 of her belong’d to us . Mr. D——and myself had the entire direction and management of the property. From these circumstances I have had the best opportunities of getting to the bottom of that business. I have made every use of them in my power. I will venture to pronounce that it contains an increasing and...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 8 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your communications of the 26th. Ult. instead of needing apology from you, require thanks from me, which I most cordially give you. I shall make a due use of them here, and trust they will have some effect. You cannot do me a greater favor than by a continuance of your communications while you remain in London, of which I will endeavor to profit my country.—Mr. Barlow of Connecticut arrived...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to your favor of the 11th. instant for many details which I have not received otherwise. Notwithstanding a most extensive and laborious correspondence which I keep up with my friends on the other side the water, my information is slow, precarious and imperfect. The New York papers, which I receive regularly, and one or two correspondents in Congress, are my best sources. As you...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 28 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honour of writing you on the 24th. inst. the transactions on the Black sea were but vaguely known. I am now able to give them to you on better foundation. The Captain Pacha was proceeding with succours to Oczakoff as is said by some (for this fact does not come on the same authority with the others), the authentic account placing the two fleets in the neighborhood of each other...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 6 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Truth, holy Truth, obliges me to correct still the intelligence I gave you in my last. Notwithstanding the authenticity with which it seemed to come, there was error respecting the commanders. The 1st. action between the Russians and Turks was of the gallies and flat vessels of both sides. The command of these on the part of the Russians is in the prince of Nassau. But P. Jones having been...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 23 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favors of the 3d. 8th. 14th. and 15th. inst. and have now the honor of inclosing you a letter of introduction to Doctr. Ramsay. Since my last Denmark has declared she will aid Russia, and has joined some ships to the Russian fleet. It is expected the K. of Prussia will take side immediately with Sweden, and Poland consequently with Russia. We presume here that in...
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 4 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Letters from New York of July 26. mention that the question on the new Constitution was not then decided. But a postscript to one of them from Monsieur de Crevecoeur the French consul there, sais that just as the ship was getting under way they received news that the Constitution was accepted by a majority of five, that in consequence thereof the bells were then ringing &c. This news arrived...
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 9 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6th. is just come to hand. To answer your quotations from the English papers by reversing every proposition, would be to give you the literal truth, but it would be tedious. To lump it, by saying every tittle is false, would be just, but unsatisfactory. I will take the middle course and give you a summary of political information as far as possessed here on tolerably sure...
10From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs the favor of Mr. Cutting to contrive the inclosed packet to the Treasury board. It contains the keys of some trunks of papers which are gone by another conveiance. Many compliments and assurances of esteem. [ In postscript: ] Mr. C’s favor of the 16th. is received. PrC ( DLC ). Enclosure: TJ to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 24 Sep. 1788.
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 2 October 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of the 16th. and 23d. Ult. and to thank you for the intelligence they conveyed. That respecting the case of the Interrogatories in Pennsylvania ought to make noise. So evident a heresy in the common law ought not to be tolerated on the authority of two or three civilians who happen unfortunately to make authority in the courts of England. I hold...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 3 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to acknowledge your favors of the 30th. Sep. 5th. 6th. 7th. and 17th. of Octob. which I should have done sooner but that there was no new occurrence well ascertained and worth communicating. I think it now pretty certain that an alliance is entered into between England, Prussia and Sweden, to which Holland is to accede so as to make it quadruple. The Prussian army is on...
13From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 7 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho your last letter (recd. yesterday) supposes you will be setting out for Paris before this can reach you, yet on the bare possibility of your being delayed I just write a line to acknolege the receipt of that letter and of one of May 22., and to thank you particularly for the one received yesterday which conveyed very interesting intelligence which I had not before. The latest letters here...
14From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 16 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your attention to the cir[cumstance] of my passage, and lament extremely that I cannot avail myself of so favorable a conveiance as the Washington offers, which I would certainly have done had I received my permission. But that is not yet arrived.—The Vanstaphorsts have written to me to receive their bond[s]. This awaits your return.—The Impost act has pass[ed] the house of...
15From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 10 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having this moment had occasion to turn to my estimates of the debts of the United states, I find them not among my papers, and recollect I lent them to you, and do not recollect whether you returned them. If you have forgotten to do this, be so good as to send them to me by return of post, at which time I shall probably still be here. If it is I who have mislaid them and not you who have...
16From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 24 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of the 18th. inst. and thank you for the intelligence it contains. I now inclose you my answer from Marseilles, and a state of the rice imported into this country in one year. Also letters for Mr. Rutledge, Dr. Ramsay and Governor Pinckney. The latter contains certificates for the bond I received while you were here, and for the 150. bonds.—I am become excessively...
17From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 17 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Our ship arrived here this evening, and if the wind permits we shall sail tomorrow. I cannot do this without bidding you Adieu, and, thro you, to your brother, Messrs. Paine, Parker, and Rumsay. I hope you are perfectly reestablished after your indisposition. When you are perfectly so, I must ask you to perform for me the friendly office of calling on Mr. McKenzie in my name, and returning him...
18From George Washington to John Brown Cutting, 23 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th of July enclosing sundry papers respecting the state of public affairs in France, for which mark of attention I request you to accept my best acknowledgements. I am, Sir, Your most Obedt Servt. Df , in the writing of Tobias Lear, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . On this day GW also wrote similar brief letters of acknowledgment to John...
19Enclosure: William Short to John Brown Cutting, 17 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you most sincerely for your two kind and faithful letters, the first of the 5th. inst. the second without date recieved this morning. You see I do not delay shewing you how ready I am to draw from you your agreeable American information by exciting it with an immediate answer. I was particularly pleased to see the address to Mr. Jefferson and was in hopes his answer would have given...
20Enclosure II: William Short to John Browne Cutting, 11 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to be able to add to the testimony of Purdie’s being a Citizen of the United States. I remember perfectly being at College at Williamsburg with a person of that name, and that he was son of the Postmaster General at that place. I not only recollect the name and knew the family while at College, but I recollect also the person of Purdie so as to be able to swear to his identity if I...
21Enclosure IV: Philip Stephens to John Browne Cutting, [19 August 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Memorial of the 10th instant requesting the discharge of the four men named in the margin, natives of America and subjects of the United States of America, who have been impressed and put on board his Majesty’s Ships the Edgar and Crescent, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that they have given orders for the...
22Enclosure V: Hugh Purdie to John Browne Cutting, 15 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The fleet under the command of Earl Howe arrived last night, and I am sorry to acquaint you that the Captain of the Crescent does not seem disposed to order me on shore so soon as I could wish, therefore must intreat of you to forward my discharge by the earliest opportunity. The cruize has been extremely tedious which makes me more desirous than ever of my freedom. With hearty wishes for your...
23Enclosure VI: Hugh Purdie to John Browne Cutting, 15 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
My situation at this instant makes me shed tears plentifully. I must proceed to inform you that in delivering my letter to you dated this day, to one of the bargemen, I inadvertently handed it through one of the ports not knowing it was a crime. The Gunner, who is not a commissioned Officer, immediately ordered me to be whipped. I said on coming on the ships forecastle that shortly I expected...
24Enclosure VII: Hugh Purdie to John Browne Cutting, [16 September 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
These lines will inform you that at four o’clock on the 15th. September 1790 I was released from my irons and brought to the quarter deck, where by the advice of some who were my friends, I plead hard for a Court Martial where evidence might be taken on both sides. Contrary to their expectation it was denied me: and the Captain ordered me one dozen lashes with a rogues cat o’ nine tails, with...
25II. Secretary of State to John Browne Cutting, 17 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 11th. came to hand August 28th. Those of July 16. August 7. 11. October 4. and 6. at subsequent periods.—They should not have thus long have remained unacknowledged but for the idea, which has been constantly kept up, that you were on the verge of your departure for this country. Even so late as the date of your last, Mr. Barrett says in a letter to me that “Mr. Cutting will...
26From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown Cutting, 25 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Robert Leslie, a watchmaker of this city goes to establish himself in London. I consider him and the late Mr. Rumsey as two of the most ingenious mechanics I have ever known. Having been a witness to your patronage of Mr. Rumsey I have thought I could not more befriend Mr. Leslie than to make him also known to you. Your knowlege of London may enable you to give very...