1From John Jay to Ferdinand Grand, 31 December 1793 (Jay Papers)
My I have had ^the pleasure^ of rec g the Letter which you did me the favor of writing on the 2 d Day of May last, and it is the only one from you which has reached come to Hand since the ^your^ Revolution. We consider your amiable Friends as an agreable addition to our Society, and nothing on our part shall be wanting to convince them of our Respect for your Recommendation and for their...
2Enclosure: William Short to Ferdinand Grand, 3 March 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Votre lettre du 25. du mois dernier, Monsieur, m’est parvenue hier. Les remboursements dont vous me parlez ont eté faits depuis plusieurs moi & d’apres les mesures prises de concert avec M. le Directeur du Trésor Royal selon le desir du Ministre des Affaires étrangéres. Les seules parties que me paraissoient interesseés s’etant ainsi concerteés, je suis obligé de vous avouer, Monsieur, que je...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 23 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that we were together at the Hotel de la Monnoye, to see M. Drost strike coins in his new manner, and that you were so kind as to speak with him afterwards on the subject of his coming to America. We are now in a condition to establish a mint, and should be desirous of engaging him in it. I suppose him to be at present in the service of Watts and Bolton, the latter of whom you...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 4 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Our government having thought proper to dispose otherwise of my services than I had expected, instead of paying my respects to you in person, I have to perform the less pleasing office of writing you a letter of Adieu, thanking you, as I do sincerely, for all the kindnesses and attentions you were so good as to exercise towards me during my residence in Paris. I hope that by this time the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, [10 October 1788] (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to pay to M. le C. de L. 2750 livres in full for all rent due or to become due for the house I hold of him till the determination of our lease which is to be on the 16th. of Apr. next according to our agreement of this day, of all which this order and his receipt will be witness. Dft ( DLC : Short Papers); on scrap of paper bearing this notation at bottom and upside down: “so as...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 26 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise having sent the letter of advice relative to his bill of exchange to one of his friends in London to negotiate, it will not be necessary for you to trouble yourself till we know the result. Should he not receive the money therein, I will replace at the end of the month the 2400.₶ you have been so kind as to advance him. I had desired Mr. John Trumbull, if he met with a very good...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 11 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Rutledge, who has the honor of being known to you, and who is the son of my very particular friend, has occasion for 20 or 25 guineas. It would give me great pain to see him suffer, and it is not in my power to assist him. The sums to which I limit my draughts on Holland monthly, are generally pre-engaged by demands for the state of Virginia, or for the United states, in addition to my own...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 30 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Desirous of not abusing the good dispositions you were pleased to express as to myself and your willingness to advance monies for my particular use, I wrote to Messrs. Willinck & Van Staphorsts to know whether my draught on them for six or seven thousand livres would be honored on account of the United states. They answer me by letter of Sep. 24. that they will pay it on sight, desiring...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 22 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of yesterday on the subject of the accounts of the United states and of Virginia. My only object in allotting to each the articles which had been paid for them respectively was to enable you to send to the commissioners of the treasury an exact state of the advances which have been made for them: otherwise those advances will appear less than they really are....
10From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 4 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of putting the inclosed letter under your cover to avoid it’s being opened. It contains one for Mr. Jay which is to go by the packet sailing from Havre on the 10th. You will perceive therefore at the time of receiving this that there is not a moment to lose. I must therefore beg the favor of you to send a Commissioner instantly with it to my hotel: and, if Mr. Short should...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 28 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that I have taken the liberty of drawing on you for the following sums paiable at the dates and to the persons here mentioned. in favor of Petit 1450.₶ paiable immediately in favor of do. 600. paiable April 1st. in favor of do. 600. paiable Mayl 1st. in favor of the Ct. de Langeac 1875. paiable April 15. All those orders bear date this day. I expect that Mr....
12From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 14 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
A person called here to-day, while I was out, and left the inclosed note for me, on the subject of Colo. Wuibert’s money. He left word at the same time that he would call at your office tomorrow for an answer. I have written him the inclosed answer, but as he did not leave his name or address, I am unable to write an address on it. I will beg the favor of you to let it lye in your office till...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 28 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
It will be in good time if I receive the crowns to-day, tomorrow, or even the next day. I did not answer in the instant the letter you favoured me with yesterday , because I wished to reflect on the article of seeds for Dr. Franklin, on which you were pleased to ask my opinion. We import annually from England to every part of America garden seeds of all sorts. You may judge therefore that...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 11 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the within order, Commodore Jones is ready to pay the sum of 112,172₶–2s–4d, which be pleased to receive from him for the use of the United states, giving him a receipt for the specific sum on the back of the order. I shall hereafter have the honor of explaining to you the purposes to which the board of treasury have appropriated this sum. I have the honor to be with great...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 4 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
There are in the prisons of St. Pol de Leon six Americans, prisoners to the Farmers general, who have been prosecuted on suspicion of attempting to smuggle tobacco. Having been altogether without money and their situation very distressing, I desired Messrs. Borgnis Desbordes of Brest to furnish them six livres a day. This they did from the 22d of October last by the hands of Messrs. Diot & co....
16From John Jay to Ferdinand Grand, December 1785 (Jay Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your [ obli ?] friendly Letter of the 27 Aug t . and for the obliging attention you have paid to the Commission which I requested you to execute. I wish your Design of shipping ^ sending ^ the Glass by the Vessel which is to bring over Doct r Franklin’s Baggage may take place, for my windows are now ready to recieve it. If no opportunity should offer directly from...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 22 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
You spoke to me some days ago on the subject of the bills which Mr. Barclay might have occasion to draw on Mr. Adams. I informed you they were good and would assuredly be paid. I ought to have added that a Mr. Lambe would have bills to negociate on Mr. Adams which would be drawn in the name of a Mr. Randall. These will be equally good, the whole being for the service of the United states in a...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, 24 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have appointed the bearer hereof, Mr. William Short, my Secretary. His salary as such will be the same which young Mr. Franklin received. I am therefore to ask the favor of you to pay it to him from time to time as it shall become due, and to debit the United States therewith. I have the honor to be with very great respect, Sir your most obedient and most humble servt., PrC ( DNA : PCC , No....
19From Benjamin Franklin to Ferdinand Grand, 9 January 1785 (Franklin Papers)
Press copy of LS and AL (draft): American Philosophical Society; copy: National Archives I received your Letter of the 29th. past with the State of the Interest Money claimed by the Department of Finance as due the 1st. Inst, the Account of your Advances for the United States, and a Copy of the Letter of Messrs. Willink & Staphorst offering you by Order of Mr. Morris 400,000 Livres the Sum due...
20From John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 12 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Favours of September 14 and 28th. but, by reason of an Amsterdam Fever, which they call an Introduction to the Freedom of the City, have not been able to answer them untill now. The article of L2411: 9s: 9d, which Mr Dana requested your Father you to pay me, arose in this manner. Mr Dana was here, bound to Paris and was Suspicious that he had not cash enough to bear his...
21From John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 15 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of May 14. with your Account inclosed I received: I have also received your Letter of August the 6th., with the Account inclosed in that. I will endeavour to explain, myself, as well as I can upon the Several Things mentioned in them. In the first Account you have given me Credit for 24000 and charged me with 2/7 of it upon my order to Credit Mr. Dana. This Amounts to the Same...
22From John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 19 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I received your Favour of May 14th. inclosing my Account, which I will examine, and compare with my own, and write you about it, as Soon as I can. In the mean time I am puzzled about the first Article. Mr. Dana’s Account and mine Should be kept Seperate, and the Writing which I gave you, in February 1780 was designed for that End, So that I would be charged with 5/7 and Mr. Dana with...
23From John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 16 February 1779 (Adams Papers)
As I Shall soon have an opportunity of rendering an Account of my Short Stewardship, I must beg the Favour of you, to let Some of your People, make out a list of those Sums of Money, which I have drawn for and received seperately—another of those which Dr. Franklin and I have drawn for jointly—and thirdly an Account of those sums, which all of Us have drawn for together. I dont know indeed but...
24Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to Ferdinand Grand, 10 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
We agree that the Bills drawn on you, by Mr. Williams, and paid by you according to the list herewith transmitted shall be charged to the Public Account of the United States; Mr. Williams to be accountable for the expenditure of all the sayd Sums to Congress or to any Person, or Persons appointed by Congress for that purpose, and to the Commissioners of the United States at the Court of France...
25The Commissioners to Ferdinand Grand, 17 May 1778 (Adams Papers)
It is our desire that you accept no Bills nor pay any money out of the funds which are or may be in your hands to the credit of us three jointly without our joint order. As it has been the practice to address Letters upon the business of the Commission to Mr. Deane we desire that you will send to us all the Letters you receive so directed, and not give them to any private person. We have the...