1From John Adams to Samuel Osgood , 14 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
I was yesterday favoured with your agreable Letter by Captn. Price, for which as well as a former Letter I acknowledge myself much obliged to you. In such a Period as this, Sir, when Thirteen Colonies unacquainted in a great Measure, with each other, are rushing together into one Mass, it would be a Miracle, if Such heterogeneous Ingredients did not at first produce violent Fermentations....
2From John Adams to Samuel Osgood , 15 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
Your first Letter to me is now before me. The true Cause why General Frie, has not received from me, any particular Intelligence, is that the Matter has been hitherto Suspended, and that I am under Such Engagements of Secrecy, that I could not in Honour acquaint him with any Thing that has pass’d in Congress. As Soon as I arrived in Philadelphia, I made it my Business to introduce General...
3From John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 12 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
Recollecting the Correspondence, which passed between you & me in the Year 1775, I have been sometimes in hopes you would have revived it, since you have been in Congress.— A Multitude of things have been transacted in Congress, the Grounds, Motives & Objects of which have never been explained to me; so that I have been frequently at a loss to regulate my own Conduct— I have been somewhat...
4John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 9 April 1784 (Adams Papers)
On the 5 th. I rec d , your Favour, which came by Coll Herman, and another long Letter with it. You have obliged me very much. in the Six years that I have passed in Europe, I never received So much Information, concerning the Spirit of the times. The Confederation appears to me, to be of great Importance, and that it ought to be Strengthened. This however cannot be done, but by preserving...
5John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 9 April 1784 (Adams Papers)
on the 5 th , I received your Favour which came by Coll Herman, and another long Letter with it.— You have obliged me very much. in the Six Years that I have passed in Europe, I never received So much Information, concerning the Spirit of the Times in Congress. I very early Saw the Necessity of forming Connections with European Powers, and the Facility of doing it, but I saw equally early the...
6John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 30 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letters with great Pleasure. They let me into many Misteries before impenetrable. The Journal which caused Such Wonder, was intended to be sent to M r Jackson. But recollecting the frequent Injunctions of your Secretary, to be minute: to Send him even the Looks of Ministers to be Sure, Conversations, and considering that in the Conferences for the Peace, I had been very free,...
7John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 13 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
We are assembled under our new Commissions, and have begun our Negotiations at least by announcing our Mission to most of the Courts through their Ministers at this. As We were not limited to any Place, it may be Supposed in America, that the first Question would have been, concerning the Feild of Battle. But, circumstanced as We were, this Could be no Question. D r F. was So bad with the...
8From John Adams to Samuel Osgood, 6 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have learnt with Pleasure, your Appointment to be one of the Commissioners of the Treasury of the United States and hope to hear by the next Packet, that you have accepted the Trust. It is of great Importance, that this Office should be in good hands, and the Duties of it, will no doubt give you full Employment, but I have heretofore rec’d so much benefit from your Correspondence, that I...
9Robert Morris to Alexander Hamilton, Theodorick Bland, Thomas FitzSimons, Samuel Osgood, and Richard Peters, 14 April … (Hamilton Papers)
Since the Conference I had the Honor to hold with you the ninth Instant, my Mind has been continually occupied on the important Subject to which it relates. My Feelings are strongly excited by what I wish for the Public and what I apprehend both for them and for myself. The two Points which relate to my Department are the Settlement of Accounts and Advance of Pay. With respect to the first it...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Arthur Lee, Walter Livingston, and Samuel Osgood, [14 September 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Having in consequence of my appointment as Secretary of the Treasury determined on William Duer Esquire as my Assistant, I have concluded from his situation with the late board that a delivery of the books papers and seal belonging to the department should be made to him. If this mode is agreeable to you I need only add that he is authorised on my part to carry it into execution. I have the...
11From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Osgood, 16 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 16, 1789. On November 28, 1789, Osgood wrote to Hamilton : “I am to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 16th. Instant.” Letter not found. ] Osgood had been appointed Postmaster-General on September 26, 1789.
12From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Osgood, 7 October 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 7, 1790. On October 11, 1790, Osgood wrote to Hamilton : “I have received your favor of the 7th. Instant.” Letter not found. ] Osgood had been a member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts and was appointed Postmaster General in 1789.
13From George Washington to Oliver Phelps and Samuel Osgood, 20 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
Since my Letter to you of the 28th of Decr the supply of Beef Cattle has been so inconsiderable, that we have been compelled to break in upon the salted Provisions, which were designed as a reserve against the distresses of unforeseen or unavoidable contingencies. You will observe, from the enclosed Extracts of a Letter from Major General Heath the terrible prospects now before us: Nothing, I...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Osgood, 5 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with very sincere pleasure I heard of your appointment to the board of treasury, as well from the hope it might not be disagreeable to yourself, as from the confidence it’s administration would be wise. I heartily wish the states may by their contributions enable you to reestablish a credit which cannot be lower than at present to exist at all. This is partly owing to their real...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Osgood, 5 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desired to forward to you the inclosed queries, and to ask the favor of you to give such an answer to them as may not give you too much trouble. Those which stand foremost on the paper can be addressed only to your complaisance; but the last may possibly be interesting to your department, and to the United states: I mean those which suggest the possibility of borrowing money in Europe,...