1From John Adams to Arthur St. Clair, 30 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 20th of this month, and thank you for your obliging Compliments, on my succeeding to the Executive Branch of Government. While I regret your affliction with the Gout, I congratulate you on your perfect prospect of recovery from its pains, and their consequences, and hope that in a short time, your health will be so fully established as to enable you to go...
2From John Adams to Arthur St. Clair, 17 May 1799 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favor of April 8th, and especially for the pamphlet inclosed with it. I have read it with great pleasure, as a masterly refutation of its antagonist, in the style and manner of a gentleman, and seasoned with no more than was useful and agreeable of attic salt. Happy am I to find such just sentiments countenanced, encouraged, and prevailing in the North-western Territory....
3From John Adams to Arthur St. Clair, 18 May 1799 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favor of April 8th. & especially for the pamphlet inclosed with it. I have read it with great pleasure, as a masterly refutation of its antagonist, in the style & manner of a gentleman, & seasoned with no more than was useful and agreeable of attick salt. Happy am I to find such just sentiments countenanced encouraged & prevailing in the North Western territory—Although...
4From John Adams to Arthur St. Clair, 1 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received but two or three days ago your favor of the 30th of July, inclosing an address of the officers & privates of a troop of horse, organised & equipped at Cincinnati. I perceive with joy & pride a spirit of patriotism & a degree of unanimity prevailing in our country, which annuente numine cannot fail to insure its safety & secure its prosperity. I thank you, Sir, for the obliging part...
5Enclosure III: Memorial of G. Aubuniere and others to Arthur St. Clair, 28 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Inhabitants of the Villages of the Cohos and Prairie du pont take the Liberty of informing you that in Consequence of the connection which you have been pleased to make of the Seigniory of the Cohos with the Domain of the States in which are included the Lands and commons set apart for their Cattle which they have possessed for several Years, which Lands you have led them to hope would be...
6Enclosure VII: Memorial of Pierre Gibault and others to Arthur St. Clair, 9 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Memorial of the Inhabitants of Kaskaskia, la Prairie du Rocher, and Kahokia, County of St. Clair. Humbly Sheweth, That by an Act of the Congress of 20th. June 1788, it was declared that the Lands theretofore possessed by the said Inhabitants should be surveyed at their Expense, and that this Clause appears to them neither necessary nor adapted to quiet the Minds of the People. It does not...
7Enclosure IV: Memorial of Pierre Gibault to Arthur St. Clair, 1 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Kahokia 1 May 1790. The undersigned Memorialist has the Honor to represent to your Excellency. That from the Moment of the Conquest of the Illinois by Colo. George Rogers Clark, he has not been backward in venturing his Life on the many Occasions in which he found that his Presence was useful and sometimes necessary. And at all Times sacrificing his Property, which he gave for the Support of...
8A Proposition, [18 March 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
That the Exchange of the first Division of the Troops of Convention according to the proposed Plan given in shall have immediate Operation with the Exchanges of Officers for Officers Prisoners of War, and that the Exchange of the second Division of the Troops of Convention according to the proposed Plan given in shall, also, have immediate Operation so far as the Estimate of American Officers,...
9From Alexander Hamilton to Arthur St. Clair, [19 May 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
This will be delivered to you by Mr. De Barth —who is at the head of a French Colony going to make a settlement on the Scioto, within the limits of Cutler’s and Serjeants purchase. There is another colony under Mr. De Boullogne, who have the same destination. The particulars of their situation and the circumstances which distinguish them will I presume be detailed to you from some other...
10From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Arthur St. Clair, 28 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
I am commanded by His Excellency to inform you that recent intelligence increases the probability of the enemy being on the point of some important movement. He therefore repeats his recommendation that you will exert yourself to get your division in readiness to march as soon as possible. I have the honor to be Sir Your most Obedt serv ADf , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.