1Cash Book, [1 March 1782–1791] (Hamilton Papers)
De Miranda
2To George Washington from Juan Manuel de Cagigal, 26 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
...lo habia premeditado; permitame V.E. lo haga per medio de esta Carta, Ofreciendome à su disposicion, y recomendandole al mismo tiempo mi Edecan el Teniénte Coronel Dn Francisco de Miranda, que con el propio designio se acaba de embarcar para Philadelphia: su caracter, instruccion, y demas circunstancias me han merecido siempre singular distincion, y espero le hagan acrehedor igualmente al...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Francisco de Miranda, [January–July 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
To Francisco de Miranda
4From Alexander Hamilton to Francisco de Miranda, [23 November 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
To Francisco de Miranda
5To George Washington from Lafayette, 11 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
The adventurer Sebastian Francisco de Miranda was in New York the first half of 1784. He may have talked at that time with Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox of a plan for liberating Venezuela, and the names of GW and Lafayette may have come up...
6To John Adams from William Stephens Smith, 4 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
left London on 9 Aug., bound for Harwich to take passage to Hellevoetsluis, where he arrived on the 11th. He traveled in company with Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), a Venezuelan soldier and partisan of Latin-American independence whom
7From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 25 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
), the person whom TJ had in mind could not have been Smith’s traveling companion on his European tour, Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan patriot, for Miranda parted with Smith at Vienna on 26 Oct. 1785, went on alone to Constantinople, and from there arrived at Rome on the very day that TJ wrote the present letter (W....
8[March 1786] (Adams Papers)
held a succession of civil and military appointments but in 1806 virtually wrecked his career by complicity in the scheme of his old friend Francisco de Miranda to liberate Venezuela from Spanish rule. (He furnished a vessel for the expedition, and his son William Steuben Smith, to the infinite distress of
9Wednesday [29 March.] (Adams Papers)
held a succession of civil and military appointments but in 1806 virtually wrecked his career by complicity in the scheme of his old friend Francisco de Miranda to liberate Venezuela from Spanish rule. (He furnished a vessel for the expedition, and his son William Steuben Smith, to the infinite distress of
10To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 12 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...and in June 1786 he married Abigail Amelia, daughter of John and Abigail Adams. In 1787 he went to Spain and Portugal on a diplomatic mission for Congress. After a tour of Europe with Francisco de Miranda, he returned to the United States in 1788 and became heavily involved in land speculation and increasingly burdened by debt. On 20 June John Adams wrote to GW in support of his son-in-law’s...