101671To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 14 June 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 June 1811, London. Asks that JM consider this letter “with mingled feelings of justice and friendship”; however, if his official conduct has been weighed and found unworthy, asks that JM “treat this essay with silent contempt.” The reasons for his departure were known to few, but “the interruptions of commerce” have disappointed his hopes, and he is now engaged in enterprises requiring...
101672To John Adams from Mathew Carey, 28 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
Absence from home, & want of Leisure, have prevented me returning an earlier answer to your very kind & friendly letter of the 9th. inst. Should any such intermission occur at any time hereafter I rely upon your goodness to ascribe it to the real cause, my being borne down by the pressure of business. It is highly gratifying to find that notwithstanding the various disadvantageous...
101673From James Madison to Richard Paterson, 3 April 1770 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Richard Patterson Please to let the bearer Mr. Wm. Livingston have fifteen Shillings on acct of your Obliged Humble Servant The date was written over by JM. He may have intended it to be “April 1.” On the back of this draft is the endorsement: “Received this 4 of April 1770 of Richd. Paterson the sum of fifeteen shillings on Acct. of James Madison by me. William S. Livingston.”...
101674Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a grievous thing to be pressed, as I am, into the service of those who want to get into service themselves. the great mass of those sollicitations I decline: but some come forward on such grounds as controul compliance. M r Archibald C. Randolph , an applicant for command in the new army, is my near relation, which in his own eye and that of our common friends gives him a claim to my...
101675To Benjamin Franklin from François-Jérôme de Foligné-Deschalonges, 9 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Le sieur de foligné officier Dupoïnt d’honneur aû tribunal de M.M. Les Marechaux de françe à L’honneur d’observer á Vôtre Excellençe, que Dans Le Mois de Janvier 1777. M.M. Le Ray de Chaumont, de Montieu & de Baumarchaÿs Le Choisirent & lui confiérent Le Commandement de la frégate Le Marquis de la Chaltolais Arméé De 24. Canons et En guerre, Chargéé d’une...
101676[Diary entry: 17 June 1786] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 17th. Mercury at 76 in the Morning—85 at Noon and 83 at Night. Calm and very warm all day with but little wind and that Southerly—at times it was a little cloudy and at night there were thunder & lightning but no rain. Rid to all the Plantations to day. In the Neck the Hoes and Plows were in the last (Westermost) cut. The first got to work in it about noon yesterday and the latter...
101677Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I very lately took the liberty of requesting you to give a safe passage with your official dispatches to a part of my European correspondence. I have now to ask the same for the residue not then ready, and hope this will close the trouble imposed on you for the present year for which I pray you to accept my apologies, with the assurance of my great esteem and respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of...
101678From 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...
101679James Madison to Robert Walsh, 15 February 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 10th. inst. The posture of Mr. Jefferson in 1801, was singularly delicate, and I thought the varied expression, better fitted it, than the text as it stood. I acquiesce however in your view of the case, the rather, as it avoids the awkwardness of a retrospective correction. I shd not certainly under any circumstances distrust your observance of the rule of...
101680From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Cushing, 4 June 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office; letterbook draft: Library of Congress In the paragraph of this letter that deals with the Tea Act, Franklin implies that the purpose of the statute was “to keep up the Exercise of the Right” to tax the colonies. This idea was sure to be a red rag to the Bostonian bull. All that is known about the passage of the act, however, indicates that the ministry avoided the...
101681William Dunn to Thomas Jefferson, 25 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Necesity dier necesity has campel’d me to the following lines it is probely that you may recollect the Signature to this letter I have writen Severel letters to you while you enjoyed the Highest Seat of Honor in America on the Same Subject but unfortunately for me I received no answer and the opportunity I then had of prospering in this World I am afraid are for ever gone but as the Poet says...
101682To George Washington from Henry Tiebout, 6 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
Have thought it my duty to inclos to your Excellency a letter I Recd from the Sheriff of Bergen County in whose custody I found the prisoner Henry Lawbach who was Concern’d in ing the post. I am your Excellency’s most obedt Humble Servent DLC : Papers of George Washington. After I Left you I met With Cornl Haring Who Informed me that Henry Lawback wass Taken Prisinor in Seventy Six by Our...
101683Promissory Note from William Grayson, 1 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Thirty days after date I promise to pay to Alexander Hamilton Esqr. or order the sum of two hundred dollars specie value recieved. ADS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Grayson, a prominent Antifederalist and United States Senator from Virginia, died in March, 1790.
101684To Thomas Jefferson from Gabriel Duvall, 2 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed petition has been forwarded to me for the purpose of being laid before the President of the United States.— I have no knowledge of the subject other than that obtained on a perusal of the petition & the letter from Mr. Hunter to me, which is also inclosed. I am, with great respect & esteem, your obedt. Sert. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The president U. States”; endorsed by TJ as...
101685To Benjamin Franklin from John Mills, 2 March 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Our worthy Friend, Mr. Small, is so kind as to undertake to convey to you and to Dr. Eliot, the first Volume of my Husbandry, which is at length finished at the Press, where the second Volume is now half done. But I have, unfortunately, a most dilatory, as well slovenly Printer to deal with, as you will perceive too plainly by his egregious and repeated...
101686From Edward Hand to Daniel Brodhead, 16 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
His Exy the commander in chief has directd me to inform you that as the pennsa line is at the Southard, he wishes you to write imediately to the Comg Officer of the Southn army and the imediate comg Officer of the Pennsa Line informg them that you are relieved from your command at Fort Pitt, and ready to receive their orders—he at the same time desired me to acquaint you that you had his...
101687To George Washington from Diego de Gardoqui, 21 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Sir. I avail myself of the first Oppertunity with pleasure to communicate to your Excelly that I happily arrived at this Port the 13th of the last month after a severe Voyage, and not less perilous. The Surprises thereof, which, together with my Complaints, made me sufficiently to suffer, they brought on a painful disorder which has kept me suffering till the present Time, when already almost...
101688To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 23 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
As very few Drafts, or Recruits, arrive from the Eastward, nor do I find, from the information of General Huntingdon, that any Numbers are upon the road, I must beg your Excellency will please to Order one Regiment of Cavalry, and Two Brigades of Infantry, to reinforce this post. There is near Sixty Miles of Territory between the Highlands & New York, left exposed to be Foraged, & Ravaged, by...
101689[April 1754] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Winthrop began a series of Experimental Phylosophy , and in the 1st place he explained to us the meaning, nature, and excellence of natural phylosophy, which is, (he says) the knowledge of those laws by which all the Bodys, in the universe are restrained, it being evident that not only those great masses of matter the heavenly Bodys, but all the minutest combinations of matter in each of...
101690[Diary entry: 3 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
3. Sent Adam & Jupiter from Muddy hole to work on the Mill Race. Also Bath & Robin from Dogue Run there.
101691From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Ogden, 6 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The following is an extract of a letter which I have just received from the Secretary of War. “The circumstances stated relative to Captain Bowman’s pretensions to rank first Captain in the 11th regiment of Infantry readily induce me to give my sanction to his being so placed in the arrangement.” You will alter the arrangement accordingly. With great consideration I am, Sir, yr. obt Srt. ( LS...
101692From George Washington to the Board of War, 9 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your request communicated by Mr Peters’s Letter of the 6th Instant I am to inform you that no provision has yet been made in the Continentl Army in the Instances of your Inquiry though I have been frequently applied to. In respect to the Serjeant Majors & Quarter Master Serjeants they have been exempted from Common duties, which has been complained of by the rest. As to Drum &...
101693From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 18 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was of the 11th. since which yours of the 5th. and 11th. are received. I am mortified at your not having your cypher. I now send the key of the numbers in mine of the 3d. This with my letter of the 11th. by post and another of the same date by Davy Randolph who will be at Monticello the last week of this month will put you in possession of the state of things to that date. The paper I...
101694To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [5 March] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a copy of the recommendation to which I alluded. You will perceive that I was not mistaken respecting the rank stated in it. It is signed by 13 members of the N. York delegation, which includes all present Mitchill excepted. They have 17 members: the three others, Paulding, Cook, and Avery are absent. It is also signed by Senator Germain, which was done subsequent to my seeing it....
101695To James Madison from Edward Coles, 26 March 1820 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you a receipt for the 10$ you sent by me for the Agricultural Society of Albemarle. I presume Judge Todd will be with you by the time this will be received. I beg you will urge him to come by and pay me and my friends here a visit. He will make us all particularly happy by doing so. I propose to set out for the West on Monday or Tuesday (the 3 or 4 of April) and should be very much...
101696From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Baldwin, 27 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this morning received your Note of yesterday as Chairman of the Committee on the State of the Treasury Department. I beg the Committee to accept my acknowlegement for the politeness they manifest. They are not mistaken in assuring themselves of my most cheerful cooperation to give the fullest effect to the object with which they are charged. In this disposition, I shall with pleasure...
101697To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 15 October 1783 (Washington Papers)
gnl laumoy & Colonel gouvion have informed me of the Regret your Excellency has been pleased to express for our leaving this Country. I am exceedingly flattered with it and beg you to Receive my sincere thanks—I will ask only the permission of telling a word in defense of my last measure—you know, dear general, that there are in this Country great many men even among those who are at the head...
101698Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with the Second Bank of the United States, [ca. 4 October 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Aug t 11 h 1819. note due 10.000 Interest to 15 h Sept. ( bond ) 55. Sept. 1 . note
101699To Alexander Hamilton from Jeremiah Wadsworth, 17 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Last night a Man returned from Ruport in the State of Vermont with information that the two Cranes were their & had counterfeited the Bank Notes of New York. One of them had been taken & let go on his securing the party he had cheated, but the true reason for leting him go was that he was the Second in the business & a plan is laid to catch the principal but I shall delay sending after them...
101700To George Washington from John Buyers, 18 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
It is with much Reluctance That I trouble your Excellency, with any thing of Complaint against any Officer under your Command; A Regard to my Future welfare however obliges me to lay before you, The inclosed Papers touching the Conduct of Col. Weltner, who has had, and still continues in Command of the German Battalion in this County. Col: Weltner may perhaps acquit himself well in a...