102251From George Washington to the Marquise de Lafayette, 13 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
While I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th of March, I can, with the greatest truth, assure you that I feel a sincere sympathy in your afflications on account of M. de la Fayette. And to shew you that I have not been unmindful of your condition—and how earnestly I have been disposed to alleviate your suffering, as far as is in my power, I enclose you duplicates of two letters...
102252To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph H. Nicholson, 19 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately seen it announced in the public Prints that a Convention has been entered into by Spain and the United States for the purpose of settling existing diferences relative to certain commercial Spoliations; and that Commissioners are to be appointed to carry this Object into Effect. The Place of Commissioner under this Convention will be an important, and I presume, in some Degree, a...
102253[Diary entry: 8 August 1769] (Washington Papers)
8. Again Warm with a breeze as usual at & before noon.
102254J. F. Rosart & Co. to John Adams, 21 March 1784 (Adams Papers)
Nous avons l’Honneur de Vous accompagner L’ouvrage de Mr. De Mablÿ, d’après La Promesse que nous fimes à Votre Excellence. Voÿlà la premiere Exemplaire qui Sorte de nos mains et que nous refusons à toute autre; Une Epreuve de la Confiance particulière que nous avons pour vous, Monsieur, et comme il nous importe de Beaucoup de prevenir la Contrefaction nous reposons dans les assurances, que...
102255To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 8 July 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Augustine Washington. GW wrote George Augustine on 8 July : “I have your letter of the first before me.”
102256To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Will you look at Mr Ingersoll’s acct. & letters? It was objected to by this Departt. as being too high; but the point to which I request your attention is this. Does it not seem as if Mr Ingersol in concert with Mr Dallas dist. atty. acting under your positive instructions, had abandoned the senatorial prosecution against Duane under the sedition law, because you thought this unconstitutional...
102257To George Washington from Nathaniel Woodhull, 27 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
White Plains [N.Y.] 27 July 1776 . Transmits “the enclosed Deposition relative to Wm Suttons declaration after returning from on board Governor Tryon’s Ship last fall.” LS , DLC:GW . The deponent, who is not named in the enclosed document, testified before the Westchester County committee of safety at White Plains on 12 July that “some time after William Sutton returned Home from Governor...
102258To George Washington from Zephaniah Turner, 29 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Port Tobacco, in Charles County Maryland, Sir, June 29th 1789. With diffidence and respect, I take the liberty to address you. As a Citizen—and I mean to be a good one—I know that I am free to express my sentiments, with decency, on any matter or thing, that may happen within my knowledge or observation. The Laws and proceedings in Courts, from the Jurisprudence of the State of Maryland, and I...
102259Statement on Accounts as Minister Plenipotentiary in France, 8 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The Auditor in his letter of Sep. 28. 95. observes that nothing is requisite to a final settlement of my accounts as Min. Plenipy. of the US. but 1. an adjustment of certain articles of charge against me. 2. Outfit. 3. Houserent. 4. the Period of my commission. I shall proceed therefore to give the necessary explanations on each of these heads. 1. Articles of charge . Some preliminary...
102260From Thomas Jefferson to Kezia Norris, 20 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering a Note of Bishop Carroll’s which I now return according to your desire. [soon] after my coming to this place I recieved applications from different parts of the Union for contributions to churches, colleges, schools, bridges, & other useful institutions. I yielded to them until they became so numerous as to shew that either I must contribute to the...
102261Samuel Tucker to the Commissioners, 22 April 1778 (Adams Papers)
These from your Humble Servent, acquainting your Honours that my Ship was finished Careening last Saturday Afternoon. I now find a great Necessity of geting my Main mast out to Repair it, fearing it will be condemned. I am Gentlemen Anctious to here from Paris of my distination as the absence of Capt. Palmes seems very long. I shall get my Ship in Readiness as soon as possible. The Holy Days...
102262From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the copies of the Algerine papers which have been made out to form the basis of instructions for the Commissioner to be appointed. The President will be pleased to consider whether he would chuse to have them altered in any particular. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in DNA...
102263Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
We have had a severe Snowstorm but attended with such a voilent wind that half the Ground is bare, whilst the other is almost impassible Banks; I hear nothing from Town this week. even the post has not come, but I have good domestick intelligence for you, which is that this day I think our Parent better, and I am much encouraged she says with one of her smiles, tell my son that I am here...
102264To Benjamin Franklin from John Hope, 26 March 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania As formerly you took the trouble of transmitting some letter from a Society at Edinburgh to Mr. John Bartram; I presume to beg you will have the Goodness of transmitting the inclosed. That Society is now dissolved. I have the honour to be Sir with the greatest respect Your most obedient Servant The Edinburgh physician and professor of botany; see above,...
102265The Hide July 28 [i.e. 27.] 1786. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Went with Mrs. Adams to Braintree about Eighteen miles from the Hide. As our Objects were fresh Air, Exercise and the Gratification of Curiosity, I thought We ought to make a little Excursion to the Town after which the Town in New England where I was born and shall die was originally named. The Country between Chelmsford and Braintree, is pleasant and fertile, tho less magnificent in...
102266To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 20 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
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102267To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 15 June 1758 (Franklin Papers)
Letterbook copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Repeatd Exemptions of the Proprietary Estate, from Bearing a part in our Present Heavy Taxes, Apears so unreasonable That I Think They Cannot long Support That Cause to the Nation, Who Bear the Burthen of An American War, (where our Proprietarys have so large an Interest to Defend) as well as for the more Immediate Defence of their own...
102268George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, 8 January 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] January 8, 1780 . Asks Trumbull’s cooperation in obtaining food for Army. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
102269[Diary entry: 5 August 1788] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 5th. Thermometer at 72 in the Morning—82 at Noon and 79 at Night. Warm with but little wind. The business before the Board of Directors detaining till near two Oclock (I dined at Colo. Fitzgeralds) and returned home in the Afternn. Called by the Plantation at Muddy hole. Found the Cart and some hands getting in the grain to the Barn and yard and others chopping down weeds in the Corn...
102270To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Wheaton, 23 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
the bearer Mr. Kimball , from Hanover New Hampshire, is very desirous to See the President, to have an oppertunity of a few moments—to State Some business of considerable importance to himself, (and as he Say’s beneficial to the country) his native defidence is Such as Seems to require Some Sort of introduction—he has no acquaintance in this place—if the President can afford him a few minutes...
102271From George Washington to Abraham Skinner, 17 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
The unjustifiable treatment and long detention of Jacob Summer the person mentioned in the inclosed representation deserve attention—You will therefore be pleased to make a point with Mr Loring of having him exchanged for some of the Characters out of the military line taken at York. I must again remind you of endeavouring to include the Officers in Canada in your present negociation—By recent...
102272To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 7 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to send you with this a copy of the Baron de Stael’s Letters upon England, which I recently received from him with a request, that I would present it to you in his name, with the expression of his entire respect. It gives me great satisfaction to do so; and, I hope I am not mistaken in sending to you through the Post, under the impression, that your Frank will entirely...
102273[Diary entry: 16 May 1771] (Washington Papers)
16. Dined at Mrs. Dangerfields with Colo. Bassetts Family & returnd in the Afternoon to Eltham. Mrs. Hannah Daingerfield of New Kent County appears on Burwell Bassett’s census list of 1782 as head of a household consisting of 2 whites and 33 blacks ( HEADS OF FAMILIES, VA Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Virginia; Records of the State...
102274To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 14 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
You will receive this by Howell, who seems Very happy In the thought of becoming One of your family, I sincerely wish he may be Equal to the task you desire for him, he has Promis’d me to Indeaver to Please, and by Close application to improve him self, it is with Infinite Pleasure to my self that he has a Prospect of geting in a Place where he may receive so much advantage to him self, his...
102275From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Barraud, 15 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doctr. Barraud and sends him some vaccine virus recently taken here by Doctr. Gantt. PrC ( DLC ). Philip Barraud (1757–1830) was a physician, surgeon, and proprietor of a medicine shop in Norfolk. He first practiced in Williamsburg, where he served as physician to the public hospital for the insane during the late 1790s and was closely acquainted with...
102276Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I congratulate my Country upon the uninimnity exhibited in the Nine states whose votes are made known, and I congratulate my Friend upon the same occasion as it is much more pleasing to serve a people whose willing and general suffrage accompanies their Choice, than when spairingly given. I think it a proof not only of the wisdom and integrity of the people but of their Satisfaction & content...
102277Assignment of a Share in the Library Company of Philadelphia, 22 February 1796 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1796. JM, having by marriage to the widow of John Todd inherited a share in the Library Company, for valuable consideration assigns that share to George McCall of Philadelphia. Letterbook copy ( PPL ). 1 p. Witnessed by George Washington and Isaac Winston, Jr. Recorded by Benjamin R. Morgan, secretary, 24 Mar. 1796.
102278To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 25 October 1782 (Adams Papers)
Many Months have Elapsed, and many Great Events have taken place since I took up my pen to address you, among which few are more important to this Country than the Dutch Negotiation, and perhaps None have been attended with Greater Difficulties, and none more Replete with Honour to the prime actors than this. Yet I should not have Ventured to pass my Censure on Its opposers, or to Give...
102279[February 1796] (Washington Papers)
Feb. 1. Clear all day. Wind westerly in the forenoon & So. Wt. after wards. 2. A sprinkle of Snow in the morning—cloudy afterwards with appearances of Rain. Wind So. W. 3. A slight Snow fell in the Night. Clear day. Mild in the forenoon—Cooler afterwards. Wind at N.W. 4. Clear and rather cold. Not much wind & that N.W. 5. Very clear & pleasant with but little Wind from the No. Et. 6. A Slight...
102280[Diary entry: 10 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
10. Went a Fox huntg. with L[und] W[ashington]—Jackey Custis, & Mr. Manley. Found nothing.
102281To Thomas Jefferson from John Matthew Bulkeley, 8 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Petersburg, 8 June 1793 . His partnership with Robert Hay expired on 31 Dec. 1792, since which, with the approval and advice of his father and brother, John Bulkeley & Son of Lisbon, and other friends, he has carried on business here himself under the name of John Matthew Bulkeley & Company. Having transacted considerable American business under former firms and gained much experience of...
102282To Benjamin Franklin from Edward Bridgen, 25 June 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania You were so good my Dr Sir to say, in the postcript of a letter last winter, that you hoped my Affairs in No: Carolina were settled to my sattisfaction, or something to that Amount; I am sorry to say, that by late letters receiv’d, that it is far otherways; and that not only my land on the Sound, in Cape Fear River, which has been in possession of my...
102283Amendment to Report on Restoring Public Credit, [27 March] 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 26, verso of fol. 412). Written by JM on a printed copy of the report as laid before “each member” of Congress on 7 March. See Report on Restoring Public Credit, 6 Mar. hdn.; JM Notes, 6 Mar. ; 7 Mar. 1783. That it be further recommended to the several states, to establish for a Term limited to 25 Years, and to appropriate to the discharge of the Interest & principal of the...
102284Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Miller, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed packet was directed to mr Dabney Terril under the belief that it would find him in the state of Kentucky & residing chiefly with you. it has been since suggested that he may be gone to N. Orleans . as the object of the letter is only to ask him to do the friendly act of committing the packet inclosed to particular or other proper counsel at law, I will take the liberty of...
102285From James Madison to James Monroe, [ca. 25 January 1816–31 March 1816] (Madison Papers)
On the question of publishing the secret journal & foreign correspondence of the Revolutionary Congs. it is not easy to give a satisfactory opinion, without some revisal of both. If a selection is made, the task ought to be executed with great care and without any tincture of partialities of any sort, and would be tedious & dilicate, even with that exemption. If an entire publication be...
102286[Diary entry: 5 November 1769] (Washington Papers)
5. Clear, Calm, & pleasant.
102287John Thornton Kirkland, Funeral Sermon for Abigail Smith Adams, November 1818 (Adams Papers)
1st of Corinthians, 7th.—29,30,31. But this I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth that they who have wives be as though they had none, and they that weep as though they wept not, and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not, and they that use this world as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passeth away. Here is a...
102288Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettés moi de profiter d’une Occasion sure pour avoir L’honneur de Vous presenter L’hommâge de mon respect et de la reconnoissance Eternelle que je vous dois du bonheur que vous m’avés procuré de revoir ma patrie. malgré toutes les agitations poi politiques Je m’y trouve assés heureux de retrouver parmi mes Amis; et surtout ma fortune tres modifiée par la révolution, mais Encor suffisante...
102289Enclosure: William Trent to Adam Stephen, 21 January 1756 (Washington Papers)
I received yours by Mr Fraser at Carlisle as I was returning from Philadelphia as you don’t acknowledge the receipt of one from me dated at Carlisle makes me imagine it miscarried[.] In that Letter I acquainted you with the reason why I could not procure the Indians then—I have now engaged three, Crissopia to goe to Kittannen and Fort Du Quesne and two others to goe to the Twightwees provided...
102290To Thomas Jefferson from Eugène MacCarthy, 18 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Rochelle, 18 Jan. 1788 . In accordance with TJ’s letter of 3 Jan. 1788 , has drawn on TJ at 30 days for 731 livres 3 sols “to the order of Mr. Missy Merchant of this town.” Cannot sufficiently thank TJ for his “polite favour and Speedy Redress.” RC ( ViWC ); 2 p.; endorsed.
102291From George Washington to Moses Hazen, 24 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
Altho I was fully satisfied that every possible measure had been pursued in order to give satisfaction to yourself and some of the Officers of your Corps in the affair respecting Major Reid, and Altho’ the new subjects of complaint against that Officer as stated in their Letter of the 6 June, appeared to me to arise rather from a spirit of persecution than a desire to promote Service, I...
102292[Diary entry: 27 March 1785] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 27th. Mercury at 42 in the Morning at Noon and 52 at Night. All the Pines, & other evergreen Trees which were not well staked, being heavily loaded with Snow, yeilded to the weight, and where the ground was very soft (which was the case in many places) quite laid to the ground. Wind Southerly all day but not much of it. Morning cloudy & more or less so all day. The Snow which was not...
102293From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 7 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On consideration I think it better not to write to mr Tabor myself, but to ask the favor of you to do it, as you have before had occasion to write on it. he should understand that the whole difficulty which has arisen was as to the place only, and not the person, & that if he can surmount that by a removal we have no hesitation about preferring him to any other person for the office. let him...
102294To James Madison from Joseph Bloomfield, 6 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to address You, relatively to the appointment, of a Judge, of the New-Jersey-district; in the place of Robert Morris, who died on the 3d. inst. Governor Pennington, Chief-Justice Kirkpatrick, Judge Rossell and Joseph McIlvaine, the Attorney of the United States, for the New-Jersey district, it is said, are offerred as Candidates. Time has powdered the heads of the first Gentlemen,...
102295To George Washington from Elisha Sheldon, 29 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellencys favor of the 27th Instant I recd last evening. Since my last Letter to your Excellency I have recd the following Intelligence. (viz.) That on the 22nd Instant a Fleet consisting of thirteen sail of the Line under the Command of Admiral Hood, sailed from New York supposed for the Westindies, they Had no Troops on Board. The fleet of 40 sail mentioned in my last to be from Cork...
102296From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 29 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long been indebted to you a letter; but it has been because you desired me to write by mr Ervin the bearer of yours who is not yet gone back. but in the mean time I trust that the post is become a safe channel to and from [me]. I have heard indeed of some extraordinary licenses practised in the post offices of your state, & there is nothing I desire so much as information of facts on...
102297Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, [16 April 1823] (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose Annexed I give you a copy of a letter I have rec d from mr Oldam specifying the charges he means to alledge against you. I can do no more at present than to furnish you a the copy of it . on my return from Bedford
102298To James Madison from Richard Claiborne, 31 December 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Richard Claiborne. 31 December 1806, New Orleans. “The Secretary of the Territory not having returned from the US, in his behalf I have the honor to inclose returns of the Governor’s Official and Executive acts for the Six months ending this day, towit: “No. 1, Pardon of Mariano Rocha, “2, do of Lukin Knowle, “3, do of Anselm Roman, “4, do of Robert Armstrong, “5, Proclamation, “6,...
102299To James Madison from William Stevens, [ca. 9–23 May 1816] (Madison Papers)
Humbly Sheweth, William Stevens of Ba[r]nstable in the county of Ba[r]nstable, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mariner, that he is now confined in prison, in the common goal of said county, on an execution of the suit of the United States for the sum of eight thousand four hundred dollars, together with upwards of one hundred dollars costs, that being utterly destitute of property, and...
102300To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mifflin, 24 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I find on Examination that the Case you alluded to [in which the Executors of Bond or the Executors of Osburn were Plaintiffs against the Executors of Samuel Mifflin Defendants] was subsequent in Point of time to the Publication of Dallas’s Reports, but the Doctrine you mention of the Court allowing no Interest on British Contracts during the Continuance of the late War has been often affirmed...