105801To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams, 5 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Adams presents her respectfull compliments to Mr. Jefferson and asks the favour of him to permit petit to purchase for her ten Ells of double Florence of any fashionable coulour, orange excepted which is in high vogue here. Mrs. A. excepts green also of which she has enough. Mr. Muchier if in paris will be so kind as to take charge of it, and Mrs. Adams will send the money by Mr. Trumble...
105802To Thomas Jefferson from William Shippen, 5 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 5 Dec. 1787 . Introduces his son and asks TJ’s “protection and friendship,” knowing that TJ “will receive him affectionately” and that “no person in France can be of so much use to him”; has “directed him to continue in France four months,” and to take TJ’s “advice on the mode of his spending his time there to the greatest advantage and with the most Œconomy. Improvement more...
105803To Thomas Jefferson from the Commissioners of the Treasury, 5 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor of enclosing to you a Letter from Thomas Barclay Esqr. late Commissioner for settling the Public Accounts in Europe relative to the Books and Papers of his Office. You will oblige us in removing them to your own house, and in taking charge of them till it is determined in what manner it will be best to dispose of them. It may be proper to observe that we consider the safe...
1058044th. (Adams Papers)
White returned this morning to Haverhill. At the office all day. Mr. Parsons still very unwell—somewhat vapourish: fears he has the distemper which is now very prevalent in the town.
105805Thomas Brand Hollis to Abigail Adams, 4 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
you put too much value on trifles which are only small marks of real regard & affection to you & yours. I have always conceived it to be more difficult to give than receive. as the sense of obligation sets heavy on minds inflated with riches or pride & not capable of enlarged ideas or of the pleasing sensations which arise from mutual gifts & good offices abstracted from their intrinsick...
105806The Federalist No. 16, [4 December 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
To the People of the State of New-York. THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate kind, of which we have any account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems....
105807[Diary entry: 4 December 1787] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 4th. Thermometer at 47 in the Morning—47 at Noon And 46 at Night. Wind Southerly all day—varying sometimes to the East, & then to the . Morning very heavy with slight rain. Clear afterwards & very pleasant. After Mr. Jones went away I rid to the Ferry, Frenchs, Dogue run & Muddy hole Plantations. At the first 3 plows at Work in field No. 2. The other hands finished measurg. the Corn...
105808To George Washington from Battaile Muse, 4 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
I was in Fauquier County Last week among the Tenaments, and have Tenants Engaged For all the Lots Excepting one which is a wood Lot on goos creek, Part of the Lot that Tompson Lived on, no one will have it on any Terms; and many of the Lots on the upper Tract are Setled with Very Poor Tenants on accot of the Poorness of the Land—on those Poor Lots I cannot get a Tenant to stay Two years, as I...
105809To George Washington from David Stuart, 4 December 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from David Stuart, 4 Dec. 1787. GW wrote Stuart on 11 Dec. “to acknowledge the receipt of your favor dated the 4th Instt.”
105810From Thomas Jefferson to Brizard, 4 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur de remercier Monsieur de Brizard de l’excellente ouvrage sur feu l’Abbé Mably, qu’il a eu la bonté de lui envoyer. L’eloge est vraiment digne de cet auteur celebre, et estimable autant que celebre. Ses ouvrages y sont analysés et characterisés de sorte à faire voir que l’analyste en feroit d’excellentes dans la meme genre s’il le voudroit. M. Jefferson prie très...
105811To Thomas Jefferson from Clérisseau, 4 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous faire part de la note que vous m’aves demandé. Je me serois fait un honneur de vous la porter et vous aurois expliqué ma note . Je suis de retour a paris, j’attend vos ordres pour me transporter auprès de vous, n’aiant rien tant a coeur que de vous manifester l’empressement que j’ai d’obliger un amateur zelé de ma cher Antiquité. J’ai l’honneur d’estre tres...
105812To Thomas Jefferson from Du Bois, 4 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 4 Dec. 1787 . Inquires concerning the present whereabouts of John Paul Jones and when he is expected to return to Paris; also wishes to know whether there is any means of obtaining payment of a note for 4,400₶ which has been due from Jones for some time; accepted the note because he knows that Jones has an excellent reputation. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; without name of addressee and...
105813From Thomas Jefferson to Du Bois, 4 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je crois, Monsieur, que Monsieur Paul Jones doit etre actuellement à Copenhague, ou sur son passage de la Nouvelle York à Copenhague; et qu’il recevra très surement des lettres addressées à luimeme à Copenhague poste restante, ou chez Monsieur le Baron de Houze à Copenhague. Il doit faire un séjour assez considerable dans cette ville pour solliciter des remboursements de la cour du Dannemarc...
105814To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 4 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre Excellence verra par la note jointe à l’incluse, que j’ai cru bien faire d’omettre ces mots, dans l’Extrait from a change of opinion in them, or. Mr. De Linde est rappellé de sa Mission de Londres. Ce soir et demain, fête de St. Nicolas, fait trembler ici tous les honnetes, bonnes et paisibles gens. Mr. v. Staphorst, qui est à Paris, vous dira pourquoi. La poste part. Je suis avec le...
1058153d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Moore breakfasted with us. Mr. Parsons is quite unwell, and has been so for two or three days past. This evening White called at the office; he came from Haverhill this day. He passed the evening, and lodged with me. Townsend, Thomson and Putnam were like wise here in the evening. I feel neither the inclination nor the power to expatiate, upon the events of the day, which were very...
105816To Alexander Hamilton from Robert Troup, 3 December 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] December 3, 1787 . Requests Hamilton to make arrangements for the purchase of a house and lot which Troup wishes to buy. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
105817[Diary entry: 3 December 1787] (Washington Papers)
Monday 3d. Thermometer at 46 in the Morning—62 at Noon and 60 at Night. Very little wind. Mild & pleasant all day. In the first of the Morning, what wind there was came from the No. Et. Afterwards it was Southerly. Mr. Booth going away after Breakfast I rid to all the Plantations. In the Neck 6 Plows were at Work. All the other hands were gathering & husking of Corn. At Muddy hole 3 plows were...
105818From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 23d of Septr & 15th of Novr came duly to hand. You may inform Mr Haines that my Barley, this year, shared the same fate with my other crops. The drought during the summer was so excessive that I cannot form any just opinion of what it might produce in a seasonable year; it yielded about 14 bushls to the acre which was a proportionate crop to any other kind of Grain which I...
105819From George Washington to Embree & Shotwell, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Henry Lee (who called upon me as he returned home from New York) informed me that you dealt largely in grass seeds (saved in this Country)—that you sold none but what was good—and those on the most moderate terms. Under this information I beg leave to ask the price of the following, and whether an opportunity could be depended upon for sending them by water to Alexandria before the month...
105820From George Washington to John Langdon, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th Ulto and am much obliged to you for the information contained in it. I am happy to find that the dispositions in your part of the Continent are so favourable to the proposed plan of Government; if the true interest of the United States was consulted I think there could be but little opposition to it in any part of the Country. The publick papers have...
105821From George Washington to Thomas Smith, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 26th of Octr and am much surprised to find that my letters to the Western Country so often miscarry. I enclose a duplicate of a letter which I wrote to you from Philadelphia, and committed to the care of Captn Bradley who informed me that he lived at the Court House in Washington County, should pass through Carlyle, & promised to deliver it himself. I have...
105822From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
A Mr H. Banks, of your Assembly is disposed to be kind to me or has some view of being so to himself. Charity leads to the first—suspicion to the latter opinion. He has informed me that the Sherif of Greenbrier has a considerable demand upon me for the taxes of my land on the Great Kankawa, in that Country—but has forborne (through his means) from proceeding to extremities till he could advice...
105823From George Washington to George Weedon, 3 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 25th Ulto enclosing the proceedings of the Cincinnati of this State, which I am much obliged to you for forwarding to me. I will, agreeable to your request, send some cuttings of the Golden willow to Alexandria to be forwarded to you, but I imagine this is an improper season to put them out, for as they are to be propagated from the slip the spring seems to...
105824[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 3 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 3 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
105825To Thomas Jefferson from William Stephens Smith, 3 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured by the receipt of your Letter of the 13th. ulto. and notice the alarm of your patriotic spirit, on the subject of the newly proposed project, of a fœdral Constitution. I have read it frequently and with great attention, and tho’ I am a great friend to fœdral Men and fœdral measures, and am decidedly of opinion, that some alterations were necessary, still on the plan...
105826To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 3 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long wisht for an Opportunity of writing to you but since Mr. Madisons departure from this state I have been at a loss how to convey my letters untill he made me a polite and friendly offer to inclose them to him and put them into some post office. This method I shall take now as Peter is going down and can carry this. Yours of July 25th. came to my hands in about two Months from the...
1058272d. (Adams Papers)
I attended Mr. Carey’s meeting this afternoon, and in the evening I went to Mr. Carter’s. Mrs. Smith and Miss Betsey return to Boston to-morrow. Mr. Smith went yesterday. Miss Emery, and Miss Sally Jenkins, were at Mr. Carter’s this evening.
105828[Diary entry: 2 December 1787] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 2d. Thermometer at 48 in the Morning—60 at Noon and at Night. Clear, mild & pleasant in the Morning with but little Wind and that Southerly. About 11 Oclock it shifted to No. Wt. & blew pretty fresh but not cold. At home all day. Mr. G. W. Lewis and Geo. Steptoe Washington who with Mr. Wm. Booth came here yesterday to dinner returned this afternoon to their respective homes. mr. wm....
105829From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 2 December 1787 (Madison Papers)
The period since my last has been so unfruitful of occurrences that I have not thought it worth while to trouble you with a letter and I do it now more to prevent too long a chasm, than for the sake of any interesting communication. Our public letter gave you the latest authentic information from Europe. A general war seems not improbable; a war between the Turks & Russians has actually...
105830To James Madison from Archibald Stuart, 2 December 1787 (Madison Papers)
I find by yrs. of the 18th. Novr. that one of my letters prior in date to the One of the 2d. Novr. has miscaried. This Gives me some uneasiness on account of its contents which possibly may transpire. An Absence of ten days prevented my writing last week. The legislature have taken up the subject of British debts and after four days debate on the subject passed a Vote for the payment of them...