106031To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to represent to you that considerable Inconvenience occurs in the execution of a part of the business of this office, which however may be remedied by placing a limited sum of the Monies appropriated for the Establishments connected with navigation in the hands of the Commissioner of the Revenue for which he will be charged and held accountable. The inconveniencies arise from...
106032From George Washington to James Anderson (of Scotland), 24 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
If I was more deserving of so interesting & valuable a correspondence as yours, your letter of the 6th of Decr last year would not have remained until this time unacknowledged. The truth is, so little time is at my disposal for private gratifications, that it is but rarely I put pen to paper for purposes of my own. This is offered as an apology for what might otherwise have the appearance of...
106033To Thomas Jefferson from Jared Sparks, 3 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
For some time past I have been contemplating a publication on the American Revolution, intended to embrace the substance of the most authentic materials, particularly such manuscript papers & documents, as have not yet been made public. In perusing the histories of the revolution hitherto written, I have been forcibly impressed with the belief, that the best of them exhibit only the shadows of...
106034From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter I have had from Edgehill was Anne’s of June 20. that informed me that the family had been generally unwell, that Ellen was still ill, and your self too sick to write. I am very anxious to hear from you & hope that this day’s post will inform me you are all well. this day fortnight I propose to leave this place and to be with you Thursday morning the 24th. absence from you...
106035Subjects of Subjects [January 1768] (Franklin Papers)
Printed from The Gentleman’s Magazine , XXXVIII (1768), 6–7. At the close of 1767 a letter signed “S.N.” in The Gentleman’s Magazine ( XXXVII [1767, supplement], 620–21) attacked the nonimportation resolutions passed by the Boston Town Meeting of the previous October. The writer asserted that the resolutions were aimed at ruining British trade and finances and were accompanied by “vain...
106036II, 14 December 1799 (Washington Papers)
This day being marked by an event which will be memorable in the History of America, and perhaps of the world, I shall give a particular statement of it, to which I was an eye witness. The last illness and Death of General Washington On thursday Decr 12th—the General rode out to his farms about ten o’clock, and did not return home ’till past three. Soon after he went out the weather became...
106037To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, [20 September 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[I hope?] you dont always judge by appearances [or it wo]uld be Much to My disadvantage this day, without [my] deserving it; it has been the day of contradiction, I meant to have had the pleasure of seing you Twice , and I have appeard a Monster for not having sent to know how you was, the whole day . I have been More uneasy, Than I can express. This Morning My Husband kill’d My project, I had...
106038To George Washington from Brigadier General William Irvine, 11 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
The bearer Lieutenant Mcfarlin waits on your Excellency to state an affair respecting a Man he Inlisted some time ago—who called himself a Subject of Spain, but has since been claimed and carried off as a Negro, & Slave—by a certain Wm Irwin—Mr Mcfarlin belongs to one of the Regiments in my Brigade; he is a Man of Veracity and will not advance any thing but what he can support—I should not...
106039To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 26 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
When I consider the multiplicity of business which necessarily engages your attention, it is with great reluctance I address you on the affairs of the people settled in this quarter, but when I reflect that your ear is always open to information and your mind disposed to relieve all in distress so far as propriety shall dictate and you have the means to effect; and recollecting the obligation...
106040From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 30 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour, and thank you for it—I should have written to you before but St Anthony has sent his subtarranan fires into my eyes— so that I have not been able to write or read—a word.—The little sparring at my table was alltogether my fault, and I ask your pardon; I did not give the opinion as my own but as the general opinion of this part of the Country—The facts as generally...