121481VII. Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 17 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11. inst. has been duly recieved. Between the date of that and your reciept of the present, it is probable that the most important parts of the ground towards the Eastern branch will have been delineated. However, whether they are or not, as the President will go on within two or three days, and would wish to have under his eye, when at Georgetown, a drawing also of the...
121482Enclosure: Arret du Conseil d’Etat du Roi, 22 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Qui excepte de l’Entrepôt accordé, par l’arrêt du Conseil du 29 décembre 1787, aux productions & marchandises des Etats-unis, les Poissons, Huiles & autres marchandises provenant de leurs pêchés. Du 22 Février 1788. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d’Etat . LE ROI s’étant proposé d’accorder une protection particulière au commerce réciproque de la France & des Etats-unis de l’Amérique, Sa...
121483To Benjamin Franklin from Reculès de Basmarein & Raimbaux, 15 July 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS or LS : American Philosophical Society Vous avés temoigné a Notre Sieur de Basmarein de Paris, des inquietudes relativement a des plaintes portées sur notre place contre les capitaines ameriquains. Nous avons fait des perquisitions pour savoir si ces reproches pouvoient etre fondés. Nous avons apris avec Joye que tout le commerce est très favorablement disposé pour ceux de Votre Nation...
121484Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your favor of the 7 th Ins t and would have replied to it sooner, but for wishing to see M r Goodman first. I wish to buy your Tob o , but think the price you ask, more than it is worth—I should be willing to give you $6. for the Leaf & $4. for the stem d ; which Certainly is Liberal; and would be saving you the Trouble & Risk of sending it to Richmond , which is not Very...
121485To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 20 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, October 20, 1792. “I have the Honor to transmit to you certified copies of the Acts of the President of the United States of the 4th of August and of the 29th September relative to the Revenue on distilled Spirits.…” LC , RG 58, Letters of Commissioner of Revenue, 1792–1793, National Archives. For background to this letter, see George Washington to H,...
121486To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 8 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I find, unfortunately, that the duplicates and triplicates of the setts of letters of credence to the British King were made out by one of the clerks, laid in his Desk and overlooked. I hope they will reach you at Baltimore, and that it will be convenient for you to sign, and return them in Friday’s mail. With the greatest respect I remain Sir, your ob. serv. LB , DNA : RG 59, Domestic...
121487From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 9 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
The Saloon, which we visited in company with the Mayor of the City, the day after the Ceremonies at the distribution of the prizes, is an exhibition of Pictures, Sculpture, and Designs of Architecture, much like that which takes place about this time every year at the Academy of Arts at St: Petersburg. But it shews a much higher state of perfection in the Cultivation of the Arts—The Paintings...
121488To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 25 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will find in this Packet, the Proceedings of a General Court-Martial held at Providence, upon the Trial of John Millimon, a Soldier in Colonel Angell’s Regiment, sentenced to be shot for Mutiny. I have hitherto suspended the Execution, for the undermentioned Reasons, and upon sundry Petitions and Applications, particularly upon one from his Excellency the Governor, and a...
121489General Orders, 26 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Lieutenant Colonel Vandyke. For duty the sixth Massachusetts regiment. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
121490From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 2 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have failed entirely in our cabbages this year. and I understand this has been universally the case in the red lands, insomuch that there is not a single one to be bought above this. your kindness in sending us some heretofore induces me to expect that the low grounds in your neighborhood may be able to furnish us our winter’s stock. the favor then I am about to ask of you is to become our...