131461From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 8 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 17 Aug. 1801 (first letter) , and mentioned in JM to Jefferson, ca. 12 Aug. 1801 . Discusses demurrage costs for Peace and Plenty and authorizes printing the federal laws in German in Pennsylvania.
131462From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, 13 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
¶ To Jacob Wagner. Letter not found. 13 September 1805 . Acknowledged in Wagner to JM , 16 Sept. 1805 , as dated at Gray’s Ferry, Pennsylvania.
131463From James Madison to Jacob Wagner, ca. 29 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 29 August 1801. Acknowledged in Wagner to JM, 7 Sept. 1801 . Encloses various letters as well as patents from Jefferson.
131464Colonel Henry Emanuel Lutterloh’s Instructions for Wagon Masters, 25–26 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
as soon as the Troops have delivered into my Stores all the Tents according to order. I would advise that all those Waggons which carried the Tents were to be delivered up, they could be employed in the Forraging & Commissary Genls Business: I wish also, That all the Colonels & Commanders of Regiments were ordered to See that all the Continentel pressed riding horses were to be delivered up to...
131465Thomas Jefferson to Thomas B. Wait, 25 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th has been duly recieved. not being certain that I form a correct idea of the character of the state papers you propose to publish and to what extent your views may go, I will notice & observe on them specifically. 1. Diplomatic correspondence. the whole of this in MS. is doubtless in the office of State. the parts not heretofore permitted to be made public, would not, I...
131466From George Washington to Wakelin Welch & Son, 16 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I will thank you to forward the enclosed letter to Messrs Fenwick, Mason &Ca, merchants in Bourdeaux, by the earliest conveyance. I have requested the above Gentlemen to send me twenty six dozen of claret and the same quantity of champagne (if the latter can be had of the best quality at Bourdeaux) and have directed them to draw upon you at 30 days sight for the cost and charges of the before...
131467From Alexander Hamilton to John De Barth Walbach, 19 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find that you have as I conjectured you would do rendered yourself useful to the Service. The young man you so strongly recommend has been also well spoken of to me by the Adjutant General and I shall endeavor to assist him be glad of an opportunity to serve him with true consideration I am Sir Your obed Servt. ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church and H, Hamilton...
131468From Alexander Hamilton to John De Barth Walbach, 30 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
As soon as Captain Ellery shall return from Philadelphia you will proceed to the Head Quarters of General Pinckney which will be for the Winter are somewhere in the vicinity of Harper’s ferry. Upon your arrival you will report yourself to General Pinkney for further orders. You will be entitled to compensation during your journey march and untill your arrival according to the Rules promulged...
131469From Alexander Hamilton to John De Barth Walbach, 17 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 17, 1799. “My object is to See exemplified the elementary evolutions of the Cavalry according to the Systems of Prussia, France, and Great Britain in order to compare them with each other and Select the best. For this purpose I wished you to instruct in those different evolutions a troop of Volunteer horse.… You will readily understand that I do not wish to extend your...
131470Thomas Jefferson to John Waldo, 1 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home has prevented an earlier acknolegement of your favor of Apr. 25. and I learn from it with regret the circumstance of your habitual ill health. I did not mean by my answer to trouble you with any particular attention to it’s subject. it conveyed thoughts which had occurred to me sometimes in the course of a busy life, which had never allowed me time to examine them: and...
131471Thomas Jefferson to John Waldo, 16 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 27. came during my absence on a journey of some length. it covered your ‘ Rudiments of English grammar ,’ for which I pray you to accept my thanks. this acknolegement of it has been delayed until I could have time to give the work such a perusal as the avocations to which I am subject would permit. in the rare & short intervals which these have allowed me, I have gone over,...
131472From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Walker, 17 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
A servant of mine who was lately in London, informing me that he had seen my Harpsichord in your shop, finished, and ready to be delivered on my sending an order for it, I write the present to desire you to deliver it to Mr. John Trumbull or order. I do not know what arrangements Colo. Smith took for the having it packed. He is now absent. Probably it should be packed by Mr. Kirkman the maker....
131473From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 25 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Officers of the Provisional Army are to be appointed. Two Regiments will be Officer’d from this State. I am desired to recommend Characters. You will be sensible that when these corps are called into Actual service, the situation of affairs must be very serious and it must be then very difficult to has for military men to keep out of the Scene. How far will this idea go to induce you to...
131474From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 24 December 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : to Benjamin Walker, 24 Dec. 1796 . Walker wrote GW on 27 Dec. : “I did not get your Letter of the 24th inst. with its inclosure, until after the post of yesterday had departed.”
131475From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 12 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
Permit me once more to give you the trouble of forwarding the enclosed letters to their respective addresses. If you read the Aurora of this City, or those Gazettes which are under the same influence, you cannot but have perceived with what malignant industry, and persevering falsehoods I am assailed, in order to weaken, if not to destroy, the confidence of the Public. Amongst other attempts...
131476From Lemuel Trescott to Benjamin Walker, 26 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of yesterday arived the last evening, I have seen nothing of the person the Contractors promissd to send us. Inclosed is a letter I received yesterday afternoon from Capt. Allen commanding two Companies at the Mouth of Croton—Capt. Williams Design was to have taken Colo. Delancy & some of his Officers, but their being not at home saved them, The Captain had taken a number prisoners...
131477From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 24 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
I perceive by the Governors letter dated Feby 27th (which only came to hand yesterday—& learn also by a Letter from Colo. Varick) that you are of his Family. Let me entreat you therefore, without giving the Govr any more trouble in the matter than is absolutely necessary, to clear up a mistake which must have happened somewhere. The Govr in acknowledging the receipt of my Letters of the 15th &...
131478From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 10 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of this date, I have to inform you that in pursuance of authority to me for that purpose from the President of the United States, You have permission to be absent from the United States for a period not exceeding One year from the time of your departure. I am Sir Your Obedient & humble servant ALS , in the United States Naval Academy Museum. Walker was naval officer...
131479From Lemuel Trescott to Benjamin Walker, 27 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The letter herewith inclosed, came to Newbridge yesterday by a Corporal of the 17th British Dragoons as a Flag under the Passport from Brigadier General Musgrave commanding at Kings bridge, as I was at Pinesbridge, Captain Allen, who commanded the two Companies at Newbridge, receivd the letter from the Corporal, as a Flag and forwarded the same to me—had I been present I should Neither...
131480From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 13 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
From the representation which you laid before me yesterday, it appears that the proceedings of the Court are principally impeded for want of the evidence of General Elbert and Colo. Ternant. As to the first, it is more than probable that in ten or twelve days the return of the Messenger will determine whether his evidence can or cannot be obtained, and in the same time Colo. Ternant may...
131481From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 23 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Since my last to you it has occurred to me that the concerns of the Society for establishing useful Manufactures, in England, are not in such hands as might be wished, that is such of which there is sufficient knowlege. Would it not be adviseable that some known and responsible character should be written to and requested to take up the affair in concert if you please with King? The endeavour...
131482From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 7 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The bearer of this Mr. George Parkinson is an ingenious Mechanic who has been engaged by me in the service of The Society for establishing useful manufactures. I have advised him to go to New York to assist Mr. Marshall to whom I have given him a letter & to whom I am persuaded he will be useful. I take this occasion to make him known to you that he may receive any little pecuniary aid of...
131483Receipt to Benjamin Walker, [18 January 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Received January 18th. 1793 of Benjamin Walker Agent for Baron De Steuben Three thousand Dollars in full of all claims and demands against the said Baron De Steuben to this day. ADS , Mr. Hall Park McCullough, North Bennington, Vermont. Walker was naval officer for the port of New York. During the American Revolution he had served as aide to Baron von Steuben. After the war he was a close...
131484From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 8 March 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, March 8, 1795. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter states that it concerns “Business matters.” Letter not found. ] ALS , sold at Ritter-Hopson Galleries, October 18, 1932, Item 71. A native of London, Walker had immigrated to America before the American Revolution and settled in New York City. During the war he had served as aide-de-camp to Baron von Steuben. In 1786 he...
131485From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 12 March 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Benjamin Walker, 12 Mar. 1784. On 3 April Walker wrote to GW : “Your favor of the 12th of March reached me the day before yesterday.”
131486From Timothy Pickering to Benjamin Walker, 22 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
In answer to the questions in your note of this date, you will be pleased to inform the commander in chief. That last May Saml Ogden Esqr. of Booneton contracted to make and deliver 1500 camp kettles in a very short time. From the 6th of July to the 23d of October he had delivered 1205—295 are still due, for which he has been importuned. On the 13th of February his Clerk wrote that they were...
131487From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, [6 July 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
It is indispensable that an Ordinance should pass for the next election in October and it appears clearly that this cannot be done without the presence of Seven Directors. As five only are here, it is essential that two should come from New York. I beg you to do it without fail, so as to reach New Ark if possible by Eight tomorrow Morning. Without this another Meeting of the Directors for this...
131488From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 19 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Benjamin Walker, 19 Feb. 1796 . On 25 Feb., Walker wrote GW: “I have waited to reply to the Letter you honored me with of the 19 inst.”
131489From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 7 July 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, July 7, 1794. “I wrote to you some little time since to know whether it would be convenient to you (⟨sub⟩stituting a careful deputy in your absence) to make a tour of the different custom houses in the UStates—to inspect the manner of carrying on business at each; in order to a Report to the Treasury. For this purpose a reasonable allowance per diem would be made say of Five...
131490From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, 20 July 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The power being legally competent to the purposes desired, I have instructed the Comptroller to give the needful direction to The Commissioner of Loans. But in friendship to you, I cannot suppress some jealousies which are afloat and which have run before your application as if to prevent a compliance with it. You know the late events with regard to Duer Macombe &c have awakened much suspicion...