13531Enclosure: William C. Preston’s Defense of William Campbell, 1 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Col. Wm. CAMPBELL and Governor SHELBY . It is now forty-two years since the battle of King’s Mountain was fought, and since public opinion and history had assigned to Col. William Campbell whatever honour was due to the commander of such an enterprize. As this was the first success of the American arms after the disastrous campaign of Gen. Gates , and the beginning of that series of military...
13532C. W. F. Dumas to John Adams: A Translation, 3 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I received your orders of the day before yesterday, and I will not fail in executing them next Tuesday morning, not being able to do so earlier because of the holidays. I consulted a well-connected friend who advised me to carry the letters personally since this would be more polite and decent for everyone, and this way they could not be refused. I will have the honor at that time to give you...
13533The Commissioners to Gabriel de Sartine, 5 November 1778 (Adams Papers)
We have the Honour of your Excellencys Letter of the 5th. of this Month, but as the Memoire, of the French surgion, which your Excellency proposed to transmit to Us, was, by some Accident omitted to be inclosed in your Letter, We are ignorant of his Case, and consequently unable to inform your Excellency whether it is in our Power to afford him any Relief. If your Excellency, will have the...
13534From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Williamson, 19 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the inclosed letter from Major Buell by which you will see that he is anxious the pay and Subsistence due to the Officers of his regiment should be delivered to Lieutt. Richmond who will furnish you with their accounts, should you approve of them I wish you to comply as much as is proper with Major Buell’s wish. It is my wish that every proper facility may be given with true...
13535From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Sayre, 17 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 13th. on the same subject with one written to the President, and I have the honor to inform you that the circumstances of the case not leaving room for the appointment therein proposed, the offer of service you are pleased to make cannot be made use of. I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt. humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Mr. Stephen...
13536John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 24 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
M r: Clagett has this moment delivered me your favour of the 29 th: ult o: and informs me that he goes again for Holland to-morrow morning. I have therefore only time to tell you that I am still waiting for that permission to return which I have been more than two months in hourly expectation of receiving. My detention here is doubly mortifying from the consideration that as my presence is...
13537To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 5 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I do hereby resign the office of Attorney General of the United States. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Resignations and Declinations, filed under “Rodney”); FC ( DeHi : Brown Collection). RC docketed by Monroe. FC includes a postscript in Rodney’s hand: “N. B. On the day this is dated I delivered my resignation into the Presidents own hands.” On the FC the original date of 25 Nov. 1811 has been deleted and...
13538To James Madison from David Ramsey, 7 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 December 1802. Acknowledged in Wagner to Ramsey, 11 Dec. 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as a claim for wages as a member of the party that ran the southern boundary line.
13539To Benjamin Franklin from William Alexander, 30 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is not perhaps unknown to you that soon after my Arrival in this Country from England I was induced to make several large purchases of Lands with a Veiw of soon disposeing of some of them again to Advantage; you well know the Sudden Change that took place in the Sale of Lands, Vast Quantitys of new Lands Comeing into the Market and a great Scarceity of...
13540Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 5 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
As I was from home when y your’s and mr Southall ’s letter came, it was not opened, and the bearer of it could not explain it’s object so as to be understood. if you can let me know how many of our cups you will want they shall be sent to you tomorrow forenoon. as we have and shall have a great deal of company to-day, they will be wanting here for the service of the day. mr Madison and mr...
13541From Thomas Jefferson to John Crawford, 8 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr. Crawford and his thanks for his Observations on Quarentines which he has read with great pleasure. not himself a friend to Quarentines, nor having confidence in their efficacy even if they are necessary, he sees with pleasure every effort to lessen their credit. but the theory which denies all infection, and ascribes to unseen animals the effects...
13542W[alter] Jones, [Jr.], to James Madison, 19 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
The bearer Mr. John G. Chapman is the young American artist, of whom you have probably heard, and who has spent some years at Rome & other parts of Italy, perfecting his taste & Execution by the study of the most celebrated paintings. His professional reputation is high, and I have Every reason to think deservedly so; and he is, besides, a young gentleman of great personal worth &...
13543From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 30 March 1761 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library As you have been so good as to forgive my long Delay of writing to you and answering your always agreable Letters, I shall not now trouble you with the Apology I had written on that head in one of my Pieces of Letters never finish’d. Supposing the Fact, that the Water of the Well at Bristol is warmer after some time pumping, I think your manner of accounting for...
13544James Martin to Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I am offered the $4000 for your land payable $1000 on the first day of april next an three annual payments for the balancee I have full confidence in the punctuality of the purchaser who can give me any Security I demand I darsay their will be no danger, but the whole will be paid to the day he prefers pursonal security he will give such as is unexception i a ble,— please say immediatily if I...
13545From John Adams to Abel Sawyer, 8 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
Mr: Samuel Adams was called a Maltster because he kept a Malt-house; but he was a Gentleman of liberal Education; a Legislator and a Magistrate. He was the father of the late Governor Adams and the Son of John Adams, a Merchant in Boston, who was brother of my Grandfather. Mrs: Elizabeth Adams, Widow of the late Governor Adams still lives in Boston. The Governor left but one child, a daughter,...
13546John Jay’s Draft of a Letter from the Continental Congress to George Washington, 2 April 1776 (Jay Papers)
It gives me the most sensible Pleasure to convey to you by order of Congress the only Tribute which a free People will ever consent to pay, the Tribute of Thanks & Gratitude to their Friends & Benefactors. The disinterested and patriotic Principles which led you to the Field, have also led you to Glory, and it affords no little Consolation to your Countrymen to reflect, that as a peculiar...
13547I. Tench Coxe to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The vacancy produced in the Treasury department by the death of the Comptroller has occasioned me to take the liberty of making this communication to you. It will not appear unnatural, that a person in my situation should be led, by the relation the offices of the Treasury bear to each other, to entertain a wish for the appointment, and I should, at as early a moment as decorum permitted, have...
13548To George Washington from Henry Knox, 26 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit two letters from Brigr Genl Wilkinson with their enclosures. These were received by express, who left Fort Washington the 1st of Decr. I have the honor to be respectfully Your obedient Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letters from James Wilkinson have not been identified, but they are probably those mentioned by Knox in his letter to Gen. Anthony Wayne of 28...
13549From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot this was post day till the moment of the mail’s being made up. I have only time therefore to say Congress rises tomorrow. mr Milledge & mr Clarke will probably set out in the evening, be at Orange courthouse on Wednesday evening & go thence to dine with you on Thursday. I shall be two or three days after them. tender love to my dear Martha & the young people & affectionate attachment...
13550From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1800 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 18 June 1800. Calendared by JM in his list of letters to Jefferson (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers) as concerning: “Hessian fly, its first appearance in Orange.” Listed in Jefferson’s Epistolary Record (DLC: Jefferson Papers) as received 24 June.
13551Duff Green to James Madison, 11 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
It is much to be regretted that most subscribers to newspapers are negligent in remitting the small sums which, although comparatively nothing to individual subscribers, form, when multiplied by thousands, as in my case, an amount of great moment. Struggling under many difficulties, I have been compelled to contract heavy debts, under the hope that those who have taken my paper will furnish...
13552From George Washington to Tench Tilghman, 10 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
Mr Rawlins has this momt presented me with your favor of the 1st instt, enclosing a counterpart of the agreement with him; for your trouble in this business I pray you to accept my thanks. Your advances to him shall be reimbursed at any moment. It was with concern I learnt from him that you were much indisposed (tho’ he could not tell with what) when he left Baltimore. I hope the cause, ere...
13553To George Washington from Robert Morris, 17 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Excellency’s two several Letters, of the twenty seventh of September, and first, Instant. The latter did not come to Hand untill nine oClock last Evening. I have this Morning directed the Purchase of a quantity of Rum, and lament that I cannot possibly arrive as soon as you will stand in Need of it. This must be attributed to the Delay of your Letter, which...
13554To George Washington from Battaile Muse, 21 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of advice dated the 19th of Last month by Major Willis I received by that Gentleman with three Counter Part of Leases—I shall attend to your Instruction and act in all Cases To the Best of my Knowledge and as tho for my Self. the Laws and Costoms of this Country must be on another Footing to Compel Tenants or others To fulfill their Engagement than they are in at this Time, I do...
13555To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Coffyn, 9 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai l’honneur de vous ecrire la presente laquelle vous Sera remise par le Sieur Thomas Connoly Americain Lequel a eu le malheur d’Etre pris dans le navire Le Blear Mc Clanaghan a Son Passage de L’orient a Philadelphie par un corsaire de Guernsey auquel endroit il a été conduit prisonnier. Il a trouvé le moyen de S’echaper & de Se rendre ici, & Comme il...
13556To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 3 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Jones promised to communicate to you a statement of the subscriptions to the Bank of the United States. The deficit will not be great, and will be immediately subscribed, at Philadelphia. Mr. Jones’s prospect brightens. He is opposed, however, by Major Butler, whose appointment produces all the inconveniences, that I apprehended. The Treasury Circular seems to be approved by all, but the...
13557To George Washington from Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, 23 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Pursuant to Your Excellency’s Direction I have directed the Commanding Officers of the Companies under my Command to Ascertain the Number of Officers & Soldiers in their respective Companies who are willing to extend the Term of their Inlistment to the first Day of Jany next: by their Returns I find there are Two Hundred & Twenty Noncommissiond Officers & Soldiers who are willing to Serve till...
13558To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 9 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Latrobe has informed me that you wished to have the Encyclopedie sent to your house with the bill. I now send them by the Bearer of this. I take the liberty at the same time to offer you some other books, of which I enclose a notice. Your very obt. Mr. Madison bo’t of J. Barlow The french encyclopedie methodique—incomplete, consisting as follows 93 vol. bound & 14 half vol. unbd. letter...
13559To Alexander Hamilton from William S. Smith, 3 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
East Chester [ New York ] May 3, 1799 . “I have been honoured with your Letter of the first of may; having always understood that Capt Church tho’ honoured by the appointment of being your Aid De Camp, intended, with your permission to recruit his Company; I mentioned to him, when in Town last, that the money & recruiting instructions, were ready for him, when it was convenient for you to...
13560Report on the Petition of Hugh Cunningham, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the petition of Hugh Cunningham, submits the following report thereupon. Respectfully referring the House of Representatives, to his report of the 17th Instant, on the subject of depreciation generally; The Secretary begs leave to add, That the claim of the petitioner is in the capacity of an Officer of the...