13561From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 4 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
In a letter hastily written to you on the 30th ulto, I approved the plan of applying to the Legislature of Maryland for a loan of money, agreeably to the suggestion of Genl Forest, for the purposes of the Federal city—Provided “upon more mature consideration and enquiry, you should concur with him in opinion that it certainly could be obtained.” I am in the same sentiment still; but let me...
13562To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Kidder Meade, 1 August 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
[ August 1, 1782. On August 27, 1782, Hamilton wrote to Meade : “I thank you my dear Meade for your letter of the first of this month.” Letter not found. ]
13563To George Washington from Maj. Gen. John Sullivan, 28 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. John Sullivan, 28 Oct. 1779 . GW wrote Sullivan on 31 Oct. : “I have your favr of the 28th.”
13564From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 26 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you copies of the following Acts, which have been transmitted to me during the recess of Congress viz. An Act passed by the Legislature of New Hampshire, for ceding to the United States, the Fort and Light House belonging to said State. An Act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, ratifying on behalf of said State, the first article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United...
13565[Diary entry: 17 March 1790] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 17th. Gave Mr. Few Notice that I would receive the Address of the Legislature of Georgia tomorrow at half after ten oclock. Sent to both House[s] of Congress the Ratification of the State of Pennsylvania of the amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the Union.
13566To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 25 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
When Mr Ludlow was Navy Agent I received a letter from the wife of Danl Baldwin exhibiting him to our view as an Object of Charity, and soliciting some employment for him at the Navy Yard of New-York. Not knowing his pretensions or qualifications I referred him to the Navy Agent and at the same time authorised mr Ludlow in his discretion to assign him some suitable station. Mr Ludlow in his...
13567To John Adams from Benjamin Stoddert, 12 July 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Congress, after her very long detention at Norfolk, I have reason to hope will be ready to sail on the 15 ins.—to cruise a little while in those latitudes where the French Privateers have lately done most mischief—and then proceed to St. Domingo. The Insurgent too, will be ready to leave Baltimore about the same time, to cruise on the coast, & between the Coast and the Islands—The...
13568From George Washington to Major Samuel Blackden, 30 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
Being appointed by Colo. Sheldon to procure Cloathing and Accoutrements for the Regiment agt the ensuing Campaign, you are to repair immediately to Boston as the most probable place of furnishing yourself. Upon your arrival there, you are, thro’ General Heath, (to whom I have written) to apply to the persons purchasing Cloathing for continental use, for as much as will be sufficient, and as...
13569To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a statement of the monies collected on account of the marine hospitals from when the law began to operate to the 31st of March 1801, showing also the disbursements made for the relief of sick seamen during the same period by the Agents appointed for that purpose, & the unexpended balances remaining on the last mentioned day in hands of said Agents or of the...
13570General Orders, 9 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
The General thanks Major Knolton, and the Officers and Soldiers, who were under his command last night; for the Spirit, Conduct and Secrecy, with which they burnt the Houses, near the Enemy’s works, upon Bunkers-hill—The General was in a more particular manner pleased, with the resolution the party discover’d in not firing a Shot; as nothing betrays greater signs of fear, and less of the...
13571To James Madison from John Church, 24 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Church. 24 December 1805, Cork. “I have the Honor to acknowledge Receipt of your different Circular Letters, & also of the recent Acts of Congress both which shall have my Attention. “I now profit with the Opportunity of the Ship Six Sisters via Baltimore to hand you the inclosed Schedule for the Current Year of the Imports into this City of American Produce [not found] & I also...
13572To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 20 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
This letter is not By Any Means directed to the Commander in chief, But to My Most Intimate and Confidential friend—I will lay Before you My Circumstances and My wishes—Certain I am You will do whatever You Can for me that is Consistent with Your public duty. When I went to the Southward You know I Had Some private objections—But I Became Sensible of the Necessity there was for the detachement...
13573From Thomas Jefferson to Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., 30 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States to Return J. Meigs, Senator for the State of Ohio. Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate shall be convened on Saturday the 4th of March next, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber in the City of Washington on that day, then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you. InU : Papers...
13574From Alexander Hamilton to William Cooper, [16 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter with a Post note of a thousand dollars on account of the Mortgage of the lands formerly Holkers in which Mr. Church is interested. The papers respecting this affair in my possession will be looked up & sent to Mr. Laurance by Mondays Post. This letter will serve you as a Receipt. Yrs. truly ALS , from a typescript furnished by an anonymous donor. Cooper, the founder...
13575From John Jay to Grenville, 13 October 1794 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . last Evening, by a Vessel in 21 Days from New York, Dispatches from the Secretary of State. They contain much Information, respecting the then present State of affairs in the united States. Among other interesting circumstances, the Transaction of Governor Simcoe relative to an american Settlement at the Great Soders, is stated, and accompanied with Copies of the Papers respecting...
13576To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 14 August 1775 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you by the Stage on Thursday last since which I have not heard from you. As you were so kind as to say that you had no objection to doing any thing for me that might be in your Power respecting the Lands in the Traders Grant from the Indians, I send you enclosed a Copy of a Letter on that Subject from Mr. George Morgan, together with my Answer...
13577To George Washington from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 31 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
With much Anxiety I give you an An[s]wer to your late Letters respectg the Supply of the Army. Colo. Champion has been with me on the Subject—he will do every [thing] in his Power, with the Means wherewith he is furnished—Cattle are plenty—Money is wantg—Colo. Champion will send on this Week not less than fifty Haed & not more than One Hundred—he is furnished with Means to procure a further...
13578To George Washington from Richard Peters, 16 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Accounts given to the British Board of Agriculture are in general drawn up in a masterly Manner; so, as I should suppose (especially after being circulated for Correction) fully to answer the Expectations formed in the excellent Plan which produced them. They exhibit as well beneficial Practices, as Defects in Agriculture. They contain a Fund of Information, useful in political Œconomy &...
13579To John Adams from Richard Peters, 10 April 1789 (Adams Papers)
I should be wanting in those Evidences of my very sincere Respect & Esteem for you which I shall ever be happy in shewing, if I did not take the Oppertunity your Election to the honourable & respectable Station you now fill affords me of joining my Congratulations with those of the great Numbers of our Fellow Citizens who are gratified by your Appointment. I very truly wish you every...
13580From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Alexander Dick, 2 June 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New York Public Library I received your kind Congratulations on my Return to Britain, by Mr. Alexander, which were very obliging. The Slip to Dr. Morgan I sent after him to America, where I hope he is safely arrived before this time. He always express’d himself greatly oblig’d to you for the Notice you took of him and the Countenance you afforded him; and I shall always thank you...
13581To George Washington from Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston, 12 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
It is now near five Months since my appointment to a Regiment Both Officers and Soldiers are begining to feel the Inconvenience attending the want of Money the Pay Abstracts would have been sent in but I have thought Proper to wait a General Order for that Purpose in Compliance with Your Excellencies Commands, I am Extreemly desirous wether the same Method is still in use and wether Your...
13582From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Tiffin, 2 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The pressure of business during a session of the legislature, has rendered me more tardy in addressing you than it was my wish to have been. that our fellow citizens of the West would need only to be informed of criminal machinations against the public safety, to crush them at once, I never entertained a doubt. I have seen with the greatest satisfaction that among those who have distinguished...
13583From George Washington to Colonel William Malcom, 3 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favour of the 1st instant. I very much lament the dangerous spirit which appears among the men of your late corps; but as it cannot be considered in any other light than that of mutiny, pregnant with the most pernicious consequences, I am clearly of opinion their request cannot be indulged, and have written Col. Spencer to this effect directing him to employ the most...
13584To George Washington from Stephen Sayre, 15 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing you, more than once, some time since, when in England —I am sorry to find, that I am thought unworthy the shortest reply—Making every consideration for the important business & high situation you are now in; I must again trouble you, with my wishes and my complaints—relying on your justice, & will cease all applications to my friends who know better what I...
13585Advertisement of the General Magazine, 13 November 1740 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , November 13, 1740. The American Weekly Mercury , November 6, 1740, printed a long, ambitious “Plan of an Intended Magazine,” to be called The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of The Political State of the British Colonies . John Webbe, who was to be the editor, probably composed it, though it was signed by Andrew Bradford. Each issue would contain four...
1358618th. (Adams Papers)
In the morning I went to the Post office, and enquired if there were any Letters for me; there were none. I immediately went to Monsr. Mazois, to whom I supposed my Letters would be addressed, but he had none for me neither. I don’t know how it happens. I can only suppose that they were put in the Post Office, so late that they failed, coming by the Saturday Post; and even if that is the Case,...
13587To George Washington from Colonel Stephen Moylan, 12 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I Lodge in the house of a man who I verily believe, has as good a heart as any man can have, I have had many oppertunitys of enquireing into his character. he Lays out at Least one hundred pounds Sterling ⅌ annum, amongst the poor of his neighborhood; he is a Phisyscian who receives no fees, he is the freind of the distress’d—this gentleman is by proffession a Quaker of Course a peaceable man,...
13588To James Madison from Otho Shrader, 7 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Otho Shrader. 7 May 1806, Somerset, Pennsylvania. “The receipt of your letter of the 26th. of last month [not found] inclosing my Commission as Judge in the Territory of Louisiana, I have the honor to acknowledge. “You will please to present to the President of the United States my grateful acknowledgment for the confidence which he hath been so good to repose in my [ sic ], and to give...
13589Louisa Catherine Adams to Ann Johnson Hellen, 8 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I write you again my dear Nancy though I am very angry at your not having answered either of the letters which I wrote you by M r: T.B.A. when I heared you had removed to Baltimore I flattered myself I should hear from you very often but I am excessively sorry to find myself so much mistaken I will not make any reproaches because I do not wish you to write merely because I ask you I am afraid...
13590To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose the copy of a letter written this day to the Secretaries for the War and Navy department, which gives a general view of our fiscal situation for this year, and regulates the sums which in conformity therewith may be monthly drawn during the residue of the year 1813, for the service of each of those departments respectively. I have the honour to be with the highest...