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...