14551From John Churchman Jr. to John Adams, 12 September 1792 (Adams Papers)
I was requested if possible to deliver the Letter myself, which I send herewith, but as I am about setting off for Europe, I take the Liberty of sending it thro’ the Channel of the Post Office, it came under cover to me from Baron Vall-Travers F.R.S. & Member of several other Scientific Societies in Europe, as his Letter enclosing the enclosed is dated 15 th. Feb y. last. it may appear that it...
14552From Samuel Allyne Otis to John Adams, 29 September 1792 (Adams Papers)
What a sad lesson against anarchy is indeed my honored & respected friend to be learnt, in the acc ts fm France! S t Bartholemew with all its horrors is again passing in review & sickens & astonishes the eye— I will not repeat the dismal tale you must have it in all its particulars before this can reach you And surely every man not devoid of good policy & humanity will join you in deprecating...
14553From Rufus King to John Adams, 30 September 1792 (Adams Papers)
By accounts from England as late as the 23 d of August we learn that on the 10 th of that month the national assembly suspended the King, removed the ministry, and took on themselves the Executive powers— they have since decreed that the primary assm̃blies should meet on the 26. of august, to appoint Deputies to a national convention, to be convened on the 20. of Sep r. for the purpose of...
14554From John Adams to Rufus King, 11 October 1792 (Adams Papers)
I am very much obliged, Sir, by your kind Letter of the 30 th of Sept r , and for the important Intelligence contained in it There is Such a Complication of Tragedy Comedy and Farce, in all the accounts from France that it is to me, to the last degree, disgusting to attend to them in detail. I read over the accounts in general and then endeavour to divert my own attention from any very...
14555From Tench Coxe to John Adams, 8 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a list of the Votes in the city and county of Philadelphia from which it appears that the antifederal people are not as much animated upon this occasion as their leaders, and that we have more than our real proportion of votes in the city, and much more in the County. The Boroughs are generally enlightened and federal, and vote largely in proportion in all...
14556From Samuel Allyne Otis to John Adams, 12 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose you a minute of the proceedings of Senate, the speech & answer of the Senate thereto— In addition to what appears on the journals there are official documents to evince that the Southern Indians are determined to join in hostile measures against the US— And those documents evince that the Executive is doing everything possible to conciliate & be at peace. And...
14557From William Vans Murray to John Adams, 15 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
In taking the liberty of expressing some solicitude at your absence at the present time you will I am sure attribut the freedom to nothing short of great respect for you as well as a public sentiment which I feel to be patriotic— An opposition in moments of election must be expected by the best & most enlightened— That something like opposition has taken place with respect to the election of a...
14558From John Adams to John Singleton Copley, 16 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
Your polite and obliging Favour of April the 10 th I duely received at this Place and I pray you to accept of my best Thanks for your very elegant and acceptable Present of a Print of the Death of Lord Chatham, a Masterpiece of the Fine Arts which does as much honour to America which produced the Artist as it does to great Britain which produced the Statesman. Nor am I less Sensible of the...
14559From Samuel Allyne Otis to John Adams, 26 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose you the minutes of the last week and to repeat my wishes to see you here as soon as possible, And as I hear M rs Adams has quite recovered her health and that your own is restored I flatter myself those wishes will soon be gratified. I have every day less fears of an unfavorable election of the two first officers in the Government— People seem to look with...
14560From Alexander Contee Hanson to John Adams, 6 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I cannot flatter myself, that after the lapse of sixteen years, you can have any recollection of the man, who now addresses you. In the year 1776 he had the pleasure of lodging with you, under the same roof, at Philadelphia; and he has often since reflected on the circumstance, with satisfaction— I take the liberty of introducing to your notice M r. Elie Valette, a young gentleman of real...
14561From Joseph Priestley to John Adams, 20 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
I feel myself much gratified, and highly honoured, by the sympathy which you express with me on account of my sufferings in the riot at Birmingham. The same malignant spirit, fostered by our governors, is much more prevalent now than it was then, and shews itself in almost every part of the kingdom, so that I begin to fear the most serious evils from it. Nothing has yet been done towards our...
14562From Benjamin Lincoln to John Adams, 22 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
The exertions of disappointment & of antifederalism have had little effect I congratulate you My dear sir most sincerely on the happy event— When you left us no arrangment was made for the return of the few dollars you received of me— As I do not know what would be most convenient for you whether to forward the money or for me to draw on you I take the liberty to say now that when ever it...
14563From José de Jáudenes y Nebot and José Ignacio de Viar y Mendiguren to John Adams, 27 December 1792 (Adams Papers)
His Catholic Majesty’s Commissioners request the favor of the Vice-President of the U. S. Company to Dine on Saturday the 5 th. Jany next at 4 o Clock The favor of an Answer is desired RC ( MQA ); docketed by JA : “Unfil’d papers”; notation by JA : “accepted / January th5.” Because AA was in Quincy and therefore unable to host levees, JA ’s social life grew quieter during the 2d Congress,...
14564From Henry Marchant to John Adams, 1 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I give You Joy of the Season; and I sincerely congratulate You and Our dear Country in the support of Government and the Plans that have been pursuing for the Honor and political Economy of it;— witnessed by the late Election, not only of the President and Vice President; but of the Representatives and Senators of Congress. A few Persons may make the Presses groan and sweat,—may disperse much...
14565From André Jean La Rocque to John Adams, 2 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
J’airecu la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire, Le 8 du mois dernier, en réponse à la mienne du mois Précédent. Les objets dont je m’occupe, Sont liés à L’intéret public, et n’en Seront que plus dignes de fixer votre attention. J’espere me rendre à Philadelphie, La Semaine prochaine. Ma premiere affaire Sera de Vous présenter mon respect, aussitot que j’y serai arrivé. Ensuite,...
14566From William Lake to John Adams, 3 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
Having imparted to our mutual Friends Mess rs: W. & J Willink of Amsterdam, my wish to procure the Appointment of American Consul at this Port, they very politely presented me with the enclosed Introduction, & recommendation to your Excellency, for that purpose, the Necessity of the Appointment, I make no doubt is well known to your Excellency, as well as the general Advantage and Conveniency,...
14567From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
The bearer of this Letter, M r: D’Hauteval, is a french Gentleman from the Island of S t: Domingo, where he had lately the misfortune to lose a plantation of great value, by the devastation of the insurgent negroes. He has been about two months in this town, where I have frequently had the pleasure of meeting him in Company, and where his amiable manners have entitled him to as much esteem, as...
14568From John Adams to Frederick Bull, 7 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I thought I had agreed with you at Hartford that you should take my Horses from M r: David Bulls and send them on to NYork where I expected to hear of their arrival in three or four days, and at an expence of four or five dollars, or at the utmost of seven or eight, for this was the amount of the conversation, between you & M r. Briesler who attended me. You may judge then how much I was...
14569From the American Philosophical Society to John Adams, 22 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
It is with particular satisfaction that, in Obedience to the Orders of the American Philosophical Society established at Philadelphia for promoting usefull Knowledge, We announce your Election into that Body, on the 18 th Inst. Your Certificate of Membership will be presented as soon as it can be compleated, in the mean time We hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at their meetings as often...
14570From John Adams to the American Philosophical Society, 24 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honour to write me on the twenty Second of this month and I pray you to present to The American Philosophical society established at Philadelphia for promoting Useful Knowledge, my Thanks for the honour they have done me, by my Election into that Body on the Eighteenth instant. My best acknowledgements are also due to you, Gentlemen for the polite and...
14571From John Cosens Ogden to John Adams, 25 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I transmit you a copy of a Political Rarity—which a very few men were degenerate enough to send for a day dedicated to the celebration of the progress of Liberty. You who are a Lawyer & Statesman, will make those comments in your own thoughts, which may perhaps awake a care for the liberty of the press—the honor of law, and safety of the citizen. As it came from a party, at first , I intended...
14572From John Adams to John Singleton Copley, 27 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have it, at length, in my Power to inform you that I have received the two Copies of your admirable Picture of The Death of The Earl of Chatham. The Copy designed for the President of the United States I had the honour to deliver to him in Person, who requested me to make you his Compliments and present you his Thanks for your obliging attention. soon afterwards he desired me to transmit you...
14573From John Adams to John Trumbull, 31 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
Are you acquainted with the natural History of Mother Careys Chickens? I know not the Latin Name of these chattering Birds, having never consulted the Dictionaire D’Histoire naturelle, nor Buffon nor Tournefort for information concerning this important Subject: but as a Mariner I have had frequent occasion to curse the rascally Species of Mischief makers. In the calmest Moments at Sea, they...
14574From Jeremy Belknap to John Adams, 31 January 1793 (Adams Papers)
I beg leave to congratulate you on your reelection as Vice President of the United States; and to ask your acceptance of a specimen of a monthly publication in w ch you will find that your name & those of other American worthies are in future to be inscribed on a map of the Globe Yesterday we had an Academy meeting When M r Fisher Ames & D r Barton were chosen members— I enclose to you a...
14575From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 5 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
In pursuance of the first part of the order of the Senate of the 23 d of January past, I have the honor to send herewith sundry statements marked A, AB, B. Ba, D, E, F, and I beg the permission of the Senate to add the Copy of a letter dated yesterday, which served to transmit duplicates of the same documents to the House of Representatives; and which contains some explanations of them; a...
14576From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, 9 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
You, who are acquainted with mÿ character, cannot favour the opinion, that I should have forgotten, the different and conspicuous marks of favour friendship and confidence, bestowed upon me Since manÿ years, or be indifferent about it, how inconsiderable the sentiments of a forgotten farmer should seem to anÿ other man in your elevated station. I know, your Excellency is it not, and it is upon...
14577From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of January 31, and thank you for your obliging Congratulations, as well as for the monthly Publication. Will you do me the favour of having my name Subscribed and the Magazine Sent to Quincy regularly as it comes out.? I am no doubt obliged to Capt n Ingraham, and I Suppose also to Mr Barrel, my old Friend for the Compliment. The Time has been when Such a...
14578From Thomas Brand Hollis to John Adams, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed when I look at the date of your last letter but knowing how much you are engaged & the little entertainment I can avoid you by detailing the publick occurrences w ch you have by the Frence papers, many of which are very good being wrote by men of the first talents who do not scorn to instruct & inform their fellow citizens knowing that truth is always productive of good. but a...
14579From William MacCreery to John Adams, 23 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
Previous to my departure from Baltimore for this place, I address’d a few lines to you at Philad a. but learn’d afterwards that you had not then come forward from the Eastward. From the knowlege I had acquired of the commerce of this Country, during the late War, I was fully perswaded that a commercial intercource, to a much greater extent than has been carried on since the peace, might have...
14580From Joseph Priestley to John Adams, 23 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
Such is the situation of this country, that I fear I shall be too troublesome in recommending to your notice Dissenters that are disposed to emigrate, and settle on your Continent This letter will be deliverd to you by two young men of good character, and fine spirit, the sons of Mr G. Humphreys, a fellow sufferer with me in the Riot in Birmingham. Many others will also find it necessary to...
14581From John Trumbull to John Adams, 25 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
You will easily believe that none of your Friends rejoice more heartily than myself, in the Decided Majority, which has secured your Re-election. In spite of calumny, art & intrigue, You have the firm support of Ten States. I congratulate You on the event, but still more congratulate my Country— For nothing can be more favorable to our future prospects than to find, that one of the firmest...
14582From Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed memoir has received no other Publicity than a reading before the Philosophical Society and a few Copies I had struck off for particular distribution: I shall think myself honoured by your acceptance of one Copy. Permit me also to avail myself of your Influence with the Accademy of arts & sciences and Humane Society in Boston, to make one acceptable to each of these Institutions,...
14583From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, 1 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d your favour of the 19 th of october 1792 informing me that my Number 1026 is entitled to the Premium of one Thousand Guilders. This Sum, together with the amount of all the Coupons inclosed I pray you to ship for me by the first good Vessell for Boston, to the address of the Honourable Cotton Tufts Esqr of Weymouth near Boston, either in Spanish or Portugal Gold or in Spanish...
14584From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
In consequence of the information I received from you on the first Wednesday in January that the list of votes for President & Vice President were received at the seat of government from all the states except that of Kentuckey, I sent a special messenger to the District, judge of Kentuckey for the list of the votes of that state lodged in his custody, and by the return of the messenger...
14585From John Adams to John Sinclair, 2 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I received the letter you did me the honour to write me last summer, with your projects of a Natural History of Sheep, and a Survey of Scotland. You could not have made a wiser choice. The natural history of that animal, so useful to man, must be very useful as well as very curious: and a detail of particulars relative to your native country, must be interesting to all, but especially to the...
14586From Stephen Hall to John Adams, 2 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
Permit me once more to ask your friendship on so probable a prospect of success, as I think I now have.— Gen l. Dearborn is chosen a Representative to Congress from the District of Maine. The Office of Marshal of consequence becomes vacant. I should like to fill the Office; and I think the President would willingly nominate me, if he should think of me. Your friendship therefore in the case...
14587From John Stockdale to John Adams, 16 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
You have most probably heard long before this, that I have printed “ Letters to Paine ,” by your son.— A Copy was given to me by a Gentleman high in Government, to print as your production, with your name affixed, and I actually advertised it as such; but fortunately had information of its being written by your Son, and of course cancelled the Title before a Copy was seen by any one except the...
14588From John Adams to John Trumbull, 18 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
On Saturday night, M r John Quincy Adams my Son and no doubt your friend brought me from Boston your Letter of the 25 th of Feb. returned by the Post from Philadelphia. I thank You Sir for your friendly congratulations, which with some others contribute. not a little to animate me, under the dull prospect of jolting Journeys and tedious sessions which in my old Age would otherwise be rather...
14589From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 19 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of the 9. Ult. has been a circuit to Philadelphia and returned to me, only on Saturday last. your friendly Congratulations, on a late Re Election, are very obliging. I am as well as you, and have been these Eighteen years a Friend of Governor Clinton: but, although I feel no Resentment at his consenting to Stand a Candidate for the office I hold, I cannot but regret that he yields...
14590From Tench Coxe to John Adams, 5 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
Tho I suppose that some recent arrivals in the ports N. &: E. of Philadelphia will give you the confirmation of the report of war between G Britain & France I do myself the honor to mention to you the foundation on which it rests here. A Philad a. Ship arrived yesterday from Lisbon, where the Capt n. saw in the hands of M r. John Bulkely, our principal American house, a letter from M r....
14591From William MacCreery to John Adams, 5 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I address’d a few lines to you from Nantes in Feberuary last, informing you the object of my present voyage & future intentions. The events which have since taken place, in consequ n. of the War becoming general in Europe, and a civil War kindled in this Country, renders the prossecution of my plan not only difficult, but dangerous—for altho’ I have not heard of the least violence offerd to...
14592From André Jean La Rocque to John Adams, 12 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
un francois qui projete de devenir Américain, vous prie d’agréer L’homage de ses foibles productions. Les ouvrages cy joints, dont il est l’auteur, vous intéresseront, non par le maniere dont ils Sont traités, Mais par leur Sujets. c’est l’humanité qui en a déterminé Le choix. Le premier est le plan d’un établissement, que La convention nationale est au moment de decreter. Le second est une...
14593From Tench Coxe to John Adams, 16 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I had lately the honor to write you a letter on a point, which continues to be interesting. We are now certainly to expect the Arrival of the New french Minister in a very short time, and it is a matter of consequence to our peace , that we should get thro the business which he may bring up in consequence of the present State of things in Europe without differences. It would oblige me very...
14594From Samuel Allyne Otis to John Adams, 17 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I suppose by this time sober hill is in great glory, at least if your spring has been forward in any measure as ours has. And when we compare our peaceful Towns & happy villages with the garrisons & wasted fields of Europe we ought to bless God who has divided us by 1000 leagues of water. But the question occurs will this distance from that great awful & distressed Theatre of human misery &...
14595From John Adams to George Washington, 24 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
Captain John [Hobby] of Harvard in the Massachusetts, has been recommended to me, by So many respectable Characters, and in Such handsome terms, that I cannot refuse his request of a Line to the President of the United States in his favour. He has the merit of long and early Services, though he is Said to have been lately unfortunate. As his application is entirely out of my Department, and to...
14596From John Adams to Tench Coxe, 25 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Favours of April the 5 th and 16 th upon Subjects of great moment. The Instruction of Congress, which you mention to their Minister at Versailles I dont remember to have Seen. some Account of it and of the Comte de Vergennes’s Answer to it, I once had: but as both the Instruction and the Answer are perfectly known to the Secretary of State and consequently will be known to...
14597From John Trumbull to John Adams, 27 April 1793 (Adams Papers)
I enclose to You, Frederic Bull’s Account & Receipt. It was with difficulty, & not till I had called on him four or five times, that I could persuade him to exhibit it. He said he had no account against You, & did not want any of your money. He was irritated by the stories told him by M r. Pease , the Post-rider, who called on You for Payment at Philadelphia. It seems that Pease thought You...
14598From Tench Coxe to John Adams, 9 May 1793 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to write you very hastily by the post following the receipt of your letter. My having rec d. the letter you did me the honor to write, upon that (or any other matter mentioned in it) is known only to myself: and in pursuance of your directions will continue so. It is very extraordinary, that it has not yet been found practicable to ascertain what did occur. M r. Genet is not...
14599From Wilhem & Jan Willink to John Adams, 10 May 1793 (Adams Papers)
We had the pleasure to address you the 22 Ult o : advising the purchase of an Obligation of 4 PC t: for the premium drawn on y r. obligation, we have now before us your esteemed favor of 1 March by wh ch. You desire to have the Amount forwarded in gold or Spanish dolls to Boston, with the amount of the Coupons you enclose 22 instead of 21 as you mention of 50.ƒ and 20 of 40ƒ each. we Shall...
14600From John Adams to Joseph Priestley, 12 May 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of Feb: 23. by the Mess rs: Humphreys, and shall have the pleasure this Day of receiving those young Gentlemen at Dinner as I hope. They may succeed very well in this Country I doubt not. Your Sons I shall be very glad to see and although it would give me great personal pleasure to see you in America, yet I cannot but think your removal would be a great loss to...