14601From John Adams to John Stockdale, 12 May 1793 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, I had the Pleasure of receiving your Letter of the 16 th of March. My Son’s name is John Quincy Adams which you knew very well, so that by ushering the Pamphlet into the World in the Name of John Adams Esq it Still might pass for mine. I understand all this very well. Booksellers Policy! All I have to Say is that I did not write Publicola nor any Part of it: if you wish to know...
14602From Elizabeth Mayhew Wainwright to John Adams, [ca. 14 May 1793] (Adams Papers)
Give me leave sir to bring myself to your rememberance by soliciting your notice of the reverend M r Toulmin the Son of a respectable dissenting minister of that name who is in persuit of such information—respecting America as may make him useful to a number of persons who wish to find an assylum in that country. His character is such as may make him a valuable acquisition Yours such as...
14603From Samuel Allyne Otis to John Adams, 31 May 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am obliged for your favor covering the Clerks accounts. The affairs of Europe are changed since the last autumn and indeed are daily assum g a new-face. Tis generally supposed that Dumorier is filed off, whether with or without an army is not yet ascertained. The next Ship from England must bring important accounts. We are disturbed here with the bickerings of French and English Sailors and...
14604From Samuel Allyne Otis Jr. to John Adams, May 1793 (Adams Papers)
Fully impess’d with a sense of your Goodness and Candor, I am induced to observe that having taken the liberty to express my thoughts to the President of the United States, on the appointment of a Consul to the Island of St. Domingo, and to solicit the appointment, (having resided in this country seven years and having been two years establish’d in business here) I have to request your...
14605From the Boston Board of Selectmen to John Adams, 1 July 1793 (Adams Papers)
The Selectmen present their most respectful Compliments to the Vice President of the United States and ask the honor of his Company at the Visitation of the public Schools on Monday the 8 h. of July Ins t — The Company proceed from the Selectmens Chamber at 8–o’-Clock in the Morning, and dine at Faneuil Hall at 2. o’-Clock— RC ( Adams Papers ). JQA accompanied JA on his formal visit to the...
14606From Jedidiah Morse to John Adams, 5 July 1793 (Adams Papers)
Mr Morse presents his most respectful compliments to the Vice President of the United States, & begs him to accept of a Sett of his American Universal Geography , as a small testimony of that high & sincere esteem & veneration he has for his character—& of the grateful sense he entertains of his obligations to the V. President, as among the principal instruments, of the great national...
14607From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, 3 August 1793 (Adams Papers)
’Though I can not find a pretext, valid enough to exculpate me, in interrupting your Excellency’s Serious occupations, however I am inclined to believe, that you will excuse it after a Silence of Seven mounths, in the persuasion, that a due Sense, of what everÿ American owes to your merits and character, with which since more than a dozen years I have been acquainted, being a witness of a...
14608From Joseph Priestley to John Adams, 20 August 1793 (Adams Papers)
This will be delivered to you by my eldest son, who, together with my youngest, is following their brother from France. They are to look out for a settlement for themselves; and when that is effected, I propose to join them, and end my days with you. You are mistaken if you imagine that I expect anything more than security from open violence, and persecution in other forms, which all who...
14609From Benjamin Lincoln to John Adams, 11 September 1793 (Adams Papers)
Before this can reach you, you will be informed that our attempts to establish a peace with the hostiles tribes of Indians North of the Ohio has been ineffectual; And lest you should be perplexed with vague and uncertain accounts of the state of the business I have now taken up my pen to give you a short detail of the matter.— On my arrival at Niagara the 25 h. of may I was informed by the...
14610From John Adams to Jean Luzac, 2 October 1793 (Adams Papers)
The Bearer of this Letter is M r Lear the late Secretary to President Washington a Gentleman universally esteemed and beloved wherever he is known. I beg Leave to introduce him to your Acquaintance and Freindship. This Country is too happy in the Enjoyment of that Liberty which Cost them So dear to risque it, by medling in foreign Wars: and too gratefull to those who assisted them it, to join...