15061From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 16 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
At length your clover-seed, and chocolate Nut shells, are on Ship board for Alexandria; consigned to the care of Colo. Gilpin. The Vessel was to have sailed this day, but whether she is gone, or not, I am unable to say—she has been going every day for ten days, but I would not put your things nor my own Seeds on board until the last moment, lest they should get heated in the hold. yesterday...
15062From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 18 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you, from Mount Vernon, I have seen & conversed with Mr Morris on the subject of a person to Manage a Tilt-hammer for you. He says it is difficult to get one who understands the business, & in other respects is worthy of confidence. The Person he had, he was obliged to discharge, on account of his inebrity, & knows not where to supply his place but by importation; which is...
15063From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 3 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
In due course of the Post I have received your letters of the 17th of December & 21st of the last month; and congratulate you on the birth of a Son—and the passage of your family through the Small Pox. As you had acknowledged the receipt of the needful for purchasing the Buck Wht, and had assured me that no disappointment should follow, I have not given you the trouble of a letter until now,...
15064From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 21 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have in due course of post, been favoured with your letter of the 11th instant. I thank you for the prompt compliance with my request—as I do Mr Fitzhugh also for the ready belief he yielded that I would do nothing unfriendly, or ungenteel in the case you were desired to mention to him. Before the receipt of your letter, I had dispatched Howell Lewis (who was first to go to Fredericksburg...
15065From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 24 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am glad to find by your letter of the 13th instant that the bracelets were received, & pleased. The chocolate shells which you request shall be procured and sent when the Clover Seed goes, which I hope will now soon happen, as the navigation is once more just opened; and because it is high time that both you and my Manager had received the latter; that is the clover Seed. No Vessel is yet up...
15066From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 19 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 7th instt came duly to hand, but the multiplicity of matters that pressed upon me at the time, prevented an earlier acknowledgment. I write to you now respecting an exchange of Lands because you wished to hear from me soon, on that subject—not because I think there is the least probability of such an exchange taking effect; I judge so from the ideas I have formed (from the...
15067From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 22 September 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 16th instt has been received, informing me of the death of my brother. The death of near relations, always produce awful, and affecting emotions, under whatsoever circumstances it may happen. That of my brother’s, has been so long expected, and his latter days so uncomfortable to himself, must have prepared all around him for the stroke; though painful in the effect. I was...
15068From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 27 July 1794 (Washington Papers)
Eight or ten days ago I wrote to you concerning a Manager for the Tilt hammer which you contemplated the erection of; since which I have received your letter of the 15th instant; in which, doubts of going on with it are expressed. As I am equally ignorant of the expence of erecting, & the profit when erected, I can say nothing encouraging or discouraging of the measure: but if from an...
15069From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 25 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th instt from the Sulpher Springs has been recd. When General Knox (who for several days has been expected) returns, I will deliver your letter to him —and from him (in whose department the business lyes) you will receive an answer to your proposition. I hear with the greatest pleasure of the spirit which so generally pervades the Militia of every State that has been...
15070From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 16th Instant, from Leesburgh. In answer to which, respecting the purchase of Buck Wheat, I send you a Bank note for two hundred dollars; being more disposed to give two & six pence pr Bushel in Loudoun than depend upon the purchase here, & the uncertainty of getting it round in time. What the Waggonage of it to my house from thence (as fast as it is...
15071From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 2 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 19th of December and 9th Ulto came duly to hand in the usual course of the Posts. I was not unmindful of the contents, altho’ I did not acknowledge the receipt of them. Genl Knox, who was in Office when the first came to hand, said (as well as I recollect) that nothing could be done in the matter without an Act of the Legislature of Virginia, consenting to the purchase of...
15072From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 4 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Previously to the receipt of your letter of the 25th Ulto, some persons had been mentioned to me as well qualified for the superintendence of my business at Mount Vernon; and until something is decided with respect to them (letters having passed on the subject) I can say nothing further with respect to Mr Lawrence Lewis. So much am I engaged in public business, and so little haveg it in my...
15073From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 18 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 26. of December came duly to hand, but occurences of various kinds have prevented an acknowledgement of it till this time. I am not at all uneasy at the delay, or impatient for the settlement of the estate accounts of my deceased Mother; I am persuaded they will be rendered in due time, and to the satisfaction of all concerned—To pay all she owed is my first wish—to render...
15074From George Washington to Burgess Ball and Charles Carter, 18 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
Having set out on a tour through the Eastern States, it was at this place your letter of the 8th Instt overtook me. Not having my fathers Will to recur to when I wrote to my Sister, nor any recollection of the Devises in it, I supposed she was entitled to a Childs part of the Negros; but if they were otherwise disposed of by that Will (as I believe is the case) she is certainly excluded; and...
15075From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 10 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
We removed to this place about twelve days ago to avoid the heat of Philadelphia, & probably may remain at it until the middle of next month. It was here I received your letter of the 5th instant, which came to my hands yesterday. The business of establishing Arsenals, and providing proper places for them is within the Department of War; the Secretary of which (General Knox) set out on Friday...
15076From George Washington to Burgess Ball, 23 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
By a letter I have just received from my Manager, Mr Pearce, dated the 18th instt I find he had received no more at that time, than 131 bushls of the Buck Wheat you were to procure for me. I hope there will be no disappointment of the remainder. It would fall hard upon me, as I have not the quantity of Seed Oats necessary to carry my plan into affect this year; a failure of both would leave my...
15077From George Washington to John Ballendine, 18 April 1758 (Washington Papers)
Mr John Ballendine. Sir. Ft Loudoun, the 18th of April, 1758. We are in great and immediate want of Iron, of the following dimensions; vizt Two ton, of one-inch, square bars— One ton, of three-inch broad, and half an inch thick, ditto. Be pleased, therefore, to send the whole , or part thereof to this place, without delay. Dispatch in this , will encourage me to contract with you for iron on...
15078From George Washington to George Ball, 7 May 1797 (Washington Papers)
By the Post of friday I received, with no small degree of surprise, your letter dated the 24th Ulto with a Post mark on the back dated Lancaster Courthouse the 29th. Had not the matter you complain of been discussed and explained, at the time our bargain was closed for the Gloucester Land there might, in appearance, have been more cause for the observations you have been pleased to make than...
15079From George Washington to George Ball, 17 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
It is somewhat singular, that instead of receiving Three hundred and three pounds in April of the last year, as per agreement for the land I sold you (lying in Gloucester County of this State) that I should never have seen, nor heard a tittle from you, respecting this payment, at the time it became due, nor since for near a year. The first Instalment of the residue will become due the 10th of...
15080From George Washington to George Ball, 6 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed is the copy of a letter I wrote to you in answer to yours from Lancaster, & to that place directed it supposing your residence to be in that County. This letter will be directed to the care of the Postmaster in Fredericksburgh, but as you are not particular in designating the place at which you are to be found, it may not, any more than the former, find its way to you. The receipt of...
15081From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Ball, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Ball, and his thanks for the little book he has been so kind as to send him. he has gone over it with real pleasure, and found as much material information on the animal economy as could be brought into so small a compass. he with satisfaction offers himself as a subscriber for a second edition & salutes mr Ball with respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas...
15082From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Ball, 3 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Doctr. Ball and his thanks for the 2d. edition of his animal economy which he recieves with pleasure, and values for it’s compendious form, and clear arrangement. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
15083From James Madison to Isaac Ball, 4 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 April 1809. Acknowledged in Ball to JM, 11 Apr. 1809 . Authorizes Ball to list JM as a patron of a proposed new edition of his work, An Analytical View of the Animal Economy .
15084From Alexander Hamilton to Joseph Ball, 28 December 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Compliments to Mr. Ball Chairman of a Committee of the Bank of The UStates. He would propose that the three hundred thousand Dollars remaining unpaid of the 400000 loan should be paid in three equal installments on the first of November December and January. The point of credits for bills deposited is reserved for further consideration but will be...
15085From James Madison to Alexander Balmain, 23 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 November 1794. Acknowledged in Balmain to JM, 8 Dec. 1794 . Encloses a copy of Washington’s 19 Nov. annual address to Congress denouncing “certain self-created societies.”
15086From John Adams to Md., Citizens of Baltimore, 2 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you, for communicating to me this respectful address— The sense you entertain of the conduct of a foreign nation, in threatening with destruction, the freedom, and Independence, of the United States, and representing the Citizens of America as a divided people, is such as patriotism, naturally and necessarily inspires—The fate of every republic in Europe however, from Poland, to Geneva...
15087From George Washington to the Baltimore Merchants and Traders, 27 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
At this eventful period when caution must be united with firmness to preserve to the United States the blessings of peace, & at the same time to maintain our rights as an independent nation, it affords me no small degree of satisfaction to find that my endeavours to promote these objects, by declaring the neutrality of the U. States, has met your approbation. While the measures of this...
15088Thomas Jefferson to the Baltimore Tammany Society, 25 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your free & cordial salutations in my retirement, are recieved fellow citizens, with great pleasure, & the happiness of that retirement is much heightened by assurances of satisfaction with the course I have pursued in the transaction of the public affairs, & that the confidence my fellow citizens were pleased to repose in me has not been disappointed. Great sacrifices of interest have...
15089Tobias Lear to Gerard Bancker, 20 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your Letter of th⟨is⟩ date, accompanying a Sett of the Laws of the St⟨ate⟩ of New York, as lately revised, which you sent for ⟨the use⟩ of the President of the United States, in pursuan⟨ce of⟩ concurrent Resolutions of the Senate & Assembly of ⟨the⟩ State of New York. The Sett of Laws has been delivered to th⟨e President⟩ of the United States, who requests that his...
15090From Alexander Hamilton to Gerard Bancker, [31 July 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
I inclose you a copy of a warrant to me from The Superintendant of Finance on the Treasury of this State for the sum due the 1st day of April last as the first quarte[r]ly payment of the quota of the present year. I shall be obliged to you to inform me what appropriations have been made by the Legislature of the State on this account; and I am at the same time to request the payment of such...