1531To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar 30 Jan. 1792 . The vessel by which he wrote on the 16th is still detained by unfavorable weather. The Emperor has reportedly crossed the Morbeya on his way to Morocco. So opposite are the opinions of those best acquainted with Barbary that some think when the Emperor arrives Ben Assar’s army will disperse and the people may flock to him, others that he will be defeated.—Spanish...
1532Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 17 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from Bedford on the 29 th of Sep. and again on the 6 th inst. on my arrival here. since that date 35. barrels of flour have been shipped from my mill on my account by T. M. & T. E. Randolph ’s for rent, being instead of so much of 55. Bar. formerly shipped for me, but their destination changed as noted in a former letter. I in my last I requested to hear from you on the discount of...
1533To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas, and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 4 February … (Hamilton Papers)
Confirming our last respects of 14 Ultimo, We have now but to transmit You the Account Current of the United States with us, up to 31st January last, the Balance whereon, due by us Holld. Curry. f 923,284.13.8. We transfer to the Credit of the United States in a New Account. The Delivery of the Bonds the preceeding Month has been very brisk: Among them were 144. Bonds of the Half of the Loan...
1534From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine Terrasson, 7 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with attention the papers on the subject of the canal of the Santee and Cooper rivers, and shall be glad to do any thing I can to promote it. But I confess I have small expectations for the following reason. Genl. Washington sent me a copy of the Virginia act for opening the Patowmac. As that canal was to unite the commerce of the whole Western country almost, with the Eastern, it...
1535Comments on Turgot’s Plan for a Single Tax, [after 3 July? 1777] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Gustave Schelle, ed., Œuvres de Turgot et documents le concernant (5 vols., Paris, 1913–34), V , 516. Three documents in Turgot’s published works reflect an exchange between him and Franklin that is more apparent than real. The first is a long memorandum by the former minister, arguing the case for a single tax on land. The second is Franklin’s response, doubting whether the...
1536From George Washington to Joseph Jones, 14 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
(Private) I received the acct of your delegation with much satisfaction & was greatly pleased to hear of your arrival in Philadelphia —as I have ever placed you among the number of my friends I mean to take this early oppertunity of giving you a mark of my confidence in an interesting moment. The arrival of the Marquis de la Fayette opens a prospect wch offers the most important advantages to...
1537From John Adams to William Cunningham, 22 February 1809 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed you will find a phillipic of our angry, pevish, fretful Prophet Jonah. His anger is his talent. When he gives a loose to that passion which he always does in every thing he produces something smart, pert, and malignant, which pleases the malignaty of the vulgar. But Phillipics are not the highest style of politicks. I cannot think Demosthenes and Cicero in the highest grade of...
1538To Alexander Hamilton from David Ross, [5–10 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I did not return to Bladensburgh after an absence of 8 or 10 days ’till Monday the 1st. of October, the day of our Election when I found yours to me enclosing a letter to Colo. Mercer. Expecting to find him at Marlborough where the election is held for this part of the District I took his letter with me and not finding him there, I proceeded on to Annapolis, which place he had left for...
1539To George Washington from Brunswick District, Va., Citizens, 24 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
The deputies Elected by the Citizens of Mecklenburg Lunenburg, Brunswick and Greensville to report to the President of the United States their Opinions of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce Lately Concluded at London between John Jay and Lord Grenville, Met at Brunswick Courthouse on the 24th day of August 1795. To wit. Lewis Burwell, Major General Hopkins, William Delony, Thomas Field, William...
1540Return of Arms, Stores, &c., Belonging to the State of Virginia, [17 July 1779] (Jefferson Papers)
[Text reproduced in illustration section following p. 254.] Tabular MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand. See TJ’s authorization to De Klauman, 12 June 1779 .