15591[Diary entry: 11 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
11. At home all day. Mr. Willis went to Alexandria after breakfast.
15592[Diary entry: 11 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
11th. Clear and very cold. Wind very fresh from the North West.
15593Barclay’s Independent Negotiation: Three Documents, [after 12 December 1774 and before 16 February 1774, 1775] (Franklin Papers)
(I) AD : Historical Society of Pennsylvania; two copies with comments, and a sheet of answers: Staffordshire County Record Office; (II) copy and (III) AD : Norfolk Record Office In mid-February, 1775, after a conference with Lord Hyde, Barclay said that he was “now fully possess’d of what would do in this Business.” He thereupon drew up a list of points that he thought both sides had conceded,...
15594From John Adams to Edward Biddle?, 12 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind favour 16. Ulto with great Pleasure last Week at Cambridge. I rejoice at the Proofs your City, has given, of her inflexible Attachment to the public Cause, and Determination to Support it. There are many Names in your List of Committee Men, which I had not the Pleasure of knowing, but there are Abilities, Virtues, and Spirit enough, in those whom I knew very well, to...
15595To Benjamin Franklin from Lucrezia Agujari, 12 December 1774 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania L’Agujari umilia i suoi ossequj al Signor Dottore Benjamin Franklin, e lo supplica di gradire L’omaggio, che Essa hà L’onore di presentarle con la Stampa della Cantata, che eseguirà questa sera al Pantheon. [The Agujari presents her humble respects to Dr. Franklin, and begs him to accept the tribute that she has the honor of offering him, along with the...
15596[Diary entry: 12 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
12. At home all day alone.
15597[Diary entry: 12 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
12. Clear and Cold, wind continuing in the same place.
15598From George Washington to John Fitzgerald, 12 December 1774 (Washington Papers)
I will endeavour to attend the Committee, on Wednesday, agreeable to your notice. No conveyance is like to happen, that I know of, from hence to Colo. Mason previous to the meeting; otherwise I should not fail to give him notice & request his attendance—It now rests upon you to do it. I am Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt ALS , PHC . John Fitzgerald (d. 1799) had emigrated from Ireland a few years...
15599From George Washington to William Grayson, 12 December 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Grayson, 12 Dec. 1774. On 27 Dec. Grayson wrote GW : “I had the honor of your favor of the 12th of this instant.”
15600From George Washington to James Mercer, 12 December 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your letter without a date came to hand last post; & inclosed you have my Bond to Messrs McCoul & Blair for £450 for your Brothers moiety of the four mile run Land; as also receipts for £40.11.11 the balance due from him on account of the ohio Lands, under the Proclamation of 1754. Fifty four pounds (being the amount of £40 Sterling at 35 ⅌Ct exchange) which he assumed the payment of for Van...