156951From James Madison to Willink and Van Staphorst, 23 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 July 1804, Department of State, Washington. “I have to inform you, that General John Armstrong has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris, in the room of Mr. Livingston, who has resigned that office. He will therefore be authorized to draw upon you for his salary at the rate of Nine thousand dollars per annum, for the salary of his Secretary at the rate of...
156952From James Madison to Willink and Van Staphorst, 6 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have this day drawn upon you, at fourteen days sight, in favour of Thomas T. Tucker Esq Treasurer of the United States, for twenty thousand current Guilders, being the sum received from the Batavian Government on account of the condemnation of the cargo of the ship Wilmington Packet, at St Martins, on the 30th Sept. 1793 and placed by Mr Murray late Minister Resident of the United States at...
156953From James Madison to Willink and Van Staphorst (Abstract), 22 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
22 April 1805, Department of State . “James Bowdoin Esqr being appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to His Catholic Majesty has authority to draw upon you for nine thousand dollars as his outfit, for his salary at an annual rate equal to the same sum, for the contingencies of the Legation, for reimbursements to Consuls, and at the termination of his mission for a quarters...
156954From John Adams to Jan Willink, 9 October 1801 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time, since I had the pleasure to write to you: but this omission has arisen from engagements in public Business, which left me no time for any Attention to my private Affairs. It is now time for me to think of my own little concerns, and this Letter is to inform you, that I have engaged my worthy Son John Quincy Adams, late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the...
156955From John Adams to Jan Willink, 30 April 1792 (Adams Papers)
I have duely received your Letter of the 5th. of July and thank you for your Care of my little Interest recommended to you in my Letter of the 30th of April last. I have Since received your friendly favour of the 29th. of December last and thank you for your Information concerning our American Affairs in holland. For my own Part, I wish that our money Negotiations might be continued in your...
156956From John Adams to Wilhem Willink, 14 July 1797 (Adams Papers)
I embrace the opportunity by General Marshall one of our Envoys Extraordinary to France to acknowledge the receipt of your kind Letter of the 31st. March. For your kind congratulations on my Election to a new office: and for your friendly wishes for my Success in it I most heartily thank you. Permit me to reciprocate your obliging wishes for the prosperity of our Country , the prosperity of...
156957From John Adams to Jan Willink, 1 March 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 19th. 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 vessel for Boston, to the address of the Honorable Cotton Tufts Esqr of Weymouth near Boston, either in Spanish or Portugal Gold or in Spanish milled...
156958From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 1 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that I have drawn on you this day in favor of Mr. Grand, banker of Paris, for three thousand two hundred and one florins one sol de banque paiable at one day’s sight on account of the United states of America, which I depend on your honouring and am with great respect gentlemen Your most obedient & most humble servant, PrC ( MHi ).
156959From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 25 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I find by your favor of the 19th. inst. that we are not likely to agree in opinion as to the intentions of Congress and the board of Treasury; for it is their intention which forms the law for us both. I have asked of you the money for the medals and another purpose because I thought, and still think, it was their intention that these purposes should be executed in their turn: you have refused...
156960From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 29 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Yourselves Mr. Adams and myself have concurred in agreeing that Mr. Dumas’s situation required the [immediate payment of the] arrears of salary due to him. These arrears are 11516 florins [according] to an account rendered by him. Had the board of treasury been on the spot they would probably have thought as we do. However their letter of Feb. 20. does not leave a liberty to pay to him this...
156961From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 30 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I receive this day your favor of the 24th. instant. I had before received from Mr. Adams a letter approving of the application of so much of the money in your hands to the paiment of Fizeaux’ debt, if there were so much. He presumed my draught on you would suffice, but offered to join if you required it. However from what you say in your last letter I have concluded to refer it to the board of...
156962From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 30 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Carmichael informs me that he has drawn on you for 4614₶–3–6 for salary due to him. I have only to observe on this occasion that in the Estimate which Mr. Adams and myself left with you, the article of 4000₶ monthly for the diplomatic establishment was meant to include the demands for salary and incidental expences of Mr. Carmichael, Mr. Dumas and myself, and that these demands, including...
156963From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 1 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that I have this day drawn on you in favor of Mr. Grand for two thousand seven hundred and thirty one florins five sols Banco, at four days sight, which be pleased to honour and charge to the United states of America. I have the honour to be Gentlemen Your most obedient humble servt., PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Messrs. Wilhelm & Jean Willinck, Nicholas & Jacob...
156964From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 11 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 2d. instant you refer me to a resolution of Congress which appropriates the loans of 1787. and 1788. to the paiment of interest to the year 1790 and the residue to the salaries of their ministers and the contingent expences which may arise in Europe, and you suppose that this manner of wording the resolution postpones the articles of salaries and contingencies to that of...
156965From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 16 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
This serves to advise you that I have this day drawn on you for thirty six thousand florins banco divided into seven bills of exchange as specified below, paiable at ten days sight to the order of Messieurs Grand & co. which be pleased to honour and charge the same to the United states of America. I have the honour to be Gentlemen Your most obedient & most humble servt., One bill for six...
156966From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 4 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of Octob. 16. in answer to mine of Oct. 3. by which I find we are not to count on the immediate filling up of the last loan. There are important purposes which ought not to remain unexecuted a moment after money sufficient for them shall be obtained. In order to judge of this it will be necessary for me to know from time to time the state of the funds in your...
156967From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 15 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
During my absence from this place, on a journey of three or four months, the funds placed here by the Board of Treasury for support of the American legation at this court, and for other ordinary expences, became exhausted. It was not known to me till my return and I immediately gave notice to the Board of treasury. But as it would necessarily be three or four months before I could get an...
156968From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 3 October 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you by Mr. Parker the act of ratification by Congress of the loan of a million of florins for which Mr. Adams executed and deposited bonds with you in March last. You then supposed that if the new constitution should be adopted, these bonds might be disposed of readily and advantageously. That adoption has taken place; and I should be glad to have your present...
156969From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 22 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your joint letter of the 16th. inst. to me, and have perused that of the same date to the Board of Treasury which you were so kind as to inclose for my perusal. I shall immediately forward it to them. You therein state the balance in your hands to be 123,674 florins, to which will be added the nett produce of 103. bonds engaged tho’ not yet delivered, and you say there...
156970Enclosure: The Commissioners of the Treasury to Willink & Van Staphorst, 21 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be pleased to pay to the order of the honble. Mr. Jefferson minister from the U.S. at Paris, such sums as he may call on you for, to enable him to pay certain arrears of interest due to foreign officers who served in the army of the U.S. during the late war, and to honor his drafts to the amount of 30,000 florins for the purpose of executing a certain act of Congress of the 18th. of...
156971From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 16 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 8th. instant and in consequence thereof have this day drawn on you seven bills amounting in the whole to 36,000 florins banco in favor of Messieurs Grand & co. paiable at ten days date according to a letter of advice of this days date. These draughts are to cover the three articles of Virginia, Grand and Gateau as stated in the estimate I gave you . They...
156972From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 13 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Dec. 30. I had the honour to inform you that in consequence of yours to me of the 24th. I would ask of you to pay the interest on the 51,000 gelders for the last year, and that I would write to the Treasury board to take their own measures for reimbursing the capital. I wrote to them accordingly. I at the same time desired Messrs. Fizeaux & Co. to call on you for the interest...
156973From Thomas Jefferson to Willink & Van Staphorst, 13 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received from Messrs. H. Fizeaux & co. a notification that a loan of 51,000ƒ obtained for the United states by the mediation of their house will become due the first day of the next month. I immediately communicated the same to Mr. Adams, and proposed to him the authorizing you to pay that sum out of the monies obtained by you on the loan lately opened by him in Amsterdam, if you...
156974Enclosure: To Willink & Van Staphorst, 19 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to pay to Mr. William Frederic Ast or order two thousand nine hundred and fifty three livres tournois arrears of salary due to him as clerk to Mr. Barclay Consul general of the United states of America, as stated on the back of this order for the information of the person who may at any time hereafter be appointed to settle your account with the United states. I am gentlemen Your...
156975John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 14 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your Letter of Yesterday, as I Suppose, tho without a Date and have maturely considered its Contents. I have weighed your Reasons and considered your Advice, and upon the whole, I think it most prudent to agree, upon the Terms you propose, the Undertakers engaging for a Million, but yet I would pray you to endeavour to perswade them to engage for at least fourteen hundred...
156976John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 16 February 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 6 th: of January and that of the second of February and am much obliged to you for the particular Account of the State of the Cash and Obligations in your Hands. By all that I have learnt from your Letters, as well as by Enquiry in Conversation it seems to be so possible and indeed so probable, that the United States might be exposed to a loss of several...
156977John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 23 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I receiv’d with Pleasure, your Favour of the 16 th. which informs me of the Engagement of the Undertakers for a Million. I have receiv’d Letters from Some respectable Gentlemen, at Amsterdam, containing a Remark upon the Plan, which I beg Leave to transmit you in the Words of one of the Letters. “Il me semble que selon la teneur dudit Plan, il ne convient guere, pour ne pas dire, point du...
156978John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 1 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your Favour of Yesterday and thank you for the Promptitude with which you answered mine of the 29. Ult. I have been informed particularly by the two worthy Pensionaries, Vanberckel and Vischer, as well as by your Letter, of the Difficulties of Succeeding with your venerable Regency, and therefore See no hopes of Saving the Bills but in the Plan of a new Loan, or in that...
156979John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 10 January 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have received, with much Pleasure, your Letters of the 20 th: and 30 th: of December; give me leave to congratulate you, on the flouishing State of your Treasury, which furnishes a very good proof, that the Credit of the United States has much ameliorated since January. 1784 when I was obliged to undertake and undergo all the Hardships and Inconveniences of a Winter Voyage, and Journey, in...
156980John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 10 October 1784 (Adams Papers)
My Colleague M r Jefferson, has orders from Congress to receive a sum of Money in Europe for his necessary accommodation, and not readily finding it, I have ventured to draw upon you in his favour for Six Thousand Florins which I request you to honour. I am requested also to draw upon you for about a Thousand Pounds sterling in favour of Coll Humphreys Secretary of our Legation to enable him...
156981John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 3 August 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have accepted two Bills drawn by my Wife to be paid at the House of Mess rs Willinks and Shall accept two more to be paid by Mess rs Fullers in London. Please to charge these and all the Monies I Shall draw in London at the Same House to the United States as part of my Salary Tomorrow I go to London, and thence directly to Paris with my Family, to meet M r Jefferson who is joined with M r...
156982John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 25 August 1784 (Adams Papers)
I am at length, Sit down once more to Business, at Auteuil, a Village near Paris, where I have taken a convenient House, with a pleasant Garden in a fine Situation near the Forrest of Boulogne, Sufficiently elevated above the River Seine and the low Grounds as well as far enough distant from the putrid Streets of Paris, to afford me a reasonable Hope of preserving my Health, during the Time...
156983John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 24 March 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 19: and congratulate you on the Success of the Loan. It gives me great Pleasure to find that American Credit is not quite exhausted, and I flatter myself that every Day will contribute something, towards removing the Prejudices, and Jealousies, and towards confuting the Calumnies, which have hitherto obstructed you and me, in our Endeavours to serve the...
156984John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 22 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
On the Eleventh of this Month, I wrote you a Letter, in which I requested you to inform me, whether you had any Money of the United States in your Hands and to what Amount. To that Letter I have not yet received any Answer. I now take the Liberty to repeat the Request contained in it, and to add another viz that you would inform me, what Number of Obligations you have remaining unsold both of...
156985John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 16 September 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have received your obliging Letter of the 2 d of this Month, with the Papers enclosed I have heard nothing from Congress nor from M r Morris respecting the last Loan, excepting a few Lines from that Superintendant of Finance, of Thanks for the Assistance given him. The Adjournment of Congress is I Suppose the Reason. In the latter End of October, Gentlemen you will be so good as to draw the...
156986John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 8 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I am to take with me to Paris, a Quantity of Bills of Exchange, formerly accepted by me, in behalf of the United States and paid by Mess rs: Fizeaux, Grand & Co. it is necessary that a List of these Bills should be made, before I sign a Receipt for them; and therefore, these are to request you, to speak to M r: Fizeau upon the subject, and assist in making the List, or at least in examining...
156987John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 5 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Favour of the Fourth, and considered its Contents. I am very Sorry to find there is no Hope of obtaining the Money upon the old Obligations with an Additional Gratification. The Credit of the United States must be very low indeed, in this Republick, if We must agree to Terms So exorbitant as those in the Plan you have inclosed to me, in order to obtain about two hundred...
156988John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 26 April 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have two favours to ask of you. 1. That you would give orders to M r: Puller, in Broad street Buildings London to Supply a certain Lady with as much Cash, as she may have occasion for on my Account upon her Receipts. This Lady is not any one, that I have seen this four or five years: but it is my Wife, of whose Arrival, in the Texel or in London, I have Reason to expect within a month or...
156989From James Madison to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 11 September 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 September 1801, Department of State, Washington. Informs the firm that Robert R. Livingston, having been appointed minister to France, is authorized to draw on them for his annual salary of $9,000, for contingent expenses of the legation, and for as much of his outfit of $9,000 as he may decide not to receive in the U.S.; he is also authorized to draw money to pay accounts of certain...
156990From James Madison to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 8 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1801, Department of State, Washington. Informs the firm that Charles Pinckney, having been appointed minister to Spain, is authorized to draw six thousand dollars for his outfit and nine thousand dollars for his annual salary. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p.
156991From James Madison to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 11 September 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 September 1801, Department of State, Washington. Notifies the firm that Charles Pinckney is responsible for settling accounts of some U.S. consuls and is authorized to draw necessary funds. Instructs them to distinguish such payments from salary and contingent accounts of the legation. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p.
156992From James Madison to Willink, Van Staphorst, and Hubbard, 23 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1801, Department of State. Owing to the interruption of all commerce between Spain and Portugal, David Humphreys has been unable to draw funds on deposit at Lisbon. Has directed Humphreys to draw on them for balance due him and for three months’ extra salary, to allow for his return. Will make an additional remittance to cover. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, IC , vol. 1). 1 p.
156993From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 9 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received at length the leave of absence which I had asked, I wait now only for a vessel bound from some port of France to the United states; so that I may with some confidence expect to leave this within a fortnight or three weeks. You were so kind as to send me a list of the bills I had drawn on you to the 1st. of April inclusive. I must now beg the favor of you to send me a list of...
156994From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 9 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 2d. instant, and a few hours before I had received one from the Treasury board settling for us the order in which the monies of the last loan shall be paid. This takes a middle ground, ordering, according to your wish, the paiment of the interest for the ensuing month of June in the first place, and then ensures to the particular purpose committed to me...
156995From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 17 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I think myself tolerably certain of leaving this place on the 27th. or 28th. instant. The business for which the 30,000 florins were destined is now in a train of negotiation so that I will ask the favor of you to remit it here in good paper no matter whether at short or long sight, as it will be some time before the money will be wanted. Make it paiable if you please to Mr. William Short, who...
156996From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 3 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received with pleasure your favor of the 27th. July and immediately took measures for beginning the particular business confided to me by Congress, and for which the sum of 30,000 florins is destined. Within about three weeks I shall be possessed of such information as will enable me to decide on the disposal of the money. In the mean time you will be pleased to keep it in your hands.—With...
156997From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 20 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of July 3. 1792. I remitted you a bill of exchange drawn on you by the Treasurer of the US. for 123,750 current gilders, and desired you to enter it to the credit of the Secretary of state for the US. and to answer draughts which should be made on it by Mr. Pinckney for purposes unconnected with those of his general mission. I have now to inform you that Mr. Nathaniel Cutting will...
156998From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 25 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The continued fall in the public stocks of this country, the incertainty where this may end, and how far the fortune of individual bankers may be involved induce me to wish that any part of the thirty thousand florins not yet sent forward by you in consequence of my letter of the 9th inst. may be retained in your hands till further order from Mr. Short or myself: only be pleased to observe...
156999To Thomas Jefferson from Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 4 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We had the pleasure to address you our last Respects the 17 August past, and have now the honor to transmit you Abstract of your Account Current with us for the Department of State up to this Date, the Balance whereof due unto us Holld. cy. ƒ13,255.6. augmenting constantly by fresh Disposals, for the Objects to be supplied by your Department. We are persuaded You will have attended, to provide...
157000From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 21 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter written to you a few days ago informed you that my draughts on my departure would be greater than I had formerly given you reason to expect. I have this day drawn one bill on you for £210. sterling in favor of Mr. Auldjo or order, and have sent to Messrs. Grand & co. a letter of credit desiring you to answer their bill for two thousand eight hundred florins banco, which demands...