157951From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favors of the 29th. inst. public and private , and being in the moment of giving in my resignation I shall only answer the last by thanking you for the order for the wine, and informing you that Richmond is my nearest port and that to which both letters and things had best be addressed for me in future. Repeating assurances of my esteem, I have the honor to be Sir...
157952From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 7 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Aug. 25. from Boston, and am sensible of the candor of your proposition on the subject of Algiers: but our matters with them have been for some short time past in a train of settlement, the result of which however is yet unknown, and uncertain. Captn. Roger Robbins arrived here about the middle of last month. I knew he had been detained several days at...
157953From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 25 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Mar. 29 I mentioned to you the difficulty produced by the circumstance of your non-residence at the place of your consulship. since that some papers have been recieved at the office of the Secretary of state, inducing me to apprehend that you supposed we had listened to the various insinuations which had been directed, some of them to the government, others to the merchants...
157954From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 20 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter of detail yesterday, covering the 1st. of a set of Exchange drawn by James Madison (Secretary of state) on James Maury resident of Liverpool and endorsed by myself. referring to that letter, the object of the present is only to inclose the of the same sd. and to repeat my salutations and assurances of esteem & respect. PrC ( DLC ); in ink at foot of text: “Joseph...
157955From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 24 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In your favor of the 18th. you mention having for disposal two casks of white & red Sherry, and one of Malaga. if the Sherry be dry, I will gladly take them , as also the Malaga. if you could order for me a pipe of dry Pacharetti , and one of dry Sherry of the first qualities, to be forwarded from Spain by the first safe occasion I should be obliged to you. I presume you have persons there on...
157956From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 29 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last letters recieved were of May 25. & July 12. in your preceding ones you had mentioned the change of your residence from Cadiz to some other place not very distant, but that you had so good a dignity there that no inconvenience could arise to our commerce from your personal absence. reiterated complaints from sundry persons on this subject have been the less respected by me because I...
157957From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 4 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Jan. 30. as I had before done that of the 15th. I had some days ago desired mr Barnes to remit you 403. Dollars for the wines formerly furnished, which he engaged to do this present week. if you will inform me also of the amount of those mentioned in your letter of the 30th. it shall be also remitted. I have mentioned to mr Smith your desire to have a passage...
157958From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The butt of dry Sherry mentioned in your letter of the 3d. of April came safe to hand. I had already taken measures to make you the remittance for it in consequence of former advice, when I recieved your letter informing me you had drawn on me for the amount. I therefore stopped the remittance. unfortunately my letter mentioning that I should remit, got to you in time to prevent your draught...
157959From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. inst. I wrote to you inclosing a check on the bank of the US. for D. 590.72 the amount of the bill for the last wines you were so good as to send me. not knowing whether you were in Baltimore or Philadelphia, the letter laid by me two days for enquiry, and I then inclosed it to Genl. Smith , asking him to superscribe on it the proper place. I mention this because mr Barnes informs...
157960From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The pipe of dry Pacharetti, pipe & two half pipes of Sherry, which you were so kind as to send me last, arrived here safe, and I now inclose you for the same a check of the branch bank of the US. of this place for 590.72 D amount thereof as stated in your letter , payable at the bank of the US. at Philadelphia. the wines are not yet sufficiently settled to be bottled. after their qualities...
157961From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 26 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state is proceeding in the consideration of the several matters which have been proposed to us by you, & will prepare answers to them, and particularly as to our vessels taken by French cruisers & carried into the ports of Spain, contrary as we suppose to the tenor of the convention with France. tho’ ordinary business will be regularly transacted with you by the Secretary of...
157962From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Dec. 1. and have been prevented answering sooner by a constant press of business. I am sorry to learn that an uneasiness has grown up between the Chevalier Yrujo and yourself. as far as is within my own observation I can bear witness in favor of both that I have never heard either say a word to the prejudice of the other. with respect to yourself...
157963From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the wines you were so kind as to furnish me the one called in your letter Xeres sin color (pale Sherry) has most particularly attached my taste to it. I now drink nothing else, and am apprehensive that if I should fail in the means of getting it, it will be a privation which I shall feel sensibly once a day. while you live I am sure I shall be able to get it pure & good, and in the event...
157964From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Several letters recieved from you have proven that your mind is placed in a state of considerable anxiety by the maneuvres of some persons whose motives and objects are perfectly understood here. having been misinformed as to the distance of your residence from Cadiz, it became my duty to give you an opportunity of explaining that circumstance, and to let you understand how incompatible it was...
157965From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., [22 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17th is [just now] recieved. I am [sorry that] the state of your health is such as to require your leaving this […]. with respect to the return of our frigate we learn nothing [from] […]. we know generally that the French government hold no objection to the [passages] in the treaty proposed by the Senate [& therefore] that […] probably return with the ratification [on?] […],...
157966From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 26 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 10th. of May, and since that have recieved your several favors of Apr. 4. July 9. & 19. and Oct. 22. and very lately another letter written in Octob. subsequent to that of the 22d. but without particular date. with the two last came the butt of Pale Sherry to Philadelphia, from which place it is now on it’s way to Richmond in Virginia to be forwarded to Monticello. if...
157967From James Madison to Josef Yznardy, 10 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 10 December 1801. Acknowledged in Yznardy to JM, 18 Dec. 1801 . Discusses the suspension of Patrick Mullony’s consular functions.
157968Thomas Jefferson to Josef Yznardy, 6 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am living retired in the mountains of Virginia , & so far removed from any seaport, that I never hear of a vessel sailing to Cadiz until she is gone. this is the true & sole reason why so many of your kind letters to me remain unacknoleged. M. Correa de Serra , of Lisbon , having done me the favor of a visit , and being to sail for the peninsul within a few weeks, furnishes me at length the...
157969From James Madison to Joseph M. Yznardy, 14 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 May 1801. Referred to in Yznardy to JM, 6 June 1801 . Requests Yznardy to produce certain financial records of his service as consul at Cádiz.
157970From George Washington to Peter Zabriskie, 10 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your affectionate congratulations on the happy conclusion of the War, and the glorious prospect now opening to this extensive Country, cannot but be extremely satisfactory to me. Having shared in common, the hardships and dangers of the War with my virtuous Fellow Citizens in the Field, as well as with those who on the Lines have been immediately exposed to the Arts and Arms of the Enemy, I...
157971From James Madison to Nicholas Van Zandt, [ca. 1 March 1820] (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Mr Vanzant, with an acknowlegement of the receipt of the acct. of Mr. Clark. After a lapse of eight years from the original date, and a silence for three more, it could not but be unlooked for. It might fairly be presumed that the Newspaper for which the charge is made, was like sundry others, never subscribed for; being voluntarily sent to the Executive of...
157972From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, [ca. 1773–1778] [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
You must give me leave to return you the inclosed, as I have laid aside the distressing trade of receiving money for serving my friends. the pleasure of doing them an acceptable office is the richest reward which can be conferred on me, and I never think them ungenerous but when they decline giving me an opportunity of proving this. the late occasion too was peculiarly sacred. the packet to...
157973From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 24 December [1781] (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to be told here that you are sick in Philadelphia. I had hoped to have had the pleasure of seeing you. You have heard probably of the vote of the H. of Delegates at the last session of assembly. I came here in consequence of it, and found neither accuser nor accusation. They have acknowledged by an express vote that the former one was founded on rumours only, for which no foundation...
157974John Smith to Isaac Zane, 16 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Through your means I beg leave to renew an application, formerly made to Governor Jefferson, on a proposed plan, for the more easie and safe keeping the prisoners of war in the town of Winchester. By the prisoners of war, you will please to understand, that I do not mean to include the prisoners of the convention of Saratoga, as those troops will be under the imediate inspection of a...
157975From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 17 June 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your kind letter of the 7th inst. I have long intended myself the pleasure of visiting you, but fortune has as long been contriving obstacles to it. The appointment with which you inform me I am honoured will oblige me to stay pretty closely at home for some time to get my affairs into such a state as that they may be left. It at the same time perhaps offers me an opportunity of...
157976From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 8 December 1778 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
I was much disappointed at not meeting with you here for many reasons: one or two of them I will explain to you. my partners in the salt pans having been unable to send for them in due time, the gentleman who had contracted with us to carry on the business chose to decline it. this prevented our sending at all: & considering our great distance from the Salt-waters, they seem now disposed to...
157977From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 8 November 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
By Colo. Bland who is returning to Virginia in a carriage I send you a thermometer, the only one to be had in Philadelphia. It appears to be a good one. You must do me the favour to accept of it from me. The following are the observations which I would trouble you to make and transmit to me. The temperature of the cave at different distances from the mouth. The temperature of your ice house....
157978From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 17 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by a Mr. Strickland, an English gentleman who is passing through our country to see what is remarkeable in it. He is a person of great information, worth and respectability, and merits and will justify all the civilities and attentions we can shew him in his passage through it. As his object will be best answered by a communication with gentlemen of the best information...
157979From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 17 March 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you about the 10th of Nov. from Philada. by Colo. Bland who was going directly to Richmond. By him I sent you a thermometer. I hope you received it safely. I am anxious to hear whether you did and whether you have been able to make those trials with it to which the Queries in my letter asked answers. You will probably have heard that Fox and North are out of the British ministry. We...
157980From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Zane, 26 February 1778 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been unable to get waggons to set off hitherto for our pans and the day on which we were to send for them, approaching, I thought myself bound to send express with the money to answer my engagement. The bearer I hope will be with you on the 1st. day of March which if I recollect was the ultimate day I required. He will deliver you one hundred and eighty pounds, the price of two pans...
157981Thomas Jefferson to Franz X. Zeltner, 23 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved but lately your favor of Oct. 29. announcing to us the death of Gen l Kosciusko . to no country could that event be more afflicting, nor to any individual more than to myself. I had enjoyed his intimate friendship and confidence for the last 20. years, & during the portion of that time which he past in this country, I had daily opportunities of observing personally the purity of his...
157982James Madison to William Zollickoffer, 24 March 1836 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 17th. The best answer I can give, will be found in the enclosed paper containing the last proceedings of the Historical Society in this State. With respect, FC and enclosure (PHi) . Enclosure is William Zollickoffer to Socrates Maupin, 27 Aug. 1837, re proceedings of Virginia Historical Society.
157983[Diary entry: 29 April 1767] (Washington Papers)
29. Sowed more flax seed behind the quarter.
157984Chaumont’s Memoir on the Dispute between Jones and Landais: résumé, [after 24 November 1779] (Franklin Papers)
AD : University of Pennsylvania Library <[after November 24, 1779], in French, under the heading “faits entre M. Jones et Landais”: Jones and Landais have been locked in bitter dispute since the Bonhomme Richard collided with the Alliance during their first cruise from Lorient; Jones’s slowness in convening a council of war to terminate the quarrels between Landais and the officers of the...
157985Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 19 April the States General recognized the United States as independent and John Adams as its minister at The Hague. Four days later, to cement the relationship between the United States and a nation he hoped and expected would become an important trading partner, Adams presented a draft treaty of amity and commerce to their High Mightinesses. By 26 April the draft was translated into...
157986The Busy-Body, No. 2, 11 February 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , February 11, 1728/9. All Fools have still an Itching to deride; And fain would be upon the laughing Side. Pope. Monsieur Rochefocaut tells us somewhere in his Memoirs, that the Prince of Conde delighted much in Ridicule; and us’d frequently to shut himself up for Half a Day together in his Chamber with a Gentleman that was his Favourite, purposely...
157987[Diary entry: 15 August 1767] (Washington Papers)
15. Finishd sowing the 39 Inch Cut of Corn in the Neck with 44½ Bushl. Wheat. Finishd sowing that half of Muddy hole Corn field with Wheat round the Barn Bushel.
15798827th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting this morning. I was employed all day in studying mathematics, which are the most pleasing to me, of any of our studies. Spent, a couple of hours at Bridge’s chamber after dinner. Rain in the Evening.
157989[Diary entry: 23 May 1797] (Washington Papers)
23. Wind Easterly & rather Cool.
157990The Virginia Plan, 29 May 1787 (Madison Papers)
The Federal Convention plunged into its momentous assignment without great delay chiefly because a prepared outline for a new government was ready for the delegates’ consideration—the so-called Virginia Plan. JM never claimed to be the author of this plan, but his guiding influence in the Virginia caucus, which drafted the resolutions, is beyond dispute. Some weeks before the delegates...
157991[Diary entry: 13 February 1773] (Washington Papers)
13. Still at home. Mr. Dulany & Mr. Custis went to Mrs. Frenchs after Breakfast. The two young men undoubtedly went to visit young Daniel Dulany’s brother Ben and his new bride.
157992General Orders, 3 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
A General Court Martial of the Line, consisting of one Colonel, one Lieut. Colonel, one Major, and ten Captains, to sit to morrow morning at Ten O’Clock, to try all such Prisoners as shall be brought before them—All Evidences, and Persons concerned, to attend the court. Frederick Roach, a Matross in the Regiment of Artillery, tried at a late General Court Martial, whereof Col. Baldwin was...
15799324th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all night, and this forenoon. I attended meeting all day: Mr. Hilliard preached, but not in his best way. The meeting was very thin. It cleared up this afternoon, and the evening is very cold.
157994To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Potts, 10 December 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you upon my arrival in Liverpool as did my Friend and Relation Mr. Benjamin Rush, we also sent you some Letters from your Friends in Philadelphia in our favour, the design of which Letters was that you would be so kind as to write to any of your Friends in this place in our behalf, as I am somewhat apprehensive you have not received those Letters,...
157995[Diary entry: 10 June 1773] (Washington Papers)
10. At home all day alone.
157996General Orders, 14 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Congress have been pleased to pass the following resolve. Resolved—That in consideration of their extra-duties and service, the officers in the Army of these States, serving as Sub and Brigade Inspectors be allowed, the former three rations a day and forage for three horses and the latter two rations a day and forage for two horses, in lieu of all former rations and forage both as officers in...
157997William Watson: Notice of Franklin’s Experiments, 11 January 1750 (Franklin Papers)
MS : The Royal Society; also copy: American Academy of Arts and Sciences At the reading of this paper Mr. Watson took notice, that several of Mr. Franklin’s experiments were new and very curious; but, besides that Mr. Watson is not quite master of part of this gentleman’s reasoning, there are two things therein more particularly to be attended to: and these are, first, that when this gentleman...
157998From George Washington to the Officer Commanding Major Henry Lee’s Corps, 29 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
As from Major Lees present situation, the command of his Corps will devolve on you, I am to desire you will pay the strictest attention to the movements of the enemy down the river It is peculiarly necessary at this juncture as I am well informed the Arrival of Admiral Arburthnot has increased Sr Harry Clintons strength —from this circumstance it will be necessary for us to double our...
157999Presidential Proclamation, 1 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Whereas the enemy by a sudden incursion have succeeded in invading the capital of the nation, defended at the moment by troops less numerous than their own, and almost entirely of the militia: during their possession of which, though for a single day only, they wantonly destroyed the public edifices having no relation in their structure to operations of war, nor used at the time for military...
158000[Diary entry: 14 February 1760] (Washington Papers)
14. Ditto Ditto Do. Do. but cloudy.