158011To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 19 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
I received the Honour of yours, with an Account of the Bills you have to pay. I have accepted your Drafts for 77,000 Crowns, at 15 Days Date. The Shortness of the Term is inconvenient; and as our Money comes to hand by Degrees, and these unexpected Demands from Holland and Spain oblige me to anticipate our Funds, for which Anticipation I pay an Interest of five Per Cent, I wish you would for...
158012[March 1760] (Washington Papers)
Saturday Mar. 1–1760. Finishd Bottling 91 dozn. Cyder. The wind for the first part was at No. West & very cold, but shifting Easterly & then to So. it grew something warmer but continued Cloudy. The Ground being hard froze stopd my Plows this day also—and employd all hands in running the dividing fence of my Pastures. Traversd the Fields in the Lower Pasture again & set a Course from the head...
158013Motion To Inform States of Financial Crisis, [20 May] 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 47, fol. 339). Docketed: “Motion of Mr Madison[,] Letter 17th May 1782[, and] do 16. Circular to the States[:] May 20 referred to Mr Madison Mr Root Mr Lowell Mr Rutledge Mr Clymer to confer with the Superintendant of finance.” Whereupon Resolved That the Superintendt of Finance be instructed to transmit to the several Legislatures of the States, a representation of the...
158014Alexander J. Dallas to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
On recieving your letter of the 7 h instant , I ascertained that William Armstead had been appointed the Principal Assessor, for the 19 th Collection District of Virginia , with the consent of the Senate , on the 23 d of December 1813; and that he had signified his acceptance of the office, on the 7 th of February following. If, under these circumstances, it is your wish, that any measure...
158015To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 22 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Library of Congress, National Archives, Henry E. Huntington Library, Columbia University Library I have lately written to you several Letters. Enclosed is a Copy of one to Count de Vergennes, which Ct. de Montmorin, who also writes to him on the same Subject, is so obliging as to send together with this, by a Courier to bayonne. The Papers you have heretofore recd. from me, with those...
158016From John Jay to Joseph McKean, 14 April 1813 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . on Saturday last the interesting Letter which you did me the Favor to write on the 31 Ult. together with the two Pamphlets which you was so obliging as to send with it. Marks of Respect to the manners ^characters^ of such Men as Doct r . Eliot, not only tend to console their afflicted Relatives, but also to cherish the Virtues by which they were distinguished. Unhappily there is too...
158017From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Jones, 10 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Aug. 25. covering the memoire to the Comptroller general. I am doing every thing in my power on that business; tho’ I do not promise myself great success. The new Comptroller general, Monsr. Lambert is put in possession of what has been done and promised hitherto. The unsettled state of things is a difficulty the more added to those which had...
158018[Dumas] to the American Commissioners, 25 February 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; letterbook draft: Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague Depuis ma Lettre du 14e. de ce mois, j’ai eu plusieurs fois la plume à la main pour vous écrire; mais n’ayant rien de pressant à vous marquer, je me suis contenu, de peur d’être importun. J’espere que Mr. Franklin jouit de sa retraite en parfaite santé, et qu’il aura le loisir de m’écrire de là plus...
158019Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday yours of Mar. 28. and I thank you for the information respecting the packages. they contain pamphlets stating the conduct of the Executive in the case of the Batture which I have had printed at my own expence for the information of Congress and the officers of the government. I directed the printer to send by the stage 144. copies to mr Magruder for the Representatives , and...
158020From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Walker, [9 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose you a letter which I have received from Mr Marshall. If you can with propriety accommodate him it will be well. I doubt not his embarrassements are real & his emoluments in proportion to his merit are small. Yrs. sincerely ALS , Passaic County Park Commission, Paterson, New Jersey. Walker, a New York speculator and business associate of William Duer, was a director of the Society for...