158041General Orders, 26 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
All the Cartridges now with the men to be delivered up to the Regimental Quarter Masters who will have the damaged ones selected and delivered in to the Brigade Quarter Masters respectively, to whom they will make returns for a sufficient number to make up forty rounds pr man, including the good ones on hand which they are to keep by them ready to issue. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The...
158042[Diary entry: 23 May 1775] (Washington Papers)
23. Lowering most part of the day.
158043Preface to Cato’s Moral Distichs, [18 December 1735] (Franklin Papers)
Cato’s Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1735. Pp. iii–iv. (Yale University Library) The Printer to the Reader . The Manuscript Copy of this Translation of Cato’s Moral Distichs , happened into my Hands some Time since, and being my self extreamly pleased with it, I thought it might be no less acceptable to the Publick; and therefore...
158044[Diary entry: 8 August 1772] (Washington Papers)
8. Ditto—Ditto.
158045[Diary entry: 2 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
2. Cloudy with a Mixture of Hail Rain & Snow, but not much of it.
158046Church Services for John Adams’s Death, July 1826 to August 1826 (Adams Papers)
Order of Performances. VOLUNTARY ON THE ORGAN. OCCASIONAL DIRGE....GERMAN HYMN. Columbia’s children bathed in tears, Before they throne, Jehovah , bow! And feel with humble hearts the stroke, That shrouds a nation deep in wo. Almighty Father ! low in earth Lies Monticello’s hoary Sage; Whose hand that Magna Charta drew, That stamped his country’s golden age. And, gracious
158047IX. Abstracts of Gouverneur Morris’ Letters on Commerce, [May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[May 1784] G. Morris to Genl. Chastellux. Oct. 7. 1783. France fought for the American commerce. Has she got it and will she hold it? That contest is only beginning. Her success in it will depend on her prudent management. The marine of a country depends on it’s commerce. Commerce depends on 2. pillars. 1. Navigation, which forms seamen. 2. Wealth, which supplies taxes. To pursue a marine at...
158048General Orders, 22 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
The following are the names of the different Batteries, in and about this City—The Battery at the South part of the Town, the Grand Battery —The one immediately above it, Fort George —The one on the left of the Grand Battery, Whitehall Battery . That behind his Excellency General Washington’s Head Quarters, the Oyster Battery . The circular Battery near the Brewhouse, on the North River, The...
158049[Diary entry: 13 October 1772] (Washington Papers)
13. Also finishd Do. in the Neck.
158050Conversation with Comte de Moustier, [13 September 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Projet de M. hamilton, pour liquider les arrérages de la dette tant domestique qu’Etrangére des Etats Unis. Observations de M. de Moustier à ce sujet. Le 13. de ce mois, M. Hamilton à qui j’avois été faire la veille mon compliment sur sa nomination à la place de Secretaire du Departement des Finances, vint chés moi et m’entretint du projet qu’il avoit de proposer que le Congrès fit un emprunt...