158051To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Leschevin Randell, 17 December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Lerey a dit a mr. sage, que vous aviez compter venir le 1er. jour, que vos affaires vous en ayant empêcher, vous viendrier un autre, comme il y aura demain vendredy des éxperiences qui pouront vous faire plaisir, vener je vous en prie, mr. gridly votre compatriote est actuellement a voir ses éssays, et viendra demain au cours, sil avoit juger pouvoir...
158052From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, May 15, 1794. Transmits “for the President’s signature, the draft of a passport upon application from the French Minister.…” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. See Edmund Randolph to H, May 15, 1794 .
158053To Alexander Hamilton from William Hosack, 16 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave through you Sir to accept the appointment with which His Excellency the President has been pleased to honor me, an honor I hope in some degree to deserve by constant endeavours to discharge the duties attached to it in a becoming manner— As soon as I can prepare to join Captain Mc C lallen I will give you notice and wait your orders— It would be highly gratifying to my pride could...
158054[From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the Senate, 17 March 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 17 Mch. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “A. Cary. Dr. F’s letter extract. Marq. Fay. Ad. Jay. Laurence.—Turks and Russns—state of Congr.” Neither the letter nor the enclosed extract of Franklin’s letter of 25 Dec. 1783 has been found; but see TJ to Harrison, 18 Mch. 1784 .]
158055To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Bache, 3 December 1771 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society What extreme pleasure did my Dear Brothers letter give Me and Mine, to hear you had so greeable a Journey and that our Dear Sons Leg was so little worse for his Confinement in the Chaise, we shall all rejoice to hear it is quite recover’d. I was no little happy that My Dear Daughter, your good Lady and our Dear little Boy was well when you heard from...
158056From Alexander Hamilton to Jedediah Huntington, 7 June 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 7, 1790. Sends instructions concerning the brig Maria . LS , Mr. Leland F. Leland, St. Paul, Minnesota.
158057Smith & Riddle to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
In Compliance with your request, we have transmitted to the manager of the Boston Glass manufactory , the order you favor’d us with, under date the 9 th Inst, for One Hundred and ten panes of best quality Window Glass, which we have requested to be pack’d with special Care, in order to ensure its safe transportation— On its arrival here, we shall deliver it to your Correspondent M r Gibson ,...
158058From George Washington to Major General Robert Howe, 21 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday Evening received Your two Favors of the 19th and was happy to find that a part of Clinton’s Brigade had joined You. I hope by this time the whole will have got down, or at least all of it except the Regiment detached to Fort Schuyler with provisions. From the immense importance of the post under your direction, I wish, as expressed in my Letter of the 18th, that You may have & keep...
158059To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I recvd. your letter of the 5th, with pleasure & read it with satisfaction, as I always do, because I understand your politics, and because I see in them one uniform & everlasting principle that does not bend to the fashions & caprices of the day—Foolish people have cried out—“Mr Adams has changed his politics; he is no longer a federalist, but is changed to a republican.” I have as constantly...
158060[Diary entry: 2 October 1771] (Washington Papers)
2. Clear and pleasant, with but little Wind.
158061To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, with Reply, 25 March 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 23d . was this day laid before the Board; there is a Vessel now at the Capitol Landing which we shall have detained till the 7th of next month, in order to take in those Articles directed to be removed to Richmond; unless it should be thought better to order her round to the College Landing to receive them: The other instructions contained in the Letter shall be...
158062Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great thankfulness your kind congratulations on my liberation from the duties & anxieties of my late situation. five & twenty years of affectionate acquaintance (perhaps it is uncivil to recall such a period to a single lady) leave me without a doubt of their sincerity. of the ground of congratulation nobody can be a more feeling judge than myself. I my present freedom of...
158063General Orders, 16 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Return to be made immediately of the Carbines and Pistols, Good, Bad and Wanting in the several Regiments of Horse. The Brigade Quarter Masters are to apply to the Deputy Commissary General of Military Stores tomorrow for their proportion of tin Cannisters, Wires and Brushes, Fifes, Drum-heads, Snares, Sticks &c.—and proportion them to the several Regiments agreeable to a late order —The tin...
158064George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 1 June 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] June 1, 1780 . Asks Wadsworth to use his influence with Governor Jonathan Trumbull to obtain aid requested. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
158065From George Washington to James B. M. Adair, 4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 31st ulto from New York enclosing one from Sr Edwd Newinham—also the magazines, the Packet from Sr John Sinclair &c. for your care And attention in forwarding them I beg you to accept my thanks. Any civilities which it may be in my power to shew you while you remain in this Country, will give me Pleasure. I am Sir your Mot obt Sert LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG...
158066To George Washington from Thomas G. Johnston, 1 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have been Informed this day Since I came to this Citty, that you have been receiving proposals for Some time past, for the Sale of Some Lands, which Lay on the Western Waters, which if you have not Disposed of, I wish to know the Lowest price that will be taken for the first , Called round bottom, about fifteen miles below Wheeling also of the three Other tracts Which Lay Lower Down in the...
158067James Madison to Thomas S. Hinde, 17 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 23. was duly recd. but at a time when I was under an indisposition, remains of which are still upon me. I know not whence the error originated that I was engaged in writing the history of our Country. It is true that some of my correspondences during a prolonged public life, with other manuscripts connected with important public transactions are on my files, and may...
158068From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 10 January 1782 (Washington Papers)
I shall be glad to meet you here tomorrow Evening at 7 OClock on the business of the allowance of servants to Officers. You will be pleased to bring with you any Resolves of Congress or Papers which may be relative to the Matter. Inclosed is a letter from General Mcdougal recommending Docr Ledyard to a continuance in the new Hospital arrangement. I have no particular knowledge of the...
158069From George Washington to John Hancock, 28 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
Being about to cross the North River this morning in order to view the post opposite and the Grounds between that and powles Hook, I shall not add much more than that I have been honored with your favor of the 24th and Its several inclosures, and that since my Letter of Yesterday no Important event has taken place. As Colo. Hugh Stephenson of the Rifle Regiment ordered lately to be raised, is...
158070To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 15 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Permit me, in the warmest manner, to Introduce to yr Excellency, Mr Anderson, who, together with all his Family have been my most Zealous friends upon all occasions. Encouraged by the rising Prosperity of the United States, joined with the Principles of its Government, he has turned a good part of his Property into ready money, & intends to settle, with his Children, in some one of the States;...
158071To James Madison from Joseph Chew, 2 December 1796 (Madison Papers)
Having a Large Sum of money to Pay to Sir John Johnson and his not being acquainted with you made him wish me to give him a Power of Attorney for the disposial of my Two thousand Acres of Land in Bourbon County Kentucky. I have therefore given a Power of this date with Authority to Substitute and I believe he will appoint Robert Watts Esqr. of New York to Act for him, by this Power to Sir John...
158072To James Madison from John H. Buckley and Others, [ca. 1 March 1817] (Madison Papers)
We take the liberty to inform you of our sad misfortunes, confined in Cuba Prison, at the inhuman mercy of the cruel Spaniards. Our first misfortunes are as follow; Our vessels being sold for the purpose of privateering, we were obliged to take passage in the schooner Margaretta, Peter Anchor, commander, bound to Jamaica. To our sorrow, after being on the passage two days, the Captain brought...
158073To Benjamin Franklin from François-Félix Nogaret, 29 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Aimable Docteur! homme utile! Votre santé est-elle retablie? Personne ne le desire plus que vos respectueux amis de versailles homme et femme f. nogaret. Je vous prierai d’agréer, pour vos etrennes, Le portrait de notre archevêque de Paris, qui paraîtra dans les premiers jours de janvier, et qu’on vous portera. Menagés une Santé precieuse à tout le monde,...
158074To Thomas Jefferson from James Clark, with Gallatin’s Comment, 17 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Its with the greatest reluctance that I am about to trouble you again on my business at the treasury office as I canot obtain Such Sattisfaction as I am entitled to I received with pleashure on the 27th of last month a letter from Albert Gallitin Esqr. informing me that my a/c would be paid at the Treasury provided the exorbitant charge heretofore made by me be reduced to a moderate price I...
158075[Diary entry: 9 July 1798] (Washington Papers)
9. Clear morning wind at No. West Mer. 66–72 at Night—clear all day.
15807621st. (Adams Papers)
This morning I left Braintree in company with my brother Tom, who was going to Haverhill; and in order to have company, so great a part of the way, I determined to go there with him. We stopp’d a short time at Cambridge, and I went to Dr. Rand’s to take a Letter from Miss Newhall, as I had promised her at Commencement. She was gone out but had left the Letter. We dined in Wilmington, and got...
158077To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I retain Mr. Wilson’s letter, and return you his two certificates, as he may wish to keep them. If I ever heard his name before it has entirely escaped me. I do not believe he has been misrepresented to me, & doubt if he has been represented in any way. DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and Recommendation.
158078To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Duverger and Other People with Goods to Offer, with Franklin’s Notes for Replies, 3 March … (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Goodwill toward America and its representative kept flowing—sometimes at a price—from various sources. Some correspondents wanted to help the war effort, others to make known whatever interesting discoveries they had made. On March 3 came the offer, printed below, of the Liège arms manufacturer Duverger. Writing from Pennautier, near Carcassonne, on March...
158079To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 12 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Lisbon, 12 Aug. 1792 . He transmitted his accounts for the year past with his letter of 1 July. Since then no significant foreign news has arrived, but he expects to hear soon of the invasion of France and the Russian invasion of Poland. Now that Dr. Willis has returned to England, he will be able to learn little from “the interior of the Palace,” except from the Duke of Lafões, who is weary...
158080To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 27 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
Le Soussigné chargé d’affaires de la République française a l’honneur de transmettre ci Jointes à Monsieur Le Sécrétaire d’Etat des Etats Unis deux dépêches qu’il a reçues d’ordre du Premier Consul de la République Sous la Signature du Ministre des Relations Extérieures. L’une, Sous la date du 15. Thermidor an 10 (3. août 1802.) est relative à l’évacuation par les troupes de la République du...
158081[Diary entry: 6–12 October 1794] (Washington Papers)
6th. to the 12th. Employed in Organizing the several detachments, which had come in from different Counties of this State, in a very disjointed & loose manner; or rather I ought to have said in urging & assisting Genl. Mifflin to do it; as I no otherwise took the command of the Troops than to press them forward, and to provide them with necessaries for their March, as well, & as far, as our...
158082To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 10 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose all the notes & corrections I can make on the appointment list. The office of the Secy. of State can always give more precise description of the offices— Respectfully your obed. Servt. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as letter of “11” Dec. from the Treasury Department and “Nominations” and so recorded in SJL at 11 Dec. Enclosures: TJ’s...
158083June 4th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Read nothing but Magazines as indeed an indisposition rendered me unfit for any Application. Discharged my Venom to Billy Veasey, against the Multitude, Poverty, ill Government, and ill Effects of licensed Houses, and the timorous Temper, as well as criminal Designs of the Select Men, who grant them Approbations. Then Spent the Evening, with Zab, at Mr. Wibirts.
158084From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Babcock, 13 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society It was with great Pleasure I learnt by Mr. Marchant, that you and Mrs. Babcock and all your good Family continue well and happy. I hope I shall find you all in the same State when I next come your Way, and take Shelter as often heretofore under your hospitable Roof. The Colonel, I am told, continues an active and able Farmer, the most...
158085To Thomas Jefferson from Mademoiselle Thomas de Langat, 22 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Vannes en Basse-Bretagne, 22 Jan. 1789 . “Une infortunée” appeals to TJ to perform for her “ en particulier Les Services que Vous Rendez à la France en Général. Privée, dès le Berceau, de père et de mère, d’une Naissance au-dessus du Médiocre, et peu favorisée de la fortune, j’ai été Reduite à prendre des pensionnaires. ” Six years ago, on recommendation of Mr. Barclay, “ Consul des...
158086To Benjamin Franklin from Hennet, 16 January 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je n’ai pas encore reçû l’avis de l’arrivée à Nantes, des sabres que j’y ai fait passer par vos ordres et pour vôtre compte, ils doivent cependant y être parvenûs depuis prés d’un mois. Comme cet avis pourroit encore tarder, je vous serois très obligé de vouloir bien faire solder l’article des fusils, dont j’ai eû l’honneur de vous remettre la facture. J’ai...
158087From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 22 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote You on the 18th I have received a Letter from Genl Muhlenberg of the 11th transmitting me a List of the Officers mentioned below, belonging to Colo. Gist’s Regiment, who were omitted in the Return he sent me before —and in consequence were not included in the Arrangement intended to take place for the present with respect to the Virginia Drafts, which I inclosed You. These...
158088From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the death of Imlay, loan officer of Connecticut, Jonathan Bull (judge Bull) is well recommended as his successor by a number of republicans, and by mr Wolcott in a special letter. a Ralph Pomeroy of Hartford sollicits it for himself but sends no recommendations. those of Bull would leave me with little doubt of the propriety of his nomination; but as you can so conveniently make enquiry...
158089[Diary entry: 27 September 1768] (Washington Papers)
27. Rid to Muddy hole, Doeg Run, & Mill.
158090From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 9 December 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Baron Steuben has just favored me with a State of what is essential for your Corps. I am sincerely sorry it is in our power to comply with so little of it. I inclose you a warrant for £6000. which I fear however cannot be furnished till Thursday or Friday next, when any recruiting money due may be also paid. I shall be much obliged to you if you will be so good as to favor me with a return of...
158091From Alexander Hamilton to John B. Church, [10 June 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
Being to set out in few minutes on a Circuit I have only time to inclose you a duplicate of my Letter of the 23 of May and of a Bill of Lading for a Sum of money by the last packett: the last I say; but I believe she has not yet set Sail. I have given direction to the Broker to make Insurance for you. I have spoken to a friend to collect some more proper gold & Silver for you; which will be...
158092To George Washington from William Livingston, 26 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was honoured with your Excellencys official Letter of the [ ] instant & your personle Letter of the 21 which accompanied it—last Evening when the Assembly was on the point of Adjourning to February, but the favours which I immediately laid before them, prevailed on them to stay out this day—I suppose they will readily make provision for the better subsistence of the Militia when called out...
158093To George Washington from Martha Parke Custis Peter, 18 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
In the last letter I received from Grandmama, she mentioned your having said you would give me A silver Tea Pot, and Bowl. I should be ungratful did I not take the earliest opportunity of thanking you for your goodness, in granting my request. Be assured dear Sir I am very sensible of the many obligations you have confered on me, & hope I shall ever be grateful, for them. I am at present with...
158094Entering upon Law Studies Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
John Jay decided while he was at King’s College to enter a “Learned profession,” the law. However, his plans were complicated by the fact that the legal profession in provincial New York was a closely controlled monopoly. An informal organization of the bar functioned in the province by the early eighteenth century, and from that time admissions to legal practice became increasingly...
158095From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 13 July 1801 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 20 of June has been long on its Journey. I cannot recollect, in detail, the particulars of the Conversation you allude to at Mr De Neuvilles.—Capellen de Poll was a noble man by Nature. A frank, manly, generous Soul. Wherever I have met such spirits I have always felt them. Capellen was frequently with the Reports fabricated by the Anglomanes, representing the affairs of...
158096General Orders, 22 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Commissary General is, if possible to keep the Camp well supplied with rice for the use of the sick; if rice cannot be had, Indian meal is to be provided in it’s place; and as this is an article that can at all times and under all circumstances be had no excuse will be admitted for the neglect. He is every monday to make a return of all his issues in the course of the week and of his stock...
158097To George Washington from John Nicholson, 14 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I was at a loss whether first to offer the subscription herewith that your name might grace the head thereof—or to be detered by the consideration that in your office it may be deemed if not an interference of our government, yet of the highest administrators thereof which may give offence to some other Nations, but I considered that of this you could best Judge And that if the presenting it...
158098From James Madison to William Steward, 11 October 1798 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 October 1798. “Please to let the Bearer Mr. L. Whitten have a saddle for which I will pay you.” RC (owned by Charles M. Storey, Boston, Mass., 1961). Written on a small slip of paper. Addressed to “Mr. Steward / Orange Ct. House.” William Steward was an Orange County saddler ( Vi : Francis Taylor Diary, 23 May 1797). L. Whitten was a local carpenter whose skill in laying floors was employed...
158099To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 31 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
The acting Secretary of War has the honor to represent to the President of the United States: That having suspended the works at Fort Washington, and directed an Engineer to survey and report their actual condition in conformity with the Presidents instructions, the enclosed report and documents upon the subject, have been recently received. That under the existing circumstances, when the...
158100From John Adams to Benjamin Vaughan, 12 March 1783 (Adams Papers)
M r. Storer arrived yesterday with your favor of 25 th. Ult o. — I thank You for the Pamphlets, which are an Amusement in this place, how little soever there is in them of Sense or Candor. The Refugees however seem to judge right in their own Affair— Sensible that they have no Claim at all upon America for Compensation, they demand it of Great Britain, upon whom the pretensions of some of them...