158951[Monday August 5. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Monday August 5. 1776. Two Letters from General Washington; one from the Council of Virginia, with sundry Copies of Letters from North Carolina And South Carolina inclosed; one from E. Anderson; and sundry Resolutions passed by the Convention of Pennsylvania, were laid before Congress and read. Referred to the Board of War. The Board of War brought in a report; which was taken into...
158952Enclosure: St. George Tucker’s Ode to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Ad Thomam Jefferson. Inclyte Civis! primus inter pares; patriae Sortis impigerque Custos, Dudum, et Salutis nostræ præsidium, Et dulce decus: Dum Iovis Ira Terruit Europam , Fulmina dum jam diruerunt urbes; Dumque Bellona populos extinxit, pax nobis risit: Te nec Ambitio (semper et iniqua, Semperque fallax) maxima promittens, Nec clamittantum Civium Caterva Movit ad Bella: Te neque ferox...
158953[Diary entry: 24 October 1771] (Washington Papers)
24. Reachd my Mothers to dinner, & lodgd afterwards at Colo. Lewis’s.
158954General Orders, 6 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
A General Court Martial is ordered to sit to morrow at 10 oClock A:M: for the Trial of John Semsy, John Batcheler, and William Crostin all of Col. Gridley’s Regiment, charged with “Desertion and Theft.” At the same time, they are to hear and determine, the Case of Edward Dunley a Stroller, accused of “Theft”—Notice to be given to the Prisoners to day. Captain Leonard of Col. Woodbridges...
158955Saturday March 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The weather is very severe: The month comes in like a Lion, and according to the farmer’s proverb it must go out like a Lamb. I passed my evening in contemplation, and in writing at home; and have very Little to say for this day.
158956[Diary entry: 13 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
13. Some hands went & got the residue of the Mill Wheat into the House & all the Rest with the Cradlers went into the Neck & cut down & securd little more than 20 Acres of Wheat.
158957[Diary entry: 4 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Tuesday 4th. Dined and did the same after visiting a machine at Doctr. Franklins for smoothing Clothes, instead of Ironing of them after washing which appears to answer exceeding well for every species of them that has not pl[e]ates & folds.
158958[Diary entry: 18 July 1774] (Washington Papers)
18. Went up to Alexandria to a Meeting of the County. Returnd in the Evening—Mr. Magowan with me. When GW arrived in Alexandria he first attended a meeting wherein “the Resolutions [were] revised, alterd, & corrected in the Committee” ( GW to Bryan Fairfax, 20 July 1774 , ViHi ). Then the whole committee went “into a general Meeting in the Court House,” where GW found an almost “perfect...
158959Continental Congress Motion on Establishment of Permanent Funds, 21 March 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas Congress did on the 12 day of February last resolve—“that it is the opinion of Congress that the establishment of permanent and adequate funds on taxes or duties which shall operate generally and on the whole in just proportions, throughout the United States are indispensably necessary towards doing complete justice to the public creditors for restoring public credit and for providing...
158960[Diary entry: 27 September 1784] (Washington Papers)
27th. I left Mr. Logston’s a little after day-break. At 4 Miles thro’ bad road, occasioned by Stone, I crossed the Stony River; which, as hath been before observed, appears larger than the No. Branch. At ten Miles I had by an imperceptible rise, gained the summit of the Alligany Mountain and began to desend it where it is very steep and bad to the waters of Pattersons Creek which embraces...