158971To James Madison from A. Robertson, 16 April 1796 (Madison Papers)
Altho I have not the honour of being Personaly acquanted with you, I have taken the Liberty to Write you as a Member of our National Assembly and Man of good Sence and Abilites in the important Station you fill as a Reprensitive in Congress Now my Dear Sir Think Seriousely what your about in the Settling the Matter of the Treaty with Britian in which the Peace and Tranquality of this Country...
158972From James Madison to Ebenezer Stevens, 28 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 24th. October respecting the Minerva is not recollected: if it came to hand, it is mislaid, and has not been found after a search. For the American Vessels burned by Admiral Allemand, Genl. Armstrong had made a claim more than a year ago and received a promise that indemnification should be made. His subsequent communications do not, however, add anything respecting the...
158973To Benjamin Franklin from Besse, 5 September 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library Je n’ai reçu l’honneur de votre Lettre que le 21 d’août & si je ny pas répondu plutôt, c’est que je n’ai pu trouver de traducteur qu’à Strasbourg. Je ne Suis pas le Seul dans cette manufacture qui se plaigne du retardement des Lettres; nous en cherchons infructueusement les causes, c’est pourquoi, Monsieur, si jamais vous voulez bien me procurer...
158974To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 13 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
The late Proclamation relative to Intruders on the Public Lands having apparently caused a considerable excitement, I presume it not improper to communicate the inclosed Extract from a Private Letter received this day from Colonel Nicholas Gray, Register of the Land-Office at Washington. Mip.p.i. Territory, West of Pearl River. I have the honour to be very respectfully Yours. P.S. The...
158975From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 3 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Anthony Merry. 3 October 1805, Department of State. “I beg leave to trouble you with Duplicate Copies of two Documents concerning Nathaniel Bartlett, who appears to have been impressed into the British Schooner Whiting, on the Halifax station; and to ask the Interposition of your good Offices, to effect the Release of this man, whose Citizenship is fully proved by the Documents alluded...
158976From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 24 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 24, 1799. The description of this letter in the dealer’s catalogue reads: “Refers to ‘the evils which attend the delay of money—Among the rest the keeping of the Troops out of Winter Quarters to suffer the rigours of the advancing season.… If the contentment and attachment of the troops are to be aimed at, there must be a material change in the plan which has hitherto been...
158977From George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge, 24 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your Favor of the 19th instant with its Inclosure. Be so good as to write me of the Chain of Express immediately on the Recept of this & inform when the Count de Rochambeau leaves Hartford—by what Rout he intends to come on & when he may be expected at my Head Quarters, which he will find at Peekskill. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
158978From Thomas Jefferson to Ira H. Taylor, 27 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your favor of the 15 th communicating a copy of the catalogue of the officers & students of the College which has honored my name and I congratulate you on the prosperous state of the institution. we are engaged here in an establmt on a considble scale, and in our desire to make it as perfect as we can we have applied to the Universities of Oxf d Cambridge & Edinbg for...
158979Editorial Note on Four Undated Letters from Madame Brillon, [1777?] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society We summarize these brief notes here, on the highly questionable assumption that they were written late in 1777. Their tone suggests an early phase of the relationship, but they reveal almost nothing else about it. One, with no date, is an invitation to tea with her and her family. Another, dated eight o’clock Thursday, explains that she cannot come to see...
158980To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 23 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter in which you do me the honor to ask my opinion on the case of Thomas Logwood. I submitted it to the Council of State for their advice; but as they supposed that you had already made up your mind to extend mercy in some shape or other, unless his late conduct should have lessened his claims to your interference, & that you sought information only as to that fact, &...
158981July 26[–27] (Adams Papers)
Our next Stage was Bridport a small Sea port but a very bad harbour. No trade only in coal which is carried there by water for the supply of the inhabitants. We dinned there, and then proceeded for Axmister, the first town in the County of Devonshire. Here we put up at the best Inn I ever saw, the George kept by a Mr. Ellis. The appartments were not only neat and convenient, but every thing...
158982[Diary entry: 30 November 1797] (Washington Papers)
30. Wind & weather as yesterday—Mer. 24 a 34.
158983To Alexander Hamilton from Francisco de Miranda, 17 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Voi-ci mon tres cher ami, la Copie d’une Lettre que j’ai eû l’honneur de vous ecrir il y-a quelque tems, et dont j’atends la reponse avec impatience. C’est l’objet le plus grand et le plus glorieux qui s’est jamais presenté dans ce monde ici. Ils nous apartient de gagner l’estime de la posteritée en faisant sont bonheur; ou sa haine en laissant echapper un evenement aussi avantageux, dans le...
158984Aug. 27th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went to see the Pictures which are exposed to view in the Gallery of the Louvre; there are some good paintings there amongst a great number of indifferent ones. After dinner I went to see the experiment, of the flying globe. A Mr. Montgolfier of late has discovered that, if one fills a ball with inflammable air, much lighter than common air, the ball of itself will go up to an...
158985From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 21 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
On the 16th instt, at Baltimore, I met your letter of the 10th; and the next day forwarded it to Mr Cabot, as the most certain mode of making your ideas known to Judge Philips; who seemed desirous of being made acquainted with your determination respecting your sons, as soon as the nature of the case would admit. Whether the information was conveyed in Judge Philipss letter to Mr Cabot...
158986From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by Sickness, from sitting at our Table & giving a portion to each of my family in due Season, which is a Favour, which I cannot feel too grateful for—But for this fortnight past I have with Others in the Neighbourhood, been afflicted with what is called the Disorder of the Season—There has been but few...
158987From George Washington to a Board of General Officers, 6 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I beg leave to refer you to my letter of the 28th of May and to the papers therein contained for the subjects of your present deliberation. The Board, at their last meeting, seem to have mistaken the object of it, and to have imagined that it extended to the settlement of the relative rank of all the field officers of Artillery, which was not intended; but only that they should resume the...
158988To George Washington from John Baptista Ashe, 2 April 1791 (Washington Papers)
Halifax, N.C., 2 April 1791. Introduces Benjamin Easley, a cadet in Captain Montfort’s company, who “flatters himself with filling” an ensigncy in the U.S. Army, and recommends his “Merit, and Abilities, equal to doing honor to the profession.” ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Joseph Montfort wrote GW, from Chesterfield Court House, N.C., on 11 April: “the Company under my Command has...
158989[Diary entry: 20 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
20. Dined with Mr. Cadwalader & went to the Ball. John Cadwalader (1742–1786) was the son of Dr. Thomas Cadwalader and Hannah Lambert Cadwalader. He and his brother Lambert were Philadelphia businessmen. On 18, 19, and 20 May an important series of races was run in Philadelphia, which GW and Jacky Custis almost surely attended, although there is no mention of it in the diaries. The races were...
158990To James Madison from Alfred G. Moore, 24 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
I enlisted in the State of Ncarolina County of Cumberland for the term of five years under Capt. Thomas J. Robeson in 3d. Rifle Regt. I Enlisted with the expectation of promotion and was careless then how I enlisted for It was my opinon at that time that war would continue Several years, and was willing to Serve my Country in time of war, but the war is Ended and It is not my desire to...
158991From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 4 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am to acknowledge the recet of your Excellencys favor of the 27th Novembr and to thank you for the very polite manner in which you are pleased to express yourself, with respect to the correspondence between us, be assured, Sir, that nothing will give me more pleasure than to commmunicate to you any thing that may occur worthy your Notice. The apprehending of the persons mentiond in the...
158992To George Washington from Major John Clark, Jr., 27 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
By two persons just from Philadelphia I have received the following information Vizt that the Enemy brought on shore thirty three Boat load of wounded Soldiers and Seamen on the 23d Inst. and that they have taken several Companies of Marines from on board to do duty as Foot, they curse Fort Mifflin heartily, & say, it has given them more trouble, than any thing they ever met with. the Shipping...
158993General Orders, 2 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in chief requests the officers to be very attentive in seeing that the tops of the Chimneys are carried above the tents, to prevent their being scorched by the heat or fired by the Sparks. There being a necessity for keeping the Light Companies of the Army advanced the regiments to which they belong are to make provision for building hutts for them. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
158994To George Washington from Richard Williams, 13 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Sheet is most humbly presented to your Excellence, for publication (if counted worthy) in the United States of America. Grace will render it profitable and pleasurable to its believing readers wheresoever circulated—although penn’d by a poor tinner among the moor-stones in Cornwall! assuming the honour of subscribing himself Your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant ALS ,...
158995From James Madison to John Armstrong, 19 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mr Skipwith has represented himself to be aggrieved by an attachment laid by the French Government upon a liquidation in his favor, under the Convention for the purchase of Louisiana. From the Documents he has exhibited, comprising as well a statement of the grounds upon which the attachment has been imposed, as his own explanations, it would appear that the principal stress is laid upon the...
158996To James Madison from Simon Lynch, 26 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 September 1804, Nantes. “A Decree issued by this Government about three months ago authorised to take out of any Neutral vessels all British Seamen suspected of being put on board during the passage as Spies. But I am sorry to say that this Measure has degenerated into a gross abuse. The under commissary of Marine at Paimbœuf within my official District has but very lately taken out of the...
158997Frances Wright to Dolley Madison, 26 July 1825 (Madison Papers)
We had fondly hoped my dear Madam & kind & respected friend to embrace you very shortly & cultivate yet more intimately that acquaintance wch my heart wd even now urge me to call friendship. We have been forced to defer this pleasure for the present from the indisposition of my sister occasioned by the excessive heat during the week we lately passed in Philadelphia, & wch decided me to entrust...
158998Enclosure: To John Adams, 27 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
Secret United States [New York] August 27th 1790 Provided the dispute between Great Britain and Spain should come to the decision of Arms, from a variety of circumstances (individually unimportant and inconclusive, but very much the reverse when compared and combined) there is no doubt in my mind, that New Orleans and the Spanish Posts above it on the Mississippi will be among the first...
158999From George Washington to William Cocks, 23 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
Orders to Captain William Cocks, of a Company of Rangers. Pearsall’s—October 23d 1755. You are hereby Ordered to remove with your Company from the place where you are now Quartered, to the Plantation of Nicholas Reasmer, in order to Escort Waggons to and from Fort Cumberland, and protect the Inhabitants, by sending out frequent Scouting Parties. You are to apply to Henry Vanmeater for Beeves,...
159000To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 7 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Territory, will transmit you a Copy of the "Civil Code", adopted at the last Session of the Legislature. You will find the English Text extremely incorrect; This is attributable to the circumstance of the Work having been written in French, and the translation prepared by persons who were not well acquainted with the English Language; So erroneous does the translation...