159101General Orders, 23 September 1777 (Washington Papers)
The General expects the returns of the army to morrow morning without fail, and enjoins it upon the commanding officers of corps to see that they are exactly made. Each regiment is to proceed in making cartridges for its own use, that they may be held in store—Genl Knox will furnish them with materials. It is expected, as the weather is now growing cool, that the troops will never have less,...
159102[Diary entry: 8 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
8. Neither of the above Persons were at work on the Race today. But Abel Cellicoe and one of his Sons set into ditching on the Race. Finished Planting of Corn in the Neck this day. Got two Boats load of Lime, Wood & one of Stone to the Mill—but the Battoe was stopd by Wind. Abel Callico had worked for Lund Washington on Fitzhugh’s mill in 1764, but neither he nor his son proved to be of much...
159103[Diary entry: 24 June 1763] (Washington Papers)
24. Began to cut Timothy at Ashfords.
159104From Alexander Hamilton to Defence No. XX, [23 and 24 October 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
The point next to be examined is the right of confiscation or sequestration, as depending on the opinions of Jurists and on usage. To understand how far these ought to weigh, it is requisite to consider what are the elements, or ingredients, which compose what is called the laws of Nations. The constituent parts of this system are, 1 The necessary or internal law, which is the law of Nature...
159105[August 1787] (Adams Papers)
At Kin gsbridge, the southerly Point of the County of Devonshire, the birth Place of my Brother Cranch. Wen t Y ester day to Church in the Morning, dined with Mr. Burnell, went to the Presbyterian Meeting afternoon, drank Tea with Mr. Trathan, and went to the Baptist Meeting in the Evening.—Lord Petre is the Lord of this mannor.—The Nephew of my Brother Cranch possesses the Family Estate,...
159106General Orders, 22 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
159107[Diary entry: 25 March 1796] (Washington Papers)
25. Wind in the Same place. Clear & cool all day.
159108[Diary entry: 18 May 1780] (Washington Papers)
18th. Heavy & uncommon kind of Clouds—dark & at the same time a bright and reddish kind of light intermixed with them—brightning & darkning alternately. This continued till afternoon when the sun began to appear. The Wind in the Morning was Easterly. After that it got to the Westward.
159109[Diary entry: 15 January 1772] (Washington Papers)
15. Clear and very pleasant, with but little Wind, and that Easterly. Ground froze in the Morning & thawd afterwards.
159110May [1780] (Washington Papers)
1st. Raining moderately all the forenoon with a little thunder—thick and misty afterwards—wind Northerly. 2d. Foggy & misting all day at the same time cold & raw. Wind still in the same quarter as yesterday. 3d. Close and misting—the Wind being at West in the Morning & continuing so all day. Abt. 9 it cleared. 4th. Very pleasant and clear. Wind being Southwardly & Warm. 5. Clear &...
159111[Diary entry: 4 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
4. Warm again but no appearance of Rain tho the wind was favourable for it.
1591128th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon Mr. D went and took a walk. Mr. Artaud din’d at Mr. Rimbert’s. In the afternoon Mr. D. went to the summer garden. Stay’d at home all day. Fine weather.
159113[Diary entry: 12 May 1772] (Washington Papers)
12. Went up to Alexandria with Mrs. Washington & Miss Custis to see Captn. Woods Ship Launched. Returnd in the afternoon.
159114[Diary entry: 1 November 1770] (Washington Papers)
November 1st. A little before eight Oclock we set of with our Canoe up the River to discover what kind of Lands lay upon the Kanhawa. The Land on both sides this River just at the Mouth is very fine; but on the East side when you get towards the Hills (which I judge to be about 6 or 700 yards from the River) it appears to be wet, & better adapted for Meadow than tillage. This bottom continues...
15911520th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Tyler was again taken up the whole day. In the afternoon I went with my Cousins, over to Weymouth to see Mrs. Tufts who is recovering from a long and dangerous illness. We spent about an hour and drank tea there. I saw at a distance the solitary house which was my Grandfather’s: but had no inclination. Whence arises this antipathy, to places where those who are dear to us have died? Why...
159116[Diary entry: 23 February 1786] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 23d. Thermometer at 36 in the Morning—32 at Noon and 32 at Night. Wind at East all day. By eight A.M. it began to Snow and continued to do so more or less all day, covering the ground by Night 3 or 4 Inches when it became a kind of Sleet. Mr. Lund Washington came here to dinner, and returned afterwards. A Mr. Rice Hooe came in the afternoon and stayed all Night. Mr. Shaw went to...
159117Enclosure: Resolutions from Philadelphia Manufacturers, 8 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a General & numerous Meeting of the Manufacturers of the City of Philadelphia and such other Citizens as reprobate the imposition of an Excise upon the Infant Manufactures of America held in the State House Yard on Thursday the eighth Day of May One thousand seven hundred and Ninety four the following Resolutions, together with the Preamble were proposed & unanimously adopted. Whereas it is...
159118Introductory Note: Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank, [23 February 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
There are at least eight manuscript versions of this famous document. One of these is an incomplete draft in Hamilton’s handwriting. The other seven are copies. The two versions that are printed below are the draft and that copy which it is assumed is the final version that was sent to George Washington. The seven copies of this document are located as follows: 1. Copy, Mr. John R. Dillard,...
159119Notes on Debates, 11 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( LC : Madison Papers). For a description of the manuscript of Notes on Debates, see Papers of Madison William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al ., eds., The Papers of James Madison (7 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). , V, 231–34 . Wednesday June 11. see Journals. secret & public. The journals of 11 June 1783, both “secret & public,” record the adoption of a resolution further...
159120[Diary entry: 19 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
19. Calm, clear, and Pleasant.
1591211778. May. 7. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
J’allai, hier, apres midi, a la Revue, ou Le Roy, a fait une Revue de ses Guardes de Suiss et de francoise. Ce Matin, sentence unfinished
159122Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Elementary Schools, [ca. 9 September 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes An Act for establishing Elementary Schools §.1. Ministers of the gospel are excluded to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; & with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions. 1. Be it enacted by the General assembly of Virginia that, at the first session of the...
159123[Diary entry: 27 October 1772] (Washington Papers)
27. On the same business.
159124[Diary entry: 21 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
21. Still & Calm forenoon Wind pretty fresh from the Eastward afterwards.
159125Memorandum, 11–14 January 1756 (Washington Papers)
Jacob Funckhouser received his discharge at William West’s, January 11th as Ensign Buckner had taken John Berry in his room. LB , DLC:GW .
159126Orders, 14 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
As Colonel Washington has received some advices from Conogochieg; which render the march of the party of militia ordered yesterday, unnecessary—Those Orders are countermanded: and the Militia are not to march until Colonel Washington receives farther advice from the Governor. After Orders. All the Field Officers of the Militia are desired to attend at Colonel Washingtons Quarters, at half an...
159127Subscription for Promoting the Cultivation of the Vine, [1794] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, 1794. ] Hamilton purchased one share of the one hundred and thirty-nine shares which were sold to sixty-seven persons in 1794 for “promoting the cultivation of the vine.” Copy, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. This document contains a list of names and is entitled “Extract of the Book. Names of the Gentlemen has subscribed in 1794.” It was enclosed in a letter...
15912822d. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I went to the English Library and took out the 2 last volumes of Clarissa and Nichols’s collection of Poems. In the afternoon I wrote a letter to Mr. Thaxter in Holland. Mr. D. wrote to my Father. Windy Rainy weather. Finish’d Cicero’s oration pro Milone. John Nichols, A Select Collection of Poems: With Notes, Biographical and Historical, 8 vols., London, 1780–1782. JQA copied...
159129[Diary entry: 7 April 1788] (Washington Papers)
Monday 7th. Thermometer at 50 in the Morning—50 at Noon And 50 at Night. The Wind was at So. Et. & East all day; abt. 7 Oclock it sprinkled rain and abt. 1 Oclock, began a slow & thin Rain, which continued with intervals the remainder of the day and in the Night a good deal fell. Visited all the Plantations. In the Neck, the Posting, Railing & ditching was compleated this Morning up to the...
159130[Diary entry: 14 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
14. Another Misty Morning, with great appearances of Rain all day—only a little fell however.
159131April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Thursday the First. Received from a Comee. of both Houses of Congress the following Acts. viz—“An Act to accept a Cession of the Claims of the State of No. Carolina to a certain District of Western Territory” and an “Act to prevent the exportation of Goods not duly inspected according to the Laws of the several States.” Communicated to both Houses of Congress a letter from the Govr. of So....
159132General Orders, 27 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
159133VII. Miscellaneous Notes on Commerce, [ca. June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Pennsylva. Virginia. Pennsylvania Freeport in English W. Indies. S. Carolina. Govr. Hopkins tells me that old Mr. Middleton at the first Congress informed him that state owed 800,000£ sterl. private debts to Gr. Brit. MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand. These notes may have been set down during May-June 1784 as TJ traveled northward, or they may have been compiled later on the basis of replies...
159134Joseph Belton: Receipt, 13 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
DS : American Philosophical Society Receiv’d of B Franklin, Fifty Louis d’ors on Account of Public Service to the United States which I have undertaken to perform.— Belton and the gun which he was peddling are discussed in our annotation to Le Roy’s letter, above, under Jan. 20. In BF ’s hand.
159135[Diary entry: 4 December 1788] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 4th. Thermometer at 25 this Morning—42 at Noon and 40 at Night. Wind still at No. Wt. and fresh—but after the Morning the cold was not so severe as yesterday. At home all day.
159136General Orders, 2 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief, to prevent unnecessary Applications for Furloughs informs the Officers that none will be granted by him unless the Officers who apply for the same produce Certificates from the Major Generals of the Divisions to which they belong, that the state of their Regiments will admit of their absence from Camp. And it is expected that the Major-Generals previous to their giving...
159137Council of War, 16 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
At a Council of General Officers held at Head Quarters in Cambridge [16]th January 1776. Present The Commander in Chief laid before the Council a State of the Regiments in the Continental Army, the consequent Weakness of the Lines, and in His Judgement, the indispensible necessity of making a Bold attempt to Conquer the Ministerial Troops in Boston, before they can be reinforced in the Spring,...
159138[Diary entry: 15 April 1796] (Washington Papers)
15. Very thick morning—with but little wind. Clear Noon and rain in the Afternoon.
159139Account with William Thornton, [5 December] 1809 (Madison Papers)
Account between the Honble. James Madison—and Mr. Thornton. William Thornton Dr: 1806 Augst. 4. To a Loan of one hundred and fifty Dollars $150.— 1807— To Interest one year on the above 9.— To Interest on fifty Dollars till 1809 from Augst. 4th: 1807 till Decr. 1809. 2 yrs: 3 months 7.50 1805 Octr. To 120 Bushels of Coals at 28 Cts. ⅌r: Bushell 33.60 March 18. To 196 Bushs: of Coal at 28 Cts....
159140Orderly Book, 12 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
Camp at Loyall Hannon Novr 12th 1758 Parole Albany Field Officer for to morrow . Adjutant for to morrow 1 B. Pensilvs. As Genl Forbes is Apprehensive that the Stock of flowr at Loyall Hannon may fall Short by each Soldier receivg a pound ⅌ day it is his orders for the future each Soldier receive ½ lb. flower & ⟨1½⟩ lb. fresh Beef in Lieu of a pound of each ⅌ day with a proportion of Salt. A...
15914119th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Swedish Ambassadors: the Company was not very numerous: a number of Sweeds, one, who lately came from America: the Ambassador said to me: mon dieu que Mlle. vôtre soeur est jolie! j’ai vu peu d’aussi jolies femmes qu’elle: he thought doubtless, that I should tell her what he said: he is a very agreeable man. The Gentleman lately from America, professes to be charmed with the...
159142[Diary entry: 2 May 1772] (Washington Papers)
2. Very smoaky and hazy all day—warm in the Afternoon and perfectly Calm.
159143General Orders, 27 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
John Trumbull Esqr. being appointed Aid: D. Camp to his Excellency the Commander in Chief; He is to be obeyed as such. A Court of enquiry to sit to morrow Morning at eight OClock, in the Tutor’s Chamber (Mr Hall) to examine into a Complaint exhibited upon Oath, in the public newspapers against Mr Benjamin Whiting, now a prisoner in the College; All Evidences and Persons concern’d to attend the...
1591441778 April 21. Mardi. (Adams Papers)
Dined, this Day, at Mr. Chaumonts, with the largest Collection of great Company that I have yet seen. The Marquis D Argenson, the Count De Noailles, the Marshall de Maillebois, the Brother of the Count de Vergennes, and a great many others, Mr. Foucault and Mm., Mr. Chaumonts Son in Law and Daughter, who has a Fortune of 4 or 5000£ st. in St. Domingo, Mr. Chaumonts own Son and Miss Chaumont....
1591451771. Monday June 3d. (Adams Papers)
A fine Morning—a soft, sweet S.W. Wind. Oated in Spencer—turned my Horse to grass at Wolcotts in Brookfield. I ride alone, I find no Amusement, no Conversation, and have nothing to think about. But my Office and Farm frequently steal into my Mind, and seem to demand my Return. They must both suffer for Want of my Presence. The Road to Stafford turns off, by Brookfield Meeting House, into...
15914611th. (Adams Papers)
The weather begins to grow Cold: and the winter is advancing with hasty strides. In the afternoon I went down to Mr. White’s, but they were all gone out: Went and spent half an hour at Mr. Blodget’s, then return’d home. I accompanied the inseparables Nancy, and Debby, to Judge Sargeants, where we remain’d all the evening. Those two girls in particular, ate such a quantity of peaches, as...
159147[Diary entry: 13 March 1786] (Washington Papers)
Monday 13th. Thermometer at 38 in the Morning—49 at Noon and 48 at Night. Clear and pleasant with but little Wind, and that variable. In the forenoon it was Northerly and in the afternoon easterly and towds. Sun set lowering—the sun setting in a bank. Mr. Harrison and son went away after breakfast and Mr. Lund Washington came immediately afterwards and stayed till the afternoon. The ground...
159148[Diary entry: 27 April 1769] (Washington Papers)
27. Rid to the Neck Muddy hole & Doeg Run. Captn. McCarty & wife dind here.
1591493d. (Adams Papers)
We had our private exhibition this morning. The Orations by Little and Beale, were both upon Education; that of Little was excellent, generally allow’d to be equal to that of Thomson, who has the greatest character as a composuist of the Senior Class. Beale’s being in a dead language, was not so well understood but I thought it good; the Forensic, between Burge, and Abbot 1st. was on the...
159150Continental Congress Motion that States be Requested to Send Delegates to Congress, 2 July 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas by the Confederation the assent of nine states is requisite to the determination of matters of principal importance to the United States and the representation in Congress has for some time past generally consisted of less than that number of states in consequence whereof the public business at an interesting juncture has suffered and continues to suffer great delay and embarrassment:...