17311From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 15 December 1779 (Washington Papers)
The representations I had the honor to transmit in my letters of the 10th and 12th and those now inclosed will inform Congress of the deplorable distress of the great departments of the army. I beg leave to add that from a particular consultation of the Commissaries, I find our prospects are infinitely worse than they have been at any period of the War, and that unless some expedient can be...
17312To Alexander Hamilton from Josias Carvel Hall, 25 April 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The Officers, who mett at the City of Baltimore by Appointment on the 23d Inst have elected Lieut. Ninian Pinkney Pay master. I waited one Day in Baltimore to receive his Bond & &c He was not able to accomplish his Business at that time; but expect he will forward them as soon as possibly, as he was urged to loose no time. They shall be immediately transmited. Lieut. Henry C. Neale of Port...
17313To George Washington from Charles Morgan, 6 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have Receiv’d all the Rents for you, that Colo. Cannon put into my hand Except Nine pounds Sixteen Shillings, Which he had Receivd previous to delivering me the accts. I have forwarded the Money to you by Mr Ross—and have Inclos’d the acct. Colo. Cannon will not come to any Settlement with me Respecting what he owes you—he Says he Chuses to Settle with your self. on my Way from Kentuckey...
17314Enclosure I: Philip and Anthony Filicchi to the Governor of Leghorn, 21 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
We have the Honor to lay before Your Eccelency a Copy of the Certificate of the Oath taken in New York by every Individual of the Crew of the American Brig the Minerva (as well as the Extract of the Articles of Navigation, by which every Seaman who without leave of the Captain is absent from the Vessel for the space of 48 Hours loses every right to claim his Wages). Alexander Haterton Mariner...
17315To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Singleton, 20 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I receved your letter the 6 Insant date ed the 24 ult. and not Haveing it in my power to answer you Be fore to day. you in formd me that you have kept for me A post of im Im por tence which I am vary hap Py to hear. the atcs of con gress Ra li tive to the lew E Sianna Re Specting the ju dici Ary sis Tem I was vary much plased it coin Cide ed with my opinnian pre Pre Sise ly not with Standing...
17316Martha Washington to Mrs. Shelbury, 10 August 1764 (Washington Papers)
In an Invoice to Mr Cary I have directed all the Goods for Miss Custis’s use to be got from you as I approvd of your last years choice —Such things as Misses of her age usually wear here I have sent for; but if you can get those which may be more genteel and proper for her, I shall have no objections to it, provided it is done with frugality, for as She is only nine year’s old a superfluity,...
17317To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Collinson, 25 April 1750 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wish I have before this advised my Worthy Friend that his pacquet per Cap. Clark came at last to my Hands, with the Electrical Papers, which are now on the Press under the Inspection and Correction of our Learned and Ingenious Friend Doctor Fothergill for Wee thought it a great Pitty that the Publick should be deprived the benefit of so many Curious...
17318To John Adams from Elizur Goodrich, 16 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
The Office of Collector of the Port of New Haven in the State of Connecticut having become vacant by the Death of David Austin Esquire, I take the Liberty to solicit of your Excellency an appointment to succeed him in the office. A friend has in my absence, transmitted from New Haven the accompanying Certificate, signed by respectable Men. Perhaps it will not be deemed improper to observe,...
17319To George Washington from Major General Horatio Gates, 14 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
Some new piece of Tyranny & Barbarity is constantly turning up on the part of the Enemy. The Board have received information of one in which they request your E[x]cellency’s assistance. A Colonel Daniel Heister Jr of this State an active good whig who in the association formerly existing here had a Regiment of Militia, applied to the former Board of War in the course of last June for...
17320From Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 8 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By a new arrangement of the post between Washington and Milton, Charlottesville &c it now leaves Washington Monday evening & reaches this neighborhood Thursday morning. consequently […] the Philadelphia papers of Saturday morning arrive here the Thursday morning following, [say] in 4. days exclusive of Sunday. […] they [would] before to be 9. days on the road. I recieved your paper of Saturday...
17321[Diary entry: 3 November 1770] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 3d. We set of down the River on our return homewards, and Incampd at the Mouth; at the Beginning of the Bottom above the Junction of the Rivers, and at the Mouth of a branch on the Eastside, I markd two Maples, an Elm, & Hoopwood Tree as A Cornr. of the Soldiers L[an]d (if we can get it) intending to take all the bottom from hence to the Rapids in the Great Bent into one Survey. I...
17322Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch, 26 April 1787 (Adams Papers)
I write you a few lines my dear Lucy to thank you for your kind Letter, and to inform you that I am a Grandmamma ! my Grandson be sure is a fine Boy, & I already feel as fond of him as if he was my own son, nay I can hardly persuade myself that he is not, especially as I have been sick for six weeks, I cannot however Nurse him so well as his mamma, who is already so fond of him, that I...
17323From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 29 November 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favours of 14 and 26. I thank you for the Extract, and hope you will discover by whom and to whom it was written. I dont See the Virtue nor the Wisdom, nor the Honour of writing Such Things to the English. It would be Sufficient, one should think to write them to America. However, just as they please. As long as they pursue with tryumphant success, the System, which was urged...
17324From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 31 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 24th Ulto was duely forwarded to this Camp by Colo. Lee. and gave me the pleasure of hearing that you, my Sister and family were well. after your Post is established to Fredericksburg the Intercourse by Letter may become regular and certain (& when ever time, little of which God knows I have for friendly corrispondances, will permit, I shall be happy in writing to you)—I...
17325To George Washington from David Stuart, April 1784 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry I was not at home yesterday, to have complied with your request, in sending a translation of the Chevalier’s letter by Mrs Washington. You will now recieve one of that, and of Crajenschot’s —Monsr Perrin, to whom I shewed Dasmonts letter, tells me, that the Brother enquired after by them, passed thro’ town about a month ago—He took a minute of the Contents, to transmit, or take...
17326To James Madison from Nathan Lufborough, 28 January 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 January 1802, Comptroller’s Office. At Mr. Payne’s request, recommends him for a recent vacancy in the State Department. Commends his handwriting, copying skills, and general competence. RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Nathan Lufborough was a Washington landowner and for many years a clerk in the Comptroller’s Office; JM nominated him to be a magistrate for the District of Columbia on 6 Feb. 1810 (...
17327From Thomas Jefferson to John M. Pintard, 3 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 5. has been duly recieved. The Consular fees recieved at Madeira and Lisbon had before been the subject of application to me by some of our merchants. I thereupon wrote to Colo. Humphreys to inform me what those fees were and on what foundation they were taken. I have not yet recieved his answer. I shall be glad if you will also give me information on the subject. It would...
17328To Benjamin Franklin from Peter Labilliere, 8 December 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: National Archives I should be wanting in those glorious Principles of Gratitude and Love to the Great Fountain of all Goodness, and to his Instruments if I did not lay hold (like a faithful David in the 98th. Psalm) of every Opportunity to acknowledge and proclaim to the World the late very complete & providentially timed Victory, in Favor of your oppressed Nation, and, in their Relief,...
17329To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, [23 March 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Dallas, Mr. Duane and myself met to day, and after canvassing the most expedient method of proceeding on our side, we determined at length on the following. That Mr. Duane shd. write you the Letter which accompanies this , to be presented to the Senate in your official Capacity. That Mr. Duane shd. be in the way at the meeting of the Senate, without formally presenting himself till it...
17330Thomas Jefferson to William Wallace, 19 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your attention in offering me a supply of claret, & if I were in want I should be induced by it’s ch e a p ness to try it’s quality. but importing my wines myself, I am sufficiently in stock at present, and expect in autumn a year’s supply written for some time ago . I salute you with respect PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover of Daniel Humphreys to TJ, 30 Aug. 1820...
17331To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 12 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 12 February 1806, Washington. Felix de Beaujour, commissary general of French commercial relations, has provisionally named Honoré Felix de Douzy vice commissary of Rhode Island, a position vacated by the resignation of Mr. Lequinio. Turreau has approved this nomination and sends JM de Douzy’s commission and begs him to present it to the president and obtain de...
17332From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 5 April 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 28th. ultimo. I approve of your reasons, & the plan you propose, for the disposition of the fifth sixth and seventh Regiments. Captain Ingersoll & Captain McClellan will proceed to join you as soon as Capt. Huger, who is hourly expected, shall arrive with his company from the Southward. Major Tousard I believe will be employed, in the Eastern Quarter, by the...
17333To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral to be found in the country. This province seems ripe for a more popular government, if not restrained by congress, who will doubtless give all the encouragement to all that the good of the whole will admit of. Some talk of resuming our first charter, others of absolute independency. Our eye is to...
17334To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 21 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have just received the inclosed from Mr. Stoddert relative to Mr. James Reid, who desires to be appointed vice-Consul for Canton, as mentioned in my last; and have the honor to be with great respect / sir you most obt. servt. MHi : Adams Papers.
17335To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Desglanières, 27 March 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The plan enclosed in this letter, for taxation and local government, is one of several schemes submitted to Franklin for the purpose, at least ostensibly, of furthering the best interests of the United States. On March 30 Lambert, in Paris, sends with a covering letter a long memorandum on the best means to suppress begging. On April 21 the directors and...
17336Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 23 d Ins t and am sorry to inform you that owing to the present distressd state of the banks, no addition to your note can be obtained, indeed so far from their increasing their discounts, they have been reduced to the disagreeable necessity of curtailing the one 10 the other 15 p r C t for every 60 d /.—this has been the case with the Farmer’s bank for 4...
17337To James Madison from Lawrence A. Washington, 27 April 1801 (Madison Papers)
The urgent solicitations of a friend of mine, have induced me, to address you this letter. Nothing short, of the most strong & anxious desire, to render him every service, in my power, could have overcome the reluctance, I felt, to attempt to serve him, on the present occasion. The Gentleman alluded to, is Mr Andrew Parks, of Baltimore. It appears, from a letter I recd: from him, of the 10th:...
1733822d. (Adams Papers)
This morning I sent down a Cart with my two trunks that are going to Haverhill. I intended to go myself in the forenoon, but at length resolv’d to go and dine with Mrs. Quincy, and from thence go forward to Boston. My two good Cousins went in the Chaise; I walk’d it, with Mr. Tyler. We were not expected, and somewhat late: we found Parson Wibird there, who ask’d me abundance, of questions,...
17339[Diary entry: 25 February 1786] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 25th. Thermometer at 24 in the morning—31 at Noon and 30 at Night. Clear and calm in the forenoon—wind Southerly afterwards and thawing, the ground being hard frozen. Renewed the fencing of my Paddock to day. Went into the Neck and to Muddy hole Plantations to measure the fields which I had plowed for Oats & for experiments—also to Dogue run to divide some fields and to mark the Rows...
17340From Benjamin Franklin to George Whitefield, [before 2 September 1769] (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Joseph Belcher, George Whitefield: a Biography, with Special Reference to His Labors in America (New York, [1857]), pp. 414–15. I am under continued apprehensions that we may have bad news from America. The sending soldiers to Boston always appeared to me a dangerous step; they could do no good, they might occasion mischief. When I consider the warm resentment of a people who...
17341To Thomas Jefferson from Ferdinand Grand, 23 May 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Je prens la liberté de vous confirmer la lettre que j’ai eu l’honneur de vous ecrire le 19 de ce mois; qui avoit pour un principal objet la traitte de Mr. Barclay pour les Etats de Virginie de £20150. Et comme en ré flechissant sur cette affaire, il seroit possible que vous eussié s pu avoir l’idé e de faire porter cette somme au compte des Etats unis; ce qui n’est pourtant pas très probable,...
17342From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 5 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
In the Letter which I had the honor of writing to You on the 27th of January, I mentioned that Colo. Armand was young in the service of France; by the Inclosed Letter from him it appears that I had been misinformd. as the Colonel is apprehensive this idea may operate in future to His prejudice, I take the liberty to transmit what he has said upon the subject. I have the Honor to be with the...
17343To Thomas Jefferson from James Sullivan, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with the greatest reluctance that I impose upon you a letter on our national concerns; I derive great relief from the consideration that the President is under no necessity, to read it, and, that merely breaking the seal and glancing on the superscription, will take but a moment’s time. You have been long in possession of my idea, that a strong party in the northern States are determined...
17344From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 13 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter to you of Aug. 30. I omitted, through inadvertence to mention a circumstance which I beg leave now to supply respecting the duties on the marble for our University arrived at N.Y. . the bases stated in mr Appleton’s acc t were ordered on the 8 th of Sep. 23. the duties on such articles being then I believe 15. p.c. ad velorem. it was not till May 22. 1824. that the new Tariff law...
17345Account with Ezra Weeks, [16 July 1802] (Hamilton Papers)
Dr Genl. Alexander Hamilton in Account with E Weeks Cr 1802 1802 To Balance of Acct. of work & Materials rend. up to 15th. may £158.14. 1 May 27th. By Cash £120. “ Acct. of work & Materials up to July 3d 197.13.11 July 3 Balance 276. 3. 6 “ Danl. Hitchock Bill of Boards 3.13. “ Aymar & Prides
17346To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Baring, 17 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Baring presents his respectfull compliments to The President and takes the liberty of assuring him that the letter he did him the honor to entrust to him and which he has received shall be conveyed to its address with the utmost care. RC ( MHi ); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Jan. Son of London merchant and banker Sir Francis Baring, Alexander Baring (1773-1848) was sent to...
17347Enclosure: Supplementary Estimate of Sums Necessary to Be Appropriated for the Services of the Year 1793, 27 February … (Hamilton Papers)
Mint of the United States. For defraying certain expences which have been incurred by the institution of the Mint, under a resolution of Congress of 3rd March 1791, and the Act for establishing a Mint and regulating the coins of the United States, passed 2d April 1792. Purchase of a House, and two lotts of ground erecting two new brick buildings, furnaces &c, and two new frame buildings,...
17348To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Ellicott, 21 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Among all those who will address you upon the fortunate issue of the late election for President, and V.P. of the U.S. (an event equally propitious, both to liberty, and science,) no one will do it with more sincerity, and friendship than myself,—and with that sincerity, and friendship, I join my fellow citizens in congratulating you, on your being called by the voice of your country to fill...
17349Samuel Maverick to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you the Inclosed Letter 11 th Aug t last , but having in a few days after to go to Alabama , it was neglected, untill my return, & now take the Liberty to forward it, making enquirey respecting the Grape Vine. would not the Tea plant & Bread fruit Tree be Valuable to those people who will indure the Long tedious warm Summers of Alabama & c there cotton groes so Luxuriantly as to produce...
17350To James Madison from Elias Glover, 4 June 1806 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ From Elias Glover. Letter not found. 4 June 1806. Acknowledged in JM to Glover, 3 July 1806 , as seeking information on the naturalization of Henry Eadbury.
17351John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1784 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 23d. has made me the happiest Man upon Earth. I am twenty Years younger than I was Yesterday. It is a cruel Mortification to me that I cannot go to meet you in London, but there are a Variety of Reasons decisive against it, which I will communicate to you here. Meantime, I Send you a son who is the greatest Traveller, of his Age, and without Partiality, I think as promising...
17352From James Madison to Isaac A. Coles, 29 May 1827 (Madison Papers)
By an arrangement with your brother Edward, $2000 were to be placed by him to my Credt in the Bank of Virginia. Mr. Rutherfoord informs me that this has in effect been done and I inclose my bond for that sum which your brother desired might be forwarded to you. It was understood that a moi[e]ty of it accrues to his Sister Betsey, and if his arrangemt. with her, does not make it appear to be...
17353To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 13 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
From your suggestions, I have attempted and publish’d an Analysis of the Will of Mr Boylston, which its probable you have seen; but how far I have succeeded in meeting your expectations, (that is, as far as I have gone into it—) you can best determine—any hint or amendment from you on the subject, I shall be greatly obliged to you for As your opinions have the force of a Commandment I averr’d...
17354From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to subjoin the alteration he suggested in the last paragraph of the President’s speech. Having read Colo. Humphreys’ letters after Mr. Short’s he had been led into an erroneous arrangement of the facts they state. Colo. Humphreys’ letter mentioning the king’s refusal of the constitution is of Aug. 22. while it appears by Mr. Short’s letter of Aug. 30. that it had...
17355Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Bedford and Campbell County Property Subject to State Tax, 11 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Property in Bedford and Campbell taxed by the State. D C 46. slaves of 12. years old & upwards. @ 80. cents D C 36. 80 of 9. years and under 12. @ 50
17356To James Madison from Samuel Cabot, 3 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the recet. of your letter dated July 21st, & presuming that it is to be understood by me as an official dismission from the agency to which I was appointed under the late British Treaty, my return to England becomes unnecessary. The compensation for my services as Commercial agent has been regularly paid me up to the 10th of May last from a Spoliation fund...
17357To Benjamin Franklin from Jean de Neufville & fils, 12 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Since our last respects to your Excellency, we have only now to mention, that of the bills on Mr. Laurens we gott yesterday seven more to the Amount of Three thousand eight hundred and fifty Gilders, for which we have promisd an Answer by the return of the maill, and your Excellency will find us ready to Accept of them and any others, as we only wish now...
17358From James Madison to Joseph Jones, 19 December 1780 (Madison Papers)
Printed text ( Madison, Papers [Gilpin ed.] Henry D. Gilpin, ed., The Papers of James Madison (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1840). , I, 76–77). The manuscript is now lost. Besides the text below, JM probably added the news about the army mentioned in his letter of the same date to Edmund Pendleton ( q.v. ). Yours of the eighth instant came to hand yesterday. I was sorry to find the Assembly had...
17359Julius B. Dandridge to Thomas Jefferson, 19 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In the discharge of my duty, I have to inform you that the promissory note of Wilson C Nicholas Esq, negotiated at this office, upon which you are endorser, and which was payable yesterday, the 18 h inst. for ten thousand dollars, has been protested for non-payment, for which, with interest and costs, you are held liable to the Bank of the United States . It may be proper to say, that this...
17360To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, [24 December 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
I learn with inexpressible Concern, that your Health still Continues in an Equivocal State: all your Friends here Entertain on this Subject the most serious Anxiety, and I am constantly required to Impress on you the necessity of some Relaxation from the laborious Duties of your Office. In the Executing this Task, I obey the Impulse of my own Heart, let me therefore Entreat in public...