174471Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 25 March 1774, aroused at the presumption which Boston had earlier displayed in dumping the East India Company’s tea into the harbor, Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. This was the first of a series of harsh measures known as the Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts, which were designed to bring Massachusetts to heel. Instead they stirred an immediate storm of resistance, which produced that...
174472General Orders, 11 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
That there may not be the least pretext for delay (as the General is determined to march the whole, or any part of this Army, the Instant occasion shall require) His Excellency desires that not a moments time may be lost in preparing for the march—The Colonels will pay particular attention to the cloathing of their men—To prevent any unnecessary preparations, the General informs the Officers,...
17447319th. (Adams Papers)
This morning the junior’s Prescott, and Wier, were publicly admonished for having had riotous noises at their chambers, last week. The sentence is considered all over college, as uncommonly severe, and by many as wholly unmerited, at least on the part of Prescott. We had in the evening a meeting of the ΦBK. at Fiske’s chamber. A dissertation was read by Freeman, but the other exercices were...
174474[Diary entry: 15 May 1798] (Washington Papers)
15. Morning—clear, with but little Wind & that No. Easterly Mer. 52—same through the day. Mer. 64 at Night.
174475[Diary entry: 5 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
5. Cloudy & a good deal like Snow with little or no wind.
174476Bill to Establish the Places of Holding Courts in the Counties of Pittsylvania and Henry, [4 November 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
For fixing the places of holding courts for the counties of Pittsylvania and Henry Be it enacted by the General assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia that it shall and may be lawful for the freeholders of the said county of Pittsylvania qualified by law to vote for representatives in general assembly, and they are hereby required to meet at the house of Richard Farthing in the said county...
174477Appropriation for Operating the Federal Government, [2 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
In Committee of the Whole, Parker of the Virginia delegation requested an examination of the increased expenses, as the proposed appropriation was nearly double that of the previous year. A general debate followed. Mr. Madison considered the present a good opportunity to determine how far the House could go into an examination of the accounts of public officers. It was true that the...
17447810th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. C. B. Wadström: bad weather all day.
174479To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Price, 15 December 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I received the inclosed letter from Dr. Priestly last Saturday night. I know nothing of the list of books on Electricity mentioned in it. I believe it was not in your letter to him, which pass’d thro my hands. He is in a hurry for it, and if you have it he will be much oblig’d to you for Sending it him, or conveying it to me that I may Send it to him. I am...
174480[Diary entry: 30 November 1768] (Washington Papers)
30. At home all day. Colo. Mason & Mr. Cockburne came in the Evening. Martin Cockburn, son of Dr. Thomas and Rachel Moore Cockburn, of Jamaica, settled in Virginia after marrying Ann Bronaugh, daughter of Jeremiah Bronaugh, of Fairfax, and cousin of George Mason. His estate was Springfield near Colchester. Cockburn served on the Truro Parish vestry 1770–79.