180751[Diary entry: 26 June 1767] (Washington Papers)
26. Cool & pleast. morng. Wind Northwardly afterwards, still & warm.
180752From George Washington to the Officer Commanding the Additional Maryland Battalion, 1 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
By the time this arrives at the Head of Elk, I would willingly hope, that the Battallion which the Legislature determined to raise for the War, in lieu of the number of Militia required by the Honourable the Committee of Congress, acting with the Army, will have assembled and be in readiness to join me. If this is the case I am to request, that You will proceed with it and join the Army on the...
18075314th. (Adams Papers)
After several attempts to see Mr. van Berkel, he was at length found at home, and declined taking back the horse, though he de clared he had never discovered any fault in him. The son said he was sorry his father persisted in refusing. At about 4 afternoon I again mounted the horse, and rode him ten miles as far as Mr. Hall’s tavern, which is a very elegant one; and where I found Mr. de...
180754[Diary entry: 17 January 1786] (Washington Papers)
January 17th. Thermometer at 27 in the Morning—30 at Noon and 28 at N. Wind at No. West all day, and Cold. Thawed but little, altho’ it was clear. Employed as yesterday, in collecting Ice, but under many disadvantages, being obliged to go over to the Maryland shore and pick up the floating Ice in the River—which I was disposed to do, rather than run the risk of not laying up a store. Cornelius...
180755[June 1753] (Adams Papers)
At Colledge. A Clowdy, Dull morning, and so continued till about 5 a Clock, when it began to rain m o derately But continued not long, But remained Clowdy all night in which night I watched with Powers. The first day of the first quarter of the 1753–1754 academic year ( MH-Ar : Steward’s Records, Quarterbill Books, 1720–1756). For a discussion of the impulses and influences leading JA to start...
180756Orders, 1 June 1756 (Washington Papers)
The Company of artificers being intended to assist in building a Fort at this place, are to do no Duty as Soldiers—They are to get their Tools in order, and go to work to-morrow morning. A Return to be given in immediately of all the men fit for Duty in Town; mentioning those who are good Carpenters. His Honour, Governour Dinwiddie, has approved of the Sentence of the General Court martial,...
1807577th. (Adams Papers)
We had this morning a continuation of Mr. Williams’s System; by which, he pretends to account for the aurora borealis, in a manner different from any that has yet been started. His Hypothesis appears to be very plausible, and I hope, that if it is not wholly true, it may lead on to further discoveries concerning a Phenomenon, which has not yet been well accounted for. I declaim’d in the Chapel...
180758Enclosure 2: [List of Several Persons Employed in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury], 3 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
List of the Several Persons Employed in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States on the 31st. of December 1792, and of the Salaries Per Annum Allowed to Each. Names of the persons employed. Their rank. Their Salary. Oliver Wolcott, junior, Comptroller of the Treasury Dollars 2400. Henry Kuhl principal Clerk 800. William Brodie Clerk 600. William M. Biddle ditto 600....
180759[Diary entry: 3 June 1797] (Washington Papers)
3. Wind in the same quarter tho’ not much of it. Warm.
180760Orders, 9–10 December 1756 (Washington Papers)
A Sergeant, and ten men who can be best spared from the works to parade immediately, and march to Joseph Edwards’s to strengthen the party there, and escort the Cattle as far as Pearsalls, and to return here again immediately —This party to draw four days provision. All the men to parade to-morrow morning at beating the prisoners march, with their arms & ammunition; and march to the Fort there...