181291To John Adams from Henry Knox, 21 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving several Letters from your Excellency, since your departure from america, which I have duly answerd, and hope you have received them. Your ideas of the necessity of some important blow to the british power in the southern states were extremely just. The reasons are too obvious to be mentioned. I am happy my dear Sir, in having it in my power to announce to you...
181292To Benjamin Franklin from James Searle, 28 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Searle’s respectfull compliments to Doctor Franklin— Mr. S. will most Chearfully wait on the Doctor at Dinner to morrow— Addressed: Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin / Passy The first extant letter from Searle since a March 15 acceptance of another dinner invitation: XXXIV , 455n. In the interim Searle had made futile attempts to raise a loan in the...
181293From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your favor of Jan. 25. I thought it would be best to suffer the tobos. with which I had troubled you to lie, in confidence the nonintercourse law would have been suffered to expire, & that the price would then have sprung up. but the continuance of that law for another year, and the news that our envoys are landed at Lisbon, place the opening of the French market at such a...
181294Charles Hammond to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
You have, no doubt, noticed the manner in which a letter from you , originally published in the Richmond Enquirer, is introduced into the national Intelligencer of the 21 st of July. It seems clear to me, that the interpretation, which the Editors of the Intelligencer have given to a part of that letter, is not the natural meaning of the language you have used. I cannot but hope that the...
181295To George Washington from Arthur St. Clair, 24 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have been thinking about the proposed Reduction of the Corps in the Army and it appears to me to be a very injudicious Measure. The Time is ill chosen—It cannot be carried into Execution without doing flagrant Injustice, and delivering over to instant wretchedness a number of Men who have, certainly, a Claim to the Gratitude of their Country—and a Suspension of it, at the same time that it...
181296To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 1 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have just heard that a vacancy has lately happened on the Judicial Bench of Columbia, in consequence of Chief Justice Kilty being appointed chancellor of Maryland. I have some times thought—that I was qualified to fill one of the junior seats on that Bench—and at present, the appointment thereto would prove agreeable, and might be useful to my young family whose education begins to call for...
181297From John Adams to James Warren, 17 December 1773 (Adams Papers)
The Dye is cast: The People have passed the River and cutt away the Bridge: last Night Three Cargoes of Tea, were emptied into the Harbour. This is the grandest, Event, which has ever yet happened Since, the Controversy, with Britain, opened! The Sublimity of it, charms me! For my own Part, I cannot express my own Sentiments of it, better than in the Words of Coll Doane to me, last...
181298General Orders, 28 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
At a General Court Martial whereof Colonel Henry Jackson was President Major Murnan of the Corps of Engineers was tried on the following charges. 1st Attacking a Centinel upon his Post being in the execution of his duty with a drawn sword, threatening his Life, spitting in his face, and otherwise abusing and insulting him on the twenty fifth of July at Dobbs ferry. 2d Attempting to take away a...
181299To George Washington from Adam Stephen, 4 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
Matters are in the most deplorable Situation at Fort Cumberland—Our Communication with the Inhabitants is Cut Off. By the best Judges of Indian Affairs, it’s thought there are at least 150 Indians about us—They divided into Small parties, have Cut Off the Settlement of Patersons Creek, Potowmack, Above Cresops, and the People on Town Ck about four miles below his house, —They go about and...
181300From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Richard Derby of Massachusetts to be a Captain in the Navy DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.