181931Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
During a monthlong visit to Poplar Forest , 19 Nov.–20 Dec. 1817, Jefferson attempted to clarify some of the boundary lines between his estate in Bedford County and those of his neighbors. As early as 1812 he had begun investigating the division between his land and that of the deceased William Cobbs , particularly as he wished to acquire “a handsome little tract of 100 or two acres, belonging...
1819321776 Octr. 13. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Sat out from Phyladelphia towards Boston, oated at the Red Lyon, dined at Bristol, crossed Trenton ferry, long before Sun set, drank Coffee at the Ferry House on the East Side of Delaware, where I putt up—partly to avoid riding in the Evening Air, and partly because 30 miles is enough for the first day, as my Tendons are delicate, not having been once on Horse back since the Eighth day of last...
181933Report on Mission To Inform States of Financial Crisis, [22 May] 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 47, fols. 341, 343). Docketed by JM, “Report of The Committee Appointed to confer with the Superintendt of Finance on the subject of his letter of the 17 day of May 1782.” Below this on the docket, the words “Delivered May 21.—Passed.” appear to have been written by Charles Thomson. An incomplete copy of the report, in Thomson’s hand and signed by him, is in the Henry E....
181934Enclosure: List of Persons in Confinement at the Town of Washington, [November 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Col John Hamilton John Flannigin Col William Crauford John Crawford (son of Col Crawford) Major John Powers John Gaston The Reverend John Corbly John Husy Thomas Sedgwick John McGill James Kerr Robert Martin John Laughery Nathaniel Martin David Lock David McComb John Munn James Robinson William Porter William Johnson
181935[Diary entry: 28 November 1797] (Washington Papers)
28. Wind still at No. Wt. & cold. Mer. neglected again.
181936Enclosure: Nett Amount of Duties on Goods Wares and Merchandize Imported into the United-States from the 1st. October … (Hamilton Papers)
States Nett Amot of Duties New Hampshire 14,550.19½ Massachusetts 320,430.98¼ Rhode-Island 17,675.29½ Connecticut 64,336.20½ New-York 446,646.38 New-Jersey 4,291.85½ Pennsylvania 472,756.35 Delaware 9,914.21½ Maryland
181937Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In these cases the defendants stood accused of violating province laws forbidding interference with the upstream spawning run of alewives. Under the statutes, an action was to be brought in the name of a private citizen on a qui tam basis; that is, upon conviction, the penalty sued for would be divided between the informer-plaintiff and the poor of the town where the offense had been...
181938[Diary entry: 4 March 1787] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 4th. Mercury at 32 in the Morning—44 at Noon and 42 at Night. In the Morning early it was pleasand with the Wind at So. Afterwards it shifted to the No. Wt. and became variable with appearances all the evening of Snow or rain. Mr. William Fitzhugh (Son to the Colo.) came here before dinner.
181939[Diary entry: 18 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
18. Dined with sevl. Gentlemen at our own lodgings and went to the Assembly in the Evening. our own lodgings : GW lodged at the same place both on his way to New York and on his return (see main entry for 2 June 1773 ). On 3 June he paid 10s. “By Board at Mrs. Greydon” (Cash Memoranda, DLC:GW ). Rachel Marks Graydon, widow of Alexander Graydon, for many years ran a fashionable boardinghouse in...
181940[Diary entry: 31 July 1771] (Washington Papers)
31. Began to Sow Wheat at Muddy hole Plantation.