182671Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the Laws, [19 January 1763] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives , 1762–1763 (Philadelphia, 1763), p. 13. Throughout Franklin’s absence in England he had been re-elected to the Assembly from the city of Philadelphia every October. When the House met on Jan. 10, 1763, he appeared to take his place for the first time in about five and three-quarters years, and at once resumed an active part in...
182672General Orders, 8 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The new Levies from Connecticut, and New-Jersey, daily arriving—a Report is to be made every day to the General, of the Number arriving by the commanding officer of each corps, in order that proper arrangements may be made. All officers are required to be careful that their men are acquainted with orders, that they may not plead ignorance. Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
182673Fact No. II, [16 October 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For the National Gazette. Genuine Truth never deviates into misrepresentation. That an impostor has assumed its name in the National Gazette of the 10th inst. is sufficiently evinced by the following circumstance. The writer, who appears under that signature, after endeavouring to torture certain expressions of the Secretary of the Treasury, into a meaning which, construed with candour, and in...
182674General Orders, 3 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Brigadier General Clinton Lieutenant Colonel Antill Major Fish Brigade Major Lloyd Hazen’s brigade to furnish the guards and fatigue in York tomorrow. At a Brigade General Court martial held at Camp near Yorktown in Virginia October 26th 1781 By order of Brigadier General Gist whereof Major Roxburgh was president the following prisoners were tried, James Stite, William...
182675Continental Congress Report on Peace with the Indians, 21 April 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Report of a Committee to whom was committed the letter from His Excelly The President of the State of Pensylvania respecting a peace with the Indians. Whereas by the 9th article of the confederation The United States in Congress assembled are vested with the sole and exclusive right and power among other things “of regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of...
182676[Diary entry: 16 June 1788] (Washington Papers)
Monday 16th. Thermometer at 62 in the Morning, 70 at Noon and 70 at Night. Wind at So. Et. Morning & evening clear but cloudy between. Finished plowing the New grd. at the Mansn. House about Noon to day. The ferry Plows went home—the others to Plowing at French’s for Pease. The hands from Muddy hole were weeding the New ground Corn with their Hoes. At the Ferry, Frenchs, D. Run and River...
182677General Orders, 18 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
At a Brigade Court-Martial held 12th instant whereof Lt Coll Harmer was President, Ensign Foster of 6th Pennsylvania Regiment having been found guilty of challenging Captn Cruise and behaving unbecoming the Character of an Officer and a Gentleman was sentenced to be discharged from the service. The Commander in Chief in Conformity to the Articles of War approves the above sentence, but in...
182678[Diary entry: 9 April 1770] (Washington Papers)
9. Major Wagener went away after breakfast. I rid to Muddy hole & from thence to the Mill.
182679[Diary entry: 14 July 1766] (Washington Papers)
14. Began Harvest at Muddy hole.
182680General Orders, 16 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Bonamtown Picket to be relieved tomorrow from the Pennsylvania line—The Morristown with an addition of a serjeant, Corporal and twelve men from the Maryland line, furnished with Ammunition and Provision as usual. A General Court-Martial of the line to sit tomorrow half past 9 ôclock A.M. to try all such Persons as shall come before them—Colonel Greene President. Varick transcript , DLC:GW...
182681August 18. 1796. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Ten Yoke of Oxen and ten Men ploughing in the Meadow below my House.
182682[Diary entry: 21 February 1790] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 21st. Went to St. Pauls Chapel in the forenoon. Wrote letters respecting my domestic concerns afterwards. The only private letter found for this day is GW to Samuel Powel, concerning the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture ( DLC:GW ).
182683Marginalia in [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a Merchant, [1770?] (Franklin Papers)
MS notations in the margins of a copy in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania of [Josiah Tucker], A Letter from a Merchant in London to His Nephew in North America (London, 1766). The Rev. Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, was one of the more prolific pamphleteers of his time, and one of the few whose work still commands attention. He was an economist as well as a theologian, and his...
182684[Diary entry: 14 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
14. Calm Warm and pleasant. Snow Dissolving a good deal.
182685General Orders, 4 May 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Wessenfels[,] Major J. Moore[,] Brigade Major Stark’s Brigade Lord Stirling’s and the Pennsylvania Divisions give the Main Guard and picquet tomorrow. A Serjeant Corporal and twelve rank & file from Lord Stirling’s Division for fatigue to be sent to the Adjutant General’s quarters Tomorrow morning. As part of the Army were absent...
182686[Diary entry: 3 September 1770] (Washington Papers)
3. Rain in the forenoon but clear afterwards with but little wind.
182687Enclosure: Report on the Mint, 3 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Director of the Mint in Obedience to the President’s Commands, makes the following Report relative to the Mint of the United States, hoping that the short time of one Month, which he has had to make himself acquainted with the present State of it, will apologize for any Inaccuracies that appear therein. On entering on this Service, the Director found that the united Exertions of the...
18268828th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. West came out to Auteuil and dined with us. After dinner I went into Paris, with him: we went to meet Dr. Ruston and then proceeded all together to the Italian Comedy, where we saw Theodore , a new Opera Comique, acted for the first time, with l’heureuse Erreur, this evening. Theodore, had not a brilliant success, but a tolerable one. The Subject, is as old, as the Theatre I believe. A Man...
182689General Orders, 6 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
[Officers] Of the Day Tomorrow[:] Colonel R. Butler[,] Major Torrey[,] Brigade Major 1 Pennsylvania brigade A Subaltern from Hands brigade to relieve the Subaltern from Clinton’s now superintending the Hospital at pluckemin. He will receive his Instructions from the Officer he relieves. Six Camp colour men from Starks brigade under the care of a Corporal to be sent to Commissary Kean’s early...
182690General Orders, 28 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief desires that the Officers who did not compose part of the Grand Army last Winter and Spring and who may be unacquainted with the General Order relative to the duties of the Officers of the day as there pointed out will have recourse to one issued on the ninth day of June last at Valley-Forge and govern themselves thereby. The Commander in Chief also begs leave to inform...
182691[August 1776] (Adams Papers)
Hooper. N.C. is a striking Exception to the general Rule that was laid down Yesterday, that the Riches of a Country are in Proportion to the Numbers of Inhabitants. A Gentleman of 3 or 400 Negroes, dont raise more corn than feeds them. A Labourer cant be hired for less than £24 a Year in Mass. Bay. The neat profit of a Negro is not more than 5 or 6£ pr. An num . I wish to see the day that...
182692Postal Road Survey, [11 February] 1796 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison moved that the resolution laid upon the table, some days ago, be taken up, relative to the survey of the post roads between the province of Maine and Georgia, which being read, he observed that two good effects would arise from carrying this resolution into effect; the shortest rout from one place to another would be determined upon, and persons, having a certainty of the stability...
182693[Diary entry: 11 June 1772] (Washington Papers)
11. Cloudy Morning. Clear Noon & Warm Sun with a small Shower or two of Rain in the Afternoon & good d[ea]l Wind.
182694General Orders, 22 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
182695General Orders, 9 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
On account of the inclemency of the weather the sentences of Courts-Martial which were to be put in execution this morning are postpon’d ’till tomorrow morning nine ôClock in manner as specified in yesterdays orders. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . Henry Melchior Muhlenberg wrote in his journal on this date that “The snow is deeper now than we have ever had in a whole winter, and along with it a...
182696[Diary entry: 22 May 1786] (Washington Papers)
Monday 22d. Thermometer at 64 in the Morning—60 at Noon and 60 at Night. Wind Easterly, and very cloudy, with drops of Rain now and then. Rid to Muddy hole, Dogue Run & Ferry Plantations—replanting Corn at the first. Begun to day, & not on Saturday as I have noted, to plant Corn in the cut next the Overseers house at Dogue run—where by a mistake of the Overseer, they had begun, and had planted...
182697[Diary entry: 15 February 1799] (Washington Papers)
15. Wind shifted to the No. Wt. in the Night. Blew hard and turn cold. Mer. 30 in the Morning & 26 at Night.
18269812th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d hard almost all day. We had a Class meeting, after Prayers for determining the matter, concerning a Valedictory Oration. By dint of obstinate impudence, Vociferation, and noise; the minority so wearied out those on the other side, that several of them went out, after which, a Vote was pass’d, ratifying the proceedings of the last meeting. Johnson, Sever, and Chandler 3d. were then...
182699[Diary entry: 5 January 1775] (Washington Papers)
5. At home all day.
182700Enclosure: Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours’s Notes on the Encouragement of American Manufactures, [ca. 31 March 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Observations Sommaires Sur l’utilité des Encouragemens à donner aux Manufactures Américaines Pour juger quels sont les intérêts que l’on recommande au Congrès , en l’exhortant à donner un grand appui aux Manufactures Américaines, il faut s’être occupé de la Science des Valeurs , et considérer de quoi elles sont composées. La Valeur des Marchandises manufacturées est formée de l’Addition de...