183201[June 1775] (Washington Papers)
June 1. Dined at Burns’s and Spent the Evening in my own Room. GW’s committee on ways and means of supplying ammunition and military stores to the colonies read its report, which was referred to the committee of the whole ( JCC Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 . 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. , 2:74). 2. Dined at Mr. Josh. Shippens &...
183202[Diary entry: 10 August 1770] (Washington Papers)
10. Rid to Muddy hole—Doeg Run and the Mill.
18320314th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Mr. D. went and took a ride in the forenoon. After dinner Mr. Montréal came here.
183204[Diary entry: 6 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
6. Again clear and cool wind being in the same place but not so fresh.
183205Endorsing Independence and Supporting Washington Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
By the time the Fourth New York Congress made a quorum at White Plains on 9 July, the Continental Congress had already acted on independence, and the first order of business for the New York legislature was consideration of a letter from their delegates in Philadelphia enclosing a copy of the Declaration of Independence. John Jay drafted the committee report on the Declaration, which was...
183206To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
On 12 Mch., Robert R. Livingston began a letter to the president that reported on his activities in general terms, mentioning his efforts to influence Napoleon Bonaparte about Louisiana, his discussions with the Spanish ambassador concerning the Floridas, and French attitudes toward the United States and Great Britain. The next day, a Sunday, Livingston interrupted his writing to attend an...
183207[Diary entry: 7 April 1796] (Washington Papers)
7. Cool in the morning, but warmer afterwards wind getting to South West.
183208I Sing My Plain Country Joan, 1742 (Franklin Papers)
MS : American Philosophical Society There can be little doubt that Franklin composed these verses to his wife. They are assigned to him in two different anecdotes, which, though the incidents described are separated by forty years, are not inconsistent. The first, from the family of Franklin’s friend John Bard, relates how, at a meeting of some club, possibly the Junto, someone jokingly took...
1832097th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Jefferson’s. Masks in the rue de Fauxbourg St. Antoine and in the ruë St. Honoré. With reason, are the Parisians called by all the rest of the Nation badauds de Paris, for nothing can be conceived more stupid, than this Carnaval amusement. An hundred people perhaps run about the streets in masks, and there are ten thousand people without masks looking upon them: it is said however...
183210[Diary entry: 24 December 1770] (Washington Papers)
24. Rid to the Mill again in the fore and afternoon.