183201Paris Embraces the Jays Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Despite an unusually rainy summer in 1782 and bouts of illness suffered by various family members throughout their stay, the Jays made a happy adjustment to life in Paris. From the start they enjoyed an active social life in contrast to the virtual isolation they had suffered in Spain. The Jays were quickly taken up in diplomatic circles, and the couple established an intimate relationship...
183202The Final Crisis Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
By the end of 1781, Jay had received most of the funds promised him by Spain. With additional help from France, he had satisfied most of the demands against him, but he found himself still struggling to cover the small but not insignificant remainder of the bills Congress had drawn on him. He was still due $25,615 on the $150,000 loan from Spain but was not sure whether or when he would...
183203Enclosure: Payments for the Support of the Civil List, [26 December 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
To the President of the United States, On Account of his Compensation. 1793. January 4. Warrant No. 2364 1500. 15. do. 2398 1000. March 9. do. 2548 4000. 22. do. 2606 1000.
183204The Status of the Peacemaking on John Jay’s Arrival in Paris Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Long before Jay reached Paris to take up his post as peace commissioner, peace feelers had been put out both by the belligerents and by certain neutral powers. In 1778 the British had dispatched the Carlisle Commission to America to effect reconciliation by offering home rule, but the proposal had offered too little and come too late. That same year Spain proposed a long-term truce that left...
183205To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 4 October 1814] (Madison Papers)
As General Armstrong was one of your principal Secretaries, Bon Amie and Bottle Companion, enjoying your confidence in a super-eminent degree, it would be cruel, as well as ungenerous in me to doubt for a single moment his honor or veracity. In his letter to the public, he states, “that you informed him that you was also an object of the suspicions and menaces of the militia of the District.”...
183206Enclosure: General Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Public Monies in the Year 1793, 25 November 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Dr. General Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Public Monies in the Year 1793. Cr. To amount of Expenditures in the year 1793, as stated in page 63 6,582,796.19 By balance in the Treasury on the last day of December 1792, 783,444.51 From which deduct the expenditures of the Trustees for the redemption of the public debt, out of the Interest Fund 102,818.22 Amount of Receipts in...
183207Enclosure IV: Extracts from Jefferson’s Draft Report on Commerce: United Netherlands, 13 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The United Netherlands prohibit our pickled Beef and Pork, Meals and Bread of all sorts, and lay a prohibitory duty on Spirits distilled from Grain. All other of our productions are received on varied duties, which may be reckoned on a medium, at about 3 per cent. They consume but a small proportion of what they receive. The residue is partly forwarded for consumption in the inland parts of...
183208Editorial Note: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
For all the significance of the Kentucky Resolutions, Jefferson’s papers reveal little about their composition. This is due in part to his caution about what he revealed in his letters at the time he wrote the resolutions. Too, for the remainder of his life he showed little interest in avowing or explaining his original authorship of the document. He did not seem displeased with the changes...
183209Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 26 October 1774 the Continental Congress adjourned, and its members returned home. John Adams left Philadelphia on the 28th, arriving in Braintree probably on 9 November ( Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 2:157–160 ). In his passage through Massachusetts, he was informed of the actions of the...
183210University of Virginia: Bill to A. Brockenbrough for Capitals, 3 July-26 Aug. 1823, 3 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Marble Capitals D r To A. S. Brockenbrough Proctor 1823 July 3 rd To draft to Col Peyton for Freight from $ Leghorn to Newyork a 10 D. p ton 312.00 Primage 10 P Ct 31.20 〃 Duty on Capitals 305.68 648.88 〃