183461The Bankruptcy of de la Lande & Fynje: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
One of Adams’s most significant achievements as American minister to the Dutch Republic had been his negotiation of loans to the United States with the consortium of Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and de la Lande & Fynje. In 1783, de la Lande & Fynje organized, under its own management, a group of Dutch houses interested in trade with the United States, including the...
183462From Benjamin Franklin to Edward Penington, 27 February 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I received yours of Nov. 14. with that enclos’d for Mr. Sp[ringett] Penn, which I immediately forwarded to him. He continues in Ireland I know not why. I hear from him sometimes, but to little purpose. I think it not unlikely he may suffer him self to be finally impos’d on by his Uncle in the Affair of Pensbury, but shall endeavour to stir him up...
183463Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Wilkins owned a pasture and apple orchard on Mill Brook in Middleton, near the Great Pond. On 10 March 1762, Timothy Fuller erected a dam which on 28 March 1762 and thereafter at intervals until February 1770 caused the stream to overflow part of Wilkins’ land, allegedly damaging his trees and spoiling his grass. For unexplained reasons, Wilkins waited until 1771 before bringing an...
183464To Benjamin Franklin from [Mary] Rich, [1766–1769] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society As Miss Rich finds her Servant deliverd the money and Reciept to a Little Girl, She is desirous to know that Dr. Franklin recievd it, therefore begs he will just write her a line by the penny Post. She will also be obligd to him for the Direction to the man that made the Spindle &ca in Case She Should at any time want his Assistance. She finds so much...
183465To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 30 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State respectfully lays before the President of the United States three letters from Mr Campbell, District Attorney of Virginia, two of which relate to the complaint of the French Consul at Norfolk, concerning the purchase of horses for the British; in which the President will observe a concurrence of legal opinions (with the exception of Mr Randolph’s) in the justness of the...
183466Orderly Book (Washington Papers)
This orderly book ( DLC:GW ) includes orders for each day from the time GW and Col. William Byrd arrived on 21 Sept. at Raystown with the Virginia forces from Fort Cumberland until 24 Nov. just before GW viewed with Forbes’s army the smoking remains of Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio. The primary orders entered in GW’s orderly book are the general orders of the day issued by the senior...
183467John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Tour the English Countryside (Adams Papers)
By 4 April, the commissioners faced a stalemate on several diplomatic fronts, including negotiations with the Marquis of Carmarthen, the Chevalier Pinto de Balsamão, and the Tripoline envoy, Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. With little official business remaining on the docket, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson embarked on a week-long tour of English country seats and historic sites ( JA, D&A Diary and...
183468“F.B.”: The Frenchman and the Poker, [February–March 1766] (Franklin Papers)
First printing not located; reprinted in The Pennsylvania Chronicle, And Universal Advertiser , March 16–23, 1767. This is the second of two letters Goddard reprinted in the Pennsylvania Chronicle , March 16–23, 1767, the authorship of which he attributed to Franklin. In a letter to his sister, Jane Mecom, many years later, Franklin acknowledged that he had “told” the story. Goddard gave no...
183469Enclosure: [Balance Due on the American Iron Company’s Lands], [21 August 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
To the Trustees of the American Iron Company Dr To the last Installment in Lands in Crosbies Patent £605,13. 5 Interest 4 April 1797 on £605.13.5 is 1 Y. 4 M 56.10.7 do 20 Decr. 1798 do 1 Y. 8 M 16 D 72.10.10 do 7 June 1799 do 5 M
183470Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to John Adams (Jefferson Papers)
Anticipating an administration headed by John Adams with himself as vice president, Jefferson apparently hoped with this letter to restore a political relationship that had become frayed following the unintended publication in 1791 of his endorsement of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man and his implicit criticism of Adams’s “political heresies” (see Editorial Note and documents at 26 Apr. 1791,...