183471Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Mein’s stormy career was cut short by two actions brought against him by John Hancock under...
183472If Life’s Compared to a Feast, 22 April 1784 (Franklin Papers)
AD : New York Public Library; transcript: Library of Congress William Temple Franklin found this...
183473Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to...
183474Enclosure: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to James McHenry, 10 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Capn: Shepherd of this place, who I understand has the general superintendance of the public...
183475Instituting a New Government: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Following New York’s ratification of the Constitution, Jay continued to play a central role in...
183476Introductory Note: To Francisco de Miranda, [23 November 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
According to his biographer ( Robertson, The Life of Miranda William S. Robertson, The Life of...
183477“Arator”: On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor, [29 November 1766] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle , November 27–29, 1766. The first editor to identify Franklin in...
183478Enclosure: From —— to Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 6 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The sale of 895,000. lb. Salpetre by our East India Company took place on Wednesday: We had...
183479To Benjamin Franklin from Sir William Johnson, 10 July 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Antiquarian Society; copy: Massachusetts Historical Society At the Request of...
183480Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This complex litigation, a landmark in the history of Martha’s Vineyard, arose out of an unhappy...
183481The Captivity of William Henry, 23–28 June 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The London Chronicle , June 23–25, 25–28, 1768; autograph fragment in American...
183482To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 15 July 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society On a Supposition that this may find you not embarked yet, on...
183483Editorial Note (Washington Papers)
editorial note : The following weather diary for the first five months of 1780 was kept at...
183484Editorial Note on the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 30 June 1775 (Franklin Papers)
On June 30, 1775, in response to a recommendation from the Philadelphia committee of inspection...
183485Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 14 May 1782, two days after John Adams moved into the new American legation, John Thaxter...
183486Settling the Spanish Accounts Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Not knowing when he left Madrid in May of 1782 whether or not he would return after completing...
183487Editorial Note on Remedies for the Stone, 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Franklin received dozens of remedies for the stone during his stay in France, from friends and...
183488Introductory Note: Outline for George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress, [November 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
In the period immediately preceding George Washington’s Fifth Annual Address to Congress on...
183489Enclosure A: [List of Petitions for Compensations for Supplies], [16 April 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Petition of Lewis Van Woert, Petition of John Holbrook, Jacob Green and others surviving partners...
183490Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In crafting his response to James Fishback’s letter of 5 June 1809, Jefferson completed a draft...
183491From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwalader Evans, 9 May 1766 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from Samuel Hazard, ed., Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania xvi, No. 5...
183492Biographical Data (Washington Papers)
Information on the persons mentioned by GW during his stay on the island is in most instances...
183493From Benjamin Franklin to Baynton, Wharton & Morgan, [10 May 1766] (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from Clarence W. Alvord and Clarence E. Carter, eds., The New Régime 1765–1766...
183494Editorial Note: Reply to a Cherokee Delegation, 3 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On Tuesday, 30 June 1801, “a Deputation from the Cherokee Nation of Indians on behalf of the said...
183495Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1804. Oct. 8. Present the 4. Secretaries. Yrujo’s and C. Pinckney’s communicns submitted....
183496“Homespun”: Further Defense of Indian Corn, 15 January 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser , January 15, 1766. This is the first of two...
183497Request for Bids, 4 November 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the...
183498Enclosure: Silvanus Walker to Daniel Stevens, 1 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeable to your request I am to inform you that there is no manufactories carried on in the...
183499To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 5 October 1813 (Madison Papers)
There is most shamefull conduct going on here. One John Tappan a verry religious man—and...
183500Congress Debates the Commissioners’ Conduct Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
The General Washington reached Philadelphia on 12 March with the preliminary articles of peace...
183501Petition of Thomas Jefferson and Others to the Virginia General Assembly, [before 13 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
To The General Assembly of Virginia , the Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the...
183502Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The constable of Roxbury had conveyed John Chaddock (alias Chadwick, Chattuck, or Shattuck), his...
183503Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
James Madison was on poor terms with James Monroe after the latter’s abortive bid for the...
183504Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Opinion on the Treaties with France (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson’s carefully qualified opinion in favor of the continued validity of the 1778...
183505Editorial Note: The Case of Mace Freeland (Jefferson Papers)
This case, along with others that came to him during 1782, reveals Jefferson as turning seriously...
183506An Address of the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York to Their Constituents Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Lord Cornwallis took Fort Lee on 20 November 1776, and for the next five weeks the Continental...
183507To Benjamin Franklin from ———, [on or after 14 October 1783] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Je crois devoir vous prévenir que Confiér les affaires de Mr...
183508From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, [30 September 1766] (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from extract in [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters...
183509To James Madison from Boston Fishermen, [ca. 21 February 1814] (Madison Papers)
The Petition of the Subscribers, Fishermen of Boston and its vicinity, humbly sheweth, That many...
183510To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 17 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
As it appears you are wholly insensible of what is doing here, or intirely disregard the...
183511Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Redevelopment of Boston’s North End is not a wholly modern phenomenon or problem. In the case...
183512To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 16 December 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1809, Portland. JM’s remarks in his annual message to Congress regarding the militia...
183513Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Today we would probably call this action tort for loss of consortium by seduction. In...
183514To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Owen: Bill and Receipt, 8 October 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ADS : American Philosophical Society Before Franklin sailed from Pennsylvania in November 1764...
183515To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 October 1812 (Madison Papers)
We have heard today, the capture of another part of our Army, under Gen. Van Ranselear the death...
183516Madison’s Detatched Memoranda, ca. 31 January 1820 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
This document presents a number of puzzles for the editors of James Madison’s papers. The...
183517Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
By the latter part of the 1790s Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had become bitter political...
183518Vergennes’s Response to News of the Preliminaries Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
On the evening before the signing of the Preliminaries, Franklin wrote to inform Vergennes that...
183519Jefferson’s Translation of Extracts from Destutt de Tracy’s Reflections on Montesqueiu’s First Twelve Books, [ca. 12 … (Jefferson Papers)
Extracts from the author’s r R eflections on Montesquieu’s 12. first books. ‘I have divided...
183520Madison on “The Earth Belongs to the Living” (Jefferson Papers)
I. TEXT AS RECEIVED BY JEFFERSON, 1790 II. TEXT AS REVISED BY MADISON LATE IN LIFE EDITORIAL NOTE...