19051Thomas Jefferson to Samuel M. Burnside, 8 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recently recieved your favor of July 12. informing me that the American Antiquarian society had done me the honor of electing me a member of their body. duly sensible of this honor, and thankful for such a mark of their favor, I pray you to be the channel of communicating to them these sentiments. from the circumstances of age and distance, I fear I shall be able to carry into their...
19052Thomas Jefferson to William Burns, 7 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of Col o Alexander Quarrier I inclose to you a certificate of my acquaintance with him, to be used in some case wherein you act for him. he wished me to forward to him a copy of the certificate, but as he did not indicate the post office to which it should be addressed, I must leave that trouble on your hands. Accept my best respects. PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r William...
19053From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 15 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Vicepresident and is sorry that an error of his Secretary mentioning Thursday the 17th. instead of Tuesday the 17th. in his note of invitation should have occasioned a miscomprehension of the day. mr Harvie wrote a note correcting his error, to the V. President; but lest it should not have been delivered Th:J. asks leave to expect the pleasure of his...
19054From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 1 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It was to be expected that the enemy would endeavor to sow tares between us, that they might divide us and our friends. every consideration satisfies me you will be on your guard against this, as I assure you I am strongly. I hear of one stratagem so imposing & so base that it is proper I should notice it to you. mr Munford , who is here, says he saw at N. York before he left it, an original...
19055From James Madison to Aaron Burr, [ca. 5 March] 1804 (Madison Papers)
The voyage referred to by Mr. Vanderkemp was undertaken and conducted by individuals, in whose hands the journal and other papers, which he desires to peruse, must remain. Mr. Barrill of Boston had a concern in the voyage and may be therefore resorted to in order to trace their place of Deposit. With very high respect, I have the honor to remain, Dr Sir your most obed. servt. RC (owned by...
19056From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 21 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was by mistake at the post office put into my packet of letters recieved last night from the post office, and was broke open without particular examination of the superscription. in the moment of opening it, seeing your name on a paper inclosed in it, I looked to the superscription and instantly closed the letter without having read one single word in it. the truth of this...
19057From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, 22 June 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
Your first letter, in a style too peremptory, made a demand, in my opinion, unprecedented and unwarrantable. My answer, pointing out the embarrassment, gave you an opportunity to take a less exceptionable course. You have not chosen to do it, but by your last letter, received this day, containing expressions indecorous and improper, you have increased the difficulties to explanation,...
19058From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, [June–October 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, June-October, 1787. ] “As I wished the cause of Bayard vs Breese and others to be regularly at issue & as the Chancellor could not readily be come at to procure from him an order to serve subpoenas on the Clerk in Court, I sent you a request some time since to file rejoinders.… I have not, however, received any notice of its having been done. I will thank you particularly to have...
19059From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 17 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The newspapers give so minutely what is passing in Congress that nothing of detail can be wanting for your information. Perhaps however some general view of our situation and prospects since you left us may not be unacceptable. At any rate it will give me an opportunity of recalling myself to your memory, and of evidencing my esteem for you. You well know how strong a character of division had...
19060From James Madison to Aaron Burr, 11 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 December 1803, Department of State. “J. Madison presents his respects to the vice-president, who will find in the enclosed the information afforded by the office of state on the subject of former amendments to the Constitution. Mr. Beckley recollects, that in one of the instances, copies equal to the number of the states were made out in the clerk’s office of the House of Representatives....
19061From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 7 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some time before I left home on the subject of my friend Currie’s affair but lest that letter should not have [come to hand] I trouble you with this merely to enquire in what state his suit against Morris [is]. and I should not have done it but that you had supposed that, if terminated favorably at all, it would be before this time. a line of information will be acceptable. A want...
19062From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, [1 April 1802] (Hamilton Papers)
Your Protegé Buisson has addressed to me the inclosed letter. Why he did not immediately write to you I cannot tell unless it be that he is conscious he has used your politeness sufficiently, and imagines an intermediary to be hereafter necessary. Perhaps you may be able to decipher his wishes from the letter; which I confess is beyond my skill. But I understand from him in conversation that...
19063From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 12 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Currie, on whose behalf I troubled you last summer, being anxious to learn something of the prospect he may have of recovery from Robert Morris, I take the liberty of asking a line directed to me at this place where I shall still be long enough to recieve it. I should not have troubled you but that you expected early in the summer to be able to judge what could be done. I am aware at the...
19064From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 15 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Although we have not official information of the votes for President & Vice President and cannot have until the first week in Feb. yet the state of the votes is given on such evidence as satisfies both parties that the two Republican candidates stand highest. from S. Carolina we have not even heard of the actual vote; but we have learnt who were appointed electors, and with sufficient...
19065From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 11 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 3. came to hand two days ago. I am sorry to observe my friend Currie’s claim to be so unpromising, however I shall still hope for something under the wing of your judgment, which you say will be decided Mar. 14. and if that shall fail, that he may come in for his share under the general attachment. I have no conception how Morris’s immense conveyances to his [four] sons &...
19066From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 12 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated to Dr. Currie your idea that the creditors of mr Morris should buy in the mortgage which stands before them. he answers me in these words. ‘I should wish to be informed by you to what amount I should be obliged to advance, if I became a purchaser with others of the mortgaged lands, to secure my whole debt. tho’ I am almost moneyless, if the thing was practicable, & could come...
19067From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, 10 October 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
I distinctly recollect (as was once before verbally explained between us) that just before you made a payment of Two thousand Dollars on your Bond, Winships Mortgage was returned to you, as the mean by which the money was to be procured. I think it was sent to you by Le Guen himself. It is to be presumed, that Winship has had since some intimation from the possessor of his mortgage, and that...
19068From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 20 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Colo. Burr and is sorry to inform him it has been concluded to be improper to communicate the correspondence of existing ministers . He hopes this will, with Colo. Burr, be his sufficient apology. RC ( MWA ); addressed: “Colo. Burr.” Not recorded in SJL . The provenance of TJ’s first written communication to Aaron Burr (1756–1836), his...
19069From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 19 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of yesterday I forgot to put the inclosed and to ask the favor of you to address it to the proper place. it is in answer to one I received three months ago , dated in Dumfries, but the gentleman was there only as a traveller and did not advise me where to address the answer. I inclosed it to mr Gallatin having heard him speak of the writer. but he returned it to me two months ago,...
19070From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 6 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his salutations to the Vice President returns him the letter he put into his hands for perusal. the Secretary at war had a high opinion of mr Barron: but on the informations he has recieved, that opinion is suspended. the matter being sub judice no more ought to be said, than that no prejudices will be in the way of justice. RC ( CtY ); addressed: “The Vice President of the...
19071From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 16 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of May 26. I mentioned to you that Dr. Currie had another demand by judgment against John Tayloe Griffin as principal, and Robert Morris garnishee, which should be the subject of a future letter to you. I now inclose you a transcript of the record of the supreme court of this state. It seems by this (I have not examined the record with minute attention) that the court have...
19072From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 15 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful salutations to the Vice-president of the US. and his thanks for the friendly sentiments of his letter of this morning. the request for transmitting to the V. President elect the notification of his election, is put into a train for execution. PoC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ.
19073From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, [4 April 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
ALS , Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan. This letter has not been released for publication.
19074From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, 20 June 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
I have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter of the 18th instant; and the more I have reflected the more I have become convinced, that I could not, without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary. The clause pointed out by Mr. Van Ness is in these terms “I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion , which General Hamilton has...
19075From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, 17 July 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York ] July 17, 1784 . “… the Defendant in the above cause intends to bring into Court at the ensuing term Twenty five pounds and Eight shillings, being the amount of what he acknowleges to be due to the Plaintiff.…” ALS , Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Inc., Tarrytown, New York. H addressed this letter to “Aaron Burr Esqr. Attorney for the Plaintiff.” On the document there is no indication...
19076From James Madison to Aaron Burr, 14 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison presents his respectful compliments to the Vice President. There was about two years ago a Consul at St. Jago, since which nothing has been heard from him; such characters not being tolerated by the Spanish Govrs. in times of peace. He was also involved in such a manner with the local authorities as to render it questionable how far he could be prudently used for the purpose...
19077From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr, 3 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowlege your favor of the 10th Ulto. Perfectly satisfied that no consideration save a desire to re-establish your health could induce you to leave the service, I cannot therefore withold my concurrence. But in giving permission to your retiring from the army, I am not only to regret the loss of a good officer, but the cause which makes his resignation necessary. When it is...
19078From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 20 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you here, I spoke to you on the case of a friend of mine, Dr. James Currie of Richmond [in Virginia] and asked the favor of you to proceed, in the way then spoken of, [to] recover against Robert Morris , Dr Currie’s demand, the paper establishing which you had recieved. I have just recieved a letter from him wishing this matter to be pressed. I take the...
19079From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr, 27 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby appointed Lieut. Colo. to a Regiment in the Continental Service to be commanded by Colo. Malcolm. This Regiment is composed of eight independant Companies, most of wh. are already raised. As Colo. Malcolm goes directly up to draw the Regiment together, I desire you will join him and give every necessary Assistance towards forming the Corps. I have given particular Instructions...
19080Simeon DeWitt to Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Ebenezer Stevens, 18 June 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Albany, June 18, 1798. “Mr. Abraham Bloodgood will … exhibit to you a model of a floating battery of his own invention.…” ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. DeWitt was surveyor general of New York State. He addressed this letter to H, Burr, and Stevens in their capacity as members of the Military Committee of New York City. See “Call for a Meeting,” June 4, 1798, note 2 . See also the...
19081From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 26 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 24th. the notes [delivered by] mr Burwell to mr Ludlow belonged three of them to Dr. Currie, & the [rest to] himself. to wit Doll. Dr. Currie’s. { John Nicholson’s note to Rob. Morris dated Nov. 18. 94 for
19082Ebenezer Stevens to Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, 23 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
You are senseable there is a balle. of 12, to 15,000 due the several Mechanicks who were employed in making the necessary difence of the City of New York in pursuance of the Resolutions of the Committees appointed for that purpose by the Corporation, the Military &ce. which ballances have been due long time since & the Persons in a distressed Situation for want of the Money, & as the failure...
19083From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 18 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th . has been recieved, as have been those also of Sep. 4. & 23. in due time. these letters all relating to office, fall within the general rule which even the very first week of my being engaged in the administration obliged me to establish, to wit, that of not answering letters on office specifically, but leaving the answer to be found in what is done or not done on them....
19084Thomas Jefferson to Charles Burrall, 16 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th was recieved by our last mail and I have, by it’s return written to the President , bearing testimony with pleasure to the merit of your conduct and character through every stage of my acquaintance with them. no one whose conduct has been so rational and dutiful as yours ever had, or has now any cause to fear. those only who use the influence of their office to thwart &...
19085From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Burrall, 9 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time been pestered with letters & packages from two women of the name of Bampfield whom I never saw or heard of & must suppose to be mad. I have just recieved the inclosed packet. from the daughter, which, understanding from it that the mother is in Baltimore, I wish to return to her, without looking into it’s contents, in order to put an end to the correspondence. perhaps the...
19086From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 22 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
You will, if you can, invest the fifty thousand Dollars heretofore put under your disposition in the purchase of good bills on London or Amsterdam, if they can be obtained within the limit of four per Cent below par; so as to be forwarded to me by the first of April; I mean to reach me on that day by the Post. I will thank you in the mean time to advise me dayly of the price of bills. I am...
19087From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 14 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I request you to invest the sum of fifty thousand Dollars in the funded debt of the united states, bearing a present interest of six per [c]entum; provided it can be obtained at 20 shillings in the pound, with an additional allowance of the Interest that shall be due upon the stock to the time of purchase. The transfer of the stock which you may purchase must be made to the President of the...
19088From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 4 April 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowlege the receipt of the Bills on London for £6740 sterling, transmitted in your letter of the 1st instant. The account has also been received and sent to the Auditor for settlement. I am with consideration Sir Your obedt Servt LS , St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Library, Mundelein, Illinois. Letter not found. This statement of Burrall’s purchases on behalf of the...
19089From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, [17 May 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Of the sum deposited in the Office of the B of the U States in my name in trust for Louis LeGuen you will please to cause to be paid upon his orders or Checks as they may be presented The excess beyond thirty thousand Dollars, which 30000 Dollars are to remain in deposit until a further communication from me. With esteem Yr Obd Svt. ALS , from a typescript supplied by the Lincoln Library,...
19090From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 2 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I find that my letter of the 23rd ultimo (which was written in haste) proposing an arrangement for the accomodation of Merchants who are indebted to the Custom house, does not correctly express the idea which was contemplated. The mode of transacting the business as mentioned in your letter of the 28th ulto. is the true one to be pursued, that is, Notes of the parties indebted will be...
19091George Washington to Jonathan Burrall, 16 February 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] February 16, 1779 . Instructs Burrall to proceed to Peekskill with the money under his care. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Burrall was assistant paymaster general.
19092From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 22 December 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that you will invest a further sum not exceeding Forty thousand Dollars in the funded Debt of the united States, bearing a present Interest of six per centum, upon the same principles mentioned in my letter of the 14th instant. The Office of Discount & Deposit will furnish you with the sum, upon the enclosed Letter. I am Sir Your obedt Servt LS , Lloyd W. Smith Collection,...
19093From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 14 March 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I request that you will immediately invest in the purchase of Bills on London or Amsterdam, on account of the Government, fifty thousand Dollars; to enable you to do which, I inclose you a letter to the President and Directors of the Office of Discount & Deposit at New York. But as the advantageous purchasing of the bills will depend on secrecy, you had better not make use of your letter to...
19094From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Burrall, 25 May 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have this day drawn upon you in the name of Leonard Ganseevort & Co. for One hundred Dollars in the belief that Robert Troupe has deposited in your Office a larger sum in my name. If there is any misapprehension you will oblige me by calling upon him & he will enable you to pay my order. Should he be absent Judge John Laurance will do it. Should both be absent I will ask the favour of you to...
19095James Madison to Charles Burroughs, 9 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, the copy of the "Eulogium upon the late Chief Justice Ewing, by Governour Southard." The Character of the Chief Justice well merited the portrait of it so ably & instructively executed. Among the means of multiplying examples of distinguished work public & private is the commemorating exhibition of them for admiration & emulation. And in thus honoring a departed friend &...
19096From George Washington to Newburgh Burroughs, 20 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 22d of May last, from Belfast, and wish it was in my power to give you a more satisfactory statement of the decd Mrs Savage’s affairs in this country than I am about to detail. True it is I was one of that unfortunate lady’s trustees; and as true, that while I was in a situation to render her any services I performed them (jointly with the other trustee) as...
19097From George Washington to Lieutenants Jonathan Snowden, Eden Burrowes, et al., 14 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
In order that I may be fully informed on the subject of your complaint, I have transmitted Brig: Gen: Maxwell a copy of your letter of the 6th instant; to be communicated to the Officers who were appointed to settle the respective ranks in the 1st Jersey regiment; and desired to be made acquainted with the reasons which induced them to the arrangement —When I am possessed of these I shall not...
19098From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Burrowes, 12 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Mar. 2. and the saddle also is come safely to hand. I am well pleased with it, and take it willingly, but on the express condition that you permit me to pay for it. I have ever laid it down as an unalterable law to myself to accept of no present while I am in a public office. I assume that your own reflections on the tendency of the contrary practice will...
19099From Benjamin Franklin to James Burrow, 10 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; reprinted from George Everett Hastings, The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson (Chicago, [1926]), pp. 119–20. In the papers you returned to me yesterday, I find a Memorandum that you had “told the Bishop of Worcester of his Relatives in the West Indies, of whom he seemed desirous to be further informed.” I therefore send you the following short Account of those who live in...
19100From Alexander Hamilton to William Ward Burrows, 10 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The anxiety of Col. Smith’s bail to your suit had like to have shut him up yesterday in our prison. The good nature of Col. Troup interposed to save him from the disgrace. You would have been sorry if it had happened—because you are not vindictive, and because it would utterly have ruined him, without doing you the least good. Many considerations induce me to second the advice you will receive...