19531From George Washington to George Campbell, 24 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
I accept with singular pleasure the Ensign of so worthy a Fraternity as that of the Friendly sons of St Patrick in this City: a society distinguished for the firm adherence of its members to the glorious Cause in which we are embarked. Give me leave to assure you, Sir, that I shall never cast my Eyes upon the Badge with which I am honored, but with a grateful remembrance of the polite and...
19532Thomas Jefferson to George W. Campbell, 8 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Kosc i uszko whose revolutionary services and general devotion to the cause of liberty have rendered him dear to this country, made a deposit of all his funds in the monied institutions of this country, placing them under my general superintendance, which is exercised through mr Barnes who will have the honor of handing you this letter, and whom I take this occasion to make known to you...
19533Samuel Harrison Smith to George W. Campbell, 14 April 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Samuel Harrison Smith to George W. Campbell. 14 April 1814, Treasury Department, Revenue Office. “Isaac Judson, late Keeper of the Light House on Fayer-weather Island, having died, Daniel Willson Junr., appears from the enclosed letters, to be properly qualified as his successor.” RC ( DNA : RG 26, Light House Service Correspondence). Cover bears Campbell’s note: “Daniel Willson Junr. is...
19534From James Madison to George W. Campbell, 25 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your favor of the 23d. inclosing two letters from Mr. Astor. As the resource of loans to a considerable amount in addition to taxes is necessary to our Treasury, and as money is cheaper in Europe than here, especially whilst disaffection witholds the greater part of the capital from market, it is obviously desireable that we should avail ourselves of the foreign market, now...
19535From James Madison to George W. Campbell, 2 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Committee appointed by the H. of Reps. to enquire into the causes of the late military events in this District, have called for information on the members of the Cabinet, and the call will embrace you. That you may be under no restraint whatever from official or personal confidence, I think it proper to intimate to you that in relation to myself, I hope no information you may be able to...
19536From James Madison to George W. Campbell, 7 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 4th. inst. Altho’ a just estimate by the lenders ought to have afforded us better terms, yet under all the circumstances of the moment, the loan has been obtained on terms equal to the public expectation, and will have a favorable influence on our affairs. I hope no difficulty will grow out of the individual case you mention. The fulfilment of...
19537From James Madison to George W. Campbell, 27 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 26th. resigning your office of Secretary of the Treasury. The considerations both personal & public which induced my desire that you should become a member of the Executive family, being undiminished, I cannot but deeply regret the event which separates you from it, and more especially the imperious cause which imposed such an alternative. With my sincerest...
19538Thomas Jefferson to George W. Campbell, 15 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor of Sep. 9. was recieved here on my return after a long absence. it gives me the pleasing information of the improvement of your health, and I hope it will continue to improve so as to restore you again to the public councils. we have always need of the talents and integrity of our best citizens, and I believe as much so now as at any time. we call it indeed peace: but it is but...
19539George Mercer to Henry Campbell, 11 December 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are to be particularly careful of the waggons &c. under your charge, and are to see that centinels are kept over them. If any just complaint is made of the misbehaviour of the party under your command, upon their march, you will be punished by a Court Martial—You are to see that the waggoners do not loiter or idle their time, but make the utmost dispatch to Winchester. So soon as you...
19540Thomas Jefferson to the Trustees of the Lottery for East Tennessee College, 6 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your letter of Feb. 28. covering a printed scheme of a lottery for the benefit of the East Tennissee college , & proposing to send tickets to me to be disposed of. it would be impossible for them to come to a more inefficient hand. I rarely go from home & consequently see but a few neighbors & friends who occasionally call on me. and having myself made it a rule never...
19541From George Washington to John Campbell, 31 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received your very polite letter of the 18th —and the obliging manner in which you have consented to dispose of your favorite horse to me deserves my warmest acknowledgments and best thanks. I am perfectly satisfied with the price (of thirty five guineas) and shall forward the money to you by Mr William Hunter junior of Alexandria, who says he shall set off for that place tomorrow. The...
19542From Alexander Hamilton to John Campbell, [18 September 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, September 18, 1792. Letter listed in dealer’s catalogue. Letter not found. ] LS , sold by John Heise, Syracuse, New York, 1914, Catalogue 101, Item 98. Campbell was a weaver in Philadelphia who was associated with the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. See “Contract with James and Shoemaker,” November 5, 1792 ( PAH Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander...
19543Memorial to John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, 23 March 1757 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency, The Right Honorable John Earl of Loudoun, General, and Commander in Chief, of all His Majesty’s Forces in North America, and Governor of His Majesty’s most Ancient Colony, and Dominion of Virginia. The Memorial, of The Officers of The Virginia Regiment, Humbly Sheweth— That, The Virginia Regiment was the first in Arms, of any Troops on the Continent, in the present War: That...
19544From George Washington to John Campbell, 10 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
If a white horse, which your Servant was on the day I travelled with you from Bladensburg to Baltimore, has recovered of his lameness, and you have no particular predilection for him, I should be glad, as he is so good a match for the one I had of Mr Prescott, if you would sell him to, or swap him with me. Mrs Washington, with a nephew of mine (Mr Lewis) will, I expect be in Bladensburg on the...
19545From George Washington to John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, 25 July 1756 (Washington Papers)
To the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Loudon—General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty’s Forces in North America and Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Most antient Colony and Dominion of Virginia. We the Officers of the Virginia Regiment beg Leave to congratulate Your Lordship on your safe Arrival in America: And to express the deep Sense We have of His Majesty’s great...
19546From George Washington to John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, 10 January 1757 (Washington Papers)
To the Right Honourable The Earl of Loudoun, General, and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty’s Forces in North America. and Governor, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s most Ancient Colony and Dominion of Virginia. My Lord Fort Cumberland [Md.] January 10th 1757 The following Sheets contain a Concise, Candid, and Submissive Account of Affairs on this Quarter: particularly of the...
19547From Thomas Jefferson to John Campbell, 10 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your favor of the 4 th instant, which gives me the first information I had ever recieved that the laurels which Col o Campbell so honorably won in the battle of King’s mountain had ever been brought into question by any one. to him has been ever ascribed so much of the success of that brilliant action as the valour and conduct of an able commander might justly claim. this...
19548Thomas Jefferson to John W. Campbell, 1 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Sep. 19. and being about commencing a journey which will keep me from home some time, I answer it immediately. I think you have done well to restrict your intentions to the Summary view, Reports as Secretary of state & Messages to Congress . as I do not know that a copy of the Summary view can now be found any where else, I send you a volume of the pamphlets...
19549Thomas Jefferson to John W. Campbell, 3 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 29 came to hand some time since, but I have not sooner been able to acknolege it. In answer to your proposition for publishing a compleat addition edition of my different writings, I must observe that no writings of mine, other than those merely official have been published, except the Notes on Virginia , & a small pamphlet under the title of a Summary view of the rights of...
19550Thomas Jefferson to John W. Campbell, 31 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 20. was between two & three weeks on the road. with it I recieved safely the returned volume which you have certainly done safely no wisely not to reprint. I shall gladly become a subscriber for your work; but it is not in my power to furnish any materials. exactly at the date to which your letter states your work to be arrived (1776) I began to be called from home, & was...
19551From George Washington to Matthew Campbell, 1 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
You cannot be more concerned than I am at the misunderstanding respecting the plaister of Paris, but as I conceive you have been much imposed upon in the cost at New York, & in the freight of it to Virginia (for it certainly might have come as ballast)—and as your reduced price is far above what I ever had the smallest idea of giving by the quantity, it must await your order at my landing: or,...
19552From George Washington to Matthew Campbell, 22 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
Understanding that Mr Wilson of Alexandria was empower’d to sell the plaister of Paris which you had sent to that place—I informed him by Mr L. W——of the mistake under which a vessel Load of it had been landed at my wharf—but that, as it was there, I was willing to pay for it at the same rate as that which was in Alexandria should sell—To this, some considerable time after (if my memory...
19553From George Washington to Matthew Campbell, 7 August 1772 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 4th I think it a piece of Justice due to you to acknowledge that I was not lead to enquire into the price of the Goods I had purchased of your already, & might hearafter take from any thing that passed between us at the time I offered to discontinue my own Importations (upon Condition I could get my Goods at nearly what they would cost to Import them myself)—I...
19554From George Washington to Major Richard Campbell, 24 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are to march immediately with the thirteenth Virginia Regiment to York Town in pensylvania, going through Lancaster and collecting from the Hospitals there and at other places all the convalescents belonging to the said Regiment who are able to proceed. You will also remain with the Regiment after it arrives at Yorktown till it receives further orders respecting it’s destination; When that...
19555From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Campbell, 12 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the reciept of your favor accompanied by the 7th. vol. of Dr. Anderson’s Bee. Much pleased with this work, and desirous of continuing to recieve it, I should be obliged to you to be informed if Dr. Anderson has any correspondent at Richmond in Virginia through whom I could receive the work in future and pay the subscription, as I could not consent to permit Dr. Anderson to go...
19556From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Campbell, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Campbell Dear Sir is too well known and too much respected here, and especially by myself, to need any apology for the address of his letter to me of Sep. 28. or to doubt my readiness to render a service of any friend of his. his good wishes are suffic t to ensure mine in favor of mr Rose yet it is an awful thing to become the adviser of another to leave his native country and friends, and...
19557From Thomas Jefferson to William Campbell, 3 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received advice from Colo. Preston of a dangerous insurrection on new river . He thinks the Insurgents will attempt to destroy the works at the lead mines, and has called on the militia of Washington and Botetourt to oppose them. As this is an Object requiring more immediate attention than the one on which you were lately appointed I am to desire you will a second time take in hand...
19558From Thomas Jefferson to William Campbell?, 22 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Having written very fully to Colo. Preston on the measures necessary to be pursued in your part of the Country, and being much thronged, I must beg leave to refer you to him. We shall be exceedingly glad if two battalions of volunteers can be raised, as we are very desirous of availing ourselves of your personal service. Where the Council speak of their being subject to the Commander in chief...
19559From Thomas Jefferson to William Campbell, 22 June 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Orders have been sent to the county lieutenants of Montgomery and Washington, to furnish 250 of their militia to proceed in conjunction with the Carolinians against the Chickamoggas. You are hereby authorized to take command of the said men. Should the Carolinians not have at present such an expedition in contemplation, if you can engage them to concur as volunteers, either at their own...
19560From Alexander Hamilton to William Campbell, Thomas Withers, M. R. Willkings, Auly Macnaughten, and George Hooper, 11 … (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18th. of April relative to the lighthouse which was begun by the government of North Carolina on Cape Island, near the mouth of Cape Fear River. The general provisions made by Congress with respect to light houses do not extend further than repairing and maintaining them. Nothing therefore can at this moment be done in this case, though it is probable earlier...