20451From Thomas Jefferson to James Cheetham, 11 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My account transmitted by you is recieved. early in the spring of the last year, I gave mr Barnes (who is kind enough to transact most of my money business for me) a list of sums to be paid for newspapers recieved in the year. among these was 19. D. for yourself. not knowing the other articles of the account I could not add what was due for them. he tells me he wrote to a mr Alexr. Richards to...
20452From George Washington to Ezekiel Cheever, 2 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday recd yours of the 15th March with a general Return of the Ordnance, Arms and military Stores at Springfield. I beg you will be as industrious as possible in getting the new Arms cleaned and put in order, and having all the old that are worth repairing made fit for service. You need not wait untill the whole are compleated, but keep sending them forward as they are finished. I am...
20453From George Washington to Colonel Ezekiel Cheever, 13 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the 3d Instt has been duly received. Your business to Boston seems to have been of a material and necessary nature, and I am happy to hear you were likely to get it accomodated. As the present time is peculiarly interesting, and requires the attention and exertion of every person in the line of duty assigned him, I must request your constant attendance and closest application & care...
20454From George Washington to Ezekiel Cheever, 31 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have information that there were a considerable number of Troops, on board the transports that went to the Eastward a few days ago, under the command of Genl Clinton and Lord Cornwallis. I have no doubt but the intent of this expedition was to have relieved Rhode Island, but when they find that, by the French Fleet being obliged to bear away to Boston to refit, the seige is raised, they may...
20455From George Washington to Colonel Ezekiel Cheever, 13 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I desire you will immediately transmit me an account of the Receipt and delivery of Arms in the Course of last Campaign and down to the present time. Specify the Names of the Officers to whom they were delivered and from whom received, that we may endeavour to make those either pay or account for the great Numbers of public Arms that have been drawn and never returned. I am &c. Df , in Tench...
20456Instructions to Ezekiel Cheever, 10 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
As the Army (at least part of it) is near the period of its dissolution, you are to exert yourself to the utmost in recovering all the Arms & other Stores which have been issued by you to the several Corps (whether Continental or militia) in the Service of the United States—Such of the Arms as are unserviceable & cannot be repaired by the Armourers of the Army are to be packed in Chests with...
20457From George Washington to Ezekiel Cheever, 14 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have appointed Colo. Thomas Nixon to receive and forward to Camp the Recruits coming from the Massachusetts’ State; and I request that you will deliver on his order or receipt whatever number of Arms and Accoutrements complete he may require for them. I do not know what number of Men there will be, or I should ascertain the quantity to be delivered. I am sir Yr Most Obedt sert Df , in Robert...
20458From George Washington to Ezekiel Cheever, 17 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
General Knox informs me, that he directed 2000 arms to be sent on from Springfield to Lebanon; which it is to be supposed are now on their way. The distress of this army for want of arms is very great; we have a number of men intirely destitute, and many recruits are dayly coming in from whom we can derive no service on the same account. I am therefore to desire in the most urgent manner, that...
20459George Washington to Ezekiel Cheever, 17 May 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Valley Forge, May 17, 1778 . Instructs Cheever to rush forward arms that are en route from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Cheever was commissary of military stores at Springfield, Massachusetts.
20460From George Washington to Colonel Ezekiel Cheever, 7 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
Application having been made to me by Governor Trumbull for Liberty to draw a Quantity of Arms out of the Magazine at springfield for the Militia of that state in case it should be invaded, I have complied with his request upon the following Conditions which you will please observe. That should the state be actually invaded, & a sufficiency of Arms remains in the Magazine after complying with...
20461From Alexander Hamilton to Henry Cheriot, 18 November 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am sorry that my departure from Albany prevented my receiving there your communication on the subject of Mr. Le Couteux. The facts which you state respecting him correspond with what I have always understood. This Gentleman having emigrated from France to the UStates in a time of peace between that country and Great Britain and having been fourteen years a naturalized citizen of this...
20462From George Washington to Cherokee Chiefs and Warriors, 14 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am glad to see you and take you by the hand after so long a Journey. I rejoice that you are all in good health and bid you heartily welcome to this City. I am made acquainted with the talks you have had with the Secretary of War, You may depend upon what he may say to you in my behalf. My Children I am very sorry that since I took some of you and others of your nation by the hand about two...
20463II. Reply to the Cherokee Delegation by Henry Dearborn, [3 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of conferring with you three days since, I promised to lay all that you should represent, on behalf of your Nation, before your Father, the President of the United States. This has been done, and I have it in charge, from him to tell you, that he receives your visit with welcome and cordiality, that he listens willingly to your representations, and requests you and your...
20464From Thomas Jefferson to Cherokee Deputation, 9 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My Children Depities of the Cherokees of the Upper & lower Towns I understand, by the speeches which you have delivered Me, that there is a difference of disposition among the people of both parts of your Nation. Some of them desiring to remain on their lands, to betake themselves to Agriculture, and the industrious occupations of civilised life, while others, retaining their attachment to the...
20465From Thomas Jefferson to Cherokee Deputation, 9 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have maturely considered the Speeches you have delivered me and will now give you answers to the several matters they contain You inform me of your anxious desires to engage in the industrious pursuits of agriculture & civilized life; that finding it impracticable to induce the nation at large to join in this you wish a line of separation to be established between the upper and lower Towns,...
20466Enclosure: Carondelet’s Speech to the Cherokee Nation, 24 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
To the chiefs, warriors and others of the Cherokee nation. Brothers. I have seen with much satisfaction the chiefs Respiracion, Chickamoga Charles, and the Bloody-fellow warrior of your nation: I have heard their words, which I will preserve in my heart. The losses and misfortunes of your nation have afflicted me, and I desire sincerely to relieve them. I transmit to the great king of the...
20467From George Washington to the Cherokee Nation, 29 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
Many years have passed since the White people first came to America. In that long space of time many good men have considered how the condition of the Indian natives of the country might be improved; and many attempts have been made to effect it. But, as we see at this day, all these attempts have been nearly fruitless. I also have thought much on this subject, and anxiously wished that the...
20468From Thomas Jefferson to Cherokee Nation, 10 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friends & children, chiefs of the Cherokee nation Having now finished our business, & finished it I hope to mutual satisfaction, I cannot take leave of you without expressing the satisfaction I have recieved from your visit. I see, with my own eyes, that the endeavors we have been making to encourage and lead you on in the way of improving your situation have not been unsuccesful. it has...
20469From Thomas Jefferson to Cherokee Nation, 4 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am glad to see you at the seat of Government, to take you by the hand, and to assure you in person of the friendship of the U.S. towards all their red Children, & of their desires to extend, to them all, their protection & good Offices. the journey you have come is a long one, & the object expressed in our conference of the other day is important. I have listened to it with attention & given...
20470From John Adams to Cherokee Nation, 27 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I some time since appointed and commissioned three of my beloved men, viz. Alfred Moore, George Walton, and John Steele, to negotiate with you, for the attainment of certain objects by treaty, which I considered indispensable to the preservation of the happiness and welfare of my white and red children, and which, without injury to either, promised to perpetuate between them a lasting harmony....
20471Enclosure: Heman Swift to John Chester, 22 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I receiv’d your favour of the 10th. instant, yesterday, and should be very happy to comply with your request in making Out a statement respecting the Manufactures in this County, but am obliged to set out on a journey into the state of Vermont the day after tomorrow which will prevent my being able to get the Necssary information before you will be oblieged to make returns. I consider those...
20472Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 26 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In Consequence of your Application to Mr Learned and Mr Huntington to procure a Statement of the Manufactories in the County of New London they have both applied to me to give you the best information I could collect which I here inclose the principal part of which is in this Town which Imagine will at Some future day become a very Considerable manufactoring place. My reasons are these it is...
20473Enclosure: O. Burr and Company to John Chester, 12 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your circular Letter of the 10th. ult., desiring Information respecting the Rise & Progress of Manufactures, was handed to us by the Honble. Joseph P. Cooke Esqr & as you observe, that any Communications by Letter, will answer your Purpose, we have taken the Liberty of addressing this to you, stating the Rise & Progress of our Hat Manufactory, & that of the Saddle Cloth under the Care of...
20474Enclosure: William Hillhouse to John Chester, 6 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As Mr. Huntington and Mr. Learned reside in the two principle Manfacturing Towns, and have Easy access to all the other Towns in the County of New London, Shall depend on their giving the information you Desire in respect to the Manufactures in them. This Town is altogether in the Farming way, & little or nothing is done with us in the way of Trade or Manufacture Except for use of the...
20475Enclosure: Jonathan Palmer, Junior, to John Chester, 15 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
At Mr. Learneds request with respect to Manafactures have to state to you, That we have No regular Established. Factories in this Town, and therefore no pecuniary Incouragements. Our Domestick Are Considerable but to what amount is very doubtfull. The business of Hattmaking has been caryed on long in this Town, but for about One Year has been followed with peculiar Attention And perseverance....
20476Enclosure: Roger Newberry to John Chester, 16 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since I received yours of the 10th. of August My Son on whome my dependance has been has been sick and unable to assist me in my business, so that I have been unable to pay much attention to the Subject of your letter. I have wrote to several Gentlement and have recd. no answer except from Alexander King Esq of Suffield whose letter I herewith send you. The Manufactures of this Town are Mostly...
20477Enclosure: John Treadwell to John Chester, 21 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Pursuant to your request I wrote to a Gentleman in each of the towns of Southington Berlin and Bristol for the necessary information on the subject manufactures in those towns, but have received no answer except from Mr Andrews of Southington. The account he has given and the estimates he has made I have reason to conclude are pretty correct, and with very little variation, as to common...
20478Enclosure: Chauncey Whittelsey to John Chester, 27 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. but two Letters in answer to those I wrote, in Consequence of your Application upon the Subject of Manufactures, one from Chatham, the other from Killingworth; the one from Killingworth was accompanied by one from Mr. Elliot to Mr. Lane, which I forward you as it contains some Information, upon the Subject of manufacturing Steel, which may eventually prove of some Consequence. In...
20479Enclosure: John Mix, Junior, to John Chester, 30 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I was not bread up to any Mechanical Business, but had part of an Education at Yale College. After I left College I entered into the Mercantile Line, but Just at that time the War Coming on I entered into the Service with a Commition in which I remained untill my Ill State of health oblidged me to Quit the Service. Being ever a Friend and Supporter of the Rights of my Country and finding...
20480Enclosure: John Mix, Junior, to John Chester, 8 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Doubtless you may remember that I mentioned a word to you at my house with regard to my Supplying the Federal Armey with Buttons from our Factory, and that I wished for your Patronage and Influence in the matter. If Sir it is agreeable to you to mention the matter to the Secretary, I should take it as a favour. We should be able to Furnish at a very reasonable rate, and would Put USA on Each...
20481Enclosure: Elisha Colt to John Chester, 20 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to you favour of 16th. Inst on the subject of the Woolen Manufacture established in this place, I am now to observe, that the Business commenced in June 1788 with a Capital of £1280. raised by Subscription in shares of Ten pounds each. The first season we purchased about Seven thousand pounds of Wool, and such Implements as were of prime necessity in carrying on the Business, which...
20482Enclosure: Benjamin Huntington to John Chester, 24 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of the 10th Instant has been Recd but being Necessarily Abscent last week could not Attend to the Subject you mention untill Monday last and being on the same Business this Day I found Col Leffingwell on the Same Employ through the Request of Mr. Learnand & we have agreed on a Report as near as we can state one, not only for this Town but for the whole County N London (exceptd)...
20483Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 30 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Since forwarding Statement of Manufactories have discoverd an Omission of the Manufactoring of Carding Machines and Jennys for Carding & Spinning on the large Scale. Those in Mr Lathrops works were wholly made here by an Inhabitant of this Town who is a Great Mechanical Genius. Machines for Cutting doubling & Crooking Card wire for making Common Cotton & Wool Cards are also made in this Town....
20484Enclosure: Amasa Learned to John Chester, 14 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Agreeably to your request, I have written to several Gentlemen in each Town, in this County, to collect and forward to you, before the 20th Septr, such information on the subject of Manufactures in their respective Towns as the Secretary required. The domestic manufactures of this Town are the same kind that you find in every other Town; but rather inferior to most, in quantity & quality. The...
20485Enclosure: Joseph P. Cooke to John Chester, 12 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In pursuance of your request communicated in your letter the 10th. ult. I have endeavoured to obtain the best information in my power respecting the several manufactures in the northern parts of the County of Fairfield, expecting you will receive from Mr. Davenport all necessary information from the towns upon the Sea-coasts. The inland parts of this County, not yet overstocked with...
20486Enclosure: James Davenport to John Chester, 16 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I am honored by the receipt of your Letter of the 10th Ult. in which you inform me of the request of the Secretary of the Treasury to have as accurate information as possible of the state of Manufactures of every kind in this State & desire me to collect & communicate to you information on the subject from this County. I should have answered you Letter sooner but absence from home prevented....
20487Enclosure: William Williams to John Chester, 29 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your Letter of ye 10th Augt Ulto. thro the multiplicity of Business & avocations, I am able to give you a very imperfect account of Manufactures in this County, & I suppose quite inadequate to the Secretarys Wishes. There are manufactures of Linnen Cloths carried on in very many Families in this Town & County, & large quantities are made, many private Looms for weavg in Families...
20488Enclosure: John Mix, Junior, to John Chester, 5 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I had the Honour of receving a Letter From you Dated 15th of September 1791 In which you are pleas’d to inform me of the Desire of the Secretary of the Treasury to be Inform’d Relative to the different Manufactories which are carried on in this State, and as Sir the object of your writing me is with regard to the Button Manufactory in which I am Engaged, I have therefore Sir herewith inclosed...
20489Enclosure: John Mix, Junior, to John Chester, 7 October 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Being in a very Great hurry and a Croud of business I did not give You so Perticular an account of the Skelleton Rimd. Buttons, (when I wrote you on the subject of the Button Manufactory.) as I could have wished. I therefore take this Opportunity to inform you Sir. The Skelleton Rimd. Buttons are of those kinds which I gave you a Sample of some with Cloath with white Rims, and some with...
20490Enclosure: Peter Colt to John Chester, 21 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The conversation which I had with you some days past on the subject of the Secretarys Letter respecting our manufactures, has given occasion the imperfect History of that Business which accompanies this. I shall leave it to your judgment to make such use of it in your correspondence with the Secretary as you may deem proper—or wholly to suppress it; I am not possessd of sufficient documents on...
20491From George Washington to Peter Chester, 25 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Mr Wood the bearer of this is a Gentleman of Virginia upon a Tour to Florida—He proposes before his return to explore some of the ungranted Lands in your Government; and, as I have never yet been able to Locate the Lands which I am entitled to under his Majesty’s Proclamation of October 1763 has promised that, if he meets with such Lands as he thinks will answer my purpose to have 10,000 acres...
20492From Alexander Hamilton to John A. Chevallié, [14 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
[ Treasury Department, August 14, 1793. “… Every thing with regard to Mr. Beaumarchais’ accounts is as far advanced as circumstances now permit.…” Letter not found. ] LS , sold by Charles Hamilton Autographs, Inc., April 23, 1970, Item 96. For information concerning the contents of this letter, see Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais to H, October 29, 1796 ( PAH Harold C. Syrett, ed., The...
20493From Benjamin Franklin to Chevallié, 26 February 1785 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress I duly receiv’d in its time, the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 21st. of October last, with the Papers that accompany’d it, relating to your Demands against the State of Virginia, the Congress, & sundry private Persons in America. Mr Jefferson, a principal Person and late Governor of that State, being in Paris, I thought I could not do better with...
20494From James Madison to Langdon Cheves, 20 December 1819 (Madison Papers)
I learn that a Ticket for Directors of the Branch Bank at Richmond has been sent on to Pha. in which Mr. F Corbin, is first named as a mark it is presumed, of his claim to favorable attention. I know not the other names and am aware that I owe an apology for troubling you at all on the subject. But a very long & personal acquaintance with Mr. C. and the opinion of him to which it has led, do...
20495From James Madison to Langdon Cheves, 4 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
Having in so recent an instance troubled you with a deviation from my general wish to decline recommendatory letters, I feel the greater awkwardness in now yielding to the request of another friend, who overrating my testimony is desirous of adding it to that of others, in making you acquainted with his standing both personally and in relation to the probable extent of his property. F. Preston...
20496From George Washington to Benjamin Chew, 25 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
Compliments and thanks to Mr Chew for the favor of perusing the enclosed letter. A different result, from the forebodings therein, would have been very pleasing. AL , MdHi : Bayard Collection. The letter is addressed, “The Honble Mr Chew”; whether the addressee was Benjamin Chew, Sr., or Jr., has not been determined. “1795” is not in GW’s handwriting. The writing looks to match that of a note...
20497From James Madison to John Chew, 14 February 1800 (Madison Papers)
I lately received your letter of Ocr. 20th. 99. which gave us the first account of the death of your father; the preceding letter referred to having never come to hand, or it would have been duly answered. The land to which your enquiry relates lies in the State of Kentucky (Bourbon County) and not in Virginia, where your father had no claim known to me. The Tract contains 2000 Acres, and has...
20498From George Washington to Joseph Chew, 25 September 1774 (Washington Papers)
It would have given me sincere pleasure to have serv’d you in your request of March the 10th (which by the by did not come to my hands till sometime late in May; after Colo. Pendleton, at the desire of Mr Madison, had made an unsuccessful application to Lord Dunmore for the Land you claim under your Brother Colby; whose Merits well entitles his heir to the Kings bounty) I say to have serv’d...
20499From James Madison to Joseph Chew, 28 February 1797 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 28 February 1797. Acknowledged in Chew to JM, 31 Mar. 1797 (DLC). Encloses a letter to Chew from James Madison, Sr. Also discusses disposal of Chew’s Kentucky lands.
20500From James Madison to Joseph Chew, 5 August 1786 (Madison Papers)
Some private business brought me to this City a few days ago. I have been absent from Orange about a month where I left our friends generally well. The principal change among them which I recollect is the death of your mother, of which as well as of other family circumstances, the inclosed letter from your Sister will probably acquaint you. We have been long anxious to get some information...