20471To George Washington from Lund Washington, 29 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday last I got three Letters from you dated the 2d 7th and 9th of Octbr —Mrs Washington haveing the week before set off for new kent, I on monday sent Tom Down with your letters to her, I expect her home Imediately, as she has often declared she woud go to the Camp if you woud permit her—I wrote to Colo. Mason Relative to the Stopg the Navagation of Potowmack—& went my self to Alexandria...
20472Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Bentley, 26 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Copy of the statement of paiments furnished by Col o Bentley . ‘the following paiments have been made to mr Hanson , as p r statement given by him to the Commissioners, & by one of them to me. £ s d 1797. Aug. 5 . then rec d through the hands of
20473To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Ellicott, 18 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I received a letter from Mr. John Vaughan from which the following is an extract, “I am desired by a person in the District of Maine Kennebeck River, to enquire as soon as may be of Mr. Ellicott the cost of a Box , with the sextant , and portable horizon , and a place for an Arnold watch , (such as Mr. Ellicott describes in the 5th. Vol. of the Phil: Trants.,) we have the Watch,...
20474Thomas Jefferson to James Clarke, 5 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 1 st instant requesting my opinion of the merits of your Odometer, which I shall give with pleasure and satisfaction having had it in use for 13. years. I think it as simple as we can expect such a machine to be, having only three toothed wheels, entirely accurate inconsiderable in weight and volume, and of convenient application to the carriage. with...
20475From Alexander Hamilton to James Wilkinson, 23 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the seat of Government, in conformity with an intimation from the Secretary of War, to the end that with the aid of your lights and experience, a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political Concerns, might be digested and...
20476Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, yesterday, your favor of the 31. of last month , and beg leave to return my warm thanks for your kind and obliging sympathy on the melancholy occasion of the death of my father . Few men, I believe, who have lived ever acted up more faithfully to what he took to be the line of rectitude and duty in all the actions of his laborious life; but in whatever lights he may have appeared...
20477From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, [27 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President. The execution of the process by the marshal himself is, for many reasons, so important that it does not appear possible to dispense with it. If there should be any failure in the Deputy it would probably furnish a topic of censure and a source of much embarrassment. The impediment in point of health is to be regretted, but,...
20478To George Washington from Gustavus Scott, 18 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
Since my Return from Annapolis, tho’ generaly in the City from 9 to 3 OClock I have not been unmindfull of the Potk Company. Two Meetings have been held to decide upon the proper Measures to obtain Aid from the States of Maryland & Virginia. The Result is that Messrs Forrest, Lear & Law proceed immediately to Annapolis to attend the Assembly of Maryland now in Session: & that some other...
20479To Thomas Jefferson from William DuVal, 19 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I can obtain an Authenticated Copy of the Will and Codicil of Mr Geo. Wythe, decd. I shall inclose them. I have twice applied to the Clerk for them. Michael being dead, I shall extract as much as related to your self. “I give my Books and small Philosophical Apparatus to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, a Legacy considered abstractlie, perhaps not...
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