22001Enclosure: Memorandum on a Shipment of Halibut and Cod, 13 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum 2 boxes. containing the dried parts of Halibut 2 Kegs. of Cod sounds & tongues, each seperate, and in pickle, only one has a few fins of the Halibut packed in it, no more of the last could be procured as the fishermen are not in the habit of curing it. It will be necessary to let the sounds & tongues remain in water at least a day before eating to take off the salt, but those not...
22002[Diary entry: 22 September 1763] (Washington Papers)
22. Frost bit Do. at Do. and at Muddy hole also bit Fodder very much. Began to get fodder at Creek Quarter.
22003From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Weltner, 16 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to find by yours of yesterday that the ill state of your health obliges you to think of quitting the Service. If you should be of opinion that retiring from the Army during the Winter Season would so far re-establish your Constitution as to enable you to take the command of your Regiment again early in the Spring, I should prefer granting you a Furlough to accepting of your...
22004From George Washington to Bernard Moore, 23 January 1771 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 12th Inst. by Mr Seaton was delivered to me at this place in my way to Dumfries where I am going upon an Arbitration fixd to this day. I am exceeding sorry to hear of your unfortunate Circumstances and wish that the situation of my own Engagements, woud permit me to subscribe more largely to your relief than they will; but having several pretty large Sums of my own to pay it...
22005To James Madison from Michael Smith, 30 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
I hope you will pardon this liberty. The respect that I have for you, the love of my country, and the sollicitation of some respectable gentlemen in Virginia, have pervailed on me (notwithstanding my aversion to meddle in state matters) to write unto you. In order to enable you to judge of the propriety or impropriety of paying attention to this, I will give you a short history of myself. I...
22006To James Madison from DeWitt Clinton, 19 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
As very serious aggressions have been recently committed in this port upon our national rights, I have thought it my duty to communicate the particulars to the President as soon as possible. In the afternoon of the 17 inst I received a letter from Genl Rey the Commissary of the French Republic informing me that the French frigates Didon and Cybele then in this Port intended to sail with the...
22007To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bradley Varnum, 17 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
J. B. Varnum presents his most Respectful Compliments to the President of the United States. And in Answer to his Note of the 16th Instant States, that Mr. Putnam, Surveyor of the Port of Salem, has Resigned, by a recent Letter to Mr. Gallatin. Enquiery has been made of Mr. Crowninshield relative to a Suitable person for his Successor. He is very much astonisshed at the Recommendation of the...
22008To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, [6 October] 1788 (Madison Papers)
… The Resolutions respecting the Mississippi Navigation are of a Balmy nature, tending to give Repose to those concerned, and impose silence on such as caring nothing about it, used the Subject as an engine of Opposition, not such is the fixure of the tempory seat of Congress. I have already met taunts on the occasion, as the first instance of Eastern Partiality and influence , which...
22009Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Stevenson, 26 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor of the 11 th was recieved last night only. why it should have been a fortnight on the way is unaccountable. mr Dandridge by a letter of the 10 th had informed me of the resolution of the Directors of the bank of the US. mentioned in your letter , but I did not before know to whom I was indebted for the attention. you have rendered me a great service, dear Sir, in procuring this...
22010To Benjamin Franklin from Ingenhousz, 1 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The inclosed note and bill of exchange of 150 florins on Messrs. Goll & Verbrugge at Amsterdam are delivred to me by his Excellency Count Chotek chanchellor of Bohemia and Austria, one of our first Noblemen, and, what more is, a true Lover and encourager of Sciences; deserving therefore very highly your attention in fulfilling his desires, by sending the...