22021From John Adams to William Bentley, May 1810 (Adams Papers)
I received from our Quincy Stage under the direction of Mr Thayer a Box of Scions from The Endicott Pear Tree, carefully preserved and in admirable order for which I pray you accept my best Thanks. I have engrafted a number of Stocks which have taken very well according to their present appearance, and have distributed others to several Gentlemen in this and the Neighbouring, Towns. Mr Norton...
22022July 26. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. B. Hollis, Miss Brand, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Smith, and I walked to Mill Green, or Mill Hill the Seat of a Mr. Allen a Banker of London. We walked over the Pleasure Grounds and Kitchen Garden and down to Cocytus, a canal or Pond of Water surrounded with Wood in such a Manner as to make the Place gloomy enough for the Name. This is a good Spot, but Mr. Allen has, for want of Taste, spoiled it by...
22023Editorial Note: First Inaugural Address (Jefferson Papers)
At noon on 4 Mch. 1801 in the Senate chamber of the Capitol, fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office as the nation’s third president. The occasion was, in Margaret Bayard Smith’s often quoted words, “one of the most interesting scenes, a free people can ever witness.” According to Aaron Burr, the “Day was serene & temperate—The Concourse of people immense—all passed off...
22024To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, with Reply, 23 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 23 Dec. 1779 . The commanders of two vessels from Bermuda with salt to exchange for corn submit a proposal, enclosed. The terms agreed upon last July were bushel for bushel, but the price of corn has fallen and the price of salt doubled. It would be good policy to allow two bushels of corn for one of salt to induce others to bring salt. The captains are granted permission to...
22025To George Washington from Lund Washington, 29 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Lund Washington, 29 July 1778. On 15 Aug., GW wrote Lund Washington : “Your Letter of the 29th Ulto, Inclosing a line from Captn Marshall to you came to my hands yesterday.”
22026George Washington to the Officers to Collect Provisions, 8 January 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] January 8, 1780 . Orders collection of two hundred head of cattle and eight hundred bushels of grain in Bergen County, New Jersey. States how owners are to be paid. If there is a refusal to cooperate, officers are to impress needed goods. Urges officers to respect individual rights. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
22027To George Washington from John Jay, 14 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
Your very kind Letter of the 7 instant gave me all that Pleasure, which accompanies marks of cordial Esteem & attachmt from those whose Commendation is Praise and whose Friendship is discriminate. Among the Objects of my Mission are some, which however just, will not be easily attain’d and therefore its Success will be precarious & probably partial. The only Satisfaction I promise myself from...
22028From George Washington to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 8 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
Private & confidential The situation of Affairs, and the interests of this Country as they relate to France, render it indispensably necessary that a faithful organ near that government—able & willing to explain its views, and to ascertain those of France, should immediately fill the place of our present Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris. Policy requires that this character should be well...
22029Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 16 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I went out of the house yesterday for the first time, since my arrival at this time: but my health is still in a feeble state, and it will probably be some weeks before I shall be able to resume my usual private pursuits. I do not take the Enquirer, and therefore am often ignorant of what is said in that paper. I filed away the numbers of Mr. Giles’s commentaries upon your letters, as far as...
22030To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Neufville, 6 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Death having put a period to the Sufferings of my revered and aged Parent, on the Evening of the 29th. ult.; it is with the utmost respect and diffidence, I offer myself to the Consideration of your Excellency, a Candidate to succeed him as Commissioner of the Loan Office for this state; embolden’d, in some degree, by assisting in the incipient Transactions, to the present Time, and humbly...
22031To John Adams from Pieter van Bleiswyck, 19 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
Le Conseiller Pensionnaire d’Hollande Sera tres ravi Si Son Excellence Monsieur Adams veut bien lui faire l’honneur de passer chèz Lui ce Soir vers les 7 heures, ou Demain matin a 9 heures suivant La plus grande Commodité &c. Sr. Exe:
22032From George Washington to Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, 17 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
I return you my thanks for this very polite and affectionate address. As I have ever considered a due support of Civil Authority, essential to the preservation of that liberty for which we are contending, I have from duty as well as from inclination endeavoured, so far as possible, to avoid the least violation of it, and I am happy to find that my conduct has met the approbation of those who...
22033To George Washington from Lund Washington, 19 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was in Alexandria yesterday where I see the King of Englands speech to his Parliament I think by it we may conclude there is a Peace at which I am well pleased. I have received Your Letter of the 5th Inst. The three Bay Colts you mention are unfit for Carriage Horses.the Eldest of them I beleive is the one you now Rides in Mrs Washingtons Charriot.I think he is not more then Six this Spring...
22034To George Washington from Major General John Armstrong, 19 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
This day or tomorrow I design moving Over to the Bethlehem or rather the Eastown Road & near the Shamany & Shou’d have moved Sooner, had the weather & Other impediments permitted —the removal of Sick Soldiers & fragments of Continental Stores, with the Scarcity of Waggons to procure Our provisions have Stood in the way. Coll Pickering writes me that two or three hundred Arms, Tents &c. were...
22035To George Washington from Daniel Morgan, 3 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
Before I recd your accompt against Colo. Kennedy I had paid him all that I was to give him for the house lotts &c. that I bought of him and chiefly in orders accepted—I was desirous to get the money for you It being the first time I ever had it in my power to serve you in a domestick line—his circumstances (I knew) did enable him to pay without a suite of them by the time the suite was...
22036To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 13 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
By a Note, received this morning from Mr Lear, I am requested to let you know “if I have received the notification of my appointment to the Office of Brigadier General; and whether I accept.” I have not, Sir, received any Official Notice of such an appointment. My answer to a private letter from the secretary of War, of which the inclosed is a copy, may in some measure, account for the delay;...
22037From James Madison to the Senate, 6 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I nominate Shubael Butterfield of New Hampshire Thomas G. Chase ″ Massachusetts Robert Lyman ″ Ditto William Brown ″ New York Edwin B. Newton ″ Ditto John H. Duncan ″ Pennsylvania Elijah J. Weed
22038To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 16 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Whilst the late envoys were in Paris, they recommended Mr William Lee, in a letter to Mr Pickering, as a suitable character for a Consul; & it was expected, he would apply for the consulate of Bourdeaux, which it was then supposed would be vacant: & he now proposes to renew his application. being informed of this circumstance, & having, after the fullest enquiry, & conviction of his merit,...
22039[Diary entry: 23 June 1772] (Washington Papers)
23. Wind Southerly and warm with flying Clouds & showers about—but none here.
22040From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Truxtun, 28 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of the 18th. covering your commission for the purpose of inspection. altho’ this communication was expressly made to me in my private character, yet as it is only as a public officer that my opinion can be of any consequence, I shall freely express [it.?] the considerations urged in your letter are undoubtedly weighty and bear with force on the question of...
22041Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Sr., 16 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of july 20th repeated to me the melancholy tidings of my dear Aunts Death. The first information which we received of it, was by a Letter from Mr W. Smith by way of Liverpool in a very short passage, upon the receipt of which I immediately wrote you. No person my dear sir can more sincerely sympathize with you than your afflicted Neice, the kindness with which my dear Aunt always...
22042[Diary entry: 9 January 1769] (Washington Papers)
9. At home all day. Opening the Avenue to the House—& for bringing the Road along.
22043From John Adams to Sigourney, Ingraham, & Bromfield, 13 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
It will be necessary for me to have, Tea Geer and Coffee Geer and Knives and Forks and Table Linnen. I believe a dozen and half of Tea Cups and Saucers and as many Coffee Cups— as many Silver Tea Spoons, and an equal Number of larger Spoons —a Set of Table Cloths and Napkins—whether there is half a dozen Table Cloths or a Dozen I dont know in a set. Two dozens of Knives and Forks. I know not...
22044General Orders, 25 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
22045From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the president of the United States the letter of May 10th. of Captain Henry Burbeck, commandant of the Fort of St: Tammany, to his Excellency the Governor of East Florida, with the other letters relating thereto, which you were pleased to put into my hands, and I have the honor to inform you that, the president having entirely disapproved of the expressions which Capt....
22046From Benjamin Franklin to Dumas, 16 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Yale University Library; AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Library of Congress, National Archives We have News here that your Fleet has behaved bravely; I congratulate you upon it, most cordially. I have just received a 14. 5. 3. 10. 28. 2. 76. 202: 66. 11. 12. 273, 50. 14. joining 76. 5. 42. 45. 16. 15. 424. 235. 19: 20. 69. 580. 11. 150. 27. 56. 35. 104. 652. 28. 675. 85. 79. 50....
22047To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 15 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
Tr ( LC : Force Transcripts). Another copy, also taken from the original manuscript, is in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society , 2d ser., XIX (1905), 149–50. I have your favr of the 2d & agree with you that the expostulations of the friends to Virginia will be properly interposed, and the Clamours of her Enemies well applied, if both together will effect the rousing her to...
22048From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 1 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I wait for your instructions concerning the regulations proposed to you with respect to objects of extra expence. As soon as I receive your direction I shall issue orders for having the regulations carried into effect. With great respect I am, Sir If it shall be agreeable to General Pinckney to whom I have written on the subject, it is my wish to employ Major Tousard during the winter, in...
22049[Diary entry: 23 June 1767] (Washington Papers)
23. Finishd setting Corn at Muddy hole & Doeg Run.
22050From Thomas Jefferson to William Jones, 10 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Parker, being to return to Paris in a few days, furnishes me a safe conveiance for a couple of thermometers for which I have occasion, and which I beg the favor of you to send me by him: the one about 8. inches long graduated from boiling water down to about 20°. of Farenheit below nought; the other not less than 18. inches long, and graduated from boiling water down to...