24481To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Howard, 15 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that Mr. Benjamin Parks has been recommended to fill the office of Judge in Indiana, rendered vacant by the death of Thomas Davis: we take the liberty of uniting with those gentlemen who have already addressed you, in recommending Mr. Parks as a man of Character: with regard to Mr. Parks legal acquirements we are induced from his Standing at the Bar, to believe them to be such as...
24482To George Washington from John Boyle, Jr., 4 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honour to forward your Excellency a Letter from my good friend Sir Edwd Newhenham, as also four small Packages for you, which were entrusted to my care by the same Gentleman—Upon my Arrival here I was inform’d you was gone with Le Marquis de Fayette to Annapolis, & I could not learn with any certainty how soon you might return to Mount Vernon, as it was my intention immediately...
24483To John Adams from John Boylston, 6 February 1779 (Adams Papers)
Least it might possibly have escap’d the joynt notice of you and your Most worthy Colleague Doctr. Fr——k——d I tho’t it most needful to inform you that from publick reports as also private opinions the Friends of A——m——a have but too much reason to fear that you have about you insidious and dangerous Parricides in the Persons of Freres Lee Men who readily adopt any Measures which may promote...
24484To Benjamin Franklin from John Boylston, 24 June 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is [ with ] much pleasure I embrace this Opportunity of inquiring how you do on this Stormy and Tempestuous Ocean of existence where I think I see you continually at the helm, the Thunder ever rattling around your head, while you sit securely shrouded under your own intellectual rod of Fortitude and Truth and equally defy its impotence and rage. As the...
24485To John Adams from John Boylston, 5 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote you Per G. Tailer requesting the favour of your Advice and Assistance in procuring him a speedy return to America I did not thereby mean your assistance in any pecuniary Advance but only your recommendation to him of the first good oppertunity for his return to his Native home, as I suspect many Such Juvenile, Volatile, and capricious Subjects, have been and may be to you and your...
24486John Boylston to John Adams, 31 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
You may possibly wonder at my Silence in not writing you during so long a period and which might yet have continu’d from the danger which attends it did not the cruelty and injustice of this Govt. impel me to sollicit you and Doctor F ran k li n to use your utmost interest with the Court of V e rs ail les to take the American Prisoners under its immediate Protection by insisting on a Cartel...
24487John Boylston to John Adams, 28 June 1782 (Adams Papers)
I am now most happy to felicitate you and our Parent Country on the fortunate Event which has attended your unwearied efforts for obtaining the Dutch accession to the American Independency and that you are accepted by them as fully empowered for the final accomplishment of this glorious Aera. Indeed when I reflect on the injustice and savage cruelty of the late Administration I much wonder...
24488To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, [1] March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The business of my Ship now draws to a narrow. I hope to have all the Cargo on board in two or three days more, and to be in readiness to embark, in the first packet that goes for England which I expect will be in five or six days. I should be glad to be favor’d with a line before I leave Havre, advising of the progress you have made in Adjusting the remission of the duties, and whether any...
24489To John Adams from Thomas Boylston, 9 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
This address you from Paris. on my arrival my first care was, without loss of time to deliever your several favors— I then went immediately on business, and soon found I was engaged in a much more arduous and difficult undertaking, than I had conceived; instead of being received with open Arms, which I thought the business I had Come to promote would have entitled me too, the contrary was the...
24490To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, 18 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just received Advice of an Edict being publishd in France, forbiding the importation of foreign Sparmacitæ Oil I beg leave to apply to you for your Assistance respecting the American Ship Diana Capt. from Boston, with a Cargo of Sparmacitæ Oil purchasd there, and Ship’d for Have de Grace, to the Address of Mess. Homberg & Homberg freres of that City. This Cargo, was purchased, by Vertue...