25001List of Books to Be Imported by Philippe Reibelt, [before 4 May 1805] (Jefferson Papers)
books to be imported for me by M. Reibelt. Parkins’s plans of gardens. 04. Dec. 24. Palladio. 05. Jan. 9. Valin. Jan. 18. Abregé de Linné par Gilibert. Le petit magasin economique Connaissce. des tems. 05. 06. Bible Fr. 3. v. 8vo. Droit naturel par Raynevel Milton’s paradise lost Lucrece de la Grange Seneque de la Grange Gibbon’s Decline of the Rom. emp. Buffon Oiseaux. vol. 11. & pl. 647 &...
25002Thomas Jefferson: Will and Codicil, 16-17 Mar. 1826, 16 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in Albemarle, being of sound mind and in my ordinary state of health, make my last will and testament in manner and form as follows. I give to my grandson Francis Eppes, son of my dear deceased daughter Mary Eppes, in fee simple all that part of my lands at Poplar Forest lying West of the following lines, to wit, Beginning at Radford’s upper corner near the...
25003To Thomas Jefferson from Denniston & Cheetham, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour is received: but on account of making the use of it which you required, and which You will perhaps recollect, we are not able to mention the date. We are Sorry to give you So much trouble; we are in Some degree Sensible of the arduousness of the high function you fill and of the multiplicity of business You have to attend to. And yet it may be necessary for us sometimes to Commerce...
25004George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, 23 June 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] June 23, 1777. Regrets inability to supply field pieces. Is pleased with report on quota of troops. Advises Trumbull on exchange of Danbury prisoners. Praises American attack on British evacuating Brunswick. Df , in writing of Robert Hanson Harrison and H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Trumbull was governor of Connecticut.
25005Sale of Prizes, [11 May] 1796 (Madison Papers)
On 7 May, Smith (Maryland) moved that no nation be allowed to sell prizes in United States ports, there being no provision to prevent Great Britain from selling Spanish prizes in the event of an Anglo-Spanish war. Debate began on a bill in a Committee of the Whole on 11 May ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). ,...
25006[Diary entry: 21 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
21. Reachd Fredericksburg, found Warner Washington &ca. there. Warner Washington (1722–1790), of Gloucester County, was a son of John and Catherine Whiting Washington, and a first cousin to GW. Warner’s first wife, Elizabeth Macon Washington (c.1729–1763), of New Kent County, bore him one child who lived to maturity, Warner Washington, Jr. (1751–1829). In May 1764 Warner married Hannah Fairfax...
25007To Benjamin Franklin from William Hodgson, 18 July 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I have recd yours of the 18th, but not that per Mr Young, I immediately set about procuring you the necessary Information Relative to the Marquis de Fayette & inclosed you have an Acc’t of the Wine & Salt as per Catalogue for Sale which I hope will be fully Satisfactory— if any thing further I mean Oath & Notarial Certificate shou’d be necessary, please...
25008Jacob Wagner to John Stephen, 14 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to John Stephen. 14 September 1806, Department of State. “Some time past, Genl. Turreau the French Minister wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, complaining that by the tardiness in taking effectual steps against the persons concerned in the outrage against a French Privateer, mentioned in the Secretary’s letter of the 19 July, one of the Vessels, charged with having...
25009To James Madison from J. Howard March & Co., 22 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Col: R H Macpherson, we have shipped on board the Mary & Frances, and consigned to Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. of Alexandria on your Excellencies account, a pipe of the very best old Madeira Wine. For its cost including Insurance, £79.2.6 Stg, as pr. Invoice enclosed we have this day had the honour to draw upon you in favor of Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. We Remain, Very...
25010Enclosure: Gouverneur Morris to William Short, 23 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Paris, August 23, 1792. “The last Post was gone before yours of the seventeenth reach’d me. Mine of the sixth was written the Instant I receiv’d that from the Commissioners of the Treasury which was previously necessary. It did not arrive till late and the consequent Hurry was the Cause why I omitted to mention as I intended that the Sum of Bank florins to be paid in Amsterdam was the...