26001To Benjamin Franklin from the Earl of Buchan, 18 February 1783 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society You was entitled to a Civick crown on my account a great many years ago when at the University of St. Andrews you gave a turn to the carreer of a disorder which then threatned my Life. You have since that time done so much and Heaven has at last been pleased to bless & to Crown your endeavours with so much success that Civic Crowns of a more importent...
26002Earl of Buchan to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteemed Letter to me on the subject of our mutual misfortunes hangs under glass in my Washington room in this house & has been copiously perused by my visitors & by all highly valued as a picture of y r own excellent & well-informed Mind. I transmit this letter to you by the hand of D r Francis of New York together with my commercium Epistolicum Trans atlanticum for the historical Society
26003To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Buchan, 22 April 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Will you permit an Old acquaintance to reccomend to your Attention in the American Literary Line, a Gentleman of this Country who intends to cross the Attlantic next Spring, in Search of a Settlement in the department of a Teacher? His Abilities have been put to the Test for 9 or 10 years as a private and public teacher. He is an Honest Farmers Son and I...
26004To Thomas Jefferson from the Earl of Buchan, 4 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the tenth of July last is just what I expected from the figurative as well as official reppresentative of the virtuous Washington . I perused it, and re-perused it with sensibility as containing fully, & emphatically the uniform opinion I have entertained concerning the subjects of it.—retired as I am, & have long deliberately been from the busy world of politics I enter not the...
26005To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 27 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have the honour to reccomend to your Excellency’s Countenance a Periodical work about to be circulated in the States by Dr James Anderson, whose view of it will be handed along with this Letter for your perusal. I have long wished for a publication of this kind that should be neither a Booksellers jobb nor a stalking Horse for party and such from my confidence in Dr Anderson I expect his...
26006To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 22 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour and pleasure of receiving your Excellency’s Letter of the 20th of September having been forwarded to me on the 12th of that month by Mr Rutledge, but I have been so unfortunate as not to have received the letter of the first of May which yr Excellency mentions in your last but still entertain some hope of its coming safely tho so long a time has elapsed. If it were not too...
26007To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 28 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honour to receive your Excellencys letter relating to the advertisement of Dr Andersons periodical publication in the Gazette of the United States which attention to my reccomendation I feel very sensibly and return you my gratefull acknowledgment. In the 21st No. of that literary miscellany I inserted a monitory paper respecting America which I flatter myself may if attended to on...
26008To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 1 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
I had not the pleasure to receive the Letter with which your Excellency favoured me on the 20th of February until a few days ago at this place in Lothian near Edinburgh my Paternal residence where I take much delight to forward the improvement of the Country and am a practical husbandman here as I am in Berwickshire at Dryburgh Abbey. I have taken my own way of endeavoring to forward your...
26009To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 15 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honour & pleasure to receive your Letter of the 26th of May by the care of the American Minister yesterday & have carefully transmitted the Pacquets to Dr Anderson by Mr Somerville a worthy Gentleman farmer who goes to settle in the United States & sails by the Fame from the Port of Leith. Lady Buchan has received Mrs Washingtons Letter with the sentiments that are wished to be...
26010To George Washington from Buchan, 17 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
My Nephew and godson the eldest son of my dear and truly worthy Brother Thomas Erskine has charged himself with the care of this Letter. In the present agitated state of Europe we have thought that he could not bestow the time generally allotted to foreign travels better than by taking the Tour of your America in which also he has a patrimonial mission from his Father for investment in the...
26011To George Washington from the Earl of Buchan, 30 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I had the honour to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 22d of April and I am impatient to acquaint you that I received yours of the 1st of May 1792 which had been detained by Mr Robertson in expectation as he informed me of sending it with the Portrait which however has never yet arrived. I am charmed with the account your Excellency has been pleased to give me of the growing...
26012To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre-Joseph Buc’hoz, 17 October 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je prend la liberté d’adresser a votre excellence deux catalogues de ma Bibliotheque. Je vous prie d’en faire passer un dans votre Cour; Cette Bibliotheque est composée de Livres tres rares, Surtout en histoire naturelle. Je desirerois Bien de La vendre en gros, j’accorderais meme des Conditions for avantageuses a L’acquereur. Ce seroit Bien dommage de la...
26013To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 4 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1811, Chelsea. Presumes on JM’s “known goodness” to make “a few quiries, and suggestions.” Asks if there is reason to suppose that any nation endowed with superior resources and imbued with the rights of man can remain in colonial subordination “and suffer her resources to be drawn from her by a remote power.” Is it possible that Spain’s American provinces might return to a dependency...
26014To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 24 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
You are entering upon the arduous task of directing the affairs of a great nation at a time portentious of the most astonishing events, and pregnant with the fate of the World! Europe is destined to the sway of one Man! who, aspiring to universal empire, has marked Great Britain for distruction and the nations standing in his way are as grasshoppers before him! He will sweep her commerce and...
26015To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 14 March 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 March 1809, Norwich, Vermont. Buck [a former Federalist representative who had served in the House of Representatives with JM] advises the president to prevent a British incursion into “the Spanish provinces at the south” by sending U.S. troops “and [by] energetic exertions to supplant the British, as well as the French, by the seizure of the Mexicoes.” Suggests that disaffection in “the...
26016To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 4 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
The personal regard I have for you, the interest I take in the success of the measures of our Government, and more than all, the anxious solicitude I feel for the prosperity, and happiness, of my country, has induced me to address you, as the organ of the administration, and to intrude, perhaps, some unwelcome observations. That the demands you have made upon Great Britain, are founded in the...
26017To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 26 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
If Mr. Spooner, printer at Windsor, fulfills his engagement, you will have sent you by next mail, his paper, containing a piece under my signature, and by which I shall be gratified if you do me the honour to peruse it. I should have deemed it a happy circumstance, could the tedious digressions, and unpleasant allusions, with which it is burthened, have been omitted: but Justice, candour, and...
26018To James Madison from Daniel Buck and Others, 11 October 1816 (Madison Papers)
We the undersigned practising Attorneys at Law, have been acquainted with Robert Trimble a number of years—we state that he is amongst the first Lawyers of Kentucky, that his practise has for many years been extensive—that his professional character is fair and unspotted—that he filled the Office of Judge of the Court of Appeals with high reputation to himself and undivided approbation of the...
26019William Frederick Van Amringe and Others to James Madison, 2 April 1834 (Madison Papers)
(committee of the Jefferson Democratic Society of Philadelphia) The undersigned, a Committee on behalf of the Jefferson Democratic Society of the City and County of Philadelphia, have the honor of inviting you to a dinner, to be given, by the Society on the 14th. of April Inst. at Heiskell & Badgers Hotel in Third Street below Arch Street, in Commemoration of the birth day of the Father of the...
26020To James Madison from the Residents of Buckland, Massachusetts, 13 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 July 1812. “Resolved, that we view with sorrow, a departure from our neutral, or Washingtonian principles. 1st. Because it is destructive to our interests and the peace and happiness of the community. 2d. Because it has a direct tendency to enslave those Nations who are struggling for their liberty on the Continent of Europe. “Resolved, that we do not so much dread a war with Great-Britain,...
26021To James Madison from John H. Buckley and Others, [ca. 1 March 1817] (Madison Papers)
We take the liberty to inform you of our sad misfortunes, confined in Cuba Prison, at the inhuman mercy of the cruel Spaniards. Our first misfortunes are as follow; Our vessels being sold for the purpose of privateering, we were obliged to take passage in the schooner Margaretta, Peter Anchor, commander, bound to Jamaica. To our sorrow, after being on the passage two days, the Captain brought...
26022To George Washington from Joseph Buckminster, 27 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
I should not have presumed to intrude upon a moment of your time, filled as I know it must be with a variety of the most important cares, were it ⟨not⟩ to execute a request made when you were at Portsmouth, To present in the name of Lady Pepperell, Relict of Sr William Pepperell the inclosed discourse. Though the connections of her Ladyship have been such as would lead us to suppose that she...
26023Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Albemarle Buckmountain Baptist Church, Sendeth Greeting to our much esteemed friend, M r Thomas Jefferson . We Congratulate you in your Return home, from your labour and painful Servis of eight years. now to take some Sweet hours of retirment and rest.—Injoying at pleasure the Company of your loveing Friends, and neighbours. not that We were werey, or Dissattisfied with your Conduct, but were...
26024Colin Buckner to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Being about to become a member of the family of Mr Christopher Clark , and being a Stranger here, I have thought it a duty I owe to that Gentleman to obtain a letter from an acquaintance who is known to him, you are the only one near this to whom I can apply,— Col o Taylor who gave me a letter to you at the time I received an appointment in the Army, will forward me a letter for Mr. Clark by...
26025Colin Buckner to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith you will find an inventory of Military and Quarter Masters Stores in the Magazine at New London which has been furnished by the Superintendent , I find the Report made by me was the state of the Arms only, a Copy of which I omitted to keep. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello near Milton”; franked; postmarked Lynchburg , 28 May ; endorsed by TJ as received 3 June...
26026To Thomas Jefferson from William Buckner, Jr., 24 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
If Congress ratifise the Treaty with France respecting the Louisiany Country it will I suppose be necessary to appoint Surveyors to lay the Country off in such a manner as Congress in their wisdom shall think proper my acquaintance with the members of Congress is not sufficient to expect a recommendation I therefore solisit the appointment of Surveyor in this new Country and if you have not...
26027Roll of George Washington’s Company, 28 August 1757 (Washington Papers)
No. Mens Names when Inlisted County Age Size Trade Country Description Jno. Sallard } Serjeants Sepr 1755 Richmond 25. 5′ 10″ Joiner Virginia Fair Complextion, Freckled, Hair inclining to red, genteelly made
26028To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Buckner, 28 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
You are acquainted with my unhappy situation I was in hopes the Court ordered yesterday would have set & put an end to it one way or the other, but from the Troops Marching from this place I cannot tel when to expect it. This together with my Domestick affairs make me miserable indeed. You were well acquainted with my behaviour in the course of the last War during of which I hope I acquited my...
26029Walker C. Buckner to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My name is Buckner . I am a wayfaring man at present, and am in great necessity. I keep my accompts regularly inserted, and am reputed to be a man of as much veracity, and have as good credit as any man in the state of Virginia . I would wish to borrow thirty dollars of you, and I would make a point of paying you in the fall. I have an estate of two thousand dollars coming to me in the fall,...
26030To Thomas Jefferson from William Buckner, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
You may think it a little extraordinary that I Approach you as I am about to do I am induced by our early, and former acquaintance which stamp’d in my nature a kind of intimacy that will expire only with my nature itself—I am induced from a second motive to bring to your notice a Friend of whom (perhaps) you may have no knowledge, the person I Speak of is Elijah Sparks Esqr. Attorney at Law...