27251From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 10 December 1751 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (incomplete): Yale University Library; remainder reprinted from American Journal of Science and Arts , V (1822), 157–9. The Rector of our Academy Mr. Martin, came over into this Country on a Scheme for making Potash in the Russian Method: He promis’d me some written Directions for you, which expecting daily I delay’d writing, and now he lies dangerously ill of a kind of Quinsey: The...
27252From Benjamin Franklin to Jared Eliot, 11 February 1752 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I received your Favour per my Son, and return my Thanks for your kind Entertainment of him at your House. I delivered yours to my Friend Bartram, and enclose you his Answer; he is much pleased with the Prospect of a Continued Correspondence with you: is a Man of no Letters, but a curious Observer of Nature. I like very well the Paragraph you propose to insert...
27253From John Jay to John Eliot, 8 October 1799 (Jay Papers)
On reading the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for the Year 1798, which you was so obliging as to send me, I observe a mistake, which I will take the Liberty of mentioning. The Report of a Committee of the Board of Correspondents of the Scots Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, who visited the Oneida and Mohekunuk Indians in 1796, is one of the Papers published in...
27254From John Adams to Rev. John Eliot, 27 August 1800 (Adams Papers)
I received in due time, and ought to have Sooner answered your favour of the first of this month, informing me that I was unanimously elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society at their last meeting. The Objects of that Institution are of great Importance and very laudable, and the Exertions of the Members have done them much honor I pray you Sir to present to the Society my...
27255From James Madison to Eliphalet Land and Co, 4 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. Ultimo has just been received. The business to which it relates will be attended to by Levitt Harris Esqr. our Consul at Petersberg, on being furnished with documents substantiating the facts, and constituting the merits of the case. I am &c. DNA : William Short Papers.
27256From George Washington to Elizabethtown, Md., Citizens, 20 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
The cordial welcome which you give me to Elizabeth-Town, and the very flattering expressions of regard, contained in your address, claim and receive my grateful and sincere acknowledgements. Estimating, as I do, the affection and esteem of my fellowcitizens, and conscious that my best pretension to their approbation is founded in an earnest endeavor faithfully to discharge the duties which...
27257From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Ellery, 10 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
A complaint has been preferred to me by Capt. Frye against Major Hoops and Capt. Cochran accompanied with the inclosed charges. You will be pleased to put these Officers in arrest upon those Charges Particular reasons determine me to add the following charge against Major Hoops— “For disorderly conduct unbecoming an Officer, on the day aforesaid In Striking Capt. Frye with a cane in a public...
27258From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Ellery, 21 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Measures are taking for the establishment of a recruiting party at Wilmington in Delaware under the direction of Major Cass for the first regiment; and at Bennington in Vermont under the direction of Major Beall for the second regiment. I have to request that you will forward to those officers at the above places the monthly and other recruiting returns, and likewise such general Orders as are...
27259From Alexander Hamilton to Abraham Ellery, 29 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You having been appointed Assistant to the Adjutant General and he being at this time absent, I think it proper to indicate to you a general outline of the duties which you are to perform. The duties of Adjutant General, who unites the capacity of Deputy Inspector General, are various and extensive. In the two characters he may be regarded as the Assistant of the Commander of the Army and of...
27260From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Ellery, 5 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I must revoke my letter of the 2d. inst. mr Gallatin informs me the transfer of the office of Supervisor cannot wait, and that it will be much more proper to add it to the Marshal’s office, because he is already possessed of the principal materials for finishing it, which would cost much time, trouble & expence to any other. you will therefore be so good as to consider this only as a proof of...