27351From John Jay to Timothy Dwight, 10 February 1803 (Jay Papers)
In a Letter written you the 11 Ult. by the post, in answer to the one I had the pleasure of rec g . from you, I mentioned that in pursuance of y r . advice I sh d . send my Son to M r Davis, in the course of this month— If the Weather be fair he will set out Tomorrow, & I have directed him to wait upon you with this Letter. On this subject I can express no sentiments w h . will not occur to...
27352From John Adams to Timothy Dwight, 4 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter, & the Conquest of Canaan, with more pleasure than you will easily believe. before I took any measures towards the publication of this Poem, I was determined, whatever affairs might interrupt me, to read it, & I found so much pleasure, in this Employment, that it was very soon compleated. My taste as well as my Impartiallity may be disputed: but I will venture to...
27353From George Washington to Timothy Dwight, Jr., 18 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday received your favor of the 8th Instt, accompanied by so warm a recommendation from Genl Parsons that I cannot but form favorable presages of the merit of the work you propose to honor me with the dedication of. Nothing can give me more pleasure than to patronize the essays of genius, and a laudable cultivation of the Arts & Sciences, which had begun to flourish in so eminent a...
27354From James Madison to William T. Dwight, 23 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
J. M present his respects to Mr. D, with thanks for the copy of his oration, before the Washington Benevolent Society. He has noticed with pleasure the appropriate remarks pervading the Oration and the patriotic spirit which animates it. Draft ( DLC ). William Theodore Dwight (1795–1865), son of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, was a graduate of Yale who went on to become a...
27355Thomas Jefferson to John D’Wolf, 30 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns his thanks to mr De Wolf for his excellent oration on the 4 th of July sent him either by mr De Wolf or some friend who has not named himself . he is happy to see an example set of something solid substituted for the usual froth of that day. our citizens have much need of being reminded of the doctrines of this oration, for altho’ we have are entitled to religious freedom by law,...
27356Thomas Jefferson to John D’Wolf, 26 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr D . Wolf fo r the disc ourse on Prejudice which he has been so kind as to send him. this great perverter of the human judgment, it is to be feared is too deeply rooted in the heart and affections of man to admit a hope that it can ever be eradicated. yet it’s influence on the happiness of society, and the general good is
27357From James Madison to John Hanbury Dwyer, 14 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
With your letter of the 23 of Decr. I have recd a copy of your “Essay on Elocution” of which you ask my opinion. I have not found it convenient to give the Work a critical examination. But a Cursory one has satisfied me that its explanations, its precepts, and its exemplifying selections, justly class it with the books useful both to Teachers & pupils, of the branch of Education on which it...
27358Instructions to Captain Charles Dyar, 20 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
You being appointed Captain and Commander of the Armed Schooner Harrison in the Service of the United Colonies are to Pay all attention and Obedience to the following Instructions. 1st you are to proceed imediately on a Cruze against Such Vessels as may be found on the high Seas or elswhere bound Inwards or outwards to or from Boston in the Service of the Ministerial Army—and to take & Seize...
27359From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Dye, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st was rec d yesterday, but I must pray to be excused from entering into the subjects therein proposed to my considn. age and debility have obliged me to withdraw from political speculns . leaving them, as I chearfully do, to the genern whose concern they properly are. my last efforts towds being useful are now engaged in the establmit of an institn of much promise to our...
27360From James Madison to Elisha Dyer, 13 June 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Elisha Dyer. 13 June 1806, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 4th. inst. respecting the injury done to the Schooner Morning Star, by a British vessel of war off the coast, which eventuated in the loss of the Schooner on Ocracock bar. Should you be able to discover the authors of this injury, it will be necessary for you to prosecute them in the Court to which they...
27361From Thomas Jefferson to George Dyson, 16 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote by the John Adams to mr Woodhouse of Marsalla, desiring him to send me a pipe of Marsalla wine. by an arrangement with mr Smith the Secretary of the Navy, I was authorised to desire mr Woodhouse to draw on you for paiment, with an assurance that your draught on the Navy department should be placed to the credit of your account with the US. this was done, and I inclosed to mr Woodhouse...
27362From Thomas Jefferson to George Dyson, 5 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to desire a pipe of the wine of Marsalla from mr John Woodhouse merchant of that place, mr Smith the Secretary of the Navy has authorised me to desire mr Woodhouse to draw on you for paiment, and your draught on the Navy department shall be placed to the credit of your account with the United States. mr Woodhouse will accordingly draw on you which I hope will be honored, and...
27363Thomas Jefferson to Marcus Dyson, 19 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is r ecieved, and I am sorry to say I am not able to answer your chemical enquiries with satisfaction. the antient chemistry was in possession of the schools when I was a student in them, and when that was reformed by the nomenclature of Morveau , and the theories of Lavoisier , I had become too much engaged in public affairs and the practical business of life, to...
27364Thomas Jefferson to Elias Earle, 16 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read and considered mr Holland ’s letter of Mar. 28. 1812. and Gen l Dearborn ’s statement of Mar. 29. 12 . and find them in a general correspondence with my recollection of the transactions respecting the establishment of iron works proposed to have been made by yourself on the lands of the Cherokees . I must add a qualification however as to a single fact. I retain a strong impression...
27365From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Earle, 24 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 28 with the pamphlet accompanying it was not recieved until the 8 th instant. That our creator made the earth for the use of the living and not of the dead; that those who exist not, can have no use nor right in it, no authority or power over it; that one generation of men cannot foreclose or burthen it’s use to another, which comes to it in it’s own right, and by the same...
27366From George Washington to the Earl of Dundonald, 9 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
By Mr Jay I had the honor to receive your Lordships favor of the 9th of April, accompanying your treatise “on the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry.” The work must be curious and interesting, and for your goodness in sending it to me, I pray your Lordship to accept the best thanks of your most Obedient and Obliged Hble Servant ALS (letterpress copy), DLC:GW ;...
27367From James Madison to Peter Early, 18 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 2d. instant: with the Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia expressing unanimously the sentiments inspired by the extravagant terms of peace demanded by the Enemy, and the readiness of that State to make every sacrifice necessary to a vigorous prosecution of the war, till it can be brought to an honorable termination. Resolutions of such a character are...
27368From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Early, 27 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved several respectable applications for the pardon of Jacob Ray now confined in the jail of this place under a conviction for forging bank notes. as the hope of his reformation would be among the weighty inducements to pardon, I wish to learn how far his former habits & course of life might justify such a hope. it is understood that he was born & raised in Lunenburg county...
27369Thomas Jefferson to James Eastburn, 28 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The republication of the antient and valuable works now out of print, will certainly be an useful undertaking. but it is time for me to withdraw from my attention from all long-winded enterprises. they belong to the generation which is to carry them through, as little would I presume to prescribe to them the proper objects of their attention. these books have by their worth established their...
27370From George Washington to the Eastern Department Navy Board, 24 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured with Your Letter of the 13th and should be exceedingly happy if it were in my power to comply with Your requisition, but so far from this being the case, on account of the scantiness of our supplies of powder, I have been obliged to apply both to your State & to Connecticut to obtain a loan. Of this application you will probably have heard before this. On recurring to our...
27371The American Commissioners to the Eastern Navy Board, 29 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives <Passy, July 29, 1778: We have received your letter of June 8 by Captain Barnes of the Dispatch , as well as the packets forwarded by the Massachusetts Council. We have given orders to Mr. Schweighauser to provide for the captain’s return voyage and have ordered our banker to give a month’s pay to him and his crew and...
27372From Benjamin Franklin to the Eastern Navy Board, 15 March 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I acquainted you in a former Letter, that there were great Misunderstandings between Capt. Landais and the other Officers of his ship. These Differences arose to such a Height, that the Captain once wrote me, he would quit the Command rather than continue with them. Some of them leaving the Ship, that Disturbance Seem’d to be quieted. But there has Since arisen...
27373From Benjamin Franklin to the Eastern Navy Board, 17 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received the Letters you did me the honour of writing to me the 30th of July and 18th. of August last, by the Mercury Packet Boat and by a french Cutter, the other Dispatches Capt. Samson was entrusted with, came all Safe to hand; and I Should have dipatch’d him sooner, if I had not found it necessary to detain him in order to Send by him to Congress some Advices of...
27374Thomas Jefferson to David Easton, 14 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly sorry it is not within my power to give you any information on the subject of the enquiries in your letter of the 9 th . during the revolutionary war Col o Harrison ’s services were employed in the army, mine chiefly in the cabinet and very much within my own state, so that I never had an opportunity of acquaintance with Col o Harrison . at the close of the war I was sent to Europe...
27375From James Madison to Rufus Easton (Abstract), 22 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
22 March 1805, Department of State . “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your services as a Judge of the Territory of Louisiana, I have the pleasure to inclose your Commission.” RC ( MoSHi ); letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Permanent and Temporary Presidential Commissions). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. For...
27376From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus Easton, 22 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your commission as judge of Louisiana, according to it’s own terms, & those of the constitution was to expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. the nomination of a successor is then, by the constitution, as free, as it originally was. in exercising the duty of nomination to office, it has never been, nor can be admitted, that after a selection made of one of the competitors, all...
27377From James Madison to William Eaton, 10 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your several letters not heretofore acknowledged have been received down to that of the 22d. day of february last. Your Bills amounting to Sixteen thousand Dollars in favor of Stephen Kingston and John Shaw, will be paid; but it is regretted that the draughts were made, particularly that for future contingencies, without the statement of your accounts, which had been enjoined. I hope you will...
27378From Thomas Jefferson to William Eaton, 8 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I find, on conversation with the Secretary of state that your papers are before the Auditor , not the Comptroller as I had believed, that the Auditor has asked the opinion of the Secretary of State on certain points, which opinion being unfavorable to you, you wish a revisal of it. altho’ it be as yet interlocutory only yet as it will direct the final decision, I have proceeded to consider it....
27379From Thomas Jefferson to William Eaton, enclosing Warrants for Impressing Cattle, 7 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
You are hereby appointed a Commissioner of the provision Law in all the counties on the south side of James river, but restrained specially to the procuring houses for storing them, waggons, carts, horses, gear, drivers, boats and other vessels and their crew for transporting provisions, materials for making such barrels or other proper casks or boxes for containing the same, and pastures for...
27380From James Madison to William Eaton, 1 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
In answer to the letter in which you bring the subject of your claims, arising whilst you were the Consul at Tunis, again before this department, I have to observe, that no new evidence has been received, since the letter to the Committee of claims, of which a copy is enclosed, was written; except the statements of Doctor Davis. These, as you will perceive, tend to prove the actual extortion...
27381From James Madison to William Eaton, 20 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your letters of 2 & 18 Septr. 6 Octr. 1. 9. 10. 15. 16. 13. 25, 19, & 21 Novr. and 8th. Decr. have been received since the date of Mr. Lincoln’s letter by the Grand Turk, which sailed from New York in March last, with the third cargo of Regalia for Tunis. The proofs, which have been given by the Bashaw of Tripoli, of hostile designs against the United States, have, as you will learn from...
27382From James Madison to William Eaton, 17 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed is the invoice of the ship Peace and Plenty, which carries out the last cargo of the stores, stipulated to be delivered to the Bey of Tunis. We hope they will be favorably received, and that the business of the present of jewells has been arranged at as small a sacrifice as possible. By the last advices from Mr. King it is probable, that they have before now arrived at Tunis. If you...
27383From James Madison to William Eaton, 12 October 1801 (Madison Papers)
Capt. Jercovich of the Ragusan Brigantine Benevenuto having executed a release of his charter-party, I enclose a certified copy of the instrument for your information. I have delivered to him on your behalf a mutual release. The money paid to him on account of this transaction has been duly charged against you in the Treasury books. I am very respectfully, sir, Your most obed. servt. RC ( TxU...
27384From James Madison to William Eaton, 14 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your several letters of the 5. 7 & 9th. August 12th. September 9. 13 & 22d. October, 9 & 12th Novr. 13 & 20th. Decr. 1802. The Dey of Algiers having urged several objections to receiving Mr. Cathcart as Consul in the room of Mr. OBrien, the President has determined to appoint another; thus yielding to the usage, which admits of the refusal of a Consul for reasons peculiar to...
27385From James Madison to William Eaton, 7 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1805, Department of State. “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th. Septr. last , and to inform you that no Act of this Government, has been passed to release the Chevalier Antonio Parcile [Porcile] from the demand you have against him for payments made as his surety on loans obtained by him at Tunis in 1798,9 for the purposes of ransoming from Slavery...
27386From John Adams to William Eaton, 10 July 1797 (Adams Papers)
Know Ye, That reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Abilities and Integrity of William Eaton a Citizen of the United States, I have nominated and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate do appoint him Consul of the United States of America for the City and Kingdon of Tunis, and do authorize and empower him to have and to hold the said office according to Law, and to exercise...
27387From James Madison to William Eaton, 22 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
Not having your last letters by me I cannot refer to their dates, nor particularly to their contents. The most important part of them communicated the plan concerted with the brother of the Bashaw of Tripoli for making use of him against the latter, in favour of the U. States. Altho’ it does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic...
27388From Thomas Jefferson to William Eaton, [7] September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The distress of the southern army calling for our greatest exertions, it becomes necessary that we avail ourselves of the provision law to supply them; and as a call on the counties generally woud produce a glut for a short time, which woud exhaust them at once, and leave the army again in distress, we find it necessary to put it into the hands of some one person who shall call on so many...
27389From Thomas Jefferson to William Eaton, 7 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The offer of your service in support of the rights of your country merits & meets the highest praise; & whenever the moment arrives in which these rights must appeal to the public arm for support, the spirit from which your offer flows, that which animates our Nation, will be their sufficient safeguard. Having required from the Governors of the several States their certain quotas of Militia to...
27390From James Madison to Daniel Eccleston, 18 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the Medallion of General Washington accompanying your favor of Jany. 1; and return my thanks for it. The high veneration in which his Memory is held in his own Country, renders such tokens of respect to it, in others, at once grateful in themselves, and just titles to esteem in those, who looking beyond a national horizon, can do justice to the worthies & benefactors of...
27391From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Belteshazzar Plantagenet Eccleston, 21 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 22d. Ult. your favor of May 20. with the medals accompanying it, through the channel of my friend & antient class-mate mr Maury of Liverpool. that our own nation should entertain sentiments of gratitude & reverence for the great character who is the subject of your medallion, is a matter of duty. his disinterested & valuable services to them have rendered it so. but such a...
27392From George Washington to John Eccleston, 6 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
By the post of Wednesday last, I enclosed you an answer to an address of the Landholders & other citizens of the county of Dorchester. An answer to this address had been before transmitted to you; and the address having, without my knowledge, been put into the hands of Mr Murray, on it’s being returned, received a second answer, without my adverting to the circumstance of it’s being already...
27393From George Washington to John Eccleston, 4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
The address, to which the enclosed is an Answer, was sent to me by Mr Murray. I take the liberty of enclosing it to you, as Chairman of the Meeting, with a request that you will communicate it to the Landholders & other citizens of Dorchester County, being, Sir &c. LB , DLC:GW . GW enclosed his undated reply to the 19 Aug. address of the citizens of Dorchester County, Md. , approving of his...
27394Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Echols, 23 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here your favor of the 20 th expressing your desire to enlarge your stock of knolege, than which nothing can be more commendable; but I should not think your purpose of attending an Instructor at all necessary. we have now such excellent elementary books in every branch of science as to make the subjects every subject as plain as a teacher can make it. in Natural philosophy we have...
27395From Thomas Jefferson to Joachim F. Eckard, 30 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Patterson safely delivered me your letter of the 12th. inst. with that of mr Weinwich ; and the box of Roman coins he was so kind as to send me. the desire which this valuable present manifests of aiding the advances of science in this region, cannot I think be better fulfilled than by depositing it with the American Philosophical society which I shall accordingly do . will you permit me...
27396From George Washington to Joseph Eckley, 10 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 20th ulto and its enclosure. I was indebted to Doctr Gordon before he left the Country, for the Boston Independant Chronicle; and am so since to your goodness for offering to continue them. The Doctr sent these papers unasked, after having read them himself (being a subscriber)—but as their continuation must be attended with expence & trouble,...
27397From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Eddins, 22 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Captain Read’s company with the detachment from Captain McClellen’s will be stationed on Ellis’s Island. This will make room for other troops at Fort Jay. I have consented that Captain Stille receive a furlough for seven days. With consideration ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
27398From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Eddins, 1 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of yesterday and from the reasons stated therein extend your furlough until the first of May next. I did not on Captain Stille’s communication respecting the release of Van’erp recollect our conversation & my directions to you on the subject You will therefore inform Captain Still that Van’erp’s release was perfectly correct with true consideration &c ( Df , in the...
27399From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Eddins, 19 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Serjeant Hunter, the person whom you sent to attend my office as orderly, has this morning left it without permission—leaving a note that he was compelled by indisposition to repair to Fort Jay. This conduct is irregular and deserves reprehension. You will enquire into this affair and communicate to me the State of it. Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers, Library of...
27400From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Eddins, 14 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of yesterday has just been delivered to me. I have heretofore directed you to proceed from to Brunswick in New Jersey, and I now confirm the order. There are at Fort Mifflin a drummer and his boys who are to be sent from that place to New York. Wherever this letter may find reach you you will have leave a trusty sergeant to take charge of these persons, and inform Lt. Meminger of...