27431From Thomas Jefferson to Pierpont Edwards, 29 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You will doubtless have long ago learned that the office which was the subject of your two favors to me was filled by mr Adams some days before he went out of office. I have not considered as candid, or even decorous, the crouding of appointments by mr A. after he knew he was making them for his successor & not for himself, even to 9. aclock of the night, at twelve of which he was to go out of...
27432From Alexander Hamilton to Pierpont Edwards, [26 September 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, September 26, 1790. Hamilton’s frank appears on an envelope which is addressed to Edwards and postmarked “New York Sept. 26.” Letter not found. ] DS , The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
27433From Alexander Hamilton to Pierpont Edwards, 9 May 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Your account being allowed and certified by the District Judge must be forwarded to the Auditor of the Treasury, who will put it in a course of adjustment according to the forms of the Treasury. You ought also to empower some person on the spot to receive and remit to you the amount of your account. The remittance can commonly be negotiated by a draught on one of your Collectors. I am with...
27434From James Madison to Pierpont Edwards, 27 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Pierpont Edwards. 27 February 1806, Department of State. “The President being desirous of availing the public of your services as Judge of the District Court of Connecticut, I have the honor to forward you the Commission.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 2 pp. JM presumably enclosed a copy of Edwards’s 24 Feb. 1806 commission (1 p.; offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder’s...
27435From Alexander Hamilton to Pierpont Edwards, 30 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
My time has been for some Weeks past so much occupied with preparing business for the consideration of the legislature, as to preclude an earlier attention to your letter of the 4th. instant. I have considered the question you have stated on the subject of the Bonds which have been put into your hands by the Collectors in your district; and have, as well as yourself, considerable doubts,...
27436From John Adams to Pierpont Edwards, 2 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honour to write me, on the twenty Seventh of last month, inclosing the Freedom of the City of New Haven, elegantly engrossed on Parchment, and authenticated under the Signature of the Mayor, City Clerk and Seal of the City May I request of you, Sir to present my best respects and most Sincere Thanks to the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councill and...
27437From George Washington to Colonel Henry Jackson, Captain Thomas Turner, and Lieutenant Thomas Edwards, 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favd with yours of the 24th I should have been glad if the arrangements made for the disposition of the Army this Winter, would have admitted of your Regiment’s remaining at or very near the Quarters of the Massachusetts line. But circumstances are such, that was it to be stationed upon the North River, some one of those belonging immediately to the State must be separated from...
27438From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. to Thomas Edwards, 7 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
In Consequence of the late unhappy Irregularities of some of the Continental Troops in Phila. Genl How is directed to march with the Detachments under his Command to that City—where he is to enter into an Investigation of the Circumstances & Motives of this Affair—in Doing this it is probable it may lead to a Crimination & Trial of some Officers & others in the Military Line, which, from the...
27439From George Washington to Timothy Edwards, 21 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
The thousand Barrels of salted provisions which the Contract obliges you to furnish, I concive to be intended for the contingent purposes of the Army, dependg on particular Operations, and not for immediate stores—previous therefore to replying to your Qustion respectg the places of Deposit, I will be glad to know, whether the Contractor for the movg Army, mean to supply any Quantity of salted...
27440From George Washington to Timothy Edwards, 7 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Inclosed Copy of a Resolution of Congress entered into the 2d Instant will discover to you their Sentiments upon the Subject of Employing the Stockbridge Indians in the Service of the United States. It is certain they differed some time ago from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs and put a Stop to their proceedings in this Instance; But finding that our Enemies are prosecuting the War...