27601Cash Accounts, August 1772 (Washington Papers)
Contra Augt 8— By Cash paid William Gray—Ditcher £ 1.10. 0 10— By Ditto paid for 18 Water Mellons 0. 4.10 12— By Charity 0. 3. 0 14— By Mrs Cox making and altering Gowns for Mrs Washington 0.12. 6 16— By Ditto Makg & alterg Do for Miss Custis 0.15. 0 By Cash pd for Water Mellon’s 0. 3. 0 By Servant
27602From George Washington to [John Fitzgerald], 21 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed, I would thank you for forwarding to the Postmaster in Alexandria. It is to request him to return any letters which he may receive to my address at his office, between this and friday next, to your office: and I pray you Sir, if any should come there otherwise tha[n] in the Alexandria—that is—seperate therefrom for me, that you would be so good as to detain them until they are...
27603IV. Partial Draft, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
b. In the transaction of your forn. affairs we have endeavd to cultivate the frdshp of all nations & especially of those with whom we have the most importt. relations: we have endeavored to evince by our conduct that we do justice on all occasions, and frdly offices where our duty to others will permit that peace and happiness are our first objects, and mutual exchanges of superfluities as a...
27604Notes on the Account with Richard Harvie & Company, 22 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the account of R. Harvie & Co. against me, and the bond given on it. My dealings with Kippen & Co. commenced in 1762. but I had never had a single account from them when Mr. Harvie and myself settled, which was Apr. 18. 1775. Consequently I had no means of correcting any errors in his account which related to transactions with Kippen & Co. or Henderson McCaul & Co. It is only on...
27605To James Madison from Jacob Lewis, 1 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 October 1804, Port au Prince. “I feel it my duty on all occasions to Communicate to you all Political information which may be interesting to my Governement. On my return to america from this Country from my last voyage hither, I Communicated to the President Through Mr. Granger; Such information as I had received respecting proposals which had been made to the Chiefs of This Island, by the...
27606To James Madison from William F. Gray, 12 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
On applying to Mr. Withers this morning he gave me a Copy of No. 78 Ed. Review, to complete your series; and, as he never had the North American Rev: for Octo. 1824, I presume you did not receive that No. By this day’s Mail I send you those two, which I hope will make your sets complete. Upon the supposition that that would be the case, I paid Mr. Green the $10. recd. in your favour of the...
27607To Thomas Jefferson from John Dawson, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have reason to believe that you think favourably of Captain Barney —an intimate acquaintance with him convinces me that that impression is a just one, and that he is a man of merit. he does believe that he was ill treated by the late Post master general, on account of his politicks, and that he has been neglected by the present—coud he be employ’d I am convinc’d that he woud do justice and...
27608To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 30 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States has instructed me to communicate, in confidence , to the Senate, the dispatches from Major General Wayne herewith transmitted, dated the 23d of December last, and which were received on the 28th instant. I have the honor to be, / Sir, / with great respect, / Your obedient Servt: DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
27609[Diary entry: 23 May 1774] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear and pleasant with the Wind pretty fresh at So. West.
27610To James Madison from Peter Bryan Bruin, 12 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to announce to you, my determination, (after thirty six years public life,) to resign my present Office of first Judge in and over this Territory, on the first day of March next. I give this early information, that the President may be enabled, to nominate a Successor at an early period of the Session. Accept Sir, the assurances of my respect. DNA : RG 59--LRD—Letters of...
27611To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, 19 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Inclos’d I have the honor to Send you a letter from Mons. de Gimat giving an account of a very dangerous division Betwen the officers of the Alliance—that I had foreSeen long ago, and I believe Some thing or other Must be done, in this affair. I also send you the ideas for prints I have Somewhat increas’d, and I Could indeed Make out an immense Book upon so...
27612To Benjamin Franklin from Jan Ingenhousz: Dedication, 1 November 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Nouvelles Expériences et observations sur divers objects de physique (Paris, 1785), pp. iii-iv; ADS (draft): Teylers Museum A SON EXCELLENCE MONSIEUR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Ministre Plénipotentiaire des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique auprès de la Cour de France, Membre de l’Académie royale des Sciences de Paris, de la Société royale de Londres, &c. &c. Président de la Société Philosophique de...
27613To Thomas Jefferson from Oliver Ellsworth, 4 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A committee of the Senate on the judicial department, would be happy to receive from you, on Thursday morning next, at 10 oClock, in the Committee room if that time and place should be convenient for you, information relative to that part of the President’s speech at the opening of the session which alludes to “aggressions by our citizens on the territory of other nations and other infractions...
27614To James Madison from E. Belden & Company, 8 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 March 1803, New York. Acknowledged in Brent to E. Belden & Company, 17 Mar. 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as an inquiry about their charge against the government for printing the laws in the N.Y. Commercial Advertiser. Brent stated that the U.S. treasurer would remit payment to Samuel Latham Mitchill in New York.
27615To James Madison from Joseph M. Sanderson, 9 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending to your address the first volume of the Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. Should you find any thing in it worth the perusal, I will thank you for your recommendation, & as the succeeding volumes are published, I shall, with your permission, forward them to you. As the work is intended to perpetuate the lives of men distinguished...
27616To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 14 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Thomas L. Preston, my son in law, being Edmonia’s husband, purposes to visit Washington. I take the opportunity of renewing to you by him my perfect assurances of being ever Your affectionate friend RC ( DLC ). Thomas L. Preston (d. 1812) represented Rockbridge County in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1806–11 (Richmond Enquirer , 18 Aug. 1812; Swem and Williams, Register Earl G. Swem and...
27617[Diary entry: 8 July 1771] (Washington Papers)
8. Went to a Vestry held at the New Church at Pohick. Doctr. Rumney & Mr. Robt. Harrison came home with me. After Daniel French’s death, responsibility for completing the new church devolved on his executor, George Mason. The work was apparently going well, for the vestrymen today had only a few small changes to request of Mason. Finding that the stone used at the corners of the building’s...
27618[Diary entry: 25 February 1769] (Washington Papers)
25. Finishd the New road leadg. across Hell hole, to the House.
27619Levi Hollingsworth to Thomas Jefferson, 31 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pretty largely engaged in refining and rolling Copper into Sheets bolts &c. I have been principally supplied with the crude copper of Spanish Americæ . We have long heard that on Lake Superior there is abundance of Copper ore. And I have been told that about the Year 1805 the Government sent a person there to explore those regions for that metal. I have made enquiry at Washington and...
27620To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 24 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I should think it advisable to direct correct Muster & pay rolls to be made out of the Militia at Norfolk, in actual sums, and to direct their discharge at the expiration of the terms for which they were ingaged. whether any others should be called into service or not, may be a question for farther deliberation. at present I should doubt the expediency of calling out any of the Militia,...
27621Observer, [13–15 March 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Among the publications which have appeared as containing the Debates in Congress respecting the Official Conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Findley is represented as having made the following assertions “That the Secretary of the Treasury had acknowleged that he had not applied the money borrowed in Europe agreeably to the legal appropriations of the President . That he had...
27622To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Smith, 4 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am on the road to Philadelphia, and have just Time to acquaint you that I have received Letters from De francy dated at Bourdeaux informing me that he should find no Difficulty in complying with the Contract he had made with this State; and that I might expect him in the Spring of the Year. He earnest requests me to press the providing of the Tobacco for his Ships, as Nothing but Dispatch...
27623Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
This moment the President requests me to go below Alex a for four merino sheep, a ewe and ram for yourself and the same for him: I have just time before I go to let you know that I am ready and willing to render you any services in my power and will win wait your instructions— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 9 May 1810 and so recorded in SJL . Dougherty here canceled “6.”
27624[May 1765] (Washington Papers)
12. Finish Sowing Oats at Muddy hole. 12. 13. } Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. Sowed Do. above the Meadow at Doeg Run. 15. Sowed Do. at head of the Swamp Muddy H. 16. Sowed Hemp at the head of the Meadow at Doeg Run & about Southwards Houses with the Barrel. GW had rented some land on Dogue Run from Benjamin Southward in 1761. 18. Began to Sow the old Gd. next the Orchard at Muddy hole...
27625To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus Graves, 27 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
As several vacancies are probably about to be made, by the appointments of staff-officers, in my Regiment, permit me to recommend, respectfully, to your consideration, as Candidates for filling the same, Mr. Cyrus Perkins of Lyme, in this state, & Mr. Daniel Conner of Exeter— The former is a young gentleman of public education, of pleasing manners, of unblemished morals, of a strong mind,...
27626New York Assembly. Motion for Leave to Bring in a Bill on Places at Which the Legislature Shall Meet, [16 April 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton moved for leave to bring in a bill to establish the places at which the ordinary sessions of the Legislature shall be holden. Ordered , That leave be given accordingly. Mr. Hamilton, according to leave, brought in the said bill, entitled An act to establish the places at which the ordinary sessions of the Legislature shall be holden , which was read the first time, and ordered a...
27627Notes on Spanish Actions and Indian Affairs, 21 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Spanish alarm & proposns to Indians. Feb. 21. Spanish movemts. to Adaïs & Lanana S. Antonio. Turner to Claiborne Cados, Paunies. send factory immedly. court them. Bayou Pierre, Span. settlemt on Red rivr. 70. mi. above Natchitoches Lanana, 40. mi. from Nactchitoches. Spands. have takn. post there Casa Calvo & his guard to retire Louisiana bank mounted infantry to scour disputed country...
27628From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 October 1824 (Adams Papers)
Since my return home my Dear George Charles I have been so much engaged it has been almost impossible for me to write more especially as I have been even more sick than ever and even my intellect seems to suffer from these constant attacks— Genl La Fayette has passed through our City and like all Meteoric lights has illumed our horizon for a few days and I fear darkened many of the pockets of...
27629To George Washington from Gunning Bedford, 9 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was unfortunately made a Prisoner the day after I had the pleasure of seeing your Excellency at your Head Quarters last month. I was overtaken by a company of new raised Dragoons about twelve miles from town, on my way to my family. I took the earliest opportunity after I was brought here, to inform General Howe of my bearing no commission in the service of the States, & requesting the...
27630To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, [before 21] November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been about writing you for some months back but I was of the opinion Tobacco would be lower in this I have been mistaken—I want to be informed if your last years Crop is on hand and what will be the price and day of payment— I have a letter from Richmond dated the 11th. that Quotes Prime Tobacco at 36/ to 37/6. inferior at 33/ V Currency—If your crop is unsold and at Richmond I will...