28081From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
In the utmost haste my dear Mother I write you a few lines merely to assure you of the health of the family many thanks for your very kind letter of the 15 of May which however would have made us all very unhappy had it not fortunately been preceded by one of the 12 of July brought by Mr Jones who likewise assured us you were recovered many many years are yet I hope in store for you and I...
28082To James Madison from James H. Hooe, 13 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have receieved [ sic ] another parcel of Sheep from Mr Jarvis of Lisbon, and he writes me that you are to select two Ewes from the whole parcell. As I saw a Letter from Mr Jarvis to your Excy., I did suppose you wou’d have sent ’ere now for these Sheep, and as I am desirous of making some dispositions of them, I have to request that you’ll send down for yours as soon as convenient. I have...
28083To James Madison from Phinehas Wheeler, 13 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 October 1810, Caldwell, Washington County, New York. Requests JM at the next session of Congress to redress the grievances of Revolutionary War veterans. Recalls General Washington’s promise to the effect that all men who were discharged before receiving their pay would have an “honorable Setlement” within a year. Concedes there was a settlement but denies that being paid in certificates...
28084From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 12 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
I recieved your letter my dear Child only a few days since and am charmed to find that George and you are such good boys I am sure you are much obliged to Cousin Abby for your letters. and I you will soon learn to write them yourself I hope as they will afford me double pleasure George is now near ten years old and is I am sure too much of a man to play truant any more and I am sure you never...
28085To James Madison from Gideon Granger, 12 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
Emboldened by having devoted the best portion of my life to the Service of my Country, by being the only Attorney and Solicitor in New England, who practised at the Supreme Courts of New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, by the solicitations and profferred support of a number of the most distinguished Republicans in the Eastern Circuit, and by a firm conviction that my appointment would be, at...
28086To James Madison from John Drayton, 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1810, Charleston. Transmits a model designed by Jonathan Lucas, Jr., for “Mounting Cannon on a New Construction.” Encloses a letter from Lucas explaining its construction. Acknowledges receipt of JM’s letter of 12 Sept. 1810 [not found]. RC ( DLC ); enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , L-115:5). RC 2 pp. Docketed by JM. Enclosure is Jonathan Lucas, Jr., to John Drayton, 11 Oct. 1810 (2...
28087To James Madison from Gabriel Richard, 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1810, Detroit. Reports that [territorial secretary] Reuben Attwater recently demanded $205 in rent for the year 1809 for the farm that supports the Indian school at Spring Hill. Attwater also stated his intention to collect a proportional amount for the first ten months of 1810. Complains that the charging of rent violates the oral agreement he made with the U.S. government when he...
28088To James Madison from Jedediah K. Smith, 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1810, Amherst, New Hampshire. Recommends Gideon Granger for the vacancy on the Supreme Court. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Granger”). 2 pp. Jedediah Kilburn Smith had been a representative from New Hampshire in the Tenth Congress.
28089To James Madison from John Stark, 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1810, Derryfield. Requests a position for his son-in-law, Benjamin Franklin Stickney. Expresses pleasure at the “brightening prospect in our foreign relations” and believes that if Congress will support JM “in decisive measures, we may yet be preserved in honourable peace.” RC ( DLC ). 2 pp. Docketed by JM.
28090To James Madison from Joshua Wingate, Sr., 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1810, Boston. Believes Levi Lincoln would decline a nomination to the Supreme Court; therefore recommends Gideon Granger. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Granger”). 2 pp.