28321From George Washington to Philip Richard Fendall, 29 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
The request I am about to make requires an apology; but I will rely more on your goodness than anything I can say, for my excuse. In Loudoun County, at Difficult bridge, on the ⟨road from⟩ Alexa. to Leesburgh I have a small tract (of about) 300 acres of land, which I am disposed to sell, & some are willing to buy. It is bounded by the Difficult stream ¾ of a mile, & forms one side of a...
28322James Madison to Philip R. Fendall, 12 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 6 inst containing among other communications on the part of the Managers of the Colonization Society, the exhausted state of its Treasury. This is the more to be lamented, as it is in one view an indication favorable to the interesting object for which the Society was formed. I hope the late Circular appeal of the Board of Managers to the friends of that object...
28323From Thomas Jefferson to James Fennell, 12 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Fennel for the Dissertation on his method of making salt. the theory is certainly promising. what may be the actual result depends on so many circumstances as to require experiment to found an estimate. having no experience on the subject himself, he is entirely unable to give an opinion: but doubts not that mr Fennel has sufficiently verified his process...
28324From James Madison to Arthur Fenner, 15 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the ratification, by the Legislature of Rhode Island, of the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, relative to the election of President and Vice President, which you have been pleased to transmit to me. With the greatest respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obed. servt. RC ( R-Ar ). In Wagner’s hand, signed by JM;...
28325From George Washington to Arthur Fenner, 4 June 1790 (Washington Papers)
In acknowledging the Rect of your Excellency’s letter of the 20th of May, I cannot forbear to congratulate you and the people of your State upon the happy event which has since taken place by the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the Convention of Rhode Island. Having now attained the desireable object of uniting under one general Government all those States...
28326From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Fenner, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your friendly favor of May 16. and return you my thanks for your kind felicitations on my appointment to office. your recommendation of mr Howell to the place of district attorney was duly attended to. that gentleman had been formerly well known to myself & some members of the administration, & much to his advantage. I was therefore happy in placing the interests of my...
28327From James Madison to James Fenner, 30 January 1807 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To James Fenner. 30 January 1807, Department of State. “Mr. Madison’s complts. to Mr. Fenner and informs him, that, except what is contained in the enclosed Statements, he has no information, respecting the Sch’r Fame, of the nature desired by Mr. Child.” RC ( ViU : Special Collections, Madison Papers). 1 p.; in Wagner’s hand, unsigned; docketed as “Jas Madison Jno. S Child.” Enclosures not...
28328From Thomas Jefferson to James Fenner, 10 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Early in the present year I recieved from the General assembly of Rhode island an Address, to which, on public considerations it was thought advisable to defer the answer for some time. Will you be so good as to permit me to avail myself of your relations with that honorable body to transmit to them the answer now inclosed? I tender to yourself at the same time the assurances of my high...
28329From Thomas Jefferson to James Fenner, 14 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the honourable mr Fenner; he has sent him this morning an invitation to dine, but should very illy obey his feelings were he not to accompany it with an apology for having failed to ask this favor earlier. he always makes out himself, a list of the gentlemen who are so kind as to call on him. by some accident which he does not recollect, he...
28330The American Commissioners to Sidi Haj Tahar Ben Abdulhaq Fennish, 27 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
To His Excellency, Sidi Hadg Jaher Ben Abdelhack Fennish, in the service of His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco— We have received, with high satisfaction the Letter, which Your Excellency, by the Command of His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco did us the honor to write Us, on the 1 st. day of the blessed month Ramaden 1200 and transmitted to us by the Honourable Thomas Barclay Esquire, who was...
28331The American Commissioners to Taher Fennish, 27 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
To His Excellency, Sidi Hadq Taher Ben Abdelhack Fennish, in the Service of His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco We have recieved with high satisfaction the letter, which your Excellency by the command of His Majesty the Emperor of Morocco, did us the honor to write us, on the first day of the blessed month Ramadan twelve hundred and transmitted to us, by the Honorable Thomas Barclay Esqr., who...
28332From John Jay to Taher Ben Abdelhack Fennish, 24 July 1787 (Jay Papers)
I am this moment employed in transmitting a Letter from Congress to his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco with a Ratification of the Treaty concluded by him between him & the United States. It gives me great Pleasure ^ to obey ^ ^ in obedience to ^ the Orders of Congress to take this opportunity of assuring ^ of informing ^ you that they are much pleased with and will remember the
28333From David Humphreys to Ephraim Fenno, 17 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Commander in Chief expects wherever there are two Field Officers with the Regt on the Lines, that one of them will take the command of the Posts at Kings Ferry & at other times, that the senior Officer present will have the general superintendance of them. As to the salted provisions which is in danger of being spoiled; His Excellency thinks, if it is the property of the present...
28334Enclosure: David Redick to John Fenno, 29 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In Porcupines Gazatte of yesterday a letter Addressed to Mr Luther Martin by Frances Corbin, declares that on the Subject of Mr Martins charge against Mr Jefferson, he and the public are Satisfied; and that Mr Jefferson will be bound to render Satisfaction &c. I am of opinion that Mr Corbin has too hastily found himself Satisfied. I am a resident of the Ohio Country and have been Conversant in...
28335Abigail Adams to John Fenno, 18 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
On 16 November 1797 the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser printed the following squib: “His serene highness of Braintree made an anti-climax on his journey from his dukedom. Boston made the cap of the climax, Philadelphia its tail. On another occasion it would be safer and wiser to make no further attempts at forcing respect; for it sits aukwardly upon men, that from respect it...
28336From Alexander Hamilton to John Fenno, [17–22 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
It has been a general maxim with me, to leave the evidence of my conduct and character to answer the calumnies which party spirit is so incessantly busied in heaping upon me; nor should I have deviated from this course in the present instance, had it not been, that the names of three citizens of political and personal importance in the community appeared to give sanction to the slander. But...
28337From Alexander Hamilton to John Fenno, [6 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I have seen in your paper of 27th June past, the advertisement of a new publication, being No. V of the History of the United States for 1796, and containing these paragraphs: “This number likewise contains some singular and authentic papers relative to Mr. Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury. No greater proof can be given of the value which is attached to their suppression than...
28338Thomas Jefferson to John R. Fenwick, 18 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to return you my thanks for your kind care of the books sent me by mr Botta , which came safely to hand, as also for the trouble which the garden seeds have given you, and will still give you. if any gentleman passing in the stage to Alexandria would take the trouble to have them put into the stage at that place they will then come safely to me. the change of Undertakers there renders...
28339From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 13 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your favor of Oct. 28. which did not come to hand till Jan. 14. I took measures to obtain satisfactory information in the case of Mrs. Olivier. As the opinions of lawyers are the only evidence of law we can furnish, I thought it best to take those of lawyers, who are at the same time members of Congress, because their office vouches at the same time their science and their...
28340From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 2 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Agricultural society of Charleston in S. Carolina, of which Charles Cotesworth Pinckney esquire is chairman have established an annual fund for employing a nursery man at Marseilles constantly in raising and forwarding to them Olive plants and Olive berries. Mr. Cathalan is so kind as to have the business conducted at Marseilles, and to ship the plants from that port annually if a vessel...
28341From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 10 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion for some of the best vin rouge [ordinaire] of Bordeaux, such as is drunk at the best tables there and costs about 400₶ (old money of 10d sterl. the livre) per tonneau, permit me to ask the favor of you to send me 500 bottles of that quality, ready bottled in strong bottles and safely packed. That it may arrive before the warm weather of the ensuing spring, be so good as to send...
28342From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 29 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Fenwick and incloses him a letter, a power of attorney, an extrait baptistaire and certificat de vie of Mr. de Rieux his neighbor in Virginia, on the subject of a legacy on which he troubled him before. He cannot better put Mr. Fenwick au fait of Mr. de Rieux’ desires on the present occasion than by inclosing de Rieux’ letter of March 31. to Th: J....
28343From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 30 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the present is principally to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Feb. 10. Mar. 22. 29. and Apr. 26. and the cases of wine forwarded for the President and myself, for your care of which be pleased to accept my thanks. I hope you have drawn on Mr. Short for the balance of 143 ₶ –9s due to you. The difference of 6 ₶ –5s duty on tobo. carried in French and American bottoms makes...
28344From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 21 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment honoured with your letter of the 16th. and wish it was in my power to give you the information desired [on the] subject of tobacco. The complaint has been universal that the Farmers general have not complied with the order of government. I have therefore desired that they may be called on to report precisely what tobaccos they have purchased on the terms prescribed by the...
28345From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 6 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your permission I trouble you with a commission to recieve and forward to me some wines for the President and myself. They are written for in the inclosed letters to the respective owners of the vineyards, and are as follows. M. la comte de Lur-Saluce 30. doz. Sauterne for the President 10. doz. do. for myself M. de Mirosmenil 20. doz. vin de Segur for the President Madame de...
28346From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favor of May 16. and at the same time learnt the arrival of my wine at Baltimore, from which place I have ordered it to Virginia, whither I shall follow it finally at the close of the year. I thank you for your attention to the commission, and your bill on me shall be honored, it being more convenient to me to pay it here than remit. I had avoided writing to you...
28347From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 24 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing you a letter for a Monsieur le Roy, of Bordeaux, on the subject of which I must enter into some details. It is from a Monsieur De Rieux, a nephew of M. le Roy’s who is my nearest neighbor in Virginia. Being totally without fortune, and married to a young lady , whom he had become acquainted with in France, but who had lived some time in Virginia, he determined...
28348From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 16 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letters to Mr. Morris and Mr. Short are of a public and very important nature. Be so good as to forward Mr. Morris’s by some conveyance you can perfectly confide in, and keep that to Mr. Short in your possession till he shall call for it in person or by letter, as was desired with respect to some dispatches in April last. I am with great esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. humble...
28349From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Fenwick, 24 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have desired Mr. Short to pass through Bordeaux in his way to Spain in order to take up any letters which may be lodged there for him. I therefore now inclose to you a packet for him which I will beg the favor of you to keep till he calls on you for it himself, or till you receive his directions what to do with it. In the mean time if you will be so good as to drop a line to him notifying...
28350From Alexander Hamilton to John Fergus, 26 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of War has just mentioned to me that he will speak with the Secretary of the Navy Treasury, and will endeavor to obtain the use of the Revenue Cutter for bringing your you and your men to this place. Should orders therefore be received for the purpose by the commander of the vessel you will embark with your men—In the mean time you will put yourself in readiness—Upon your arrival...
28351From George Washington to Adam Ferguson, 9 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which accompanies this will inform Sir Henry Clinton, that I can not grant the passport requested by his Favor of this date, without the previous instructions of Congress upon the subject. This I have thought proper to advise you of to prevent you the inconvenience of proceeding, should this find you on the way. I have the Honor to be Sir Your Most Obedt servt LS , in Robert Hanson...
28352From Thomas Jefferson to James Ferguson, 3 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 13. to the Secretary at War, inclosing a resolution of the 1st. troop of dragoons attached to the 1st. Brigade, 1st. division of the Ohio militia, offering their services to their country, & to be in readiness to muster at a moment’s notice wheresoever it’s interests may call for them, has been communicated to me. Always a friend to peace, and believing it to promote...
28353From George Washington to Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, 1 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
I wish I could with propriety grant the Request contained in yours of the 29th Sepr: A permission for Mr Ferguson to come out and remain at Græme park thirty days implies his intent to return at the expiration of that time into the quarters of the Enemy. I confess it appears to me very odd that a Gentlemen who has been so long absent from his family should wish to remain so short a time with...
28354From George Washington to Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, 5 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
The multiplicity of business which occurred in the course of the last Session, particularly in the latter part of it, placed it entirely out of my power to attend to matters of private concern. This reason, I hope, you will have the goodness to accept as an apology for my delay in acknowledging the receipt of your very polite and obliging favour of the 16th of January, at an earlier period—&...
28355From Tench Tilghman to Tobias Fernald, 2 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency desires me to inform you that Capt. Pillsbury being a senior Captain, he does not think himself at liberty to permit him to be deranged upon the Resolve of the 19th of Novemr, without he makes particular application agreeble to the tenor of that Resolve—He must therefore be arranged—be informed of the Resolve, and if he wishes to take advantage of it he must apply to the...
28356From George Washington to Tobias Fernald, 23 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
Altho I cannot help feeling an extreme reluctance at parting with the veteran & faithful Officers of the Army I have the honor to command, before the conclusion of the War; Yet when I am convinced by any of them, that their constitution is entirely ruined, and their impaired state of health such as renders them unfit for farther duty, I cannot think it justifiable to urge them to continue,...
28357From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 7 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 30. was recieved on the 12th. of Jan. and I now inclose you a draught of the bank of the US. of this place on that at Norfolk for D 69.50 c the amount of the cask of Lisbon Malmesey forwarded for me by you to Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond. Accept my salutations & assurances of respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
28358From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 28 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time last summer I recieved information from my house-joiner at Monticello that some watermen had put into his hands a very elegant walking staff which they had brought for me, but accompanied by no letter or other indication from what quarter it came. I was near returning from my autumnal visit to that place before this information recurred to my mind when I made enquiry for the object...
28359From Thomas Jefferson to Fernán-Nuñez, 23 December 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Jefferson est tres sensible à la perte que l’Espagne vient de faire par la mort de son auguste Souverain. Les vertus de ce prince lui avoient merité à juste titre l’hommage de l’estime universelle, et repandront sur sa mort les regrets de tous. M. Jefferson y mele les siens trés sincerement, et a l’honneur de faire à M. l’Ambassadeur son compliment de condoleance. Dft ( ViU ); written at...
28360From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Ferris, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Isaac Briggs informed me by letter that he had purchased for me, from you a clock and that the price of it including box & packing would be about seventy dollars. I now inclose you that sum, and will thank you to have it well packed & secure against rain, and sent by a vessel bound to Richmond addressed to the care of Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson merchants of that place. they will pay the...
28361James Madison to V. Ferron, 16 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 14th. Instant. The provision for lessons in fencing, having been made by a special act of the Visitors, without any authority to the Rector, to extend it to the case of dancing, I cannot as such give the sanction to your wish. Whether any thing passed at the late meeting of the Visitors from which their sentiments might be inferred, I know not, having not been...
28362From Benjamin Franklin to [Gaspard-Bonaventure-Timothée Ferry], 14 June 1783 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received some time since the Letter you honour’d me with, containing your Hypothesis for explaining the Shock given by the electric Bottle, on which you seem to desire my Opinion. It is many Years since I was engag’d in those pleasing Studies, and my Mind is at present too much occupied with other and more important Affairs to permit my returning to...
28363From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Férussac, 11 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved M. le Baron, the letter of Jan. 7. with which you have been pleased to honor me and the pamphlet accompanying it, explaining the views of the society formed at Paris for the collection and interchange of information between the different parts of the world. the object is worthy of the highly respected names associated with it and at an early period of life the honor of...
28364From George Washington to Paul Ferdinand Fevot, 15 April 1798 (Washington Papers)
The papers which you were pleased to transmit to me from Baltimore are, agreeably to your request, returned. Not perceiving what has been your object in addressing such sentiments as your letter of the 4th instant contain—and not being conscious of having merited the reprehension you have judged it expedient to inflict on me, I shall not give you the trouble of reading an answer in detail. I...
28365From Thomas Jefferson to William Few, 3 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the specimen of Benni oil which you were so kind as to send me. I did not believe before that there existed so perfect a substitute for olive oil. I tried it at table with many companies & their guesses between two dishes of sallad dressed, the one with olive oil, the other with that of Beni, shewed the equality of the latter, in favor of which the greater number guessed....
28366From James Madison to William Few, 4 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 June 1804, Department of State. “The President of the United States being desirous of availing the public of your services as Commissioner of Loans for the state of New York, I have the pleasure to inclose your Commission [not found].” RC ( CtW ). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by JM.
28367From James Madison to Joseph Ficklin, 28 August 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 9th. inst: my recollections of a conversation with Mr. Graves is so faint, that I cannot speak of it with precision. It must have been very transient & of a very general nature. He certainly misunderstood me: if he inferred an intention to decide on the merits of the financial measures in Kentucky, with which then I was as I am now too little acquainted to be...
28368From George Washington to Fielding Lewis, 9 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Fielding Lewis, c.9 Oct. 1778. GW wrote Benjamin Lincoln on 9 Oct. : “If you should go thro Alexa., you will also pass Fredg—I have therefore given you a Letter to a Brother in law of mine in that Town.”
28369From John Adams to Job Field and Others, 24 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
Yours of September the 8th. I have but just received, it went a long Circuit to come to me. I am very Sorry for your misfortune, in being captured, and wish you Liberty as soon as possible, but rec ommend to you Patience, the only Remedy under Evils which cannot be avoided. Sufferings in so good and great a Cause, as that of our Country, are the easiest to bear, because they are honourable. I...
28370From George Washington to John Field, 16 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby ordered to proceed with the Detachment under your command, to the Upper Fort, on the South Branch (built by Captain Waggener) and post your men at that place. You are to use your utmost endeavours to protect the people from the insults of the Enemy; and encourage them by all fair means, to return to their Dwellings. You are to be particularly careful in seeing that no...