28651From John Jay to Floridablanca, 6 December 1781 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jay presents his compliments to the Count de Florida Blanca, and has the honor of requesting his Attention to the enclosed memorial. M r . Jay had the honor of calling at his Excellency’s on Tuesday Evening last, but had the Misfortune of not finding him at home. As M r . Jay wishes to regulate his Visits by his Excellency’s Convenience, he begs the favor of his Excellency to inform him...
28652From John Jay to Floridablanca, 2 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
When Congress were pleased to order me to Spain, with the Commission of which I have had the Honor of presenting a Copy to your Excellency, I left my Country with the most sanguine Expectations that the important objects of it would be speedily accomplished. The Proofs they had recieved of his Majesty’s Friendship for them, the Interests of a common Cause, and the Information they had recieved...
28653From John Jay to Floridablanca, 2 April 1781 (Jay Papers)
Be pleased to accept my Thanks for having ordered the Ballance due on the Cloathing, purchased by M r Harrison, to be paid; & for having so arranged the Payment of the Money to which the Bills of this month amount, as to enable the Embassador of France effectually effectually to interpose his kind offices to relieve me from the distressing necessity of protesting them. I lament the...
28654From John Jay to Floridablanca, 28 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca. & has the Honor of informing him that he has been called upon to accept Bills to the Amount of between ten and eleven thousand Dollars. That the far greater Part of them belong to Mess rs . Joyce of this City, who have agreed to wait for an answer until Monday next. M r . Jay exceedingly regrets his...
28655From John Jay to Floridablanca, 14 March 1782 (Jay Papers)
Bills to a considerable Amount have been presented to me this afternoon for Payment. The Holders of them consent to wait until To morrow noon, for my positive and final answer. Your Excellency is too well apprized of every thing that can be said on this Subject, to render it necessary for me to multiply observations upon it. I have no Reason to expect aid from France, and I request the Favor...
28656From John Jay to Floridablanca, 25 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Carmichael has delivered to me a Paper he had the Honor of recieving from Your Excellency before my arrival here, containing Heads of many important Inquiries, respecting which it was judged necessary that his catholic Majesty should be exactly informed before entering into a discussion with me and M r . Carmichal jointly or separately on the Subject of the Affairs of the united States...
28657From John Jay to Floridablanca, 13 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have now the Honor of communicating to your Excellency a Copy of certain Instructions I have rec d . from Congress, dated the 28 May 1781; and which were included in the Dispatches which your Excellency was so obliging as to deliver to me the Evening before the last, viz “It is their Instruction that you continue to acknowledge on all suitable occasions, the grateful Impressions made on...
28658From John Jay to Floridablanca, 5 October 1781 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency the Count de Florida Blanca, and has the honor of informing him that he purposes to return to Madrid tomorrow, and will with pleasure attend his Excellency’s orders at the Escurial as soon as it may be convenient to his Excellency to render his presence there necessary. LbkCs, enclosed in JJ to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 1782...
28659Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy, 1 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 29. is just now recieved, having lingered long on the road. I owe you much thankfulness for the favorable opinion you entertain of my services, & the assurance expressed that they would again be acceptable in the Executive chair. but Sir, I was sincere in stating age as one of the reasons of my retirement from office, beginning then to be conscious of it’s effects, and now...
28660Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy, 24 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ age, and the state of rest so grateful to it have obliged me to retire from the business of letter-writing, I feel myself bound by the kind expressions in your letter of the 4 th inst. to acknolege it’s reciept, and to return you my thanks for this proof of your good will. the preference you express for a military vocation, over the labors of the law, may, by the circumstances of war,...
28661Thomas Jefferson to Thomas C. Flournoy, 8 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his compliments and his thanks to mr Flournoy for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his oration on the 4 th of July. it has stated with great truth & justice the causes of the war in which we are engaged, and which he trusts will be deemed in history sufficient thro’ all time. if the sentiments expressed by mr Flournoy , and which are the peculiar honor of...
28662From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 15 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have occasion for an immediate Return of the Regiment of Artillery Artificers specifying the particular States to which the non Commd Officers and privates belong and the terms for which they stand engaged. Inclosed you will find a form of the return required. As the Companies composing the Corps are considerably detached, you will be pleased to take the most effectual measures to convey...
28663From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 6 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd yours of the 25th Feby inclosing the Returns of part of the Regiment of Artillery Artificers—It is to be regretted that the original inlistments had not been clearly expressive of the term of service—separate Rolls should have been kept, distinguishing those for three years from those for the War—To obviate the difficulties which were likely to arise from this vague kind of...
28664From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 31 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
The great waste and embezzlement of Public Arms, and the difficulties arising from thence make it necessary, that the utmost precautions should be used to restrain such infamous practices and future losses. I know no way so likely to effect it, as that of putting on them some mark indicating ’em to be public property, and therefore request that you will have all belonging to the States, as...
28665Orders to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 16 January 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Honble Continental Congress having Resolved to establish a Magazine, Laboratories, & Foundery for casting Cannon &c. at York Town in the State of Pennsylvania. You are hereby directed to repair thither & erect or provide such Buildings as shall be necessary for carrying on the preparation of fixed Ammunition of every Species. an Air Furnace to be constructed there to hold Three Thousand...
28666From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 31 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am favd with yours of this date. I wish I was sufficiently acquainted with Circumstances, to enable me to give you such a Certificate as would fully answer your purposes: but when you reflect that little or no part of the conduct of your Office has come under my immediate Notice, you must see the impropriety of my undertaking to vouch for the regular discharge of your duty or to affix an...
28667From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 11 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of 27th Ulto inclosing your Instructions from the Board of War relative to procuring Leather for Military Accoutrements—to which I have nothing to add—the common and milder method of Contract is to be prefered for supplying the Army, and when that fails recourse must inevitably be had in the last Resort to compulsive means—From the importance of the object, I cannot...
28668From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 30 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
Instructions for the Commissary of Military Stores— All the Continental Arms that are out of order are to be collected without delay, that they may be repaired and render’d fit for Service as speedily as possible. Every Workman that can possibly be engaged is to be employed for this purpose—and in proportion as the Repairs are completed the Arms are to be packe⟨d⟩ in proper Chests, which are...
28669From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 18 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
As seven of the Gallies at Bordentown are to be stripped and Sunk, not having men sufficient to work them, I desire you will send down travelling Carriages to remove the fine heavy Cannon belon[g]ing to them. If you have not carriages ready for the whole; send down as many as you have, with orders to remove part of them at first some distance from the Water, and then return for the remainder—I...
28670Thomas Jefferson to George Flower, 18 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th came to hand the day before yesterday. independant of the moral considerations which dictate to us to be useful to one another, the letters of Mess rs La Fayette and Lasteyrie would have been a sure passport to any service I can render you. if, as I presume, your purpose is to fix yourself in the US. my first advice to you would be not to be hasty in fixing yourself doing it
28671Thomas Jefferson to George Flower, 12 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 12. finds me was yesterday recieved at this place; and I learn from it with pleasure that you have found a tract of country which will suit you for settlement. to us, your first purchase would have been more gratifying, by adding yourself and your friends to our society; but the over r uling consideration, with us as with you, is your own advantage: and as it would doubtless...
28672To Thomas Jefferson from William Floyd, 15 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the pamphlet you Sent me, and have only to regret that there is not a more general circulation of that and Such like publications throughout the United States—as it would have a great tendency to enlighten many honest well meaning persons who are Deceived and Missled by those who have been employed throughout the United States to represent and missrepresent with a...
28673George Clinton to Alexander Hamilton and William Floyd, 25 February 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
From the Affidavits which I now do myself the Honor to Inclose You and which I must request you to lay before Congress it appears that the Usurped Government on the New Hampshire Grants so far from yielding Obedience to the Resolutions of Congress of the 5th. December last have repeated their Outrages on the well affected Subjects of this State. The distressed situation of our fellow Citizens...
28674George Clinton to Alexander Hamilton and William Floyd, 16 April 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
I have prevailed on the Bearer, the Attorney Genl. to Repair to Philadelphia for the Express Purpose of disclosing to you certain Information of a very interesting Nature. The Communications he is to make are too extensive to be the subject of a Letter & it might be improper to intrust them to Paper. I, therefore, begg Leave to refer you to Mr. Benson for the Particulars of which he is fully...
28675Christopher Tappen to Alexander Hamilton and William Floyd, 19 March 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Kingston [ New York ] March 19, 1783 . States that the Corporation of Kingston desires to become the seat of the Continental Congress and discusses the advantages it affords as well as the privileges the town is willing to extend. Encloses a letter from Governor George Clinton to Congress transmitting a joint resolution of the New York legislature and an act of the Corporation of Kingston...
28676From Alexander Hamilton to William Floyd, [7 July 1785] (Hamilton Papers)
Received of William Floyd Esquire Fifty seven pound and ten shillings being the amount of a note of hand with Interest from him to John Carter alias John Church for Fifty pound New York Currency dated in Philadelphia sometime about the last of April in the year One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three and which note has been mislaid in my hands. New York July 7th 1785 ADS , Mrs. J. T....
28677James Duane and Ezra L’Hommedieu to Alexander Hamilton and William Floyd, 1 September 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
We enclose you an Extract of Dispatches from his Excellency our Governor received this Day, respecting the Instructions of the Legislature at their last Sessions for the Security of the Western Posts. You will be pleased to observe that an official Report on a subject so interesting to the State is deemed to be necessary; as well as a particular Detail of the Motives which influenced Congress,...
28678Colonel John Lamb to Alexander Hamilton and William Floyd, 2 December 1782 (Hamilton Papers)
Newburgh [ New York ] December 2, 1782. Asks to be promoted to rank of brigadier general. Requests “the friendly interposition” of Hamilton and Floyd to prevent the promotion of Colonel John Crane. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Before the Revolution Lamb had been a prosperous wine merchant in New York City. In July, 1775, he was commissioned captain of an artillery company and...
28679From Thomas Jefferson to Brown Folger, 6 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
It was not till the 14th. of Octo: that I received your favor of the 1st. of that month, which I have communicated to the President on my arrival here, and I am sorry it is not in my power to say that your property taken on board an English ship by a French Privateer can be reclaimed by us. By the 14th. article of our Treaty with France we have established the principle that enemy vessels make...
28680The American Commissioners to John Folger, 19 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Harvard University Library We have consider’d your Proposition of Returning in case of the Accident you mention on this Coast, and approve of the same: You will therefore act accordingly. We wish you a good Voyage, and are Sir, Your humble Servants Addressed: To Captn. / John Folger / To Care of Mr. Jno. Moylan / Merchs / Havre du Grace In BF ’s...
28681[Silas Deane] to John Folger, 7 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Connecticut Historical Society; Harvard University Library This letter set in motion a train of events that culminated in a theft even more sensational than that of Arthur Lee’s papers in Berlin. Folger was one of two John Folgers of Nantucket who were Franklin’s distant relatives; which one is uncertain. He landed in England in May from a voyage to the Falkland Islands, he said, and...
28682From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Folger, 29 August 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : The Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket, Mass. I send to your Care a little Box for our Cousin Keziah Coffin, with a Letter, for her, and another for my Sister. I heartily wish you a good Passage home, and to amuse you in a leisure Hour send you a little Book of the English History, which I beg you to accept from Your affectionate Cousin This letter hangs in a frame with a notation...
28683From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Folger, 14 April 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Enclos’d with this, I send you a Map of the Island of St. John’s made from actual Survey, with a particular Map of one of the Shares, which the Owner desires to have settled, and will give you any Terms you please. In haste, I am, Yours affectionately Endorsed: Dr. Benjn. Franklin’s letter to Timothy Folger Folger had been interested in acquiring land on...
28684From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Folger, 29 September 1769 (Franklin Papers)
AL (incomplete): Yale University Library; extract printed in The Boston Evening Post , December 4, 1769. Since my Return from abroad, where I spent part of the Summer, I have received your Favours of June 10 and July 26. The Treasury Board is still under Adjournment, the Lords and Secretaries chiefly in the Country; but as soon as they meet again, you may depend on my making the Application...
28685From Benjamin Franklin to Timothy Folger, 21 August 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Folger Library I received yours of June 28. and immediately sent the same to the Proprietor Capt. Campbell, who was in the Country, desiring he would enable me to give you an explicit Answer. Yesterday being in Town he call’d upon me, and said, that he look’d upon his Lot to be full as good as Mr. Pownal’s which was sold for £500 but after some Discourse he agreed that to save Time, as...
28686From James Madison to Aaron Fontaine, ca. 27 February 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 27 February 1795. Mentioned and enclosed in JM to William Madison, 1 Mar. 1795 . Asks Fontaine to explain to voters in Louisa County that JM is standing for reelection but cannot be present at the congressional election on 16 Mar. Mentions the illness of his wife and sister-in-law.
28687Thomas Jefferson to William Fontaine, 9 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night only your favor of Sep. 16. by that I percieve you are uneasy at something which you suppose to have passed from yourself here and which you now review with dissatisfaction. to what you allude I have no conception. certainly I did not remark a word or an act but of the strictest propriety. the same easy conduct & pleasant frank conversation which has ever made a part of...
28688From Thomas Jefferson to Fremyn de Fontenille, 24 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Ayant eté obligé d’etre a Versailles tout[e la journée] d’hier, je n’ai pu repondre à la premiere lettre que v[ous m’avez] fait l’honneur de m’ecrire, et je viens de recevoir la [seconde] ce matin. Je vous fais mille remerciments de vos attentions. Je me trouve tellement occupé que je ne pourrai pas aller au Mont Valerien cette semaine, et pour le Vendredi particulierement j’ai un rendezvous...
28689From Alexander Hamilton to Ebenezer Foot, 28 September 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter to the General was delivered to me on the road. You will on receipt of this permit the officer with the flag to return delivering him the enclosed letter. This I know to be His Excellency’s intention, and he yesterday gave orders for the purpose which seem not to have reached you. I am Sir Your Most Obed’t ALS , Mr. C. P. Greenough Fuller, New York City. Foot was the receiver of...
28690Thomas Jefferson to John D. Godman and John P. Foote, 31 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns his thanks to Mess rs Godman and Foote for the Number of the Western quarterly reporter which they have been so kind as to send him . he is happy to see Science so far advanced in that quarter of our union as to be a produce so able a work. he has read it with edificn & great satisfn and pra with his thanks prays them to accept his respectful salutns. Dft (
28691From George Washington to William Hayward Foote, 7 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
In searching old Memos., I found notes of which the enclosed is a Copy. I was uncertain at the time of running the meanders of the run, on which side the body of the water went, of course, as the Run is the boundary, it was then, and still may be, uncertain, to whom the Island belongs. But if my memory serves me, I think it was claimed by George Ashford; and the courses will, I believe,...
28692From George Washington to John Forbes, 16 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
To Genl Forbes [Chestnut Ridge, 16 November 1758] Sir I was not so explicit last night, on the head of Mr Basset’s Party, as I ought to have been. I had conceived an idea (on what ground founded I really can not say) that Mr Basset was to have joined Colo. Armstrong with the Party & Tools which I found here. But, upon enquiring into his orders, it appears he was only to repair some bad places...
28693From George Washington to John Forbes, 1 January 1759 (Washington Papers)
The Governor writing fully to you on the present System of management, and posture of our affairs here leaves me no room to add on that head I was in hopes an Assembly woud have been calld immediately, but the Council I believe were of Opinion that as they had met so lately and were Summond to attend sometime in February it wou’d be inconvenient to convene them sooner at this Juncture so that...
28694From George Washington to John Forbes, 19 June 1758 (Washington Papers)
Pardon the liberty I am going to use—a liberty, that nothing but the most disinterested regard for the safety and welfare of these Colonies coud cause me to take. How far my Ideas on what I am going to observe is compatable with Reason, and how far they may corrispond with your Sentiments on the matter, I shall candidly submit to your Excellency to determine. The unfortunate arrival of the...
28695From George Washington to John Forbes, 17 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
After the most constant labour from light till light, we were able to open the Road to this place only; about 6 Miles from our last Camp. Here it was Captn Shelby overtook Us and presented me with yours and Colo. Bouquets favours, inclosing one also to Colo. Armstrong, all of which were forwarded to that Gentleman last Night by Captn Shelby, so soon as the last of the letters I Now Inclose,...
28696From George Washington to John Forbes, 23 April 1758 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to return you my sincere, and hearty thanks for the honour you were pleasd to do me in a Letter to Mr President Blair; and to assure you, that to merit a continuance of the good opinion you seem to entertain of me, shall be one of my Principal Studies; for I have now no ambition that is higher, and it is the greatest reward I expect for my Services in the Ensuing Campaigne. It gives...
28697From George Washington to John Forbes, 12 September 1758 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency Genl Forbes. Sir Camp at Fort Cumberland 12th Septr 1758 In consequence of a Letter from Colo. Bouquet, I wrote to Mr Walker, or Person acting in his behalf for all the Waggons he coud readily procure, and desird that those Waggon’s might be loaded up with Flour or Corn, agreable to the Colos. request. The Inclosd is an answer to that Letter. Colo. Bouquet being advancd I was...
28698From George Washington to John Forbes, 8 October 1758 (Washington Papers)
To Genl Forbes—Commanding His Majesty’s Forces, Employd on the Ohio Expedition. Sir [8 October 1758] In consequence of your request of the Colonels, assembled at your Lodgings the 5th Instt I offer the Plans on the other side to yr Consideration. They express my thoughts on a Line of March through a Country covered with Wood, & how that Line of March may be formd, in an Instant, into an Order...
28699From George Washington to John Forbes, 15 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
Camp, on Chesnut-Ridge (11 o’clock at night) Sir, the 15th November, 1758. An Express from Colo. Armstrong, affords me an opportunity of informing you that we marched hither about 4 o’clock this afternoon —and that I found Mr Bassett and 30 men here late as it was—Immediately ordered working parties on the road, that no time might be lost in opening it; but apprehend I shall not proceed so...
28700From George Washington to John Forbes, 17 November 1758 (Washington Papers)
Colon. Bouquets letter came to my hands (just as the Bearer was passing by) from Colo. Armstrong. I shall punctually observe all the directions contained therein—altho’ I shall at the same time confess, I think it much safer and more elligible to have marched briskly on to our second Post, leaving the Road for Colo. Montgomery to open: We should by that means, have been as good as a...