28801From Benjamin Franklin to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., 23 April 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your respected favours of the Instant with your Acct of Expences relating to the Cases of Characters &ca. which I have desired M. F. Grand to discharge in my Behalf, and am much obliged by your Care in forwarding them to Rouen. Plese to Accept my Thanks and belive me to be with sincere Esteem. Gentlemene Y. m. o. and M. h. S. These were the eight boxes of...
28802From Benjamin Franklin to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., 28 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and partial AL (draft): Library of Congress This is to desire you would retain in your Hands, if it is still there, the money that was lodg’d with you on Account of the United States by order of the Ministry here: Or if you have already delivered it, that you would again receive it, agreable to Orders I have sent by this Conveyance that it should be return’d to you; and I request you...
28803From Benjamin Franklin to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., 11 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I approve of your not having sent the Letters of Exchange which I formerly ordered. You will see by the enclos’d that Capt. Jackson desists from his Demand. Thus you have only to retain the Money till a fresh Order from the Minister permits your Parting with it. I have the honour to be Gentlemen Y.m.o. & m h S. Two copies of the enclosure are at the...
28804From Benjamin Franklin to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., 9 May 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your obliging Letter of the 3d. Instant, with two Pamphlets, for which I thank you, and shall be glad of any others of the Kind that are esteemed to be well written. I have received lately two Letters from one Nicolas Davis, who is now in Amsterdam at the House of Jan. Hendrik Conse in de Warmoes-straat, and asks me for Money. I am afraid that if he can...
28805From Benjamin Franklin to Fizeaux, Grand & Cie., 22 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I receiv’d the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 4th Instant, wherein you advis’d me either to send Remittances, or to permit the Drawing on me at a short Term in order to discharge Mr Adams’s Acceptances therein mentioned. The latter Method is most convenient to me, and I hereby acquaint you that I will accept & pay such Drafts as shall...
28806John Adams to Fizeaux, Grand & Co., 4 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have received repeated Letters from Mr. Barclay, who is settling American Accounts, requiring me to produce the Bills of Exchange which were accepted by me, and paid by you in Amsterdam in behalf of Mr Grand at Paris, or of D r. Franklin If you are willing to deliver them to me, I will come to Amsterdam to receive them, and will take them with me to Paris. But I will not dissemble to you,...
28807From John Adams to Fizeaux, Grand & Co., 26 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour of your Letter of the 17th. instant, inclosing the 66 Bills of Exchange accepted by me, amounting to Bf. 109780, which you have paid, and for which you, have debited the Account of the United States of America. I Yesterday received your other Favour of the 25th. instant, inclosing 17 Bills of Exchange, Accepted by me amounting to Bf. 16,220 which you have paid, for the United...
28808Correspondence of James Murray, John Fleeming, and Sheriff Stephen Greenleaf: March—May 1770 (Adams Papers)
In order to prevent as much as may be any damage to any of the parties in the said suits or to the Officers who laid the attachments the defendants friends propose that you cause the effects attached to be appraised you chusing the appraisers for the defendant and that his friends will shew you other effects of his to the full amount of the Value appraized less perishable than those now...
28809From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleischer, 13 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 8th. and in that the letter of Monsr. Faujas de St. Fond, from whom whatever comes is acceptable. I recieved safely also the work of his which you were so kind as to send, & for which I send you by mr Carpenter the price 18. dollars; of which 15. are inclosed, & three metallic he will deliver, there being no paper of so small a denomination. Should you have...
28810Thomas Jefferson to George Fleming, 29 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of your favor of Oct. 30. I had just left home on a journey to a distant possession of mine , from which I am but recently returned: and I wish that the matter of my answer could compensate for it’s delay. but, Sir, it happens that of all the machines which have been employed to aid human labor, I have made my self the least acquainted with (that which is certainly the most...
28811From Alexander Hamilton to George Fleming, 28 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have just received a letter from Captain Ingersoll informing me that there are at West Point, belonging to the public “Hospital, Medicine, Instruments, furniture &cc. Quarter Master Stores, Artificers Tools, for Carpenter’s tools and Blacksmiths, Some Articles of Winter Clothing, Stationary, Laboratory Apparatus &c. &c.”—Of all these you will take charge. A return of the Articles of Clothing...
28812From Alexander Hamilton to George Fleming, 22 June 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You will please to deliver to Capt. McClellan a brass 4 pounder with the apparatus complete according to the French plan ; taking his rect. as a voucher to you—with great considen &c P.S. If the piece itself shall should have been delivered out to Capt. Ingersole you will shew him this letter, as a warrant for the delivering of it by him to Capt. McClellan (Copy, in the handwriting of Ethan...
28813Enclosure: Benjamin Church to John Fleming, 23 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
I hope this will reach you—three Attempts have I made without Success in effecting the last the Man was discovered in attempting his Escape, but fortunately my Letter was sewed in the Waisband of his Breeches, he was confined a few Days, during which Time you may guess my feelings. but a little Art and a little Cash settled the Matter: tis a Month since my Return from Philadelphia, I went by...
28814From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Fleming, 11 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in Philadelphia your letter of June 8. but it was not in my power to answer it from thence, because all my papers and memorandums respecting my Law practice are here. I have now diligently examined these, and find that I was employed in May 1771. in the case of Leigh v. West, an action of debt on a bond removed by Habeas Corpus. None of my memorandum’s shew whether I was ever...
28815From Thomas Jefferson to the County Lieutenant of Botetourt, 24 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive by this express an act to prevent dese[rtion]; an extract on the same subject from another act; an act for drafting your militia; and sixt[y] tobacco loan office certificates. For the last mentioned act, and the certificates, be pleased to return your receipt by the bearer. You stand debited in the Auditors books with these tobacco certificates. You will be pleased therefore...
28816Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 24 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The settlement of the accounts in Gilliam’s suit, to which we were summoned on the 1 st of Aug. has, on my request, been postponed to the 20 th of Oct . I was induced to ask it by the improbability of getting an effectual meeting at Richmond during the sickly season, & my extreme anxiety to have an effectual meeting & final settlement of those accounts. it is on this ground I earnestly pray...
28817From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am called on to answer Gilliam’s bill against mr Wayles’s [Exrs by] B. Skelton’s representatives. there are some facts to the recollection of which you can perhaps aid me. you remember we had a meeting in Richmond with M. Skelton , and I believe, J. Baker acting as his atty. when was it? did not J. Baker act for M. Skelton & in his presence? I have our account which I think he compared with...
28818From George Washington to William Fleming, 21 July 1756 (Washington Papers)
Yours of the 24th ultimo—With regard to your and Captain Bells Accompts, I did not chuse to concern, but ordered it to the arbitration of six Captains; who have awarded fifteen pounds in favour of Captain Bell; as you will see by the original enclosed. The reason of this award, was your not complying with Captain Bells orders, to be at Albemarle-Court-House on the day appointed: by which...
28819From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 1 July 1776 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of 22d June came to hand this morning and gratified me much as this with your former contains interesting intelligence. Our affairs in Canada go still retrograde, but I hope they are now nearly at their worst. The fatal sources of these misfortunes have been want of hard money with which to procure provisions, the ravages of the small pox with which one half of our army is still down,...
28820From Thomas Jefferson to Col. William Fleming, 9 June 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The alarm which took place on the day succeeding my exit from office prevented my depositing with you the public papers in my hands. I now transmit them by express. The labels on them were true formerly; but in preparing for flight I shoved in papers where I could. You will be pleased to recollect that the militia of several counties now with the Marquis are to leave him at the close of this...
28821From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 8 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter and have now to thank you for it. Some resolutions of Congress came to hand yesterday desiring an authentic state to be sent them of the cruelties said to have been committed by the enemy during their late invasion. The council had already taken measures to obtain such a state. Tho’ so near the scene where these barbarities are said to have been committed I am not able...
28822From Thomas Jefferson to Col. William Fleming, 7 August 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed order will explain to you the general plan adopted for regimenting, officering, and stationing the two Western battalions. We are in hopes you will so far proceed in concert with the other commissioners as that the chain of posts to be recommended may form a complete Western defence, leaving no chasm in the middle. We wish you, when you report the stations proposed, to advise us...
28823From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 20 March 1764 (Jefferson Papers)
As the messenger who delivered me your letter, informs me that your boy is to leave town tomorrow morning I will endeavor to answer it as circumstantially as the hour of the night, and a violent head ach , with which I have been afflicted these two days, will permit. With regard to the scheme which I proposed to you some time since, I am sorry to tell you it is totally frustrated by Miss R....
28824From George Washington to William Fleming, 28 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
You are hereby ordered to repair to Captain Hogg’s Company at Fort Dinwiddie, with eight good men: as that Company is without a Surgeon, if you will do that duty, an allowance will be made you for it. You are to provide medicines, &c. upon the best terms you can. This Order I expect will be immediately complied with; and that no Delays be offered. You are to account with Captain Bell for your...
28825From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 13 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The General Assembly have adjourned themselves to meet at Charlottsville on the 24th. instant at which Time I am desirous of having a Board of Council. Colo. Digges, Mr. Prentis and Mr. Tyler having resigned you will see the necessity which impels me to ask the favor of your Attendance to make a Board. I am with much Respect Sir Your mo: obt Servt. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, with one...
28826From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 19 May 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
You have before this heard and lamented the death of our good friend Carr . Some steps are necessary to be immediately taken on behalf of his clients. You practised in all his courts except Chesterfeild and Albemarle. I shall think I cannot better serve them than by putting their papers into your hands if you will be so good as to take them. I once mentioned to you the court of Albemarle as...
28827Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, 28 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved safely the extraordinary rattle of the rattle snake, as also the leav foliage of the Alleghaney Martagon. a plant of so much beauty & fragrance will be a valuable addition to our flower gardens. should you find your roots of it I shall be very thankful to participate of them, and will carefully return you a new stock should the my part succeed & yours fail. accept the...
28828From Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming, [ca. October 1763] (Jefferson Papers)
From a croud of disagreeable [companions] among whom I have spent three or four of the most tedious hours of my life, I retire into Gunn’s bedchamber to converse in black and white with an absent friend. I heartily wish you were here that I might converse with a Christian once more before I die: for die I must this night unless I should be releived by the arrival of some sociable fellow. But I...
28829From James Madison to Elijah Fletcher and Richard H. Toler, 10 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have just seen in another Gazette, the following paragraph, noted as an extract from the “Lynchburg Virginian” viz Without being aware of the ground on which the Statement is alledged to be within the personal knowledge of the Editor, it is proper to observe that, as often happens in the report of conversations, there must have been some degree of misapprehension or misrecollection. It is...
28830From James Madison to Elijah Fletcher and Richard H. Toler, 31 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Messrs. Fletcher & Toler. (Editors of Lynchbg. Virga) and regrets the trouble occasioned by the delay of his letter of the 14th. The paragraph prepared by them & inserted in their paper & enclosed their letter of the 26th sufficiently guards agst. a misunderstand. of his original communication. He was led to the proposed change in it, by an intimation recd....
28831From James Madison to Elijah Fletcher and Richard H. Toler, 14 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
I ask the favor of you to make the following correction, omitted to be made in the paper sent you a few days ago, viz. Erase the words, “ limit the power of Congress over trade, to regulations having revenue alone for their object ” and insert: “exclude from the power of Congress over commerce, regulations having for their object, the protection and encouragement of domestic manufactures.”...
28832Elijah Fletcher’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [8 May 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Wednsday 8th I started again for Monticello — Mr Kelly when I g ot t o Char. went with me. When we arrived at the foot of the hill, we wound a side way, circutous course to avoid the steapness in getting the house, which was immediately upon the top of the mountain. We rode up to the front gate of the door yard a servant took our horses— Mr. Jefferson appeared at the door. I was introduced to...
28833From George Washington to Samuel Fletcher, 14 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
The Board of War have favd me with a Copy of their letter to you of the 20th Augt by which I find that they had directed you to forward all the ready made cloathing to Springfeild and Harford there to be opened, aired and Assorted, and the Blankets, Shoes Stockings and shirts to Camp. The intent of the Board is to put the whole Army in compleat new uniform as early as possible in October, and...
28834From George Washington to Samuel Fletcher, 24 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 18th inst., I received some Time ago. I have directed Mr Measam of the Clothier’s Department to repair to Hartford and Springfield, to superintend the repacking and assorting of the Cloathing, which has been ordered to those Places. In Case it does not supercede any Appointment of yours, made in Consequence of your Instructions, from the Board of War: However as it is so...
28835From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Fletcher, 21 March 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The Executive cannot agree to your return to reside within the State unless you Consider yourself freed from your Parole. You informed me that the British Commanding Officer expressed the Determination to hang any Person who should be found in Arms after having given a parole. If the validity of these paroles were without question under the Law of nations still that law only punishes a breach...
28836From Benjamin Franklin to Fleury, 26 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I am sorry you were disappointed in meeting me at Versailles. In all your Billets except that of yesterday you omitted mentioning where you Lodged, otherwise I could have acquainted you that I should not be at court on the Day you Expected me. I suppose you will acquaint the Congress or General Washington with your Reasons for desiring a Prolongation of your furlow....
28837From Benjamin Franklin to François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, 15 August 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Courier de l’Europe , XIV (November 4, 1783), 290. This letter has puzzled editors for years. Its subject is the silver medal that Congress ordered Franklin to have struck for Lt. Col. de Fleury. Fleury himself delivered the congressional resolution to Franklin in early 1780 when he was on leave, but he was called back to America before Duvivier, the engraver, completed the...
28838From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel Fleury, 13 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favr of the 2d upon the Road between the North River and this place. I also at the Same time recd a letter from the president of Congress upon the same subject—In answer to which I have informed him, that, in my opinion, the application to the French Minister plenipotentiary for a renewal of your Furlough would be made with more propriety by yourself than by Congress, and that...
28839From Benjamin Franklin to Fleury, 29 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Having as yet had no Medal struck here, I am not acquainted with any Artist of that sort. If you can find one, and bring him to me, I will endeavour to agree with him to get it done as soon as may be; but I cannot imagine it possible in so short a time as you mention. I cannot state any certain Sum till I have talked with the artist. I thought to enquire of Mr. Tillet...
28840From John Adams to Fleury, 20 May 1778 (Adams Papers)
Passy, 20 May 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 4:104 . In his reply to Fleury’s letter of 26 April (above), Adams noted the excellent reputation of François Louis Teissèdre de Fleury, then serving with the Continental Army, and congratulated Fleury and his wife “upon the honor of...
28841From George Washington to Royal Flint, 4 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of yesterday. It is lamentable that our magazines are so empty and that our future prospects are so alarmingly limited. The worst consequences are to be apprehended if some change does not speedily take place. Every information I obtain makes me fear we shall be driven to the necessity of a general forage upon the Country. To do this I wish you to supply me with an...
28842From Alexander Hamilton to Royal Flint, [27 November 1778] (Hamilton Papers)
Col Harrison and myself are to meet two Gentlemen of the British army at Amboy monday week. We shall be obliged to feed them and their attendants as well as our own, while there, and must therefore request your assistance to have some handsome provision made there for us by that time. We shall probably be together only a few days and shall have sixteen or eighteen to feed. Let us have both...
28843From George Washington to Royal Flint, 7 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with Your Letter of the 6th—As I find by this that you are no longer to continue in the department in which You have for some time acted, I with pleasure avail myself of the present opportunity to inform You, that your conduct in the discharge of your duty so far as it has come to my knowledge, has been much to my satisfaction. From your activity and attention—your...
28844From George Washington to Royal Flint, 20 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
There is the strongest reason to suppose that a great part of the Army will continue this Winter upon the East side of Hudsons River. The season approaches fast when it will be next to impossible, on account of the Roads, to bring forward a sufficiency of Flour even for daily consumption. The distress to which we were reduced last Winter at Valley Forge, for want of a proper Magazine, makes me...
28845From Alexander Hamilton to Royal Flint, 23 December 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Morristown, New Jersey, December 23, 1779. “By a return of provisions on hand it appears there is only two day’s meat. The General’s anxiety induces him to inquire again into your prospects; and to request you will inform him with precision what present supply you can depend upon.” Letter not found. ] Sold at American Art Association—Anderson Galleries, January 12, 1932, Lot 69. Flint was...
28846George Washington to Royal Flint, 4 January 1780 (Hamilton Papers)
Morristown [ New Jersey ] January 4, 1780 . Requests an estimate of supplies available in each county of New Jersey. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
28847From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth or Royal Flint, 20 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since my orders of the 2d March, directing the establishment of Magazines of provision upon the Susquehannah for three thousand Men, I find there is a probability that the number may be increased to four thousand five hundred—I therefore desire that you may take the most speedy measures to inform Colo. Blaine, or whoever may have the superintendance of the formation of those Magazines of this...
28848Thomas Jefferson to Henry Flood, 8 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much indebted to you for helping my cart on with the loan of a wheel. my people set out this morning and I hope will return it safe. but I must beg the additional favor of you to have their broken one repaired. I think there is a wheelwright at your neighbor Swiney’s . in the mean time they will have to ask quarters of you. according to present appearances I think I can get away on...
28849Thomas Jefferson to Henry Flood, 21 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 29. is just now recieved, having been three weeks on the road. I have this day written by the mail to my overseer at Poplar forest to send off two boys on horseback with bags as soon as he recieves my letter. I shall probably be on myself nearly as soon as he will be sending for the seed, and will leave the price of it with you as I pass. with my thanks for your attention...
28850From George Washington to John Flood, 29 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
If Jesse Cole, an Inhabitant of the City of New York, will undertake to communicate with me through the Channel that has been proposed to him, or any other which may be more direct and better—and will give me regular information of the enemys movements—strength—& designs, as far as he can come at them from good information & his own observation, particularly noting their...