28851To George Washington from Francis Mentges, 7 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I received your Excel. Letter dated the 1st of March—the 26th of May in Carolnia, I am happy to find that I performd the Duties as superintending Offr to your Excel. Approbation. I beg leave to address your Excel. on my concern, I find by a resolve of Congress passed the 7th of Augt, that I shall be under the disagreeable necessity of retiring on half pay, by being the younghest Lieut. Colo....
28852To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 4 January 1806, “Near New Orleans.” “Having, for the most part, effected the objects which occasioned my visit to the Atachapas and Apalousas, I am now on my return, and will be at my Post early on Tomorrow. My Private Secretary, who has met me on this Evening, communicated the substance of several important dispatches from you, which were received during my...
28853To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have got thro’ my catalogue except the Alphabet and send you the result. The inclosed table shews the number, size, and cost of the whole and it’s parts. 6860. vols will cost 24.076 D. or 3½ D. a vol. on an average of all sizes. If we get our 50. M D and also if 10.000 would do for apparatus, there would remain 16.000. to invest in stock. This would give us 1000 D. a year for ever which...
28854To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 24 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
Having transmitted to Mr Pickering, additional documents, numbered from 36 to 50 inclusively, you will probably peruse them. The first, contained a copy of a motion, I made to the other Envoys; to put an end, as early as the 21st of October 1797, to the disgraceful communications of X & Y. at the bottom of the original, is a note in the handwriting of General Pinckney, which shews, that it was...
28855To Thomas Jefferson from John Bondfield, 10 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your two favors of the 31 Ulto. I have given communication and shall continue to make publick the Resolution of the Committee held at Berni the 24 May. It will certainly have the desired end of promoting a more extensive Commerce betwixt the two States. I shall transmit by the post to morrow a Copy of the Resultat to Rochfort agreable to your Instructions....
28856To James Madison from James Gallatin, 9 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Graham has sent me the papers respecting the Spanish vessel, prize to the British Frigate Hebe, the cargo of which has been suffered to be landed at New Orleans. I have written to the Collector for a Statement of facts, but am at a loss what instructions to give on that subject generally. I cannot find any law forbidding the sale of prizes in our ports, nor any treaty embracing a similar...
28857From Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 3 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Mrs. Henry Sage, Albany, New York (1958); copy: Library of Congress I received your kind Letter of March 31. acquainting me with your having engaged in M. De la Frétés Affairs on my Recommendation. I thank you very much; and beg you to be assured, that any Recommendation of yours will be regarded by me with the greatest Attention. The Letter you inclosed to M. Dumas is forwarded to him....
28858To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Harison, 4 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the request, contained in your Letter of the 12th. of August last, I have entered into an Examination of the several legislative Acts and judicial proceedings in this State which may probably have been considered by the British Government as Infractions of the Treaty, between the United States, and Great Britain.—A variety of Circumstances, particularly the necessity of my...
28859The Committee of Secret Correspondence to John Bradford, 30 July 1776 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: National Archives; typescript of ALS : Yale University Library We take the liberty to enclose herein some dispatches for Messrs. Saml. & J. H. Delap Merchts. in Bourdeaux which youl please to deliver into Capt. Clevelands own hands with a strict charge to take the utmost care of them and follow the orders also enclosed herein directed to him which you will be pleased to deliver and...
28860General Orders, 23 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
28861To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you two communications from the Commissioner of the Revenue dated the 24 & 25 instant, and to submit my opinion, that it is adviseable to ratify all the contracts to which they refer except that last mentioned with Green Parker. With perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . Tench Coxe’s letter to Hamilton of 24 Sept. enclosed "proposals from Mr John McCauley for the...
28862Interrogatories for Gage: Court of Vice Admiralty, Boston, 1768 (Adams Papers)
Interrogatories In the Behalf of Lot Gage and Partners In the Case of Joseph Doane and others against him and Partners. 1st. Was you on a Whaling Voyage In the Streights of Bellisle on or about the 21st. of June 1765. 2. What Boat was you in and what Vessel did you belong to. 3. Do you remember that on or about that time there was a Whale Killed by Lot Gage and others the Property of which...
28863From George Washington to Rear Admiral Ternay, 5 August 1780 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday the honor of Your Letter of the 31st of last Month and feel myself exceedingly obliged by the very polite manner, in which You have been pleased to express Yourself. I assure You, Sir, I am persuaded that You have done and will do, all in your power to answer the intentions of the King in sending you here, and to promote the common cause. It is only to be wished that you...
28864[Diary entry: 8 November 1789] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 8th. It being contrary to Law & disagreeable to the People of this State (Connecticut) to travel on the Sabbath day and my horses after passing through such intolerable Roads wanting rest, I stayed at Perkins’s Tavern (which by the bye is not a good one) all day—and a meeting House being with in a few rod of the Door, I attended Morning & evening Service, and heard very lame discourses...
28865To James Madison from James Simpson, 25 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Gavino having advised that he could about this time negotiate some of my Bills, I have this day taken the liberty of drawing two on you, payable to his order thirty days after presentation for Twelve hundred and Eight hundred dollars, makeing together Two thousand; which I beg you will have the goodness to direct being paid, and that sum charged to me, as a farther imposal on Account of...
28866From Edward Hand to Arthur St. Clair, 28 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
His Excy is very anxious to know the state of the Pennsa Division, and desires me to request you to order a Return of it to be made to the Orderly Office as soon as may be, and that Monthly returns may be regularly transmitted so as to reach the Office by the last Saturday of every Month, by regiments if its present situation will not admit of comprehending the whole in one Genl Return. I am...
28867From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I requested you in a former letter to assure mr James Rawlings that as soon as I could get my tob o to market I would draw on you in his favor for a balance due the mutual assurance co. I have accdly drawn on you this day for a sum of about 89 or 90.D. I had formerly desired mr Ritchie to apply to you annually for my subscription to the Enquirer, and supposing it regularly paid, I had not even...
28868To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since, I returned from the Eastward, where I had been viewing and examining in operation the various machinery for manufacturing cotton. Thy favor of the 12 ultimo came to Brookeville during my absence, and remained there until my return. This will account for my not sooner attending to thy request. I am so far from feeling it a trouble, that to have the power and opportunity of...
28869To George Washington from Charles Pettit, 12 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Pursuant to Your Excellency’s Desire, signified to me on Saturday last, I send inclosed a Return of the Cloathing on Hand in the Quarter Master General’s Store, procured for the Use of the People employed in that Department. I avoid sending it to the orderly Office lest it should lead to some Mistake, as your Excellency was pleased to say it was not meant to be included in the Genl Order of...
28870[Diary entry: 15 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. A little lowering & dull in the forenoon—but cool.
28871To George Washington from George Augustine Washington, 12 May 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Augustine Washington, 12 May 1787. On 17 May GW wrote George Augustine Washington : “Your letter of the 12th is this instt put into my hands.”
28872To James Madison from Isaac Shelby, 18 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
The deep Solicitude which I feel for the honour and Welfare of my Country in her present struggle with an old and inveterate foe, will I trust be deemed a sufficent apology for troubling you with this note. I had the honour on the 20th of March last of Addressing a letter to the Secretary of the War Department, and of inclosing to him the Copy of An Act of the Legislature of Kentucky passed at...
28873To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 15 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 March 1804, Bayou Sara, Mississippi Territory. “I have been favored this day with your Letter of the 10th. ulto. and am thankful for your kindness in forwarding its inclosure. “I feel much obliged by your mention of my Services. They were due and were willingly rendered, for I flattered myself that the Inhabitants of Louisiana would be rendered happy by the change. If they have become...
28874From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 17 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
The next Statute produced & commented by Mr Otis was the 15th. of Charles the Second, i.e. 1663, Chapter 7. “An Act for the Encouragement of Trade.” Section 5. “And in regard his Majesty’s Plantations beyond the Seas are inhabited and peopled by his Subjects of this his Kingdom of England.” for the maintaining a greater Correspondence and Kindness between them, and keeping them in a firmer...
28875From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 27 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
I leave the inclosed open that you may see the papers relating to the Hotel Keepers. Should Genl. Cocke, unexpectedly at this season, be in Charlottesville, be so obliging as to have the letter put into his hands; in the contrary event, into the proper mail. I inclose for you Mr. Brokenboroughs report to be assorted with the other documents accompanying that to go from the Rector; on which I...
28876James Madison to William B. Rogers, 26 February 1836 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his respects to Professor Rogers, returns many thanks for the Copy of his Report on the "Geological Reconnaissance of the State of Virginia." Unskilled as he is in the subject; he cannot but regard the Report as an able & instructive commencement of a task, which if duly prosecuted under the auspices it merits, cannot fail to amplify greatly the resources of the state, & to afford...
28877Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 22 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 1. has been duly recieved, and requires my thanks for the kind offer of your services in London . books are indeed with me a necessary of life; and since I ceded my library to Congress I have been annually importing from Paris . not but that I need some from London also, but that they have risen there to such enormous prices as cannot be looked at. England must lose her...
28878To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 10 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
T Munroe presents his best respects, and has the Honor of enclosing for the Presidents signature a Draft on the Treasury for a further sum of Ten thousand Dollars.— It has occurr’d to TM that it might, perhaps, be satisfactory to the President if applications to him from time to time for Drafts on the Treasury were accompanied by Accounts of the disbursement of the Amt. previously drawn—If...
28879From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 27 April 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Albany, April 27, 1795. On May 31, 1795, Wadsworth wrote to Hamilton : “Your favor of the 27 April came duly to hand.” Letter not found. ]
28880From George Washington to American Philosophical Society, 13 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
While you recall to my mind the honor formerly done me by enrolling my name in the List of the Members of your Society, you greatly heighten the pleasure of your present congratulations. For if I know my own inclination, it is to be the friend and associate to men of Virtue & philosophical knowledge; or if I have a wish ungratified, it is that the Arts & Sciences may continue to flourish with...