29401From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 1 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
AMSTERDAM, June 12, 1781, wrote to Congress: “The States of Holland and Westfriesland are adjourned to the 27th. In their last session they consented to the augmentation of 17686 land forces, according to the plan which the council of state, in concert with the statholder, had formed on the 18th of April, and which had been carried on the 19th of the same month to the assembly of the states of...
29402To James Madison from Daniel Eccleston, 1 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I beg your acceptance of a Medallion of your predecessor General Washington, which I have had struck off to the memory of that Great Man , and remain Sir Your Assured Friend RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Daniel Eccleston (1745–1816), an eccentric English merchant and inventor, sponsored in 1805 a Washington medallion that he sent to Jefferson and other American public men (Edith Tyson, Daniel...
29403To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 1 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour of laying before you a Report of the operations of the Mint for the last year. From the Treasurer’s statement, herewith transmitted, it will appear, that during this period, there have been issued from the Mint, of gold coins, in half eagles, 33,875 pieces, amounting to 169,375 dollars; of silver coins, in half dollars & dims., 1,450,520 pieces, amounting to 707,376 dollars;...
29404To James Madison from David Stone, 1 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with a request of the General Assembly of North Carolina I have the Honor herewith to enclose an address of that body unanimously adopted at their late Session. And permit me to add that it affords me most sincere gratification to be the instrument for conveying to you the undivided approbation of so respectable a portion of your Fellow Citizens—That while our mild institutions...
29405Presidential Proclamation, 1 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1810, Washington. Suspends building regulations laid down in the first and third sections of the act of 17 Oct. 1791 for the city of Washington. FC ( DLC : Commissioners of the District of Columbia Collection, 1791–1869). Fragment. These provisions, requiring the outer walls of all houses to be built of either brick or stone and regulating the height of house walls, had been...
29406Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on the Expiration of John H. Craven’s Lease, [ca. 1 January 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Craven by the lease to him is bound at to sow 50. acres of clover the last year of it. 2. fields of 100. a s each in wheat, one of them on fallow the other after corn. the particular fields to be sown result from the rotation stipulated, if that has been faithfully observed. he is to return horses of the value of £91. cattle
29407Daniel Belteshazzar Plantagenet Eccleston to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to return you my sincere thanks for the very polite Letter I had the pleasure of recieving from you, in return for a Medallion of your predecessor General Washington , which I had the honor of presenting you. Could I procure a likeness , I perhaps might become the Medalist of the Presidents of the United States , and those Medals, in all probability, many generations hence, will be...
29408John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your concluding words to our conversation in Charlottesville were that you would devote the first leisure day to investigate whether your alledged claim to my patented land on the mountain had been forfeited by any laches on your part. Those words were also accompanyed with an assurance that if the result of your researches was unfavourable to that claim you would forbear to prosecute it. May...
29409Honoré Julien to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai prand la liberté de vous Ecrire Cette letre que Je desire vous trouve En parfaite Santé, aincy que toutes votre aimable famille, Et En même temps pour vous Souhaiter une bonne Et heureuse année accompagnée de plusieur’s-autres, Je desire que le Repot de votre Rétraite, Soit á la Satisfaction de votre Coeur, que la Compagnie de vos petits Enfants Soit un Motiff á vous prolonger vos Jours....
29410From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 1809 (Adams Papers)
There are two Sentences in Talleyrand’s Letter of the 28th of August, 1798 which ought not to pass unnoticed, the first “In France it was Supposed that the Government of the United States, wished only the appearances of a Negotiation, whence resulted a certain demand for Pledges of good Faith” The Second is “Can it be believed that a Man who should profess a hatred or Contempt of the French...