29761To Alexander Hamilton from Angelica Church, [5–7 November 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Me voila mon tres cher bien en mer et le pauvre coeur bien effligé de vous avoir quitté. I have almost vowed not to stay three weeks in England. My Baron desires me to write beaucoup de petits folies but I am not much disposed for gaity, and yet I endeavor already to make myself tolerable to my fellow passengers, that my sweet friends advice may not be lost on me. Do my dear Brother endeaver...
29762To Alexander Hamilton from Angelica Church, [15 August 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Are you too happy to think of us? Ah petit Fripon you do not believe it:—no I am not too happy, can I be so on this side of the Atlantic? ask your heart, and read my answer there. My silence is caused by dispair; for do not years, days and moments pass and still find me separated from those I love! yet were I in America, would ambition give an hour to Betsey and to me. Can a mind engaged by...
29763To Alexander Hamilton from Angelica Church, [17 February 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
My dear Brother: You will receive this from a friend of mine and an admirer of your virtues and your talents. He goes to America to partake of that Liberty for which he has often exposed his life, and to render it all the services his knowledge of Europe and of the emigration about to take place to America, give the opportunity of doing. The Count de Noailles requires less recommendation than...
29764To Benjamin Franklin from John and Angelica “Carter” [i.e., Church], 10 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr & Mrs Carter Request Dr. Franklin to do them the Honor to dine with them on Saturday next. The Favor of an Answer is desired. The son-in-law and daughter of Philip Schuyler. BF had learned the husband’s true name, John Barker Church, in October: XXXVIII , 546; XL , 263–4.
29765To Alexander Hamilton from Angelica Church, 4 February 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
You are happy my dear friend to find consolation in “words and thoughts.” I cannot be so easily satisfied. I regret America, I regret the separation from my friends and I lament the loss of your society. I am so unreasonable as to prefer our charming family parties to all the gaieties of London. I cannot now relish the gay world, an irresistible apathy has taken possession of my mind, and...
29766To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 19 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter my dear Sir arrives in time to encourage me to solicit your friendship for a friend of yours and mine, as well as to thank you for your attention to my recommendation. How changed are the fortunes and situations of those we loved at Paris! and whose Welfare were dear to us; La Fayette is in prison at Magdebourg; and enclosed is the extract of a letter he has been so fortunate as to...
29767To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I send my dear Sir the little urn so long promissed and so long delayed, and hope you will accept the gift for the sake of the giver; it will sometimes at Monticello remind you of your friend.—Madame de Corny tells me you are going to America next spring. I shall also make that desired voyage, and see what my family and friends are doing. If I should meet you their I should be so happy to see...
29768To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heard very melancholy accounts from Philadelphia occasioned by a fever and in consequence am extremely anxious for you and my young friend Polly: I hope that you have both escaped the power of its destructive influence. Accept of my good wishes, for your health, and be so good as to write me a line to say that your family have enjoyed security from this disease. Adieu RC ( MHi );...
29769To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 9 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by Mr. Rutledge some views in Ireland for Miss Jefferson. They are wild and Romantic. I should like to see them, but prefer seeing those of my own country first, because I should find there an agreeable guide, or rather if I may say what I hope, an amiable friend, whose society would improve my mind, and give me a relish for simple and happy amusements. I am very much afraid that the...
29770To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 19 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Idleness my dear Sir we have long been told “is the root of all evil” and I am an instance that it is the cause of inattention to those one most values. It seems an age since I have had a little conversation with you. Catherine is returned to me very much improved, for that and many other kindnesses my thanks are due. I sail for America early in the spring. If I should meet you there it wou’d...
29771To George Washington from Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 November 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 Nov. 1790. On 6 Feb. 1791 GW wrote to Mrs. Church of “the letter, which you were pleased to address to me on the 27th of November.”
29772To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 30 January [1789] (Jefferson Papers)
I am very happy my dear Sir that your friends Box procured me the pleasure of a line from you . It is some time since I heard from you, and so long a silence I confess gave me pain. I shall sail for New York in March, and will be particularly obliged to you for a letter to Monsieur de Motier’s sister. If when I return in October we should fortunately cross the atlantic in the same vessel, I...
29773To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Depending on your indulgence Sir, I send my son , the bearer of this letter to your Excellency; to solicit your good offices, by which he may obtain redress , for extreme severity, and the most degrading humiliation: which he has suffered: his ship and cargo illegally and violently seized by the Portuguese our friends and Allies; at a moment of undisturbed peace and security, when on the Coast...
29774To Thomas Jefferson from Angelica Schuyler Church, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will say my dear Sir after the Long silence I have observed that a line from me has lost its effect. But remember that I plead guilty to the charge of Idleness only; for when my friends require my assistance few are more willing than myself and there is no occasion in which I take more pleasure than in warmly recommending to your Attention the Count de Noailles, one great object of his...
29775To George Washington from Benjamin Church, 20 September 1775 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Benjamin Church, 20 Sept. 1775. On 24 Sept. Joseph Reed wrote to Church: “I am directed by his Excelly the General to acquaint you that his Unwillingness to part with a good Officer alone prevents his complying with your Request in your Letter of the 20th Instt. He desires you would stay with your Family some Time longer & if there is then no Prospect of its being in...
29776Enclosure: 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...
29777To George Washington from Benjamin Church, 3 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by my Friend⟨s⟩ Drs McKnight & McHenry, that the indiscrete Letter is decyphered, and that notwithstanding the evident Tendency of the whole was to influence the Enemy to propose immediate Terms of Accommodation, yet I am censured and some sinister suspicions still entertained on Acct of some Passages contained therein—further to elucidate the matter I must beg your Excellency’s...
29778To Thomas Jefferson from Catherine Church, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At a moment when called by the voice of a nation to its highest station congratulations flow to you from all quarters shall an insignificant individual of it presume to offer you her’s. Yes my good Sir I flatter myself you will permit it, when I reflect on the many proofs of your good will towards me & persuaded that the effusions of a grateful remembrance can never want a welcome from the...
29779To Thomas Jefferson from Catherine Church, [ca. October 1788?] (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much obliged to you for the pretty books you have had the goodnes to send me. I am very sensible of it and never shall forget it. I shall never have a heart capable of forgetting you and and all the goodness you have had for me. I am your gratefull RC ( MHi ); addressed: “A Monsieur Monsieur jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Church Kitty”; undated, but probably written soon after TJ’s...
29780To Thomas Jefferson from Catherine Church, 9 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your acquaintance my dear Sir with the amiable family Dupont & the very polite attentions of which they retain so lively an impression precludes all necessity of an introduction to Mde. Dupont whose individual merit is such as not to require a relative claim to admiration—I am however too proud in owning her as my friend & in the possibility of introducing her to you to neglect this...
29781To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Church, 22 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Humble Petition of Christopher Church now in the Jail of Washington County in the District of Columbia— Humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner is confined for his fine and fees, under a prosecution for Theft, which he was guilty of while in a state of intoxication The Hone. the Judges of the Circuit Court at December term last Sentanced him to receive twenty stripes, which he has received,...
29782To George Washington from Edward Church, 11 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am one of that unfortunate number whom the late revolution has precipitated from a state of decent competence, and reduced to the necessity of joining the class of your most humble and needy petitioners; but it is not to be expected that the most fortunate revolutions can be favorable to the interest of every individual, I therefore presume not to complain, or to found any pretensions to...
29783To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Lisbon, 31 July 1793. He and his family arrived here by an expensive chartered vessel on 8 July after a long wait in Bordeaux. In order to comply with the request in TJ’s 26 Aug. 1790 letter for an account of American ships entering and clearing ports in his district, he must be furnished with their registers. Although this practice is customary with consuls of other nations, there is no...
29784To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 12 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 12 Aug. 1791 . Being greatly alarmed by what he learned on arrival, he expressed his fears in his of the 27th, sent by brig Hetty , Captn. Drinker, for Philadelphia.—This day his fears confirmed by letter from Carmichael, a copy of which he encloses. He is thereby arrested at the threshold, unable to advance or retreat. He cannot in any sense hold TJ responsible, but appeals to him...
29785To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 25 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Lisbon, 25 Sep. 1793 . He wishes to provide a more authoritative account of two actions between the French and the Spanish that his accompanying letter of 22 Sep. mistakenly described as having taken place near Perpignan. On 28 Aug. General Dagobert’s army surprised and defeated a Spanish force of about 3,000 men, commanded by General La Penha and camped near Montlouis, killing 700 to 800 of...
29786To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 27 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 27 July 1791 . After a long and tedious passage he arrived on the 1st and would have proceeded to Bilbao but for extreme illness of one of his daughters. He has been told he might not be allowed to function there as consul, and so has written to “the American Minister at … Madrid” for advice. As it is impracticable and expensive to move a large family from place to place, he will...
29787To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 22 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you this morning that I had written to his Excelly. Luiz Pinto Minister &ca. &ca. I herewith send a Copy of my Letter, and at the same time have the pleasure to inclose a most favourable, friendly, and pleasing answer from his Excellency, which I have this moment received, and which you will immediately see the necessity of communicating by expresses to all parts of the Union, that our...
29788To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 8 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to write you on the 22nd. Ulto. since which nothing material has occurred here. I have been diligent in my Enquiries concerning the Views of the belligerent Powers with regard to the U.S. and have solid grounds to believe that it is the determined purpose of England and Spain sooner or later to unite their Endeavours to Crush Us, I mean of the Courts and Kings of those Nations....
29789To James Madison from Edward Church, 23 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 June 1801, Paris. Discusses current political situation in Europe, then takes up his main point, which is to protest his dismissal during the Adams administration from his post as American consul in Lisbon. He left Lisbon late in 1795 for Paris on personal business, leaving a qualified substitute to carry on his consular duties. His stay was extended, and he undertook to serve as a liaison...
29790To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 1 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Bordeaux, 1 Jan. 1792 . He recurs to the proposal made in his last letter for repaying the American debt to France. It is now possible to purchase assignats with bills of exchange on London or Amsterdam at the rate of 6d. to 6 ½d. per livre, the livre currently being valued at 10d. sterling in America. These assignats are receivable into the public treasury at par and therefore would be...