31081To John Adams from Benjamin Franklin, 7 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
Dr. Franklin presents his Compliments to Mr. Adams, and sends such of his Trunks as can be got at; W.T.F. in whose Chamber it is suppos’d there may be more, being gone to Paris; and having with him Mr. F’s Carriage prevents his waiting on Mr. Adams immediately as he would otherwise wish to do; but Mr. F. requests the Honour of Mr. Adams’s Company at Dinner to-morrow. RC ( Adams Papers ).
31082To James Madison from Levett Harris, 22 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Levett Harris. 22 October 1805, St. Petersburg. “Since I had the honor to address you under date of 23 Aug. 4. September Ship Severn via Baltimore Copy via Amsterdam: I have received a letter, of which the inclosed A is Copy, from Commodore Rogers, advising that a peace had been concluded with the Tripolitans, and that the Russian Vessel St. Michael, which had been captured by a part of...
31083Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 28 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind Letter of Nov’ br. 19 th by this days post. I had previously received two others both of which I had replied to, but I do not know how to pass a week without hearing from you. at the same time I received your Letter, I also had one from mrs smith informing me that She had received Letters from the col of 2 d of Nov’ br and that he had written her word that he Should be...
3108422 Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
A fair morning. Fresh and lively Air. Drank Tea and supped at Mrs. Paine’s. Presumably Sarah (Chandler) Paine, daughter of Colonel or Judge John Chandler and wife of Timothy Paine (1730–1793) , currently a member of the General Court ( Stark, Loyalists of Mass . James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, Boston, 1910. , p. 382–385).
31085To George Washington from Henry Knox, 29 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I was at West point to day where I had the honor to receive your Excellencys favor of Yesterday. I am sorry to learn by the extract of the letter from the board of War that things are not in a good train in Pennsylvania, especially as the prospects are so good from the eastward. I am very sorry that your Excellency has any doubts upon being able to carry into execution the plans which you have...
31086To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Robertson, 16 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you have a copy of your accounts, together with a Bond executed to me in 1823. and if on examining the accounts they are found to be right, be pleased to execute & return the Bond also enclosed for the whole amount now due to me—I also enclose an old Bond executed to W m Brown, which ought to have been delivered to you years ago— Having for the present declined doing business in this...
31087Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 14 April 1777 (Adams Papers)
We hear of your being at Philadelphia and wish You a comfortable Session there. The spring is now opening and with this (probably) some grand Important Scenes that will call for the Wisdom of the Politician and the Skill and Bravery of the Warrior. Troops are dayly marching from this State to the several Places of their Destination and were all the Levies compleated from the several States,...
31088From Alexander Hamilton to Tobias Lear, 1 June 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, June 1, 1791. Requests the commissions for the Virginia inspectors of the revenue. LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
31089To Alexander Hamilton from William Greene, 9 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 9, 1796. States his determination to abide by whatever opinion Hamilton “should form” in “the case of Messr. John Calogan & Sons.” Discusses his dispute with the firm of Shaw and Randall over a cargo of wine and the writ issued against him for £10,000 damages. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Greene, a native of England, was a New York City merchant with an extensive...
31090[Diary entry: 12 March 1772] (Washington Papers)
12. Clear Morning but very hard frost ground being blocked up close. In the Night Snow again.
31091Caesar A. Rodney to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since your acceptable favor of the 25 th ult o was received, and the day before yesterday your exposition of the case of the Batture came to hand. I have since attentively perused it, and it has afforded me equal pleasure & instruction. It is true, it does not possess the strict method required in a legal argument, but the full & satisfactory explanation which it contains of the...
31092To Alexander Hamilton from Caleb Gibbs, 12 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Barre, Massachusetts, December 12, 1791. On September 10, 1792, Gibbs wrote to Hamilton : “I wrote you On the 12th. of Decr. last.” Letter not found. ] Gibbs, like H, had been an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the American Revolution.
31093To George Washington from Henry Knox, 10 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of information from the Secretary of the Treasury, the enclosed letter has been drafted to the Governor for your consideration relatively to the application of the British Minister. I also submit some papers from Mr Dallas relative to the proposed establishment at Presque Isle. The Secretary of the Treasury and myself concur in submitting to you the enclosed as a proper answer....
31094From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 7 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
The Letter from the Board of Treasury of the 4. of April, in which this is inclosed, I received open, on Fryday, together with the Bills for 75,000 Guilders mentioned in it. I went immediately to Mr Ruckers House with them: but no one was at home, but a Servant, who told me, his Master and Mistress were in the Country, and the Clerk not at home. on Saturday, I went again. The Clerk was then at...
31095Commissions of the Continental Congress to the Ministers Plenipotentiary for Negotiating a Treaty of Peace, 15 June 1781 (Jay Papers)
The United States of America in Congress assembled To all to whom these presents shall come send Greeting Whereas these United States from a sincere desire of putting an end to the hostilities between his most Christian Majesty and these United States on the one part, and his Britannic Majesty on the other and of terminating the same by a Peace founded on such solid & equitable Principles as...
31096To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Smith, 1 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received a letter from Mr. A. J. Dallas secretary to the Commonwealth with enclosures which I now forward for your inspection. The whole of the subscriptions since the 1st June last in Certificates of the Assumed Debt of this State, amo. to £ 46,985. equal to 125,293 30/ which with 674,675 Dollars received before the 30th sepr. 1791 makes in the whole 799,968 30/. Mr. Donnaldson Regr &...
31097From George Washington to the Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners, 10 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
The aforegoing Writing contains the proceedings of Congress on the 5th Ulto on the subject of your meeting at Amboy on Monday next. You will make these the rule of your conduct; And if you cannot establish a general Cartel with the British Commissioners, comprehending the Convention Troops, agreable to the Resolution—and to which end the power you have received from me to day is only adapted....
31098To George Washington from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 9 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
On 24 April last we had the honour to inform you that the draft you forwarded us on Jauge & Dupuy of this City for 50 Dollars, had not been paid, since which we have been without any of your Favours. Tis only since three or four weeks that we have had the mortification to hear that the Packet-Boat on which your wine was shipped last Winter, had again been distressed & put into Brest very much...
31099To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 24 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing of moment transpires at Washington, since 21st: when I had the pleasure of Answering your favr. 17th.—Mr LeMaire, tho weak, is recruiting fast,—by the time of your expected & welcome return will, I hope be perfectly reinstated in his health. respecting late rumours—the rising of the Negroes here: I judge it proper to inform, (lest you may have heard some imperfect Accts.)— It has...
31100[Diary entry: 1 October 1770] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 1. Rid to my Mill and the Ditchers with Mr. Warnr. Washington. Colo. Fairfax dind here. The Doctr. Rumney still here. Mr. Carr came in the Eveng. William Carr (d. 1791), a Dumfries merchant, dealt in wheat and flour. He had been a trustee of the town since 1761 and in 1765 served as a commissioner to divide Fairfax Parish from Truro Parish ( Carr to GW, 17 Dec. 1770 , DLC:GW ; hening...
31101From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Vacancies having happened during the last recess of the Senate in the following offices, I granted commissions to the persons herein respectively named, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I now therefore nominate the same persons to the same offices respectively for appointment. John Breckenridge of Kentucky to be Attorney General of the US. Robert...
31102From John Adams to Thomas Digges, 14 August 1780 (Adams Papers)
I had not till This afternoon, your Favour of the third of this month. I am greatly obliged to you, sir for this and the other of the 7th. I may promise to be as faithfull a Correspondent, as the particular Situation I am in, will permit: But you must be very sensible, that I cannot be very exact in the Payment of Debts of this sort. I really cannot devine the Principle, nor the Passion, nor...
31103To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 12 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have just received the honor of yours of the 1st Instant. A privateer Schooner arrived here the last Night from a Cruize. She has taken two prises, one laden with Coal, the other with Oats &c.—The privateer fell in with a Fleet of Transports with the Hessian Troops on Board under Convoy of a 50 Gun Ship & Frigate from whome he received considerable damage —The Capt. of the privateer reports...
31104General Orders, 11 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
For duty tomorrow 1th Massa. Regiment. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
31105From George Washington to George Washington Parke Custis, 13 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
It is now near four weeks since any person of this family has heard from you, although you were requested to write to some one in it, once a fortnight, knowing (as you must do) how apt your Grandmama is to suspect that you are sick, or some accident has happened to you, when you omit this? I have said, that none of us have heard from you, but it behooves me to add, that from persons in...
31106From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 8 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The first copy of my letter of May 30. went soon after that date. A second copy accompanies this. Soon after that date I received letters from Mr. Blair and Mr. Madison, extracts from which I now inclose you. By that from Mr. Madison you will percieve that Dohrman alledges some deductions from the sum claimed. If he accedes to Mr. Madison’s proposition of paying up what he acknoleges due, the...
31107To James Madison from Thomas H. Key and George Long, 6 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Understanding from Dr. Dunglison at the meeting of the Faculty yesterday, that, in case of our persisting in our resolution to resign, it was your intention to refuse to accept such resignation, and to declare that we should thereby subject ourselves to certain pecuniary penalties; we request of you an explanation of this statement of Dr. Dunglison’s (fully believing that he must have...
31108To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 12 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Solicitude I felt upon the account of your health , excited by your letter of last summer, is in a great measure removed by the history you have given me of your disease in your favor of the 28th. of February. Chronic diseases even in persons in the decline of life, are far from being incurable, and I have great pleasure in assuring you that complaints of the bowels such as you have...
31109Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
I too have taken my pen with the rising Sun. I have been so disturb’d with the account of the allarming riot before your Door on the fast day evening that I have not had a moments quiet sleep this night. I had no Idea the faction would have tried their Strength So oppenly I suppos’d the Letters which had been thrown into your house were mear threats. but I hope they have but Staid their time—...
31110To James Madison from John Thomson Mason, 28 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
At the Request of Dr: James H. Blake, I state with much pleasure and great truth, that during an acquaintance of many years Part of which time he resided in George Town, and part in Fairfax County Virginia, I have uniformly known him, a Man of Integrity and assiduity, a decided Republican, and a zealous, active, and useful Supporter of the present administration DLC : Papers of James Madison.