32101[From Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 14 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 14 Feb. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Jas. Maury. Acknoleging receipt of his—to bring money from Jones’s. News.” Neither TJ’s present letter to Maury nor Maury’s to TJ, thereby acknowledged, has been found, but Maury’s was probably in response to TJ’s (missing) letter of 11 Dec. 1783.]
32102Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 4 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 24. was very long on it’s passage to me. it gave us all pleasure to learn from yourself the progress of your peregrination, and your prospect of approaching rest, for a while, among our Western brethren. of ‘ restfor the body, some, none for the mind .’ to that, action is said to be all it’s joy: and we have no more remarkeable proof of it than in yourself. the newspapers...
32103To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 2 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have An Act of this state for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regements on the Continental establishment by which it is enacted that the Governour do request the commander in chief of the american army to order into this state One General or field Officer to give such orders as he may see cause for collecting the Men as they are raised and marching them to the grand Army, as no...
32104To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
E: Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Seagrove just now has learned from good authority, that General Clarke has abandoned his expedition in Georgia; and, under the influence of General Gunn and Mr Carnes, has come in, with all his followers. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The...
32105From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 2 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letters of Septr 14. 15. and 19th. The Letters inclosed in them, from Govr. Sinclair, Judge Patterson and Dr. James Sykes, I return to you inclosed with this, that you may be able to preserve together all the Papers, relative to the successor to Dr. Way in the Treasury of the Mint. Tomorrow I shall sett out on my Journey to the Southward, and shall Stop at East Chester...
32106From George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 3 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
As Mrs Washington never receiv’d the Jallop and Calomel you promised her—As the Small Pox, by my last advices from home, has got into my Family—and I suppose not less than three hundred Persons to take the disorder, I must beg you to furnish the bearer with so much of the above Articles for my use as you shall judge necessary; & it will exceedingly oblige Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt & Affecte Servt...
32107To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 1 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
yesterday at one P.M. the Enemies Vessells in great numbers as per margin came up as far Haverstraw Bay, and Landed about 15,00 men at Tallars point. The Van of his Vessells is near the Ferry—Two prisoners taken last night agree in the account that the Enemies detachment had returned from Virginia, and did not land at Newyork, and compose apart of their Army now on the River. The Block-House...
32108Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 28 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, a letter from Mr Harrison district attorney of New York, and also the draft of a letter thereon to Governor Clinton —The draft of a letter to Governor Moultrie is also submitted. I am—Dear Sir—Your’s sincerely— LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter to Knox from Richard Harison, the U.S. attorney for the District of New York, has not been...
32109To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of transmitting the enclosed. I have letters from Perth-Amboy, which mention that Daniel Marsh, late Collector of that Port, was drowned on the 27: inst. John Heard raised a company of Dragoons, always kept a full company, and served with great credit and reputation during our revolutionary war, and is now general of the cavalry of this State. He was defeated in his...
32110From George Washington to Josias Hawkins, 27 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr Booth, I give you the trouble of this letter. This request, added to an inclination to do justice, must be my apology, for I have no motive but to rescue his character from the injurious aspersions which he says has been cast it. My acquaintance with Mr Booth is of more than 30 years standing. I have known him in the characters of Batchelor, husband, & widower; in all of...