401Instructions to John Goddard, 9 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
Df , in Joseph Reed’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The draft includes the...
402From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 11 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Madison was to set out on Monday last, & is expected here to-day. we have some matters of...
403To James Madison from Charles Holt, 3 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Last Sunday evening, in great haste, I happened to direct a letter, on the subject of printing...
404Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote about a week ago to mr Yancey to hurry down my tob o from Bedford . it was lying at...
405Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 8 January 1782 (Adams Papers)
Yes I have been Sick confined to my chamber with a slow fever. I have been unhappy through...
406From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 6 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of Decr. 17th. It was not my intention that the relative rank of your...
40726th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Stay’d at home all day. Mr. Artaud dined at Mr. Rimbert’s. In the afternoon Mr. D. went and took...
408II. Second Draft by Jefferson, [before 13 June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill for new modelling the form of government and for establishing the Fundamental principles...
409From Thomas Jefferson to La Vingtrie, 12 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Je ne connois personne ici, Monsieur, qui a des terres à vendre en Amérique, et meme s’il y en...
410To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 5 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
I intended some time since to have returned an answer to the letter you did me the honor to send...
411To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Steuben, 27 June 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Maj. Gen. Steuben, 27 June 1779. GW wrote Steuben on 1 July: “I have been...
412To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 15 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I receivd a note from Colonel Harrison this morning desireing I would State to your Excellency in...
413[Diary entry: 18 September 1773] (Washington Papers)
18. Went to a Barbicue of my own giving at Accotinck. Mr. Robt. Alexander & his Bror. George came...
414From George Washington to Major General Benjamin Lincoln, 21 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have lately been obliged to make so large a temporary detachment, that it becomes indispensibly...
415To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 24 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secry of the Treasury presents his respects to The President. He finds it will be...
416To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Stranger and a Friend", 22 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As you naturally take an Interest in every thing that relates to the Embargo; permit me to direct...
417To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Adam Hubley, Jr., 19 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
By the resighnation of Colo: Hartley of the 11th Pennsya Regt—I, as eldest Lieut. Colo: of the...
418To Thomas Jefferson from John Henry Sherburne, 29 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting herewith, an Engraving of John Paul Jones , which I received...
419From George Washington to Thomas Parker, 28 September 1799 (Washington Papers)
In a letter from General Hamilton, enclosing the one I now forwd to you, I am requested to...
420Petition of Jesse Page and Wife, 1 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Jesse Page, and Wife, of Ann Arundel County, in the State of Maryland;...
421John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 9 June 1801 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you last week that I expected to sail on board the Catherine, Captain Ingersoll, from...
422To George Washington from William Fairfax, 20 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
I rec’d yr Favor of the 17th inst. this Day by your Messenger. The Narrative of the Deposition...
423From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Ludwell Grymes, 24 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your father & the late Peyton Randolph, as securities for John Randolph were answerable to mrs...
424John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
You will believe me, when I inform You, that I am grievously disappointed in only having to...
425To Benjamin Franklin from William Lee Perkins, 17 November 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library I had the honor to deliver the paper upon the Influenza...
426To John Adams from Daniel Putnam, 23 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will you allow me Sir, the honor of presenting, and afford me the gratification of perusing the...
427To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 24 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have for many Months made it a rule, to enclose to you a Newspaper, every week, and I have...
428To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Burwell, 11 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Carter’s Grove, 11 Aug. 1791 . In response to TJ’s of 1st, he is sorry to report failure of...
429John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 13 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very obliging letter of the 25. Ult , has been received and I cannot but be grateful for the...
430To Benjamin Franklin from John Adams, 17 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I never was more amuzed with political Speculations, than...
431Thomas Jefferson to Vachel Worthington and George W. Anderson, 17 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the testimony of respect rendered me by the Calliopean society , in naming...
432From Alexander Hamilton to George Clinton, [25 December 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
Perhaps before this reaches you, you will have heard that the British have impliedly acknowleged...
433From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Coffyn, 8 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I was informed in the course of the last year that there was in the prison of Dunkirk a person of...
434Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, William Nexsen, and John Redfield to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Four of your fellow Citizens overwhelmed by the calamities of the times, with large families...
435General Orders, 1 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
At a General Court Martial whereof Colonel Hall was President March 1779. Ludwick Wolfe,...
436To Alexander Hamilton from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I am in this moment favoured with a letter from Mr Bourne informing of my having lost my Object...
437To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 4 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
The circumstance of having offered my late report to Congress to the two houses which rendered...
438To John Adams from John Williams, 15 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
At this important Crisis, when war with all its train of Calamities seems ready to burst upon us;...
439From John Adams to John Jay, 30 November 1786 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of the fourth of october, I have had the Honour to receive, and have dispatched the...
440From George Washington to Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb, 7 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
By Mr Turnbull who is just past this for Philadelphia I am informd that you have lately drawn 500...
441To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel John Popkin, 8 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
Beg leave to lay before your Excellency the pretentions that the Regiment commanded by Colo....
442To George Washington from John Mease, 10 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
Had I indulged my own feelings, I should long since have imbraced the opportunities which...
443[Diary entry: 8 November 1788] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 8th. Thermometer at 52 in the Morning—62 at Noon and 62 at Night. Clear all day, with...
444The Busy-Body, No. 8, 27 March 1729 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The American Weekly Mercury , March 27, 1729. ——Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri...
445To George Washington from Lafayette, 27 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
It is a Melancholy thought to Me that While I Could Be So Happy at Mount Vernon, I am Still...
446To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I perceive by the Gazettes, that the Philosophical Society of this City, is required to meet on...
447To James Madison from William Jarvis, 24 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 June 1804, Lisbon. “I was honored a few days since with your favour of the 8th. of March past....
448Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 20 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of Jan’ry 23 d and was gratified to find your Hand writing improving. I...
449To James Madison from Thomas Acheson, 1 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I addressd. your excellency a few days ago on the rumourd. defeat and Surrender of Genl. Hull’s...
450To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 20 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be Delivered to you My Dear Father by Beverly Randolph whom you may reccollect to have...