43081Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thomas Mann Randolph , the son of a neighbor and relation of mine is desirous of entering the naval service, and I am requested by his father to sollicit a midshipman’s warrant for him. I have known the young gentleman from his birth and can assure you he is of perfectly correct morals and demeanor, and of an amiable disposition. he is about 18. years of age, and had made some proficiency...
43082From Thomas Jefferson to Francis dal Verme and Others, 13 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The readiness with which you were so kind as to shew me what was most worth seeing in Milan and it’s neighborhood when I had the honour of seeing you there, encourages me to address to you two of my young countrymen who will pass thro’ Milan in a tour they are taking. The one is Mr. Rutledge, son of Governor Rutledge of South Carolina, the other Mr. Shippen of Philadelphia nephew of Mr. Lee...
430837th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Hewson, and her children Mr. Franklin, Mr. Ruston, Mrs. Barclay, and Mr. West dined with us. Mrs. Hewson, goes next week for England. Dr. Thomas Ruston , who practiced medicine in London and Exeter and wrote numerous essays on American finance. He was briefly visiting Jefferson and Franklin in Paris before his permanent return to Philadelphia later in the year (James McLachlan,...
43084From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 4 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
As the opening of the campaign is fast approaching, and it is time to form a general disposition of the Army with a view to it, it is essential I should know, as soon as possible, what General Officers will be present. For this purpose, I am to request you will inform me, without delay, whether the situation of your private affairs will permit you to take the feild this campaign or not, and if...
43085To George Washington from Major John André, 1 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
Buoy’d above the Terror of Death by the Consciousness of a Life devoted to honorable pursuits and Stained with no Action that can give me Remorse, I trust the request I make to your Excellency at this Serious period and which is to Soften my last moments will not be rejected. Sympathy towards a Soldier will Surely induce Your Excellency and a military Tribunal to adapt the Mode of my death to...
43086Monday July the 2d 1781. (Adams Papers)
This morning Major Jackson came here; I went to Mr. Crajenschot’s for the Politique Hollandois. At about ten o’clock Pappa set out upon a journey for Paris; We all din’d at home; after dinner, I went to Mr. Sigourney and Ingraham’s but did not Stay there long. I went to Madam Chabanel’s; but found no body but the old lady at home; Mr. Le Roi and young Mr. Chabanel came home. At about half past...
43087[Diary entry: 29 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
29. Running some Lines by Mr. Wm. Triplets all day.
43088From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 8 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of laying before the General assembly the enclosed letter and memorial from the Consul of his most Christian majesty in this state. That gentleman’s letters of appointment came to hand soon after the date of my letter to you on the same subject . MS not located. Extract printed from Anderson Auction Co. sale catalogue, 10 Jan. 1908 (Henry Goldsmith Sale), lot 134, a one-page...
43089From George Washington to Major General William Phillips, 10 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received Your Letters of the 30th of September and 6th Instant. I have not been honoured with any particular communication of the reasons which induced Congress to pass the Act, for suspending your and General Riedsel’s going into New York at this time; but I make no doubt they were such, as Congress deemed sufficient, and that they will appear so, whenever they are pleased to make them...
43090From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 1 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th ulto is received. I am sorry Mr De Witt, from the competency of his abilities to discharge the duties of the Office of Surveyor General, declines accepting it. Colo. Tinsley’s recommendations, go more to the respectability of his character, than to his scientific knowledge. The first is essential, but not sufficient without the other. I will obtain the best information...
43091John Quincy Adams to James Madison, 21 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
In enclosing to you a copy of a pamphlet relating to subjects not without interest in the history of our Country I avail myself of the occasion to assure you of the deep sympathy with which I have learnt the affliction with which you have recently been visited by the decease of your venerable parent, and of the undeviating respect and attachment with which I remain Your friend and Servt...
43092From Thomas Jefferson to Étienne Lemaire, 29 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I find we are in immediate want of Sherry here. I will therefore thank you to pack up 240. bottles of the London Sherry you have and forward it by the first vessel from Georgetown or Alexandria to Richmond to the Address of Gibson & Jefferson merchants of that place, marking the packages T.I. Monticello. I arrived here in good health & found my family well. I hope you will keep yourself...
43093From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, 3 February [1794] (Adams Papers)
I hope not, that your Excellencÿ will find me troublesome; that I soo often intrude myself upon you— It is Some more Leisure, this winter, occasioned by mÿ intendeth departure to the Western Parts, which I can Spent with my Librarÿ and which affords me if not an opportunity, at least an excuse, for adressing a few Lines to your Excellency. However it would be pardonable, if I did judge, bÿ the...
43094To George Washington from Richard Morris, 15 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I yesterday saw Mr Samll Ogden who Expressed some Uneasiness at the delay that had Attended a Letter he Charged me with for your Excellency—That Letter I Received from him at Boonton on the last of december but did not Leave there untill the next day (the first of January) I then Intended myself the Honor of paying my Respects at Head Quarters, but at Pumpton I Learnt the Crossing at Fishkill...
43095From George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 12 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your Favor of to day, I cannot think Princeton under the present situation of affairs by any means a proper place for the sick. Should they remain there they would be liable to be taken. At the same time, I do not wish you to precipitate their removal in such a manner as to endanger them. In respect to the Hospitals at Easton & Bethelem, I also am of Opinion, that they should be...
43096To James Madison from the Citizens of Detroit, 30 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Petition of the subscribers, Citizens of the United States, inhabitants of the District of Detroit, in the Territory of Michigan, respectfully sheweth. That your Petitioners are Generally farmers and heads of families. That on the commencement of the late war, with Great Britain, they were settled, upon the Waters of river Rouge. That they remained at their homes, except the time they were...
43097To John Adams from Stephen Grellet, 24 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
Since late my mind has often been exercised on thy accompte, with a desire thou mayest rightly feel the place where the Lord has permited thee to be put into. “the fear of the Lord, it is said, is the begining of Wisdom.” wast thou possessed with that Holy fear, thou shouldst be endowed I have no doubt with Heavenly Wisdom, to govern the people over whom thou art apointed a Ruler; thou wouldst...
43098To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 23 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have inclosed you the papers relative to the British Consul at Norfolk, in the affr. of the man who was sent to the Island and as reported executed, for mutiny on bd. a British ship. In a private letter sometime since I submitted to you a question respecting the mode of correspondence to be observed, between the Executive of the Genl. Govt. and a state, in wh. I gave my opinion freely. I...
43099Abigail Adams to Abigail Bromfield Rogers, 30 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
When I returnd yesterday from a litle excursion which we had made for a week into the Country of Essex to the seat of mr Brand Hollis, an excelent Englishman I had the pleasure of finding your obliging favour of june 4th. Mrs Copley had informd me a fortnight before of your safe arrival. I must congratulate you upon setting your foot again upon American ground. To Say that I love it above all...
43100To James Madison from Henry Lee, 6 August 1791 (Madison Papers)
As I hope on my return to Virga. to raise as much money as will pay off old Fairfax & put into our power the great falls, I mention to you my intention that you may lend as much aid as you can. I have ordered the deed to be made out to you & me in the proportion agreed on & have charged you with one fourth of the purchase. If the event turns out as I expect, I shall not only be pleased by the...
43101From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 22 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
With great pleasure have I recieved yours of the 19th, with its Inclosures. I wish I could answer more at large, but in addition to a thousand other Objects crowding upon me at present, I have had to write my obscure Name nine and twenty thousand times to Obligations and Coupons, which I expect will give me before it is ended a great Name at least, if not a great deal of Money. I am...
43102From George Washington to Major General William Howe, 18 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
We have just been informed of a Circumstance, which were it not so well Authenticated, I should scarcely think credible; It is that Col. Allan who with his small party was defeated & taken prisoner near Montreal, has been treated without regard to decency, humanity, or the rules of War—That he has been thrown into Irons & Suffers all the hardships inflicted upon common Felons. I think it my...
43103To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Burwell, 24 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15th. Instant I have recieved, and in answer thereto, do with pleasure inform you, that Mr. Paradise’s Papers were funded last fall, and that on the receipt of a letter from his Trustees last March, the Stock was immediately sold @ 18/6 in the pound and produced in the whole about £920 Currency; but as the transfer could not be made, without a particular Power of Attorney for that...
43104To Benjamin Franklin from John Adams, 1 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : American Philosophical Society Upon my Arrival here I found your Letter of the 30th. of June, Copy of which had been sent along to me by Mr. Thaxter to Paris, but by some unaccountable means sent back without being delivered to me. Many Bills had been presented in my Absence, and at first I was at a loss whether to accept them, until further Advice from You. But considering they had lain...
43105To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 11 March 1782 (Madison Papers)
Tr ( LC : Force Transcripts). Addressed to “The Honble James Madison junr Esqr Philadelphia.” Another copy of the original manuscript is printed in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society , 2d ser., XIX (1905), 148–49. I am to thank you for yr favr of the 25th past, in which you have removed by Objection to the Bank scheme by proving that it was founded in error. The King of...
43106Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr Cabell so fully explains it’s object, and the grounds on which your signature to the paper is proposed if approved, that I will spare my stiffening & aching wrist the pain of adding more than the assurance of my constant & affect te friendship. RC ( DNT , on deposit ViU: TJP ); at foot of text in William B. Sprague ’s hand: “To James Madison ,” with Sprague ’s...
43107To James Madison from Anthony Merry, 8 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Merry. 8 September 1805, Philadelphia . “I received to-day the Honor of your Letter of the 5th. Instant, and have that to send you inclosed the Passport you have requested for Mr Gray, and for the Vessel in which he is about to embark.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, NFL , Great Britain, vol. 3). 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Merry. The letter has not been found, but for the probable...
43108To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 20 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Upon the repeated representation of Judge peters to the Secretary of State for a Guard of Regular Soldiers to be stationed over certain State prisoners confined in Norristown Goal, and his request for an immediate order to Major Adlum for the purpose, I directed a letter to that Officer of which the enclosed is a copy. I return your letter to Colonel Moore received yesterday, that it may...
43109To George Washington from Thomas Chittenden, 16 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
I do now in behalf of those distressed Captives, (who are principally Citizens) request your Excellency to grant me a Number of Prisoners of equal Rank to redeem those I have abovementioned as soon as I shall furnish a List particularly, which shall be immediately done, when I learn that this shall meet with your Excellency’s Approbation; which I flatter myself will, when I consider that I...
43110The American Commissioners to John Ross, 18 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society We Recd: yours giving an Acct. of the Arrival of the Goods on which we had not made any Insurance. From the Situation of your Affairs when you wrote Us last, we presume that Your Ship, Capt. Green is ready for sailing. Capt. Nicholson will also be ready in a few Days, We have therefore to propose to you that They go in Company as Capt. Nicholson will be...