4621To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 24 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 24 July 1806, Baltimore. Forwards a letter sent to Turreau by Jean Eusèbe Gabriel Fatin Jr., which claims for Fatin’s wife the indemnity of $200 granted by the United States to other passengers who, like her, were on board the ship Deux Anges , bound to Bordeaux from Cap Français, when it was captured by an American frigate and carried to Boston. Requests that JM...
4622[Diary entry: 23 January 1780] (Washington Papers)
23d. Wind westerly & little of it. Air fresh & no thawing even in the Sun South of the House.
4623Remission for Philip Russell, 21 November 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Remission for Philip Russell. 21 November 1815. “Whereas it has been represented to me that Philip Russell was some time ago charged with a violation of the Revenue laws of the United States, in selling spirituous liquors in the first Collection District of Pennsylvania, without a license for so doing, and that he has been duly convicted before the District Court of the United States for the...
4624Memorandum respecting the Militia, 19 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
19 The Express returnd from Colo. Slaughter who also informd that his Men were dispersd but if they cd be gatherd again he wd be here on Thursday. AD , DLC:GW . See Memorandum respecting the Militia, 1–2 May 1756 . Thursday was the next day, 20 May. See Memorandum respecting the Militia, 17 May 1756, and especially note 9 , for Thomas Slaughter’s departure and GW’s summons to him to return to...
4625Notes (Madison Papers)
For many years everyone interested in the Declaration of Rights, including JM, believed that Mason’s first draft of it was a paper in his hand, bearing the caption, “Copy of the first Daught [ sic ] by GM.” This paper has been reproduced in facsimile at least twice—once between p. 240 and p. 241 of Vol. I of Kate M. Rowland, Life of George Mason , and again in Virginia Cavalcade , I [1951],...
4626From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
Of Mr Wait, I know little, but that he was once introduced to me by General Knox, twice by Judge Thatcher, and Last Week by Mr Shaw, all in this House. He has always been represented And Appeared to be a modest discreet and respectable Citizen. There has been So much Huggermugger, about Secret Journals and Files of Congress and Conventions, which I always detested, that I rejoice they are now...
4627Acct. of the Weather in May [1772] (Washington Papers)
May 1st. Very Smoaky and a little lowering with but little Wind and tolerably Warm. 2. Very smoaky and hazy all day—warm in the Afternoon and perfectly Calm. 3. A little Rain, with the Wind fresh from the No. East in the Morning and very cool—clear afterwards. 4. Tolerably calm in the Morning but Windy and cool afterwards with Rain in the Afternoon & Night. 5. Tolerably calm and pleast. wind...
4628To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved with infinite satisfaction your letter of the 29th. July last, and thank you for the trouble you were kind enough to take to inform yourself of, and let me know, the fate of my letter to the President:—I should not have written to him at all, had I known at the time that you had accepted the American Ministry. The Definitive Treaty between Russia, and the Porte, must be by this...
4629Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
For want of time to consult you on it, I have taken a measure of great responsibility on my self as to Francis , for your pardon for which I must rely on the motives, and what I hope will be the effect of it. French is become the most indispensable part of modern education. it is the only language in which a man of any country can be understood out of his own; and is now the preeminent...
4630To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Williams, 12 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to trouble you on a Subject, the importance of which, as well as your great desire to promote things of the kind, will I trust plead my excuse for so doing—Which is, to request your aid in procuring a proper Charecter, to Commence & take Charge of Jefferson College. The Trustees of that College have Commited to me this trust. When I left the Territory application had been...