4711To George Washington from Henry Knox, 27 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a representation received from the Cornplanter. The fact of murdering the friendly indians by Capt. Samuel Brady, formerly of the Pensylvania Line, is mentioned in several letters from Fort Pitt, and that the people along the upper parts of the ohio are exceedingly alarmed on that account. The enclosed from Colo. Neville to General Butler, and from Major Craig to...
4712From George Washington to Laurent De Saxÿ & Laurent De Verneüil, 26 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letters of the 6th & 10th of the present month, but not in due time. I wish my resources were equal to the relief of the distresses which you, and many others under like circumstances have described. But the truth is, my private purse is inadequate, & there is no public money at my disposal. Such as the first was competent to, I placed early in the hands of a...
4713From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, 22 September 1763 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society As I write in pain with a lately dislocated Arm, I can do little more than acknowledge the Receipt of you several Favours of Apr. 7. May 19. and June 18. all which I shall answer more fully when I get home, where I hope to be in about three Weeks; at the Meeting of our new Assembly; when I shall procure the Change you desire to be made in the Vote of...
4714From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 18 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
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4715To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter Covering a proposal for establishing a Woollen Manufactory in this state I laid it before the General Assembly taking care not to communicate the name or residence of the person from whom the proposal Came. I have now the honour to inclose you the Resolutions of the Senate and House of Delegates on that Subject. I am, with the highest respect your...
4716To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Ellery, 23 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
C. Ellery begs leave to present his highest respects to the President of the United States—and to mention that application has been made to him, by an old friend, of great worth, to aid Mr. Henry Wilson in the obtainment of a Consular appointment, for which he will ask through other friends—and further to mention that from the knowledge C. Ellery has of the character of his friend, he cannot...
4717John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 March 1801 (Adams Papers)
While I was sealing up on the last post day; the cover to M r: Pitcairn, of my number 29. I received two packets from you, containing three copies of the translation, and the three first numbers of the Port-Folio, with a couple of newspapers besides— Your few lines of January 23 d: were in one of the packets; and the next day came to hand your N: 23. of January 15 th: The packets are marked as...
4718To Alexander Hamilton from James Stille, 19 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
At an interview I had some time since the honor of having with you I obtained a partial promise that my Company which is but about thirty strong, should be completed out of the Recruits which my Second Lt. Patrick Harris has enlisted in N. Carolina and which I am informed are with him at Fort Johnson in that State— I need not say Sir that it is a mortifying thing to be intitled to a Company...
4719From Thomas Jefferson to Amos Alexander, 13 June 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of May 26 . was recieved by our last post only, it having [unduly] loitered probably in some of the post offices. I am sorry that the subject of it’s enquiry happens to be less known to me than almost to any other. [a] consciousness of my own inequality to the difficulties of the station which a portion of our fellow citizens seem desirous of assigning to me has rendered it a...
4720To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, 16 [November] 1779 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Je vous assure mon bon papa que je méttrai toute mon attention a ne pas trop donnér pour les siffléts; s’ils n’ont guérre couttés a ma bourse, ils ont couttés chérs a mon coeur et votre léttre me prouve bien plus encore que mon éxpérience et mes refléctions, que j’ai souvent payés bien chérs de mauvais sifléts: j’ai cru par éxemple que lorsque j’aimois on...