49181From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 7 March [1792] (Hamilton Papers)
This will be delivered to you by Mr. Ceracchi, whom I recommend to your attention. He goes to New York in pursuit of subscriptions towards a Monument of the American Revolution. You have doubtless heared of the Artist and his project. He will explain to you more particularly. I have prepared him to find difficulties in the present political situation of New York. How far they may really stand...
49182From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 26 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
You have been advised of the application of Samuel Dodge to the President for a Pardon. You know also that he is convicted upon the 26th section of the last Collection Law. A question arises concerning the extent of the power to pardon. There is a general rule that a power to pardon cannot be exercised so as to divest Individuals of a right of action for their sole benefit, or of a vested...
49183From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 14 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
It may prevent future trouble if the contract with Mr. McComb for the light house be redrawn; rectifying the error in regard to his occupation. He may execute two, and they may be sent to me, when I will duly execute them and transmit one to him. The first payment I find by his own propositions was to be as in the contract three thousand dollars, and it is not well that more is asked. I am...
49184From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 24 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
Attempts are making in different parts of the country to procure the enlargement of soldiers on writs of Habeas Corpus issued by and returnable before state Judges. As this practice will probably involve serious consequences it becomes necessary for me to avail myself of the information of those officers of the United States who are particularly charged with the consideration of legal...
49185From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, [26 September 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Taking it for granted that you will be appointed Atty General of the district I request your opinion as to the Bond required to be taken by the Collectors respecting the certificate of Registry of Vessels. Can it be taken directly to “The United States of America” or must it be in the name of the Collector? Will any bond to the United States of America be valid? The Question arises on the act...
49186From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, [3 July 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The Collection law rates the ruble of Russia at 100 Cents. The 3d. Section of the act to explain the act “for registering and clearing vessels” &c declares that so much of the Collection law as rates the ruble of Russia at 100 Cents be and that the same is thereby repealed and made null and void . Discounts have been allowed by some of the Collectors on bonds taken prior to the passing of the...
49187From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, [2 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
The Patents to the Ohio Company, in conformity to the Act, were issued before the President went to Mount Vernon. I hope no inconvenience will have ensued. Mr. King having written to me on the same subject, I have sent him a rough sketch of the exterior line of the whole tract granted by the several Patents. Yrs. sincerely ALS , New-York Historical Society, New York City. Harison was United...
49188Enclosure: To Samuel Jones and Richard Harison, [9 November 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury requests the opinion of Council on the following points, arising on the Act for Registering & Clearing Vessels regulating the Coasting Trade & for other purposes— 1st By the 22d Section it is provided that every Vessel of Less than Twenty Tons shall procure a license from the Collector of the District to which she belongs purporting that such Vessel is exempt...
49189From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harison, 12 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
As it was apprehended by the President of the US. that attempts might be made by persons within the US. to arm and equip vessels for the purpose of cruising against some of the powers at this time engaged in war, whereby the peace of the US. might be committed, the Governors of the several states were desired to be on the watch against such enterprizes, and to seize such vessels found within...
49190From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Harison, 18 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
As the confinement in which Charles Seely, the late Mate of Cap. Joseph Gorham junr. now is, appears likely to affect his life, I request you to take such measures in regard to the case, as will certainly prevent a consequence so extreme. The President being absent, no relief can be derived from him. I am fully persuaded both his humanity & justice would induce him, as far as in his power, to...
49191From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harlan, 23 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the copy of your Fauna Americana which you have been so kind as to send me, with the 2. interesting pamphlets on the Genus Salamandra and Agama. you have rendered a service of essential value to science in bringing to-gether the American subjects of Nat Hist. separately from those of the other quarter’s of the globe and relieving them at length from the Confusion...
49192From Thomas Jefferson to John Harmanson, 10 February 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry that the inattention of the Continental Officer Colo. Finnie and Major Forsythe to whom the provisions on your shore were transferred, should have given so much trouble to you and to us. We have interfered merely to save it to the Continent. On the same principle we must advise you to keep whatever will keep till you can get information from one of those Gentlemen what shall be done...
49193Enclosure I: Jonathan Heart to Josiah Harmer, 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The big Beaver empties into the Ohio 29 miles below Fort Pitt, is 150 yards wide at the mouth, gradually decreasing in width to the crossings at the Mahooning Town, which is about 85 miles by water from its mouth; at this crossing it is 100 yards wide. From the mouth of Beaver to the Block House at the foot of the Falls 3 ½ miles good water. Up the first Falls 1 ½mile; to foot of second or...
49194From George Washington to Major Henry Harnage, 11 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
Want of leisure prevented my acknowledging sooner the receipt of your letter of the 28th of May —I shall be always happy to show you every attention, which circumstances will permit during your residence among us; and I sincerely wish you the speediest relief from your present difficulties. You may depend on having the earliest notice of your exchange, when it takes place; but I am sorry to...
49195George Washington to Major Henry Harnage, 11 June 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Smiths Clove, New York ] June 11, 1779 . Promises that information of Harnage’s exchange will be sent at earliest possible moment. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Harnage, a major in the Sixty-second British Regiment, was a prisoner of the Americans.
49196From George Washington to Honour Harnage, 13 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 25th of August. You will beleive me, that my wishes and endeavours have been uniformly directed, to remove those obstructions which stood in the way of a general exchange of prisoners. I have only to regret their having heretofore proved unsuccessful. There is now a meeting of the respective commissaries of prisoners at Elizabeth Town, which I...
49197Thomas Jefferson to John Harner, 17 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of the 11 th with the remarkable Buck’s horns you have been so good as to send me. they are indeed extraordinary, such as I have never seen, and such as I presume have not been seen before, because not a regular production of the species, but a sport of nature. they are a real curiosity, well worthy a place among those I have, and with them will hereafter have...
49198John H. B. Latrobe to Charles Carroll Harper, 4 August 1832 (Madison Papers)
Here I am continuing my helter skelter letter. Mr. Madison resides about five miles from the Court House, among the Southwest mountains, and upon the slope of one of them. You leave the piedmont road about a mile from Montpelier and, turning to the left, pass through a dense forest for a considerable distance and until you descry at the end of a straight alley in the wood a high red gate, hung...
49199Promissory Note to John Harper, 18 February 1775 (Washington Papers)
I Promise to pay to Captn John Harper or his order, In, or before the Month of May, next ensuing the date hereof, the Sum of Fifty two pounds ten Shilling Virginia Currency It being for value of a Negro boy Tom; or Thomas sold by the said Harper to Recd July 24th 1776 of Genl George Washington by the hands of Mr Lund Washington Fifty two pounds 10/ in full for my Father. ADS , PWacD : Sol...
49200From John Adams to John Adams Harper, 22 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 14th of June inclosing that of the 30th of March. As you have voluntarily assumed my name, if I have not a right to call you my Son. I have at least a right to give you my blessing: which I do most Sincerely wishing and praying that you may enjoy every comfort and prosperity in your private Life and public career. it has been...
49201From John Adams to John Adams Harper, 20 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received, under your Frank, Copies of Henry’s full Proofs of his own turpitude and that of the late Governor of Canada, and that of some of the British Ministery; and I thank you for them. I read a Speech of Mr. Harper in Congress which appeared to me to contain marks of a Mind awake to Principles of Equity Humanity and Benevolence, as well as of Discretion, Patriotism and Sound Policy:...
49202From Alexander Hamilton to Robert G. Harper, 19 February 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
Since the receipt of your letter on the subject of the impeachment of the Judges, this is perhaps the first moment, that indifferent health and excessive occupation have permitted a reply. I view the attempts which are making completely in the light you do; and have very little doubt that they are in prosecution of a deliberate plan to prostrate the independence of the Judicial Department, and...
49203From George Washington to Robert Goodloe Harper, 10 July 1797 (Washington Papers)
By the last Post I was honoured with your “observations on the dispute between the United States and France” and for your polite attention in sending them to me I pray you to accept my best acknowledgments. Being on the point of celebrating Harvest [at] home, I must be allowed, as a Farmer, to make every other matter yield to the accomplishment thereof; that being over, the Pamphlet, I am...
49204Abigail Adams to Robert Goodloe Harper, 13 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
in Porcupines paper of last Evening I read a Letter Said to be Written by Mr Findley to his Friends in the Western Country. Is it to be wonderd at that the people are disunited in sentiment When such grose Misrepresentation are made them respecting the Veiws and designs of the Government, and its Representitives? it is rather a subject of surprize that So little Effect is produced by them. I...
49205From John Jay to Robert Goodloe Harper, 19 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
A Friend of mine lately sent me your address to your constituents relative to the Treaty. I have read it with Pleasure— Had all the publications on that Subject been written with with equal Knowledge and Attention, or with equal Candor and Decorum, more Truth would have been disseminated, and less Irritation excited. I observe in it the following Paragraph—viz t . “Objections both personal and...
49206From Thomas Jefferson to John Harriott, 5 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your […] [pack]ages from Mr. Pinckney for your care of which I return you my thanks. Your object being to settle yourself in this country, you have certainly taken the wisest course, that of going yourself to see the different parts of it, and chuse for yourself. This choice, in order to make it a happy one, depending on the circumstances of climate, soil, cheapness of...
49207From Thomas Jefferson to Ann Eppes Harris, 26 April 1773 (Jefferson Papers)
I have applied to Mr. Waller on the subject of your bonds. He sais that Colo. Hunter when he left the country directed him not to call for the money due from yourself and son nor to do any thing further with your bonds till further orders. On being furnished by Daniel Hylton with a copy of Colo. Hunter’s letter […] he immediately inclosed it to Colo. H[unter an]d desired his directions […] for...
49208Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin James Harris, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is duly recieved, & I freely offer you what occurs to me respecting the inventions therein mentioned. that of the fireproof cieling is entirely new, as far as I know, and will in many situations, I think be useful. I take for granted that the triangles H. K. F. in the drawing (which I return you) are either of the solid of the joist A. or are strips of hard wood firmly...
49209Thomas Jefferson to Cunningham Harris, 6 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 30. came to hand but two day s ago. we cultivate wheat here extensively & solely, and every body is getting the Leith machine for threshing it. I mean the original double or treble geered machine, divested of all those things which have been called improvements, in which the wheat is presented to beaters revolving like the vanes of a wheat fan. I have three of them myself,...
49210Thomas Jefferson to Cunningham Harris, 22 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of March 23. requesting some Benni seed, was near a month getting to my hands. the last year I had recieved & distributed portions of the seed to many persons, but the September frost had killed the whole. this year I had got a very small supply of fresh seed, which however was all sown before I recieved your letter. Judge Johnson of your state proposes to cultivate it largely this...
49211I. Invitation to David Harris, 27 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
RC (Mrs. H. Cavendish Darrell, Riderwood, Baltimore co., Md., 1945); addressed. The parts in polytype printing are in TJ’s hand; the name, dates, and address are in the hand of William Short. Not recorded in SJL . The Editors are indebted to Dr. J. Hall Pleasants, Baltimore, for his kindness in bringing this apparently unique specimen of polytype printing to their attention, as also for the...
49212From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Harris, 15 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 5th. instant has been duly recieved with the essay accompanying it which is now returned. my public occupations, and especially on the approach of a session of Congress, so imperiously demand all my time, that it has not been in my power to give to your essay so deliberate a perusal as might justify minute observations on it. but from the hasty perusal these have permitted...
49213From Benjamin Franklin to John Harris, 12 August 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I received your Letters of the 7th. Instant. I wish it was in my Power to Accommodate the exchang’d Prisoners with every thing they desire. But the Number is so great, and my Means so Small by the Loss of Several Cargoes sent by the Congress, that it is with difficulty I can provide them with mere Necessaries. I have directed M. Sheweighauser to furnish the Officers...
49214From Thomas Jefferson to John? Harris, 19 March 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The Patsy flag of truce fr[om] York having arrived at Hampton with cash, Stores and refreshments for the Officers of convention, and being to proceed as far up James river as her commanding Officer shall think proper, I am to request of you to take charge of her. You will apply to Capt. Wright for a guard of eight men under a commissioned Officer who will be subject to your directions. You...
49215Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 22 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 15. and sincerely regret the misunderstanding mentioned in it, of which that letter was the first notice. I can say conscientiously that your services gave me, while in office, the most perfect satisfaction. not apprised of the service I can render you at the interview proposed, retired as I am from all intermedling with the transaction s of the...
49216From James Madison to Levett Harris, 26 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have received yours of the 30th. August & 4th. Septr. last, with a copy of the letter of Count Worontzow, the original of which with that which it enclosed from His Majesty the Emperor to the President had previously got to hand. In acknowledging their receipt you will not omit to express the respect which has been attached to the magnanimous and truly amicable sentiments they contain. From...
49217From James Madison to Levett Harris, 21 June 1820 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Levett Harris. Letter not found. 21 June 1820 . Offered for sale in John Heise Autographs, Catalogue A (1921), item 26. This letter was probably the one listed for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 836 (2 Feb. 1900), item 4, as to an unidentified correspondent.
49218From James Madison to Levett Harris, 26 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your letter, enclosing the application you made to Count Worontzow, respecting the crew of the Frigate Philadelphia, and his answer have come to hand. Some acknowledgment for this prompt and liberal interposition, and the friendly assurances with which it has been accompanied being due to the occasion, I enclose a letter to this effect which you will be pleased to convey to Count Worontzow....
49219From James Madison to Levett Harris, 8 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letters not already acknowledged bear dates March 4. April 1. & 24. 1808. In the two last were received the communications from the Russian Government of its declarations relative to Sweden, and of its ordinance against a neutral trade between British & Russian Ports. The President having deemed it expedient in the present state of things, to appoint a Minister Plenipotentiary to the...
49220From James Madison to Levett Harris, 13 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
It appears by representations made in behalf of Israel Thorndike, that a Vessel and valuable Cargo belonging to him, was some time since captured in the Channel of Scio, by a Russian Squadron under the Command of Vice-Admiral Senadin, and condemned by a Committee of Prizes attached to the Squadron, on a charge of having violated the Russian Blockade of Smyrna. The suffering party will forward...
49221From Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 28 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours letters of Aug. 10. & Sep. 18. have been duly recieved, and I have to thank you for the safe transmission of the 4. vols of the Vocabulaires comparés de Pallas, for which I am indebted through you to the minister of commerce Count Romanzoff. I must pray you, in a particular manner, to express to his Excellency my sensibility for this mark of his obliging attention, rendered the more...
49222From Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 18 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is now some time since I recieved from you through the house of Smith & Buchanan at Baltimore, a bust of the Emperor Alexander, for which I have to return you my thanks. these are the more cordial, because of the value the bust derives from the great estimation in which it’s original is held by the world, & by none more than by myself. it will constitute one of the most valued ornaments of...
49223From James Madison to Levett Harris, 15 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Levett Harris. 15 April 1806, Department of State. “I herewith inclose a letter from the President to the Emperor Alexander, in which occasion is taken to suggest the use that may be made of a pacification in Europe to provide for the future security of neutral rights. I inclose also a copy of a letter which has been written to Genl Armstrong with a view to promote the same object through...
49224Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 12 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to return you thanks for mr Adelung ’s view of the languages of the earth, and to pray you to make them acceptable to him also for this mark of his attention. it is a work of vast learning and unparalleled application. it seems to present a Summary of the great Vocabulary of which I had a copy thro’ your agency & kindness. I am sorry we lost the pleasure of your visit at the time you...
49225From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Levett Harris, 13 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
We arrived here late last evening, after a very fatiguing journey from Berlin, where I was detain’d eight days, for want of Letters from Mr. Adams.— Poor Mr. Norman is very ill at Berlin, and extremely uneasy about his situation; I saw him several times, and hope he will recover, but I fear his illness will be long. At Memel you will have heard from Mr. Russel, that I drew for some Money, and...
49226From James Madison to Levett Harris, 24 February 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th. expressing your solicitude concerning the debt of J. P. Todd, on which I am sorry it is not in my power to make any definite communication. His protracted absence leaves me without such a knowledge of the extent of his situation as might throw light on the suggestions suited to it. It is his wish I trust, to give to the transaction so unfortunate in its...
49227Thomas Jefferson to Levett Harris, 27 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Smith , is the son of the honble Gen l Samuel Smith of Baltimore , of whose revolutionary services you cannot be uninformed, & who has been a distinguished member of our public councils during the present government, first in the H. of Representatives , & latterly of the Senate of the US. the son goes in connection with the American legation to S t Petersburg , but on his...
49228From James Madison to Levett Harris, 29 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of the 21st. inclosing a copy of your correspondence with J. P. Todd, and referring to expressions in mine of Feby. 24. The correspondence accords pretty much wth. my inferences from your former letters. With respect to the expressions, I must explain them by saying that I regarded the transaction in its origin, unfortunate to both the parties, blameable also in one of them,...
49229From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Levett Harris, 5 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
I hasten to inform you of our safe Arrival at this City after as pleasant a journey as the Season would admit and thank fortune with out the most trifling accident Permit me to offer my thanks for the polite Letter with which I was furnished for the Governor from whom I have received the most flattering attention and to request you will in my name assure Mr. Kosudavlow of the very high sense I...
49230From James Madison to Levett Harris, 20 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Alexander Smith having brought to hand your dispatches, it is seen with regret that my letter of did not accompany the one which the President addressed to the Emperor. Though it is probable that the defect will have been remedied by the receipt of a duplicate, it has nevertheless been thought proper to repeat a copy under this cover. I am &c: DNA : RG 59—IC—Instructions to Consuls.