49181Enclosure V: Frederick County Poll Sheet, 1758, 24 July 1758 (Washington Papers)
Colo. T. B. Martin Colo. G. Washington Thos Swearingen Hugh West Lord Thos Fairfax Fairfax Revd Wm Meldrum Meldrum Colo. Jas Wood Wood Colo. Jno. Carlyle Carlyle Adam Hunder Hunder Fielding Lewis Lewis Charles Dick Dick Alexr Woodroe Woodroe
49182From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 19 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have the arrangement of the Army. Be pleased to draw off Sherburns, S. Webbs and J. Livingstons Regiments to Kings Road or somewhere upon your left flank with orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moments warning; and whenever Baron Kalb with the front division of the Army arrives near your Camp be pleased to order Enos’s and McClenachans [McClellan’s] Regiments to...
49183From George Washington to Major General Steuben, 2 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favour of the 29th of Sepr containing a plan for recruiting the army for the next campaign, which I have attentively considered—Many parts of it correspond exactly with my ideas and with the proposals I have made and am making to Congress—Such parts of it as are new and appear to me calculated to promote the service shall be added. I have the honor to be With much esteem...
49184[Diary entry: 15 December 1787] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 15th. Thermometer at 30 in the Morning—42 at Noon And 39 at Night. Wind at No. West all day, and abt. Noon pretty fresh. Ground hard froze all day. No plowing. A little after Sun rise, in company with the Gentlemen who came yesterday—Colo. Humphreys, Majr. Washington & Mr. Lear, went a hunting; but did not get a fox on foot nor is it certain we ever touched on the trail of one. The...
49185James Madison to James Barbour, 18 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of duly receiving your interesting favor of Sepr. 29. The agricultural scenery which charmed you so much has had the same effect on other strangers surveying it with an equal taste for such improvements. I wish you may have as much reason to be pleased with the countenance of the Cabinet when your objects are presented to it. We think here it is high time for a...
49186Notes on Reply of White Hair, 16 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
July 16. 04. White-hairs replies. very content with speech will do every thing to satisfy long since he wished to have a great chief he is glad to see him he will go home as soon as we are ready. wishes some goods could go this year. I have long since be sold as negroes are sold. I hope that is done, and that we shall not have at all times petty Frenchmen coming to our villages to give bad...
49187To George Washington from Joseph Valentine, 27 May 1760 (Washington Papers)
I this day Recd a Letter ⟨ illegible ⟩ hand of Mr Nicholas⟨;⟩ have also Recd a Letter from him to ⟨you⟩ which I send ⟨off⟩ immediately to you by George from King Wm who I think ⟨is the⟩ safest hand I Can send it By —I also Recd your Letter the 18th sent by melato Jack and will do my ⟨truest⟩ endeavours to get an over seer to sute you —Ass to Colo. Johnson I Cant get one farding of money from...
49188From George Washington to Peter Muhlenberg, 5 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letter of the 13th of Janry and have written to Governor Harrison that it was much to be wished, the Obstacles mentioned by you might be removed, & that measures might be taken during the Winter for forming the Troops now in the State with the Detachment, which I imagined would be send back by General Green from So. Carolina, into a compleat Regt or Regts, in...
49189To George Washington from Brigadier General John Cadwalader, 3 December 1777 (Washington Papers)
whether the army under your Excellency’s command should continue in the field this winter; and whether it is expedient to call to your assistance a great body of militia to make an attack on the City, are very important Questions—the determination of which may decide the fate of America—They therefore require our most serious consideration. It is certainly usual with all nations, in every cold...
49190To James Madison from John Cotton Smith, 23 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of recommending to your notice the Reverend Mr. Gallaudet, principal, and Mr. Clerc his Assistant, in the “Asylum for the instruction of deaf and dumb persons” lately established in this state. I am persuaded they will receive from the First Magistrate of our country, that favourable regard, to which their distinguished exertions in the cause of humanity so eminently entitle...
49191To Thomas Jefferson from Enoch Edwards, 12 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your favors of 7 Inst. & 18 April. taken together they contain all Information necessary to our driving on the work with Spirit. I am particularly gratified to find what I have done has given you so much satisfaction. & I have full hopes it will please you in the End—the whole shall be attended to as you direct— I repeat again that I hope you will feel no...
49192Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
Altho I was at a stupid Route at the sweedish ministers last Evening, I got home about 12 and rose early this morning to get a few thinks ready to send out by Lyde. When a Body has attended one of these parties; you know the whole of the entertainment. There were about 2 hundred persons present last evening, three large rooms full of card tables. The moment the ceremony of curtsying is past,...
49193[Diary entry: 22 November 1771] (Washington Papers)
22. At home again. Mr. Jenefir went away after breakfast as Mr. Washington &ca. did yesterday.
49194The American Commissioners to S. and J. H. Delap, 24 June 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Massachusetts Historical Society; two copies: National Archives <Passy, June 24, 1778: Please send us an accounting of the prize money mentioned in the enclosed letter. > Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary , IV , 142. That from John Paul Jones above, June 10. The commissioners’ request finally produced results. JW informed them on July 16, below, that he had received the...
49195To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 9 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in sentiment with you and the Director of the Mint, respecting the purchase of the Lots and Houses which are offered for sale in preference to Renting—as the latter will certainly exceed the Interest of the former. That all the applications may be brought to view, and considered, for Coining &ca.; Mr. Lear will lay the letters and engravings before you, to be shewn to the Director of the...
49196To Benjamin Franklin from the Duc de Villequier, [8 July 1781] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society M. le Duc de Villequier a l’honneur de faire part à Monsieur Franklin de la perte qu’il vient de faire de m. le marquis de Courtanvaux Son beaupère. Le convoy se fera à St. Roch aujourdhuy Dimanche 8. Juillet 1781. à Sept heures du soir. Addressed: A Monsieur / Monsieur Franklin / A Passy Who had written BF in 1779 about lightning rods: XXX , 425n. The...
49197[Diary entry: 22 October 1761] (Washington Papers)
Octr. 22d. Began Captn. Posey’s Barn with Turner Crump & Six Carpenters. Turner Crump was hired by GW in Dec. 1760 to oversee GW’s slave carpenters at a wage of £30 per year. This construction project apparently marked the first time GW contracted Crump and his slave carpenters out to do work for others.
49198From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 21 August 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I was yesterday honored with your letter of the 14th. instant. The recommendations of Captains Taylor and Blue will not fail to be considered when the situation of things is mature for the appointment of Brigade Inspectors. Inclosed you will find a general abstract of the recruiting Returns, which at its date were received at the Office of the Adjutant General. Other Information induces me to...
49199Boston Town Meeting Committee Report on Measures for the Vindication of the Town, 18 October 1769 (Adams Papers)
Boston, 18 October 1769. MS ( MB ). Printed: Boston Record Commissioners, 16th Report City of Boston, Record Commissioners, Reports , Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols. , p. 299–300, 303–325. On 4 Oct., JA was named to a committee “to Consider what Measures are proper to be taken to vindicate the Character of the Town” from charges made by Gov. Bernard and others in letters to Lord Hillsborough...
49200To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 23 October 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Mr. Pissott’s Proposals for printing English authors and agreeably to your desire immediately offer’d them to Dr. Franklin, a few Days ago. I call’d just now for his answer. He told me a Gentleman going to France would call upon him Tomorrow for Letters and that he should write to you on the Subject but he did not tell me whether he would engage for his Grandson or not. There is a...
49201The Committee for Foreign Affairs to the American Commissioners, 2 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: American Philosophical Society, Library of Congress, National Archives (two) Since ours of Octr: 31st. the enemy have by repeated efforts at last overcome our defences on the Delaware below Philadelphia, and we hear they have got up some vessels to the city; but we incline to think they will be interrupted much in their opperations on the river by the Cheveaux de Frize and the cold...
49202Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, [18] September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th has been recieved & I thank you for having forwarded the book to mr Adams as desired. in the Aurora of Sep. 7. I see a book advertised as under publication at N. York under the title of ‘the American brewer & malster ’ which, as teaching the method of malting Indian corn I should be very glad to get. could you procure it for me if published or when published. I would...
49203From George Washington to William Pearce, 7 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter, begun on the 31st of last month, and ended the 2d of this, came, with the Reports enclosed, duly to hand yesterday; together with the list of Dower Negros which are taken exactly as I wished. I now wish you would forward to me a list of all the remaining Negros on the Estate; distinguishing French’s from the others; & both made out in the manner of the last—giving the ages &ca....
49204To Thomas Jefferson from William Harris Jones, 22 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
W m Harris Jones presents his most respectful Compliments to M r Jefferson, & begs the favour, (if Mr J’s health will permit), of his viewing the fine paintings by Van Derlyn, which W. H. J. has brought up to Charlottesville As they have stood the test of criticism in Paris—as well as in most parts of the Union W. H. J. is sure M r J would be much gratified by the inspection—M r Van Derlyn...
49205To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Huntington, 3 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 3 Oct. 1780. Circular letter to the state executives enclosing a resolve of Congress of 29 Sep. requesting the states “to supply their Delegates with Money for their Support by other Means than drawing on the Treasury of the United States.” RC ( Vi ); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Huntington. FC ( DLC : PCC , No. 15). Enclosure ( Vi ): copy signed by Charles Thomson of...
49206To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 17 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
La présente parviendra à Votre Excellence par Mr. le Cte. Coëtloury, Ami de Mr. l’Ambassadeur, du Ms. De la Coste, du Rhingrave de Salm, et qui m’honore aussi de son amitié. Il reviendra ici vers Noël. Nous attendons d’un moment à l’autre Mr. De Raineval, qui trouve que cette Republique, dans ces circonstances surtout, mérite qu’on l’étudie de près. Permettez que je place mes respects pour Mr....
49207Thomas Mifflin to Alexander Hamilton, John Laurance, and Richard Varick, 17 December 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Yesterday I received the letter you did me the honor to write to me on the 10th: instant, and laid it before Congress; but as seven States only have met, the Subject of it cannot be taken up so soon as its Importance requires. I will transmit to you an authenticated copy of the Ratification of the definitive Treaty the moment that Congress shall put it into my power. I am with much Respect &...
49208General Orders, 25 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
The baggage of the Maryland line to be embark’d very early tomorrow morning and sent to New-Windsor—The troops to march immediately after their baggage is embark’d, by the route assigned them. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . For earlier directives related to the march of Maryland troops to winter quarters, see General Orders, 17 and 20 Nov.; see also GW to Nathanael Greene, 17 Nov. , n.7, and...
49209From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
The P——requests that Mr J——would give the enclosed letter & papers a reading between this and dinner—and come an hour before it, that he may have an opportunity of conversing with him on the subject of them. Mr Walker of George Town is in this City—from him, if Mr J——could contrive to get him to his house, he might learn the sentiments of the people of the place, Carrolsburg &ca—with respect...
49210From Alexander Hamilton to William S. Smith, 14 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed copy of a General Order will apprise you of the appointment of a Court Martial to convene at this City on Wednesday next. It is intended that it shall be composed of officers of your Regiment and of that of Coll. Ogden. The number from each cannot now be fixed. But you will provisionally cause to be notified all your officers in or near this City that they are to hold themselves...
49211To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 29 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Last Saturday I received a letter from lieutenant governor Wood, and opened it, agreeably to your directions. He declines the office of Surveyor General, as not professionally qualified. The next day I rode to Belmont, to converse with Judge Peters relative to Major Alexander: but he was gone to see his brother Colo. Robinson, at Naaman’s Creek. On Tuesday Judge Peters, as usual, came to town,...
49212To John Adams from B. H. Rand, 2 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have lately published an elegent Edition of the Farewell Address of the late Gen: Washington. Permit me to present you with a copy of it as a testimony of my respect for your Publick and private worth, and as a specimen of the the Fine Arts in our country. Your Obedient Servant P.S. The work will be handed to you by Mr J. W. Goodrich Bookseller Boston. MHi : Adams Papers.
49213From George Washington to Major General Horatio Gates, 27 January 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Two Letters of the 24th Instant came to hand. Before The receipt of the first, I had written to you upon the subject contained in it, in consequence of your Letter to the commanding Officer at Lancaster, which had been transmitted to me. As that will inform you fully respecting the British Officers and Cloathing, I will not trouble you with a repetition of the matter. I must observe,...
49214From James Madison to Joseph Warner Rose, 13 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
It being understood, that the charge of American Agent, which the interests of the United States seem to require, at Antigua, would not be unacceptable to you, the President has been pleased to confer it upon you. It will relate 1st to the Superintendance of our seamen in the place of your residence, and, as far as is practicable and convenient, in the adjacent Colonies and seas; and 2dly to...
49215From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 14 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you the several papers recieved by the last post, except those solliciting office, which as usual, are put into my bundle of like papers. I think it possible that Spain, recollecting our former eagerness for the island of N. Orleans, may imagine she can, by a free delivery of that, redeem the residue of Louisiana: and that she may withold the peaceable cession of it. in that case...
49216John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 14 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I last week informed you that I had withdrawn from Amsterdam all the stocks I held there, and had remitted to M r: King, in London fourteen hundred pounds sterling, for which I authorised you to draw, and requested you to place the proceeds in the most advantageous manner; but not in any institution or fund depending upon our national Union; for the generality of our Countrymen are so far from...
49217[Diary entry: 19 April 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Went with Colo. Bassett, Mrs. Bassett &ca. to Mr. Digges’s & dined.
49218To George Washington from Henry Knox, 21 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
Agreably to my promise my dear sir, I write you from this place, and flatter myself with the hope, that although my letter contains no important intelligence, yet it may not be unpleasing to you. Your calm retreat, of mount Vernon, must be a source of ineffable delight to you. you can from thence, take a retrospective view, of the critical exigencies of the War, and see a thousand ways, by...
49219From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Castries, 8 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Archives de la Marine; copy: Library of Congress Le Major Franks qui aura l’honneur de vous remettre la presente, est un officier au Service des Etats Unis, qui est venu par l’Espagne pour quelques affaires particulieres du Congrès et qui s’en retourne avec les Depêches de son Ministre à cette Cour et avec les miennes. Comme je desire beaucoup qu’il ait un Passage Sure, Je supplie votre...
49220From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Brockden Brown, 15 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on my arrival here some days ago the copy of the book you were so kind as to send me together with your letter , for which be pleased to accept my thanks. as soon as I am in a situation to admit it (which is hardly the case here) I shall read it, & I doubt not with great pleasure. some of the most agreeable moments of my life have been spent in reading works of imagination which...
49221Louis Adrien Gruchet to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu le 28 du mois dernier la lettre que Vous m’avez fait L’honneur de m’écrire en date du 23 . une forte indisposition m’empêcha dabord d’y répondre, et m’étant mis en chemin le 16 du courant pour aller jouir de la permission que vous avez bien voulu m’accorder j’avais jugé de ne pas Vous importuner par une Lettre. mais mon mal m’ayant Repris et me retenant depuis 5 jours, je dois malgré...
49222To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 13 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 13 January 1806. Acknowledges JM ’s letter of 6 Jan. , to which JM attached a copy of his 26 June 1804 dispatch to Pichon. Turreau already knew what was contained in those documents but revisited the subject with JM in his official letter of 14 Oct. and his subsequent dispatch, because JM ’s initial responses were unsatisfactory, because they contained no actual or...
49223John Adams to Norton Quincy, 28 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
I Sigh every day, in whatever Scaene I am in for a walk down to your House and a Day by your Fireside. —I hope the Time will come, but not so soon as I wish. It would amuze you, as it does me to wander about in scaenes once frequented by the great Princes of Orange, by Brederode, Barnevelt, Grotius, De Witts, Erasmus, Boerhave, Van Trump, De Ruyter and a thousand others, and I can assure you,...
49224From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1788 (Madison Papers)
Being informed of a circuitous opportunity of France I make use of it to forward the inclosures. By one of them you will find that Congress have been at length brought into the true policy which is demanded by the situation of the Western Country. An additional resolution on the secret journal puts an end to all negotiation with Spain referring the subject of a treaty after this assertion of...
49225To George Washington from Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 18 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
I send to your excellency according to your orders the few general observations I have done after our Recon noitring of the island of new york, although the news we had yesterday makes me afraid that they are now inutile. now other plans must probably be done, but is it not advantageous to pursue the preparations for the attack of new york, to deceive our army if so the ennemy. I am much...
49226From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Archibald Richardson of Virginia to be collector for the district of South Quay. Archibald Richardson of ditto to be inspector of the revenue for the port of South Quay. Edward St Loe Livermore of New Hampshire to be naval officer for the district of Portsmouth. Andrew Torbone of Virginia to be Inspector of the revenue for the port of Bermuda Hundred. Andrew Torbone of ditto to be...
49227Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 27 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, avec bien de la reconnaissance, la déclaration que vous vous êtes donné la peine de m’envoyer. Elle est amplement Suffisante pour lever tous les doutes qu’on aurait pu avoir au Sujet de l’affaire désagréable que des ennemis m’ont Suscité. Mais comme il pourrait peut-être arriver qu’il me fût utile de produire une pareille pièce en Justice, Je vous prie de m’en envoyer une autre où...
49228To James Madison from William Loughton Smith, 18 March 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 March 1801, Lisbon. Relays news from England of George III’s illness and Prussian hostility against Great Britain. Observes that Portuguese now are less hopeful of receiving British aid either in peace negotiations or military preparations. Portugal “seems abandd. to its fate, like Leghorn, Naples &c.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, DD , Portugal, vol. 5). 1 p.; marked private; docketed by Wagner as...
49229To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 15 June 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Algemeen Rijksarchief En vous confirmant mes précédentes, & notamment celles qui concernent Mrs. Van de Perre & Meyners & Mr. Van Oudermeulen . J’aurai l’honneur de répondre à l’honorée votre du 5e. Le Mr. que vous me nommez, m’est connu de réputation pour un fort galant homme; & je sais qu’il fait des affaires avec Mr. 165. Quant à ce qu’il vous a...
49230To George Washington from Lt. Col. John Taylor, 30 July 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letters not found : from Lt. Col. John Taylor, 30 July 1779. GW wrote Taylor on 5 Aug.: “I have duly received Your two favors of the 30th of July” ( DLC:GW ).