52501To George Washington from Ephraim Blaine, 25 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have not meet with the success I had reason to expect in Conectticutt the Governor and Assembly have not taken up the recommendation of Congress in Nominating or appointing a deputy Commissary to execute the purchases of their state —doubting it wou’d be Giving them Exstroardonary trouble and the disapointment their agent might meet with in not receiving money to discharge his purchases and...
52502[Diary entry: 22 December 1771] (Washington Papers)
22d. Raining in the Night, and most part of this day. At the sametime warm with but little Wind and that at So. West.
52503From Thomas Jefferson to William Pryce, 13 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his respects to the revd. mr Pryce, acknoleges the reciept of his book, and prays him to inform him of the price, and whether to remit it to himself or to pay it to any one here. he is in the moment of a short visit to Monticello; but mr Pryce’s note will find him in either place. PoC ( MHi ). acknoleges the reciept : see Pryce to TJ, 9 Mch.
52504From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 December 1826 (Adams Papers)
The last Letter I have from you is of the 2d. instn. but I have also received Mrs Clark’s receipt upon my note to her, which was enclosed in your Letter to your brother John of the 6th.—My latest Letters to you, are of the 19th. 27th. and 29th. ulto. and 4th. and 7th. instn.—I expect answers to them all. I now enclose, 1. an order from W. S. Smith, upon the Executors of my father’s Will, for...
52505To George Washington from William Livingston, 11 April 1778 (Washington Papers)
In Answer to your Excellency’s favour of the 9th with which I am just now honoured; if Moss should be convicted, I will, on account of his having been employed by the military, interpose my offices to procure his pardon, but I am greatly mistaken indeed if he is not one of the most consummate Villains that ever was born, & this moment employed as a Spy for the Enemy—I suspect him particularly...
52506To George Washington from Anthony Whitting, 17 February 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Anthony Whitting, 17 Feb. 1793. On 24 Feb., GW wrote Whitting , “Your letters of the 13th & 17th Instt have come duly to hand.”
52507From Thomas Jefferson to John Smith, 7 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Mar. 27. & Apr. 6. have been recieved. writing from this place where I have not my papers to turn to, I cannot even say whether I have recieved such as you ask copies of. but I am sorry to answer any request of yours by saying that a compliance would be a breach of trust. it is essential for the public interest that I should recieve all the information possible respecting...
52508To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Tornquist, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ the Lines you honoured me with were not favourable for my physical cabinet, I flatter myself that you, as a Protector of the Arts & Sciences in this Country, will not be offended If I hand you a few Catalogues of this Apparatus; for according to the opinion of several Professors, there is not Such a complete physical Cabinet anywhere in the United=States.— As it is uncertain, whether or...
52509To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 7 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To relieve your mind from the Fatigue of National Affairs, which must necessarily oppress it; I send you the inclosed from the pen of my ingenious friend, & relation , John Garnet; I take this Liberty, knowing how much you wish to be early acquainted with all Discoveries tending to Enlighten Mankind.—perhaps it may be the means of bringing two Men of Science to an intimate acquaintance;—Mr:...
52510From Alexander Hamilton to Robert R. Livingston, [10 April 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
You were probably acquainted in this Country with Colonel Toussard who will have the honor of delivering you this letter. He has filled several stations in our Military service at different periods and always with much credit to himself and advantage to the service. During our revolutionary war he lost an arm in an action in which he displayed much zeal and bravery, and to my knowlege was...
52511From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 9 June 1782 (Adams Papers)
The Admiralty have reported to their High Mightinesses their Remarks upon the Plan of a Treaty of Commerce, which I had the Honour to lay before them; together with Such Additions and Alterations as they propose. This Report has been taken ad Referendum by all the Provinces, except Overyssel, which has determined to vote as Holland Shall vote, this being the principal maritime Province, and...
52512To George Washington from Patrick Henry, 5 February 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Patrick Henry, 5 Feb. 1785. On 27 Feb. GW wrote to Henry : “I have had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 5th.”
52513To Thomas Jefferson from Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 12 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Acavamos de recivir varios avisos del Governador de Sn. Agustin relativos à la disposicion que prevalece actualmente entre los Indios Creekes, las atrosidades que han cometido estos ultimamente, y otras noticias que aclaran bastante la conducta amistosa, y pacifica hacia los Americanos, è Indios que se desea seguir de parte de nuestro govierno, y la mui diferente que observa el Superintendente...
52514From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 24 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Royal Archives, Windsor Castle The Prince de Massaran, being so good as to desire carrying a Letter to you, I sit down to write you a few Lines, tho’ I hope soon to see you. Enclosed I send a Copy of one of Mr. Deanes Letters. I shall show you more when you come. In consequence of a Proposition I sent over, the Parliament of Britain have just passed an Act for exchanging American...
52515From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 5 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Jan. 29 and instantly wrote to mr Lieper in Philadelphia, with full powers to call on Jackson & Wharton, examine the tobacco, and deduct whatever he should think reasonable from the price of any of it which might appear to have [been] damaged before the sale: for I have nothing to do with damages in going to Philadelphia. [it] is possible the batteau-men may...
52516Alexander Garrett to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am again out of funds to meet the drafts of the Proctor of the University and the holders of a few, are pressing. I therefore enclose a check for three thousand dollars for your approval. I would come up to see you in person, but am detained by the court setting today. I intend starting early tomorrow morning to Richmond and wish to take the enclosed check down with me. RC ( CSmH: JF );...
52517To James Madison from George Davis, 13 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Davis. 13 July 1806, Norfolk. No. 1. “By Mr. Payne who arrived at this place on the 10th. Inst: I had the honor to receive your letter of the 24th. June, with enclosures. “In closing my Accounts with the Department of State, as Acting Consul for the Regency of Tunis, I made a charge of the outfit usually allowed to Consuls on the Barbary Coast, and certainly without having a...
52518From Alexander Hamilton to Aaron Burr, [1 April 1802] (Hamilton Papers)
Your Protegé Buisson has addressed to me the inclosed letter. Why he did not immediately write to you I cannot tell unless it be that he is conscious he has used your politeness sufficiently, and imagines an intermediary to be hereafter necessary. Perhaps you may be able to decipher his wishes from the letter; which I confess is beyond my skill. But I understand from him in conversation that...
52519To John Adams from James Warren, 7 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I am much Obliged to you for your favours by the Sage, Brave, and Amiable General Washington, by Major Mifflin, and by the Express, which came to hand the Night before last. I am much pleased with General Washington. He fully Answers the Character you have given of him. Major Mifflin I have not yet found out, tho’ I am told he was once in the Room while I was at the Generals. I shall take...
52520From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 November 1817 (Adams Papers)
It is so long since I heard from you I begin to find it difficult to account for your Silence—Have the Muses siezed upon your imagination? Or is it a touch of the belle passion which occupies your contemplation and makes you forget your Mother? either of these things might perhaps plead in excuse though I can only allow these to be momentary.— Your occupations are I know numerous but one...
52521The American Commissioners to Jonathan Trumbull, 22 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Library of Congress; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives (two) We received your Excellency’s Letter of May 29. by Capt. Niles with the Dispatches from Congress which you had intrusted him with, in good Order. He had a short Passage of 22 Days, and brought us the agreable News of the Ratification of the Treaties and of their being universally pleasing to our...
52522From Thomas Jefferson to José Ignacio de Viar, 13 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I was not unapprised that monies had been advanced by the government of Spain, or some of it’s Officers, for our captives at Algiers, nor had I been inattentive to it: but no account, nor any specific demand on that subject had come to my knowlege; and finding for some time past the utter impossibility of getting letters either to or from Mr. Carmichael, I had been obliged to adopt a...
52523Thomas Jefferson to David Barrow, 1 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Mar. 20. and am truly thankful for the favorable sentiments expressed in it towards my self. if, in the course of my life, it has been in any degree useful to the cause of humanity, the fact itself bears it’s full reward. the particular subject of the pamphlets you inclosed me was one of early and tender consideration with me, and had I continued in the...
52524To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 14 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
Je prends la liberté de vous communiquer une gazette de New York du 9. de 7bre. qui m’est parvenue le 12. Suivant. Cette gazette donne l’extrait d’un discours attribué à un Ministre du Connecticut et dans une note de ce discours qui m’est, comme vous le verrez, relative, il est dit que j’ai publié des propositions tendant à donner une nouvelle édition des œuvres de Godwin. L’assertion ainsi...
52525To Benjamin Franklin from a Committee of the Town of Boston, 13 July 1770 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Massachusetts Historical Society The Bostonians had long suspected that they were being traduced in England by false reports of what was happening in the town. After the Massacre the suspicion grew. On March 16 a Captain Robson sailed for London with dispatches from Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, commander of the troops, and with Captain Preston’s account of his part in the...
52526From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 14 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favors of Oct. 23. and 26. With respect to the mission you suggest in the former, no powers are lodged in the hands of Mr. Adams and myself. Congress commissioned Mr. Adams, Doctr. Franklin and myself to treat with the emperor on the subjects of amity and commerce, at the same time they gave us the commission to Prussia with which you are acquainted. We proposed...
52527From George Washington to New York Officer Commanding at Westchester County, 21 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
His Excellency the Governor of this State having determined to reestablish Civil Government in the County of West Chester, and having directed the Honble Chief Justice Morris to repair to that County for the purpose—It is my order that you, with the Troops under your Command should be aiding and assisting, so far as may be necessary, in carrying the intention of His Excellency the Governor...
52528John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Stephen Cathalan Esq r , Commercial & Navy Agent Marseilles , has consigned to me two Cases, one containing wine & the other Macarony for with instructions to forward them to you by the first favourable opportunity You will please to advise me , to what place and to whose care the Cases will be sent, & they will be forwarded accordingly I am very respectfully, RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); endorsed by...
52529To George Washington from Nicholas Cruger, 18 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
On my Return to Philada from the Southward I found a Letter from my Friend in New York Lodg’d there, informing me that General Patteson has Requested my Return to that City agreeable to The Tenor of the Parole he had given him Previous to his having granted me the Pass to come out, and adds he was fearfull if I did not Comply with his Request it might be Attended with Disagreeable Consiquences...
52530Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Worcester Inferior Court, Worcester, May 1769 (Adams Papers)
Prov. Law. 16. 33. 386. Temp orary Laws. About Certificates for Anabaptist Ministers and People, to be used in the Case following of Worth ington . All wise States have seen the Necessity of some Religion for the Support of Society. The Happiness of Brit ish dominions that an order of Men. The Romans and Grecians would have thought themselves happy if they had had such an order of Men. All...
52531[Diary entry: 5 July 1787] (Washington Papers)
Thursday 5th. Dined at Mr. Morris’s. Drank Tea and spent the Evening there.
52532[Diary entry: 19 June 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. At Colo. Bassetts all day.
52533To Alexander Hamilton from Colonel Goose Van Schaick, 3 November 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
[ November 3, 1778 . On November 4, 1778, Hamilton wrote to Van Schaick : “I have received your favour of Yesterday.” Letter not found .]
52534To James Madison from John George Jackson, 21 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your several obliging favors enclosing the interesting foreign & domestic news to which the whole attention of this nation seems to be directed. As yet after a careful perusal of them I have found nothing indicative of the ultimate consequence with which the times are pregnant, for whither I look to the Theatre on which the armies of Napoleon and Alexander are struggling, to...
52535II. Jefferson’s Fair Copy, [before 4 October 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
1. Resolved that the several states composing the US. of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the US. and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to...
52536From James Madison to Joshua Barney and Others, 1 May 1794 (Madison Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of Mar: 13. from Jamaica with its inclosure, in which the American Masters of Vessels detained in that Island have been pleased to express their sentiments on the Resolutions proposed by me in the House of Representatives on the 3d. of January last. Having long regarded the principles on which those Resolutions were founded, as the basis of a policy most...
52537From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I know how apt we are to consider those whom we knew long ago, and have not since seen, to be exactly still what they were when we knew them; and to have been stationary in body and mind as they have been in our recollections. have you not been under that illusion with respect to myself? when I had the pleasure of being a fellow-laborer with you in the public service, age had ripened, but not...
52538To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Peyton, 13 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An invitation to Genl. Wilkinson was forwarded by express this morning, and I have this moment sent off a card for his aid Capt Huger, I expect a delay of the dinner for even two or three days would be attended with serious inconveniences to Mr. Gadsby , I therefore hope if the day should be bad, it will comport with your convenience to come down in a carriage. I find upon inquiry that Thomas...
52539From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 7 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Thomas G. Thornton Marshal for the district of Maine. Oliver Barnet of New Jersey to be Marshal for New Jersey: John Smith of Pensylvania to be Marshal for Pensylvania. Joseph Scott of Virginia to be Marshal for Virginia: Robert E. Cochran of S. Carolina to be Marshal for S. Carolina. John Childress of West Tennissee to be Marshal for West Tennissee. the several commissions of...
52540To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, [10 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
I was informed last Night by Mr. Izard that a Comee. of three, of which he was one, were to be with me on Monday Morning upon the subject of the Algarine business.—The Senate do not know how to get money for the purpose without the Agency of the Rep., and they are affraid to make the Com. I wish you to consider this matter and, if not before, to let me see you by half after 7 Oclock on Monday...
52541James Gibbon to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
By Coll. Randolps servant I take occasion to return, the letter you were at the trouble to send in relation to the Lima Sugar RC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 203:36111); misdated; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 5 Jan. 1816 received 7 Jan. 1816 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Richard S. Hackley to TJ, 3 Oct. 1815 . Thomas Mann Randolph’s ( randolps ) slave may have been
52542To James Madison from Obed and Aaron Mitchell, 4 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 March 1802, Nantucket. “We the Subscribers being owners of the ship Minerva Sailed from this place on a whaling voyage to the Brazils & Woolwick [Walvis] Bay in 7th Mo 1799, upon her return with a full load of oil … the 5th of 10th Mo 1800 was captured by a French Privateer of 12 Guns.” The vessel was ordered to Guadeloupe, but on 14 Oct. it was retaken by the British ship Gaite and “ordered...
52543From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Huntington, 12 March[–12 April 1781] (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives (two); copies: Library of Congress, Columbia University Library; press copy: National Archives; transcript: National Archives I had the honour of receiving on the 13th. of last Month, Your Excellency’s Letter of the 1st. January, together with the Instructions of Nov. 28. and Decr. 27. a Copy of those to Col. Laurens, and the Letter to the King. I immediately drew a...
52544Jesse Wharton to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing to you, a report of the late Gen l Daniel Smith respecting the running of the southern boundary of Virginia , by himself and D r Thomas Walker ; both of whom, I presume, you were well acquainted with. It is probable you have some recollection of the running of that line, the extent of that line—& the order given by you, if you were then the Governor of...
52545Anthony Gerna to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you will accept of another Letter of Your old & humble servant (Anthony Gerna formerly a Bookseller in Dublin ) who is sincerely attached to you, and would fain to be Helpful to Your Sacred Land.— I took the liberty about two Years since to write a few lines and handed them to M r Appleton , Consul at Leghorn , promising to forward them to you—I therein mention’d that I had left Dublin &...
52546To Benjamin Franklin from Louis-Daniel Martin, 11 August 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Comme Lieutenant du sinquaime Bataillon continental de La Caroline du Sud colonel Isaac huger, sous commandement du B: General Robet howe et en Vertu de sa permitions du 29 maÿ dernier je me suis enbarqué le meme jour sur le navire francois La Junon de la martinique capitaine ch. mare [?] du havre de grasse et mis en mer sullemant le 24 juin aÿant chaque...
52547Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government, 10 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety , Boston, 1838. , p. 73–74. This, the second report on this date of the Committee on the State of the Province, was framed in the form of three resolutions: that the adjournment on 29 October had...
52548Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is recieved and the 50.D. it covered. should there be difficulty in remitting the 97.D. to Alrichs & Dixon of Wilmington by a draught a Richmond bank bill of 100.D. I have no doubt would be acceptable to them and the surplus 3.D. will make no odds, as I shall probably have to call for a roving machine from them in addition to that for carding. to the 3000.D. I have added...
52549From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind letter of the 30 of September in due time and although it confirmed the bad news which had flown to us here from every quarter it contributed much to console me and the revived hopes which have been created by this very calamity have nearly restored me to health though not to spirits our good friend L. is all of a sudden become so sanguine as to the affairs of America that...
52550From Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 8 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the drawings of M. Godefroi, which certainly prove him to possess fine talents in that way. in a letter to mr Madison lately he has expressed something like disappointment at not recieving from me an answer to a letter he wrote me. that letter was a tender of his services in some emploiment analogous to his talents in the first place you know our situation well enough to know we...