52601Conveyance of Sally Goodman from Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle do hereby sell and convey to Jeremiah A. Goodman now of the county of Bedford a certain negro girl slave named Sally , being the daughter of Aggy one of the slaves of the sd Thomas , which said Girl Sally is about three years of age in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars to me the sd Thomas...
52602To James Madison from Charles Goodrich and Others, 13 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
The Subscribers Citizens of the United States residing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts beg leave Most respectfully to represent That during the present War they have been captured on the high seas by the forces of the enemy while your petitioners were employed on services useful to their country either on board Merchantmen or private armed vessels of war and after being carried into...
52603To John Adams from Chauncey Goodrich, 11 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
In the event of the “Bill for the more convenient Organization of the Courts of the United States,” receiving your signature, it is presumed that Recommendations of Persons suitable for the important Offices of Judges in the Circuit Courts will be acceptable to You. We therefore take the Liberty of respectfully recommending to You, the Honble. Egbert Benson of the State of New York, for the...
52604To Alexander Hamilton from Elihu Chauncey Goodrich, 12 June 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Claverack [ New York ] June 12, 1797 . “Scarcity of Money (at this time) is such that I cannot without a very material Injury to my property and Credit raise the amount which you as attorney for Mr. James Bryson have received against Me as Endorser of a Note.… However previous to the first day of November next it will undoubtedly be in my power without much inconvenience to make the full...
52605To John Adams from Elizur Goodrich, 16 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
The Office of Collector of the Port of New Haven in the State of Connecticut having become vacant by the Death of David Austin Esquire, I take the Liberty to solicit of your Excellency an appointment to succeed him in the office. A friend has in my absence, transmitted from New Haven the accompanying Certificate, signed by respectable Men. Perhaps it will not be deemed improper to observe,...
52606To James Madison from Elizur Goodrich, 14 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Elizur Goodrich. 14 April 1806, New Haven. “I have the honor to inclose, at the request of Mesrs Buckley De Forest & Co. Merchants of this place, certain documents, relative to the detention of the Sloop Mary, in a Spanish Port, in the Oronoko. They consider it, their duty to state to the Government, the aggression made upon their property, and have a confident relyance, in the...
52607To John Adams from Elizur Goodrich, 16 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
Having inclosed to the Secretary of the Treasury, a petition, addressed to your Excellency soliciting an Appointment to the vacant office of Collector of the Port of New Haven, I hope it will not be deemed improper to express, my motives leading at the present time to a wish for retirement. I have an affectionate family and young Children to support and educate—I have always considered the...
52608To George Washington from Elizur Goodrich, 1 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
The office of ⟨ mutilated ⟩ in ⟨ mutilated ⟩ being vacant by the death of ⟨ mutilated ⟩ Esquire I have the honour respectfully to solicit that your Excellency would be pleased to confer on me the appointment to succeed him. Should your Excellency consider a complyance with my application, consistent with the public Good I should accept the appointment with unfeigned Gratitude and make it my...
52609To John Adams from Elizur Goodrich, 2 March 1801 (Adams Papers)
I have this day had the honour to signify to the proper Officer, my Acceptance of a Commission, under the hand of your Excellency, constituting me Collector of the Customs, in the District of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut. I feel it due to those sensations I feel, to express to your Excellency, personally, my grateful Acknowledgements, for so honorable a testimonial of your...
52610To Thomas Jefferson from John Goodrich, 20 January 1777 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been confined to a small Room upwards of two months which has much Impaired my health. Your Inquiry the Reason of the Alteration of my confinement will much Oblige me. I have been very Ill Treated by Mr. Jouette Sundry times. Your favour in allowing me to Board at Some Other house in this Place will oblige your Obedient P.S. One George Bruce of the Guard have Sundry times threatned my...
52611To George Washington from William Goodrich, 30 June 1779 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Goodrich, 30 June 1779. GW wrote Goodrich on 4 July: “I have received Your Letter of the 30th Ulto.”
52612To George Washington from William Goodrich, 14 August 1781 (Washington Papers)
Would Make Bold to trouble your Exellency With a line Just to acquaint your Exelleny that there is a Considerable Number of old officers and other Gentlemen in the County of Berkshire would be happy to Serve your Excelleny as Vollentears for a month or more if needed A Singel Line from our Commander in Cheff approving of the purposed Would be a Sufficient Annemation for a Nomber to join body...
52613“A Friend to the Christian Religion” (“Goodwill”) to Thomas Jefferson, 28 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Being now indulged with leisure to investigate any subject, a privilege which you did not once enjoy, permit a friend, who sincerely wishes your present peace & eternal happiness, to ask you to re e xamine the evidences in favor of the christian religion. If, Sir, you will have the goodness to peruse with candor Bishop Porteus’ evidences in favor of the Christan religion, Leslies short method...
52614"Goodwill" to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long silence your unknown friend begs leave once more to address you, on a subject of the greatest importance. And can there be any subject, that is diserving of this name, but that one, which equally deserves & demands the attention of each & all the human family, viz. the care of the immortal part , to secure for it an inheritance in that blessed world, “ where the moth nor rust...
52615To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Goodwin, 30 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The conversations of Mr Allston who has lately returned from the northward, & of Mr Charles Pinckney who has since him returned, seem to render it certain that Mr Cochran the present Marshall is to be removed. The circumstance of his being an eastern man, & the dupe of eastern policy, made us hope, as soon as we should be blessed by your exhaltation to the dignified office which is now...
52616To Thomas Jefferson from Ichabod Goodwin, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned beg leave to recommend to your Excellency’s particular notice and favor Mr. Esaias Preble of York in the State of Massachusetts as a young Gentleman of good morals and an unexceptionable character—He has served six yiars as Adjutant of the first regiment in the sixth Division of militia in this State with honor and with distinguished approbation—Being desirous of entering into...
52617To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 10 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
Pownalborough [District of Maine] Sir February 10th 1790 there is A Great Crye for bread in thease parts; by the Drought, the last summer, the Crops was Cut Very Short and even Potatoes, som did not Get as many: as the Seed they planted as I have been in formed (& Repeated Complaints;): and but Little money in Circulation, in thease Parts, I Cant, Tell what many will do; and when any...
52618To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 25 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Pownalborough, District of Maine, 25 Nov. 1789. Suggests that a lighthouse be established on the island of Seguin, near the entrance of the Kennebec River, and describes the advantages of the location. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. Goodwin sent GW a second petition, dated November 1789 and probably enclosed in this letter, stating: “A great many peoples are Very uneasy that there...
52619To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 17 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
According to your Excellencys Verbal orders by Collo. Bennedeck Arnold I supplyd him with A Plan of the Sea Coast from Cape Elizabeth to Penobscut and the River Kennebeck to the Several heads thereof, and the Several Carrying Placeses to Ammeguntick Pond, and Shaddair River which Ammeguntick Emptys into Said Shaddair River which Shaddair, Emptys into the River St Lawrance about four miles...
52620To George Washington from Samuel Goodwin, 17 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
Pownalborough: on Kennebeck river in the County of Lincoln and State of Masschusets Sir November 17th 1789 I Most Humbly beg leave: to lay before your Excellency, that when there was an Expedtion To Quebeck in: 1775: by the way of Kennebeck River, & over the Carrying Places: to Amaguntick Lake or, Pond, &c. and to Choudire river & to the River St Lawrance, & Quebeck I haveing A Plan of the Sea...
52621To James Madison from Thomas Goodwin, 7 September 1791 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 7 September 1791. Calendared on a list probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany).
52622To James Madison from Peterson Goodwyn and Others, 26 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1812, House of Representatives. “We beg leave to recommend … for a field appointment in the new army Capt. Winfield Scott, whose military pretensions are highly spoken of by men well qualified to Judge. Independently of Capt. Scott’s acquirements in tactics he is a gentleman of character talents and activity. His appointment would therefore be extremely gratifying to his friends.” RC (...
52623To Benjamin Franklin from Timothy Goolding, 7 December 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Having been from home all day on Business prevented my waiting on you, been since inform’d that an Account of the Curtains were Immediately wanted, have therefore inclos’d it, I beg the favour of you Sir to Convey my respectful Compliments to the Governour and his Lady. With thanks for their kind Remembrance of Me, and please to mention that if the Curtains...
52624Statement of Account with Alexander Gordon, 1 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Thomas Jefferson to Alx Gordon Dr. 1805 July 3. 3 Dayes Board for servt @ 4/6 .13. 6 . 3 Dayes & nights—Hay for horse .9. . 12 Gallons Grain @ 1/ .12. .
52625To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Gordon, 15 March 1758 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Leaving London the 5th. Instant I was taken ill of a Fever on the Road, which has gather’d strength and Confined me to my Bed ever since, so that I am Brought quite low and am at this time scarce able to sit up to write. How dismall Alass is my Situation; in a Strange place, without Money, without Freinds, and in a Sick and very Weak Condition. I know...
52626A Proposition, [18 March 1780] (Hamilton Papers)
That the Exchange of the first Division of the Troops of Convention according to the proposed Plan given in shall have immediate Operation with the Exchanges of Officers for Officers Prisoners of War, and that the Exchange of the second Division of the Troops of Convention according to the proposed Plan given in shall, also, have immediate Operation so far as the Estimate of American Officers,...
52627To James Madison from Gordon Duff and Company, 31 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 December 1803, Madeira. “We beg leave to refer you to the annexed Circular from our friends Messrs. Hill Bisset & Co. Any Commands you may be pleased to honor us with shall be attended to with the strictest punctuality, and we shall be grateful if you are pleased to favor us with the same protection you have manifested to our abovementioned worthy friends. It will ever be our utmost...
52628To George Washington from Hannah Gordon, 3 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
I hope Your Excellency will permit an American Lady to inform you that I am the Widow of the late Coll Harry Gordon of the Royal Engineers of Brittain and that when I was last in America in 1781 to which place I was ordered on account of my health, my late Husband having put into my hands at the beginning of the War all his papers Bonds and Bills to recover payment of what was due, I did apply...
52629To George Washington from Harry Gordon, 17 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having been your Excellencys Fellow Soldier in some Campaignes of a difficult and dangerous operation, and as peace has Again Sanctified our Communication, and lessend your Cares; I presume to Ask your Interference and Friendship, on the Subject of my honestly earnd Small Property in America; which it Seems Was with others proscribed by Congress. Mrs Gordon took Philadelphia in her Way from...
52630To James Madison from Hendrick Gordon, 23 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
Having been appointed by Samuel Evans Esqr, Commander of the United States Frigate the Chesapeake, prize Agent for him, and by some of the Officers their prize agent, for prizes which may be sent into any ports east of New-York; and a Valuable prize to that Ship, having arrived safe at Portsmouth NHampshire, I have taken the liberty to ask of you, the agency of the part which accrues to the...