5341Sarah Livingston Jay to Catharine W. Livingston, 14 December 1782 (Jay Papers)
I wrote to you my dearest sister the other day but as Cap n . Barney still waits dispatches from Doc tr Franklin I must again trouble you tho’ nothing new has occurred at least of a domestic nature— Our public affairs indeed wear a different aspect— Let us my dr. Kitty rejoice together & bless God! for the prospect of approaching Peace. I already begin to enjoy in imagination some delightful...
5342From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 12 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The mail is closing just as the inclosed is put into my hands. tomorrow we shall write to you fully. Adieu. PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “James Monroe”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Enclosure: Resolutions of the Senate, 12 Jan., agreeing to Monroe’s appointments as minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France and Spain (see TJ to Monroe, 13 Jan. ; JEP Journal of the Executive...
5343To George Washington from Philip Rootes, 16 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
I was at Mountvernon Some time ago but was disappointed in seeing you. the caus of my tiakning this liberty is to beg the favour which I waited on you to ask, I will unfold the subject matter to you, my Father John Rootes made the Campaigns of 1757 and 1758 in Colo. William Byrds Regiment and was a Capt. in the said Regiment during the Campaigns—this is Certified by Colo. William Bronaugh, my...
5344From George Washington to Cyrus Griffin, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I think it expedient to acknowledge the receipt of your two Notes, dated the 10th of July & the 14th of Augst, for the purpose of assuring you that there was certainly nothing improper in the tenor of them. But it will be an instance of Justice to inform you, at the same time, that, without considering myself at liberty to give either encouragement or discouragement to the wishes of Gentlemen...
5345To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 27 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, with great sincerity, to congratulate you on your appointment to the office of Vice-President of the United States. It was in my mind a very desirable object, and a wish which I ardently expressed at the meeting of the electors; but, as we were unanimously of opinion that Mr. Adams’ pretensions to the chair were best, it was impossible to give you any votes without annulling an...
5346To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 28 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 23d. was not received until last night. I had been thinking some time, that I ought to have long ago written to you on the subject; and now feel ashamed that a letter from you should have found the design yet unaccomplished. The matter shall, however, be immediately attended to: that is, as soon as little piece of business which the same mail brought from Mr Coolidge on...
5347Notes on Debates, 29 March 1787 (Madison Papers)
The Committee appd. to confer with the Treasy. Board on the great business of a final settlemt. of the accts. of the U. States, reported that they be discharged; and the Board instructed to report an ordinance. Mr. King in explanation sd. that it was the sense of the Commtee and of the Treasy. board both, that Commissrs. shd. be appointed with full & final powers to decide on the claims of the...
5348The Commissioners to Sartine, 18 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
We embrace this first opportunity to answer the Letter, which your Excellency did Us the Honour to address to Us, the Sixteenth of this Month. We have examined, with Some Attention the Alterations which your Excellency has made in the second and fourteenth Articles of the projected Regulations and are of opinion, that they will remove the Difficulties We apprehendd from the first Draught. We...
5349To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 25 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is an account Given me by Mrs. Lewis for Turkys and Bacon. The Turkys she says Mr. Freman got & the Bacon I got myself (at the same time I saw and account against You for Differant articles to the amount of about $135. in that account was the 45 bushels oats I Got when you was heare which was the Largest article. the others was all such as vigertables Got some by Mr. Lilly some by Mr....
5350From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 3 September 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Shortly after I came into Office I remember your having told me that Glauback (whom you represented as a worthless and ungrateful fellow) was indebted to General Greenes estate, I think for money lent him, and that it was your intention to endeavour to effect a purchase of his public claim; allowing him some part of it for his immediate necessities and letting the residue be an indemnification...
5351John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 June 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Senate are now in Possession of the Budget.— It is a Bone to gnaw for The Aristocrats as well as the Democrats: And while I am employed in attending the Digestion of it, I send you enclosed an Amusement which resembles it only in name. I can form no Judgment when the Proscess will be over. We must wait with Patience. I dined yesterday in the Family Way with The President— He told me that...
5352To James Madison from Henry Lee, 21 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Wellford having conducted the medical department of the Militia Army in 94, I owe it to my sense of his faithful services, to comply with his wish of my letter to you notifying his desire to conduct one branch of the same department in the Army now raising. But I am sure you so well know this gentlemans character & ability that any commendation of him to you is needless. Nevertheless...
5353[August 1795] (Washington Papers)
1. Wind at No. Wt.—flying clouds, warm. 2. Do. Easterly—violent Rain & wind aftn. 3. Do. No. Wt. Much rain fell last night. 4. Sml. Westerly breeze—quite clear. 5. Do. Do. Do. Clear. 6. Clear, still & warm. 7. Wind Southerly & very warm. 8. Same as yesterday with R[ain] af[ternoon]. 9. Still very warm with clouds. 10. Very warm rain afternoon.
5354From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 19 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with Your Excellency’s favour of the 12th instant; inclosing the copies of two letters relative to the disposition of the troops on the East side of the North River and the quartering of Col. Sheldon’s regiment of dragoons. There is nothing I have more at heart, than the ease and security of every part of the Country and its inhabitants; and I wish Your Excellency to believe, that...
5355Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Circular to Office Seekers, [ca. 6 March 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
THE friendship which has long subsisted between the President of the United States and myself gave me reason to expect, on my retirement from office, that I might often receive applications to interpose with him on behalf of persons desiring appointments. Such an abuse of his dispositions towards me would necessarily lead to the loss of them, and to the transforming me from the character of a...
5356From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Kinnan, 2 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 22. was recieved in due time and has been considered, but I do not percieve that the proposition it contains is founded in justice. we stood ensurers of the principal and interest due on the bonds. if any thing had been lost on them, it would have been our loss. if any thing was gained then, by damages on appeals &c., it should be our gain by a principle acknoleged in all...
5357To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 21 July 1785 (Adams Papers)
I am honored with your esteemed Letter of the 5 th March last, and congratulate You on your appointment to that Court, where it was so much for the interest of these States to have a Minister— In my last letters of the 11 th & 19 th April, I attempted to give You some account of the Spirit of the People in this part of the Continent, on account of the unequal trade between the U States and G...
5358To George Washington from David Stuart, 23 June 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from David Stuart, 23 June 1788. On 27 June GW wrote that his “letter of the 23d . . . came duly to hand.”
5359Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 13 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The sum of two thousand five Dollars is necessary to be advanced to take up notes which were given for money advanced for the household of the President of the United States previous to the organization of the Treasury Department. This sum added to two thousand Dollars which you have already advanced for the purpose of taking up Notes, will compleat the payment of all Monies advanced for the...
5360From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 18 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
By an omission Lieut: Y. How’s name was left out in the definitive arrangement of the Officers of the 11th Regt. forwarded to you. he is to be placed 10th. 2. Lieutenant. with great respect Sir ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
5361To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to Mr. Jefferson one of the most striking productions he has ever read. The Author fled from the place in which it was written and has become an inhabitant of the U.S. Mr. Coxe has promised to return it carefully. He is very sorry to inform Mr. Jefferson that the Pragers are not drawing nor can he find any Bills on Holland. He had some communication with Mr....
5362John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of January 23 d. by Captain Barnard reached me two or three days ago. I am a little surprized that you had not at that date received any letters from me later than July. But indeed the intercourse between America and Holland is so precarious and interrupted that it is scarcely possible that a letter should pass from the one to the other in a shorter time than four or five months....
5363To James Madison from Israel Pickens, 4 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 December 1811, Washington. A vacancy has occurred with the death of the collector at Washington, North Carolina, and he has received a letter from Col. Henry Selby, who is seeking the appointment. His acquaintance with Selby is “very limited,” being confined to one session in the North Carolina Senate, but he believes him to be “a reputable worthy citizen” who would make a good collector. RC...
5364II. The Commissioners to the Comte de Vergennes, 9 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
Some late Proceedings of the Enemy, have induced us, to submit a few Observations to your Excellency’s superior Lights and Judgement. His Britannic Majesty’s Commissioners, in their Manifesto of the 3d of October, have denounced “a Change in the whole Nature and future Conduct of the War,” they have declared “that the Policy as well as Benevolence of Great Britain, have thus far checked the...
5365James Madison to Henry Lee, 14 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
private I have recd. your letter of June 5th. under cover of one from Mr P A. Jay of New York. I find that you have been misled on the subject of Mr Jefferson’s letter to me of Decr. 28. 1794., by an unlucky misprint of Jay for Joy (G. Joy in London) the writer of the letter to which Mr. Jefferson refers. This letter has no reference to Mr. Jay nor to any thing that could be within the scope...
5366To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 28 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
It is now time to deposit at West-Point as much wood as will be necessary for the use of the garrison the ensuing winter. If it be practicable to determine, at this time, what shall be the strength of the garrison, and the number and ranks of the officers, I will lay in forage, as well as wood, in proportion, as soon as I am favoured with your Excellency’s decision thereon. The wood I propose...
5367From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
You make me very happy when you Say, that you agree with me upon the Subject of the Perfectibility of Man. Let every Man endeavor to amend and improve one and We Shall find ourselves in the right Road to all the Perfection We are capable of: but this rule Should by no means exclude our utmost exertions to amend and improve others, and in every Way and by all means in our Power to ameliorate...
5368From John Jay to Alexander McDougall, 23 March 1776 (Jay Papers)
When the Clerk of the Congress gave me the printed Papers which I enclosed you, he told me they contained the Navy Establishment. Whatever Deficiencies there may be in them as to that Matter will I hope be supplied by the Extract now enclosed. As to continental Colors, the Congress have made no order as yet respecting them, and I believe the Captains of their armed Vessels have in that...
5369To Thomas Jefferson from David Stone, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed note from Mr. Stanley contains a recommendation of Mr Selden Jasper as Surveyor at Slade’s Creek. No other person at this place has any knowledge of Mr Jasper or any one else in that quarter RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR ); addressed: “The President of the United States.” Enclosure: John Stanly to Stone, undated, suggesting that Selden Jasper would discharge the duties of surveyor at...
5370To James Madison from Gabriel Duvall, 6 June 1800 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 13th. ulto. came duly to hand. A constant attendance in our General Court, has hitherto prevented me from acknowledging the receipt of it. I never had an Idea of undertaking a formal explanation or defence of the letter to Mazzei, imputed to Mr. Jefferson. As he has thought proper to be silent about it, it would be improper, perhaps indelicate, for any of his friends to...