57421To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Brent, 2 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been particularly solicited by the signers of the enclosed memorial to lay it before you I will add nothing to the reasons urged by the memorialists—in favor of the appointment they solicit—or of Mr. Minifie the Gentleman recommended by them—except merely to add that this Memorial appears to be signed by a very respectable part of the Community residing in that quarter of the...
57422Abigail Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1792 (Adams Papers)
Such has been the weather Since you left me, that I cannot form any accurate judgment where you now are. I sometimes conjecture that you are not farther than Brookfield. at any rate you must have had an unpleasent week, tho perhaps not so severe a snow storm as we have had here. Monday afternoon & all twesday it raind then cleard up very cold and blustering. on fryday came on a snow storm wind...
57423To George Washington from Arthur St. Clair, 5 May 1774 (Washington Papers)
Tho. I am an utter Stranger I have taken the Liberty to write to you and request your Advice and Assistance for the Bearer Mrs Fraser the Widow of Mr John Fraser late of Bedford in this Province. Mr Fraser has in his life time often mentioned to me a great loss he met with at the Battle of the Meadows, and amongst his Papers, after his Death, an Account of it was found—The Colony of Virginia...
57424To James Madison from Rawdon and Balch, [ca. 21 September] 1819 (Madison Papers)
Rawdon & Balch engravers No. 65 State Street Albany are requested by Elkanah Watson Esqr. to transmit you a sample of diploma for Agricultural Societies, calculated for any State or County the price paid on delivery in this City or at the Store of Kirk & Merceière Wall Street, in the City of New-York is $10.. per 100 on drawing paper neatly press’d, or on parchment (for Officers & respectable...
57425From Alexander Hamilton to James Read, 12 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You will send the men of Captain Ingersoll’s company who may be in your garrison to west point as Soon as possible— With— ( Df . in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
57426To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine: Two Letters, 14 October 1779 (Franklin Papers)
(I) LS : American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress;(II) copy: Library of Congress Mr. L’Amiral, Monsieur, m’a fait passer un memoire qui lui à êté adressé par le nommé françois Vermeille qui represente que s’etant embarqué sur le Corsaire Americain le Revanche en 1777. il fut mis avec sept autres Marins sur une prise qu’ils conduisoient à Bilbao lorsqu’ils ont êté repris par...
57427To George Washington from Richard Bennett and Joanna Leigh Lloyd, 11 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
Mr and Mrs Lloyd present their respectful Compliments to His Excellency General Washington They fully intended themselves the honour of waiting on His Excellency on their way through this State—but the very rapid aproach of Winter, and the Children being somewhat indisposed to day—obliges Mr Ll: to settle his Family at Philadelphia, or in Maryland before he can have the honour of being at Head...
57428To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 13 September 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 13, 1790. “Inclosed herewith is the Weekly return of Money recd and paid … to the 11th. instant. Your letter dated the 17th. August mentions the rect. of my ‘Letter of the 23 July with a paid draught No. 325 of the Treasurer of the United States’ … it is erroneous, no bill of that No. having been paid by me.…” LC , RG 36, Collector of Customs at Portsmouth,...
57429To Thomas Jefferson from Claude Alexandre Ruelle, 31 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vois bien que les événemens qui ont menaçé la tranquillité de votre Patrie vous ont empêché de présenter au Congrès l’hommage de mon Contrat National. je conçois d’ailleurs qu’un Ouvrage de cette nature demande une attention presque exclusive. Cependant il ne peut pas vous être échappé, apres une simple lecture, que l’indépendance des Colonies Européennes, à laquelle le Commerce des...
57430Wednesday Novr. 26th. (Adams Papers)
Went again to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Magic Picture with the Quaker. The Magic Picture , London, 1783, by Henry Bate Dudley; The Quaker , London, 1777, by Charles Dibdin ( Biographia Dramatica David Erskine Baker and others, eds., Biographia Dramatica; Or, A Companion to the Play House ... , London, 1764-1812; 3 vols, in 4. ; DNB Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The...
57431James Madison to John H. Lee, 24 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 24th. Ult. was duly recd. a few days ago; and I have since recd. a letter from Docr. Hawes informing me that he had deposited the remittance of $1650. with wch. he was so good as to take charge in the Farmers B. Bank at Fredbg. I need not say how thankful Mrs. W. & myself are for this addition proof of your obliging attention, and intentions. I beg you to be assured Sir, of...
57432From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 28 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letters of the 14th, 20th, and 21st are come to hand, and your dispatches to Congress have been regularly forwarded. I shall attend to the caveat against Mr. Ochiltree’s bill. Your Letter to Colo. Senf remains still in my hand as it did not come till the enemy had taken possession of the ground on which I know him to have been, and I have since no certain information where a Letter might...
57433From George Washington to Charles Lee, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
This letter is for your eye only—It is written for the purpose of expressing my regret for your continued absence from the Seat of the Government. Rely upon it, it is productive of unpleasant remarks, in which I must be involved. It will, indeed is, considered as making a Sinecure of the Office. To suppose there is no particular occasion for the Law-Officer of the government at the Seat of it...
57434From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 26 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
Since writing my Invoice of the 10th Instt my Gardiner has furnish’d me with a compleat list of such Seeds as he will want, which please to send instead of the few then wrote for. I have also recollected some other Articles as underneath which I should be glad to have added to my Invoice & forwarded along with the other Goods, which will much oblige Your Most Obedt Servt ALB , DLC:GW . There...
57435From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 31 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
I hereby authorize & request you to execute the office of Secretary of State so far as to affix the seal of the U.S. to the inclosed commission to the present Secretary of State John Marshall of Virginia to be chief Justice of the U.S. & to certify, in your own name on the commission as executing the office of Secretary of State pro hac vice MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
57436From George Washington to James McHenry, 21 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Mount Vernon Septr 21st [1792]. Fearing some accident may have prevented my last (enclosing a letter for Mr Robt Smith) from reaching your hands, I take the liberty of giving you the trouble to receive this, requesting to be informed if this be the fact—and if not, what has been the result of your enquiries in the business Committed to you. I have had many applications in...
57437[Diary entry: 15 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. At home all day.
57438To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 13 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to request your Signature to the Warrant herewith enclosed for Samuel Johnson as a Gunner in the Navy, he is now acting on board the Adams, & is well recommended by Capn. Preble. With great respect, I have the honor to be Sir Your mo. obt Sert. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department...
57439To James Madison from Daniel Carroll Brent, 7 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have written to Colo: Newton, informing him that I would forward to you the enclosed letters from him. By the advice of Gen: Dearborn I intimated likewise that it might be well for him to interpose, in such way as he should think best adapted to the occasion, to procure the discharge of any of our seamen, detained in the British Squadron, without referring the proofs to this office, and...
57440The American Peace Commissioners to Robert R. Livingston, 14 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
We have the honour to congratulate Congress on the Signature of the Preliminaries of a Peace between the Crown of Great Britain & the United States of America, to be inserted in a definitive Treaty so soon as the Terms between the Crowns of France & Great Britain shall be agreed on. A Copy of the Articles is here inclosed, and we cannot but flatter ourselves; that they will appear to Congress...
57441From George Washington to William Temple Franklin, 26 September 1785 (Washington Papers)
The last post gave me the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 20th inst: covering, among others, a letter from the Marquis de la Fayette, who speaks of you to me in very advantageous terms. but your own merit Sir, of which I have heard frequent mention, is alone sufficient to impress me with very favourable sentiments of you; of which I should be happy to give you personal assurances at...
57442From George Washington to Samuel Adams, 22 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Amidst a multiplicity of Business smaller matters are apt to be overlook’d—this I conceive to be the case with respect to the proposition of a Colo. Baillie, for opening a Road from Connecticut River to Montreal, and which I laid before Congress for their direction some Months ago—The matter again occurs upon a Second application, from Mr Weatherspoon (the bearer, at, as I understand, the...
57443To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 25 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to send your Excellency some months ago a specimen of my last work under the title of Literary and Political Fragments during a journey to Berlin. It was to have been forwarded to you, my General, by——Boinod, bookseller in Philadelphia. I wish that the new homage which I have rendered with so much pleasure to your exalted merit, may interest you. Your Excellency will see that I...
57444From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasonable and friendly views with which you have been instructed by the President to enter into negociations with the French Government justify him in expecting from them an issue favorable to the tranquillity and to the useful relations between the two Countries. It is not forgotten however that these views, instead of being reciprocal, may find, on the part of France, a temper adverse...
57445To Thomas Jefferson from Elias Vanderhorst, 3 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Bristol, 3 Sep. 1793 . Contrary to his 1 Sep. letter by this conveyance, in which he reported advice from Messrs. Hellicar, the most considerable corn factors here, that British ports were to have been closed to foreign wheat, they just now inform him of an announcement in the last Gazette that they will be permitted until 30 Nov. at the second low duty of six pence per quarter. This seems to...
57446To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 20 July 1821 (Madison Papers)
Excuse me of taking the liberty to send you one of the papers inclosed within concerning the African Abolition of Slave Trade. RC ( DLC ). Addressed to JM at Washington, and franked. Docketed by JM: “Africans in Boston, Celebration by.” JM’s copy of this broadside, entitled Celebration of Freedom (Boston, 1821; Shoemaker 4931), with text that begins: “Monday the Africans and descendants of...
57447Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Doric Ornamentation for University of Virginia Pavilions, [ca. 10 April 1823] (Jefferson Papers)
Doric rooms N o 2. 8 I. sq. we have not 5. 9. sq. Palladio 1. 16 we have not 6. 9 i sq. Dioclesian’s baths 9. 9 I. sq. Dioclesian baths 10. 8 I. sq.
57448To John Adams from Benjamin Kent, 24 April 1776 (Adams Papers)
When I had the last pleasure of your company at Watertown I told you, I would write you when Our Attack upon the Kings Troops shou ld afford matter of Some importance. But alass their fears of their demerits, made em flee when no man pursued ’em, and may they eat the fruit of their doings and be fill’d with their own Devices. But to the Purpose. What in the name of Common Sense , are you...
57449To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 13 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following appointments in the First Legion of the Militia of the District of Columbia viz. Joseph Cassin to be appointed Captain of Light Infantry McCauley Haynes to be appointed Lieutenant ditto William Dyson to be appointed Ensign ditto Accept, Sir, assurances of my high respect & consideration. PHi : Daniel Parker Papers.
57450From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 9 [July] 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
You were so kind as to say you would write to our bankers in Holland to answer my draught for a part of the balance due me for salary &c. I suppose in fact it will be necessary to clear their minds on the subject, for tho’ they know that the diplomatic expences in Europe were paid on the funds in their hands, yet as I am here they will naturally expect your instructions should accompany my...