68701From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 20 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 13th Inst. has been duly received. It would oblige me very much if you could procure, and send ⟨me⟩ by the first opportunity which may offer, one bushel of English, or blue grass seeds, Fresh & good —without which, or if it be defective, or foul, my purpose—which is to sow a Lawn before my door, would not be answered. If Blue grass-seeds cannot be obtained, send white clover...
68702From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 20 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Since your departure from Mount Eagle, I have been favored with three letters from you. The first, dated in Hampton Road, June the 17th, came speedily to hand—the 2d, begun on the 21st and ended the 23d of August, in London, and the 3d from York of the 7th of September, have also been received ⟨at the⟩ following times—viz.—That from York, a day or two before I commenced a journey for...
68703From George Washington to John Sinclair, 20 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
On the 10th of last July I had the honor to write you a pretty long letter on various subjects—and hearing, some considerable time afterwards, that the Ship (Suffolk) by which it had been sent, was Captured by a French Cruiser, from whence none of my letters ever reach[ed] their Address—I did, not long since, transmit a duplicate; which, though unaccompanied with the early Wheat that the above...
68704From George Washington to James Washington, 20 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Through the goodness of Mr Adams, the American Minister at Berlin, I am indebted for the safe conveyance of your letter dated the 19th of Octr in that City: and through the same medium I have the honour to present this acknowledgement of it. There can be but little doubt, Sir, of our descending from the same stock, as the branches of it proceeded from the same Country. At what time your...
68705To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 20 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return here from Bermuda-Hundred I found your last letter & as an opportunity to Petersburg offers I inclose two plats one of the Lands lying immediately at the Hundred and the other of My part of Martins Swamp. My Father has always estimated the 2 pieces at £6000—So anxious am I however to purchase higher up the Country that I would willingly make a sacrifice—You are as well acquainted...
68706To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 20 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 10th. & 12th. both came to hand by last nights post—your draughts therein mentioned, in favor of Mr. Strange for £95.8., and Mr. Richard for $:1200—, are accepted. With respect to my having paid freight on your things up the river contrary to your direction; I have to observe—that I perfectly recollect your having given me such direction—and, as perfectly, that I have never...
68707To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, [19 January 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
[ London, January 19, 1799 . Letter not found. ] Letter listed in “Memorandum of Private Letters, &c., dates & persons, from 1796 to Augt 1802,” owned by Mr. James G. King, New York City.
68708From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be handed to you by Mr. Brinley a Gentleman of New Port who is on the list of nominations of Lieutenants. You will find among the letters very strong recommendations of this Gentleman. I very well remember that the General Officers lately convened at Philadelphia hesitated not a little between this Gentleman & Mr. Ellery for the command of a Company & that finally it was agreed to...
68709[Diary entry: 19 January 1799] (Washington Papers)
19. Morning misting—afterwards Slow rain at Intervals. Wind what there was of it in the same quarter. Nelly Custis accompanied by Doctr. & Mrs. Stuart and their three daughters came to Dinner. Mer. 36.
68710To Thomas Jefferson from Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 19 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
It is only in the beginning of this week that I had the pleasure to receive your favor of 30 Nov: /: it having remained the whole time at the Post office in Brunswick:/ two days afterwards a gentelman on his way to Philadelphia left me a letter from General Kosciuszko, when I was to aknowledge You the receipt of both I received your kind letter of 16 present. Accept Sir my warmest thanks for...
68711To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
We remained at Monticello after you left us till Christmas day on which we paid a visit to George Divers with as many as we could carry; Virginia, Nancy & Ellen-we passed the Christmas with Divers, P. Carr, & Mrs. Trist; assisted at a ball in Charlottesville on the first day of the year and returned on the 4th. to Monticello where we found our children (whom I had not neglected to visit) in...
68712From John Adams to United States Congress, 18 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
The communication relative to our affairs with France alluded to in my address to both houses at the opening of congress the session is contained in the sheets which accompany this. A report of the Secretary of State, containing some observations on them, will be sent to congress on Monday DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
68713To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 18 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
On examining the alterations you have directed in the report on Mr. Gerry’s communications, one appears to me to leave unfounded and unconnected many of my observations, and on a very important point. Mr. Gerry in his letter of Oct. 1 has expressed an opinion of a most mischievous tendency. He says “Before the arrival of the dispatches of the Envoys, the Minister appeared to me sincere, and...
68714To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 18 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
When I wrote you a long letter the other day, I as little expected to intrude upon you again so soon, as that, our domestic tranquility would so soon , be seriously threatened. Leave has been given within a few days past, in our Legislature, to bring in a bill, authorising persons taken up under the sedition Law, to be removed to State Courts, or to be released , should our Judges see cause....
68715To Alexander Hamilton from Susan Kean, 18 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Elizabethtown, New Jersey, January 18, 1799. On January 23, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Susan Kean and referred to her “letter of the 18th instant.” Letter not found. ] Susan Kean, the daughter of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, was the widow of John Kean. Kean, a member of Congress from South Carolina from 1785 to 1787, had been cashier of the Bank of the United States from its founding in 1791...
68716[Diary entry: 18 January 1799] (Washington Papers)
18. Heavy morning (a fog). Little or no Wind & that Southeasterly. Afternoon clear. Mer. 36.
68717From John Jay to James Morris, 18 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find by various and concurrent acc ts . from ^New^ York that your appointment has given general Satisfaction, and excited sanguine Expectations ^that the^ office ^will be executed^ in an exemplary manner. My Sollicitude that ^you may derive no less Honor than Proffit from it, urges^ me to take the Liberty of observing, that in my opinion—— your Deputies should be...
68718To John Adams from James F. Armstrong, 17 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
Pure necessity compels me to present myself once more before the President of the United States as an Applicant for some place or office in his power to confer.—My rheumatick complaint has been so severe during great part of the winter as to render the discharge of my duties which require activity or exposure to sudden changes of weather dangerous to my health.—Any place or office whose duties...
68719To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 17 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 17, 1799. The summary of this letter reads: “On Duer’s wretched condition.” Letter not found. ] Letter listed in “Calendar Summary of Philip Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton Papers,” Personal Miscellaneous, Box 6, Schuyler, MS Division, New York Public Library. See Wolcott to H, September 19, 1798 .
68720To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 17 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ January 17, 1799. On March 7, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Pinckney : “I duly received… Your letter of the 17th of January.” Letter not found. ]
68721To Alexander Hamilton from William Duer, 17 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I Enclose you agreably to my Promise a Copy of Mr. Wolcotts Letter to the Keeper of the Prison. On an attentive Perusal It appears clearly to me that the Indulgence granted by Mr. Wolcott was in Consequence of the Epidemic prevailing in the Jail, and it may be construed to terminate with the Extinction of the Contagion. Nevertheless, The Stipulation proposed in the Letter is, That I should...
68722[Diary entry: 17 January 1799] (Washington Papers)
17. Clear & calm in the Morning & a white frost. Mer. 30 in the Morning & 40 at Night. Clear all day with very little wind—that Easterly.
68723From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my dear Martha Dec. 27. and to yourself Jan. 3. I am afraid my nailery will stop from the want of rod. 3 tons were sent from hence Dec. 11. the vessel was blown off the capes and deserted by the crew. she has been taken up at sea and carried into Albemarle Sound. we are in hopes however of getting off another supply from here immediately as the river bids fair to open. the shutting...
68724Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 16 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your Letter of Jan’ry 6th, with the News papers to the 7th Clapole excepted; which usually has the first debates, so that I got no debate later than I received on saturday of the 5th However inaccurate the Printers may report the debates in Philadelphia: is best known to those who deliver, and those who hear them. when curtaild, and retaild by our Printers they are...
68725John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, Tuesday when the Levee Room began to be thin Brisler came running in, with the delightful sounds “Sir, Mr Adams is up Stairs.” I was not long in mounting the escalier and had the high Pleasure of embracing my dear son Thomas after an Absence of four years & an half.— We had a very happy Evening and he has had a good nights rest after the fatigues of his Voyage & Journey. He seems in...
68726William Cranch to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I inclose a letter to my Mother under Cover to you, because it contains some things which perhaps might give pain to my father in his present weak state of health. You will be so kind therefore as to give it to my Mother in such a manner that she may have it in her power to communicate only such parts as she may think proper. I am rejoiced to hear of your recovery from the dangerous illness...
68727From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 16 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
You will receive herewith the Draft of a Bill for a provisional army. It includes only those things of the former Bill which are appropriate to this object—the other parts of that Bill being now in full force. The operation of the Bill which has been already sent you renders the repetition of several clauses in the present un [ne]cessary. The aim indeed ought to be to have a fundamental...
68728[Diary entry: 16 January 1799] (Washington Papers)
16. Clear. Mer. 38. Wind at No. W. in the Morning but moderate calm and exceedingly pleasant afterwards.
68729To George Washington from Francis Deakins, 16 January 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Francis Deakins, 16 Jan. 1799. On 25 Jan. GW wrote Deakins : “Your letter of the 16th instant . . . is received.”
68730To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
The forgery lately attempted to be plaid off by mr. H. on the house of representatives, of a pretended memorial presented by Logan to the French government, has been so palpably exposed as to have thrown ridicule on the whole of the clamours they endeavored to raise as to that transaction. Still however their majority will pass the bill. The real views in the importance they have given to...
68731From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
The forgery lately attempted to be plaid off by mr H. on the house of representatives, of a pretended memorial presented by Logan to the French government, has been so palpably exposed as to have thrown ridicule on the whole of the clamours they endeavored to raise as to that transaction. still however their majority will pass the bill. the real views in the importance they have given to...
68732From Thomas Jefferson to Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 16 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor which I recieved at Monticello was so long on the road that I expected you would be with us yourself very soon after. finding however the season advance beyond the time for expecting you, without these expectations being realised, I wrote to you and directed my letter to be put into mr Mc.lure’s hands, and I hope you got it safely. on my arrival here I recieved a letter from Genl...
68733John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
We received your short Letter of 19. November written just as the pilot from the mouth of the Elbe was about to leave you. Since that time untill this day, we have had almost incessantly Easterly winds blowing, and we hope that you enjoyed the benefit of them, and long before this, find yourself restored to the bosom of our Country and friends. Since your departure several circumstances have...
68734William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letters of Jan. 3 d & 6 th with all that pleasure & gratitude which so much good counsel deserved. I do love to read your letters. Before this reaches you, you must have heard of Cousen Thomas’s arrival at N York, from whence he wrote to you. He arrived in this city this afternoon, & is very well. It would do you good to see how happy it has made Uncle. I wish Aunt was...
68735From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States requests the Secretary of State to prepare the Draught of a Project of a Treaty, and a Consular Convention such as in his opinion might at this day be acceeded to by the United States if proposed by France. It is his Desire that the Secretary of State would avail himself of the Advice and Assistance of all the heads of Departments in the formation of this...
68736From John Adams to United States Senate, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
In the list of gentlemen nominated for appointments in the army I am informed, two from New York, by mistake, have been misnamed. Instead of Mathew Paulding, nominated for a lieutenant, it should have been Nathaniel Paulding; and instead of John Cooper, nominated for an ensign, it should have been, Joseph C. Cooper. I request that these names maybe accordingly corrected DNA : RG 46—Records of...
68737From John Adams to United States Senate, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I transmit to you the treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Indians signed near Tellico on the second day of October 1798 for your consideration. I have directed the Secretary at War to lay before you the journal of the commissioners and a copy of their instructions. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
68738From John Adams to United States Senate, 15 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I transmit to you the treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, signed near Tellico, on the second day of October, 1798, for your consideration. I have directed the Secretary of War to lay before you the journal of the commissioners, and a copy of their instructions. Printed Source--American State Papers. 38 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1831-61)..
68739From Alexander Hamilton to Robert Liston, 15 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 15, 1799. On January 20, 1799, Liston wrote to Hamilton : “Mr. Brunel delivered to me yesterday your letter of the 15th of this month.” Letter not found. ] Marc Isambard Brunel was a French engineer who had lived in New York City since at least 1797.
68740From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, [15 January 1799] (Hamilton Papers)
I find I cannot have ready for this days post the bill for the Provisional army. Inclosed are some additional clauses relating to organisation consequently to be inserted in the Bill sent by yesterdays post. You will easily determine their proper position there. They are necessary to systematic propriety. General provisions of this kind will prevent continual repetitions in every new law...
68741To Alexander Hamilton from Silas Talbot, 15 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, January 15, 1799. “The relative Rank of several persons who have been honored with an appointment as Captains in the Navy of the United States not having as yet been seeded by the Honorable the Executive, and as some of those Officers claim of right the same rank, it follows of course, that, the good of the service requires this difference of opinion to be settled. It being the wish...
68742[Diary entry: 15 January 1799] (Washington Papers)
15. Perfectly clear & calm in the Morning. Mer. at 36. Wind afterwards fresh but not hard at N. W.
68743From George Washington to Patrick Henry, 15 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
At the threshold of this letter, I ought to make an apology for its contents; but if you will give me credit for my motives, I will contend for no more, however erroneous my sentiments may appear to you. It would be a waste of time, to attempt to bring to the view of a person of your observation & discernment, the endeavors of a certain party among us, to disquiet the Public mind with...
68744From John Jay to Daniel Hale, 15 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
At the General Sessions of the peace held in and for the ^city and^ County of New York on the first Tuesday in June last, Elizabeth Murphy and Bella Bean were convicted of keeping a disorderly House and sentenced to pay a Fine of thirty Dollars each, and to be committed to Bridewell untill the same be paid— Prepare a pardon for each of them ALS , Harlan Crow Library. Addressed: “Dan l . Hale...
68745To James Madison from John Dawson, 15 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
We have no mail on this morning, which prevents my hearing from Virginia. The president has not yet made the promisd communication, nor can we account for it—attempts made to cast censure on Logan for his trip to Europe have recoild on the authors, whose conduct has been wonderfully imprudent & unwise —at present we are engagd on the old subject of a Bankrupt law, which after taking up much...
68746To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 15 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
The preceding is a copy of a notice which Mr. Call, (who has taken charge of Mr. Washington’s business) gave me a few days ago; the original of which I forwarded by this mornings post to Mr. Randolph, with a request that he will have it executed and returned to me. Mr. C. called to advise with me upon the subject, & concurred in opinion with me that this would be a better plan, than sending it...
68747Notes on Comments by John Adams, [1–14 January 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
In a conversation with Dr. Ewen , who told the Presidt one of his sons was an Aristocrat the other a Democrat, the P. asked if it was not the youngest who was the Democrat. yes, said Ewen. well said the Presidt. a boy of 15. who is not a democrat is good for nothing. & he is no better who is a democrat at 20. Ewen told Hurt , and Hurt told me. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 105:17951); entirely in TJ’s...
68748Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 14 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
your Aunt Cranch received a Letter from your Mother of Jan ry 1st in which she makes mention of having received a Letter from you: I wrote to her soon after she returnd Home, and sent the Letter to Boston. it was given to some private hand, and never has reachd her. I have since written to her by the post. She and your sister were well, and Abbes Arm much better for the application of Hughes...
68749To John Adams from James McHenry, 14 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
The General Officers, having in their List of Gentlemen, recommended for nomination, to Senate, for appointments in the Army of the United States, misnamed two from New York, Viz. Nathaniel Paulding, recommended for a Lieutenancy, and Joseph C Cooper for an Ensigncy, by calling the former Matthew, and the latter John, and the Senate having, in consequence of the misnosmer, suspended the...
68750To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 14 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
It is some days since I was made happy by the receipt of your kind favor of the 18th. Ulto. A man of your lively feelings, can easily guess what my sensations were, on receiving this letter, when I tell you, that I had actually concluded you had forgotten me: and not so much on account of your not acknowledging the rect of my pamphlet of June last as having two, if not three, other...