7089123d. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Waited in the Morning on Mr. Chaumont, agreed to go tomorrow Morning, on board the Sensible to make my Visit to the Commander. Went to the Lodging of Mr. Ingraham and Blodget. where about 8 or 10 Americans Breakfast every Morning and drink Punch every Evening. Took a Walk with Mr. Ingraham about the Town and then went and dined with Mr. Puchelberg. This is a modest and a decent German. He says...
70892To Alexander Hamilton from Stephen Van Rensselaer, 11 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ January 11, 1799. On January 27, 1799, Hamilton wrote to Van Rensselaer , “I ought to beg your pardon for not having before answered your letters of the 12th of Novem and 11th instant.” Letter of January 11, 1799, not found. ]
70893From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 7 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of yesterday is this moment received. Not a line from Mr Pinckney. I fancy he left London for Madrid about the 8th or 10th of May —Nor has the government any thing but News-paper accounts of the order you allude to. Yours ever & Affectly ALS , DLC : Alexander Hamilton Papers. This letter has not been found. Thomas Pinckney left England for Spain on 11 May. The British order in...
70894From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
The arrival of Mr Bayard, & Galatin, my dear Madam, has made so little alteration in our situation, that I have little or nothing to write you, but complaints, of the prospect I have of a much lengthen’d stay in this Country: and the additional grief of losing the society of my Sister, which was almost the only thing left me to render life supportable. Mr A is even more buried in study than...
70895To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
M r. Parker furnishes me an opportunity of acknoleging the receipt of your favors of Nov. 10. Dec. 6. 10. 18. & 25. which I avoid doing thro post. the orders on the subject of our captives at Algiers have come to me by the last packet. they are to be kept secret even from the captives themselves, lest a knolege of the interference of government should excite too extravagant demands. the...
70896To Thomas Jefferson from United States House of Representatives, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House, any information which may be in the possession of the Executive Department, relative to the state and condition of the fortifications, which may have been erected at the several ports and harbours within the United States, and the territories thereof.; and also, the amount of money which has...
70897From George Washington to Colonel David Hall, 28 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
On receipt of this letter you will be pleased to lose no time in marching your regiment to join the Brigade to which it belongs—You will take the route by morris town, Pompton—Ringwood Junes in the Clove & by Dean furnace to the encampment of the Maryland division. I am Sr Df , in Richard Kidder Meade’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . The letter is addressed to “Col. David Hall...
70898To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 1 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
As I am writing to Mr Fitzgerald I take the liberty under a Cover to Him to inclose Your Excellency a description of Messrs McCabe & Pearce’s new invented double Loom for weaving two peices at the same time, & which description is annexd to the Report of a Committee of the Irish House of Commons upon the utility & benefit of such a Loom. Since Mr Wm Pearces embarkation hence to New York in May...
70899To John Adams from Thomas Digges, 2 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
You will have read, before this can reach you, the Gazette account of the Chas. Town Expedition; which is universally esteemed here rather a disagreeable account for Government, and plainly indicative of very great doubts if Clinton will succeed or not. I am perswaded by all I can hear He will be a second time disgraced and baffled in his attempts on that place. A parcell containing Pamphlets...
70900From George Washington to James McHenry, 29 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25th instt came to Alexandria Yesterday evening, and was put into my hands this morn. For the Rules & regulations accompanying it, I thank you; and will read them attentively, if I am allowed time; but this is questionable, as I am assailed from all quarters, and by all descriptions of People, for Commissions, Introductions, recommendations, &ca to all of which common...
70901[Diary entry: 15 July 1768] (Washington Papers)
15. Went over again & drove back by Rain about One Oclock, which continued all the Afternoon.
70902From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to you in date May 27. Sep. 8. and Jan. 31. last past inclosing several remittances for Mr. Mazzei and one for myself by triplicates, to which I refer you. If there be any indiscretion in the application I am now about to make to you, ascribe it to the sentiments of friendship and confidence with which your conduct has inspired me, and which I had wished to make reciprocal, and...
70903To James Madison from John Wilson, 8 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 November 1804, Washington. Narrowed circumstances and “an ardent desire to obtain a sort of establishment” leads him to apply to JM for “a specie of friendship which has, so far, proved unavailing in others.” Has a wife and two children to support and moved to Washington from Norfolk County two years ago. Encloses a letter [not found] from Gabriel Duvall. “It is true Mr Nourse offered me a...
70904To Thomas Jefferson from John Millar, 18 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1797 having occasion to investigate the means of subuing and preventing Contagious Fevers , that which had proved so fatal to the Citizens of Philadelphia, became of course, a subject of consideration. The Book was sent to Dr Rush by Mr Perry and I have observed that he had in some subsequent publications retracted some opinions he formerly held on that subject, and with great...
70905Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 9 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
Last Evening was marrid at the Seat of the President of the united states, by the Revd mr Weld mr Ebeneazer Harmon to miss Abigail Hunt. please to inform miss Rebecca Tirril of this auspicious Event. as I am a great friend to Matrimony, and always like to promote it, where there is a prospect of happiness & comfort, and as Nabby had lived with me—and was about to marry the Brother of mrs...
70906To James Madison from William Harris Crawford, 3 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
Before I leave this place, I beg leave to suggest the necessity of removing Genl Wilkinson from the New Orleans Station. The importance of that place, should induce a selection of a military commander, whose character is above suspicion. That Genl Wilkinson is not an officer of that description, will I believe be universally admitted. Those who adhere to him are constrained to admit, that...
70907From George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, 2 February 1756 (Washington Papers)
I can but return my very hearty thanks for your kind condescension in suffering me to wait upon General Shirley; as I am very assured it was done with intention to favour my Suit. There is as yet an unanswerable argument against our taking the Field, which I forgot to mention in my last; that is, the want of a Train of Artillery; and, what is full as necessary, Engineers to conduct the Affair,...
70908To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 2 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Tengo la honra de rêmitír á V.S. el memoríal adjunto de un Español, persuadído á que es Justa su demanda. V.S. notará que funda su pretensíon sobr él tratado concluído entre las dos Nacíones, y que la palabra ní detencíon, es muy notable. Los caudales que tiene detenidos aquí por el embargo messarece que tiene derecho á sacarlos; y como no los puede sacar, sino ìmítando à los Amerícanos que...
70909To Benjamin Franklin from John Bondfield, 26 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Captain John Green arrived here the 23d Inst. to which port he had been carried by a privateer that took him on his passage from Philadelphia, he destroy’d all his Letters & papers these miscarriages cruelly suspend the execution of the proposed Operations of our friends on the other side whose disapointments as well as Loss’s come heavy. A Courier from...
70910To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 26 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 8. was the last with which I was favd. from you. The resolution of the French govt. to seize British manufactures is a severe stroke on the dry-goods traders, and all connected with them wh. comprehends the great mass of our people. On my part I wish they were permanently prohibited by law since I am satisfied the effect wod. be salutary to the general interests of America. But...
70911Constantine S. Rafinesque to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a few miles of Mountsterling , the county seat of Montgomery county , which lays 33 miles east from Lexington , there are a great number of earthen inclosures and mounds which I have lately visited & surveyed. Many of them are rapidly sinking under the plough, and some have even totally disappeared. This is more or less the case throughout the country, and it is therefore highly...
70912James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
Yes, lovely Portia, you have written to one “who lives in the continual practice of mortification and self denial,” who therefore can and does most “feelingly commiserate your situation.” I am pleased when You speak of my dis interested attachment to the public weal: for, I know you judge from Sensibilities to which the herd of worldlings are intire strangers. They would stare at your opinion,...
70913From Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Chase, 6 January 1784 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): American Philosophical Society I duly Receiv’d your Letter of the 18th. of September, with the Papers that accompanied it; but being at that time afflicted with two painful Disorders, the Gout and Gravel, I could not then give any Attention to Business; and before my Recovery, the Letters and Paper were both most unaccountably missing. I spent Hours from time to time in searching...
70914Method of Appointing the Executive, [25 July] 1787 (Madison Papers)
Ellsworth moved that the executive be chosen by the national legislature, except when an incumbent had served a “‘whole term … in which case the choice shall be by Electors’” chosen by the state legislatures ( Farrand, Records Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols.; New Haven, 1911–37). , II, 108–9). Mr. Madison. There are objections agst. every mode that has...
70915Introductory Note: New York Ratifying Convention, [17 June–26 July 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
On February 1, 1788, the New York legislature voted to call a convention to ratify or reject the proposed Constitution. Departing from the usual suffrage requirements, the legislature resolved that every free male citizen of twenty-one years or over was to have a vote. In the elections, held on the third Tuesday in April, Hamilton was elected one of the delegates to the New York Ratifying...
70916From Thomas Jefferson to Richard O’Bryen, 29 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter and shall exert myself for you. Be assured of hearing from me soon: but say nothing to any body except what may be necessary to comfort your companions. I add no more, because the fate of this letter is incertain. I am Sir Your very humble servant, PrC ( DLC ). Entry in SJPL reads: “O’Brien Richd. Captives.” Enclosed in the following letter.
70917From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 10 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Capt. Stratton arrived last night with the 4. hhds. of tobo. for which I gave you the bill of lading some time ago. He will call on you to-day. I should like that it were examined, because I believe, from the marks, that it is of the Bedford tobo.—I mentioned to you sometime ago that I believed I should have occasion for about 400. Dollars of this money, to be obtained by discount at the bank....
70918Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 20 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford I found here your two letters of Apr. 28. & May 4. I now inclose the note for 4300.D. signed. the deed to mr Taylor I immediately executed and forwarded to mr Randolph : but as the mail is slow between this & his residence, and it is to be acknoleged by him in his court and by me in mine, this will occupy time. but it will be all done & delivered before the 1 st...
70919To Benjamin Franklin from Sartine: Two Letters, 13 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
(I) and (II) Copy: Library of Congress J’ai reçu, Monsieur, la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire par laquelle vous me demandéz un Passeport pour un Batiment Anglois destiné a transporter de Plimouth ou Portsmouth des Prisonniers Americains, qui doivent etre debarqués à Morlaix; Je l’ai fait expedier sur le champ, et j’ai l’honneur de vous l’envoyer ci joint. J’ai l’honneur...
70920Answer of President and Directors of Rivanna Company to Thomas Jefferson’s Bill of Complaint, 7 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Answer of the President & Directors of the Rivanna Company to the Bill of Complaint exhibited in this honble Court against them by Thomas Jefferson These Respondents saving to themselves now & hereafter all manner of exceptions to the various matters & things set forth in the Plaintiff’s Bill of Complaint for Answer thereto, or to so much thereof as they are advised is necessary for them...