73171To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 29 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Smith delivered your Excellency’s Letter of the twenty eighth, between four and five Yesterday Afternoon. You mention having had Intimations, that under the Idea of the Cessation of Hostilities a Number of People intend to come over from New York to our Lines, and express your particular Desire that no Persons coming from the Enemy may be permitted to Land, except the Commissioners and...
73172From Alexander Hamilton to Rufus King, [15 July 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
I received your letter by the last Post but one. I immediately sat about circulating an idea, that it would be injurious to the City to have Duane elected—as the probability was, that some very unfit character would be his successor. My object was to have this sentiment communicated to our members. But a stop was put to my measures, by a letter received from Burr, announcing that at a general...
73173From George Washington to Daniel Parker, 28 April 1783 (Washington Papers)
Being informed by Colo. Humphry, as well as by your Letter to me, that you have been induced to accept, for the present, the superintendence of the Embarkation from N. York of the Tories and Refugees who are leaving the Country, and to prevent if possible, their carrying off any Negroes or other property of the Inhabitants of the United States; and having seen Sir Guy Carletons Orders on this...
73174From George Washington to Colonel Seth Warner, 31 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd yours of the 10th Instant by Ensign Tolman to whom I have given a Warrt for 4400 dollars for Bounty to 44 Men inlisted previous to the 23d Jany 1779 and a Warrant for 5000 dollars for the purpose of recruiting —Congress not having determined upon filling the additional Battalions, among which yours is included, I do not at present look upon myself authorised to give you liberty to...
73175To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 25 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eû l’honneur de recevoir çe Matin Vos 2 Lettres du 21 et 24— 1) Je suis penetrè de reconnaissance de l’obligeance extreme, avec la quelle Vous m’avez bien voulu a tous les points. 2) Je n’ai—malheureusement plus rien de çe, que Vous demandez—mais j’enverrais Copie de votre Lettre a Paris. 3) Je Vous enverrais sans faute les autres Volumes du Botan. Cultivateur, aussitot, que le manquant...
73176To George Washington from Colonel Josias Carvil Hall, 18 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to my Instructions I shall send off for Wilmington this Week about 300 Recruits. I have not yet been to Frederick Town or the Eastern Shore of Maryld where they have more collected. In most of the Counties I believe they will nearly raise their Quotas without the necessity of a Draught. But in a few Days the Term for recruiting expires when I shall be able to form a Judgement with...
73177[Diary entry: 7 June 1799] (Washington Papers)
7. Morning calm & very heavy—Mer. at 66. Very likely for rain all day—with thunder about Noon & showers to the So. ward & Eastward of us. Mer. 68 at Night.
73178To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The information contained in this letter is certainly important. It explains what I heard that General Hovey or Ovey of Genessee was connected with Phelps & went last summer to the westward with an intention of ascending the Mississippi as high as St. Anthony’s fall. He however went no farther than the falls of the Ohio, where he formed a plan to cut a cannal around the same. Powers should be...
73179Cash Accounts, January 1767 (Washington Papers)
Cash To Cash upon hand viz. In Virginia Paper £160.7.9 English Silver 1.5.7 £161.13.4 Dollars viz. 74¾ @7/6 28.15.6 Jany 13— To Cash of Geo. Wm Fairfax Esqr. 30. 0.0 14— To Ditto of Mr Relfe of Philada 17. 0.0 19— To Ditto from Mr Gibson for 23 Bushls of Flax Seed @4/ 4.12.0 Contra Jany 13— By Jno. Askew pr Lund Washington Balle 1.13.0 14—
73180General Orders, 4 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Colonels and commanding officers of Regiments, are to make out Pay-Abstracts, for the Month of May; These are to be carefully examined by the Brigadiers under whom they serve, and by the Pay Master General, before the Warrants are brought to be signed by the General, they are then to deliver them in and receive payment. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . “Henshaw’s Orderly Book,” “The Orderly...
73181[Diary entry: 17 April 1795] (Washington Papers)
17. Bladensburgh.
73182Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1788 (Adams Papers)
I got home the Friday-noon after I left you, & had the great satisfaction of finding all well—my little Daughters humour much abated, & was going of without a sore forming under her chin, as the Dr feared— But I soon had a bitter ingredient thrown into my lap, by hearing the complaints of my faithful Servant Lidia, who had every Symtom of a voilent fever coming upon her— The Dr thinks her...
73183[June 6. 1778] (Adams Papers)
We wrote the following Letter We had Yesterday the favour of your Letter of 31st. of May, from the Harbour of Paimbeuf, and We congratulate you, on your safe Arrival in France, as well as your fortunate Passage through the dangers at Rhode Island; but more especially on the honor, which You, your Officers and Men have acquired, in your gallant Rencounter with the Enemies Ships on that Station....
73184To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1793 (Madison Papers)
I overtook the President at Baltimore, & we arrived here yesterday, myself fleeced of seventy odd dollars to get from Fredericksburg here, the stages running no further than Baltimore. I mention this to put yourself & Monroe on your guard. The fever in Phila. has so much abated as to have almost disappeared. The inhabitants are about returning. It has been determined that the President shall...
731851760 [i.e. 1761]. Jany. 2nd. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Nathl. Bayley Administrator v. Nathll. Niles.—Plea in Abatement. Defendant lives on the Castle, within the Town of Boston but is called of Braintree. It seems he was born in Braintree, owns a House And Land in Braintree, and for about six Weeks past his Wife and family have lived in Braintree. The Question is therefore whether his Non Residence is a good Plea? He has not lived in Town these...
73186From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 7 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
The plan of your father to follow us as far as the cross roads to Dedham prevented my taking leave of you I therefore hasten to write you a few lines in explanation and to let you know how we go on—Our journey was tolerably pleasant until we reached Blakes at West Greenwich where the Coachman was taken sick and we were obliged to hurry on to New London as I was impatient to consult a...
73187To Thomas Jefferson from John Shee, 16 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Philadelphia republican militia Legion, have by aproceeding as honorable to their principles, and their public Spirit; as it is grateful to me, and auspicious to the American Nation; requested of me, as their commandant; to tender to the President of the United States; the proffer of their public and effective services on any duty, which the public interests and safety may require. With...
73188From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 24 September 1782 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Unsigned letter in JM’s hand. Cover missing. Randolph docketed the letter, “Sepr. 24. 1782.” Although the text is on folio 12 in LC : Madison Papers, III, the quotations enclosed with the letter are on folio 24a in Volume II. Number 24b of that volume comprises two other folios on which, for his own files, JM drafted and largely encoded the fourth paragraph of the...
73189Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 15 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home must apologise for this late acknolegement of your favor of Sep. 26. — I was desired by the late mr Peter Carr and some of the Commissioners for the academy proposed to be established in Albemarle to furnish them with a plan for the institution. I accordingly communicated to them the best I could devise, after an enquiry of many years into the nature of similar...
73190[Diary entry: 25 September 1769] (Washington Papers)
25. Rid to Muddy hole Doeg Run & Mill.
73191From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mine of Feb. 6. acknoleged the receipt of yours of Dec. 9. and 20. Since that, those of Feb. 19. and 20. are come to hand. The present will be delivered you by Mr. Warville, whom you will find truly estimable, and a great enthusiast for liberty. His writings will have shewn you this. For public news I must refer you to my letter to Mr. Jay. Those I wrote to him from Amsterdam will have...
73192From Benjamin Franklin to Silas Deane, 3 July 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Connecticut Historical Society I have just received the inclos’d from St. Malo, which I send for your Consideration, and as Capt. Wickes will want Credit there, perhaps it may be well to accept the Offers of these Gentlemen. I shall be satisfy’d perfectly with what you may think proper to do on the Occasion. I am, with great Esteem, Your most obedient humble Servt. Endorsed: Dr. Franklin...
73193From John Adams to William Cunningham, 14 February 1809 (Adams Papers)
The complaint in your favour of the 11th, of the refusal to publish your Chathams, is no suprise to me. I have seen nothing in the four federal papers of Boston, for the last year, but such another prostitution, of genius, learning, and eloquence, as We read in Madam Drapers, Fleets, and mien, and Flemmings Papers in 1773 and 1774. A blind devotion to England and a disposition to sacrifice to...
73194To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Marshall and William Pearce, 3 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Having taken into Consideration your kind request of this Morning, we respectfully Submit the following to your Approbation, but first we beg to be Understood that we entertain bothe Esteem and Friendship for Major L’Enfant and Col: Cummings whose behaviour since their Appointment has every way Satisfied and pleased us, and nothing herein is meant in the most distant manner to glance at them....
73195From Thomas Jefferson to ——, 15 July 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[Extract of?] a letter from A. Lee [to] Gov. Henry. Paris Dec. 14. 1778. [’I inclo]se the account of the paper which the Treasurer wrote for [… strike] the paper bills on which you will have the goodness to [… hi]m.’ [T]he inclosed paper and letter abovementioned came by […] Genl. Washington. We have hopes that the paper (which [we … s]uppose to be laded with some military stores) will come to...
73196To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 23 October 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I wrote to you Yesterday in a Hurry on hearing that the Packet was to sail from New York Tomorrow but my Letter got over to Bristol too late for the Post, who it seems missed his Tuesday’s Stage and did not get into Philadelphia till Wednesday, and the Postmaster kept him till Thursday Morning and then dispatch’d him early, whereas in common he is not...
73197From Alexander Hamilton to Brigadier General Henry Knox, [25 July 1779] (Hamilton Papers)
The General is anxious to receive you observations on the letter sent you yesterday from General Gates so soon as possible, that he may dispatch an express waiting for an answer. Yr. Most Obed ser ALS , MS Division, New York Public Library. Major General Horatio Gates’s letter to Washington (dated July 18, 1779), which deals with questions concerning the management of the arsenal at...
73198To George Washington from John Greenwood, 10 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I Received yours dated the 4th by the hand of sr John Jays son, this moment Saturday 12 Oclock, in Which you seame to think I have neglected you, or the article Miscaried, I Received them safe, but Whas out of stuff that is I had none Good enuf for the purpose, and so did not procede till I Could Get it, of Which I procured Whith Dificulty, on tuesday And have began it, Which you Will Get next...
73199To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 April 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State begs leave to inform the President of the United States, that the patent for Benjamin Tyler is destined to be carried to him by Mr Strong, who will leave town to-morrow morning by three o’clock. If the President should find time to attend to it before this evening, the Secretary will then have the honor to receive it at the President’s house. ALS , DNA : RG 59,...
73200From Thomas Jefferson to Bishop James Madison, 10 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Mazzei desires me to send him an authenticated certificate of the death of Bellini, with the seal of the state. will you be so good as to get one for me, and further to say whether there will be any property remaining after his debts are paid, and of what value? Accept my affectionate salutations. PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Bishop Madison”; endorsed by TJ. In a letter of 18 July 1804 ,...
73201Jean-Antoine Nollet: Letters on Electricity, [January 1753?] (Franklin Papers)
Lettres sur l’Electricité. Dans lesquelles on examine les dernières Découvertes qui ont été faites sur cette Matière, & les conséquences que l’on en peut tirer. Par M. l’Abbé Nollet, … A Paris, Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guérin, & Louis-François Delatour … M.DCC. LIII. (Yale University Library) It was inevitable that Franklin’s theories of electricity should meet with opponents and detractors. The...
73202General Orders, 30 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
For the Day tomorrow Brigadier General Gist Lieutenant Colonel Van Dyck Major Rice Brigade Major Hobby The second Regiment of York and Lieutenant Colonel Barber’s Battalion will furnish the Guards and fatigue parties tomorrow. Vose’s and Gimat’s Battalions for fatigue for levelling the works tomorrow. In pursuance of the determination of a Board of General Officers setting forth the means by...
73203From W. Dandridge to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your’s of the 10 h enclosing two checks on the Farmers Bk, and in compliance with your desire have transmitted M r . Nekervis’ check for $362.77 to Boston, & my own to New York for 658.32. It is with regret I learn the health of the Doctr. & M rs B. has not improved as was expected and desired here. The news you ask for is for his use, and I have endeavoured to recollect if any...
73204To George Washington from William Livingston, 22 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Legislature of this State having passed a Law for impressing a thousand Blankets for the Use of the Jersey Battalions under your Command, & for authorizing Commissioners to Purchase as many others, with as many Articles of Cloathing for the said Troops as they can procure, we presume that all orders that may have been issued to military Officers to seize such Articles in this State will be...
73205To George Washington from Josiah Parker, 6 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
No applicants for commissions in the Army have been made to me from the District of Virginia I represent or should have presumed to have made them known to you. to day I have received letters requesting I would take the liberty to Name Henry Beverly Towles, son of Colo. Olliver Towles of Spotsilvania as a candidate for a Lieutenancy. I know nothing of the young gentleman but he is warmly...
73206To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Étienne Boré, 10 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
nommé à la place de maire de cette ville par le préfet colonial et Commissaire de la république française quand il prit possession du pays, Jaurais desiré être en etat de Justifier aux yeux de mes concitoyens cet acte de confiance par autant de talens que de Zêle; mais, apres avoir eté Jusqu’a l’âge de 30 militaire, Jay depuis eté constamment occupé de faire valoir mes terres Sur mon...
73207To James Madison from John Roise, [ca. 31 October 1814] (Madison Papers)
The Petition of the subscriber an enroll’d inhabitant of the militia of the Sixteenth division and 132d. Regiment of the State of Pennsylvania most respectfully sheweth— That your petitioner was called upon to perform a tour of duty in pursuance of General orders given by your Excellency dated the day of Eighteen hundred and twelve —that your petitioner is a natural born citizen of the...
73208To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin, 13 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your direction I have ordered all the Stocks drove back from where they were exposed, in Chelsea Pulling & Shirley Point, The Inhabitants of the Points have been to me with there complaints and very much lament there hard fortune and beg that your Excellency would permit them to take one pair of working oxen to a famaly and a few Milch cows, the other Cattle & Sheep they say they...
73209From Thomas Jefferson to Patricot, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter which I wrote you on the 20th. of Dec. I inclosed to Colo. Newton at Norfolk merely to know if you were there. he returned it to me with information that you were in New-York. I then directed it to New York, and being in consequence assured of your address by your’s of the 16th. inst. I have now the pleasure to forward you a letter and an open paper which I recieved from mr Short,...
73210To James Madison from Alexander Hamilton, 12 October 1789 (Madison Papers)
I thank you My Dear Sir for the line you was so obliging as to leave for me and for the loan of the book accompanying it; in which I have not yet made sufficient progress to judge of its merit. I dont know how it was but I took it for granted—That you had left town much earlier than you did; else I should have found an opportunity after your adjournment to converse with you on the subjects...
73211[Diary entry: 22 September 1788] (Washington Papers)
Monday 22d. Thermometer at 56 in the Morning—62 at Noon and 63 at Night. Morning cloudy with the Wind about North a little Et. Rid to the Plantations at the Ferry, Dogue run and French’s. At the first the People began to get fodder—aided by the hands from the latter. Six plows were at work, breaking up field No. 3 twice in a Furrow. The Carts (Frenchs joined) were drawing Rails to enclose the...
73212From John Adams to James Warren, 26 May 1775 (Adams Papers)
The Bearers of this are two young Gentlemen from Maryland, of one of the best and first Families in that Province. One of them is a Lawyer, the other a Physician. Both have independent Fortunes. Such is their Zeal in the Cause of America, and Such their fellow Feeling for the People of our Province, that they are determined to Spend the Summer, in our Camp in order to gain Experience and...
732138. (Adams Papers)
Left Braintree. Went as far as Wilmington. Rain.
73214To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 22 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 22 July 1805, Amsterdam. “Agreably to what I had the honor to write you sometime since I have been to Rotterdam & made due inquiry into the affairs of the Consulate there & finding from the information given me both by the masters of Vessells & Merchants who have buisness at the Consular Office that the actual State of Mr Alexander’s enables to attend with propriety to...
73215From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 September 1817 (Adams Papers)
Will you permit me at this late period to come before you with my congratulations on the return of your Son and his family to their native country, I have wish’d to do it ever since I heard of their arrival. I am almost ashamed to say, and yet it is the real reason Why I did not, that I feel such a diffidence in writing to you that I cannot conquer, and which induces me forego what I esteem...
73216[2d.] (Adams Papers)
Thursday morning went into Paris.
73217To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Williams, Jr., 11 October 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Sollicoffre of whom you have already received recommendations will soon sail to settle in our Country, I believe in Virginia. He requests a Letter of Reccommendation from you to some person in that part of the Country and desires me to write to you for that purpose. I have been acquainted with him from the time of my first coming to Nantes and have...
73218[Diary entry: 8 September 1795] (Washington Papers)
8th. Left Phila. for Mt. Vernon. Dined at Chester & lodged at Wilmington.
73219To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the Copy of a representation from New London, requesting an increase of Salary for the Keeper of the Light House on Little Gull Island. The Collector of Sag-harbour who has the Superintendence of that Light House, informs also that the present Keeper will not Stay for the present Salary. As he receives the highest rate of compensation which has been allowed for...
73220To Benjamin Franklin from George Whitefield, 21 January 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : University of Pennsylvania Library When will it suit you to have another interview? The College affair lies dormant. For above a week I have been dethroned by a violent cold and hoarsness. Who would but work and speak for God while it is day? The night of sickness and death cometh when no man can work. Through rich grace I can sing “O Death where is thy sting”-but only through Jesus of...