7351To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel D. Tompkins, 9 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Pursuant to the request of the Legislature of this State I have the honor to enclose to you certain resolutions adopted by them on the 3d. Instant. I am, Sir, with respect and esteem Your Ob Sert. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Whereas the unjust and multiplied aggressions of the belligerent nations upon our national rights their obstinate refusal to render justice and to listen to the most...
7352To Thomas Jefferson from John Hylton, 13 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Being Inform’d that you are desirous to employ a Man to super intend your estate in this State, has promp me to write you a few Lines by my Friend Mr. Hylton acquainting you that I wou’d most chearfully undertake the management of your Business, on such terms as wou’d in all probability promote to your Interest. From the view that I have taken of Monticello and Shadwell, I am confident that...
7353To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 7 September 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The enclosed papers are transmitted for your information—vizt Extract of a letter from Governor St Clair, dated 12 Augt 1799. Copy of Indian information to Capt Mclean of the British at Amherstburgh dated 19 July 1799. Copy of a letter from Govr. St Clair to the Chiefs of the Shawanese at the Ottawa Towns—1 Augt. 1799— I am with great respect Sir Your obedt Servant ( LS , letterpress copy,...
7354From Benjamin Franklin to John Winthrop, 11 March 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society At length after much Delay and Difficulty I have been able to obtain your Telescope that was made by Mr. Short before his Death. His Brother, who succeeds in the Business, has fitted it up and compleated it. He has followed the Business many Years at Edinburgh, is reckon’d very able, and therefore I hope every thing will be found right; but as it is only...
7355Robert Hunter Morris to the Assembly Committee, 19 May 1755 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I herewith send you a letter I received on fryday last from Genl. Braddock desiring my assistance to Mr. Leslie who he has sent into this Province to Purchase a quantity of oats for the use of the army under his command, part of which Mr. Leslie tells me he has given directions to contract for in the back countys. I cannot but think it will be for the...
7356To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 18 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. yesterday your two favors of the 15 & 16th. Among those now inclosed is a renewal of Pichon’s complaints which strengthens your observations in the close of yours of the last date . He is well founded in the view he takes of the abuse made by the British ships of their connection with the Harbour of N.Y. He exacts too much however in requiring our effective “ surveillance ” over the...
7357From Richard Cranch to John Adams, 10 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed Letter to the Hon ble: M r. Brown a Senator from Kentucky, I would ask the fav r. of you to deliver to him. It is about the late M r. Tho s. Perkins’s affairs, who died at Kentucky. I have desired M r Brown to inform me (when he has Leisure for it) what is become of the Lands that were located to M r Perkins, and whether or not there is any Estate of his remaining for his Heirs. I...
7358To George Washington from Janet Dalgleish, 28 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
He by whose Almighty Nod the Scale of Empire rises or alternate falls has seen meet in the course of his providence and for his own wise purposes to dissever Great Britain and her Colonies—A Heart that wishes well to both dictates this Letter a Heart that sincerely prays that while time itself exists Great Britain and America may be only known by the friend ship they bear to one another. Tho I...
7359From John Adams to United States Congress, 20 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
In obedience to law, I transmit to Congress my annual account of the contingent fund. Printed Source--A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. 10 vols. (Washington, 1896-1899)..
7360From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 6 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 20. is just recieved and I hasten to reply to it. the view of the funds for furnishing the President’s house which I [gave] you in my last was just. they are absolutely inadequate to the acquisition of the whole service of plate which you have been so kind as to propose. the terrines and Casserolles would have been desireable in the first degree; the dishes in the second;...
7361Bill for Pennsylvania Land Contract, [21 December] 1791 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison, from the committee appointed, presented a bill for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the State of Pennsylvania … Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, 1789–1824 (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 277. During the final session of the Continental Congress in 1788 JM served on a committee...
7362From John Adams to the President of Congress, 31 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
Amsterdam, 31 May 1781. RC in John Thaxter’s hand PCC , No. 84, III, f. 181–182. printed : Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States , Washington, 1889; 6 vols. , 4:461. John Adams provided an English translation of a memorial presented to the States General on 28 April by the Danish envoy, Mestral de Saint...
7363From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 16th. of June. Your favor of Apr. 25. from London was received yesterday just in time to be put into the hands of the President before he set out for Virginia. I shall follow him tomorrow, and not return till the last of September. Consequently I shall probably not write to you again before that date. The public papers will be regularly sent to you during my absence...
7364To Benjamin Franklin from François-Pierre de Séqueville, [after 8 September 1781] (Franklin Papers)
Printed announcement with manuscript insertions: American Philosophical Society La Cour prendra le Deuil le 1 er. octobre, à l’occasion de la mort du Prince charles maximilien de Saxe . Sa Majesté le portera 15 - jours. Addressed: a Monsieur / Monsieur francklin / ministre Plenipre des Etats / unis de L’amerique / Septentrionale / a Passy ./. De sequeville Similar to the mourning announcement...
7365From James Madison to Arthur Lee, 28 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
Printed text (Richard Henry Lee, Life of Arthur Lee , II, 328–30), inaccurately dated 1778. Addressed to “The Hon. Arthur Lee, Esq.” An extract, copied from the original and correctly dated, is item No. 1533 in a catalogue of the John Clark Company, Cleveland, Ohio, for January 1916. I received your favour of the 16th inst. between nine and ten o’clock last night, the post having been delayed...
7366From Alexander Hamilton to Nathan Rice, 25 October 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, October 25, 1799. On November 6, 1799, Rice wrote to Hamilton : “In reply to your favours of the 19th. & 25th permit me to observe, that from the knowledge I have as yet obtained of the Gentlemen I can not fully recommend one for so important an office as that of Depy Pay Master General.” Second letter of October 25 not found. ]
7367To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 25 June 1781 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed is the return of boats which I mentioned this morning. I recd it last evening & have not had opportunity to take a copy. which I shall be glad to do in a day or two. I am very respectfully yr Excellencys obed. P.S. Those mentioned to be laid up at Wappins Creek Mr Sheafe expected to have repaired by this day. DNA : RG 93—War Department.
7368From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
1. the Comet & D.W. Coxe. I see in those papers no evidence but the letters of James Dixey & the protest of James Dixey; to which may be added the survey of a man chosen by himself to examine and report the state of the vessel. with such a surveyor no doubt every port in the W. Indies is prepared to assist the smugglers. Dixey himself being the principal Culprit, his evidence is null. on the...
7369From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 29 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
I send herewith a copy of the Treaty of Friendship, Limits and Navigation, between the United States and his Catholic Majesty, which has been ratified by me with your Advice and Consent. A copy of the Treaty will be immediately communicated to the House of Representatives: it being necessary to make provision, in the present Session, for carrying into execution the Third and Twenty first...
7370To John Adams from James Walker, 24 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
Various causes, connected with the absence & illness of Revd Mr Fay of the old church, have delayed my going into the investigations which you requested me to make respecting the elder Mr. Shepperd & the Messrs Quincys. I am sorry, now that I have made them, that it has been to so little purpose, or rather to no purpose at all. You ask whether the Records of the Town or Church were destroyed...
7371[Diary entry: 14 March 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 14th. Mercury at 42 in the Morning—60 at Noon and 58 at Night. Remarkably fine and pleasant all day with little or no wind. Rid to all the Plantations—began to sow Oats as usual. The first sowed ones in the Neck were beginning to come up. At that place Nat finished on Monday last laying off field No. 3 for Corn. At Dogue run finished filling gullies & grubbing before the Plows in the...
7372[Diary entry: 28 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
28. Dined with Mr. James Dillancey & went to the Play & Hulls Tavern in the Evening. mr. james dillancey : James De Lancey (1732–1800), eldest son of Lt. Gov. James De Lancey (1703–1760) of New York, was a merchant and landowner. He was also the owner of New York’s largest racing stable, and GW had met him 17 May at the meeting of the Philadelphia Jockey Club, of which De Lancey was a member (...
7373From James Madison to Robert Patton, 22 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
Within a few days past Mr. Alexander Cockrane Jnr. of the City of Washington presented to me for acceptance two bills of exchange, amounting together to $2666.37 ½, drawn upon me at thirty days sigh<t> by Colo. John Mercer, in part of his compensation as Commissioner under the Louisiana Convention. As the whole sum appropriated for the payment of these services was remitted to Paris in order...
7374To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 24 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, on the present occasion to incroach upon your time for a few moments merely by bringing to your view that a vacancy has taken place in the Post office Department by the death of Colonel Bauman at N. York and that if consistent with the arrangements you have made I should be much gratified by the appointment and am with the most perfect respect Sir, Your most obt. Servant RC ( DNA :...
7375To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 3 April 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Subscriber has the honour, respectfully to represent to the President of the United States, that an intimation has been made to him, on the part of the present Commissioner of the General Land-Office, of his wish to exchange offices. If, in the opinion of the President and Senate, this would advance the public interest, it would be acceptable to the Subscriber. The System of Surveying the...
7376From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 10 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 29. is duly recieved and the object of the present is to answer your enquiries concerning mr Welch’s open account. consulting with the late mr T. Adams in 1774. about the importation of glass windows ready made & glazed for my house, he pressed me to address my commission to his friends Welch & co. I did so, making them a small shipment which turned out next to nothing,...
7377Thomas Jefferson to James Hamilton (1786–1857), 9 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Hamilton for the copy of his oration on the 4 th of July which he has been so kind as to send him, & especially for the kind sentiments towards himself which he has expressed in the note accompanying it, he is happy to see in the oration of mr Hamilton a warm adhesion to the genuine principles of the revolution, and trusts they will be handed down in all...
7378To George Washington from William Heath, 4 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
It has been my determination and endeavour to have presented your Excellency this Evening a List of the Officers of the Massachusetts Line, and a Sketch of arrangment agreable to what I hinted to your Excellency when I had the honor last to see you, but I find it impossible to have it compleated in Season to be delivered this evening, I therefore request your indulgence to defer it Untill...
7379To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 20 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 20 February 1806, Amsterdam. “I take this occasion to repeat by way of duplicate that it may tend to relieve our navigation in this Country from considerable embarrasment under the operation of the quarantine Laws—if the Bills of health taken by the masters of our Vessells in the respective Ports of their departure are accompanied by a Certificate from the Commercial...
7380From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Having but little hope that Judge Dade will accept the place offered him, and having occasionally heard Mr. Lomax of Fredericksbg. spoken of favorably, I sought an occasion, yesterday, without disclosing my object, of learning more of him, from Judge Barbour, who has long been at the same Bar with him, and is otherwise well acquainted with his character. The Judge considers him as a man of...