73851To Benjamin Franklin from John Smith, 2 November 1764 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It is with great pleasure, I hear of thy undertaking a voyage to London, at a time, when not only the province which has deputed thee, but all North America, wants a friend there (and could have no other that I know of) so well qualifyed to serve both the particular and General Interest. May the Divine Blessing attend thy person and Benevolent designs, and...
73852[Diary entry: 13 January 1768] (Washington Papers)
13. At Home with them—Col. Fairfax, Lady, &[ca.]
73853On Literary Style, 2 August 1733 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 2, 1733; also draft: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. To the Printer of the Gazette . There are few Men, of Capacity for making any considerable Figure in Life, who have not frequent Occasion to communicate their Thoughts to others in Writing; if not sometimes publickly as Authors, yet continually in the Management of their private Affairs, both...
73854General Orders, 6 September 1776 (Washington Papers)
David Henly Esqr: is appointed Depy Adjt General until further orders, and is immediately to repair to General Spencer’s division to regulate the several Returns and do the other duties of said office, extending his care to the division under Genl Heath. he is to be obeyed and respected accordingly. Col. Glover, Commandant of Genl Clinton’s Brigade, is to recommend a suitable, active officer,...
73855To Thomas Jefferson from Steuben, 4 March [1781] (Jefferson Papers)
Un Considerable nombre des hommes delivres des Comtees comme recrues, et entierement unfit for any service , ont été deja dechargé par Collonel Davis, qui cependant a gardes Leurs noms et les comtees qui les ont délivré. Ceux que le Capt. Gambel aurat L’honneur de presenter a Votre Exellence seront une preuve convaincanté de la déception dont des Malintentionné abusent le publique. Capt:...
73856To James Madison from Dudley Porter Jr. and Company, 9 July 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 July 1804, Haverhill, Massachusetts. “We like children of the strongest attachments to a Parent, in time of real distress fly to our Political head for advice and assistance; our trouble at this moment, is, the Capture & long detention of our Vessel prosecuteing a legal voyage to the WIndies, she was taken by one of his Majestyes Ships of War and after being detained nearly two months at...
73857[Diary entry: 8 November 1768] (Washington Papers)
8. Dined at Parkers and lodgd at Fredericksburg.
73858To James Madison from Philip S. Physick, 18 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having been made acquainted with many circumstances of the medical department of our army which lead me to believe that much advantage would accrue from having it under the immediate control of some accomplished medical character I have been induced to trouble you with a request that you would be so obliging as to inform me whether it is the intention of the executive to institute the office...
73859To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I think that Congress might now decide whether they will give to the corporation the right of the United States 1st to the batture 2d to the fortifications & ground contained between them & the houses—3dly to the levy & ground contained between it & the houses. If they give the batture, it may be done without any restrictions; but if they give either of the other portions of ground which are...
73860Enclosure: [Acknowledgment of North Carolina’s Certificates of Debt], 30 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Thereby acknowledge to have received into my office, of Francis Child Esqr. on account of the State of North Carolina, Sundry Certificates of the said State’s debt, amounting in the whole agreable to Mr. Child’s own Calculation to four hundred & nine thousand, five hundred & Seventy dollars, and Seventeen Cents, which Certificates are to remain in my Office, subject to the Decision of the...
73861To James Madison from Henry Hill, 10 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my letter which I had the honor to address you on the 8th. Inst. I beg leave to observe, that should my personal attendance at Washington be deemed of any importance, it would be a satisfaction to myself, as I might be more fully informed of the views of the President and your wishes, Sir, and likewise have an opportunity of explaining my own ideas, more at large than can be...
73862To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 12 November 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th. Ultimo enclosing a letter from Captain Adrian Kissam resigning his commission in the Army. You will be pleased to notify Captain Kissam that his resignation has been accepted—and inform me of the time it should take effect that it may be entered in the books of the Office. Your information respecting Captain Kirklands rank shall be attended to— I have...
73863From Alexander Hamilton to the Executors of the Estate of Otho H. Williams, 14 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 14, 1794. On August 14, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Robert Purviance : “I have Judged it most adviseable to address a letter to … [Williams’s] executors.” Letter not found. ] For the executors of Williams’s estate, see H to Robert Purviance, August 14, 1794, note 2 . Williams had been collector of customs at Baltimore.
73864From George Washington to Major General Robert Howe, 11 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favors of the 8th—The State of Massachusetts having adopted Colo. Jacksons Regt and directed it to be considered in every respect as belonging to that line, it in course becomes intitled to a proportion of the drafts—For this purpose the Bearer Capt. Hunt is sent up to receive the number which will fall to the share of the Regiment. I have not yet recd the Feild Return of the...
73865To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 31 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States Military Philosophical Society are desirous of making the next annual account of their transactions as extensive and useful as possible: they have therefore instructed me to solicit communications; and they hope to receive a good collection, tending to promote military science, before the end of the year. The Treasurer of the Society being absent on distant command, they have...
73866To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Morgan, [30 October 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
The Enemy are retreating toward Charles Town, they are at present in the Neighbourhood of the Congarees, and General Smallwood and myself at some distance in their rear, but our forces too small to attempt any thing offensive; the Enemy’s intentions seem to be destroy the provision in the Country, which I am afraid will render the operations of an extensive Army extremely difficult, if not...
73867To George Washington from General Henry Clinton, 19 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
Nothing but his Majesty’s positive Instructions of which I send you an Extract, could have induced me to trouble you or the American Congress again on the Subject of the Troops detained in New England in direct Contravention of the Treaty entered into at Saratoga. The Neglect of the Requisitions already made on this Subject is altogether unprecedented among Parties at War. I now however repeat...
73868To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [23 October 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose some recommendations for the appointt. of surveyor at Smithfield near Norfolk. I had, some days ago , transmitted to you two others, but, whether they were for any of the persons now mentioned, I do not recollect— Is it not time to decide what answer shall be given to Mr Steele? I wait to write to him on the subject of closing his official transactions, until I shall have heard in...
73869From Alexander Hamilton to Egbert Benson, 10 December 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, December 10, 1784. “When you were in town you mentioned to me some cause which you expected to come on at the circuit and to which you wished me to attend. As the parties have escaped my recollection …, I have concluded to write to you on the subject; that you may inform me who are the parties & what the controversy.” ALS , The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Part of this...
73870To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 15 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
It would be doing violence to my feelings, did I omit the present opportunity to express at least some sentiments of affection some effusions of gratitude for your many and important services to the United States in general, but more especially for the share of attention you have paid to the safety and prosperity of the Western Country, and that not by slight and temporary measures but by the...
73871To George Washington from Gilbert Simpson, July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I Receved your Letter of the 8 of Junly in which I Find you are much disturevd and I am Reyley Sorrey that you Should be so much uneasey at a thing of that kind before you know that you are a Loosing anything I Full well know I must bear all the blame and Sure I am to bear all the Loos tho. verey ill able to bere any for I know my self to be a great Looser in this present year and not only so...
73872From George Washington to Edward Rutledge, 25 October 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Edward Rutledge, c.25 Oct. 1776. Robert Hanson Harrison wrote John Hancock on 1 Nov. that “the most material” of GW’s letters that had been intercepted at Bristol, Pa., on 28 Oct., “was to Mr Rutledge” (see also Hancock to GW, 28 Oct. , and note 2 ).
73873To John Adams from Caleb Gibbs, January 1801 (Adams Papers)
I flatter myself that the President of the United States will excuse the Liberty I have taken in addressing him at this time, but concious that he will lend an listing ear to my observations induces me to do it. The Inclosed Copy of a duplicate to the Secretary of the Navy in June 1799, respecting my situation, and soliciting him to keep me in view in case of any preferment taking place in the...
73874To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 23 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I am thus far on my return from New Hampshire to Philadelphia. I have been detained at Portsmouth a fortnight longer than I expected to have been, in order to settle some matters that were interesting to me. I shall leave this place tomorrow and proceed to Philadelphia at the rate of about 30 or 35 miles per day. I have neglected no opportunity of obtaining...
73875[Diary entry: 19 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
19. Went with Mrs. Washington my Brother & Mr. Smith to Alexandria and stayed all Night. Mr. Booth went to Mary[lan]d. GW went to town on committee business: “at a meeting of the committee for Fairfax County, in the town of Alexandria, on Monday the 19th day of December, 1774, Messieurs [John] Fitzgerald and [Valentine] Peers, informed the committee that the ship Hope . . . had arrived in this...
73876To George Washington from Brigadier General John Sullivan, 22 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
being Desired by Capt. Miller Late of Colo. Doolittles Regt to Certify in his favour to Your Excellency I can only Say that he Acted as Capt. in That Regiment till the 26 of Novr then by vote of the Regt (as I was Informed) he Acted as major—I Never knew or heard he had a Commission for that purpose till he Informed me of it yesterday I well remember he gave in his name among the Captains To...
73877To George Washington from John Dandridge, 27 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty of drawing your attention a little to the subject of the Debt due you from my Fathers Estate—I have now in my possession a tract of Land in Gloucester County, entirely level, situate on the navigable waters of north river, but a small distance from the Bay & containing four hundred acres: The soil is very rich & strong—It was sold under a mortgage, to my Father, foreclosed,...
73878To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 19 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 April 1803, Washington. Informs JM without losing a moment that by documents just received from Spain in a warship dispatched solely for that purpose, he sees confirmed all the assurances he gave on previous occasions regarding the intendant’s orders rescinding the right of deposit at New Orleans. The king has ordered that the deposit be continued until the two governments come to an...
73879To James Madison from Mackay & Campbell, 30 July 1821 (Madison Papers)
Your respects of the 27th. with your Note for $800 received this morning—we could make it answer every purpose, but as there is plenty of time, perhaps it would be better to execute the one enclosed & get Mr. Eddins to endorse. You will perceive we have dated the Note 3d Augt. when your $1200 Note is due. Yours Very Respectfully If we get the Note by 9 OClock Friday Morning it will be on time....
73880From James Madison to Armand Duplantier, 26 May 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 May 1810. Acknowledged in Duplantier to JM, 21 July 1810 . Makes inquiries about the surveys of Lafayette’s Louisiana lands.