75321To Benjamin Franklin from Robert Morris, 8 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
LS : University of Pennsylvania Library Since my Letter of the twenty sixth ultimo, I have compleated the sale of the Bills on Mr. grand to the extent of the livres five hundred thousand proposed as you will perceive by the letters and lists sent under your cover for that gentleman. I was in hopes that this sum would have carried me thro’ untill payments from some of the States on account of...
75322From John Adams to Richard Rush, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of June 29th has given me feelings, like those I always enjoyed when writing to your Father The distinction between a War and a peace party, is a Sophism. There is a Sense in which all Parties and all Men, wish for peace, except perhaps a few military Geniuses, who like Luxembourg have an aversion to planting Cabbages. It is a doubt whether there ever was a popular War. Some of the...
75323From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [25 October 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
I was much relieved, My Dear Eliza by the receipt yesterday morning of your letter of Monday last. How it came to be so long delayed, I am unable to conjecture. But the delay gave much uneasiness in consequence of the imperfect state of health in which I had left you. Thank God you were better—for indeed my Eliza you are very essential to me. Your virtues more and more endear you to me and...
75324To Benjamin Franklin from Emmanuel-Pierre de La Plaigne, 11 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Il m’est ordonné ce jour de me Rendre a oakhampton devon prisonier sur ma parole d’honneur avec ma famille et autres personnes qui étoient passagers avec moy dans le d’argentré; j’ay eû l’honneur d’écrire à votre exçellençe que j’étais depoüillé de tout et sans argent quelconque. Je la priais de vouloir bien me secourir ne fussent que mes appointements qui...
75325To Alexander Hamilton from William Cushing, 30 August 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your favor relative to the accomodation of public officers in the receit of their salaries, & Should have returned an answer with a power accordingly before now, but that I waited for a convenient opportunity to get it acknowledged, which I had not in the Country where I resided, & that I had before taken methods for getting my Salary to the last of June. As to the mode of payment,...
75326From Alexander Hamilton to Jeremiah Wadsworth, [16 April 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
As I intend in a day or two to take lodgings for Mrs. Hamilton, I take the liberty to request you will do me the favour to procure and send me by the earliest opportunity a pound of good green tea & a dozen knives and forks such as you purchased for Mrs. Jacob Cuyler at Albany, for which I will thankfully send you the cost by the first conveyance. I am Dr. Sir truly Yr. friend & servant The...
75327James Madison to James Robertson, Jr., 27 March 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th; but it was not until the 23d. inst: The veil which was originally over the draft of the Resolutions offered in 1798 to the Virga. Assembly having been long since removed, I may say, in answer to your enquiries that it was penned by me; and that as it went from me, the 3d. Resolution contained the word—"alone"—which was stricken out by the House of...
75328To Benjamin Franklin from John Perkins, 12 March 1770 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Just as I was about inclosing my papers it came in my head to mention to you a notion I have sometimes had that Pit-Coal is a vegitable production as of Grass or other Herbage of which the rich and fat Soil of our fresh Marshes is form’d. We know that these are constantly filling up by the Annual Supplys of this kind so that perhaps many places that were...
75329To George Washington from James Clinton, 11 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am under the mortifying Necessity of informing your Excellency, that from certain late Resolves of Congress I find myself a second time superceded by the Promotion of a junior officer; and I should be wanting in Candor if I omited to mention that my Feelings on this Occasion are the more sensibly wounded by the reflection that the Basis on which this promotion is founded, is declared in the...
75330To Thomas Jefferson from Salmour, [October 1787?] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, Oct. 1787? ] Informs TJ that he has had his audience at Fontainebleau with the king and the royal family “en qualité de Ministre Plenipotentiaire de Son Altesse Serenissime Electorale de Saxe.” RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; addressed; without date and not recorded in SJL . Salmour is listed for the first time in the Almanach Royal for 1788 as the minister from Saxony. He was,...
75331Enclosure IV: Gouverneur Morris to George Washington, 16 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to write to you on the third of July of which Letter I now enclose a Copy. I have patiently waited since that Period for the Answer which had been promised on the twenty first of May to my Letter of the thirtieth of April. Had any Circumstance turned up which would in my opinion have justified a new application it should have been made, but this has not been the Case. You will...
75332To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Hiller, 10 October 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Salem, Massachusetts ] October 10, 1789 . “… there is neither Lighthouse, Beacon nor Buoy within this District of Salem & Beverly.…” Extract, RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “B,” New Hampshire and Massachusetts, National Archives. This letter is in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Collectors of the Customs,” October 1, 1789 . Hiller was collector of the customs for...
75333To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 12 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
I can have no objection to the giving of your Excellency, in writing, full information of the measures taken for the evacuation of this place, nor should I have had any to the noting of the whole of our conversation and preserving it in minutes: mistakes or misconstruction might thereby be prevented. Very soon after the orders for a cessation of hostilities were received here, letters were...
75334To George Washington from Brigadier General William Woodford, 9 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
After a forced March of 505 Miles which we performed in thirty Days, I had the pleasure of throwing my Troops into Town in good health & Spirits (by the only passage now left open) we arrived the 7th at two O’clock to the great Joy of the Garrison. our embarkation was made on the Eastside of Cooper River, distant from Town nine Miles. So far as my indisposition would enable me to make my self...
75335To John Adams from Bartholomé Wild, 20 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
Vôtre ami Mr: Cerisier m’a dit de vous envoyer quelque brochure pollitiques Sur les affaires du tems, c’est ce que je fait. 3 Destin de l’Amerique 8° à 16 Stvrs: F 2. 8 1 Tableau historique des Provinces Unies 12°. 6 vol. 9. 16 1 Advocaat pour et Contre 8° . 11 1 Lettres Hollandoise 4 T et T 5 No. 1 à 9. 24. 6 1 observation et Suitte 2 parties 8° 1. 5 1 Reponce aux memoires de York . 4
75336From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 31 December 1756 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Free Library of Philadelphia This serves only to cover a Bill of Exchange drawn by B. Mecom on you, upon a Supposition that you have receiv’d Bills he sent you from Antigua for about £120 more than the Ballance of your Account. If those Bills are not come to hand or not paid, you need not be at the Trouble of Protesting this Bill; but let it lie in your Hands till you hear farther from...
75337From George Washington to Brigadier General William Maxwell, 25 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
You are immediately to proceed with the two remaining regiments of your Brigade, to Mount Holly in the Jerseys, and order the other two regiments under Col: Shrieve to join you. In order to this, you will take the shortest route towards Coryel’s ferry, there cross the Delaware and repair to the place of your destination. You are to keep your Brigade when assembled, in such a situation as will...
75338George Washington to Colonel George Baylor, 27 September 1778 (Hamilton Papers)
Fredericksburg [ New York ] September 27, 1778 . Instructs Baylor to join brigade that Major General Israel Putnam is sending to Clarkstown. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Baylor was a colonel of the Third Continental Dragoons.
7533921st. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This day Count Greco, My travelling companion to Stockholm dined here. In the evening I went with Mr. Artaud to the Concert. An Italian gentleman of dubious reputation. Facts supplied by a Mr. W olff and later confirmed compelled Dana to write to JQA shortly after his departure from St. Petersburg. He asked JQA to leave the Count at the earliest opportunity, but until that time warned him to...
75340To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, June 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your request contained in your favor of the 1st inst. I enclose a draft in favor of Mr. Milliken for $350. I also have forwarded to J. G. Jackson Esq. an order for $. 500. 5/ 100 in consequence of your letter of the 30th. ulto. & another order, to Mr. Brent as agent of Mr. Gra ham for $.380: 25/ 100 agreeably to your directions of the 26. ulto. Judge Toulmin’s packet, I find on...
75341Council of War, 12 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
At a Council of War held at Head Quarters July 12. 1776 Present His Excelly General Washington[,] Major Gen. Puttnam[,] Brigadier Generals Heath[,] Spencer[,] Green[,] Ld Stirling[,] Scott[,] Wadsworth[,] Heard. The General proposed to the Consideration of the Board a Plan of a Descent upon Staten Island in different Places so as to form a general Attack upon the Enemy’s Quarters —And a...
75342From George Washington to Brigadier General James Potter, 21 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
Owing to the rain last night & the probability, that it might be of long continuance, the Detachment I wrote you about was prevented marching. One is now in motion for the same purpose. I wish you to obtain the best information you possibly can respecting the Convoy that went to Chester and to find out Whether it has returned. That the object we have in view may be facilitated and the...
75343Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5–6 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I promiss’d to write you by the Post when your Furniture Sail’d but Doctor Tufts Said he had done it— I hope you have it safe & that it has been more fortunate than in its last voyage— I heard you did not leave Providence till the monday after you left us. I want to hear of your arrival reception &c—how you found mr Adams mrs Smith & her little ones—whether she will continue in the House with...
75344From James Madison to John Dawson, ca. 16 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 16 February 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 25 Feb. 1794 . Reports that the House of Representatives on 5 Feb. postponed consideration of JM’s commercial discrimination resolutions until the first Monday in March.
75345Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I venture to intrude to the extent of a single page on your kind attention. The place of Civil Engineer to the Board of Public Works of Virginia is vacant, and Major S. H. Long , resident in this city and belonging to the United States corps of Topographical engineers , is a candidate for that place. I know that Major Long is held to be eminently qualified for it, by the gentlemen of this city...
75346From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Adams to dine with him on Wednesday the 31st . at half after three, The favour of an answer is asked. MHi : Adams Papers.
75347[Diary entry: 13 November 1773] (Washington Papers)
13. Rid with Colo. Byrd to see Shirly. Dined at Berkley & Returnd to Westover at Night. The Shirley plantation, about six miles up the river from Westover and overlooking the confluence of the James and Appomattox rivers, was the home of Charles Carter (1732–1806), son of Elizabeth Hill Carter Cocke (d. 1769) and her first husband, John Carter (1690–1742/43) of Corotoman, Lancaster County (...
75348To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 25 November 1782 (Madison Papers)
Tr ( LC : Force Transcripts). Addressed to “Hon. Mr Madison.” At the top of the left margin of the first page of the transcription, the copyist wrote “MSS. [M]cGuires.” See Papers of Madison William T. Hutchinson, William M. E. Rachal, et al ., eds., The Papers of James Madison (5 vols. to date; Chicago, 1962——). , I, xxii, xxiii. I have yr favr of the 12th & am very sorry you did not discover...
75349From Thomas Jefferson to Fulwar Skipwith, 26 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 5th. inst. and wish I could give a more satisfactory answer to it. I do not believe our Consuls in the French islands will be recognised by the government of France very shortly. Should the treaty they have proposed, come to any thing, perhaps we may get this matter determined expressly. The Consular bill has never yet been taken up by the house of...
75350Conveyance of Sally Goodman from Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle do hereby sell and convey to Jeremiah A. Goodman now of the county of Bedford a certain negro girl slave named Sally , being the daughter of Aggy one of the slaves of the sd Thomas , which said Girl Sally is about three years of age in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty Dollars to me the sd Thomas...