75361Speeches of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, 1–4 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President having addressed the Chiefs of the Wabash & Illinois Indians, John Baptist De Coin, chief of Kaskaskia, spoke as follows. Father. I am about to open to you my heart. I salute first the Great Spirit, the master of life, and then you. I present you a black-pipe on the death of our chiefs who have come here and died in your bed. it is the calumet of the dead, take it and smoke in it...
75362To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Macon, 23 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I last night received a letter from Sam S. Hamilton of Washington, requesting me to recommend him for Librarian, I have not that sort of acquaintance with him which would authorize me to do this; I have the two last winters lived in the House of his father, the first of which He acted I beleive as deputy for Mr Beckley in the Library, the last he was an assistant in his (Mr B.) office I can...
75363To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 22 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eû l’honneur, de recevoir hier soir Votre Lettre du 19. Je Vous presente mes remercimens les plus respectueux de la bontè, dont Vous avez accueilli mes demandes relat. aux Notes sur la Virginie, au dessein de votre charmant Phaëton, et a une Copie de votre Lettre a l’Institut de France. Je me rappelle encore, que Mr. de Lapoype m’a dit, que Vous aviez dans çette Lettre traitè la...
75364General Orders, 8 June 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Quarter-Master-General is to return the number of Spears, and intrenching Tools in his store. The Brigadiers are to see that an exact return of the Spears, in their respective Brigades, and Posts, is also given in, and that a Report be fort[h]with made of the deficiencies of Arms and Accoutrements, wanting in each Regiment, distinguishing the kinds—These several returns are expected...
75365From George Washington to William Shotwell, 7 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
To promise what one does not perform is at all times wrong but in the delay of the Grass-seeds with which you undertook to supply me, I have sustained an irrepairable injury in as much as that my whole system of husbandry is deranged by it. £500 would be no compensation for this disappointment—My spring grain with which these seeds were to be sown, are now almost entirely in the ground and a...
75366To George Washington from George Clinton, 26 December 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from George Clinton, 26 Dec. 1784. On 5 April 1785 GW wrote to Clinton : “Your other letter of the 26th of December came duely to hand.”
75367To James Madison from Jacob Barker, 1 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
The duties imposed on Cotton imported into England from the United States in American Vessels were so much greater than on Cotton imported in English Vessels that when our ports were open to English Vessels it was very difficult to procure freights at low rates for American Ships while English Ships came here and procured good freights without delay, and it is now understood that the British...
75368To 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...
75369From 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...
75370From 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...
75371To 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...
75372To 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,...
75373From 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...
75374James 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...
75375To 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...
75376To 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...
75377To 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,...
75378Enclosure 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...
75379To 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...
75380To 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...
75381To 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...
75382To 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
75383From 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...
75384From 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...
75385George 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.
7538621st. 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...
75387To 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...
75388Council 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...
75389From 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...
75390Mary 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...