76141From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
Since my last I have been favored with yours by Christr: McPherson. It brought me the first agreeable information of the prospect held out by our Envoys. The posture of Europe, tho’ dreadful to humanity in general, will I trust enforce the disposition of France to come to a proper adjustment with us. And notwithstanding the group of daring experiments presented by our public Councils, I also...
76142From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday passed without any material change—Mrs. Harrison called and Major Jackson and in the afternoon Mr. & Mrs. Walsh but I did not see them—They have just returned from Baltimore—Doctor Physick informed me that he hoped my brothers health would be firmly re-established in the course of a short time—I think it probable however he will operate once more— This morning I ventured down stairs...
76143To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 11 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
On my return from New-York, I received your favor of the 2d. instant, and the copy of Mr. Crawford’s letter on the question of brevet rank. I can add nothing, by way of information on public points, to the last communication of the talk of our Commissioners. Mr. Gallatin has, probably, written to you at large, on all that relates to the mission. As to his future pursuits, he has left me...
76144James Madison to Richard Smith, 1 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
(promissory note) $1200 Sixty days after date I promise to pay to the order of Richard Smith Cashier of the office of Discount and Deposit Washington, at said office, the sum of Twelve hundred Dollars, for value received— Ms (NN) .
76145[Diary entry: 13 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
13. At home all day; In the Afternoon Mr. Willis came & lodgd.
76146To George Washington from Henry Knox, 16 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
The members of the government are the same as when I wrote you last, excepting Mr Maddison Mr Page and Mr B. Lee from Virginia —But it is expected from information received, that a sufficient number of members will be assembled in the course of this week to form a quorum. I am my dear Sir Your respectfully affectionate humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW . See Knox to GW, 12 Mar. 1789 . John Page and...
76147To James Madison from Joseph Chew, 6 November 1783 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Addressed to “James Madison Esqr. jr.” Cover missing. Under the heading of the letter, JM wrote “Chew Jos.” I find I omitted many things in my Letter of yesterday as I dare say I shall in this let me Request you in the first Place to let me hear from you on the Receipt of that Letter as soon as Possible direct for me to be Left at the Commissry Generals in the Next...
76148From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 20 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The House of Representatives, about the close of the Session before the last, referred to me the Report of a Committee on a message from the President of the United States of the 14th. of Feb. 1791, with directions to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign Nations, and measures for it’s...
76149To James Madison from Richard Peters, 18 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have recieved from our old Friend Genl. Ternant, who is now in Paris, a Letter dated 14th March last. He mentions the very few of our revolutionary Characters left in that Republic (if it may be so called) who under the old Government assisted us in our War. He writes to me respecting our Friend la fayette as if it were in my Power to do him Service. I can only lament that he is mistaken. I...
76150From Benjamin Franklin to Sarsfield, 1 February 1782 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress It truly gives me Pain that any thing should seem to be desired of me by you which is absolutely out of my Power. I have not only no Authority to encourage the Passing of Officers to America with Expectations of Employment in our Troops, but I have positive Orders to the contrary. Our Armies are fully officer’d. Our Country indeed is not fully inhabited. If the...
76151To James Madison from Soliman Melimeni, 7 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
I receiv’d your favor of the 31st: Ult on the 5th: inst: and have the honor to inform you, that I shall hold myself in readiness to depart for Tunis, in as short a period after I receive an intimation of the rout design’d for me to take, as the necessary arrangments for the accomodation of my suit will admit. I have the honor to be Sir with great respect & consideration. RC , two copies ( DNA...
76152From Thomas Jefferson to David Ramsay, 18 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of a gentleman of this country I take the liberty of inclosing you a note relative to two persons in whom he is interested, and to ask you to take the trouble of enquiring after them, and of communicating to me such information as you may be able to obtain. Your letter if sent to Mr. Jay’s office will be sure to find me whether in Europe or America; for I am in hourly...
76153To John Adams from Samuel B. Malcom, 31 May 1799 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 13th Inst. I have had the honor to receive— If the returns made of the several Elections throughout the different States are to be considered the criterion of Public sentiment, the dangers and Calamities which have threatened us may, in some measure be deemed as removed—there remains however considerable grounds for apprehension—the many attempts (and some successful ones)...
76154The American Commissioners to Bersolle, 3 May 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: National Archives (two), Massachusetts Historical Society Your Bill upon our Banker was not paid, because it was drawn without our Leave; and before you had sent Us the Accounts to shew we were your Debtors, and he could not regularly pay a Bill on our Account, which he had not our Orders to pay. We are Sir, your most obedient Servants. Published in Butterfield, John Adams Diary , IV ,...
76155Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 10 June] 1801 (Madison Papers)
In the case of monies & stock claimed by Mr Pichon, being proceeds of certain loan office certificates, it is suggested by the Secy. of the Treasury that it might be proper to state to Mr Pichon, that our Government had supposed that France had agreed to assume the payment of the 15,000 dollars, & transmit him a copy of Mr Fauchet’s letter. It is the opinion of the Secy. of the Treasury that...
76156From Thomas Jefferson to La Boullaye, 29 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In the observations which I submitted to the consideration of his Excellency the Count de Montmorin some time ago, a copy of which I had the honor of transmitting to Monsieur le Comtroleur general, nothing was said on the subject of tobacco, that article being placed on a very different footing from all others. I have since brought this subject also under the view of his majesty’s ministers in...
76157General Orders, 3 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Commandants of divisions and brigades are desired to order Courts Marshal to sit as constantly as possible for the dispatch of business that there may be as few offenders in confinement as circumstances will admit. A man that can be well recommended for sobriety, integrity and industry is wanted to fill the Office of Provost Marshal to the army. Varick transcript , DLC:GW . On this date, GW...
76158From George Washington to Robert R. Livingston, 29 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
On my way from Mt Vernon to this city, I met your favor, with the Packages, committed to the care of Mr Fay and pray you to accept my thanks for your attention to them. From the former place I sent you a parcel which came under cover to me from Sir John Sinclair which I hope got safe to your hands. They were put in charge of my Secretary Mr Dandridge whom I directed to send them by a safe hand...
7615917th. (Adams Papers)
The Scholars are coming in very fast, and are almost all of them busy, in putting their new chambers in order, and moving. Very busy all day in papering Charles’s study, and part of mine, but before we finish’d the Paper fail’d us. Drank tea with Mead in his Chamber which is contiguous to mine. The Club are quite in a Dilemma, how to do since the boys are sent off. They are unwilling to send...
76160From Thomas Jefferson to Louis-Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 15th. and now return you the paper it inclosed. I learn with real satisfaction the invitation you have recieved to return to France, and the expectations of advantage it has authorised, and I should with great pleasure have confided to your care the bones of the Mammoth which I destined for the Museum of Paris, but that they were sent by an Aviso which...
76161To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Belteshazzar Plantagenet Eccleston, 20 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg your acceptance of a Medallion of your Great Predecessor in the high station which you at present so worthily fill, which I have lately had struck off to his memory, and request the favour of your forwarding a couple to the Honourable Bushrod Washington, for himself and Judge Marshall. Notwithstanding the Date on the Medallion, these are some of the first I have issued. I believe it is...
76162[Diary entry: 13 September 1797] (Washington Papers)
13. Some appearances of Rain in the evening but none fell. Wind southerly. Mer. 72. All the company went after breakfast.
76163To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 27 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
When I had first the honor of Seeing your Excellency at New Windsor after I left Boston I took the Liberty to mention the case of Capt. Cartwright One of my aids De Campe, your Excellency was pleased to Observe that you had not the resolves of Congress then at Hand —Capt. Cartwright has frequently Since that Time mentioned his Situation, and Since the orders for my removing further from you,...
76164To Thomas Jefferson from John Breckinridge, 22 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been lately informed, that Robt. Nicholas does not accept the Office of Surveyor of the port of Orleans. Applications for that office will be made to you from this quarter, in behalf of John Clay, a gentn. formerly resident here, but who many years ago removed to, and settled in, the city of Orleans. He was bred to the mercantile business; is of very respectable connections here; is a...
76165William P. Van Ness’s Narrative of Later Events of June 25, 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
In about an hour he called at my house. I informed him, that I had shewn to Col Burr the letter he had given me from Genl Hamilton that in his opinion it amounted to nothing more than the verbal reply I had already reported—that it left the business precisely w[h]ere it then was—that Mr Burr had very explicitly stated the injuries he had received, and the reparation he demanded, and that he...
76166[Diary entry: 10 June 1791] (Washington Papers)
Friday 10th. Left Mrs. Jordans early, & breakfasting at one Johnstons 7 Miles off reached Fredericksburgh after another (short) halt about 3 Oclock & dined and lodged at my Sister Lewis’s. The Lands from Mrs. Jordans to Johnsons, and from thence for several miles further are good but not rich afterwards (as you approach nearer to Rappahannock River) they appear to be of a thinner quality &...
76167Promissory Note to John Cox, 23 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
Sixty days after date I promise to pay John Cox or order Seven hundred dollars (without offset) for value received. Cr the drawer MS ( DLC ). John Cox (1775–1849) was a Georgetown, D.C., merchant. He served in the War of 1812, participated in the Battle of Bladensburg, and was mayor of Georgetown, 1823–1845 ( Daily National Intelligencer , 15 Dec. 1849; Grace Dunlop Ecker, A Portrait of Old...
76168Court-Martial, 18 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
At a General Court Martial Held at Winchester, the 18th day of May, 1756. Captain Henry Woodward, President. Captain Robert Spotswood, Captain Charles Lewis, Captain William Peachy, Lieutenant John Lomax, Lieutenant John Wil[l]iams, Lieutenant John Hall, Lieutenant John Lowry, Lieutenant Nathaniel Gist—Members. Prisoner James Thomas, Corporal—confined by Ensign Dennis McCarty for Desertion,...
76169George Mason’s Proposed Declaration of Rights, [ca. 20–25 May 1776] (Madison Papers)
This document is probably the paper mentioned by Thomas L. Lee in his letter of 1 June 1776 to his brother, Richard Henry Lee , then in Philadelphia attending the Second Continental Congress: “I enclosed you by last post a copy of our declaration of rights nearly as it come through the committee” (Kate M. Rowland, Life of George Mason , I, 240). The articles in this copy are unnumbered. They...
76170Thomas Jefferson to James Penn (for Archibald Robertson), 28 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your kind attention to my request of yesterday , and mr Goodman now takes on 1400.D. of treasury notes to exchange for banknotes. but as the person for whom they are intended shews difficulty as to the kind of money he will recieve, should there be among those you will send me any which he will reject, I shall hope to be permitted to send them back tomorrow and to recieve in...