76181To George Washington from Ralph Hart Bowles, 4 October 1790 (Washington Papers)
Sometime previous to the appointment of Officers, for the collection of the public imposts—I was requested to make application for that appointment, by my freinds in this quarter—I accordingly wrote to my good friends Generals, Knox, Jackson & Lincoln also the Secretary of this State, but my Letters were too late, & your Excellency appointed our Old Naval Officer collector to this Port. It...
76182From Thomas Jefferson to John Perry, 8 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum that it is agreed by John M Perry that he will sell to the University certain lands of his lying between the two tracts of the University according to lines proposed by Th: Jefferson and drawn on a plat, containing probably somewhere about 100. acres, & the sd Thomas agrees that he will use his best endeavors to engage the Visitors to pay to the sd John 3000.D. so soon as the money...
76183From George Washington to James Madison, 3 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your favors of the 21st & 27th of last month came duly to hand. The last, contained the pleasing—and I may add (tho’ I could not reconcile it with any ideas I entertained of common policy) unexpected account of the unconditional ratification of the Consitution by the State of New York—That No. Carolina will hesitate long in its choice I can scarcely believe; but what Rhode Island will do is...
76184From George Washington to William B. Harrison, 16 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
I have given the proposition you have made me, respecting your part of Chapel land, all the consideration that is necessary; the result of which is. That I will give, as a Rent, thirty dollars for every hundred acres within the bounds you shall establish; and in that proportion for the overplus, or add[itional] acres, according to measurement: Provided I receive a Lease for the whole quantity,...
76185[Notes of Debates in the Senate concerning unfinished business] 1790 Jan. 25. Monday. (Adams Papers)
It was not the sense of either House, or of any member of either, that the Business pending at the Adjournment should be lost. Where is the Oeconomy of repeating the Expence of Time? Can this opinion be founded on the Law of Parliament? The K ing can prorogue the Parliament. But there is no such Power here. The Rule of Parliament that Business once acted on, and rejected shall not be brought...
76186From Alexander Hamilton to James Wilkinson, 18 February 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I herewith transmit to you for Distribution at the Several posts on the Western frontier 15 copies of the contract with Mr. Jas. OHara— Niagara—which have been sent me by the situation of Niagara admitting of a more direct communication I have to avoid delay caused a cop one to be sent to Major Rivardi— With great consideration &c ( Df , in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton Papers,...
76187To George Washington from Major General Philip Schuyler, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I am this Moment favored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 6h Instant—You will before this have received my several Letters advising your Excellency of the Evacuation of Tyonderoga and the distressed Situation we are in—We are, by no Means now in a better, rather worse, as Desertion is frequent—General Nixon’s Brigade is not yet come up, nor do I get a Reinforcement of the Militia—General...
76188[Diary entry: 28 March 1770] (Washington Papers)
28. Clear & still Morning with some Wind in the Afternoon from the Westward.
76189To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, 23 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
As editor of the Weekly Register (a work that I am flattered with a belief has effected a good deal, of his building up a national character for his country, of which you may have heard) I have been loudly called upon to collect & preserve in an extra volume, a body of the speeches, & neglected or almost forgotten public papers of the times of the revolution—to give to an admiring posterity...
76190Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 6 August 1796 (Adams Papers)
Since the date of my last letter, (June 24 th: ) I am favored with your’s of May 19. which gives the comfortable assurance of your safe return to Quincy. After the fatigues, vexations and anxiety, which a lengthy session of Congress always produces, I easily conceive the luxury of your enjoyment upon returning to your farm. There you meet the reward of your labors, by the appearance of...
76191Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27 th is this moment recieved & I now inclose the notes it covered. On the subject of mr Brockenbrough the board of Visitors were very anxious to engage him, and certainly no one more so, nor with so much reason as myself. but there were two ingredients in his propositions , against one of which we were unanimous, and the other was disagreed to by a strong majority. the 1 st...
76192General Orders, 31 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
The new arrangement of the Army pursuant to the Resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October and published in General Orders of the 1st of November following is to take place tomorrow. The General orders a jill of Rum to be delivered to each of the soldiers who remain in service upon the occasion. Returns to be made to the Adjutant General immediately of the Ranks which the regiments now...
76193John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
About five O Clock this Morning, I went with young Dr. Bond at his Invitation and in his Carriage, to his Fathers Seat in the Country. His Mother, with three of her Grand Children, little Girls, resides here. The old Lady has lately lost two of her Children grown up, and as she cannot forget them, retires to this little Box, to indulge or aswage her Grief. The House is only one small room,...
76194From Alexander Hamilton to James Monroe, 20 July 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
In my last letter to you I proposed a simple and direct question, to which I had hoped an answer equally simple and direct. That which I have received, though amounting, if I understand it, to an answer in the negative, is conceived in such circuitous terms as may leave an obscurity upon the point which ought not to have remained. In this situation, I feel it proper to tell you frankly my...
76195James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 December 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. the inclosed papers from Docr. Carr with a request that I wd. forward them to you, to enable you to make out your Report, as Rector pro: tem With cordial respects & regards RC (ViU) ; FC (DLC) .
76196General Orders, 16 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
The first Connecticut Brigade appears to be composed of as fine a body of men as any in the Army, but as they have laboured under the same disadvantages for want of proper ground to exercise upon as the third Brigade of Massachusetts, the General suspends his final Judgment of thier comparative Merit with the rest of the Army untill a fairer Opportunity of establishing their Discipline can be...
76197Thomas Jefferson to Charles G. Paleske, 30 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the communication of the papers respecting the Union canal company of Pensylvania . no one is more anxious to see enterprises of that nature carried into execution, and especially to see them formed into a general system, and the public contributions, which other nations employ in war, applied by us to the improvement of our country. retired now from all intermedling with...
76198Proclamation to Deserters, 10 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America. WHEREAS it hath been represented, that many of those Soldiers, who have been induced, from divers Motives, to desert their Corps, and are now dispersed in different Parts of these States, having seen their Error, would be glad to return to their Duty, but are restrained by...
76199To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state has the honor of informing the President, that, if his leisure will permit, the calls from the treasury department render a further number of Sea letters necessary. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Monday actually was 10 November. However, the docket with this letter was changed from 10 to 9...
76200To John Adams from Daniel McCormick, 4 December 1797 (Adams Papers)
Hopeing you will excuse my zeal to serve a Relation, who I flatter myself, will always proove worthy of every confidence reposed on him. I take the liberty to mention Mr. Pitcairn once more for your notice It has been sugested to me that there is a probability of remooveing Mr. Williams from Hamburgh to replace Mr. Johnston at London. should this be the case and there be a Vacancy for...
76201To George Washington from Captain John Hunter, 14 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor of receiving your Commands in a Letter from Colo. Johnston together with a warrant for four hundred Dollars, which was paid. Enclosed I send your Excellency the Muster of my Recruits, which I look upon to be as good men as any in the service. The Board of war has given me orders to Join Colo. Pattons Regiment untill such time as your Excellencys pleasure is known as they say...
76202Statement of William Short’s Tenements, 17 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A statement of mr Short’s tenements, for mr Lilly. Joseph Price holds a tenement from Carter for life, as is said, at 20. Dollars a year. I have never seen his lease nor do I know it’s contents but from report. he has paid up to the end of 1800. George Haden. by a survey made by mr Nicholas Lewis in 1800. of all the cleared lands in mr Short’s tract, which were then occupied on rent by his...
76203To John Adams from Alexander Gillon, 17 April 1779 (Adams Papers)
Pardon me for not forwarding you the two inclos’d introductory Letters sooner but I was in hopes of readily accomplishing my business here thus expected the pleasure of delivring them to you. Hitherto I have received no possitive Answer, tho Mr. de Sartine has repeatedly favour’d me with opportunitys of Stating my Demands to him and Yesterday promis’d me A reply to my sundry Requests next...
76204To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 12 August 1768 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 12 Aug. 1768. On 25 July 1769 GW wrote them : “I observe what you have mentioned in a Letter of the 12th of August, last year.”
76205To George Washington from Charles Lee, 11 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
On the 9th I had the honor to receive your letter of the 4th instant, since which Col. Pickering has found the opinion which was the subject of my former letter; which will enable me to attain a copy without giving you any further trouble. If Col. Pickering has written to you as he intended he probably has informed you that the prospect of peace between France and Great Britain continues to...
76206From Thomas Jefferson to Herman LeRoy, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 13th. and learn from it a very different state of things from what either my son in law or my self were apprised of. However, tho’ the debt be much greater than I had understood, the coupling of Dover in the mortgage is a more than proportionate increase of the security. All I have therefore to wish at present is that the proceeds of the protested bill...
76207From James Madison to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 4 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
I recd. this morning your favor of the 28. Ult. I regret sincerely on every account that I cannot interpose for the purposes stated in it. The fund placed in my hands by a transaction between Col. Monroe and myself has not only been exhausted, but exceeded, and the calls of necessity here on my private as well as official resources, leave no surplus whatever for the debts of friendship. The...
76208John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 March 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have yours of the 6 th. by the Post of this day. I have proposed to Brisler to give him 300 dollars and pay the Expences of his Wife and Children to this Place and back again to Quincy, when they return— And He and his Wife and Children are to live in the Family. This is pretty well— I must and will have him. I am peremptorily for excluding all blacks and Molattoes. I hope to get into the...
76209To Thomas Jefferson from Anne Cary Randolph, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have intended to write to My Dear Grand Papa for several post’s but we are so much engaged in our lesson’s that I had not time. Ellen & myself are learning geography with which I am very much pleased indeed I read Coocks voyages in French & Livy in english besides a lesson in Dufief & my Arithmetic & writing every day. I have not been to Monticello since we came from there but Jefferson was...
76210To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 17 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
L (draft): Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copy: Library of Congress J’ai reçu, M. avec la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 14. de ce mois la copie des Lettres par lesquelles le Congrès vous accredite aupres du Roi en qualité de ministre plenipo des Etats-unis; je les ai trouvées en regle et je vous previens que Sa Majesté les recevra mardy prochain. Je...