79701Wednesday [January 1759]. (Adams Papers)
Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon, rode out to German Town. H annah Q uincy or O. Suppose you was in your Study, engaged in the Investigation of some Point of Law, or Philosophy, and your Wife should interrupt you accidentally and break the Thread of your Thoughts, so that you never could recover it? Ego . No man, but a crooked...
79702From John Adams to James McHenry, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter from His Excellency John Henry, Govonor of Maryland, dated in Council Annapolis Aug. 19th. I transmit it to you, with my request that you would Answer it, with all the respect that is due to the subject and the Authority by which the Application is made, according to that Arrangement for national Defence, which has been or may be adopted in your Office, in the faithful and...
79703Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments, 15 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
May. 15. 04 State Judge Davies’s enquiries mr Merry’s case Pichon’s memorial he hazards general assertions neither proved nor true the law of nations does not make a nation responsible for acts of individuals out of it’s limits. yet friendly nations do watch to a certain degree. does France watch the atrocities of it’s privateers men with & without commissions it to be assurd. on our part of...
79704To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 22 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your request I have sent the catalogue, which you have been so kind as to make for me. and with it Mr Bonnycastle’s, for the blotted state of which he desired me to apologise, as he has not had leisure to copy it afresh since comparing it with Mr Key’s— CSmH .
79705From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I snatch half a moment to inform you that a circumstance has occurred which will inevitably keep me a week longer or thereabouts. in the mean time my horses will wait I presume at Heron’s. my tender love to my dear Martha, & the little ones. Affectionate attachment to yourself. P.S. I do not know if there is any merit in the music inclosed. It has been sent to me. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by...
79706John A. Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me the honor of presenting you, with the Inclosed Speach—as a Specimen of my Bar=talents—my love of liberty—and humanity— Should the sentiments therein contained meet with the Approbation of the Man, whoes, dareing and luminous pen drew the decleration of American Independence—it would be more flattering to my feelings, than any one event, I have ever experinced in the whole course of a...
79707From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 10 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 1st instant, and the Corn also in good order, has been received; the a/c of which Mr Anderson, my Manager, will render you; with a certificate from respectable Merchants in Alexa. of the Cash prices of that article at the times of delivery. It never was, nor is it my intention, to delay payment a moment longer than might suit your own convenience; of course you may draw upon...
79708From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 28 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your Note communicating, by order of your Government, the change in the constitution of Germany, effected by a Treaty among certain States of the Rhine, to which H. M the Emperor & King is a part. In acknowledging this communication, which was duly laid before the Presidt I cannot better fulfil my directions than by repeating the observations made in the answer of the...
79709To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 22 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of General Smith, we have purchased, & have the honor herewith to enclose, Wm. Patterson & Sons draft on Severyn & Hauebroeck Amsterdam for two thousand five hundred Guilders, equal, at the Exchange of 40 Cents ⅌ Guilder, to One thousand dollars, & which we have paid for, in a Check for that sum, remitted by General Smith. We are with the highest respect Sir Your Obedt Servts....
79710To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Langdon, 19 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republicans of Wilmington and County of New Hanover, N.C., having understood through the Medium of the public prints, that it is your Intention voluntarily to retire from Office, after the Termination of your Appointment; and viewing the present as an important period of our political Relations, inasmuch as the violent Rage of party spirit, which at this time unhappily pervades the Union,...
79711Orders, 11–13 December 1756 (Washington Papers)
It is once more desired that the men be kept close at work, according to a former Order given by Colo. Washington. LB , DLC:GW . This probably refers to the Orders for 13, 14 Nov. 1756.
79712From Benjamin Franklin to A. M. Woedtke, 13 April 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received your Letter requesting Information relating to the Death of Frederic William de Woedtcke your Brother. He came to Philadelphia in March 1776, recommended to me by a Friend at Paris. I procur’d for him the Commission of Brigadier General, as you will see by the enclosed Copy of two Resolutions of Congress. He went into Canada with me in the...
79713Enclosure R: Letter from Edward Carrington, 2 March 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
Towards the latter end of the year 1782, when the engagement of the State of South Carolina, to supply the southern army with provisions, was to expire, the honorable Robert Morris, Superintendant of Finance, wrote to General Greene, to have a contract formed for supporting the army, from the first of January 1783. General Greene requested my assistance in the business, and public notice, as...
79714To Benjamin Franklin from ――― Fortin de Melleville, 9 September 1777: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Quai des Gesvres, Paris, September 9, 1777, in French: He lauds Franklin at enormous length, for laying the foundations of freedom in the ruins of tyranny, for sustaining his countrymen by his courage and wisdom, for showing, at an age when most men are declining, the fire of youth and the prudence of maturity, for being a Nestor, a law-giver, turning a...
79715[Diary entry: 28 January 1788] (Washington Papers)
Monday 28th. Thermometer at 30 in the Morning—38 at Noon and 38 at Night. Wind Southerly, but not fresh. Fore part of the day clear & pleasant—latter part mild & lowering.
79716Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 19 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
I thank my Friends for their kind remembrance of me last week, the Letter enclosed was dated one day after that I received a week before, and containd no publick intelegance. I have been Expecting Letters by the Gentlemen who I hear have arrived, but fear I have not any, as there are none come to hand. I thought I should hear oftner from Philadelphia this fall, than I had ever done before, but...
79717From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your obliging me with the perusal of your Son’s excellent Letter—I consider every word as Truth —a just representation of the state of our affairs, of which we have little, I believe in our public papers—I have not time to say now what I wish—I shall inclose his letter, for dear you may want it, & the...
79718To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Davidson, 24 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Munroe has communicated to me that Fences will not be suffered to be put across Streets, where once removed by the Original proprietors: The rigid enforcement of this prohibition will be a very serious inconvenience to the Heirs of John Davidson, who hold property in the City, which from its situation is not likely to be wanted for improvement, for some time. On the Division with the...
79719Enclosure: Nelson Barksdale’s Inventory of Central College Property Conveyed to the University of Virginia, 29 March … (Jefferson Papers)
IN obedience to a resolution of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia of this date, requiring of the Proctor to examine into the state of the property, real and personal, formerly appertaining to the Central College , and conveyed to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund , and to make an inventory of the same as it stands at this day, specifying the items whereof it...
79720From George Washington to Major General Nathanael Greene and Jeremiah Wadsworth, 14 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
As I shall be obliged to weaken the post at Paramus, to strengthen those of the Highlands —you will be pleased to give immediate orders that no stores of your department or provisions, passing on the communication between this and Kings ferry make any unnecessary hault—or delay so as to give opportunity to the enemy for insult or surprise. And in case there should be any quantities of...
79721III. Henry Dearborn’s Remarks on the Draft, 29 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
1t. part. insted of war } of that scurge to the human race, which has so frequently laid waste many of the best parts of the world, Treaty Piankashaws, & Delawares, may it not be advisable to sugjest some improvement in the present sistem of Government in uper Louisiana. may it not be expedient to say something in relation to the advantages which results from our trading houses with the...
79722[Diary entry: 21 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Friday 21st. Breakfasted in Baltimore—dined at the Widow Balls (formerly Spurriers) and lodged at Major Snowdens who was not at home. spurriers : site of the town of Waterloo in Howard County, Md., twice chosen during the Revolution as an encampment for Rochambeau’s army ( RICE Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown, eds. The American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783 ....
79723To John Adams from Paul R. Randall, 17 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
I should have paid the highest Respect to your Excellency’s Injunction of writing by every safe Opportunity—but that I conceived such Information, as I could have communicated hitherto, would have been only a Reiteration of M r Carmichaels Letters.— At present,—as M r. Lamb does not write,—nor has directed me thereto,—I think it my Duty to manifest an early Disposition of complying in every...
79724N.(1782)S. January 27th (Adams Papers)
Began to read Hume’s history of England. David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, 8 vols., London, 1763, which JQA borrowed from the English or British Library of St. Petersburg, where he found “a good collection of English Authors” (Dana to JA , 25 Jan. , Adams Papers ). JQA ’s notes (copied quotations) from his reading of Hume appear...
79725To James Madison from Alexander Parker, 12 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
The accompanying memorial, would have been delivered by a deputation from those Officers, whose names are subscribed to it, but I have requested Colo. Tayloe to be its bearer to whom I refer you for information on the subjects to which your enquiries will be directed by the memorial. I am Very respectfully Your most obt. Servt. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , T-120:8). Forwarded under...
79726To George Washington from John Hamilton, 8 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
Your surprise in hearing from a person altogether unknown, cannot be surpassed by the difficulty & embarrassment which I feel in the attempt to write; urged by my freinds, it is a task that has given me much pain and disquietude—being well assured however, that you desire only to preside over the hearts of a free people, & to be their parent & protector; altho’, not the first in an honorable...
79727To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 5 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
[.…] Will you be so kind as to make it, & give me the information. With sentiments of the highest esteem & respect, I remain dear sir yours.…” FC ( MHi : Elbridge Gerry Papers). 3 pp. The FC is a letterpress copy of the RC . The RC , with lower part of last page clipped, is printed in PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (7 vols. to...
79728From John Adams to Arthur Lee, 9 June 1779 (Adams Papers)
Your Favours of June 2d and 5th are now before me: that of 29 March, I have answered if I ever received it, for I have answered every one received from you, but not having my Papers at Hand cannot be particular. Thank you for the Manuscript and the Pamphlet. Am happy to hear from you and from all others, so agreable a Character of the Chevalier de la Luzerne, and M. de Marbois the last of whom...
79729Thomas Jefferson to William Barret, 12 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 5 th inst. I am one of those who during the flood of bank-currency which deluged us, unwarily contracted debts, which had the times continued the same, would have given me no trouble; but by the sudden reduction of that, and the fall of produce from tha t cause and the failure of market, I am left in the lurch, these debts being now fully trebled....
79730To George Washington from James Craik, 28 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 26th Instant was handed me by Mr Anderson, but from the hurry of business which at that time demanded all my attention I was prevented from answering it untill now —For the Check on the Bank of Alexandria please to accept my warmest Acknowledgements the present of Turnips I receve also with Gratitude. In regard to my Account with you I find upon examination of my Book’s that...