1A Dialogue between X, Y, and Z, 18 December 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...best discover them, and show what is proper or necessary to amend them. The approaching Winter...
2From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris, 19 March 1759 (Franklin Papers)
...more Liberty in the Colonies than is proper or necessary, and therefore do not care the...
3Cool Thoughts on the Present Situation of Our Public Affairs, 12 April 1764 (Franklin Papers)
...Measures always agreed on, which were proper or necessary for the good Government of the...
4To George Washington from Fairfax Independent Company, 19 October 1774 (Washington Papers)
...Sir, to determine whether it may be proper or necessary to vary from the usual Colours that...
5From Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones: Two Letters, 12 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...Direction of the King, which it was not proper or necessary for him to know. The Expression I...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 8 April 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
..., as the Minister has at last thought proper, or necessary, to own it in Parliament. He...
7To George Washington from James Potter, 19 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
...render an exchange of the Garrison proper or necessary, your Excellency can best determine;...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Hopkinson, 20 April 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...and to any others you may think proper or necessary.” Endorsements in the hands of Franklin...
9To James Madison from George Muter, 20 February 1787 (Madison Papers)
...called, let the meeting be ever so proper or necessary. A very considerable delay, must now...
10From John Jay to Peter W. Yates, 1 March 1787 (Jay Papers)
...it does not appear to me to be proper or necessary to take further notice of the Calumnies...
11To George Washington from James Gibbon, 16 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
...I know Sir, that of Congress was proper or necessary for in either instance my situation wou’...
12Assumption of the State Debts, [22 April] 1790 (Madison Papers)
...would be paid. Would it, Sir, be proper or necessary to consider these as debts of the Union...
13From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 4 December 1790 (Jay Papers)
it may be proper or necessary to answer, and what not—
14Report on the Petition of Comfort Sands and Others, 24 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
...term of their contract, it was deemed proper or necessary by the said Superintendant, that the...
15To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 3 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...more probable, that he might not think it proper or necessary to communicate it to me. I learn...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Charles Lee, 29 January 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...and in every case where it shall be proper or necessary to appoint a measurer it shall be...
17To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 22 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
...Majestrate it has not deemed it proper or necessary to the legislature—they should act...
18To George Washington from Henry Knox, 28 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
...He seems to think that it would not be proper or necessary for him to be present at the Trial...
19From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...“with Directions to investigate her Claim, and, if proper or necessary, to institute Suits”...
20Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Expeditions Being Planned in Kentucky for the Invasion of the Spanish Dominions, [10 March … (Hamilton Papers)
...execution, I did not conceive it was either proper or necessary for me to do any thing in the...
21To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 12 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
...manner to the Suits you may think proper or necessary to institute—we expect however to render...
22From George Washington to James McHenry, 7 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
...attention as on a general view of things may seem proper or necessary” (
23John Quincy Adams to Joshua Johnson, 11 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
...nor was it a subject upon which I thought it proper or necessary to enquire
24To John Adams from David Bradford, 20 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
...be persuaded that farther amplification is proper or necessary. The mind of the President will...
25To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 1 May 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
...of troops, should such a measure be proper or necessary. Gen. Wilkinson may be daily expected...
26To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 27 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
..., might render some changes very proper or necessary. A consideration of those arrangements...
27To James Madison from Andrew and Joseph Perkins, 23 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
...We beg to be informed what measures are proper or necessary for us to adopt in order to...
28To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 October 1805 (Madison Papers)
...which should make new demands upon her present resources either proper, or necessary.
29To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
...what other steps of any kind it may be proper or necessary to take. I have the honor to be,...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 30 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...be a judge of what is proper or
necessary to be done till about...
31From James Madison to Nathan Sanford, 23 October 1806 (Madison Papers)
...explain how far the intervention of the Executive may be proper or necessary. I am &c.
32To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 12 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
...intention, as fully as you may think proper or necessary, and you will be pleased to...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 28 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
If it shall be deemed proper or necessary to support myself with recommendations at this time, I...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
.... If however it be thought proper or necessary to support myself with recommendations...
35To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 5 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
...I hope appear to be such as were proper or necessary to the case, and calculated, either to...
36To James Madison from John Armstrong, 2 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
...does, would not have made any declaration from me either proper or necessary,
37To James Madison from Robert G. Scott, 23 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
...like this will operate; neither is it proper or necessary for me to say, that this...
38Josephus B. Stuart’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 24–25 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
so far as may be proper or necessary for our own purposes a manufactoring people—Extend good...
39William P. Van Ness’s Narrative of Later Events of June 25, 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
...then—That I did not think it proper or necessary to ask now for further explanation from...