183201Hamilton Takes Command: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
As calls for military action against France grew louder during the summer of 1798, Jay tapped...
183202John Jay’s Moderate Response to the Whiskey Rebellion: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
The enforcement of Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton’s 1792 excise tax on distilled spirits met...
183203Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
“To morrow morning we set out upon our tour into Silesia, where you shall accompany us if you...
183204Drafting Instructions for Meriwether Lewis: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
A brief, undated set of four comments jotted in pencil by James Madison is the earliest evidence...
183205Tensions between Allies over the Peace Negotiations Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Congress received long-awaited dispatches from its commissioners in Europe in December 1782. On...
183206Constitutional Amendment on Louisiana: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
“I think it will be safer not to permit the enlargement of the Union but by amendment of the...
183207Anonymous Essay on Madison’s Character, December 1814 (Madison Papers)
Destined for the Bar, the youth of Madison was consecrated to the laborious studies of that...
183208Introductory Note: From Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [3 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
The events described in this letter precipitated the final phase of what has come to be known as...
183209The American Commissioners to John Lamb, [7 July 1786] (Adams Papers)
The Importance of Peace with the Algerines, and the other Inhabitants of the Coast of Barbary, to...
183210From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Franklin, 26 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society It has pleased God at length to take from us my only...
183211To George Washington from Edward Carrington, 30 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
I now have it in my power to give decisive information on the enquiries you did Genl Marshall and...
183212Suspension of the Rule Requiring Lawyers to Serve a Three-Year Clerkship in Favor of Alexander Hamilton, [26 April 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
Whereas by a former rule of this Court, a Clerkship of three years at least was among other...
183213To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 2 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
Feeling an interest in your wellfare I think proper to inform you that there are numerous...
183214Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Itch Lotion, [after 29 May 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
60 grs = 1. drachm 8 drachms = 1. oz 480. grs = 1. oz 16 oz. = 1. pint 2880 480 7680 = 1...
183215To Benjamin Franklin from J[ohn] C[arroll], 18 January 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Will you allow your fellow traveller to and from Canada to...
183216To George Washington from James Iredell and John Lowell, 15 June 1795 (Washington Papers)
We do ourselves the honour to inclose you a copy of an application made to the Circuit Court of...
183217From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Waller, 6 June 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I hear with Pleasure from Philadelphia, that Billy Hunter behaves...
183218To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 27 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
A friend to the United States of America, who, with many other’s, is compelled against his will...
183219Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Wells & Lilly, 13 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Hon. T. Jefferson Bo t of Wells & Lilly Janry 13. 1818 Stewart ’s first Diss n $1 .50 Playfair...
183220Editorial Note: The Consular Convention of 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
The Consular Convention of 1788 was the last of nine treaties to be signed by authority of the...
183221Enclosure: Statement of the Application of Monies Drawn from the Appropriation of Two Millions of Dollars, [26 December … (Hamilton Papers)
Monies Drawn. The following sums have been drawn from the said appropriation by warrants on the...
183222Editorial Note: Jefferson and the American Debt to France (Jefferson Papers)
The documents printed below have been grouped here in order to record more clearly, with the...
183223Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1770, with Adams and Jonathan Sewall as his counsel, John Whiting had prevailed in an...
183224Delegate to the First Continental Congress Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
New York was one of several provinces to react to the Boston Port Act with a call for an...
183225Poem by Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 31 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
—————“Homo sum. Nil humani a me alienum puto .” Benevolence Ere any social intercourse began,...
183226[William Hall]: Account of Benjamin Franklin with the Estate of David Hall, [1 February 1766] (Franklin Papers)
AD : American Philosophical Society After the partnership of Franklin and Hall had come to an end...
183227Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
In composing a letter to his boyhood friend James Maury , a longtime expatriate serving as United...
183228To Benjamin Franklin from [Samuel] Potts, 19 December 1766 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Potts presents his Compliments to Mr. Francklin and...
183229Address to the People of Great Britain Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
John Jay’s hopes for reconciliation did not prevent him from preparing the draft “Address to the...
183230Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Soon after Thomas Jefferson declared in his 4 March 1801 inaugural address that “We are all...