16th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Saltonstall, Mrs. Harrod, and Betsey Duncan drank tea here. Mr. Thaxter remained part of the Evening. He is I think as much attached as I ever saw any body: and is an instance, of what has often been observed that men, free from any passion, can reason, upon them, much better than they can practice, when called to. Many times have I heard him declare his disgust at fondness shown by...
2To John Adams from the Comte de Sarsfield, 6 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
Si Javois Seu le voyage de M r Jefferson, Je lui aurois remis quelques memoires curieux pour Vous. vous Savez que Je pense que vous autres Gens de l’autre monde ne Sauriez trop etudier le notre afin de Connoitre nos maux Et vous en preserver Sans quoy Vous ne Vaudrez pas mieux que nous dans quelque tems. Ily a un memoire de M r du Paty qui vaut dans Son Genre les lettres de M Stuart au L d...
3[Diary entry: 6 March 1786] (Washington Papers)
Monday 6th. Thermometer at 36 in the morng.—37 at Noon and 37 at Night. Cloudy & heavy all day, with little wind & that soft. Mr. Lee went away about 10 Oclock and Mr. Thornton Washington came in after we had dined and stayed all night. Mr. Lund Washingtons Negro Shoemaker left working here on saturday last. Returned to the erection of my deer paddock, which the bad weather had impeded....
4From George Washington to William Hartshorne, 6 March 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Hartshorne, 6 Mar. 1786. On 6 Mar. Hartshorne wrote: “Your favor of this day I recd.”
5To George Washington from William Hartshorne, 6 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of this day I recd and shall forward your Letter to Mr Mercer tomorrow & if he will pay the money my assistant will bring it, or should Mr Mercer be returned to Virginia, bring back the Letter. I have a Letter from Capt. Pearce of the 26th Janry wherein he says he has wrote you respecting his acct for Freight of the Jack Ass and that you might Settle with me as you pleased and that...
6From George Washington to John Francis Mercer, 6 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
The Treasurer of the Potomack Company being desired by the Directors of it to send a careful hand to Annapolis for the advance due on the State subscription; I pray you to pay the Bearer (who will be that person) the £200—for which you requested me to draw on you at that place. I am Dr Sir &c. P.S. Since writing to you the 30th of Jany on this subject—I have myself sent the 20 guineas &c. to...
7From George Washington to John Murray & Co., 6 March 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Murray & Co., 6 Mar. 1786. John Murray & Co. wrote GW on 6 Mar. “in reply to your favor of this date.”
8To George Washington from John Murray & Company, 6 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your favr of this date we have to say that we have already contracted for a quantity of herring at Eighteen Shillings pr bbl & give salt in excha. at three Shillings pr bus., 2/9 in Coarse & 1/3 in Liverpool Salt, on which terms we are willing to engage for two or three hundred bbls more, the fine Salt to be ⟨did⟩ either here or at Dumfries, the Coarse either at the landing where...
9To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 6 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty of troubling you in 1779 with some Queries relative to a parcel of Lands which were offerd to me near the mouth of the Great Kanhaway —My Brother & I became Purchasers thereof, to the Amount of Fourteen thousand Acres, besides some other parcels in which We have become interested, upon Elk River a branch of the Kanhaway—This having interested Me so much in that Quarter, I am...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson, 6 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be absent so short a time that any letter you would write to me would hardly get to London before I should be coming away; and it is the more discouraging to write as they open all letters in the post office. Should however sickness or any other circumstance render a letter to me necessary, send it here to Mr. Short and he will direct and forward it. I shall defer engaging your drawing...