127th. (Adams Papers)
Recite in Ferguson this week. Mr. Williams, this forenoon concluded his course of astronomical lectures, by explaining the or rery, and the cometarium. I have not received from these lectures either the entertainment or the instruction, which I expected from them. Except having acquired a clearer notion of the figures of the different planets by viewing them through the telescope, I believe I...
2Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams Smith, 27 November 1786 (Adams Papers)
I must frankly acknowledge to my Dear Niece that I could not but wonder at her long Silence. I feared that my Letters had not reached her, or that I had inadvertenly written something that had wounded her feelings, and so had, in her estimation, forfeited that Love, and generous confidence which she had so kindly placed in me. But when I recieved a Letter from your Mother last April, which...
3[Diary entry: 27 November 1786] (Washington Papers)
Monday 27th. Mercury at 38 in the Morning—48 at Noon and 44 at Night. Wind Southerly, and moderately all day. Sometimes there were great appearances of rain at other times it looked promising. Evening clear but a circle and bur both rd. the Moon. Rid to the Ferry, Dogue run and Muddy hole Plantations—also to the Mill and to the Ditchers—about the Corn at all the places—Measd. 68 Barls. at...
4From George Washington to Richard Butler, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have been requested by the Marqs de la Fayette, in behalf of the Empress of Russia, to obtain a vocabulary of the languages of the Ohio Indians. Previous to my hearing of your appointment as superintendant of Indian Affairs in that District, I had transmitted to Captn Hutchins a copy of the Marquis’s letter, containing the above request; conceiving that it would be much in his power, from...
5From George Washington to Robert Townsend Hooe, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
The plank I want is to floor a room 24 by 32 feet. It must be 24 feet long & 1½ inches thick—all of a colour, and entirely free from Knots & sap. More than the nett quantity is requisite, for allowances. If it were seasoned, so much the better; but this is hardly to be expected in plank of this particular kind. If Mr Swift can supply me, it will be better than to send to the Eastern shore; if...
6From George Washington to George McCarmick, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 31st of October, & thank you for the information contained therein. Since which I have obtained a full account of the decisions in my favor against the settlers of my Land on Miller’s run, from Mr Smith. Altho’ those people have little right to look to me for favor or indulgences, & were told, if they run me to the expence of a Law suit, that they were not to...
7From George Washington to Philip Marsteller, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
I send my Barge for the German family with which I agreed on Saturday last, & for their necessaraies if they have any to bring. As I have no body about me who can converse with them in their own language, I pray you to inform them that it will be necessary they should exert themselves to learn English; that their residences in the room into which they will be first introduced may be temporary,...
8To George Washington from Philip Marsteller, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
I recd your favor of this date and agreeable to Request have fully explain’d to them the Contents thereof, and hartily wish their behavior may merit your Attention. I enclose the Indentures Signed on the part of the Servants, your part Sr after being Signed will belong to them. Col. Hooe informs me that the Laws of the State do not require the like Transactions to be done before a Majestrate...
9From George Washington to Presley Nevill, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Accept my thanks for the information given me in your letter of the 25th ulto from the Court House of Washington, respecting the decision of one of my Ejectments. I have, since, been informed by Mr Smith, of the favorable issue of the whole, and of the necessity there is of my paying immediate attention to the Tenements to prevent the waste & damage which otherwise will follow. Consequent of...
10[To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Champion, for Zachariah Loreilhe, 27 November 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ L’Orient, 27 Nov. 1786. Recorded in SJL as received 30 Nov. 1786. Not found.]