114th. (Adams Papers)
I find I am getting fast into the same unmeaning dull sameness, which has frequently abbreviated the space of a day in these pages. Study does not consist merely, in acquiring the ideas of others but, it is necessary by reflection to endeavour to form some for ourselves: But I am fearful, that I have not yet acquired sufficient knowledge, to derive much advantage from my own speculations. Ars...
2The Federalist No. 6, [14 November 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
To the People of the State of New-York. THE three last numbers of this Paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations. I shall now proceed to delineate dangers of a different, and, perhaps, still more alarming kind, those which will in all probability flow from dissentions between the...
3[Diary entry: 14 November 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 14th. Thermometer at 56 in the Morning—66 at Noon and 67 at Night. Clear and very mild in the morning. Cloudy afterwards with slight sprinklings of Rain. Wind at So. West. Rid to the Ferry, Frenchs, Dogue run & Muddy hole. At the Ferry 3 plows were at Work. All the other hands except the Ferry men had gone to Muddy hole. At French’s they had got done abt. ⅔ of the Stack of Barley and...
4[Diary entry: 14 November 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday. 14th. Clear and very mild morning—Clouds afterwards and a sml. Sprinkle—Wind abt. So. W. Rid to the Ferry, French’s D. Run & Muddy hole. At the first 3 plows at work, all the other hands execpt the Ferry men, were sent to Muddy hole. At Frenchs treading out Barley—Plows stopped for this purpose. At D. Run 4 plows at Wk. The other hands digging Potatoes. At Muddy hole all hands...
5To George Washington from Robert Lawson, 14 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
It is with great diffidence that I address you on a subject, which concerns my private Interest only; the motive, I must entreat you, Sir, to consider, & suffer it to plead my apology. I have due me in the two States of South Carolina, & Georgia, about five hundred pounds, in the hands of two Gentlemen; and I have made several attempts (through a person empowered as my Attorney in fact) to...
6To George Washington from David Stuart, 14 November 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from David Stuart, 14 Nov. 1787. On 30 Nov. GW wrote Stuart : “Your favor of the 14th came duly to hand.”
7To Thomas Jefferson from American Captains and Masters of Vessels at L’Orient, 14 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
L’Orient, 14 Nov. 1787 . Request that TJ use his influence and authority to obtain the appointment of David Divoux as interpreter and broker for foreign vessels in that port; Divoux possesses “sufficiently the necessary Languages and Capacitys” and has a good character; the present, sole interpreter and broker is “too much occupied to be able to full fill the Duty of his Place as it ought to...
8From Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 14 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favors of Oct. 23. and 26. With respect to the mission you suggest in the former, no powers are lodged in the hands of Mr. Adams and myself. Congress commissioned Mr. Adams, Doctr. Franklin and myself to treat with the emperor on the subjects of amity and commerce, at the same time they gave us the commission to Prussia with which you are acquainted. We proposed...
9To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 14 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 14 Nov. 1787 . Avails himself of a French courier to transmit the enclosed, which shows that his situation, with that of a mass of good citizens, is like that of the lamb in the fable. [ Postscript: ] Having missed the courier, is obliged to send the letter by regular post. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; endorsed. FC (Dumas Papers, Rijksarchief, The Hague). Recorded in SJL as received...
10[To Thomas Jefferson from Honnoré, 14 November 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Marseilles, 14 Nov. 1787 . An entry in SJL under 20 Nov. 1787 records the receipt of a letter from “Honnoré Lieut. and Neveu.” Not found.]