1Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 27 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
I this day received your Letter of the 23 d inst and was rejoiced once more to see your own hand writing— I have for some time feared that you were more indisposed than you would permit me to be informed of, I have suffered much anxiety on your account— inded my hands head and heart have been fully employed since I left you the former in preparing for my voyage and the latter by the...
2To Alexander Hamilton from William Allibone, [27 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I have the Honor to Enclose a statement of what mony will be wanted in discharge of the engagments in the Office of Superintendant of the Delaware Light House &c for the present quarter up to the thirty first Instant and am with Highest Respect your most Obedient. Humble Servant ALS , RG 26, Lighthouse Letters Received, Vol. “A,” Pennsylvania and Southern States, National Archives. “Statement...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Isaac Ledyard, 27 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
The Petition which you was so good as to shew a friendly concern for (to benifit by the final provision from which I was strangely precluded) is as you advised referred to the Secy of War. I fear this information may come too late for your benevolence to be exercised toward me as you designed. Yesterday I was informed to my great disappointment & grief that an application of mine to Congress...
4To Alexander Hamilton from William Maxwell, 27 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Greenwich, New Jersey, March 27, 1792 . On June 26, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Maxwell : “Your Letter of the 27 of March was duly received.” Letter not found .] Maxwell, a resident of New Jersey, had served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army from October, 1776, to July, 1780.
5To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Livingston, 27 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Your Letter of Sunday, was brought to me yesterday morning about eight OClock with its inclosures, I immediately delivered them, the one addressed to Mr. Seton, the other for Generl. Schuyler. I called upon Mr. G. Verplank, the President of the State Bank, he appears, perfectly to coincide, in opinion, of the propriety of giving aid to the Dealers, as far as is consistent with prudence....
6Samuel Blair to Tobias Lear, 27 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Allow me, Sir, the liberty, which I now assume, of addressing the President of the United States through you in consequence of the unavoidable delay of an answer to his and Mrs Washington’s invitation to Mrs Blair and myself to dine with them on Thursdy next. The delay was owing to my not being able to procure an earlier information from Mrs Blair on the subject. She is very sorry that it is...
7To George Washington from Benjamin Galloway, 27 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have taken the Liberty of making the following Communication, in confidence that it will be attributed to a proper Motive, though it should not eventually be productive of the desired Consequence—a Young Gentleman, who served the United States in the Cavalry during the late War; who was afterwards honoured with an Appointment in your Family, and who now resides on the Eastern Shore of the...
8To George Washington from William Archibald McCrea, 27 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The eminent Station of Supreme Magistrate, which your Excellency holds, in the Administration of the Government of this Country, naturally leads the Great & numerous People over whom you preside, to consider you as their, Friend, their Protector, & their Father. Appellations which Associate with themselves respectful Esteem, Gratefull Remembrance, & Filial Affection. Having been taught, from...
9To James Madison from John Moore, 27 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
Since I received your’s by Mr. Mcalister together with the 32 dollars, I have had a Letter from my father informing me of the cashe he has lodged in the hands of a merchant in Philadelphia, directing me to draw on you whenever my exigencies required it; I expect in the course of three weeks to set out for Virginia but shall not be able to accomplish it untill I get the remainder of the money...
10For the National Gazette, 27 March 1792 (Madison Papers)
This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.” In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage . In the former sense, a man’s land, or merchandize, or...