1From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of January 31, and thank you for your obliging Congratulations, as well as for the monthly Publication. Will you do me the favor of having my name Subscribed and the Magazine Sent to Quincy regularly as it comes out? I am no doubt obliged to Capt. Ingraham, and I Suppose also to Mr Barrel, my old Friend for the Compliment. The Time has been when such a feather...
2To John Adams from Alexander Hamilton, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith copies of sundry communications lately made to the House of Representatives, containing further information on subjects which appear to have been objects of inquiry before the Senate. I add the copy of the Treasurer’s last quarterly account heretofore omitted. With perfect respect / I have the honor to be Sir / Your most Obedient / & humble St DNA : RG...
3To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed when I look at the date of your last letter but knowing how much you are engaged & the little entertainment I can avoid you by detailing the publick occurrences wch you have by the Frence papers, many of which are very good being wrote by men of the first talents who do not scorn to instruct & inform their fellow citizens , knowing that truth is always productive of good. but a...
4To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
The bearer of ths letter is the reverend Mr Toulmyn of Devonshire a worthy dissenting minister & an excellent and good man & of abilities loved & esteemed by his congregation in so much that many of them accompany him, in this banishment from his country, from attachment and regard to his principles & upright conduct. his Situation is render’d disagreeable inconvient & dangerous from the...
The Petition of the Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia and of the Trustees of the Loganian Library Respectfully Sheweth That annual importations of Books are necessary for the use of the respective institutions committed to their care which by the present revenue Laws of the United States are subject to the same Duties as those imported for sale. That whatever promotes the...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Tobias Lear, 18 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The President does not recollect the name of the person mentioned to succeed the Collector of Edenton (N:C.) and wishes you to send it. Is it intended that the person mentioned should be appointed Inspector of Survey No. 2. which office was held by the Collector of Edenton? Inspector of the Port he will be of course. Is William Munson to be appointed Inspector as well as Surveyor of the Port...
7From Alexander Hamilton to Jonathan Trumbull, 18 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It is with much regret, I find myself under an impossibility of presenting to day, conformably to the expectation given in my last, the concluding communication in answer to the late resolutions of the House. I trust nothing will delay it beyond tomorrow. With perfect respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient and humble servant, Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Treasury...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Ward, 18 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newton, Massachusetts, February 18, 1793. On May 6, 1793, Hamilton wrote to Ward and acknowledged the receipt of Ward’s “letter of the 18th of February last.” Letter not found. ] Ward was a Boston stockbroker and real estate dealer.
9To George Washington from Burwell Bassett, 18 February 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Burwell Bassett, Jr., 18 Feb. 1793. GW wrote Bassett on 4 Mar. , “Your letter of the 18th Ulto, & its enclosure, came duly to hand.”
10Tobias Lear to Alexander Hamilton, 18 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President does not recollect the name of the person mentioned to succeed the Collector of Edenton (N: C.)—and wishes you to send it. Is it intended that the person mentioned should be appointed Inspector of Survey No. 2. which office was held by the Collector of Edenton? Inspector of the Port he will be of course. Is William Munson to be appointed Inspector as well as Surveyor of the Port...