1Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I received by our Thursday Post, yours of Decbr 18 & 23 together with the Bennets Strictures. you may be sure Bennet is a favorite writer with me for two reasons. the first is; that he is ingenious enough, to acknowledg & point out the more than Egyptian Bondage, to which the Female Sex, have been subjugated, from the earliest ages; and in the Second place; that he has added his Mite, to the...
2To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 4 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, January 4, 1795. “Pay to the Director of the Mint Eight thousand Dollars; to be applied to the purposes of that Establishment, agreeably to an Estimate exhibited by the said Director of the probable expenses of the Mint of the United States for the present quarter commencing the 1st Instant.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. David Rittenhouse. See “An Estimate...
3From George Washington to William Pearce, 4 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 28th of last month with its enclosures, and am sorry to hear you were unwell, at that time; but hope you have quite recovered. the warmth, and changeability of the weather have been productive of violent colds in this part of the country. Such has been the goodness of the last autumn, & mildness and openess of the winter, hitherto, that I hope all the Oat...
4To George Washington from William Pearce, 4 Jan. 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 4 Jan. 1795. On 11 Jan., GW wrote Pearce: “Your letter of the 4th instt, with the reports, is received.”
5To George Washington from Harriot Washington, 4 January 1795 (Washington Papers)
The trouble I have already given My dear and Honor’d Uncle, really concerns me when I think of it; but my necesity for some things is such that I can’t help intruding on your goodness again. Therefore I hope my dear Uncle will excuse my asking him for as much money as will purchase me a stuff skirt and a couple of dark callico’s as I am very much in want of them indeed, and have been ever...
6To James Madison from Walter Jones, 4 January 1795 (Madison Papers)
I acknowledge your obliging & Speedy answer to my last, as well on my part, as on the part of those at whose Instance, I gave you Some trouble. I much rejoice, that your house warded off the blow, that, under the recent Impressions of the Insurrection, was so well aimed to exalt executive power on the depression of popular Spirit. The Subject of Government is thought to be better understood in...
7To James Madison from Samuel Stanhope Smith, 4 January 1795 (Madison Papers)
JM’s friend of long standing, the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, was serving as vice-president of the College of New Jersey. On 5 May 1795 he succeeded his father-in-law and JM’s former tutor, John Witherspoon, as president of the college. He had corresponded sporadically with JM since the Virginian’s college days. Two sermons that Smith preached early in 1795 were not, however, calculated to...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 4 January 179[5] (Jefferson Papers)
I Received your favors of the 17th Ultimo two days ago and thank you for their contents. I waited on Mr. Shippen last evening and mentioned your business to him. After remarking that he thought the estate of Mr. Banister’s father should in strictness pay the debt, as he was travelling under his father’s direction at the time it was contracted, Mr. Shippen promised to pay it himself, but not...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Skipwith, 4 January 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor covering Mr. Adams’ letter to you, I wrote to him for such further information as might enable me to instruct an attorney at Baltimore to proceed to recover Mr. Short’s demand against Dr. Griffin. I inclose you his answer. Having Mr. Short’s power of attorney, and this being my first and only information relative to this debt, I wish to proceed against...