1From John Adams to Benjamin Lincoln, 7 November 1796 (Adams Papers)
I was in hopes to have troubled you no more in this Way: but am disappointed. If you can oblige me, I shall transmit the Sum to you, as soon as I get to Philadelphia. I am with Usual Esteem and / Love, yours NjP : DeCoppet Collection.
2From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 7 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your two letters, dated the 31st Ulto, with their several enclosures, were received on thursday last. The one to Mr Wolcott has been delivered to him; but he seems to have no sanguine expectation of obtaining a loan from the Bank of the United States, for the purposes of the Federal City. He intended to communicate your offer to the President and Directors on Saturday and to support it with an...
3To George Washington from John Lithgow, c.7 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
It is the peculiar advantage of a republican Government that the meanest Citizen, may address the highest, upon any Subject which concerns the welfare of the Nation, without having it supposed that, he is interfering in things which do not belong to him. It is equaly true that every Citizen, who thinks for the public Good, ought to use every endeavour within his power, to check folly, to...
4To George Washington from Eleanor Wilson, 7 November 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Eleanor Wilson, 7 Nov. 1796 . Secretary of State Timothy Pickering wrote Wilson from Philadelphia on 15 March 1797: “I had overlooked your petition to the late President Washington dated the 7th of last November, and the papers accompanying it” ( DNA : RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions, 1791–1801).