1From John Adams to John C. Herbert, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
An Address so respectful to me and so faithful to the Nation and true to its Government from so honourable a Portion of the Young Men of Richmond, cannot fail to be very acceptable to me.— You will not take offence, I hope at my freedom, however if I say that if you had been taught to cherish in your hearts an Esteem and Friendship for France, it would have been enough: very well. more than...
2From John Adams to United States Senate, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate William McGuire of Virginia to be Chief Justice of the Mississippi Territory— William Henry Harrison Esqr: of Virginia to be Secretary of the Territory, north west of the River Ohio— Josiah Blakely of New York to be Consul of the United States in St. Jago in the Island of Cuba— DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.