1From John Adams to James McHenry, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter from His Excellency John Henry, Govonor of Maryland, dated in Council Annapolis Aug. 19th. I transmit it to you, with my request that you would Answer it, with all the respect that is due to the subject and the Authority by which the Application is made, according to that Arrangement for national Defence, which has been or may be adopted in your Office, in the faithful and...
2From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether it is consistent with your views and plans to continue longer with me if I should have occasion. It was my intention to have communicated to you in Philadelphia that having communicated a Nephew a Nephew Mr. Wm. S. Shaw about to graduate at college this summer, I had long ago determined to take him into my family as my private Secretary. He is now with me & I shall in future...
3From John Adams to Nehemiah Fales, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the obliging Address you agreed on at the Supream Court in Dedham on the twenty third of this Month, and transmitted to me, through the Chief Justice of the State. It is not possible for a Grand Jury of honest and Sensible Men, to fullfill the Duties assigned them by the Laws of the Land, without reflecting on the inestimable Value of those Laws, and the distinction as well as...
4To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
When I reflect how often I have lately taken the freedom to address You especially relative to my private concerns, it is with much regret that I so soon again trouble You respecting them. A Circumstance, unexpected by me, occasions my present intrusion— Mr Lear has been appointed Secretary to General Washington—and has accepted the Office— This has caused a dissolution of our Copartnership,...
5To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letters of the 16th 17th and 18th The original of Mr. Barnes’s letter of which you inclosed a copy came duly to my hands, just as the offices were preparing to be removed from Philadelphia. The idea which then occurred to me was, that the person referred to and all similar characters were objects of the alien law, and ought to be sent out of the country:...
6To John Adams from John Stoughton, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Agreeable to your request on the 13th Instant: I did myself the pleasure of addressing the Honble: Timothy Pickering Esqr. Secretary of State to the following Effect as Per Copy annexed, to which at present have received no answer much to the disappointment of the poor Captain and injury of the Cargo he h as on board— Should your Excellency have received any reply, thereto shall think myself...
7To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, 28 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I received your note of the 25 inst. yesterday. I had written on saturday to the Lieutenant General as per copy annexed. You will return this paper, with your opinion respecting the proposed arrangements, and say nothing to anyone about its contents (I mean a part of its contents) either now or hereafter. Yours ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; ADf , James McHenry Papers, Library of...
8To Alexander Hamilton from Josiah Hedden, 28 August 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Being anxious to pursue a military life I have taken the Liberty of Soliciting through you a commission in the Regular army of the United States— Having only attained my Eighteenth year, I cannot with Propriety Solicit Higher Rank, than that of an Ensign, Should You on Enquiry into my Character Suppose me Competent to that appointment—you will confer a favor by giving me your Countenance and...
9From George Washington to John Gassaway, 28 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 20th Instant, with other letters, were brought to this place at a time when I was not in a situation to acknowledge the receipt of them. A fever with which I was seized on the 18th could not be checked before the 24th at night; and has left me a good deal debilitated. I mention this circumstance as an apology for your not hearing from me at an earlier period. As I shall have...
10To George Washington from Richard Parkinson, 28 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
I hope in your wonted Liberality, you will pardon the Liberty, I now take in laying before you, in the following Lines, the State of my Affairs at this present. My Collection of Animals, which I have purchased at a great Expence, being now full, I have chartered a Ship (called the “Poll Carey” Williams Master) at a further Expence of £850, the which as I shall not be able to discharge...