2731From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 17th. of February. since that I learn by a letter from Richmond that Martha is with her sister. my last letter from Eppington was of the 16th. of Feb. when Maria was hoped to be in fair way of speedy recovery. the continuance of the non inter-course law for another year and the landing of our commissioners at Lisbon, have placed the opening of the French market (where,...
2732From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your favor of Jan. 25. I thought it would be best to suffer the tobos. with which I had troubled you to lie, in confidence the nonintercourse law would have been suffered to expire, & that the price would then have sprung up. but the continuance of that law for another year, and the news that our envoys are landed at Lisbon, place the opening of the French market at such a...
2733Abigail Adams to William Smith, 3 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
I received on saturday Your kind favour of Feb’ ry accept My thanks for the orations. I send you in return Major Jacksons, which was very handsomely deliverd, and is as highly spoken of as any amongst the Multitude. I think it will not lose by a comparison with any which I have read, and I already have enough for a vol’ m . Messengers is the Wildest Raphosody of any I do not esteem the whole;...
2734To John Adams from Benjamin Lincoln, 3 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
The late collector of Portsmouth Mr. Whipple has often spoken and written to me respecting his removal from Office and wished me to converse with you on the subject which I declined being persuaded of the impropriety of the measure without evidence to substantiate the facts he set up. But at last upon his admitting the Justice of his removal upon the proof adduced in the case and giving up all...
2735To John Adams from Department of the Treasury, 3 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
Dr. John Adams President of the United States, his Account of Compensation ... Cr. To Warrants on the Treasurer for the following in favor of the President By balance as P Treasury Settlement No. 10,438 4,000 1799 Amount of his Compensation from 4th March 1799 March 18 Warrt. No. 9402 600 to 3d March 1800 per Treasury Settlement No. 11,301 25,000 April 17 9611 100 May 14 9690
2736To John Adams from John Williams, 3 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
The great Esteem I have for your Excellencys conspicuous, humane, & virtuous Character, emboldens me through the medium of these Lines, to introduce to you, Sir, the Bearer of this, and to recomend him to your Favour & Goodness as an Object worthy of your Patronage & Aid; for he is an honest, sober, peaceable and virtuous Person, and a firm Friend to the Government of the United States, but a...
2737From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I am told, though I really have not seen the law, that one has passed suspending the Recruiting Service for the Twelve Additional Regiments. You are aware that an instruction from your Department ought to precede my agency upon that law. Yrs. truly ALS , Columbia University Libraries; ALS (photostat), James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress; copy, in the handwriting of Ethan Brown, Hamilton...
2738From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Wells, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the first instant, as well as previous letters on the same subject; and altho’ I have returned no answer, yet, I have not failed to express an opinion in favour of your claim to the Secretary of the Treasury. It appears to me that officers of the United States who sustain injury, in consequence of their exertions to carry the laws into effect, ought to be...
2739From Alexander Hamilton to Daniel Jackson, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you the enclosed Certificate—You will make enquiry into the affair, and should the representation appear to be true, you will discharge the soldier to whom it relates— ( Df , in the handwriting of Thomas Y. How, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
2740From Alexander Hamilton to Daniel Jackson, 3 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the seventeenth of February with it’s enclosure. The proceedings of the Court Martial in the case of James Barrons will be considered as void, his offence being of a capital nature—You will have him brought before any General Court Martial which may be now sitting at Fort Independence , or which may hereafter sit there in your vicinity— I agree with you that the...