1From George Washington to Charles Simms and David Stuart, 3 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
As president of the Board of Directors for the Potomac company, I have the honor to enclose you a Petition which we pray you to present to your honorable House; & to use your best endeavours to have the prayer of it enacted into a Law. The petition is so full, & the request of it so reasonable, that we do not suppose there can be the least opposition to it, otherwise than by delay; because the...
2From George Washington to Charles Simms, 22 September 1786 (Washington Papers)
I now sit down to avail myself of your friendly offer of serving me whilst you are on your Western tour. I give you the trouble of some letters. That to Mr Smith I leave open for your perusal. Please to seal before delivering it. Mr Smith has my Patent—Posey’s Bond on which my military Right was founded, and on which the Warrant for surveying issued—together with every other publick & private...
3From James Madison to Charles Simms, [post 23] August 1791 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed you by Mr. Childs who solicits subscriptions to a new Gazette to be edited from his press by Mr. Freneau. The plan being inclosed speaks its own merits. Those of Mr. Childs are vouched by the character & success of a paper which has been for a long time published by him in N. York. With Mr. Freneau I have been long and intimately acquainted. He is a man of genius, of...
4From George Washington to Charles Simms, 24 February 1794 (Washington Papers)
Near a month ago I wrote you to this effect, “that the letter therein enclosed to Mr Keith furnished the means of discharging your claim upon me as Executor of Colvils Will—requesting you to deliver, or send it by a safe hand, to him”. The letter for Mr Keith contained a request of some papers to be forwarded to me which I then was, and still am in want of. Since writing these letters I have...
5From James Madison to Charles Simms, 2 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I am enabled to assure you that the report to which it alludes is entirely destitute of foundation. I am very respectfully Yr. obedt. servt. RC ( RPJCB ).
6From James Madison to Charles Simms, 10 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Charles Simms. 10 July 1805, Department of State. “I request you to be pleased to inform me whether there is at Alexandria any Vessel, bound to Boston; as I wish to Ship thither five pieces of brass cannon intended for Barbary.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 1 p. On 12 Aug. 1805 the War Department charged the State Department $8,664.99 for five brass eighteen-pound cannon...
7From James Madison to Charles Simms, 31 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 30th. and thank you for your attention to the articles expressed to me from Lisbon. Having no invoice of them, I must ask the favor of you to proceed according to the rules in such cases, and to let me know the amt. which is to be remitted; forwarding them to this place by the first oppy. that may be convenient. As the articles for the President & others are all...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Simms, 22 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of yesterday, and this being a day in which all the offices are shut, & the case admitting no delay, I inclose you a special order, directly from myself to apply for aid of the militia adjacent to the vessel, to enable you to do your duty as to the sloop loading with flour. but I must desire that, so far as the agency of the militia be employed, it may be with...
9Thomas Jefferson to Charles Simms, 4 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved information that mr Lee , the Collector of Salem has forwarded for me to Alexandria by the sho Schooner Jachin , W m Silver
10From James Madison to Charles Simms, 20 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison thanks Col: Simms for his attention to the Brandy & Wine recd. from the Collector of Boston, and requests the favor of him to forward hither by water, any articles he may have since recd. from the Collector of New Bedford. Col: S. will add a note of any charges which may be due. RC ( NBuU ). See Simms to JM , 27 Mar. 1815 .