1[March 1786] (Adams Papers)
...and Miss Shipley the Wife and Daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan, Mr. Alexander and Mrs. Williams, Mr. Richard Peters and myself, were the Company. In the Evening other Company came in, according to the Fashion, in this Country. Mrs. Shipley at Table asked many Questions about the Expence of living in Philadelphia and Boston. Said she had a Daughter, who had married, less prudently than they...
2Introduction (Adams Papers)
In shaping the necessarily complex plan of a comprehensive edition of the papers of the Adams family, the editors decided to prepare and publish first the Diary of John Adams, with its important though fragmentary supplement, his Autobiography written long after he had given up keeping a diary. ...passed on without loss from one generation of custodians of the Adams family archives to another,...to
3[May 1785] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Jarvis came out and dined with us at Auteuil. In the afternoon, Mr. Jefferson came out; he drank tea with us. No Rain yet: the drought is very great: the verdure is but small, tho’ the trees are covered with Leaves. A Letter was brought after dinner to my father from Dr. Franklin, ...to the Hôtel d’Orléans Rue St. Anne, and found Mr. Randall out, but he had left the Packets for... ..., to...
4John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 17 April 1799 (Adams Papers)
King I have information from Philadelphia and New-York to the last of February and 1 of March. The most recent and most important event they announce is the nomination of a new Commission to negotiate with France, and the negative upon that measure by the Senate— I hope that these circumstances will prove to the french Government two things. first that our Executive is yet anxiously desirous...to
5From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
. In consequence of these Reveries I have imagined that Camus and the Institute, meant, by the revival and continuance of the Acta Sanctorum, to destroy the Pope and the Catholic Church and Hierarchy, de fondi en comble, or in the language of Frederick, Voltaire, D’Alembert &c “ecrasor le miserable,” “crush the Wretch.” This great Work must contain......to the history of the Revolution, my...
6Introductory Note: The Federalist, [27 October 1787–28 May 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...more frequently than any other work of Hamilton. They have, nevertheless, been reprinted in these volumes because no edition of his writings which omitted his most important contribution to political thought could be considered definitive. The essays written by John Jay and James Madison, however, have not been included. They are available in many editions, and they do not, after all,...
7Enclosure: [Expenditures], 15 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
October 12. To Henry Knox, assignee of Michael Hillegas, for the amount of a warrant No. 485, dated the 9th, May 1789, drawn by the late board of Treasury on William Imlay receiver of continental taxes for the state of...To the President of the United States, on Account of his Compensation.
8To Alexander Hamilton from Theodore Sedgwick, 27 January 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
This will be handed to you by a Mr. Thomas Fitch; and, at his desire, is addressed to his case. He wishes for the honor of being known to you, and he hopes for the aid of your patronage, in the persuit of some object, of which I have no distinct knowledge. He is of an obscure, tho’ respectable family in this neighbourhood. The President... ...spoken to me of his talents and acquirements in...
9May [1791] (Washington Papers)
GW was rowed across the Sampit River “in the same manner, and by the same Captains of vessels,” as he had been rowed to Georgetown the previous day. The artillery again saluted him from the foot of Broad Street, and “on the opposite shore [he] was received by the light-infantry company” ( ...branches, the North Santee and South Santee, between which lies Lynch’s Island, a marshy area patented to...
10To George Washington from Arthur Young, 25 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
With the yarn you will receive the Annals continued two setts; one I take the liberty of requesting yr presenting to the Agriculture Society as before....grass which I beleive will prove more beneficial than Lucern or any other; I sow 30 acres of it this spring. I have added to the packet a bag of the seed which you will sow with barley or oats, if it comes in time; if not alone when...