32101To Thomas Jefferson from Pierce Butler, 2 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A Committee of Senate to whom the petition of Charles Colvill was refered; together with sundry papers on the subject of a Treaty with the Alegerines, and the redemption of the American Citizens in Captivity at Algiers, have directed me to ask You to Draft a Bill, Authorising the President of the United states, by and with the advice and Consent of senate, to appoint a proper person to treat...
32102To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 21 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have in hand between three & four thousand Dollars of the ten thousand recd. 3d. Instant; but as the Expenditures at the Capitol during the present & two next months will be much greater than heretofore it may. perhaps prevent inconvenience if it should be the Presidents pleasure to leave with the Secretary of the Treasury, or some other person here a warrant for such sum as may be...
32103To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 4 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose a letter which I was desired to forward to you from Mr: Bourne at Amsterdam. A few days before I sailed from Hamburg, I sent you by duplicates, copies of a letter which I received there from the Swedish Minister at the Court of Berlin and of my answer to it. As it contained a proposition from the king of Sweden which may be deemed of some importance to the...
32104To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [13 April 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Notes for discount are to be presented to the Bank of the U. S. on Mondays. There will be wanted 2500 Drs. to make up the Sum, which was noted for this week—and any part of the remaining sum of 3000 drs. proposed to be paid in April, which may be convenient. The third sum of 3500 Drs. will not be necessary, but in the course of August. That is the proportion, which was noted as to be paid by...
32105The Death of John Jay: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
During Jay’s retirement, his health had generally been a mixture of his usual ailments and the progressive effects of aging. However, in May of 1825, he suffered a “paralytick attack,” perhaps a stroke, that precipitated the deterioration of his health. Jay appeared to make a recovery, albeit slowly, from his attack. In March of 1827, he suffered from a serious injury when a piece of fire wood...
32106To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown Cutting, 4 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding Mr. Parker, who is soon to profit from the honor of a personal acquaintance with you in Paris, will smooth his passage to that intercourse by introductory letters both of Mr. Adams and Colonel Smith, the weight of those characters with Your Excellency compar’d with the levity of my claims to Your confidence must make every post-recommendation of him from me unrequisite as it is...
32107From Thomas Jefferson to La Rouerie, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of informing you on the 12th. inst. of the measures I had taken to obtain as early paiment as possible of the interest due to the French officers. I have as yet no answer from Mr. Adams, and I informed you that in truth that application afforded little hopes. The effect of my letter sent to America must probably be awaited. In the mean time I receive a letter from the treasury...
32108To Alexander Hamilton from William Seton, 14 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The President & Directors desire me to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 9th instant inclosing a List of the Certificates for money deposited at this Bank towards the Subscriptions to the Bank of the United states which have been paid at the Treasury amg. to 159675 Dolls. This List exactly agrees with the record of the Certificates granted at this Bank—excepting One to Bernard Hart...
32109[Diary entry: 6 October 1768] (Washington Papers)
6. Began getting Ditto in the Neck.
32110III. Analysis of the Letter of Recall, [ca. 15–20 August 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Analysis of the letter. Object of the Proclamation. Genet’s arrival at Charleston, and conduct till his arrival at Philadelphia his subsequent conduct and correspondence reduced under the following heads. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 92: 15836); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated. Internal evidence suggests that TJ prepared this analysis after writing a text of Document iv below, though it is not clear...
32111To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 20 January 1781 (Washington Papers)
The foregoing was some Days Since, handed to me, I believe Capt. Tuckerman has been a dilligent and faithfull Officer, and apprehend all the Facts Stated by him are true, I therefore beg leave to recommend him to your Excellency notice. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Your Excellencys most Obedient Servant ALS , DLC:GW . Capt. Abraham Tuckerman’s letter to Heath, dated 11...
32112To George Washington from Francis Deakins, 12 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
Upon the Rect of your Letter of the 1st of this Inst. I examined into the Trespass on your part of Woodstock & find there has latly been five or Six Timber trees & Some few House Loggs taken from it by others not the Tenants—I have now gave ful Notice which is your part & that I am Authorised & shall exact on the Smallest Trespass whatever in future—there was Six Tenants on the whole tract...
32113From George Washington to Major General Philemon Dickinson, 23 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Enemy are exerting every nerve to reduce the Forts on the Delaware viewing them as insurmountable Obstacles to their holding philadelphia, if they remain in our hands. Against that on Mud Island they have been carrying on their Operations with great activity and industry for many days but as yet without success. They also sent a considerable detachment across the Delaware Yesterday morning...
32114General Orders, 28 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
32115To George Washington from Royal Flint, 24 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since making a report, to your Excellency, on the 20th instant, I have received some advice of consequence; which is herewith communicated. The letters, from which the inclosed extracts are taken, were wrote before my transmittal of your Excellencys last orders. Some information, which particularly relates to those directions, is expected to day or tomorrow. I cannot entertain a doubt, but the...
32116To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas H. Palmer, 9 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the interest you take in every species of literary improvement, I have ventured to send you a few copies of a prospectus for a class of young ladies, which I flatter myself will be found an improvement upon the prevailing system of female education. Should you, on a perusal of the “Outlines” agree with me in opinion, may I ask the favour of your presenting the copies sent to such of...
32117To George Washington from William MacIntosh, 12 June 1788 (Washington Papers)
The Letter, Sir, which you did me the honor to write, at Mount-Vernon, the 8th January, saluted me, here, the 28th May. It appears, that the same Patriotic Zeal, & unaffected Equanimity, which have suffused your fame, both as a General, & as a Politician, accompany & guide your ideas into the recesses of a Citizen, & intercourse with Individuals. It is to such elevated Sentiments, Sir, that I...
32118From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 2 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Ebenezer Elmer of New Jersey to be Collector of the port of Bridgetown in New Jersey DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
32119To George Washington from James Cleveland, 7 June 1775 (Washington Papers)
These lines Comes to Let you know how I go one With improven First I Cleard & got in Corn a bote 20 or 25 acares or More Which is More than I rote Before I have bult as Much as Would be praised To a bout 160 Pounds by the Men that is to prais⟨e⟩ It as the lands is hard to Clear & rail timber very Schase I find from Expearance that buld in is the Best Way I have rote so Much a bout the sarvents...
32120To Benjamin Franklin from Madame Brillon, [on or after 23 February 1781] (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society La dame a mille choses à répondre au monsieur, mais elle craint malgré la bonté de sa cause, qu’il ne garde sa prévention contre elle, leur oppinion étant absolument contraire; le monsieur, (grand phillosophe) suit la doctrine d’Anacréon et celle d’épicure; la dame est platoniciénne: l’un veut un amour gras, pottellé, un amour de chair et d’os; gasté choyé...
32121To John Adams from Stephen D. Kingston, 29 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
The obligation confered by the letter you did me the honor to write in September last will always be highly estimated, and as the subject on which I took the liberty of troubling you appears to involve important considerations particularly as to our treaties. I beg leave to inclose the printed documents laid before the Legislature of this State. I am sorry to add in vain. With great Respect...
32122Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
I believe I must devote this page to the History of Farming. our people have carried up the Hill all the manure which they suppose will be necessary and which can be spaired from the corn ground. they have carried up Burrels quantity which will be necessary for the Land which is to be broke up upon pens Hill, and they are now getting Down the stones for the Wall on Quincys Medow. No crossing...
32123Enclosure: Resolutions from Kent County, Maryland, Citizens, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Citizens of Kent County in the State of Maryland, convened at the Court-House in Chester Town, on the 31st day of August 1793, for the purpose of declaring their sentiments relative to the proclamation of neutrality issued by the President of the United States, the following unanimous resolutions were entered into. James Lloyd in the Chair. 1st Resolved that the Citizens of...
32124Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 8 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27 th Ult. has been duly recieved. you have had a long holiday from my intrusions. in truth I have had nothing to write about; and your time should not be consumed by letters about nothing. the inclosed paper however makes it a duty to give you the trouble of reading it. you know the handwriting and the faith due to it. our intimacy with the writer leaves no doubt about his...
32125To Alexander Hamilton from Benjamin Lincoln, 10 November 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed is our tonnage Abstract commencing with July and ending with September. By a late instruction from the Treasury department we are called upon to make return to what port the several vessels entered here are destined, in what Kingdom State or Islands such ports are situated. All are in our return which are not in port have left it for places unknown to us. From the peculiar situation...
32126Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 6 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to have the inclosed inserted immediately in the e Enquirer , and to place the expence to account of your next instalment? affectionate salutations. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Joseph C. Cabell esq. of the Senate of Virginia now in Richmond ”; franked; endorsed by Cabell
32127From George Washington to Colonel Elisha Sheldon, 17 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have your favr of the 13th accompanied by one from Governor Trumbull respecting the Cantonment of your Regt. As it is the request of the State and as you seem to think you will be benefitted by the exchange I have consented to your taking your Quarters in Massachusetts in the towns which you have pointed out. But I could not help remarking to the Governor that this repeated interference of...
32128John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am extreamly afflicted with the Relation your Father gave me, of the Return of your Disorder. I fear you have taken some Cold; We have had a most pernicious Air, a great Part of this Spring. I am sure I have Reason to remember it—my Cold is the most obstinate and threatning one, I ever had in my Life: However, I am unwearied in my Endeavours to subdue it, and have the Pleasure to think I...
32129[Diary entry: 15 November 1774] (Washington Papers)
15. A little Rain in the Night & lowering in the forenoon. Clear afterwards.
32130James Madison to Andrew Jackson, 19 July 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter introducing Mr Longacre was duly delivered by him. His distinguished reputation as an Artist was before known to me; and I soon found in his intelligence, his amiable manners, and his unaffected modesty, the further merits recommending him to your favorable notise. Having attained the object of his visit he is about to return through Washing[ton] and I avail myself of the occasion...
32131[From Thomas Jefferson to James Maury, 14 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 14 Feb. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Jas. Maury. Acknoleging receipt of his—to bring money from Jones’s. News.” Neither TJ’s present letter to Maury nor Maury’s to TJ, thereby acknowledged, has been found, but Maury’s was probably in response to TJ’s (missing) letter of 11 Dec. 1783.]
32132Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 4 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 24. was very long on it’s passage to me. it gave us all pleasure to learn from yourself the progress of your peregrination, and your prospect of approaching rest, for a while, among our Western brethren. of ‘ restfor the body, some, none for the mind .’ to that, action is said to be all it’s joy: and we have no more remarkeable proof of it than in yourself. the newspapers...
32133To George Washington from Fielding Lewis, 2 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have An Act of this state for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regements on the Continental establishment by which it is enacted that the Governour do request the commander in chief of the american army to order into this state One General or field Officer to give such orders as he may see cause for collecting the Men as they are raised and marching them to the grand Army, as no...
32134To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
E: Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Seagrove just now has learned from good authority, that General Clarke has abandoned his expedition in Georgia; and, under the influence of General Gunn and Mr Carnes, has come in, with all his followers. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The...
32135From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 2 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letters of Septr 14. 15. and 19th. The Letters inclosed in them, from Govr. Sinclair, Judge Patterson and Dr. James Sykes, I return to you inclosed with this, that you may be able to preserve together all the Papers, relative to the successor to Dr. Way in the Treasury of the Mint. Tomorrow I shall sett out on my Journey to the Southward, and shall Stop at East Chester...
32136From George Washington to William Shippen, Jr., 3 May 1777 (Washington Papers)
As Mrs Washington never receiv’d the Jallop and Calomel you promised her—As the Small Pox, by my last advices from home, has got into my Family—and I suppose not less than three hundred Persons to take the disorder, I must beg you to furnish the bearer with so much of the above Articles for my use as you shall judge necessary; & it will exceedingly oblige Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt & Affecte Servt...
32137To George Washington from Major General Alexander McDougall, 1 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
yesterday at one P.M. the Enemies Vessells in great numbers as per margin came up as far Haverstraw Bay, and Landed about 15,00 men at Tallars point. The Van of his Vessells is near the Ferry—Two prisoners taken last night agree in the account that the Enemies detachment had returned from Virginia, and did not land at Newyork, and compose apart of their Army now on the River. The Block-House...
32138Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 28 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, a letter from Mr Harrison district attorney of New York, and also the draft of a letter thereon to Governor Clinton —The draft of a letter to Governor Moultrie is also submitted. I am—Dear Sir—Your’s sincerely— LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The letter to Knox from Richard Harison, the U.S. attorney for the District of New York, has not been...
32139To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of transmitting the enclosed. I have letters from Perth-Amboy, which mention that Daniel Marsh, late Collector of that Port, was drowned on the 27: inst. John Heard raised a company of Dragoons, always kept a full company, and served with great credit and reputation during our revolutionary war, and is now general of the cavalry of this State. He was defeated in his...
32140From George Washington to Josias Hawkins, 27 February 1786 (Washington Papers)
At the request of Mr Booth, I give you the trouble of this letter. This request, added to an inclination to do justice, must be my apology, for I have no motive but to rescue his character from the injurious aspersions which he says has been cast it. My acquaintance with Mr Booth is of more than 30 years standing. I have known him in the characters of Batchelor, husband, & widower; in all of...
32141To George Washington from James Anderson, 21 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of 18th gave me much Satisfaction every alteration which You think well of will be attended to in the Planing & executeing the Improvement of Your Estate. And as much Grass seeds as possable saved for every purpose proposed. Your Excellency’s approbation and mark thereof in allowing me £140 Hire is very agreable for this & future times. It will please me better than any share, for...
32142To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Nourse, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, Register’s Office, 5 Nov. 1793. On behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury, he requests an estimate of the sums needed “to defray the Expences of your Department” for 1794 for the purpose of forming a general estimate to be submitted to Congress at its next meeting. FC ( DNA : RG 53, Register’s Estimates and Statements); 1 p.; unsigned; at foot of text: “Honourable Thos....
32143To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 16 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
The plan of transferring the monies received on account of the adventures of Masters & Seamen of captured vessels, for which restitution has been obtained in London, to this City, as stated in your favour of the 11th. instant, appears perfectly proper; and, it seems to me, that it ought to be extended to all the cases in which the Agent of claims in London has, as such , and not by virtue of...
32144To James Madison from James McKinney, 23 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
In conversation with Gen. William Madison relative to the purchase of your Mill I told him that I would write you as soon as I could make my Arangements. I have three sons that is Millwrights that has several gangs of hands now at work between the waters of James & the Roanoak rivers; principally on the Nottaways & Meherrin rivers; & their branches, known in that section of Country as the firm...
3214519. (Adams Papers)
Spent my time in visiting &c.
32146To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 8 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very flattering answer, to my letter of the 29th. ulto., has been perused with all the sensibilities its contents are calculated to inspire. If Sir, my continuing here, until July, will afford you any satisfaction, I certainly shall not decline it; and if after retireing, my opinnion, in relation to fortifications, should be concidered by yourself, of any use, I shall esteem your commands...
32147From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 15 June 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The inclosed report will I trust make it appear, that there are good reasons relative to the execution of the purposes specified in the laws for making a further loan to the extent proposed. But bottoming the proceeding upon the direct object of the laws, as the legal and primary inducement, it appears to me justifiable and wise to embrace as secondary and collateral motives the probable...
32148To George Washington from John Robinson, 15 September 1754 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acquaint You that the House of Burgesses have taken particular Notice of the Bravery of Yourself, and the rest of the Officers and Soldiers under your command, in the gallant Defense of your Country, and have ordered me to return you their Thanks for it, which I cant do better than by transcribing the Order. “Ordered, That the Thanks of this House be given to Colo....
32149To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Brown, 30 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed, that my friend D r Bache will be a candidate for the chair of chemistry, in the University of Virginia, which is about to be organized. Having lately had the pleasure of attending one of the Doctors Lectures, in this City, I feel it my duty to state that the neatness of his Exp ts & the clear arrangment of his subject as well as the perspecuity of his language brought to my...
32150From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, Jr., 2 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having had occasion to go to Richmond soon after my arrival here, I took with me the papers relative to the 490. as. of land, in hopes of seeing you there and settling that question. But you were gone to Caroline. Being now near my departure, I see no prospect of settling it before my return, the epoch of which is uncertain. I cannot help thinking but, were we to meet, we could convince one...