52681To John Adams from Hendrick W. Gordon, 23 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Having had business lately at Portsmouth I call’d on and spent an afternoon & Evening with the late Governor Langdon, he enquired very particularly after you and your Lady, on parting with him he desired me “to present to his venerable friend & early associate President Adams & his Lady his best respects,” and to say, that he had before the exit of his bosom Companion thots of visiting Quincy...
52682To John Adams from Hendrick W. Gordon, 10 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a hand bill containing a more particular account of the late engagement between the U.S. Brig Enterprize ( built during your Administration ,) and H. B. M. Brig Boxer, which ended in the capture of the latter— While I congratulate you Sir, on an event so honourable to the character & skill of the American Tars, I have the pleasure of assuring you, that the worth...
52683To James Madison from Hendrick W. Gordon, 4 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to address you some time since, and took the liberty to ask for the office of consul to some European port. If it does not please the President to give me that appointment for an European port, I respectfully solicit the same office to reside at any port or place that the President may be pleased to direct. The Honourable Mr. Monroe Secretary of State, and the Honourable Mr....
52684To John Adams from Hendrick W Gordon, 26 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
You having honored me with your name to a letter of recommendation addresed to the President of the United States, stating that from an acquaintance with me of several years, you beleived that my integrity, industry, and ability were fully adequate to a faithfull performance of the duties of the office of Collector of Direct taxes for Middlesex county. I have tho’t it proper to subjoin an...
52685To John Adams from Hendrick W. Gordon, 12 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
Encouraged by your friendly disposition towards me, I now take the liberty to ask of you, in the most respectfull manner, a letter of recommendation to Richard Rush Esquire Comptroller of the Treasury, wherein you will be pleased to say whatever you can of me, in regard to my integrity and ability, & my fitness for the office of Collector of Direct Taxes for the County of Middlesex in this...
52686Hendrick W. Gordon to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest you have taken in the manufactures of our Country, has induced me to offer for your examination the scraps of cloth herewith enclosed; they are from peices spun & wove in my own family, and dressed in this neighbourhood by a native born American. Either of the peices would afford a profit at $3 dolls a yard, single width. Let the enemies of American manufactures say what they...
52687To John Adams from Hendrick W. Gordon, 22 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Capt Nyers who went from here in a Brig belonging to Mr Gray, & was captured on her way to France & carried into England, has this moment arrived in town from N. Bedford, where he arrived in a cartel 40 days from London, he states that Commodore Rodgers in the Frigate President had been off the North of Scotland & had captured a gun Brig of the Enemy, mounting 18 Guns, distroyed several...
52688From Hendrick W. Gordon to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me the 14th inst. Immediately after I was informd that a report was in circulation, that Mr J Q A. had written his father that the war in which we are engaged, was unjust & unnecessary, I wrote my friend Mr Calhoun, to pay no attention to such a report ( if such an one should reach Washington ) ’till he heard from me again, adding, that...
52689To George Washington from James Gordon, 27 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
It is with astonishment I read a Letter from your Excellency, dated 18th May, directed to Brigadier General Hazen, Commanding at this Post, ordering him to send a British Captain, taken at York–town by Capitulation, with My Lord Cornwallis, Prisoner to Philadelphia, where ’tis said he is to suffer an ignominious Death, in the room of Captn Huddy an American Officer, who was murder’d by a...
52690[To Thomas Jefferson from James Gordon, 8 August 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Le Havre, 8 Aug. 1785. Entry in SJL for 10 Aug. reads: “Received Jas. Gordon’s. Havre. Aug. 8. proposing to carry Dr. F.’s baggage to Portsmouth in N. Hampshire.” Not found.]