title: Letter to Jeremiah Wadsworth [Commissary General]

originInfo: 1777-05-27Hartford, Conn.

namePart: Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804

namePart: Canfield, John

abstracts: He will send for certain provisions and forward others; will be at Peekskill on Monday or Tuesday next; will order pork or beef from New Milford if Danbury cannot supply the demand; if "General Put." will give orders, he will fill Fort Constitution with barrels of flour and meat, that no more clamor may arise; promises to write his brother at New Milford for provisions.


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title: Letter to General [Artemas] Ward, Roxbury

originInfo: 1775-07-29Cambridge, Mass.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

type: personal

authority: naf

namePart: Ward, Artemas

namePart: Chester, John

usage: primary

supplied: yes

abstracts: Requests a furlough for the bearer, Enos Blakeslee, who is disabled by dropsy.

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collectionTitle: Thomas Addis Emmet collection


title: Document

namePart: Danbury (Conn.). Probate Court

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Joseph Cook, Probate Judge, that the estate of Fanny Dennison, a transient in the town, who died in December, 1794, failed to pay for costs of administration, by the amount of £3 3s. 1/2d. Endorsed: "Judge Cook's Certificate" and "Town of Danbury, £3. 3. 0 allowd Recd Oct. 28, 1795 of J. Trumbull, an order on the Treasy for the above sum for the Town of Danbury, Joseph P. Cook.".


title: Letter to Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth, Hartford, Conn.

originInfo: 1784-12-14London, England

namePart: Deane, Silas

abstracts: Acknowledges the receipt of letters from Philadelphia and New York; has written to "Mr. M. [Robert Morris?] of Philadelphia"; has labored to bring Chaumont to a settlement; Bancroft is now in Paris and may effect it for him; difficulties in the way of Deane's bringing suit; he has urged from the first that Mr. [Thomas] Barclay should be empowered to settle accounts between Deane and Congress; almost any settlement is preferable to none; war between the Emperor and Holland; war and royal amours engross the conversation of all, though little is known of either; opposition to the present Ministry is low; things go on smoothly; loud complaints of failure of remittances from America; he is going into the country to observe the new improvements in the manufacture of iron; a patent for the use of the steam-engine in mills would be more profitable than speculation in land or trade.


title: Letter to Thomas Seymore [Seymour], Hartford

namePart: Seymour, Thomas

namePart: Dyer, Eliphalet

abstracts: Transmits nineteen £10 bills and seven 40s. bills, also Andrew Oliver's power of attorney and other papers needed in a coming law-suit against Matthew Beal of Kent at the next Superior Court (in August) at Litchfield; the suit this time will be brought in the name of Oliver, the proper person; instructions how to avoid mistakes made in former suits.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt from the Pay Table [William Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Ezekiel Williams, Oliver Ellsworth] for an order on the Treasurer for £100, to defray his expenses at Congress.


title: Letter to Jacob Cuyler, Albany

namePart: Cuyler, Jacob

namePart: Edwards, Pierpont

title: Letter to Jacob Cuyler, Albany

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt on Aug. 7 of Cuyler's letter of Mar. 10, requesting him to remit "the Bond"; he has repeatedly asked Cuyler that the bond might be sent him but has never received an answer to his request.


title: Letter to [Samuel] Holten [Princeton, N. J.]

originInfo: 1783-10-28New Haven, Conn.

namePart: Holten, Samuel

namePart: Ellsworth, Oliver

abstracts: Congratulates him on the signing of the definitive treaty of peace, also on the passing of the impost by Massachusetts; hopes the latter will have a good influence on the Connecticut Assembly; asks for news from Congress.


title: Letter to John Avery [Boston?]

originInfo: 1797-07-06Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Avery, John

namePart: Hillhouse, James

title: Letter to John Avery [Boston?]

abstracts: Incloses letter in answer to one of Dr. [Oliver] Smith's informing him of his election to membership in the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture; his sorrow at the news of the death of Dr. Smith.


title: Letter to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Hartford

originInfo: 1780-10-30New London, Conn.

namePart: Hillhouse, William

title: Letter to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Hartford


title: Letter to Moses Bliss, Attorney at law, Springfield [Mass.]

originInfo: 1764-08-22Middletown, Conn.

namePart: Bliss, Moses

namePart: Hosmer, Titus

abstracts: Concerns the collection of certain moneys, and other business matters; he will attend the superior court, if well enough.


title: Letter to Governor [Samuel] Huntington, Hartford, Conn

namePart: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

namePart: Huntington, Benjamin

abstracts: The House of Representatives has just passed the Impost Bill, but it must undergo further formalities made necessary by the Constitution, and may be greatly changed; duty on molasses is abated to five cents per gallon when imported by native vessels; there is also to be a drawback of five cents per gallon on all rum exported; this will be some relief to distillers, but not to consumers of the rum or molasses.


title: Letter to Samuel Huntington, Dartmouth College

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

abstracts: Has given his father five pounds for him; trusts he has received his former letter and the accompanying singing book; asks him to write by every opportunity; report of a general peace, but no official information.


title: Letter to Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia

originInfo: 1781-02-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: The president of Congress acknowledges receipt of his letters of 8th and 17th inst.; he hopes the success of the militia against the Cherokees may be attended with good results; will lay his letter of the 17th inst. before Congress; incloses resolution of the 24th inst., ordering the Convention troops to the northward, and if necessary the prisoners taken at the Cowpens also; they should proceed by the same route inland; the place for their cantonment is not yet fixed, but orders will be sent to the officers in charge; Congress and the Governor of Maryland should be notified of the movement and proposed route.


title: Letter to William Gordon

namePart: Gordon, William

namePart: Johnson, William Samuel

title: Letter to William Gordon

abstracts: Thanking him, on behalf of the trustees of Columbia College, for the gift to the college library of his "History of the Rise and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America.".


title: Document

originInfo: 1801-07-01New London, Conn.

namePart: Law, Richard

title: Document

abstracts: Order, payable to Robert Hallam on George Simpson, Cashier of the Bank of the United States, for $250, one quarter's salary as District Judge for Connecticut. Endorsed: "New London, July 1, 1801. Place the within to my credit. Rob. Hallam. Casr U. Bank," and "Pass the within to my credit. Jona Burrall, Cash.".


title: Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College [Dresden --now Hanover-- N. H.]

originInfo: 1786-06-13Wethersfield, Conn.

namePart: Wheelock, Eleazar

namePart: Mitchell, Stephen Mix

abstracts: Introduces Capt. John Wright of Wethersfield, who purposes visiting Dresden for the sake of his health.


title: Document

namePart: New London (Conn.). County Court

title: Document

abstracts: Order on the sheriff for the summons of Thaddeus Lathrop of Norwich to answer, on June 14, in a suit for £2 10s. and costs brought against him by Nehemiah Waterman, Jr., and Phineas Wood of Norwich, for non-payment of a note of Jan. 19, 1773 for £2 10s.


title: Letter to Oliver Ellsworth

originInfo: 1781-02-08Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Ellsworth, Oliver

namePart: Root, Jesse

title: Letter to Oliver Ellsworth

abstracts: Is glad to hear that the collecting and recruiting is succeeding so well in Connecticut; General Du Portail has arrived from the south; Virginia has ceded to the United States her claims to the territory northwest of the Ohio, with certain provisions; Maryland has agreed to the Confederation; Congress has asked the states for power to levy imposts to the amount of 6% on imported articles; the necessity of a revenue is evident; in Root's opinion duties should be varied, but under the present plan they will be higher on articles of luxury in proportion as they are dearer; Congress has been arranging its executive departments; Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Minister of War, of Finance, and of Marine; General Leslie has arrived to the southward with 2500 troops; the new bills get out but slowly; they labor under the disadvantage of state emissions and have various credits which embarrass business; the legal exchange there is 75, but the real exchange is 110; accordingly everything is raised a corresponding proportion in hard money; he will leave Congress the middle of April, the President [Samuel Huntington] and General Walcott intending to go about the same time; incloses particulars of General Morgan's success, and the King's speech.


title: Letter to Colonel Webb, or the commanding officer of his regiment at Providence

originInfo: 1778-09-12White Plains

namePart: Webb,

abstracts: Committee of arrangement and reform of the army wish to be furnished with the means of properly adjusting his regiment according to the plan adopted by Congress; they ask that a return of his officers and of the strength of the regiment be made to the Commander in Chief.


title: Letter to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Pay Table Committee, Hartford

originInfo: 1787-09-19Litchfield, Conn.

namePart: Wolcott, Oliver Jr.

namePart: Strong, Jedediah

abstracts: Asks if the accounts lodged for settlement with the Pay Table could not soon be taken up in his absence; Hugh Hanna has a claim for casting up the provisions receipted, and cannot get his pay until the receipts are accepted; he himself is doubtful when he can appear in Hartford, and therefore asks Wolcott to examine the documents.


title: Document

namePart: Spencer, Joseph

title: Document

abstracts: Order to Commissary Waterman, to deliver to Lieutenant Richmond or order three days provisions for fifty-four men.


title: Letter to Ephraim Root, Hartford

namePart: Root, Ephraim

namePart: Sturges, Jonathan

title: Letter to Ephraim Root, Hartford

abstracts: Expects a debenture of the Superior Court for the adjourned session of December will soon be lodged in the Treasury Office; asks him to present inclosed order for $33, get the pay in bank notes (either United States or New York) and forward the same to New Haven.


title: Letter to Tapping Reeve [Litchfield]

originInfo: 1806-04-26LitchfieldFarmington, Conn.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Reeve, Tapping, 1744-1823

namePart: Treadwell, John

title: Letter to Tapping Reeve [Litchfield]

abstracts: In answer to a letter of April 24, which inclosed an attack on Reeve by certain democrats; he maintains that the statements made in it are not blasphemous, not even injurious; inveighs against democrats and democracy; they would subvert all government, human and divine; that they have singled Reeve out to be crushed, is the greatest honor they could confer; envy is perhaps the governing principle of the lower classes; they are glad when their betters are humbled and the leaders of democracy taking advantage of this depraved temper blot out whatever is valuable, in society.

place:
Litchfield
Farmington, Conn.


title: Letter to Matthew Irwin, Deputy Commissary, Philadelphia

originInfo: 1777-06-22Middle Brook, N.J.

namePart: Irwin, Matthew

namePart: Trumbull, Joseph

abstracts: The enemy have evacuated Brunswick and retreated to Amboy; a great part of the army is now at Brunswick; the utmost exertions must be used in forwarding provisions; has not received one barrel from him this week; probably the militia on the road stop it all; only three days provisions now on hand; live cattle are preferable to salted meat because easier to transport; expects they will march into New England soon; urges all possible haste; the army will starve if not quickly supplied.


title: Document

namePart: Wadsworth, James

title: Document

abstracts: Binding Moses Gaylord (security £60 furnished by Israel Burrit) to appear before the next county court at New Haven, April 1, on the charge, brought, Mar. 21, 1777, by Thomas Strong and James Lyman, grand jurors, of intentionally giving the small-pox, by way of inoculation, to Ebenezer Squier on or about March 15.


title: Letter to Major General Sullivan

originInfo: 1778-08-13Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Sullivan, John, 1740-1795

namePart: Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804

title: Letter to Major General Sullivan

abstracts: The short time he has held the office [of Commissary General], and the unexpectedness of the order, prevented his complying with the instructions of the Marine Committee to supply the French admiral with "the very best provisions of every kind"; he will do better when the new crops can be procured.


title: Letter to Josiah Bartlett, Governor of New Hampshire, Kingston, N. H.

namePart: Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

namePart: Williams, William

abstracts: Thanks him for his favor of July 16 and for his good offices with regard to a debt to Williams of a certain Mr. W. has received a letter from Mr. W. saying that if he would wait till December, he would pledge his life to pay the debt with 10% interest; cannot find it in his heart to crowd him without making one more trial of his truth; does not intend to ask more than 6% interest; if occasion should arise, he will gladly ask the assistance of the gentleman mentioned by Governor Bartlett; he sends the letter by the Trumbulls [Jonathan and David?].


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of Connecticut, from June 12 to Dec. 2, 1777, for services and expenses in attending Congress; debit £379 8s. 1 1/2d; credit £350.


title: Letter to John Hancock and the Committee of Correspondence of Massachusetts

namePart: Hancock, John, 1737-1793

namePart: Connecticut (Colony). Committee of Correspondence

abstracts: Asking that any of the Hutchinson letters recently received in Massachusetts, that were written by Connecticut men be communicated to them; they also ask to be informed of the steps taken with the offenders in Massachusetts, that similar measures may be adopted in Connecticut; the Colonies are all embarked in the same general cause, and they will gladly aid every measure tending to support it. Apparently in the handwriting of Joseph Trumbull.


title: Letter to John Laurens, [Philadelphia?]

originInfo: 1780-12-27Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Laurens, John, 1754-1782

namePart: Wolcott, Oliver, Sr.

title: Letter to John Laurens, [Philadelphia?]

abstracts: At the request of Mr. [John] Mathews he gives Col. Laurens information on the three points suggested; with regard to the first (whether the Connecticut line will be complete, in the next campaign) he answers that the State has offered a large bounty for recruits, and that each town is obliged to furnish its quota according to law; he expects therefore that the Connecticut line will be as full as usual; as to second (whether the State will furnish the provisions required) he replies that by law the towns are obliged to furnish provisions for the next campaign; the demand for provisions for the French fleet and army at Newport, and the alluring pay they make, has drawn off much five beef, but the zeal of the State will probably surmount this difficulty; in answer to the third question (whether Connecticut will cede to the United States her claims to unlocated lands) he says the State has ceded all unlocated territory west of the Susquehannah purchase, which if he rightly remembers extends two degrees west of the Delaware; this is done on condition that other states claiming unlocated territory shall cede proportionately; lands still unlocated within the Susquehannah purchase, it is thought reasonable to retain; the State makes this cession, not because its claims cannot be supported, but in order to cement the Union, and to form an estate which might be used for the introduction of millions of industrious foreigners, by whose purchases of land the national debt could be paid; as Colonel Laurens is going to Boston or Newport, he will be able to obtain more particular information from Governor Trumbull.


title: Document

namePart: New London (Conn.) County Court

title: Document

abstracts: Order on the sheriff of Hartford County, for the summons of Thomas Belding, Jr. and David Guthbridge, both of Weathersfield, administrators of the estate of Amos Belding, deceased, to appear at Norwich, on Nov. [23], in a suit brought by John Sears and Andrew Watrus of Lyme, administrators of the estate of John Sears, deceased, for damages to the amount of £100 and costs, for non-payment by the late Amos Belding of a note, dated July 22, 1753, for £100 to the late John Sears. Printed form filled in.


title: Engraving

title: Engraving

abstracts: Seal. Obverse and reverse; back to back. Small copperplate engraving in brownish ink. [1850?].


title: Letter to [the City and County of New York.]

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: Inclosing the advice of Congress on the subject requested; suggests that the recommendation to remove the military stores does not extend to those belonging to the crown.


title: Document

namePart: Lewis, Francis

title: Document

abstracts: Decision of Francis Lewis, William Denning, and Egbert Benson, arbitrators between Daniel Parker of Watertown, Mass., and Udny Hay of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., ordering the contract that caused the dispute between the two parties, to be given up by each; awarding Daniel Parker £1,000 damages from Udny Hay for breach of contract; and further ordering Hay to pay the tavern expenses of the arbitrators and witnesses.


title: Letter to Isaac Gouverneur, Curaçoa; per Captain Seymour

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Gouverneur, Isaac

namePart: Alsop, John

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of letter of Feb. 9; he has noted the sums J. P. Georgy claims to have paid to Captain H. White's order above what the accounts show; thinks the two sums may be recovered from Captain White if the receipts for them be sent on; asks him to settle with Georgy as best he can, and send any money collected, in milled dollars.


title: Letter to Gerard Bancker, Treasurer of New York State

namePart: Bancker, Gerard

namePart: Benson, Egbert

abstracts: In answer to his note stating that he (Bancker) had been directed to report to the Assembly the causes which have obstructed the collection of taxes in arrears, he would say that Bancker's letter was delayed in reaching him because of his absence from home; that he finds he can not advise him upon the subject without a personal conference; but will call on him as soon as court adjourns and he is through with the public prosecutions.


title: Document

namePart: Boerum, Carel

title: Document

abstracts: Last will and testament, leaving his estate to his wife Rebecca; and, after her death or marriage, to his children, Elsie, wife of Leffert Lefferts, Jacob, Garrit and Abraham; his wife and his three sons are named as executors.


title: Document

namePart: Boerum, Simon

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account of the estate of Simon Boerum with the Provincial Congress of New York for £152, payment for 35 days service in the first Continental Congress, from Sept. 27, 1774; and for 60 days service after his second election, from May 8, 1775. Endorsed. Narrow strip. Audited June 11, 1776 by Wm Denning, Comfort Sands, Evert Bancker. Receipted June 14, 1776 by William Boerum, for £152 from Philip V. B. Livingston.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General James Clinton

originInfo: 1781-08-07Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

namePart: Clinton, James

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

abstracts: Encloses an extract of a letter from Lord George Germaine to Sir Henry Clinton of Feb. 7, 1781, which fully establishes the fact of connection between the inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants and Great Britain; the letter was found on the Maria Theresa and communicated to Congress; the British minister was led to hope that inhabitants of Albany were also concerned; this information is unofficial and must be kept secret; General Lincoln has gone up the river to hasten the Massachusetts levies for the frontier service; the part of Cortlandt's regiment now at Albany is to remain until those levies arrive.


title: Letter to George Clinton, Governor of New York

namePart: DeWitt, Charles

namePart: Paine, Ephraim

abstracts: Inclosing a copy of the resolution they made in Congress, respecting the garrisons for the frontier posts; the committee to which it was referred, recommended that troops at West Point be used for the purpose; general opinion in Congress is that the New Hampshire Grants must form a separate State; vigilance necessary to prevent encroachments on the territory of New York.


originInfo: 1777-09-15Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Duane, James

abstracts: Incloses Washington's account of the battle between himself and Howe; at least 1,500 reported killed, two-thirds of whom were British and Hessians; the enemy have not attempted to improve their advantage; General Washington has recrossed the Schuylkill and gone towards them; Howe will probably fortify his camp and wait for the fleet; owing to the illness of Mr. Duer, his only colleague, New York has now no vote in Congress; Mr. Duer will go to Bristol for a few days.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the colony of New York, for attendance at Congress from Sept. 1, 1774 to Feb. 22, 1776. Order on Peter Van B. Livingston, Treasurer, for $888, balance due him, payable to Francis Lewis.


title: Letter to Leonard Gansevoort & Co

namePart: Duer, William

title: Letter to Leonard Gansevoort & Co

abstracts: Owing to Mr. Geary's indisposition, he has looked over the vouchers for January; makes several remarks on them; has written Mr. Parker to wait till the 6th inst. for the February accounts, but they must use their own judgment as to forwarding those for January before that time.


title: Letter to the public

originInfo: 1779-03-09Camp on Raritan

title: Letter to the public

abstracts: In answer to an open letter from "T. G." in Dunlap's [Pennsylvania Packet] of Mar. 2, 1779 which charged him with officious interference in Pennsylvania politics, during his term in Congress; defends his advocacy of the intervention by Congress in Pennsylvania affairs during the spring of 1777; justifies his actions as a member of the Board of War, and his opposition to the advancing of money to Pennsylvania by Congress.


title: Letter to Colonel Josiah Smith, Moriches, N. Y

namePart: Smith, Josiah

namePart: Floyd, William

abstracts: Sends list of persons, the sums due them from the State, and the interest already paid them; Col. Fanning and Obadiah Smith have lost their certificates; asks that great care be taken, for the sums in this list must be paid mostly by [Isaac?] Roosevelt and himself; hopes he will be able to discharge all that is presented agreeably to this list; they have passed a law to prevent prosecution of any treasurer or collector until Apr. 15.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the Convention of the State of New York for expenses in attending the Continental Congress, from Apr. 23, 1776, to Apr. 30, 1777, at $4 per day. Endorsed. 1 page. Audited by John J. Bleecker and Matthew Adgate. Order of the Convention for the payment of $135, the balance due him, signed by Abraham Ten Broeck, President; countersigned by Robert Benson, Secretary. Receipted, May 1, by William Floyd.


title: Letter to Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York

namePart: Livingston, Robert R.

namePart: Gansevoort, Leonard

abstracts: Reminds him of an offer of the post of Clerk in Chancery, made when in Albany the preceding spring; supposes his failure to receive the appointment was due to the confusion that prevented transactions in that or any other court; now that the appearance of things is more favorable, he reminds him of his promise.


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £100, from Gerard Bancker, Treasurer of New York, on account of services in Congress.


title: Letter to Nathan Sanford, U. S. district attorney

namePart: Sanford, Nathan

namePart: Gelston, David

abstracts: Order to begin suit against the British schooner Union, arrived from Martinique with a cargo of sugar, coffee and cocoa, which he has ordered to be seized as forfeited to the U. S.


title: Letter to [Colonel John Laurens.]

namePart: Laurens, John, 1754-1782

namePart: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

title: Letter to [Colonel John Laurens.]

abstracts: The application for the exchange of his correspondent and of Du Portail has been referred to a general exchange of prisoners; uncertain when this will take place; speaks of the desperate condition of the army; his own hard position.


title: Letter to Major --

originInfo: 1796-04-20Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Hathorn, John

title: Letter to Major --

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Governor Clinton's certificate which he has put with the other papers bearing on the claim of his correspondent against the U. S.; little hope of getting it granted because of the opposition of Congress; complains that the House of Representatives is denied participation in the consideration of Jay's treaty; his views on the treaty-making powers of the two houses; the treaty itself has no reciprocity and would be a destructive bargain for the country; he urges the importance of electing Republicans to the State legislature.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General Wooster

originInfo: 1775-09-16New York (State)

namePart: Wooster, David, 1711-1777

namePart: New York. Committee of Safety

title: Letter to Brigadier-General Wooster

abstracts: In answer to his letter of Sept. 15, they inclose the order of the Continental Congress respecting the marching of troops under his command into the Colony, which shows that the troops were expected to occupy such posts as the Provincial Congress should think fit.


title: Document

namePart: Haring, John

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for attending Congress, Sept. 29 to Nov. 4, 1785. Audited, Nov. 9, 1785, by Peter T. Curtenius. Receipted Nov. 15, 1785, by John Haring for £64. Endorsed.


originInfo: 1779-01-31Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: The president of Congress transmits a copy of the act of the 30th inst., directing the Quartermaster and Commissary-general to pay to General Washington such of the accounts, mentioned in Clinton's letter, as he shall certify; copies of the act will be sent to those officials, so that in future there may be no delay over the settlement of these accounts.


title: Letter to Peter T. Curtenius

namePart: Curtenius, Peter T.

title: Letter to Peter T. Curtenius

abstracts: Instead of presenting an account for services as an agent of the State in the controversy with Massachusetts, and as a delegate to Congress, he only states facts and leaves it to the Legislature to take such action as they may think fit; he set out for Trenton Nov. 14 [1784]; arrived Nov. 16; few members being then present, he went to Philadelphia; returned on the very day a quorum was formed, though after they had adjourned for the day; served until Dec. 21, when he entered upon his present office [Secretary for Foreign Affairs]; he attended at intervals, as occasion required, and kept no record.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for services in Congress, Dec. 7, 1778, to Sept. 28, 1779. Endorsed. 1 page. Audited, Jan. 14, 1785, by Peter T. Curtenius. Receipted (on page 2) Jan. 19, 1785, by John Jay for £416 18s. 8d.


title: Letter to Charles Wilkes, Cashier of the Bank of New York

namePart: New York (State). Comptroller

abstracts: By order of the Governor, a draft of a contract for the loan for further defence of the State is inclosed; if it is approved by the directors two copies are to be sent to be signed by the Governor; an account of the sums already paid on the Governor's order is asked for and a warrant is inclosed on the Treasurer for a year's interest on the $8,000 loaned to the State, Nov. 1, 1797.


title: Document

namePart: Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

title: Document

abstracts: General Orders. The Director-general of the hospital is to make a return to the Paymaster-general of all the sick who are able and willing to be sent to their native states; each man to be given a discharge and $4 pay, excepting those enlisted for three years or the war; the Quartermaster-general is to provide conveyances as far as Great Barrington, eastward, and Kingston, southward and westward; the committees of these places are then to forward the sick, promising payment; each man is to have six days provisions and necessaries. By order of the General.


title: Letter to Colonel Harry Jackson

namePart: Jackson, Harry

namePart: Laurance, John

title: Letter to Colonel Harry Jackson

abstracts: Asks him to consent to Mr. Edwards's accepting the offer made him; the appointment must be made at once; another officer might be procured to act as Brigade Major in place of Mr. Edwards.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General Hand, Fort Pitt

abstracts: The Commercial Committee request him, in order that certain accounts may be conducted through the proper channels, to issue his order to Anthony Steel, Deputy Quartermaster-general, for payment of certain sums.


title: Document

originInfo: 1778-12-01Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Lewis, Francis

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for $1,000 from Gerard Bancker, payment for his services as a delegate of New York in Congress.


title: Document

originInfo: 1777-07-31Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Livingston, Philip

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for $976, from William Duer, payment for attendance at Congress.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the Convention of the State of New York.


title: Letter to Major-General Schuyler [Albany]

namePart: Livingston, Robert R.

abstracts: Neglect of Schuyler by Congress is due to their ignorance of his difficulties; needlessness of the aid they have sent Virginia; Schuyler ought to go to Philadelphia whither he would accompany him, did not family affairs prevent; Montgomery's design of storming Quebec seems little adapted to the spirit and discipline of the troops; speaks of Montgomery's desire to leave the service; asks what the Governor can mean by the sudden dissolution of the Assembly.


title: Letter to --

namePart: Livingston, Walter

title: Letter to --

abstracts: Delay in the delivery of his letter of 31st ult., and the fact that the bearer expects to call for an answer tomorrow morning prevented his laying it before the Board of Treasury; the proper person for settling his accounts would be the Comptroller or Accountant of the Treasury; advises writing to the Commissioners of the Treasury, as he himself is confined by illness.


title: Letter to Benjamin Conkling, Hartford, Conn

namePart: Conkling, Benjamin

namePart: L'Hommedieu, Ezra

abstracts: Mrs. Tuthill, in answer to his proposal for settling the bond due her husband, says that he and his brother owe more to the estate, for rigging and board, etc., than they have paid; she will give up the interest of the bond if they will pay this account, or she will take the principal of the bond as it first stood in discharge of all accounts.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for attendance at the [Provincial] Congress, May 22, 1775 to Feb. 28, 1776.


title: Letter to Jellis Fonda, Caughnawaga, N. Y

namePart: Fonda, Jellis

namePart: Low, Isaac

abstracts: The letter, with hogshead and bundle of peltry, shall be forwarded to London to Thomas Harris; the boys' hats wanted cannot be had; is surprised that Harris failed to receive the scalping knife sent by Fonda, for he himself gave it to Captain Win; has not received any advice lately from his brother-in-law, Abraham Cuyler, as to the money promised by Col. Croghan.


title: Letter to the Committee for the town of Norwich

namePart: McDougall, Alexander

abstracts: Ordering them to send to General Washington, without delay, the shells and shot for the army-at Cambridge, sent yesterday on board a sloop, Jacob Proby master; the accounts will be paid when made out and presented to the General.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for services vices in Congress, Jan. 5 to Mar.7, 1781. Indorsed by McDougall, Highlands, July 14, 1781, in favor of John Laurence.


title: Letter to Lewis Morris, Philadelphia

namePart: Morris, Lewis

namePart: Morris, Gouverneur

title: Letter to Lewis Morris, Philadelphia

abstracts: On receipt of his letter he wrote immediately to General Lee; his own offers of service were merely for the benefit of the cause, knowing that he is more adapted to the cabinet than the field; hears that the tendered services of young gentlemen to the Congress have been slighted; his nephew Lewis, who was the only one of them appointed a captain, promptly resigned; if a regiment is offered him he should certainly do the same; is sorry that a herd of mechanics is preferred to the best families in the Colony.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for attendance at Congress, Feb. 20 to Apr. 25, 1777.


title: Document

namePart: Paine, Ephraim

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of New York for attending in Senate, Aug. to Oct., 1779.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Petition to the Governor and the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, from the freeholders of New Rochelle and adjacent towns, praying for the reappointment of Peter Shute as Justice of the Peace for Westchester County; Abraham Guion who was appointed declines to serve on account of age; Samuel Wooley, in whose behalf a petition is now being circulated, is unfit, being opposed to the present government and the Consultation in the handwriting of Philip Pell.


title: Letter to Governor George Clinton

originInfo: 1779-10-14Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Platt, Zephaniah

title: Letter to Governor George Clinton

abstracts: Recommending that the bearer, Philip Hart, a clothier, be granted an exemption from militia service for three of his men; he has six men employed and great quantity of cloth on hand; the "request would be of utility to our naked country.


title: Letter to Beverly Robinson

namePart: Robinson, Beverly

namePart: Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

title: Letter to Beverly Robinson

abstracts: Reminds him that in his account with General Bradstreet he allows interest only from the time he sent the account, whereas the express condition at the time of his taking the bills was that if Bradstreet had no immediate use for the money Robinson was to allow interest on it.


title: Letter to Philip Schuyler [Albany?]

originInfo: 1776-10-01Kingsbridge, N.Y.

namePart: Scott, John Morin

title: Letter to Philip Schuyler [Albany?]

abstracts: Hopes that he has not yet resigned; his friends are unhappy on the subject, knowing his importance to the public cause; recommends to him a young Frenchman, Mr. Vermalet, lately promoted to the position of major and now on his way to the Northern Department.


title: Letter to Udny Hay, State Agent

originInfo: 1780-09-07Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Hay, Udny

namePart: Smith, Melancton

title: Letter to Udny Hay, State Agent

abstracts: Finds some persons buying flour in his district for the French fleet, and paying in specie; the supply bill prohibits every one except the agent of the state and his assistants from purchasing for the army, but this prohibition does not extend to the French forces; thinks permitting these persons to buy will be detrimental to the collecting of supplies for the state, besides raising prices and depreciating the new bills and opening a door for speculators to export flour; recommends that he lay the matter before the Legislature.


title: Letter to [the New York Committee of Safety, Fishkill.]

namePart: Wisner, Henry

abstracts: Having examined the hills at the entrance to the Highlands he finds they can be made quite defensible at little cost; the hill above the road north of Peekskill might be held against great numbers by rolling down stones; no other defence would be necessary; the troops that went over towards Fishkill have returned; Colonel [Pierre Van] Cortlandt is busy arranging for subsistence; he himself is setting out for Fort Montgomery to fetch the engineer; has procured a man that understands making flints; desires Mr. [Matthew?] Harper to sent the cartload of stone he told him of.


title: Letter to Governor George Clinton

namePart: Yates, Abraham

title: Letter to Governor George Clinton

abstracts: Poughkeepsie. In answer to his letter of 26th inst. he explains that his idea was that Clinton should ask Washington to let the troops remain on the frontiers until they were needed for the operations below, thus saving a stretoh of valuable country; fears the Whigs will try to make terms with the Tories; this will have a bad effect, especially in Tryon County; with regard to the city regiment he urges that examples should be made of those that neglect.


title: Letter to --

namePart: Yates, Peter W.

title: Letter to --

abstracts: Asks for a pamphlet, "My masonic address on the death of Washington"; wishes to learn from Jane Ann Herttell where her father and brother are; hopes his old neighbors continue in the republican faith, unchanged by "Federalism or modern Clintonianism.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £80, from Gerard Bancker, Treasurer of New York, for service in Congress.


title: Letter to Lewis Pintard

namePart: Pintard, Lewis

namePart: Beatty, John

title: Letter to Lewis Pintard

abstracts: Refers him to an earlier letter; the bearer of this, Lieutenant Smith, a prisoner returning to captivity, is to be furnished with the money his rank entitles him to; may expect the flour shortly.


title: Letter to Elisha Boudinot

originInfo: 1778-03-15Camp Valley Forge

namePart: Boudinot, Elisha

namePart: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

title: Letter to Elisha Boudinot

abstracts: Has written him a few days earlier, asking him to procure one of Gaine's newspapers containing an advertisement for the sale of counterfeit money by the ream [The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, April 14, 1777, no. 1329]; also wants some affidavits of the treatment of their prisoners in New York during the winter of 1776-77; he has accepted the place of one of the commissioners for settling the treaty of exchange of prisoners between the United States and General Howe, to sit on the 31st, at Germantown; there has been nothing but suffering for the army, but they do it without complaint; it has been terrible weather for naked soldiers; 3,000 are down with smallpox; not one has been lost by inoculation.


title: Letter to [Elias Boudinot, Hanover, N. J.]

namePart: Burnet, William

abstracts: Speaks of the notice in Rivington's paper [The Royal Gazette] for that date, of the change in ministry; gives a list of the new cabinet; and the four points of their Irish policy; they are hostile to France and will probably seek to separate France from America; asks that the note of hand belonging to him be sent down by Mr. Curry.


title: Letter to George Mitchell, Daggsbury [Dagsborough, Del.]

originInfo: 1785-05-23Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Mitchell, George

namePart: Cadwalader, Lambert

abstracts: Has presented Mr. Bell's account, for settlement, but he objects to the article of corn; some mistake by Shields; it seems a strange transaction; has not been successful in selling the shingles, but hopes to get rid of some at Trenton at £4 15s.; other business matters spoken of.


title: Letter to --

originInfo: 1775-06-08Elizabeth Town, N.J.

namePart: Clark, Abraham

title: Letter to --

abstracts: Sends the powder obtained at New Brunswick and Woodbridge, 6 quarter-casks and 2 half-barrels; there was no more to be had; they had sold most of their stores to the inhabitants; he gave a receipt that the stores would be forwarded to the camp near Boston, and asks for one of the same tenor for himself.


title: Letter to Moore Furman, Pittstown [N. J.]

namePart: Furman, Moore

namePart: Condict, Silas

abstracts: Has no objection to his forwarding the vouchers to Colonel [Clement] Biddle; several proprietors of those certificates, some of them poor widows, have been calling on him for their money, in return for grain taken by the army; thinks such debts should be paid as soon as possible.


title: Document

namePart: New Jersey. Legislative Council

title: Document

abstracts: Report of the committee appointed for a conference with a committee from the Assembly on the Election bill, stating that it was recommended to the Assembly to recede from the amendments proposed by it but rejected by the Council.


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Essex County (N.J.). Court of Common Pleas

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate by Stephen Crane, judge of said court, that James Davison swore that he saw Jonathan Willis sign and deliver the indenture, dated March 16, 1770, between Willis and Jonathan Dayton, for £25, on a fragment of which the document is written.


title: Document

namePart: Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807

title: Document

abstracts: Order on the commissary to issue 30 lbs of flour and beef, for twenty-two women and children on their way to New York, destitute of provisions.


title: Letter to Dr. Ebenezer Elmer [Bridgton, N. J.?]

originInfo: 1792-01-20Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Elmer, Ebenezer

namePart: Dayton, Jonathan

abstracts: Is glad to continue their correspondence, as requested; Congress has done little; the committees have been diligent, but every question of national concern involves vexatious debates and delays; hopes that the long delays and elaborate investigations will be atoned for by the excellence of the measures when once passed; has sent to Elmer's brother the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on manufactures.


title: Letter to Charles Pettit, Amboy

namePart: Pettit, Charles

namePart: De Hart, John

title: Letter to Charles Pettit, Amboy

abstracts: Asks him to issue a summons directed to the sheriff of Middlesex County and returnable at the following April term, in the action of Philip Brasher against John Hampton.


title: Document

namePart: New Jersey. Orphans' Court

title: Document

abstracts: Order to the Sheriff of Salem County to compel the attendance of William and Enslow Philpot, executors of the estate of Nicholas Philpot, to answer before the Court at Salem on Tuesday, December 4, for contempt of their process before the Court.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General [William] Maxwell, Lord Stirling's division, New Jersey troops

namePart: Maxwell, William

namePart: Elmer, Jonathan

abstracts: The letter to Dr. Witherspoon came to hand, and as that gentleman had left Congress, he opened it himself and laid the case of Colonel [Elias] Dayton before Congress; there have been so many similar applications from officers that Congress hesitated about allowing him a horse; the matter was referred to the Board of War [Nov. 5, 1777]; he will use his influence to obtain consent.


title: Letter to John Kidd, Philadelphia

namePart: Kidd, John

namePart: Fell, John

title: Letter to John Kidd, Philadelphia

abstracts: Sends by Samuel Wharton £14 17s. 3d., received from Mr. Burkloe; the latter wishes the remainder of the leather to be sent him.


title: Letter to John Neilson, New Brunswick [N. J.]

namePart: Neilson, John

namePart: Frelinghuysen, Frederick

abstracts: Incloses notice for the meeting of the referees in the case of the administrators of Mr. Kemp against General Forman; Mr. Hunt will attend; the copy of the rule of reference is with Mr. Mercer.


title: Document

namePart: New Jersey (Province). House of Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: Report of the Committee for settling public accounts; stating that in consequence of a note at the foot of John Taylor's accounts they have reexamined those of Thomas Eaton and find the £371 16s. therein mentioned have been paid; that the accounts of John Taylor and Thomas Eaton relative to that sum have been settled; that the Province owes Thomas Eaton £24 8s.


title: Letter to Jonathan Dayton [Philadelphia?]

originInfo: 1796-04-07Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Henderson, Thomas

abstracts: The committee appointed to inquire into the Symmes contract have referred the investigation to him; knowing that Dayton is interested in the result and wishing to make the report agreeable to him, he sends him a draft and asks him to comment thereon.


title: Letter to General Washington

originInfo: 1785-04-19Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

namePart: Hopkinson, Francis

title: Letter to General Washington

abstracts: Recommends Mr. Pine, an artist whose zeal for the American cause has brought him here to secure faithful representations of events of the late war; such scenes could not faithfully be represented if General Washington were omitted; knows he has been persecuted by painters, and believes that he would rather fight a battle than sit for a portrait, but relies on his good nature; Mr. Pine is the most eminent artist, in his way, that they have ever had in this country.


title: Letter

originInfo: 1765-12-31Second River, Belleville, N.J.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Hornblower, Josiah

title: Letter

abstracts: Copy of a letter to David Ogden, in which he sent a statement of the conversation that passed between them at his house the summer before, concerning the ferries of Newark, in the course of which Ogden got the impression that Stephen Crane had spoken disparagingly of Newark and its ferries; also sends, in a postscript, a copy of the certificate delivered to Mr. Woodruff and signed by Col. Schuyler and himself, which stated that neither had ever heard Stephen Crane say he would advertise any thing disparaging to the Newark road or ferries.


title: Letter to the Chairman of the Joint-meeting [of the New Jersey Council and Assembly]

originInfo: 1780-09-21Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Houston, William Churchill

abstracts: Requesting that an additional delegate from the State be appointed to Congress, either until December I, or for the ensuing year; he is compelled to leave Philadelphia, and by his so doing, the State would be unrepresented; for this would leave only John Fell as a delegate, Abraham Clarke being too ill to attend; suggests that the appointment of an additional delegate at that time would insure the presence of an experienced man the year following.


title: Letter to Elias Boudinot [New York?]

namePart: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

namePart: Kinsey, James

title: Letter to Elias Boudinot [New York?]

abstracts: Has received the Secretary's Report and will communicate it to Mr. Fords, but the Bill in Chancery has not come to hand; William Coxe and Clayton Newbold, executors of the estate of William Pidgeon, desire to retain Boudinot in a suit in chancery brought by Robert Pidgeon, William's son, for an account of his father's estate; Patterson is retained on the side of Robert Pidgeon.


title: Letter to Henry Laurens, President of Congress [Philadelphia]

namePart: Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792

namePart: Livingston, William

abstracts: Has heard that he is about to leave Congress; urges him to stay; fears that the distance to South Carolina will cause an interruption in their friendship and correspondence.


title: Letter to Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Philadelphia

originInfo: 1798-05-07New Brunswick, N.J.

namePart: Dayton, Jonathan

abstracts: Transmits the declaration and resolutions of a number of citizens of New Brunswick.


title: Letter to Andrew Bayard [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1800-01-02New Brunswick, N.J.

namePart: Bayard, Andrew

namePart: Paterson, William

title: Letter to Andrew Bayard [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Order on George Simpson, Cashier of the Bank of the United States, for $875, being his quarter's salary as a judge of the Supreme Court, in favor of Andrew Bayard, of Philadelphia.


title: Letter to Major [John?] Stevens

originInfo: 1799-02-04Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Stevens, John

namePart: Schureman, James

title: Letter to Major [John?] Stevens

abstracts: Sends statement relative to the expenditure for furnishing colors to the Hunterdon militia; Francis Rabineau, who was employed to do the work for all the militia of the State, absconded and left the colors unfinished.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account for £155 with the State of New Jersey, for service in Congress, from April 2 of same year. Sworn to before James Mood.


title: Letter to [John Anderson, John Covenhoven, Hendrick Smock, Asher Holmes, Thomas Henderson, Peter Forman, David Forman] and John Forman [Committee of observation and inspection for Freehold]

namePart: Anderson, John

namePart: Covenhoven, John

namePart: Smock, Hendrick

namePart: Holmes, Asher

namePart: Forman, Peter

namePart: Forman, David

namePart: Forman, John

namePart: Scudder, Nathaniel

abstracts: Is rejoiced at the contents of their letter; but suggests that those persons who have signed the roll of the Grenadier Company, and refuse to accede to the conditions as voted on the preceding Wednesday, should not be considered members until they do accede; the proceedings of the Committee were to have been furnished to the delegates to Congress, but his attendance on his patients prevented his copying them; so that the petition and remonstrance of the officers may yet be stopped.


title: Letter to John Hart, Speaker of the Assembly of New Jersey, Haddonfield

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Hart, John

namePart: Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson

abstracts: Asks leave to retire from Congress, as public affairs have taken a happier turn, while his private business has suffered greatly during his absence.


title: Letter to James Ewing, Auditor of Accounts, Trenton

namePart: Ewing, James

namePart: Smith, Richard

abstracts: Sends, by "Mr. Secretary Reed," an extract from his books that contains everything relative to the purpose during the six months he acted as treasurer; does not send vouchers.


title: Letter to Aaron Ogden, Elizabethtown

originInfo: 1779-10-08Elizabethtown, N.J.

namePart: Ogden, Aaron

title: Letter to Aaron Ogden, Elizabethtown

abstracts: Speaks of a bond of his to Colonel Beverly Robinson which he learned from a letter from James Morris, had been left at Ogden's; when he called he found Ogden had gone to Newark; will stop again when he goes to New York in about three weeks.


title: Letter to Moore Furman, Deputy Quartermaster-general, Pittstown [N. J.]

originInfo: 1779-03-02Camp Middlebrook, N.J.

namePart: Furman, Moore

namePart: Stewart, Charles

abstracts: Could not send a proper person to Coryell's ferry until the day before; has a poor opinion of the people there and wishes to have the stores out of their hands as soon as possible, the more so as the flour in camp is nearly gone; the sooner Major Gordon can bring the flour the better; expects to leave for Philadelphia in two days.


title: Letter

namePart: Stockton, Richard

title: Letter

abstracts: Copy of a letter to Samuel Smith, Old Jewry, London. Though England has subdued the whole continent of North America, America "has fallen like a strong man; she has embraced the pillars of state" and perhaps will pull down the constitution of England about her ears; her fall has been most injurious to shipping, manufactures and general prosperity, thereby weakening England and exposing her to her neighbors.


title: Letter to his wife, Annis --called "Emilia."--

originInfo: 1766-10-21London, England

abstracts: Has returned from Ireland; received letters from America, informing him of the death of Dr. Furley; the elegance and grandeur he has seen in these kingdoms have only increased his affection for his own home; sends this by Capt. Bruce, bound for Boston. In a postscript, asks her to write to Elle that the dedimus from Sharp in Ireland is sent to America; Elle is to notify Kearney that nothing is to be done therein until he returns.


title: Letter to Jonathan Dayton, in Senate, Washington

originInfo: 1804-03-05Cincinnati, Ohio

namePart: Dayton, Jonathan

namePart: Symmes, John Cleves

abstracts: Acknowledges letters and papers; last Christmas John Mills made a sale of 270 acres more of Symmes's land, and thereby satisfied the balance of his judgment; does not know, in regard to McCluer's judgment, how that debt stands; the sheriffs of Ross and Fairfield counties raised most of it out of Symmes's military lands; his nephew says that 12,000 acres of his Scioto lands were sold at the same suit; the judgment was $3,800, and $439 had been raised in Hamilton before they resorted to the military district; incloses letter for Mr. Denman; had already shown him, before leaving Washington, the release of Denman of the mortgage Symmes had given him on the 4,000 acres which included Dayton's 1,000.


title: Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I

namePart: Hopkins, Samuel

namePart: Witherspoon, John

title: Letter to Samuel Hopkins, Newport, R. I

abstracts: Bristol "your man" has received the money sent him; he and his companion behave very well; they have become pretty good in reading and writing and have a fair notion of the Christian faith; as for Hopkins's son, he cannot keep up with his class and did not appear at the winter examinations; thinks the fault was in putting him in too advanced a class at first.


title: Letter to John Nixon, Chairman of Committee of Safety [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1776-01-19Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Nixon, John

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: Committee on qualifications asks that six men be recommended, to fill the vacant ensignships in Colonel Bull's battalion.


title: Letter to -- --

namePart: Armstrong, John

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Sends seven draughts; the eighth will be sent on the first opportunity of surveying near Aughwick; Mr. Lukens can fill in the blanks; the draughts are not to be delivered to the Surveyor General until the warrants have been taken out; thinks he should receive £7 more for the whole survey, for when the other one is finished, the money he has received will not pay the law fees.


title: Letter to Major-General Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]

originInfo: 1783-06-09Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

abstracts: Sends this by Mr. Nourse, together with packets from the army; troops that have not completed their service are to be stationed at West Point, Detroit, and Niagara; Gates could have no hopes for the command of these, for all is left to the Commander-in-Chief; [Charles?] Stewart promises to show, in the course of an official enquiry, some of the abominable meanness and vice long existent among the New England troops; status of the Tories in Virginia; expected arrival of the Dutch ambassador; resignation of Secretary for Foreign Affairs [R. R. Livingston]; candidates for the office; the new ministry in England; increase in British trade at Philadelphia; the British ambassador "will shak the Knight of Malta in his seat, If he be the clever fellow they should & (I suppose) can send;" offers of Maryland and of New York for the seat of government.


title: Letter to Charles Biddle, Vice-President in Council [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1786-10-04Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Biddle, Charles

namePart: Atlee, Samuel John

abstracts: Asking that the Council pay him the remainder of the £186 5s. reported due him by the Comptroller for his services as lieutenant of the County of Lancaster; he needs it towards paying the £607 6s. he is obliged, by verdict of court, to pay into the Treasury.


title: Letter to Jane Bayard, at Ravaud Kearny's, Amboy

originInfo: 1789-09-07New Brunswick, N.J.

namePart: Bayard, Jane

namePart: Bayard, John

abstracts: Received her letter with inclosures for her brother Samuel and her sister Margaret; her uncle, a Mr. Bard, dined with them on his way to New York; is uncertain whether he can obtain a place for her sisters at Bethlehem; sends this, with a couple of lobsters for Mrs. Kearny, by Mr. Lawrence. In a postscript he adds that her brother John expects to visit them with his wife.


title: Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster

namePart: Yeates, Jasper

namePart: Biddle, Edward

title: Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster

abstracts: Thinks that every freeman who comes under the bill of rights and takes the test has a right to vote, notwithstanding the late law; Mr. [James] Wilson and G. Ross are of the same opinion; expects they will do well here, if the leaders can be kept from attempting too much; they may carry him in their ticket, but by dropping him they could unite all parties and run any three men they chose; hopes to see such a representation as will restore tranquility and union to the state.


title: Letter to Messrs. Le Roy, Bayard; and McEvers

originInfo: 1797-03-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Le Roy,

namePart: Bayard,

namePart: McEvers,

namePart: Bingham, William

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of their letter of 27th inst.; [William] Tilghman advises that arbitration begin at once, as the Supreme Court ends its session this week, and he will then have leisure for the business; Tilghman and [William] Lewis seem to think their interference should be confined to giving legal opinions on cases that may arise during the investigation; would like to have the arbitrators meet about April 7; Mr. [James?] McHenry's time will be even more occupied as the session of Congress approaches, especially if it should consider fortifications, etc.; should they consent to this arrangement he wishes to be notified, so that he may put the papers in order.


title: Letter to the Supreme Executive Council [of Pennsylvania]

originInfo: 1787-02-08State House, Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Clarkson, Matthew

abstracts: By the absence of one of the managers of the lottery and the indisposition of another, there remains but one to attend to the drawing; the magistrates and clerks are ready, but the law requires the presence of two managers; asks what he should do.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Recognizance before William Clingan, of Lodwick Ligget and John Buyers for £200 each, for the appearance of James Henderson before the court, Tuesday, Nov. [30], to prefer a bill against John Monro for stealing a horse.


title: Document

namePart: Clingan, William

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of Pennsylvania for £141, payment for 47 days attendance in Congress.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General Hand

originInfo: 1778-03-21Pittsburgh, Pa.

title: Letter to Brigadier-General Hand

abstracts: Commissioners to treat with the Indians communicate to him the arrangement they have agreed upon, until the plan they shall recommend be approved by Congress; give the number and disposition of troops to be raised by the border counties of Pennsylvania and Virginia; add a list of the militia each county is supposed to contain; and recommend that Augusta, Greenbrier, Montgomery, and Washington counties keep out scouts, agreeably to the Act.


title: Letter to Benjamin Walker, New York

originInfo: 1794-12-05Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Walker, Benjamin

namePart: Coxe, Tench

title: Letter to Benjamin Walker, New York

abstracts: Learned from Messrs. Pharoux and Des Jardins that Walker advised John E. Van Alen, when the latter went to survey lot no. 14 for Coxe's friends in Europe, not to go via Oswego, for the British Commander would stop him, but to go by Steuben and the road just cut by Pharoux and Des Jardins; asks for a minute statement of what occurred; the land in question is at the head of the St. Lawrence, part of [Alexander] McComb & Co's purchase from New York, and was sold by William Constable to Le Roy de Chaumont for himself, Peter Chassanis and others.


title: Letter to Philemon Dickinson, Trenton [N. J.]

originInfo: 1791-08-15Wilmington, Del.

namePart: Dickinson, Philemon

namePart: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

abstracts: Condoles with him on the death of his wife [Rebecca]; his own wife and daughter join him in sympathy; they would be glad to see their cousin Molly, or any others of their cousins.


title: Letter to Thomas Riche, New Windsor [N. Y.?]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Riche, Thomas

namePart: Duffield, Samuel

abstracts: Regrets to learn of the misfortune that has happened to Riche's neighbor, and the illness of his family; his own child being inoculated has prevented his coming to see them; prescribes bark and ipecac for their ague.


title: Letter to J[ames?] Nicholson [New York?]

namePart: Nicholson, James

namePart: Fitzsimmons, Thomas

abstracts: As it seems that the House will adjourn this week, and as the business of ways and means is delayed for want of the accounts promised by Nicholson, he now calls upon him for those accounts; if he cannot obtain them, he must state to the House the reason of the delay in the report.


title: Letter to Captain Vanetta, Upper Smithfield

namePart: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

abstracts: He is directed to raise a company of thirty men to protect his township; they are to be posted as follows: eight at his own house, eight at Lieutenant Henshaw's, six with a sergeant at Fishhock, and the same number at Henry Cortracht's; men are to be enlisted for one month; he is to keep a record of their time, and a journal; forty dollars will be paid for the scalp of every hostile Indian; he is to give warning of incursions, keep order among his men, and do no injury to the inhabitants whom it is his duty to protect.


title: Letter to Lewis Johnston, Perth Amboy [N. J.]

originInfo: 1761-04-03Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Johnston, Lewis

namePart: Galloway, Joseph

abstracts: Illness in his family has again prevented a journey to Chester county; his son is recovering now; but as the Assembly is sitting, he must attend the duties of the House; the trial cannot now be brought on, because necessary evidence is wanting; he will visit the lands and procure this evidence, so that all shall be ready for the trial at the next term in September.


title: Document

originInfo: 1781-05-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gardner, Joseph

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, State Treasurer, for £200, payment to Thomas Nevill for repairing the State House and taking down the steeple.


title: Letter to Jasper Yeates, care of Edward Burd, Fourth St., Philadelphia

namePart: Yeates, Jasper

abstracts: Thanks him for the trouble he has taken to put him in the way of receiving his interest; will send letter of attorney as directed; wishes him to buy 200 lbs. of sugar and 25 lbs. of coffee, and pay for it out of the interest, when he gets it; Mrs. Yeates is well, but his own daughter Kitty is very ill.


title: Letter to Edward Hand, Lancaster

originInfo: 1783-11-12Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Pennsylvania. General Assembly

title: Letter to Edward Hand, Lancaster

abstracts: Informs him of his election as a delegate to represent Pennsylvania in Congress.


title: Letter to Edward Hand, Lancaster

namePart: Hough, Matthias

title: Letter to Edward Hand, Lancaster

abstracts: Incloses the Speaker's notification of his appointment as a delegate to Congress; hopes to hear as soon as possible whether he will accept, as his friends are anxious about it; "My Brethren of the County were Verry unanimous upon this Occasion.".


title: Letter to Jasper Yeates [Lancaster, Penn.?]

namePart: Hartley, Thomas

abstracts: Did not hear from him last week, but his friendship is above etiquette; little progress has been made in the finance business; they have been engaged with the slave trade and manumission; "the Poor Quakers have been pummeled wonderfully"; he felt himself obliged to take their part, and used some warm expressions towards the Southern members; the Secretary's report will be out soon; the assumption of the state debts may perhaps be lost in the discussion of the report in the House; rejection would tend to a total dismission of the business for this session.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £32 6s. 8d. from William Allan of Hanover, two-thirds of a bond of William Me Colloch to John Rouch of Hanover, tendered before John McQuoun and William Baneage, Apr. 22, 1778, which was refused by said Rouch, and now is paid to the State.


title: Letter to General Washington [Cambridge, Mass.]

originInfo: 1775-07-06Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

abstracts: They inclose a resolution of the Pennsylvania Assembly authorizing them to recommend officers for the battalion of riflemen to be raised in that province, and a letter from the committee of York county, where a company has been raised; they therefore recommend Michael Dowdle for Captain, Henry Miller, John Dill, and John Matson for lieutenants of that company.


title: Letter to Jasper Yeates [Lancaster]

originInfo: 1783-03-21Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Ingersoll, Jared

title: Letter to Jasper Yeates [Lancaster]

abstracts: Sends a bond given by Captain Jacob Humphreys of the Pennsylvania line to Theophilus Shannon, and asks him to issue a precipe for a capias; Mr. Reed promised to send a precipe if opportunity presented; he had better inquire therefore if any writ has been issued; does not wish unnecessary trouble to Captain Humphreys, though he thinks the latter used him ill in leaving the city after he had written to him in the business; Mr. Shannon will pay Ingersoll for his trouble.


title: Letter to Edward Hand [Lancaster, Penn.?]

originInfo: 1784-01-15Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Irvine, William

abstracts: His favor by Captain Hutchins came yesterday; the paper given Hand by Mr. Hill was some crude notes, drawn up merely to enable the Assembly to put something in favor of the state troops into their instructions to the delegates to Congress; the Assembly begins to grow indifferent with regard to petitions from the army officers; many people talk of emigrating to the back country and governing themselves without regard to state or continental jurisdiction; many officers will probably follow this example; thinks the Assembly will adjourn for a few weeks and publish their proceedings, in hope that some members may be instructed to agree with the changes proposed in the constitution; expects to go to Carlisle if they adjourn.


title: Letter to [Jonathan Dayton, Elizabethtown, N. J.]

originInfo: 1797-11-05Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Dayton, Jonathan

namePart: Jackson, David

abstracts: They have returned to their home; the city is again itself and business resumes its usual bustle; the contagion has entirely subsided, and the calamity will soon be forgotten except in those families that have suffered by the disease; as he will be coming to attend Congress in the course of the week, Jackson invites him to stay at his house.


title: Letter to Major-General Benedict Arnold [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1779-01-22Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

namePart: Matlack, Timothy

abstracts: According to command of council, he sends him an order of council of the 18th inst., a letter to the council, of the 19th, from Mr. Mitchell, deputy quarter-master general, and an order of council of the 21st.


title: Letter to Alexander James Dallas, Secretary of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

namePart: Dallas, Alexander James

namePart: McLene, James

abstracts: In answer to the Secretary's letter of Nov. 10; defending himself against the complaint that he failed to fulfil his contract of keeping the roads in repair.


title: Document

originInfo: 1782-04-12Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, Treasurer of Pennsylvania, for £109 101/2d., specie, the balance of the account due James McLene for attendance in Congress.


title: Letter to J. Yates [Jasper Yeates, Lancaster]

originInfo: 1791-04-22Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Meredith, Samuel

abstracts: Inclosing papers relating to seven bonds amounting to £750 given to Mr. Musser by Baradoller, in payment for land that Musser sold the latter; these two tracts of land Meredith and Musser had purchased of William Thompson and J. Elliot.


title: Letter to [Alexander James Dallas.]

originInfo: 1793-11-11Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

title: Letter to [Alexander James Dallas.]

abstracts: Begging him to come to town and assist in quieting the anxiety of the people, who are stirred up over the expected arrival of a ship from the Cape which they fear has some cases of contagious disease on board; he wishes to commission Hilburmer auctioneer in place of Dean deceased; suggests Dr. Redman for the vacant seat in Biddle's court; tells him that McCoy of Germantown has letters for him from the west.


title: Document

originInfo: 1783-05-30Philadelphia, Pa.

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, Treasurer, for £144 specie, payment to Thomas Mifflin for the balance of his account for attendance in Congress until May 20, 1783.


title: Letter to Colonel James Wilson, Pittsburgh

namePart: Wilson, James, 1742-1798

namePart: Montgomery, John

abstracts: His surprise at the delay of the express; the messenger, Mr Grazts, carries the latest newspaper and will let him read it; encroachments on the part of the Virginians and New England people; a party of 150 from Wyoming, who threw up entrenchments at Freeland's mill, about 13 miles from Sunbury, had one of their men killed and others wounded or captured by the inhabitants, who had first asked them to disperse.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account for £65 5s. with the State of Pennsylvania for attendance in Congress since Feb. 21.


title: Document

namePart: Dauphin County (Pa.). Court of quarter sessions

title: Document

abstracts: Recognizance before Joseph Montgomery, of Nathan Simpson of Paxton township, for £200, and of Samuel Simpson, Jr., for £100, for the appearance of Nathan Simpson at the next court of quarter sessions for the county to answer to the charge, brought by William Kelly, of forging, in South Carolina, a will of Simpson Harris, deceased.


title: Document

originInfo: 1781-04-14Philadelphia, Pa.

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, State Treasurer, for £50, state money, part payment to Joseph Montgomery, for his services as member of Congress.


title: Letter to William Govett, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety

originInfo: 1776-04-08Chester County, Pa.

namePart: Govett, William

namePart: Montgomery, William

abstracts: For the encouragement of making saltpetre, a number of men have been appointed in that county to take it in; the price is to be paid partly in powder; he has not enough; asks that the Committee send two quarter-casks along with the public stock for the county; an order to him on Colonel Nicholas Fairlamb at Chester will answer the purpose.


title: Letter to Edward Hand [Annapolis, Md.]

originInfo: 1784-01-23Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Morris, Cadwalader

title: Letter to Edward Hand [Annapolis, Md.]

abstracts: Had an unpleasant journey home; tells of an explosion that happened the evening before, while fire-works were being set off; supposes that Mr. [John] Montgomery must be with him by this time; the House will appoint a delegate next week to relieve him; asks him to deliver an inclosure to Mr. Harford, and to send any letters from Harford under his frank; sends compliments to divers friends; the Council of Censors have adjourned until June; the majority have prepared an excellent address to the citizens, written, as he thinks, by General St. Clair.


title: Letter to George Clinton, Governor of New York

originInfo: 1784-07-03Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Morris, Robert Hunter, ca. 1700-1764

abstracts: Introduces Philip Thieriot, who has been recommended by the ministers abroad as a person sent out by the Court of Saxony to promote commercial intercourse between the two countries; he will probably be invested later with a public character; offers congratulations on the anniversary of American independence, in winning which Clinton had so large a share.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Recognizance before John Morton, of Peter Worrall for £20, for the appearance of his son James, at the next court of quarter sessions for the county, as witness against Joseph Worrall, charged with defrauding Thomas Carvil by giving him the back part of a 5s. bill that he had split.


title: Letter to [John Dickinson]

originInfo: 1784-07-26Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

namePart: Pennsylvania. Council of Censors

title: Letter to [John Dickinson]

abstracts: President of the Supreme Executive Council. Requesting information of the Supreme Executive Council as to whether any proceeding at their board is carried on by ballot, or silent and secret vote; and if so, how such practice accords with the right of every member to enter his reasons for dissent on the journals of the Council.


title: Letter to Major-General Benjamin Lincoln

originInfo: 1779-02-04Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: Introduces Lieutenant-Colonel Du Cambray who goes to serve as engineer in the Southern Department; he will show General Lincoln his papers which will explain the business with which he was entrusted.


title: Letter to [Thomas Mifflin]

namePart: Pettit, Charles

title: Letter to [Thomas Mifflin]

abstracts: Speaker of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Giving a detailed account of the efforts of the Pennsylvania delegates to comply with their instructions to obtain from Congress an order that the £32,429 15s. 7d. in bills of credit issued by the State in 1781, and then lying in the Continental loan office, should be paid into the State Treasury and charged to the debit of the State in the general account; incloses three papers that bear on the subject.


title: Letter to [Henry Laurens? York, Penn.?]

originInfo: 1778-06-15Valley Forge

namePart: Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792

title: Letter to [Henry Laurens? York, Penn.?]

abstracts: Incloses papers from [Dennis De Berdt] and Governor George Johnstone relating to the late peace negotiations; his own opinions on the negotiations; improved discipline of the army.


title: Letter to [Benjamin Franklin, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania?]

namePart: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

abstracts: The delegates from Pennsylvania have presented to Congress two applications of the 18th and 22nd inst. from the Supreme Executive Council for federal troops; they transmit herewith the determination reached; a postscript says that they will move for, and hope to obtain the troops for as long a time as the State may require them.


title: Letter to Francis and William Rossington

originInfo: 1770-09-14Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Rossington, Francis

namePart: Rossington, William

namePart: Rhoads, Samuel

abstracts: Asking them to pay to Charles Pemberton, husband of his niece, heiress of Joseph House, deceased, the money that they had received, and he had repeatedly asked from them.


title: Letter to Brigadier-General Edward Hand, Pittsburgh

abstracts: Committee of inquiry into the conduct of Colonel George Morgan asks his help in investigating the confinement of Colonel Morgan on suspicion of disaffection to the interests of the United States; his residence in that part of the country may have given him information on the subject; the friendship of the Indians of the Northern and southern departments is secured; it will be hard and unaccountable if those of the middle district alone are hostile.


title: Letter to Thomas Burke [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1779-01-24Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Burke, Thomas

namePart: Ross, George

title: Letter to Thomas Burke [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Setting forth at length his reasons for refusing to execute the decree of the court of appeals in the case of the sloop Active.


title: Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill, near New York

originInfo: 1803-07-27Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Rush, Benjamin

abstracts: Prescribes a regimen useful in alleviating the pains of old age; hopes he will live to see not only the close of the present war between England and France, but universal liberty and the extinction of all wars; would gladly come to visit him, but "a large and expensive family chain me to the pestle and mortar;" recalls the day they passed together in 1777, when Gates was on his way to oppose Burgoyne, and the plans they made for national happiness; a postscript says that as he now confines his labors to his patients, without combating ignorance and error, he is kindly tolerated by his fellow citizens.


title: Letter to Thomas Fitzsimons [Philadelphia]

namePart: Fitzsimons, Thomas

namePart: Searle, James

abstracts: Acknowledges letter of the 3d inst.; is glad to learn that the bill on Mr. Searle was likely to be paid; regrets that Fitzsimons should have been a loser by any irregularity in the affair; any loss suffered will be made good by Messrs. I. S. & Co. of Madeira; speaks of profits Fitzsimons will realize by corn sent to Madeira in the New Jersey.


title: Letter to George Bryan

originInfo: 1779-06-13Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Bryan, George

namePart: Shippen, William

title: Letter to George Bryan

abstracts: The bearer, Mary Johnson, daughter of Molly Vanleuvering (?) a relation of Bryan's mother, "is desirous of releasing her husband by placing another in his room;" needs Bryan's advice and assistance.


title: Document

originInfo: 1780-01-20Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council

title: Document

abstracts: Order on David Rittenhouse, Treasurer, for $4,000 part payment to William Shippen for service as a member of Congress.


title: Letter to Thomas Wharton, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania

namePart: Wharton, Thomas

namePart: United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789

abstracts: Delegates from Pennsylvania write that yesterday the resolution of Congress of the 14th inst. was sent by Mr. Dickson with an account of the receipt of $52,000 by the delegates, of which $13,000 was paid to the York and Cumberland County commissioners; the remainder, with $100,000 received this day, is for warded by the Sheriff of York County [William Rowan]; as the Superintendents are dismounted on the east side of the river, it might not have been so proper to apply to the usual place for a guard and convoy, and makes it more necessary for the Commissioners on the east side [of the Susquehannah] to exert themselves lest the army suffer.


title: Letter to George Bryan, Lancaster

namePart: Smith, Jonathan Bayard

title: Letter to George Bryan, Lancaster

abstracts: Congress has learned of the arrival of a ship from France with supplies; in answer to queries respecting Burgoyne's conduct in the Convention, General Gates explained that the military chest and standards were left in Canada, and also accounted for the arms being unfit for service, and the want of bayonet scabbards and cartridge boxes; wishes to know the result of Col. Bayard's and Mr. Young's business at camp; has not a copy of the resolution of the House on the quorum; the memorial of the House and Council has been laid before Congress and read twice; he has been unwell; an exact return of Burgoyne's army was received yesterday.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1805-02-01Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Smith, Thomas

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Incloses papers obtained from [Alexander James] Dallas; found that the latter had not furnished all that were wanted; when he told him that his correspondent desired the notes of his argument, so that Mr. Hamilton could do justice to it, he answered that he spoke without notes and had only brief memoranda; these he promised to arrange, but he was about to start for Washington with [Jared] Ingersoll and William Tilghman, and did not keep his promise; anecdote of Smith's daughter, Maria, reproving a man on the street for saying that the judges ought no longer to be trusted; rumor that the Chief Justice has resigned.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of Pennsylvania for £70 15s. payment for attending Congress Oct. 21 to Nov. 30, 1781, with mileage to and from Bedford. A. D. On the back is an order of the Council, Philadelphia, Feb. 7, 1782, on David Rittenhouse, Treasurer for the payment of said sum.


title: Letter to General [Elias] Dayton, Chatham [N. J.]

originInfo: 1783-03-31Pottsgrove, Pa.

namePart: Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807

namePart: St. Clair, Arthur

abstracts: Introduces Samuel Potts, who, with his sister-in-law, is on his way to New York, by permission of the executive of Pennsylvania, to have a last interview with his brother; congratulates him on the return of peace; has been ill with the gout.


title: Letter to Richard Backhouse, Durham [Penn.]

namePart: Backhouse, Richard

namePart: Taylor, George

abstracts: Has sent 41 lb. of lead to him by the bearer; that was all that remained of the pig; Colonel Hooper sets out next day for Trenton; is glad to hear that the furnace is in good order; the season is far advanced and they must make the best use of it.


title: Letter to William Bingham

originInfo: 1785-08-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Bingham, William

namePart: Willing, Thomas

title: Letter to William Bingham

abstracts: Acknowledges letters received by the Belfield; contented that "my dear Nancy' should remain abroad a year longer; learns from Mr. Hare that Bingham was going to France to settle the business that [Barbé de] Marbois had in hand here; wishes Bingham had taken care of certain claims that Sargenton and Delacombe had against him at Martinique; does not know the reason of the action brought by the owners of the Rattle Snake; the Assembly is sitting; "they have attacked us with all the Violence of party rage;" incloses a pamphlet by James Wilson; a postscript treats of business matters.


title: Letter to [Thomas Mifflin]

namePart: Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

namePart: Wilson, James, 1742-1798

title: Letter to [Thomas Mifflin]

abstracts: Governor of Pennsylvania. Makes formal complaint against William P. Brady, one of the deputy surveyors in the New Purchase; for particulars, refers him to the information that Samuel Wallis is ready to give.


title: Letter to Joseph Reed

originInfo: 1780-11-06Northampton, Pa.

namePart: Wynkoop, Henry

title: Letter to Joseph Reed

abstracts: President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Asks that William Bennet and wife Mary, neighbors of his, be given permission to go to Long Island, in order to visit some relatives of Mrs. Bennet, and to arrange property left her by deceased relatives; Mr. Bennet is a true friend to his country.


title: Document

originInfo: 1780-03-22Philadelphia, Pa.

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of account with the State of Pennsylvania for £235 10s., balance due him for services in Congress, Apr. 6 to Oct. 12, 1779.


title: Document

originInfo: 1785-04-01Pencader Hundred, Newcastle county, Del.

namePart: Clark, William

title: Document

abstracts: Last will and testament; witnessed by Thomas Smyth, Joshua Clayton, Kezia Lambson. Transcript attested, Newcastle, Mar. 14, 1793, by Gunning Bedford [Sr.], Register. With seal of the Register's office, Newcastle county affixed.


title: Letter to his daughter Henrietta I. Bedford

namePart: Bedford, Henrietta I.

namePart: Bedford, Gunning

abstracts: Acknowledges her letter to her mother; they are glad that she is happy with her sister and their friends; she must not attempt to cross the bay if it is rough; asks her to write to her brother.


title: Letter to George Read, Philadelphia

originInfo: 1790-01-11Wilmington, Del.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Read, George

namePart: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

title: Letter to George Read, Philadelphia

abstracts: Has made necessary alterations in papers sent him, and has added two; one to be signed by his brother; the other to be endorsed upon the articles of agreement that his brother and Giesse are to sign.


title: Letter to Samuel Tucker

namePart: Tucker, Samuel

namePart: Dickinson, Philemon

title: Letter to Samuel Tucker

abstracts: Has returned, the night before, from New York; General Putnam's orders are to employ his troops on such fortifications as the engineers think most necessary; he has ordered the three battalions to work on the lines already laid out by the engineers; one of the works is on Staten Island, at Prince's Bay; Mr. Campbell and he will keep a strict account of their expenses, which Congress may make good; they wish no pay but that; asks if he, as commanding officer, should keep a table for the officers during his stay.


title: Letter to John Ewing, Wilmington [Del.]

namePart: Ewing, John

namePart: Evans, John

title: Letter to John Ewing, Wilmington [Del.]

abstracts: Will not be able to attend the meeting of the trustees of Newark Academy; speaks of the affairs of the school; he would vote for the President of the State [Nicholas Vandyke] and John McCrery as new trustees; thinks the school ought not to be removed from Newark.


title: Document

namePart: Kearney, Dyre

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £4 10s. 9d. from William Levick, guardian of Stokely Sturgis, in full discharge of the mortgage (dated Aug. 21, 1760, signed by Stokely Sturgis, and witnessed by Richard Butler and D. Caldwell) on the back of which the receipt is written.


title: Letter to Thomas Rodney, "in his own right, and as Guardian of Letitia Rodney."

namePart: Rodney, Thomas

namePart: McComb, Eleazer

abstracts: Gives notice that he intends to petition the Court of Chancery of Kent County to appoint commissioners for taking depositions to perpetuate the boundaries of certain lands, lying in Saint Jones's Neck, belonging to his ward, Francis G. McMullan, a minor, and to the heirs of James Gardner deceased.


title: Letter to Eleazer McComb

originInfo: 1785-12-01Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817

title: Letter to Eleazer McComb

abstracts: Complains of an error in settling his accounts as a member of Congress; he has received payment only for attendance from Apr. 13, 1781 to the end of 1782; his attendance from Jan. 6, 1779 to Apr. 12, 1781 has apparently been overlooked, although the claim had been reported and allowed by the committee; he thinks it useless to mention that he attended at York and Philadelphia in 1778 at great personal expense, for which he was not reimbursed one-fourth part; the most active and zealous in the Revolution have been the most unfortunate and the greatest sufferers on every occasion.


title: Letter to [General Caesar Rodney, Dover

originInfo: 1777-07-20Wilmington, Del.

namePart: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784

namePart: McKinly, John

title: Letter to General Caesar Rodney, Dover

abstracts: Has received his letter by Mr. Freeman; is pleased with his patriotism and attention to orders; is pleased too with the readiness of Chief Justice [William] Killen in entering on his duties; wishes others were equally willing; directs him to prepare the militia required for a certain service; incloses newspaper telling of the fall of Ticonderoga; in this day's Evening Post there is a letter of General Washington describing the capture of General Prescott in Rhode Island.


title: Letter to William Hill Wells, Dagsborough [Del.]

originInfo: 1790-11-11Georgetown, Del.

namePart: Wells, William Hill

namePart: Mitchell, Nathaniel

abstracts: Asks for eighty or a hundred dollars; he does not know how their accounts stand, but the business can be adjusted later; he and Mrs. Mitchell send their regards to Mrs. Wells.


title: Letter to [Thomas -- --, near Dover

originInfo: 1778-05-15Wilmington, Del.

namePart: Patten, John

title: Letter to Thomas -- --, near Dover

abstracts: Asks for clothing for officers of his regiment; suggests that the State furnish it at the former rates, charging the overplus, due to the depreciated currency, to the United States; news from Dr. Montgomery, just arrived from headquarters, of the announcement to England by Louis XVI. of the treaty between France and America; deserters intelligence indicates that the enemy will fight once more before they evacuate [Philadelphia]; they burned Bordentown and the shipping in the Delaware, but were defeated at Trenton; the Americans are learning the Prussian discipline; blue cloth and linen needed for the men.


title: Letter to Caesar Rodney, Dover [Del.]

namePart: Peery, William

title: Letter to Caesar Rodney, Dover [Del.]

abstracts: Thirty-six sail of the enemy's fleet have gone up the bay; this evening forty-seven more have anchored in the road; all the boats along Lewes Cre[ill] were brought up to the tort at the first appearance of the enemy, and a sentinel placed over them; nevertheless, Abraham Wiltbank, his son Jacob, and Luke Shields, Jr., went off to the ships, having concealed a boat the day before; asks whether he ought to place guards at their houses and have their goods inventoried.


title: Letter to Mrs. George Read at Rev. William Thompson's, in Cecil County [Md.]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Read, Mrs. George

abstracts: [Gunning] Bedford informs him that she is well; has heard that Mr. Thompson intends to remove to the parish formerly Farrel's, in Sassafras Neck; wishes he could establish her in some place where the children might be educated; pressure of public business makes him neglectful of private affairs; capture by Captain Jaquet of the Delaware regiment, of two armed boats returning down Duck Creek, and by the citizens of Lewes of the cargo of a sloop that ran ashore at the Cape; disputes among the claimants keep him and the other lawyers busy.


title: Letter to General [Washington?]

originInfo: 1777-09-06Middletown, Del.

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

title: Letter to General [Washington?]

abstracts: On receipt of his letter the day before, he sent one of his light-horse to Colonel Richardson, at the head of Sassafrass; wrote also to Colonel Gist to obtain information of movements of the enemy's fleet; in-closes his letter on the subject; the report that the enemy had landed four hundred men at Town Point, between the rivers Elk and Bohemia, is false; is about to send a party to watch the enemy at Aitkins's Tavern; there are only four small warships in the Elk River; difficulty in obtaining cartridges from Wilmington; has only four rounds; hopes the militia will join him.


title: Letter to Colonel Thomas Duffs, Newport, New Castle Co

originInfo: 1788-12-22Poplar Grove, Dover, Del.

namePart: Duffs, Thomas

abstracts: [Del.] Calls attention to a card in the newspapers inviting the field officers of the Revolutionary militia to meet at Dover, Jan. 14; urges him to come; to many who guarded the State are either neglected pressed down by the growing disaffection; the State shows signs of tumult and disorder; he has therefore proposed a union among men whose views will be most likely to coincide with the welfare of their country; union will give strength to their counsels.


title: Document

originInfo: 1765-10-26Delaware, Province.

namePart: Delaware (Province). General Assembly

title: Document

abstracts: Order on Trustees General Loan Office of Kent County in favor of James Sykes for £4 9s. 1d.


title: Letter to Dr. [George] Monro [Edinburgh?]

namePart: Monro, George

namePart: Tilton, James

abstracts: His letter from London received, also the later one from Edinburgh; all things are working for good in America; improvement in political knowledge and public virtue; urges him not to desert his native State [Delaware]; asks him to investigate the subject of public hospitals; does not like them, but thinks they will be adopted in America; mistrust: their effect on society in general; the State Society celebrated the Fourth of July at Wilmington; sends this by Mr. Roche.


title: Letter to Jasper Yeates, at Edward Shippen's, Lancaster [Penn.]

originInfo: 1765New Castle County, Del.

namePart: Yeates, Jasper

namePart: Van Dyke, Nicholas

abstracts: Excuses himself for not having answered letter of Aug. 30; Yeates never informed him of his removal from Philadelphia to Lancaster; learns that he is employed in the prothonotary's office; this will be advantageous whenever he begins to put his studies into practice; condoles with him that his eyes "instead of beholding the beautiful Nymphs ... of Philada must now be intertain'd with tawny Dutch Squaws;" will enlarge on this subject in his next, knowing it to be delightful to his friend's volatile and amorous disposition.


title: Letter to William Hill Wells, Philadelphia

namePart: Vining, John

abstracts: Closing portion, with fragment of postscript Endorsed.


title: Letter to [Jaco]bus Gratz, Philadelphia

originInfo: 1787-02-03Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Gratz, Jacobus

namePart: Wharton, Samuel

title: Letter to [Jaco]bus Gratz, Philadelphia

abstracts: Asks him to come to his house next morning on important, business.


title: Letter

namePart: Alexander, Robert

title: Letter

abstracts: Asks that the inclosed for Mr. Brice may be delivered without inspection; it contains no politics; the standing of Mr. Brice sets him above suspicion of improper correspondence; if it must be opened, he requests that only the person addressed may see the contents.


title: Letter

namePart: Carmichael, William

title: Letter

abstracts: His remissness in correspondence is due to absence from Paris, for Mr. D–[Silas Deane] never forwards his letters; Cunningham has at length sailed, and in the manner they could wish him to; no need for discouragement at what has happened to Wickes and Johnson for it will pass over soon; he himself wants to follow the example of Lafayette, Pulaski, and so many others; popularity of the American cause in France; L–[Arthur Lee] is back from Berlin; Elliot played him a scurvy trick; thinks Lee has been successful, though he says nothing about it; Dr. B -- ft [Edward Bancroft] is going to ruin Carolina by a new dye he has invented, that makes indigo useless.


title: Letter to [George Washington, Cambridge, Mass.]

namePart: Carroll, Charles

abstracts: Introduces the bearer, Mr. Shey; if hostilities should be suspended, hopes to receive General Washington on his way to Virginia; if they cannot obtain a peace on safe and just terms they must win one by force; sends compliments to Generals Lee and Gates.


title: Letter to Col. Tench Tilghman, Headquarters Northern Army.

originInfo: 1782-08-25Mount Clare, Md.

namePart: Tilghman, Tench

abstracts: Tench Tilghman, Headquarters Northern Army. Could not write sooner because of the uncertainty of his movements; they are all in suspense; the tories say there will not be peace with France and Spain, but that Great Britain will offer independence if the United States will treat separately; otherwise she will attack the West Indies; fears the losses Holland has sustained may retard peace; Great Britain will be loath to give up Ceylon; wishes the Marquis de Vaudreuil might have received notice of the destination of the British fleet with the force from Georgia.


title: Letter

namePart: Carroll, Daniel

title: Letter

abstracts: Incloses letter from Mr. Pliarne which he opened to see if there were any inclosures for the Senate, etc.; sends two handbills, one of them to be forwarded to his brother at Rock Creek; Mr. Pliarne's letters to Mr. Carroll say that letters from France convey the same intelligence received from Mr. Bingham; letters from Mr. Harrison at Martinique add that an embargo was laid on all ships in France and the West Indies; a vessel has arrived in Virginia with 15,000 blankets, and two vessels at Charleston from France; the enemy's fleet has got up to Philadelphia; about 3,000 of Gates's army have rejoined the main army.


title: Letter to [Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Intendant of Md.]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas

namePart: Chase, Jeremiah Townley

abstracts: Applying for the payment of a certificate that he now holds, granted to John Dorsey & Co. for part of a balance due from the State under a contract between that firm and the Governor and Council, for shipping flour to Havana; the firm advanced money to buy the flour and made other similar contracts; the Governor and Council were unable to pay, and the appropriation of the General Assembly was insufficient.