title: Document

namePart: Verplanck, Gulian

title: Document

abstracts: Lease to Francis Filkin of one undivided third part in two lots in the south ward, New York city, bounded in part by property then or late of Benjamin Blagge, Jesse Kip, Colonel Moore, William Boyle and Abraham Joneau, then occupied by Francis Filkin and Elias Brevoort, for the term of one year at a peppercorn rent, to raise a use under the Statute of Uses.


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namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

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namePart: Thodey, Michael

usage: primary

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title: Document

supplied: yes

abstracts: Indenture of apprenticeship, with the consent of his grandfather Humphry Jones, to Captain Francis Stanfell of Gosport, Hampshire, England, for five years to learn the trade or mystery of navigator. Printed form filled in.

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collectionTitle: Thomas Addis Emmet collection


title: Document

namePart: Elliot, Andrew

namePart: Maitland, Richard

title: Document

abstracts: Portion of a petition to John, Earl of Dunmore, Governor of New York, as guardians of John St. Clair, infant, under the will of Sir John St. Clair, Bart., deceased, for a grant or patent of certain lands surveyed for the deceased.


title: Letter to John Nicholson [Philadelphia?]

originInfo: 1798-05-18Prune Street Prison, Philadelphia

namePart: Nicholson, John

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

abstracts: Returns enclosures of Nicholson's letter, except Mr. Key's letter; advises the arrest of Tunnicliffe on a charge of assault; regrets that Nicholson would not dine with him; enquires if he had sent to S. Caldwell's to examine [William] Tilghman's declaration for General [Philemon] Dickenson's cause; discusses details of Dickenson selling Morris's four Jersey farms in part satisfaction of mortgage and debt.


title: Letter to [Lord Stirling.]

originInfo: 1778-09-20Fredericksburg, Putnam County, N.Y.

namePart: Stirling, Lord

namePart: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

title: Letter to [Lord Stirling.]

abstracts: His Excellency [Washington] found the country there-abouts different from his information and Fredericksburgh not quite intermediate point between Danbury and the Highlands but too far northerly; desires Stirling to halt where this letter reaches him; will have a post reconnoitred and give him directions to move to it.


title: Letter to Alexander Addison [Pittsburg, Pa]

originInfo: 1799-03-23Cincinnati, Ohio

namePart: Addison, Alexander

namePart: St. Clair, Arthur

abstracts: Had hoped to have sent Addison, by [William] Mc Clung, the observations on Nicholas' letter, but had been disappointed by the printer; likewise prevented from publishing observations on the alien and sedition laws; encloses the MS. and asks Addison to get 500 copies thrown off by his printer for which he would pay at the end of next month, when he hoped to see Addison and Mrs Addison.


title: Document

namePart: Great Britain. Army

title: Document

abstracts: Embarkation return of the Guards, of men of British and German Regiments under the Convention of Saratoga, and of men belonging to other regiments in England, aggregating 1274 men, women, and children, on the ships Lyon, L' Aigle, John, Adamant, St. Lawrence, John and Bella, Scarborough, and Tyger; with memorandum as to embarkation of Lieut. Gen. [Carl] Bose of the Hessian troops on the St. Lawrence, having permission of the Landgrave to return to Europe.


title: Document

namePart: Duane, James

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of acknowledgment of execution of deed by Medes Brashier and allowance of recording same.


title: Letter to [Bushrod Washington, Washington, D. C.?]

originInfo: 1820-10-14Montpellier, Va.

namePart: Washington, Bushrod

namePart: Madison, James, 1751-1836

abstracts: In fulfilment of his promise returns letters to General Washington, lent him by his correspondent; would have done so before but had awaited letters from Richmond; desires to call attention to the latter portion, which he believes comprises the letters he most desires to obtain, that the Chief Justice [John Marshall] might not lose the opportunity of a recess for looking them up.


title: Letter to Governor [George] Clinton, Kingston [N.Y.]

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Malcom, William

abstracts: Recommends the bearer, Captain Black for appointment as clothier to the state, if the assembly will give sufficient pay for an honest man to live by it; General [John Morin] Scott knows Black and will recommend him; asks for a decision as to his own appointment, prefers the State Regiment [Malcolm's levies]. In a postscript, reminds Clinton that if he gets the regiment, the Yorkers in his old regiment [Malcolm's Additional Continental Regiment] are to be taken into the State Line and that regiment.


title: Document

namePart: Burke, John

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that John Burke's name was returned to the office [of the Governor of N. Y. State] with the names of other privates of Colonel [Goose] Van Schaick's regiment [1st New York Line] as entitled to 600 acres of bounty land.


title: Letter to Col. Henry Rutgers, Albany

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Rutgers, Henry

namePart: Stagg, John

title: Letter to Col. Henry Rutgers, Albany

abstracts: As to petition to the legislature by the members of the Society for the relief of distressed debtors, suggesting change in laws and suspension of arrests under mesne process in time of epidemics, the letter being first addressed to Charles L. Cammann and Leonard Bleecker.


title: Document

namePart: Riker, Jeronimus

title: Document

abstracts: Affidavit as to the payment of a promissory note from Thomas Gardner to William Cannon.


title: Letter to Governor [George] Clinton

namePart: Lamb, John

title: Letter to Governor [George] Clinton

abstracts: Has received Clinton's letter respecting the men of his regiment [2nd Continental Artillery] credited to New York State; has written [1st] Lieutenant [Joseph] Ashton, [Regimental] Adjutant to furnish General James Clinton with a return [of these men] as soon as possible; presents his compliments to Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Tapper.


title: EM. 11106

title: EM. 11106


title: Letter to Col. Benjamin Walker, New York

originInfo: 1794-05-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Walker, Benjamin

namePart: L'Enfant, Pierre Charles

abstracts: Explanations as to the protest of a bill drawn by L'Enfant for money due to him from the Society [of the Cincinnati]; demands its payment; his engagement about the defences of the Delaware would detain him longer than he had imagined; refers to his needs and describes his treatment as one giving up his purse to highway robbery; the thermometer being the same in New York has no news but at last ça ira -- ça ira; the French privateer has brought to the Dutch lugger in mistake for a Spanish cabion, they both lay together at anchor -- short of ammunition, trying to sell the ballast stone of the province of main (sic) to gather provision and cruise again.


title: Letter to James Greenleaf

namePart: Greenleaf, James

namePart: Lear, Tobias

title: Letter to James Greenleaf

abstracts: On conversing with Mr. Gerard as to establishment in Amsterdam, he decided that Messrs. Crommelins would not be disposed to accord the credit desired and mentioned the house of Messrs. Willink; the matter was in their hands for consideration; as to various business transactions; Greenleaf's friends in Amsterdam would inform him as to the probable success of the loan for his account; Greenleaf's wife and sweet little son were well.


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Hallam, Lewis

title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates

abstracts: Presents his best respects and entreats the honor of his patronage on Monday evening. A. L. Endorsed.


title: Letter to [Horatio Gates, New York.]

namePart: Bard, Samuel

title: Letter to [Horatio Gates, New York.]

abstracts: Last lotion same as theretofore, the sediment doubtless produced by the hardness of the water and coldness of the weather; sends another bottle made under his own eye, which Mrs. Gates may warm; laments indisposition of Gates and wife, but hopes to see them Tuesday; good spirits would help to cure him and good weather facilitate his coming.


title: EM. 11134

title: EM. 11134


title: Letter to Governor [George] Clinton

namePart: Varick, Richard

title: Letter to Governor [George] Clinton

abstracts: Isabella Marden, stepdaughter of David Whitehill, late of New York, innholder, had been convicted of perjury in November last and sentenced to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £100; had suffered the imprisonment but would probably stay in prison for life on the £100; a dangerous character; asks her pardon as life imprisonment for a fine of £100 would be an excessive punishment.


title: EM. 11150

title: EM. 11150


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates [New York]

title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates [New York]

abstracts: Invites Gates to dine with him on Wednesday at 3, to meet Citizen [Edmond Charles] Gen_t and the principal officers of the French Squadron then in port; the Governor [George Clinton] would be present.


title: Letter to [Lord Stirling, New Jersey.]

title: Letter to [Lord Stirling, New Jersey.]

abstracts: Had written 14 days ago from the West Point but letter was not carried by the messenger; had then informed Stirling of the state of the Department, and had hopes from Congress; finds he was too sanguine; unless Congress has positive assurance from Heaven that the enemy would not attack West Point they were in hopeless condition; not a spade in the ground; the bearer [Lieutenant Colonel Baileul de] La Radière, the Engineer, had not been properly treated; had peculiarities in temper, but Malcom was assured by [Robert?] Erskine and others of La Radière's capacity, industry, and attention; was well informed that the enemy would attempt to occupy Hudson's river; militia dissatisfied with General [Israel] Putnam and decline to serve under him; would not trouble his lordship but was unhappy etc; had come to camp in consequence of his promise but was not certain he ought to serve after reading his Excellency's letter [of Jan 28, 1778 or Feb. 9, 1778?]; had had his name left off payrolls etc; was going to the West Point by request of [Brigadier] General [Samuel Holden] Parsons to advise about matters there.


title: EM. 11159

title: EM. 11159


title: Letter to Judge Coe, Albany

namePart: Coe, Judge

namePart: Wortman, Tennis

title: Letter to Judge Coe, Albany

abstracts: Introduces the bearer Mr. Farrell, an uniform republican and a very worthy man, desirous of an auctioneer's appointment; commends him to Coe's attention and good offices.


title: Letter to John Lawrence, Philadelphia

namePart: Lawrence, John

namePart: Lawrence, Samuel

title: Letter to John Lawrence, Philadelphia

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of his cousin's letter by Mr. Lookeen introducing that gentleman; will do all he can for him and his wife; has asked them to lodge with him on their return.


title: Letter to Abraham Van Vechten, Albany

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Van Vechten, Abraham

namePart: Hosack, David

title: Letter to Abraham Van Vechten, Albany

abstracts: The gentleman appointed to appraise the Botanic Garden had agreed on $103.137, a sum less than he expected, which will hardly pay him for the property, as payment is to be delayed for seven years, yet he trusts Land Office will accept; will visit Albany on Saturday following with documents; has written Van Vechten so that he may advise the Register of his coming and that officer's western trip may be postponed; Van Vechten's daughter leaves Hosack's house on Saturday.


title: Document

originInfo: 1795New York

namePart: Harison, Richard

title: Document

abstracts: [To the Legislature of the State of New York.] Concluding portion of a petition to amend the act for incorporating religious societies, in respect of the Protestant Episcopal Church, so as to confer the powers of trustees on elected churchwardens and vestrymen, conjointly with their rector or minister.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1786-01-16Holgate, parish of St. Mary Bishopshill, York, England

namePart: Murray, Lindley

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Had that day received his correspondent's letter from Yarm [Yorkshire, Eng.]; glad to render any service; their dear friend T. Ross is very poorly; details his symptoms, and fears that the struggles of nature may put a period to his mortal frame; reports arrival home [at York] of their dear friends W[illiam] and E[sther (Maud)] Tuke; and with Robert Grubbs and Elizabeth Heyland send regards; Rebeccah Jones was well; G[eorge] Dillwyn was visiting the [Friends'] meetings in Cumberland; his dear wife [Hannah Dobson Murray] was well and he himself feeling better; had heard from sister Ann Dobson; friends in N[ew] York were generally well.


title: EM11190

type: admin

text: Metadata to be culled from Emmet calendar (external vendor). Titles and other metadata will be updated when available.

title: EM11190

supplied: no


title: Letter to George Simpson [Cashier of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia]

namePart: Simpson, George

namePart: Prime, Nathaniel

abstracts: Encloses signatures of Isaac Mills and Joseph Darling, as received that day from Isaac Bronson with notification of Mills' draft.


title: Document

namePart: Middleton, Peter

title: Document

abstracts: To Colonel Charles Clinton [New York]. Receipt for £10 for one year's attendance by his son Charles Clinton in Middleton's shop and practice in surgery and physic.


title: EM. 11213

title: EM. 11213


title: Letter to Aaron Ogden Dayton [Salem, N. J.]

namePart: Dayton, Aaron Ogden

namePart: Hobart, John Henry

abstracts: Introduces the bearer the Rev. [Richard F.] Cadle, a most estimable young clergyman, whom he has induced to visit Salem in reference to his establishment in the [Protestant Episcopal] Church there; asks Dayton to introduce him to the vestry.


title: Letter to Aaron Ogden, Elizabeth Town [N. J.]

namePart: Ogden, Aaron

namePart: Beach, Abraham

abstracts: Has just received pressing requests from the legatees of Miss Brasier for a settlement of her estate; asks a completion of the business in Ogden's hands, and information as to uncollected part of execution and when it may be expected.


title: Letter to Rev. Jeremiah Day, Pres[ident] of Yale Coll[ege], New Haven

originInfo: 1825-10-18Columbia College, New York, N.Y.

namePart: Day, Jeremiah

namePart: Harris, William

abstracts: Has that day given a certificate of good standing to William H[enry] Bogart, a candidate for admission to the Yale Junior class; as he is without acquaintance Harris commends him to Day and testifies to his correct behaviour, respectable attainments, and high standing in his class.


title: Letter to Peter Van Shack, [sic] Kinderhook [N. Y.]

originInfo: 1787-01-16Manor Livingston, N.Y.

namePart: Van Schaack, Peter

namePart: Livingston, Peter R.

abstracts: The bearer, Philip Adam Cheesebragh, one of their tenants was in trouble about a negro bought before or in last disturbances; asks Van Schaack to undertake his case.


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates [New York]

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Miller, Samuel

title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates [New York]

abstracts: The enclosed subscription paper had reached him from the State of Delaware; Dr. [John] Vaughan, the editor of the proposed work [Hugh Smith's Letters to married women (Wilmington, 1801) 12o.] had expressed a wish for the names of General Gates, Governor Clinton and a few other distinguished patriots as among the encouragers of the publication; the bearer waits on them for that purpose.


title: EM. 11265

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: EM. 11265


title: Letter to -- --

namePart: Thorburn, Grant

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Would most cheerfully comply with his correspondent's request were it in his power; has not the article; he boarded with [Thomas] Paine and knows more of his history than any man in America; life, health and leisure being given, will give some item thereafter.


title: Letter to N. Lawrence

originInfo: 1790-07-24Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

namePart: Lawrence, N.

namePart: Bailey, Theodorus

title: Letter to N. Lawrence

abstracts: Discussing status and proceedings in several legal suits; the removal of Congress appeared to him an act of some levity but he is not much agitated about it; the conduct of late political opponents mighty inconsistent; the Child [the Federal party?] which lately received their servile adulation, had made rapid progress to manhood in its residence in the present capital; they may hope it would flourish best in its native city [Philadelphia?] there attaining the stature of a giant under the auspices of its immaculate godfathers [James?] Wils[on] & [Robert?] M[or]r[i]s which he believes is the object of the Federal Gentry.


title: Letter to Richard Varrick, Mayor of the City of New York

namePart: Varick, Richard

namePart: Baumann, Sebastian

abstracts: Has taken the liberty to enclose a pamphlet containing the cause of the resignation of all the officers of the [New York] Artillery Regiment which he commanded, which pamphlet he trusts will remove unfavorable impression in the public mind.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1784-03-04Flatbush, King's County, N.Y.

namePart: Clarkson, Matthew

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Strongly endorsing his correspondent for the command of the militia of Kings County, New York; testifies to his excellent service in the War [of the Revolution] and to the regard in which all officers held him.


title: Letter to Philip Van Rensselaer, Albany [N. Y.]

namePart: Rensselaer, Stephen Van

namePart: Ray, Cornelius

abstracts: Reports his safe arrival, the season too far advanced for his West India constitution to permit him to visit Van Rensselaer; the Delaware being more closely watched by British frigates than this bay, he has concluded to reside here as better for business than Philadelphia; peace seems still distant though the people in England wish for a connection with us; their late success and the fall of the Rockingham party would prolong the war; invites Van Rensselaer to entrust him with business; quotes current prices.


title: Document

namePart: New York (N.Y.). Fire Department

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Membership in Company 39, in favor of James Kain. Engraved form filled in.


title: EM. 11301

title: EM. 11301


title: Document

originInfo: 1801New York

namePart: New York (N.Y.). Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Petition for an act authorizing the Corporation to continue Beekman Street from Pearl to Water, to alter the lower end of Fair Street, and to continue the same from Cliff to Pearl Street, and generally to improve the streets, and forwarding a draft of such an act.


title: Paper Money

title: Paper Money

abstracts: Jan. 6, 1776. Eight shillings. No. 2296. Signed, J. Watts Junr, G. Brewerton. New York: Printea by H[ugh] Gaine [1776].


title: Letter to General [Horatio] Gates [New York]

namePart: Clinton, De Witt

abstracts: Enclosure would show the vote on the judiciary bill, the final decision on a much-agitated question; learns that the French intend to take Louisiana; it involves this country's interests deeply; minister at Paris instructed to remonstrate, but the friendship of Buonaparte was not to be calculated upon; friends [in Washington] united; intend a military peace establishment, abolition of internal taxes, and a new naturalization law.


title: Document

originInfo: 1821New York, N.Y.

namePart: New York Historical Society

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Membership. Engraved form partially filled in.


title: Letter to John Kean, Cashier, Bank of the United States, Philadelphia

namePart: Kean, John

namePart: Stevens, John

abstracts: Encloses power of attorney to receive his interest on Treasury stock, asks payment to the U[nited] S[tates] B[ank] [Branch] in New York with dividends on his bank stock.


title: Letter to the President and Directors of the Hoboken Manufacturing and Banking Company

namePart: Stevens, Robert Livingston

abstracts: Resigning his office of director, as per his expressed intention to the President [of the Company].


title: Document

namePart: Yates, Joseph Christopher

title: Document

abstracts: Bond to Robert Fulton of the city of New York in the penal sum of $600 to pay $300 the balance unpaid on Certificate No. 69 in the Hudson River Steamboat Stock. Printed form filled in.


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Radcliff, Jacob

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Attestation and Allowance of Recording, endorsed on [a fragment of] a certain Indenture of Release then dated, and made between James Emott of the one part and Thaddeus Wilson of Ballston, yeoman, of the other part, conveying lots on the Oneida [Indian] Reservation, Beriah Palmer and Levi H Palmer being attesting witnesses.


title: Document

namePart: De Witt, Simeon

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for twelve dollars to Peter Van Bergen for surveying lots number 17 and 52 in township of Junius of the military lands.


title: Document

originInfo: 1785-04-02Trinity Church, New York, N.Y.

namePart: Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.). Corporation

title: Document

abstracts: License to assign a lease to Gerardus Hardenbrook, the assignees being Hector St Jean de Crevier, Jose Reize Silva, Henry Duffin, Jean François Vacher and James Stewart and the premises being one half part of lots 85, 86, 87 and 88 [of the Church farm] abutting on Barclay and Church Streets.


title: Letter to the Hon. Judge [Joseph Christopher] Yates [Schenectady?]

namePart: MacNevin, William James

abstracts: Has heard with regret of the illness of Professor [Thomas] Macauley of [Union] College; understands he must cease teaching and desires to recommend Mr. Cooper, whom it is unnecessary to recommend after what Mr. [Dewitt] Clinton wrote; enquires if Yates has seen Cooper's treatise upon dyeing just published.


title: Letter to P[eter] R.Livingston

namePart: Livingston, Peter R.

namePart: Riker, Richard

title: Letter to P[eter] R.Livingston

abstracts: Alexander Phaenix applies for a commissionership under the late act; being nearly related by marriage, Riker feels a delicacy in interfering with the claims of others, but recommends Phaenix as of strict integrity and devoted to Whig principles.


title: Letter to Samuel Hodgdon, Intendant Public Stores, Philadelphia

namePart: Hodgdon, Samuel

namePart: Stevens, Ebenezer

abstracts: If he has not shipped the waistcoats for Captain Eddens' and Captain Bishop's companies let him send them by wagon to Brunswick of which Mr. Miller will inform him.


title: Document

namePart: New York (State). University

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Representation by the Regents of the University of the establishment of a College of Physicians and Surgeons under the act of March 24, 1791; of its due organization; forwarding a copy of the annual report, and commending it to the patronage of the Legislature.


title: Letter to Jonathan Burrall, Cashier

namePart: Burrall, Jonathan

namePart: Hoffman, Josiah Ogden

title: Letter to Jonathan Burrall, Cashier

abstracts: Notice of the authorization of Thomas L. Ogden to transact his business during an absence of two or three weeks.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of manumission granted to negro slave named George the property of John De Lancey. Printed form filled in.


title: Letter to General [Alexander] McComb [New York]

namePart: McComb, Alexander

namePart: Colden, Cadwallader David

abstracts: Will with pleasure present McComb's father's petition but does not anticipate favorable result as the policy of refunding forfeitures would open too wide a door to the public treasury.


title: Document

namePart: Forbert, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt to Stephen Allen for $75 for the fee simple in pew No. 120 in the middle aisle [of Rutgers Street Church].


title: Document

namePart: New York (N.Y.). Common Council

title: Document

abstracts: Report opposing the granting of a franchise to a private company to supply New York City with water, since it would confer the right to open the public streets. Official transcript.


title: Document

namePart: Jones, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Bill of costs as a lawyer for drawing deeds etc., amounting to £7 19s.; with receipt for same amount received of Garret Van Gelder.


title: EM. 11387

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: EM. 11387


title: Letter to Benjamin Talmadge, Litchfield, Conn.

originInfo: 1809-07-15Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y.

namePart: Talmadge, Benjamin

namePart: Platt, Jonas

abstracts: Encloses a copy of his account with a cheque on the Bank of Albany for $199.80; discusses the proceedings in legal suits against Webb, Smith, and Dennison, and asks acknowledgments of the letter.


title: EM. 11405

title: EM. 11405


title: Letter to [Thomas A. Greene, New Bedford, Mass.?]

originInfo: 1815-10-10220 William Street, New York, N.Y.

namePart: Greene, Thomas A.

namePart: Eddy, Thomas

abstracts: Begs his acceptance of an account of the Retreat near York [Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, by Samuel Tuke (York, 1813,) 8o] and his own communication to the governors of the New York Hospital on the moral treatment of the insane; the governors have purchased 38 acres of land, seven miles from the city, and will erect suitable buildings for the care of insane patients; his son's [John H. Eddy] map of the state was progressing and would exceed all others in accuracy and neatness; he desired some data as to Rensselaer and Washington counties and asked Greene to call on him at noon.


title: Letter to Colonel [Henry] Jackson

namePart: Jackson, Henry

namePart: North, William

title: Letter to Colonel [Henry] Jackson

abstracts: As he expects to be in Boston soon, Jackson's certificate will be necessary for the settlement of his accounts, has had no recruiting money nor anything except his pay as a captain in Jackson's regiment [Jackson's Additional Continentals late the 16th Massachusetts]; is sorry to hear of Jackson's indisposition and hopes for his recovery.


title: Letter to the Secretary of State [Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Albany]

namePart: Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen

namePart: Clinton, De Witt

abstracts: Asks for a certified copy of the act for extending the charters of the Merchants Bank, for the use of Columbia College.


title: Letter to Joseph E. Sprague, Salem [Mass.]

namePart: Sprague, Joseph E.

namePart: Adams, John Quincy

abstracts: British government have not yet consented to admit consuls in their West Indian colonies; will make an application for an appointment as commercial agent in the Island of Trinidad for Mr. Bartlett, acquaintance with whose parents he valued highly.


title: Letter to the President, Vice President, and Directors of the New York Athenaeum

namePart: Mathews, James McFarlane

abstracts: Invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the foundation of the University of the City of New York to be held October 20th.


title: Letter to Hiram Ketchum [New York?]

namePart: Ketchum, Hiram

namePart: Bowne, William

title: Letter to Hiram Ketchum [New York?]

abstracts: Will attend to Ketchum's request on behalf of William Smart, has no doubt the application will be successful.


title: Letter to J. and S Stafford

namePart: Throop, Enos Thompson

title: Letter to J. and S Stafford

abstracts: Has received a letter from Mr. Richardson as to Bratt & Co's proposals to settle a certain demand of Staffords; discusses terms of proposals.


title: Letter to Robert Emmet [New York]

namePart: Emmet, Robert

namePart: Marcy, William Learned

title: Letter to Robert Emmet [New York]

abstracts: Has received Emmet's application for admission of his nephew to West Point; the system has been changed and the nominations given to members of congress; advises him to apply to a congressman to nominate the youth.


title: EM. 11480

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: EM. 11480


title: Letter to J[ohn] C[anfield] Spencer [Washington]

namePart: Spencer, John Canfield

namePart: Stone, William Leete

abstracts: Letter introducing Lieutenant [Justus] McKinstry [United States Army], recently from Florida, where he served with credit, desires a position on the staff; asks his correspondent's assistance for the son of his old friend.


title: Document

namePart: Noah, Mordecai Manuel

title: Document

abstracts: A Card [to the public] giving notice that he has relinquished his interest in the Courier and Enquirer to James Watson Webb who will conduct same on his own account; had purchased an interest in the paper to support the present administration, and retires because of a different direction given to its columns; separates from Mr. Webb on terms of friendship.


title: Letter to [ -- -- Dewitt?]

namePart: Dewitt,

namePart: Paulding, James Kirke

title: Letter to [ -- -- Dewitt?]

abstracts: Thanks his correspondent for his friendly letter; in answer to enquiry states that he is on his father's [William Paulding's] side pure Dutch, both his grandfather and grandmother were Dutch, spoke Dutch, and read Dutch out of an old family Bible; by his mother, [Catharine Ogden] he is adulterated with some French and English blood, but is so far Dutch himself as to hate all interlopers and revere old customs; his father was a member of the first Council of State after the abolition of British power and afterwards Commissary General, in which office he ruined himself by pledging his own credit with the farmers of Westchester and Dutchess instead of getting rich; John Paulding who captured André was his first cousin, a remarkable man, cut out for a hero; the present Mayor of New York his eldest brother; thus his pedigree; respects the name of DeWitt, but does not mean DeWitt Clinton.


title: Letter to the Post Master, Trenton, N. J.

namePart: Winchester, Jonas

abstracts: Enquires as to whereabouts and financial condition of William Freeman, sales agent of The New World newspaper in Trenton; then owed a considerable sum and Winchester felt it necessary to stop any further supply of papers; for three weeks past bundles [of papers] had been sent by Mr. Townsend, conductor of the 5 o'clock P.M. line and ought to have been in Trenton next morning.


title: Letter to Carey and Hart, Publishers, Philadelphia

namePart: Benjamin, Park

abstracts: Asks for terms for supplying advance proof sheets of [Lever's] Our Mess so as to anticipate its publication by others; argues that its appearance in the New Yorker would not lessen their sales, which by notices he would endeavor to increase; has just got Howitt's Student Life in Germany.


title: EM11518

title: EM11518


title: Letter to Joshua Spencer [Utica, N. Y.]

namePart: Spencer, Joshua

namePart: Clark, Aaron

title: Letter to Joshua Spencer [Utica, N. Y.]

abstracts: As to settlement of his claim against William B. Clark; leaves the claim in Spencer's hands to settle; would rather receive cash than lots, unless Spencer considers it against his interests.


title: EM. 11523

title: EM. 11523


title: Letter to Zebedee Ring [New York?]

namePart: Woodhull, Caleb S.

title: Letter to Zebedee Ring [New York?]

abstracts: Recommending William Fairman as Deputy Inspector of the City Revenue, a Whig and warm friend of the Administration.


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Letters commendatory, intended to operate as a passport, to Myer Phineas who had declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States and was about to pass into foreign parts. Engraved form filled in.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1862Hancock Street, Boston

namePart: Sumner, Charles

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Has an engagement away from home that day; his brother George, an invalid, knows M. Cochin well and will be glad to see Miss [Mary L.] Booth at any time that afternoon; his own knowledge of M. Cochin is by his writings and correspondence; has long hoped that Cochin's book would be translated; it is the book of the hour.


title: Letter to N[athaniel] F. Williams, Baltimore

namePart: Williams, Nathaniel F.

namePart: Draper, Simeon

abstracts: The Life of [Winfield] Scott can be had here in any quantity; Williams' state and county committees ought to take measures to circulate 100,000 copies.


title: Letter to -- --

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Thanks him for his kindness and attention to Mr. Yielding, who is contented in his situation; Dr. McNeven is in Washington; on his return he [Emmet] will try to get the letter from him to Dr. Cumming; trusts to meet his correspondent again, but as there are no more prize causes to draw them both to Washington, a meeting is not likely unless his correspondent will spend the summer at Ballston Springs.


title: Letter to R. D. Hatch [New York]

namePart: Hatch, R. D.

namePart: Tiemann, Daniel F.

title: Letter to R. D. Hatch [New York]

abstracts: Asks Hatch to appoint the bearer, William H. Quin, to a position in his department.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1850-10-0321 Bedford Place Tavistock Square, London

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Franklin, Jane, Lady

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Would rather converse than write on the subject of her correspondent's letter; whether he could leave the vessel immediately would depend on Captain Forsyth's arrangements; does not intend to sell vessel at present; asks him to send his journal by John Smith whom she desires to see before his return to Lerwick; though overwhelmed by bitter disappointment at his premature return, rejoices that his visit to Cape Reilly produced important information [as to Sir John Franklin]; his chart of the ship's position very interesting.


title: Letter to Gov. George Clinton, Poughkeepsie [N. Y.]

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

abstracts: Reporting the expiration of their commission of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, and conviction, with sentence of death on Friday June 5, of David Dick for robbery, James Esmond and Robert Ferguson for murder of Abraham Van Ness; Christopher Galer for same murder, Carll Muller, Daniel Shaver, Francis Deboe, William Rogers, James Hart and Benjamin Rogers all for horse stealing; recommend David Dick, Francis De Boe and Benjamin Rogers for clemency.


title: Document

originInfo: 1790New York

namePart: Smith, Melancton

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Petition for a law for the appointment of an inspector of tobacco. 130 signatures.


title: Document

originInfo: 1797-01New York

namePart: Gracie, Archibald

title: Document

abstracts: Certifying the good character of Mathew Daniel, pilot, and praying that his petition be granted. 51 signatures. Endorsed, "Petition of Mathew Daniel praying that the Pilot Boat Nimble may be exempted from the prohibition contained in an Act passed the 11th of April 1796." "In Assembly Jany 13th 1797.".


title: Document

namePart: Woolsey, William W.

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Three Petitions for a law prohibiting the erection of any wooden building within fire limits to be established by the law. 621 signatures.


title: Document

originInfo: 1798New York

namePart: King, Joseph

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Petition to limit the number of taverns etc., to appoint an inspector and generally to improve the laws against vice and immorality. 92 signatures.


title: Document

namePart: Woolsey,

namePart: Rogers,

title: Document

abstracts: To the Legislature of the State of New York. Two Petitions to amend the laws as to inspection of salted provisions, so as to permit exportation from ports of New York state of all goods inspected in another state and properly branded, and this without a second inspection. 157 signatures.


title: Document

namePart: Morrell, Andrew

title: Document

abstracts: Valuation, on behalf of John Jones and John Winnick, of the house 79 Wall Street, after survey, at $3975; fees, $20 to be divided.


title: Document

originInfo: 1818-05New York

namePart: Astor, John Jacob

title: Document

abstracts: [To the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.] Recommendation of James T. Forbes late Lieut. Colonel United States Army for appointment as appraiser of merchandise. 10 signatures.


title: Document

originInfo: 1830New York

namePart: Franklin, Morris

title: Document

abstracts: To Jacob Acker, Sheriff Elect [New York]. Testimonial from the Bar of the City to the faithful service of James M. Lownds, Undersheriff, and requesting his continuance in office. 53 signatures.


title: Letter to Myron H. Clark, Albany

namePart: Clark, Myron H.

namePart: Morgan, Edwin Dennison

title: Letter to Myron H. Clark, Albany

abstracts: Thanks Clark for his note, to hand that morning; Mr Calvin Voges would do honor to the station, if appointed; trusts Dr. Harris and Dr. Cummings will agree on Cummings' nomination before next meeting of Court of Emigration.


title: Letter to [Nathaniel F.] Moore, Garrison['s] [N. Y.]

namePart: Moore, Nathaniel F.

namePart: Fish, Hamilton

abstracts: Returns Mc -- -- 's [name obliterated] interesting letter and encloses a letter from Governor Young; John Smith, former U. S. Senator from New York was father of Mrs. John L. Lawrence of this city; he was from Suffolk Co. [L. I.]; has delayed answering hoping to meet one of the Lawrences or Charles J. Smith, one of Moore's old pupils, son of the former Senator; failing to see either he sends Young's letter; suggests a note to Mrs. Lawrence or to either of her sons, to obtain a letter of the former Senator.


title: Letter to M. M. Jones

originInfo: 1847-03-20Binghampton, N.Y.

namePart: Jones, M. M.

namePart: Dickinson, Daniel Stevens

title: Letter to M. M. Jones

abstracts: Sends the "faint praise" desired; directs to the Secretary of War as all such applications go to his department first; his domestic affliction and the disorganization of business and mental grief consequent upon it, is his excuse for neglect of friends.


title: Letter to J. I. Ring, New York

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Ring, J.I.

namePart: Bronson, Greene Carrier

title: Letter to J. I. Ring, New York

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Ring's letter as to his motion in the Mason case; gives reasons for deciding against him; will put his notes in the form of an opinion and send same to the reporter.


title: EM11697

title: EM11697


title: Letter to J. Bowman [New York]

namePart: Bowman, J.

namePart: Opdyke, George

title: Letter to J. Bowman [New York]

abstracts: Bowman's letter, enclosing one from Van Buren, has reached him as well as the memorial to the legislature; his mind is open on the question though at first opposed on the grounds urged by Trinity Church, the desecration of the dead and the gross frauds that always attend the carrying out of such plans; will confer with Governor Morgan, Mr. Conkling and Mr. Jeremiah and inform Bowman of their views; is glad to have made his acquaintance on paper and will be pleased to serve him.


title: Letter to B. B. Lansing, Utica. Mr. Wilson

namePart: Lansing, B.B.

namePart: Seymour, Horatio

abstracts: [the bearer,] had that day called to inform Seymour that owing to the failure of Mr. Halsey the draft of the Acton Coal Company would be protested; he [Wilson] was going to Corning and on his return in ten days would make propositions as regards the draft.


title: EM. 11741

title: EM. 11741


title: Letter to Mary L. Booth [New York]

originInfo: 1862-08-01Executive Mansion, Washington

namePart: Booth, Mary L.

namePart: Lincoln, Abraham

title: Letter to Mary L. Booth [New York]

abstracts: Thanks her for a copy of her translation of the Comte de Gasparin's America before Europe, will read same with pleasure and gratitude.


title: Letter to [Mary L. Booth, New York.]

originInfo: 1867-10-02Vallengin, Switzerland

namePart: Gasparin, Agénor Étienne de, Count

title: Letter to [Mary L. Booth, New York.]

abstracts: Acknowledges letter; speaks of a voyage to Spain, and a forthcoming work, La liberté morale; is greatly interested in the progress of reconstruction in the United States, and the negro question; fears lest President Johnson should try to regain popularity by an alliance with Russia or a quarrel with England; question of paper money.


title: Letter to Mary [L.] Booth [New York]

namePart: Laboulaye, Edouard Rene Lefebvre de

title: Letter to Mary [L.] Booth [New York]

abstracts: Begs to introduce M. Despréaux de Saint Sauveur, who comes to settle in New York; if Saint Sauveur asks to be introduced to Messrs. Harper, she may add Laboulaye's endorsement of him; trusts to see her in Paris in 1869.


title: Letter to [Mary L. Booth, New York.]

namePart: Cochin, Pierre Susanne Augustin

title: Letter to [Mary L. Booth, New York.]

abstracts: Fears his change of address has caused some letters to miscarry; asks her to send him a biography of President [Abraham] Lincoln and to send it immediately as he desires to use it [to prepare his lecture] in a series of public meetings arranged by Messieurs [Édouard René Lefebvre de] Laboulaye, Jules [Claude Gabriel] Favre, [Albert due] de Broglie, Saint-Marc Girardin, and Jules [François Suisse] Simon; asks for a biography dealing rather with the domestic life of Lincoln than with his public career with which he was familiar; a postscript enquires if a life of General Grant had been published.


title: Letter to Mary L. Booth [New York]

namePart: Martin, Bon Louis Henri

title: Letter to Mary L. Booth [New York]

abstracts: Introduces [Célestin?] Hippeau, a distinguished literary man, who is charged with a public mission to America; begs Miss Booth to show him the interesting places of New York which no one knows better than she does; has had no news of Mr. Harper's visit to Paris, of which she had told him.


title: Letter to Thomas C. Fields, Central Park Commissioner [New York]

namePart: Fields, Thomas C.

namePart: Gunther, Charles Godfrey

abstracts: Introducing Thomas Godwin, a practical plumber, as likely to be very useful to the Park Commission and endorses his ability.


title: Letter to L[afayette] C[urry] Baker, Detective [Secret Service Bureau, Washington]

originInfo: 1862-01-31Department of State, Washington, D.C.

namePart: Baker, Lafayette Curry

namePart: Seward, William Henry

abstracts: Instructions to arrest William J. Raisin, supposed to be at Unville, Kent county, Maryland, to convey him to Fort McHenry, Baltimore, thoroughly search his person and premises, sending all treasonable correspondence and his report to the Department [of State].


title: Letter to the President of the New York State Marine Insurance Company of New York

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Cutting, Francis Brockholst

abstracts: Has been employed to collect the insurance on the steamboat Marco Bozzaris, on a policy effected by James Bergen by order of R. Sutton; enquires reasons if any for non-payment.


title: Letter to [William Henry Harrison, Wall Street, New York.]

namePart: Harrison, William Henry

namePart: Blatchford, Richard Milford

abstracts: Circular letter as Secretary of the Kent Club urging punctuality at meetings.


title: EM11809

title: EM11809


title: EM. 11818

title: EM. 11818


title: EM. 11829

title: EM. 11829


title: EM. 11854

title: EM. 11854


title: Paper Money

title: Paper Money

abstracts: Indented Bill for Fifty shillings [payable on demand] bearing interest at half a farthing per diem. Printed form filled in. Signed by R. Lurting, R Walter, Joh: Jansen and Jo D Peyster. Lithograph fac-simile.


title: Letter to the Honble the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York

originInfo: 1784-12Mount Vernon, Va.

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

abstracts: Acknowledges their address and the freedom of the City in a golden box, with the sensibility and gratitude which such distinguished honors have claim to; that his conduct should have been approved by the State of New York, where difficulties were numerous and complicated, may be ascribed to divine wisdom on the minds of the people; and to the liberal sentiments of her citizens rather than any virtues of his; the reflection of these things as pleasing as the embarrassments of those days were distressing; prays Heaven's choicest blessings on their city.


title: EM. 11858

title: EM. 11858


title: Letter to ??

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to ??

abstracts: Thanks his correspondent for his letter of May 7 and is glad the books arrived safely and proved acceptable to the little Acorns; draws his correspondent's attention to America and her Commentators by himself; his object in writing was to correct false impressions and misrepresentations.


title: Letter to Henry S. Downs [New York]

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Henry S. Downs [New York]

abstracts: Acknowledges Downs' letter, requesting on behalf of the N. Y. County Medical Society a copy of Bedford's eulogium on the late Dr. [John Wakefield] Francis and agreeing to send same.


title: EM. 12188

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12188


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of the unfitness of Mr. [name obliterated] for jury duty.


title: EM. 12255

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12255


title: EM. 12257

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12257


title: EM. 12258

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12258


title: EM. 12262

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12262


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of Membership in favor of William J. Van Wagenen. Lithographed form printed in colors with seal of society affixed.


title: EM. 12280

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12280


title: EM. 12295

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12295


title: Letter to ??

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to ??

abstracts: Acknowledges note informing him that he is chosen a delegate for the Baltimore Medical Convention, but as he is also one of the delegates of the Academy [of Medicine], he must decline to act for the Medical Society.


title: Letter to Dr. Dering

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Dr. Dering

abstracts: Introducing Dr. Wyeth of Boston, who has come to New York with the intention of settling in professional practice.


title: EM. 12335

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12335


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Declaration of Fran?ois Andr? Michaux, physician, as to the qualifications of Alire Delile for the practice of medecine.


title: Letter to C?sar A. Rodney, George B. Milligan, and Victor Du Pont, Commissioners, Wilmington, Del

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Acknowledges letter with certificate of funded debt and power of attorney to transfer the same to the Bank of the United States; a power of substitution will be necessary.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate of enrollment of Peter A. Millspaugh as a student of anatomy, etc., in the years 1802 to 1805.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Extract from the minutes certifying that John K. Hardenbrook terminated his studies in July, 1824, and received a diploma.


title: EM. 12444

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12444


title: Letter to Prosper M[ontgomery] Wetmore

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Prosper M[ontgomery] Wetmore

abstracts: Invites him to visit the institutions of the Commissioners of Emigration in company with the Consul General of the North German Confederation, Dr. Roesing; desires him to compliment the latter in a short speech.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate showing that Madison Laurence that day entered his office as a student of medicine.


title: Letter to Dr. [Nicholas] Romaine

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Dr. [Nicholas] Romaine

abstracts: Acknowledges appointment as secretary of the New York Medical Society; will be unable to discharge the duties of the office without great inconvenience, and therefore resigns it.


title: EM. 12523

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12523


title: EM. 12524

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12524


title: Letter to Dr. [John R. B.?] Rodgers

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Dr. [John R. B.?] Rodgers

abstracts: He will set out next day for Albany to attend the State Society; will send for any orders that Dr. Rodgers may wish to give as Vice President and presiding officer of the Medical Society.


title: Letter to Isaiah Thomas, Postmaster, Worcester

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Mass. Finds he will want the Acts of the State of Massachusetts since the union of all the American states; asks for same, with price and without delay; enquires as to Thomas' Quarto Bible and its selling price.


title: Letter

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate to Clarkson Crolius as the holder of fifteen shares of ten dollars each in the loan to the Tammany Society or Columbian Order. Lithograph facsimile of engraved form filled in.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Grant of letters of administration to Alice Jones, relict of Robert Skelton.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that Mark Prevost [James Mark Prevost?] served as major during the war in America and was then on half pay.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Fragment of a grant or patent of 80,000 acres of land to Dirck Van Vrancken and Richard Van Vrancken.


title: Letter to Swords and Stamford

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Swords and Stamford

abstracts: Asks them to forward a copy of the 2nd edition of The Primitive Church, (1835), to Doctor [John Churchill] Rudd, Editor of the Gospel Messenger; has in the press the proceedings in the case of the Rev. W. S. Perkins; his contemplated book on the Church of Rome is again making progress; Protestant Jesuitism is making so much work for the critics that his temperance society has been forgotten; would like to know the author.


title: Letter to Doctor P. Worth [New York]

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Doctor P. Worth [New York]

abstracts: Takes pleasure in complying with the request for his autograph: discusses his action in the Mount Calvary case [refusing to punish a clergyman for using prayers for the dead] and justifies his action.


title: Letter to the Rev. E. Allen

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to the Rev. E. Allen

abstracts: Thanks Allen for his prompt reply and full and accurate information; has now hopes, with the exception of some dates, in the case of the earlier bishops, of making his catalogue [in Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England between 1740 and 1840, Boston, 1847] complete; may have to ask for further information as to ordinations by Bishop Madison, beyond the data from early Virginia journals as given by Dr. Hawks.


title: EM. 12775

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12775


title: EM. 12800

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12800


title: EM. 12813

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12813


title: Letter to G[eorge] P. Morris

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to G[eorge] P. Morris

abstracts: He has set one of Morris's poems to music twice over, without knowing of the repetition; he greatly prefers the later version to the one already sent, which he finds published in the Mirror of this week; the name of the song is Love thee dearest.


title: Letter to [Dr. Samuel Jackson? Pennsylvania?]

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Was able to write the preceding Sunday because of the [ill] of his daughter; expresses a dislike for such places as Sunbury and Northumberland as not suited to a man who wishes to make his way by teaching Latin and Italian; during the past week he sent fifteen grammars and other Italian books to the college at Middlebury, where the language is much cultivated; speaks of his hope for increased interest in the Italian language, of his pupils, and family; his son intends to practice law in Philadelphia.


title: EM. 12847

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12847


title: EM. 12878

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12878


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Petition to the Legislature for an act of incorporation.


title: Letter to Dr. [John B.] Stevenson, New York

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Paris is more turbulent than it was under Napoleon; the people appear dissatisfied and morose rather than gay; Americans used to be sovereign, but they are now eclipsed by the crowds of English and others; he does not find the same kind of men that they used to know here, the Maclures, Mercers, Carters, Cabells; laments American indifference to art; has set up the canvas for his large national picture, and works also on two views of Niagara; needs a pupil; has written asking [James H.?] Shegogue to join him.


title: EM. 12900

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12900


title: EM. 12907

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12907


title: Letter to G[eorge William] Warren [Albany]

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Thanks him for having given a letter of introduction to Mr. Gottschalk, whose acquaintance he will be glad to make; inquires about Warren's musical work; Ernani has been given at the Academy; a large German opera house is to built on the corner of Prince and Crosby streets; Carl Bergmann is to be conductor; does not see how two opera houses can succeed when one is by no means a paying concern.


title: EM. 12925

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12925


title: Letter to Appleton & Co. [New York]

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Appleton & Co. [New York]

abstracts: Concerning the publication of an illustrated work, then just completed, printed by Chambers.


title: Letter to John Anderson, Wall St.

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to John Anderson, Wall St.

abstracts: Was setting off to visit his brother when some of the committee arrived; they examined the state of the hospital and proposed sending another physician to divide the duty with him.


title: Letter to Dr. [Thomas Addis] Emmet, New York

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: His reminiscences of Dr. Francis are but few, though their acquaintance began when Francis first became assistant to Dr. Hosack; Francis did not belong to the Salmagundi Club at Dyde's, but after that was broken up they used to meet at Washington Hall, then patronized by Cooper, Brevoort, Halleck, Verplanck, and others; he himself went abroad in 1809, and after that was very little in New York; he settled in the Highlands in 1817; Dr. Francis wrote well and talked well, and though sometimes impulsive and erratic, was considered a man of talents; alludes to his own friendship for Dr. Emmet's grandfather.


title: Letter to S[tephen] Van Rensselaer, Albany

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Has procured for him a collection of European minerals, two hundred specimens, which he will forward as soon as repacked.


title: Letter to ??

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to ??

abstracts: His correspondent's son is already a second lieutenant, by a general regulation; he does not incline to grant furloughs to officers of the western army, preferring to leave them to the discretion of the officer commanding that army.


title: Letter to H[enry] U[stick] Onderdonk

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to H[enry] U[stick] Onderdonk

abstracts: Thanks the members of the [New York Medical] Society for having so often elected him President; in future he declines being a candidate for any of its offices.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that James S. McKnight studied physic and surgery under his direction for four years.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that William J. Olliff that day began the study of medecine under his direction.


title: EM. 12969

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12969


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that Abraham B. Hart began the study of physic and surgery under his direction.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that Samuel G. Mott attended the study of physic and surgery under their direction for three years and five months.


title: EM. 12976

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12976


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Statement of the Secretary that he affixed the seal of the Society to the commission of the delegate to the State Society, also to the memorial addressed to the Legislature, and to that addressed to the Regents, and delivered them to the delegate.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: The Censors of the Society, after examination of Hugh Sweeny, report him to the President as qualified for the practice of physic and surgery.


title: EM. 12982

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 12982


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that John L. Clements entered with the subscriber as a student in medecine and surgery.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that Crowell Mundy studied medecine under direction of Dr. Mathias Freeman of Woodbridge, N. J., and him self, for a period exceeding three years.


title: Letter to Dr. [Gurdon] Buck

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Dr. [Gurdon] Buck

abstracts: He states at the request of Dr. Leger that the latter brought him a letter of introduction showing that he had been a physician in Paris and medical officer of a hospital there, the Enfants Trouv?s; he is also the author of several works, one of them being Les jeunes m?res.


title: EM. 13020

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 13020


title: Letter to Dr. [Thomas Addis] Emmet, Madison Avenue

text: EM 120668-13172

abstracts: Sends a copy of a poem in question, written by Isaac Starr Clason, a brilliant but dissipated man, who after running through a fortune and appearing unsuccessfully on the stage, killed himself in London; he published in New York in 1825 a continuation of Don Juan, and in 1826 a series of poetical sketches, Horace in New York; the poem on Emmet appeared in the latter.


title: Letter to Gen. [William Henry] Harrison

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter to Gen. [William Henry] Harrison

abstracts: Recommends to Harrison's notice a nephew, Philip French Livingston, midshipman, who hopes to meet the General in the course of his duty on the Lakes; the young man is full of zeal.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Circular letter of the Faculty of Physic, setting forth the terms and conditions of medical study in the College. Printed form.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that Mr. Anderson entered his office for the purpose of continuing the study of medecine.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: The Society having authorized the payment of $60 to its delegate as compensation for his services at the State Medical Society meeting at Albany, the President directs the same to be paid.


title: Letter

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Letter

abstracts: John Watts, Vice President of the New York County Medical Society. Sends the papers that had come into his hands during the time that he was president of the Medical Society.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that John S. Congar studied medecine with his brother, Dr. Edward Miller, from July 1810 until the latter's decease in March, 1812.


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Having examined a considerable portion of the sheets of the New England and New York Law Register, it appears to him an accurate work, useful to the profession and worthy of public patronage.


title: EM. 13147

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 13147


title: EM. 13149

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 13149


title: EM. 13167

text: EM 120668-13172

title: EM. 13167


title: Document

text: EM 120668-13172

title: Document

abstracts: Certificate that John Alexander Anderson began the study of medecine with him Aug. 22, 1823.


title: Document

namePart: Alsop, John

title: Document

abstracts: Petition to the Legislature of the State of New York in behalf of himself and Christopher Smith for payment of £906. 5s. 6d. proceeds of sale of sequestered tea consigned to Henry I. Sleght.


title: Letter to Governor George Clinton, New York, --favored by Mr. [John] Leake--

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Yates, Robert

abstracts: Asking the Governor to authenticate under the Great Seal the proofs Yates has taken as to the value [£10,955] of the confiscated estate of [Major] Robert Leake.


title: EM. 13292

namePart: Hutchings, John

title: EM. 13292


title: Document

originInfo: 1784-02-21Warminster, Pa.

namePart: Fitch, John

title: Document

abstracts: To -- -- . As to procuring money for his correspondent; will forward public securities in a few days.


title: Letter to Thomas Law [Washington, D. C]

namePart: Law, Thomas

namePart: Fulton, Robert

title: Letter to Thomas Law [Washington, D. C]

abstracts: Has received his letter; agrees to make the Ganges enterprise a joint one; asks for particulars; a grand idea that Americans should establish steamboats in I[n]dia; his Paragon beats everything on this globe, she came from Albany that day 160 miles in 26 hours wind ahead; sends regards to Mifflin, Miss Boardly and her mother.


title: Letter to Richard Varick [New York]

namePart: Varick, Richard

namePart: Fairlie, James

title: Letter to Richard Varick [New York]

abstracts: Fragment expressing a wish that Varick had attended the Circuit.


title: Letter

namePart: White, Anthony Walton

title: Letter

abstracts: Forwarding three letters of introduction in case his correspondent determines to settle in this country; concludes with good wishes.


title: EM. 13309

title: EM. 13309


title: Document

originInfo: 1675-09-21Washington parish, Westmoreland County, Va.

namePart: Washington, John

title: Document


title: Document

originInfo: 1664-04-26Westmoreland County, Va.

namePart: Freak, Ann

title: Document

abstracts: Power of attorney, as the wife of William Freak, given to John Faber to acknowledge her free consent to her husband's selling 600 acres of land to Major John Washington [in order to bar her dower rights and to clear the title].


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Philipps, R.

title: Document

abstracts: To L[ieutenan]t [John?] Washington. Order in favor of the Sergeant Major for ten wooden shovels for the use of the garrison; he to be accountable for their return.


title: Letter to Joseph Ball at Stratford by Bow [Stratford le Bow, Essex] nigh London

originInfo: 1760-07-02Bridges Creek, Va.

namePart: Ball, Joseph

namePart: Washington, Mrs. Augustine

abstracts: This comes by Capt. Nickelson; not to be blamed for not writing since, as she doesn't ship tobacco, the captains do not call, and she knows not when they come or go; Ball has a good overseer; [Peter] Danial and his wife [Sarah Travers widow of Captain Christopher Pierson] and family [Hannah Ball, Travers, and Elizabeth Travers] are well; Hannah [Fox] has been married [to Capt Rodham Kenner] and has lost her husband; she had one child, a boy [Francis]; sends her love to sister [Frances Ravenscroft] Ball and to [Rawleigh] Downman and his lady [Margaret Ball Downman].


title: Letter to [George Washington, Mount Vernon, Va.]

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

namePart: Fairfax, George William

abstracts: Has received Washington's letter concerning deeds and bonds; is thoroughly satisfied with his survey, and rather than his schemes should be frustrated will be content with land south of road; refers to Herryford and Masons' tract; Mrs. Fairfax not able to stir out, asks Washington and his wife to visit them before he leaves home.


title: EM. 13404

title: EM. 13404


title: Document

title: Document

abstracts: Survey of a tract of land known as Nathl. Daugherty's belonging to John Lindsey and adjoining the land of Colonel G[eorge William] Fairfax.


title: Letter to Major Lawrence Washington, Williamsburgh

namePart: Washington, Lawrence

abstracts: Hopes his cough is mended and that he has given over the thoughts of leaving Virginia; will get the deeds acknowledged without him; his horse in poor order from want of corn; if the [Virginia] Assembly will not rise before May will try to be down by that; his mother's term of years is out at Bridge Creek, she designs to settle a quarter [section] at Deep Run but waits until her right is made good; as to Mr. Spotswood's abandoning the ferry at his wharf and Major Taliaferro's petition to the Assembly to operate the same; urges reasons against same, terming petition unjust and iniquitous.


title: Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1758-06-30Fort Johnson, Johnstown, N.Y.

namePart: Denny, William, b. 1718

namePart: Croghan, George

title: Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Reports news from the Five Nations that 20 Onondaga Indians had been killed or captured by Englishmen to the southward; thinks the story a French invention but if true desires Denny's influence to save prisoners from death, and asks him to advise Sir William Johnson, who marched the day before to join Gen. [James] Abercromby; Croghan followed [on July 1st] with the other divisions and the Indians; expects a total of 400 [Indians], some of all the Five Nations.


title: Document

originInfo: 1751-07-12Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Va.

title: Document


title: Document

originInfo: 1763-07-04Stafford Court House, Va.

namePart: Ohio Company

title: Document

abstracts: Resolution approving report of committee proposed by Colonel George Mercer to solicit their grant in England and that the Treasurer credit Messrs. Hanbury's account with Samuel Smith's share.


title: Document

originInfo: 1789-09-22Fairfax County, Va.

namePart: Craik, James

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt to George Washington for £30 for the use of his son, George Washington Craik.


title: Letter to Governor [Horatio] Sharpe [Baltimore, Md.]

originInfo: 1755-06-02Williamsburgh, Va.

namePart: Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790

namePart: Dinwiddie, Robert

abstracts: Trusts this will find him well, the General [Edward Braddock] had written him about 14 days ago [from Fort Cumberland May 22, 1755] that when he marched over the Allegany it would be necessary to have some forces in Cumberland Fort and proposed then the militia of the neighboring counties; can raise 60 men if Sharpe can raise 40; the General wanted the militia ready in the month of July in case he needed them; he wrote for 400 which he sent and this, with 500 sent to New Jersey and 800 to N[ew] York, leaves their magazine very bare of arms; Assembly still sitting, he has desired further supply but backwardness of Maryland and Pennsylvania a great bar; they have agreed to raise £6000, he hopes they will make it 10,000; enquires how subscription goes with Sharpe, asks when he parted with the General [Braddock], who sent Colonel [George] Washington for money who carried up £4000 sterling; will want 10,000 [pounds] more in two months; Colonel Hunter gone northward to try to procure same; the expedition though necessary will be very expensive; the season too far advanced, Dinwiddie uneasy at the delay, regular forces have more ceremony in their march than others and the artillery train caused delay; asks Sharpe's views as to raising money and on the whole campaign.


title: Letter to Governor [Horatio] Sharpe [Annapolis, Md.]

originInfo: 1755-09-20Williamsburgh, Va.

abstracts: Sharpe's letter of 15th July was picked up in the street and opened; the officers in Nova Scotia will offer their services to General [William] Shirley or to their commands there; has received his letter of 2nd by express, blames Colonel Dunbar for retreating over the mountains without building a fort so as to check the French advance; Dunbar's conduct without precedent; has reported it to the [English] ministry; as to building a fort on the other side of the Allegany Mountains; has granted commissions for 16 companies, to consist of 1000 men, the command to be given to Colonel [George] Washington to protect the frontiers, learn the exercises in winter and be ready to join any forces from home in the spring; Dunbar carried coehorns not mortars; according to Lieut. John St. Clair enemy's destruction of the great guns was doubtful; thinks if Gen. Shirley succeeds [at Niagara] the forts on the Ohio would soon be theirs but fears the enemy has had time to reinforce against Shirley; Montgomery at Hampton with stores and clothing, hears that the whole English navy is in commission and that war would be declared [against France] on return of the King from his German Dominion; is ashamed to send the enclosed militia law, all he could obtain.


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

namePart: Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784

namePart: Dagworthy, John

abstracts: Transmits the return of the three batallions in the Sussex brigade [Delaware militia]; Colonel [David] Hall had not returned the number of men in each company; has requested same and will forward it.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1757-07-12Fort Loudoun

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Has received his correspondent's letter of the 10th covering the drummer's deposition as to enemy's designs; has sent a copy to Governor [Robert] Dinwiddie, but not to Colonel [John] Stanwix as his correspondent's expresses would reach him; if sending expresses only to send to Pearsall's whence Captain McKenzie would forward it, the bearer unfit for the service being a drunken dilatory fellow.


title: Letter to Governor [William] Denny [Philadelphia]

namePart: Stanwix, John

abstracts: Transmits and approves Lieut. Col. Armstrong's suggestions as to the companies to be detailed to build a fort at Wiomink, suggesting companies near there instead of marching men 150 miles, especially as he has news from Sir William Johnson of a contemplated French and Indian attack on Fort Cumberland and he does not desire to weaken the force; suggests Captain [Hugh?] Mercer's company or Captain Callender's; as to many military details.


title: Letter to [Colonel Henry Bouquet, Ray's Town.]

originInfo: 1758-08-07Fort Cumberland

namePart: Bouquet, Henry

abstracts: Captain Waggoner with 50 men and 19 wagons waits upon Bouquet for provisions; from a letter received from Walker the convoy may be expected at Pearsall's on the 15th, the escort of 75 men should be reinforced; enquires what is to be done with wagons on arrival; has received Bouquet's express, was not surprised to hear the enemy were about; sends out a party to waylay the road; encloses a return of shot, etc., brought to Fort Cumberland since his arrival.


title: Letter to William Byrd [Westover, Va.]

originInfo: 1758-03-08Williamsburgh, Va.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Byrd, William

namePart: Blair, John

title: Letter to William Byrd [Westover, Va.]

abstracts: Has received Byrd's letter of Feb. 14; if Virginia could raise fresh troops for the spring Byrd's offer to command them would surely be accepted; all they can do is to send to Lord [Loudoun] the Virginia regiment then under Col. [George] Washington, and employ the militia in garrisoning the forts and ranging in small parties; Washington was ill and might not be able to take the field; if so the command would be tendered to Byrd if Lord Loudoun was agreeable; has asked Governor [Arthur] Dobbs [of North Carolina] to advise them of the approach of the Indians Byrd brings for Lord Loudoun, so as to accommodate them properly.


title: Letter to Colonel Daniel Parke Custis at Batchellors Hall [Va.]

namePart: Custis, Daniel Parke

abstracts: His kind present of sorers [i. e. reed-birds] came in good time when Byrd had a deal of company, including Colonel [Benjamin] Harrison and his fair family; the reason, a marriage, [Maria Byrd to Landon Carter] which he hopes was made in Heaven, solemnized yesterday; nothing more sudden, none thought of it at 10 in the morning and by 3 the gordian knot was tied, invites him to come before Sunday and see the happy persons.


title: Document

namePart: Custis, John Parke

title: Document

abstracts: Page of the debit side of [George Washington's] account with the estate showing payments made.


title: Letter to George Washington [Mount Vernon, Va.]

originInfo: 1772-08-31Colchester, Va.

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

namePart: Wagener, Peter

abstracts: Enclosing a copy of the estate account of Lawrence Washington deceased, settled by Colonel [John] Carlyle one of the executors; cannot find that Augustine Washington settled any amount with the court concerning the estate; has been too busy to send copy of decree against Barry and son, will send same on Thursday.


title: Document

originInfo: 1760-06-17Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Va.

namePart: Posey, John

namePart: Posey, Martha

title: Document

abstracts: Release on consideration of £217 10s. (and supplemental to a lease of the day previous, to raise a use under the statute) conveying a tract of land in Truro parish of 145 acres to Daniel French.


title: EM. 13520

title: EM. 13520


title: Letter to John Sturt [London]

originInfo: 1796-03-28The Vicarage, Epsom, England

namePart: Sturt, John

namePart: Boucher, Jonathan

title: Letter to John Sturt [London]

abstracts: Returns Heath's Chronicle [London, 1689,] being terrified at the price; wishes to have a [copy of James] Granger's [Biographical History of England, 2 vols., London, 1769,] but fears his poor £10 will go but a little ways as these heads [the illustrations in Granger] are to cost so much; returns old pamphlets, asks for his account and wants Danish and Swedish grammar or Polish or Russian dictionaries.


title: EM. 13524

title: EM. 13524


title: EM13525

title: EM13525


title: Document

namePart: Howe, William

title: Document

abstracts: Protection to John Imlay of Burlington County, New Jersey. Printed form filled in.


title: Document

namePart: Gridley, Richard

title: Document

abstracts: To James Fitler, Pay Office, Horse Guards, Westminster. Third of a series of three bills of exchange for £21 14s. 11d. in favor of Jonathan and John Amory for arrearages [of half pay f or life as a colonel of infantry] to July 24, 1769.


title: EM. 13598

title: EM. 13598


title: Letter to Joseph Reed, President of the State of Pennsylvania

originInfo: 1780-06-12Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Peale, Charles Willson

abstracts: Presents his portrait of Thomas Warton to the State of Pennsylvania and requests that it may be hung in the Council Chamber.


title: Letter to Captain Hector McNeil at Point au Tremble

namePart: McNeil, Hector

namePart: Wooster, David, 1711-1777

abstracts: Thanks him for letter just received; Palmer has behaved like a villain; has written to General [Benedict] Arnold and ordered Palmer under arrest, also wrote fully about the Acadian; as to obtaining pots for the Mary which is to take the swivels from the gondola when she arrives at Sillery; cannot spare Captain Church from the Mary; Captain Goforth has been captain of marines on a privateer, but is no sailor; will try to find some one to take vessels from Sorel; expresses hopes of success.


title: Letter to [Brigadier] General [Lachlan] MacIntosh

namePart: MacIntosh, Lachlan

namePart: Palfrey, William

abstracts: [Robert] Duncan [regimental paymaster 4th North Carolina] informs him he intends to quit the service; had informed him he must obtain leave from the General [Washington] and settle accounts with the auditors who would soon be in camp; asks MacIntosh to do what is necessary in the affair.


title: Letter to Major General Horatio Gates

originInfo: 1777-11-24Hartford, Conn.

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Seymour, Thomas Young

title: Letter to Major General Horatio Gates

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Gates's letter of 18th directing the company of dragoons [of Sheldon's or the 2nd continental dragoons] to repair to Kinderhook; remainder of the troop at Wethersfield recruiting their horses; gives reasons why he is unable to march; is ill himself, but if orders are peremptory the troop shall march and he will follow as soon as well enough to ride.


title: Letter to Major General [Benjamin] Lincoln, Head Quarters, Stillwater [N. Y.]

namePart: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

namePart: Fellows, John

abstracts: Acknowledging receipt of order of Sept. 29 to detach 400 men on a private expedition; was out reconnoitering with Colonel [Seth] Warner when order arrived but Colonel Roberson prepared the men; Col. Mosley's and Col. Gail's regiments had halted there on account of the small number of men on the ground as appears by enclosed return; a scout reports the enemy getting timber, some large sticks, to the river.


title: Letter to -- --

originInfo: 1779-04-07Manor Livingston, N.Y.

namePart: Livingston, Peter R.

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: According to orders he directed one half of his regiment to attend on parade to march for Albany; is sorry to report that only 15 men appeared and but 2 of these were prepared to march; most of the officers were ready; had ordered them to appear on Saturday and to get their men; of four companies not a man appeared, has ordered Captains to fine men, but knows not what to do with them; is tormented to death with so obstinate and disobedient a crew; encloses a list of fines received.


title: Letter to [Thomas Jefferson, Gov. of Virginia?]

originInfo: 1780-10-03Alexandria, Va.

namePart: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

namePart: Fitzgerald, John

abstracts: Received his Excellency's letter and had delivered to Mr. Adam the letters therein enclosed; had that morning laid off the goods, which he specifies, for the troops; goods will be sent to Mr. Rogers that afternoon.


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates, Traveller's Rest [Berkely Co., Va.]

namePart: Hazard, Ebenezer

abstracts: Has been delayed in replying to Gates' letter of Jan. 14; has forwarded letter for Mrs. Thompson to the postmaster at Albany with instructions to send same forward; Dr. [John] Rodgers and lady speak highly of Mrs. Thompson; no need to apologise for asking favors; has received a letter from Dr. [William] Gordon who was up to the eyes in business delivering his history [History of the Rise. Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America (N. Y., 1789); his style heavy and unanimated; sends abstract of index as to the part relating to Gates; discusses Thompson's affairs; no Congress in session as yet this federal year, quorum expected that day; new Constitution takes place on Wednesday; a very elegant building just erected for Congress, for which the inhabitants [of New York] were taxed £13,000, a second tax expected; seems clear that General Washington will be President and John Adams Vice President of the Union; sends respects to Mrs. Gates.


title: Document

namePart: Meade, Richard Kidder

title: Document

abstracts: Pass to the bearer Mrs. Abigail Graham, with his Excellency's [George Washington's] permission to pass all guards etc. of American army, going into New York.


title: Letter to Major Jellis Fonda at Cachnewagie

namePart: Fonda, Jellis

namePart: Stringer, Samuel

abstracts: Has received Fonda's second letter, and Will credit him for the ginseng; has not heard from [New] York, but hopes goods will be delivered from what Colonel [John] Bradstreet told him of interview with [Isaac?] Low; must have £85 for Jim [a negro] Mr. Schermerhorn says he has a master for him; must buy a boy for himself and will want the money in three months.


title: Letter to Gen. [Henry] Knox Pluckemin, N. J.?]

originInfo: 1779-05-12Middlebrook, N.J.

namePart: Knox, Henry

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

abstracts: Encloses letters respecting the rank of officers in [Col. Thomas] Procter's Regiment [4th continental artillery] and Col. [Benjamin] Flower's pretensions; requests Knox to consider them attentively; the amusements of Philadelphia have such preferable charms to the dangers and hardships of the field that he will not be surprised at finding a thousand difficulties enumerated by the above corps to prevent their marching, therefore wants all obstacles removed; the letter to the Council of Massachusetts Bay is under a flying seal for Knox's perusal; requests utmost dispatch in bringing the cannon therein mentioned to the Posts in the Highlands.


title: Letter to General George Washington [Newburgh, N. Y.]

originInfo: 1783-06-21Sorel, Canada

namePart: Riedesel, Friedrich Adolf, Freiherr von, 1738-1800

abstracts: Introduces Lieut. D'anier [Heinrich Daniel d'Anniers]. desirous of a passport to New York; the pacific situation of public affairs emboldens him to make this request; desires before his departure to congratulate his Excellency on the blessed return of peace, wishes every union and prosperity to the two countries, and every personal happiness and domestic enjoyment that it can produce to Washington.


title: Letter to Charles De Witt, Green Kiln

originInfo: 1781-10-18Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: DeWitt, Charles

namePart: Duer, William

title: Letter to Charles De Witt, Green Kiln

abstracts: Ordering flour for the use of the army at West Point and discussing terms of purchase of same, being authorized by [Robert] Morris to make this contract; encloses 300 Spanish milled dollars and $500 in Mr. Morris' bank bills: congratulates De Witt on Greene's victory and hopes shortly to announce Lord Cornwallis' capture.


title: Document

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Fairfax, Bryan, 8th Baron Fairfax

title: Document

abstracts: Memorandum that he agrees to sell and convey to his son Ferdinando Fairfax, his third part of lots 51 to 55, Town of Bath, for the sum of £100, to be paid within two years from date.


title: Letter to Colonel [Theodorick] Bland, 1st regiment light dragoons; Petersburg

originInfo: 1778-06-02Fredericksburg, Va.

namePart: Bland, Theodorick

namePart: Baylor, George

abstracts: Acknowledges receipt of Bland's letter; regrets Bland's lack of success in purchasing horses; good news from Europe [of French aid] had been misunderstood; as to dealings with [Major Henry?] Fauntleroy for saddles and bridles; is without money for clothing his men and has informed Colonel [Benjamin] Temple; has recently received [$65,000] from Congress; cannot meet Bland in Williamsburg; no news from the north.


title: Letter to Col. [John] Neilson, Elizabethtown [N. J.]

originInfo: 1779-06-13Smith's Clove, Orange County, N.Y.

namePart: Neilson, John

abstracts: Thanks Neilson for his letter of the 11th and therein-enclosed newspapers; is sorry he has not been able to make any diversion in that quarter to alarm the enemy; suggests that the boats from Philadelphia may serve so to do; the boats would be useful also should the situation permit of any thing serious on [Staten] Island. A postscript requests Neilson to forward a letter from Mrs. Delancy and to take charge of an expected trunk.


title: Letter to Col. [Goose] Van Schaick

namePart: Van Schaick, Goose

title: Letter to Col. [Goose] Van Schaick

abstracts: Requesting a return of the noncommissioned officers and privates in his regiment [1st New York line] showing those enlisted for the war, and the service of the residue; urges expedition in preparing same.


title: Paper Money

namePart: United States

title: Paper Money

abstracts: Fifty dollars. No. 269011. Signed, R cather, D Wister. [Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1778.].


title: Letter to [George] Washington [Mount Vernon, Va.]

namePart: Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

abstracts: Has received Washington's letter of the 16th [sic] ultimo; it was probable that [Tobias] Lear would be with him by the first of June; expects him from Portsmouth, N. H., in about 6 days; will then soon start for Virginia; hopes and trusts Washington will find him a gentleman of amiable character.


title: Document

originInfo: 1779-05-04South Carolina

namePart: Huger, Isaac

title: Document

abstracts: To John Boyde at Adam's Ferry. Requisition for 20 barrels of flour by General [Benjamin] Lincoln's order for the latter's troops.


title: Letter to Col. Oliver Towles, Spotsylvania

originInfo: 1790-04-22Spotsylvania, Va

namePart: Towles, Oliver

namePart: Barbour, Thomas

abstracts: Ben Winslow had called to make a compromise as regards Towles and Mary Winslow's business; discusses terms of settlement using military verbiage; asks Towles to destroy the letter when read.


title: Letter to Miss M. W. [Patty] Randolph [Roanoke? Va.]

originInfo: 1801-02-12Mount Vernon, Va.

namePart: Washington, Mrs. George

abstracts: Sends letter to her correspondent's brother Julian by David Randolph; in it she sends $300, $100 to her sister Polly, $100 to Fanny and $100 for herself; thanks her for affectionate letter; had been, and was still much indisposed; Washington [Custis] was better; concludes with affectionate wishes to her mother, sister and brother.


title: Letter to Timothy Edwards

namePart: Edwards, Timothy

title: Letter to Timothy Edwards

abstracts: Understands that the thousand barrels of salted provisions which Edwards is under contract to furnish are not for immediate issue; enquires as to his ability to furnish provisions for present use, and will then be able to answer Edwards' enquiry.


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates [Traveller's Rest, Berkeley Co., Va.]

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Smith, William Stephens

abstracts: Had sent the first number of The Political State of Europe by the Bristol, Captain Depeyster, and encloses the second; discusses condition of affairs in France at length; quotes poetry as to his preference for private life and wishes Gates much happiness, and that his enemies may know it.


title: Letter to Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1785-09-25Mount Vernon, Va.

namePart: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

abstracts: Congratulating Franklin on his safe return from his embassy to France.


title: EM. 14209

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

title: EM. 14209


title: Letter to [the ladies of Trenton.]

title: Letter to [the ladies of Trenton.]

abstracts: Acknowledges the reception accorded him by the ladies of Trenton at the triumphal arch.


title: Letter to Elisha Boudinot, Newark [N. J.]

namePart: Boudinot, Elisha

namePart: Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

abstracts: The President [Washington] was to meet them at Eliz[abeth] Town on Thursday at 12 o'clock; hopes he will take a late breakfast with Boudinot and the committee; is to lodge at [New] Brunswick Wednesday night; did not say which way he would go, by Paulus Hook or otherwise.


title: EM. 14221

title: EM. 14221


title: Letter to the Governor of Rhode Island [John Collins, Providence]

namePart: Collins, John

abstracts: Transmitting a copy of an act of congress.


title: EM. 14241

title: EM. 14241


title: Document

namePart: Osborn, William

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt to [Tobias] Lear for £14 in full for wages up to Apr. 1, 1790, as Val[et] de Chambre to the President of the United States.


title: Document

namePart: Osgood, Samuel

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt to Tobias Lear for £9 10s. for rent of 78 Queen Street, occupied until May 1 then last, by the President's household.


title: Letter to James M. Lingan

originInfo: 1793-06-25Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Lingan, James M.

namePart: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

title: Letter to James M. Lingan

abstracts: Collector of the port of George Town, Md. Asks for account of duties on imposts and tonnage for first quarter of 1793 and urges punctual rendition of such accounts. Printed form filled in.


title: Document

originInfo: 1779-05-22Middlebrook, N.J.

title: Document

abstracts: Order on William Palfrey, Paymaster-General for $23 84/90 in favor of Lieut. Alexander Neilson, Colonel Harrison's regiment [of] artillery, for deficiencies on rations and expended on command. Printed form filled in.


title: Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill

namePart: Armstrong, John

title: Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill

abstracts: New York. Has withdrawn from the festivity of the parlor to present to Gates the sincerest wishes that a friendship of twenty-three years could frame; knows not that a protracted life was a more reasonable wish, or desirable object than at present, when every hour productive of some great event in the interest of mankind; to Gates and himself looking to a political millenium, (the religious they leave to John Jay), the drama is of infinite moment; but what are human hopes! their old acquaintance, Washington, was not without his, his constitution, etc., bespoke a firmness which might have carried him 15 or 20 years into the present century, -- but he was not permitted to pass its threshold; "nil nisi bonum de mortuis" has been universally adopted; good fortune has not abandoned her favorite at the grave; the dead Washington fated to be as little known and as much misrepresented as the living; has bespoken his own eulogy; it was reported that the Pliny of our Trajan is David Humphries, who had already tried his powers on the life and labors of old Putnam, [Humphrey's Essay on the Life of .... Israel Putnam, Philadelphia, 1798]; too much to expect him to quicken the dead, the choice of subject betrayed a want of judgment, the manner of execution a want of everything a biographer ought to have; understands [Charles] Lee and [Gouverneur] Morris were appointed to make the funeral orations at Philadelphia and New York; Lee might be tolerable, but let Morris study and let him write and he shall never rise above contempt; concludes with domestic details and friendly wishes.


title: Document

originInfo: 1796-10-07Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Nixon, John

title: Document

abstracts: Memorandum as to the understanding by the subscribers, of the [Philadelphia] corporation committee, who obtained from [Robert] Morris the use of his house for the President, that the expenses should be borne by the corporation [of Philadelphia].


title: Document

namePart: Nicholson, Joseph

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt to George Ross for $40; specie for the expenses of Corn Planter, Half Town, four other principal [Seneca] Indians, and himself to the city of Philadelphia.


title: Letter to the Executors [Martha Washington, William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, George Steptoe Washington

originInfo: 1801-03-07Fredericksburg, Va.

namePart: Washington, Martha

namePart: Washington, William Augustine

namePart: Washington, Bushrod

namePart: Washington, George Steptoe

namePart: Lewis, Robert

title: Letter to the Executors Martha Washington, William Augustine Washington, Bushrod Washington, George Steptoe Washington

abstracts: Samuel Washington, Lawrence Lewis, and George Washington Parke Custis] of the late Genl Washington, Mount Vernon. Acknowledges receipt of circular letter as to Mrs. [Martha] Washington's desire to surrender her life interest then taxable; discusses disposition of the Kenhawa lands, and states his decision to side with the majority of the legatees and to aid the executors all that lies in his power.


title: Letter to the Governor of Connecticut [Samuel Huntington, Hartford]

originInfo: 1795-01-09Department of State, Philadelphia

namePart: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

namePart: Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

abstracts: Circular letter transmitting authenticated copies of ten recently enacted Federal Statutes.


title: Letter to George Washington [Mount Vernon, Va.]

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Washington, George, 1732-1799

namePart: Moultrie, William

abstracts: Thanks him for his letter of June 14 last, enclosing one from Mr. Hughes; apologizes for the trouble he has given; encloses a letter for Mr. Brindley and asks Washington to forward same.


title: Letter to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon

namePart: Lewis, Lawrence

abstracts: Encloses papers left with him by George Washington for his inspection; Mr. Hammond enquired if he was to be considered a legatee; cannot find Sheppard's letter, probably put away with the will [of Washington]; asks for Marshall's receipt.


title: Letter to Robert Purviance, Collector of Baltimore [Md.]

originInfo: 1795-01-29Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Purviance, Robert

abstracts: Acknowledges letter of Jan. 10 with enclosures; gives official instructions as to suspension of suit on Messonier's bond and as to Purviance's official proceedings in other cases.


title: Letter to Alexander Hamilton, New York

originInfo: 1795-04-21Mount Vernon, Va.

title: Letter to Alexander Hamilton, New York

abstracts: If the letter reaches Hamilton's hands it will be placed there by Washington's nephew, Colonel William Augustine Washington, on his way to Boston to fix two of his sons at Andover Academy, bespeaks Hamilton's kind attentions.


title: Letter to Joseph Howell [Philadelphia]

originInfo: 1792-01-13Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Howell, Joseph

namePart: Wolcott, Oliver

title: Letter to Joseph Howell [Philadelphia]

abstracts: Requesting the transmission of an account shewing all monies advanced by the War Department, except for pay of army, and such contingencies usually settled by Wolcott under the direction of the Secretary of the [War] Department.


title: Document

originInfo: 1798-11-24Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: Bedford, John

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for £10 4s. 4 1/2d. paid him by G. Washington for shoes and boots for [servants] Christopher, Cyrus, and Wilson.


title: Document

originInfo: 1798-12-13Philadelphia, Pa.

namePart: White, Rosannah

title: Document

abstracts: Receipt for $70 from Gen. Washington, for two weeks board, with three servants, use of parlour, eight dinners, etc.


title: Document

originInfo: 1803-06-24Alexandria, Va.

namePart: Lear, Tobias

title: Document

abstracts: Account against the Executors of the will of the late General George Washington for $1000 for his services in posting up accounts, arranging papers relating to the estate, etc., from Dec. 15, 1799 to Dec. 31, 1800.


title: Letter to [James] Anderson [Mount Vernon]

originInfo: 1799-06-05Alexandria, Va.

namePart: Anderson, James

namePart: Rawlins, Albert

abstracts: At the time Wilson left the town [Alexandria?] had not seen McKnight; has since done so and received the amount of the orders on McKnight and another; has engaged a seat on the coach and will embark in the morning.


title: EM. 14383

title: EM. 14383


title: Letter to [James Anderson, Mount Vernon.]

originInfo: 1798-07-05Alexandria, Va.

namePart: Gilpin, George

abstracts: Agreeing to furnish [Tobias] Lear with 25 barrels of flour; whiskey sells very slowly, a great deal being in town; had informed Mr. Foster he might have his money; when he gave receipt, would forward same.


title: Letter to Thomas L[orraine] McKenney, Georgetown

namePart: McKenney, Thomas Lorraine

namePart: Muir, James

abstracts: Had mentioned his son's wish to have some employment in the Indian business; has written him to explain his views [to McKenney]; thanks him for offer of service.


title: Letter to [Horatio] Gates, Rose Hill [N. Y.]

namePart: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806

namePart: Hughes, James Miles

abstracts: Requesting, as chairman of the Committee to honor the memory of General Washington, Gates' presence at St. Paul's Church on Dec. 31 to hear Gouverneur Morris's oration.


title: Letter to George Clinton, Governor of New York

namePart: Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1828-1919

namePart: Clinton, George, 1739-1812

namePart: Ceracchi, Giuseppe

abstracts: Asks for a copy of his bust in clay, to introduce Clinton's portrait in the basso-relievos of the National Monument, which relievos by decree of Congress of 1783 are to express five military deeds in which General Washington was present; asks his influence in furthering the project; letters for him to be sent to Amsterdam and thence forwarded to Rome.


title: Letter to [the Governor of the State of -- -- ?]

namePart: Peale, Rembrandt

abstracts: Offering to supply a copy of his portrait of George Washington for one thousand dollars; enlarges on the accuracy of the likeness and the praise it has received; asks the governor to make a communication to the legislature.


title: Letter to -- --

namePart: Washington, Samuel

title: Letter to -- --

abstracts: Asks his correspondent to inform any one desirous of purchasing lands in that county, of his three valuable tracts for sale on reasonable terms; his wife joins in regards to his lady. In a postscript enquires as to glass of a certain size being obtainable in Baltimore.


title: Letter to Mrs. [Martha] Washington, Mount Vernon

namePart: Washington, Martha

namePart: Washington, William Augustine

abstracts: As to the shipment and freight of 600 barrels of corn ordered by Bushrod Washington for Mrs. Washington; enquires as to his rye; has been severely afflicted with gout; expresses good wishes for his correspondent's health.