Image above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress New York Partition Street No 63 July 8th, 1808. Dear Sir On the 21st Jany I presented a Memorial to Congress and after waiting a considerable time and hearing nothing of it, I wrote to George Clinton Junior who presented the […]
From the records of the Annals of Congress, 10th Congress, 2nd Session. NEW YORK, March 7, 1808. SIR: I wrote you a week ago, prior to the date of this letter, respecting my memorial to Congress, but I have not yet seen an account of any proceedings upon it. I know not who the Committee
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From the records of the Annals of Congress, 10th Congress, 2nd Session. New York, Partition Street, No. 63, February 28, 1808 SIR: I addressed a memorial to Congress dated January 21, which was presented by George Clinton, Junior, and referred to the Committee of Claims. As soon as I knew to what committee it was
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From the records of the American State Papers, No. 189, 10th Congress, First Session. To the honorable the Senate of the United States: New York, January 21, 1808. THE purport of this address is to state a claim I feel myself entitled to make on the United States, leaving it to their representatives in Congress
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To James Monroe December 30, 1807 Broome Street, New York, DEAR SIR: I congratulate and welcome you very sincerely on your return home. The British Government is mad and every thing [they] do or attempt to do prove them to be so. I received a letter from London dated Oct[ober] 15 which I have sent
From the original letter now in private hands. New York Broome Street May 4th, 1807 – Old Friend I will first explain the direct occasion of my writing this letter and reserve meums and tuums to follow after. I have a law suit coming on in this State (New York) the 20th of this month,
To George Clinton May 4, 1807 NEW YORK, RESPECTED FRIEND: Elisha Ward and three or four other Tories who lived within the British lines in the Revolutionary war, got in to be inspectors of the election last year at New Rochelle. Ward was supervisor. These men refused my vote at the election, saying to me:
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. New York May 3, 1807 Broome Street Sir When Mr. Monro came Minister from the United States to the French Government I was still imprisoned in the Luxemburg by the Robespierre party in the Convention. The fall of Robespierre took place a few days before Mr.
[The original manuscript of this letter is in the library of Harvard University – ed.] I received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck with a fit of apoplexy, that deprived me of all sense and motion. I had
From the April 26, 1806 Aurora. New Rochelle, April 23, 1806. Mr, Duane – I see, by the English papers, that some conversations have lately taken place in parliament in England, on the subject of repealing the act that incorporated the members elected in Ireland with the parliament elected in England so as to form
To Anonymous March 20, 1806 NEW ROCHELLE, SIR: I will inform you of what I know respecting General Miranda, with whom I first became acquainted at New York, about the year 1783. He is a man of talents and enterprise, and the whole of his life has been a life of adventures. I went to
From the letter in the Aurora, Philadelphia, February 10, 1806. To JOHN INSKEEP, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. I saw in the Aurora of January the 30th a piece addressed to you and signed Isaac Hall. It contains a statement of your malevolent conduct in refusing to let him have Vine street wharf after
