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| Collection Reference Number
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GLC00641
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| From Archive Folder
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Documents Relating to 1789
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| Title
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Oliver Ellsworth to Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth regarding the first Presidential election
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| Date
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8 March 1789
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| Author
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Ellsworth, Oliver (1745-1807)
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| Recipient
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Ellsworth, Abigail Wolcott
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| Document Type
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Correspondence
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| Content Description
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Ellsworth, a Senator from Connecticut, reports to his wife, who he calls "Nabby," concerning the first Presidential election. States that "the Votes for the President-& Vice-President are not yet opened, but there is no doubt of-General Washington's being chosen to the first office & Mr. John Adams of Boston to the latter." States that a public building was erected and finished for the new national leaders.
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| Subjects
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President Vice President Election Architecture Government and Civics
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| People
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Ellsworth, Abigail Wolcott (1756-1818) Ellsworth, Oliver (1745-1807) Adams, John (1735-1826) Washington, George (1732-1799)
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| Place written
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New York, New York
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| Theme
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The Presidency; Government & Politics; Women in American History
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| Sub-collection
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The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
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| Additional Information
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Ellsworth served as a member of the Continental Congress 1778-1783 and as a delegate to the convention that framed the federal Constitution in 1787.
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| Copyright
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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| Module
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Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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| Transcript
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Show/hide New York March 8. 1789- Dear Mrs. Ellsworth, You will be glad to hear that I arrived here safely in three days from Hartford, & that I am accommodated with the lodgings in a good family- Most of the Members from the Eastern States are arrived, but mot a Sufficient number yet from the Southward to proceed to business-. I employ my time, as I presume a number of others do, in looking into and preparing for the business we are soon to enter upon. The votes for the President & Vice-President are not yet opened, but there is no doubt of General Washington's being chosen to the first office & Mr. John Adams of Boston to the latter.- No pains have been spared by the inhabitants of this place to provide for the reception of Congress & to render their stay here agreeable. [2] A publick building has been erected & finished [inserted: for them] in a very short time, at the expense of fifteen thousand pounds, which does honor to the City & surpasses in elegance any building in this Country- I wish the business expected to be transacted in it may be as well done and as universally admired as the house is- You have the kind remembrance of Doctr Johnson & his Lady, who are in heaviness for the loss of their daughter that was married here. Her funeral was attending the moment I arrived- - That your life & health & that of the dear children may be preserved you will readily believe is the daily petition of an affectionate friend Olivr: Ellsworth You may let Chauncey know I shall not have occasion for} him as the family in which} I live incline to furnish me} with what- attendance I want Mrs. Ellsworth.- [docket] Hartford March 13, 1789 [address leaf] Mrs. Nabby Ellsworth Windsor Connecticut Free Olivr Ellsworth.
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