1To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 19 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
, in company with Nathaniel Tracy, discussed the French Navy’s purchase of American masts with the Marquis de Castries, and Tracy won a contract to supply them. The quality of the first shipment, however, was such that the contract was canceled, leading in part to Tracy’...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, 2 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...do with your naval armament on your side the channel? Perhaps you will ask me what they are about to do here? A British navy and Prussian army hanging over Holland on one side, a French navy and army hanging over it on the other, looks as if they thought of fighting. Yet I think both parties too wise for that, too laudably intent on oeconomising rather than on further embarrassing their...
3Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
Claude Baudard, Baron de St. James (1738–1787), was the treasurer general of the French Navy and a wealthy businessman with vast interests in banking, shipping, mining, and manufacturing. By January, however, he was bankrupt, which, in turn, contributed to the country’s growing fiscal crisis. He was investigated by a...
4From Thomas Jefferson to André Limozin, 8 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
from him, dated John’stown N. York Nov. 20. 1788. wherein he informs me he has two sons in the French navy, that the intendant of Normandy had written to the French Consul at N. York to let him know he had advanced some money for his sons, not saying how much, that he thereupon delivered to M. La...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Rayneval, 17 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
.” The example chosen by the author of the memoir must have been deliberately pointed. For flour destined for the French navy had been seized in Pennsylvania and there had been an outcry (see Vol. 14: 68). La Luzerne turned this argument over to Chardon, who had handled the affair from the beginning, with, as he pointed out...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Ruellan & Cie., 23 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...unknown to me. A letter from the father came to me about the time I was honoured with yours of the 13th. [of] March. In that letter he informed me that he had [two] sons in the French navy, and that he had remitted thro’ Monsieur La Forest (consul at New York) two hundred dollars for their use. On the receipt of your letter therefore of Mar. [13] I wrote to Havre to enquire who...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
to members of Congress indicating that Joshua Barney, the Revolutionary War naval officer from Baltimore who began serving in the French Navy in 1796, had been appointed chief
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 27 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...then expelled several thousand blacks and people of mixed race. Some rumors held that the deportees would be sent to work in the mines of Spanish America. According to one estimate, the French navy deposited about 2,000 of the exiles on the coast of Florida and eventually took about 1,000 others to Brest, France. French officials imposed harsh restrictions on people of color remaining in...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 8 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...sail directly from Martinique, he traveled to the United States with the intention of continuing on to France from an American port. With him were Pierre Meyronnet, another officer of the French navy; Alexander Lecamus, Bonaparte’s secretary; and Jean Jacques Reubell, son of Jean François Reubell, one of the original members of the French Directory. Bonaparte traveled up Chesapeake Bay from...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, 4 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
in the French navy proved him to be at least 21 years of age, Pichon advised Patterson that under current law in France, a person must be at least 25 to marry without parental consent. In addition, the bride’s family received...