1From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1781 (Madison Papers)
. Although the dispatch to La Luzerne telling of the siege of Minorca has not been identified, it probably was among the communications from the court of Louis XVI which reached Boston in a ship of the French navy on 30 October (
2To Thomas Jefferson from Silas Talbot, 20 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Asks TJ to inquire about his two sons, Cyrus and George Washington Talbot, who are volunteers in the French navy. Mr. Jay informed him that he had written TJ on this subject some time ago. Talbot missed seeing the boys when the fleet was in Boston last September; has forwarded $200 through La Forest to “the Governor...
3To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 28 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...promised to settle a Correspondent at Havre and to lodge in his hands Sufficient funds to pay the expences of his Two sons at Brest for their Education where they are dwelling with expectation to be brought up in the French Navy. As I told to Mr. Mistral that
4To Thomas Jefferson from Veuve David & fils, 29 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...seems to them that France has a pressing interest to promote in every way the introduction of American salt provisions into France. In time of war with England, America could amply supply the French colonies, as well as the French navy and merchant marine.—All these considerations will no doubt appear as just to TJ as to them.
5From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
...Papers. The French consul at Boston complained about a clause in the ninth article of the Consular Convention stipulating that all deserters from the French navy whom he might arrest be freed if they were not returned to France within three months. Létombe also requested that the state pass legislation to facilitate execution of the twelfth article of the convention empowering consuls...
6VIII. Isaac Senter to the Secretary of State, 13 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
distillations as was practized both in the British and French navies. I heard nothing more of his
7To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Barney, 5 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
(post captain) in the French Navy in 1795, but at the lowest tier of that rank. He resigned to take command of his own small privateer fleet, but then accepted a new French naval commission at the highest level of
8To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 11 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...only the Diciplin & Good order they kept on Board the President while in this Road or in this arcenal, was admired as well as the Frigate President, by all the chief officers of the French Navy of this Department, (who all did everything in their Power to assist and facilitate the Repairs of this Ship) but also the Constant assiduity of Commodore Dale & Capn. Barron in following the Dayly...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, [16 February 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (1748–1812) joined the French navy as a volunteer in 1765. He became a rear admiral in 1793 and a vice admiral the following year. He commanded the flotilla for the expeditionary force sent to Saint-Domingue in 1801 and was captain general of Martinique...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 8 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
by the Directory requiring foreigners to leave French ports, when the ministry sought to compare his method to one created by the Sieur Bouïbe and tested by the French navy in the 1780s. Citizen