11To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 29 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the month of May last I received the letter you did me the honour to write by Mr. Parke and at that time I also received from the Department of State a renewal of my Commission as Governor of the Indiana Territory For this mark of your Confidence permit me to make you my most grateful acknowledgements—It has indeed ever been & shall Continue to be my Chief Aim to Conduct the Administration...
12To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 26 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor of the Indiana Territory presents his respectful Compliments to the President of the United States and requests his acceptance of the enclosed map which is a Copy of the manuscript map of Mr. Evans who ascended the Missouri River by order of the Spanish Government much further than any other person— RC ( DLC ); in Harrison’s hand; endorsed by TJ as received 20 Dec. and so recorded...
13From James Madison to William Henry Harrison, 21 December 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 December 1803, Department of State. “I have just received your letter of the 17th. ult. [not found] requesting permission to employ a printer in Kentucky to publish some of the laws of your Territory. I have no authority by law to cause such publications to be made, that of the 8th. May 1792, being inapplicable to the present case, I can only suggest that the contingent fund, annually...
14From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 31 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The act of Congress erecting Louisiana into two territories, & providing for their government annexes the upper one by the name of the district of Louisiana to the Indiana government. as you will see the act shortly in print, I shall only observe generally that it does not come into force till the 1st. of October, but it provides that the upper territory shall be divided into districts by the...
15From James Madison to William Henry Harrison, 16 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 April 1804, Department of State. “I enclose copies of a number of the laws passed at the last session of Congress and request you to cause them to be published in a suitable newspaper in the territory. The compensation given to the other printers is at the rate of 50 Cents for each page of the enclosed copy, the remainder of which, if ready, will be forwarded by the next post. Mr. Matthew...
16To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 12 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I had the honour to receive your letter of the 31st. of March I wrote to such Gentlemen of my acquaintance in Upper Louisiana as I thought best acquainted with the Subject for information relative to the Situation & population of the Several Settlements in that District. My own Knowledge of that Country is very imperfect but from my present impressions I think that it might be...
17To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 28 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the merits of Mr. Peter Cheateau the bearer of this, you will no doubt be sufficiently informed by Captain Lewis—I have only to say that altho my personal acquaintance with him is of very recent date—I have long known & esteemed his character Mr. Cheateau is accompanied by a son of his & a nephew, the son of Mr. Charles Gratiot of St. Louis—these young Gentlemen possess a very ardent desire...
18From James Madison to William Henry Harrison, 14 June 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 17th. inst. It was my intention to confide the appointment of a Gazette to print the Laws of the United States, entirely to you, and the reasons you assign for the choice of Mr. Bradford’s are satisfactory. I have no controul over the sum appropriated for the contingent expences of your Territory; and therefore cannot prevent the payment of the accounts for...
19To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 24 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The result of my enquiries relative to Upper Louisiana fixes the population of that District at 9373 Souls of Whom 7876 are Whites and 1497 blacks. I am still of Opinion that it would answer all the purposes of Civil Government & be sufficiently Convenient to the Inhabitants to lay out the Country into four or five divisions or Counties, whose boundaries might be very nearly the same as those...
20From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 14 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter on the division of the Louisiana territory into districts, and since that I have been able to collect very satisfactory information on the same subject as well from persons from that country as from good maps. on the whole I find than to adopt the existing divisions, which are five in number and will require 5. Commandants of different grade. I would...