1From George Washington to John Rodgers, 11 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I accept with much pleasure your kind Congratulations on the happy Event of Peace, with the Establishment of our Liberties & Independence. Glorious indeed has been our Contest; glorious, if we consider the prize for which we have contended, and glorious in its Issue: But in the midst of our Joys, I hope we shall not forget that, to Divine Providence is to be ascribed the Glory & the Praise....
2From George Washington to John Rodgers, 5 May 1784 (Washington Papers)
The thanksgiving Sermon which you did me the favor to send me, I read with much pleasure; & pray you to accept my thanks for it, & the favorable mention you have been pleased to make of me therein. My Compliments await Mrs Rogers —with great esteem and respect I remain Dr Sir—Yr most Obedt & Affecte Servt ALS , Brick Presbyterian Church, Park Ave. at 91st St., New York. John Rodgers...
3From James Madison to John Rodgers, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your narrative dated June 1802; of the outrages committed on you in St. Domingo, under the administration of that Island. The proper use will be made of the facts stated in this document, to support the remonstrances to the French Republic, and to urge the satisfaction due from it to the United States, and which ought equally to flow from its own...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Rodgers, 8 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to Commodore Rogers for the pair of sheep he has been so obliging as to deliver for him, and shall be very glad to propagate them. he presents him his congratulations on his safe return to his country & salutes him with respect & esteem. DNA : RG 45--Naval Records Collection.
5From James Madison to John Rodgers, 24 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
The present Secretary of the Navy being about to retire into private life, my thoughts are turned on you for his Successor. But before I make the nomination to the Senate, it will be agreeable to me, & proper in every respect, that I should have your sanction to it. Will you be so good as to satisfy me on this point? And as Mr. Jones’ affairs will not, I find, permit him to remain in the Dept....
6From James Madison to John Rodgers, 4 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. yours of the 29th. Ult. The wishes conveyed in mine which it answers, are far from being lessened by a diffidence of yourself, in which I can not participate. But I regret to find an insuperable obstacle to them, in your repugnance to exchange your present Commission for the one I had contemplated, & the legal incompatibility between them, according to an official exposition...
7Enclosure: Circular from Hezekiah Niles to Prominent Subscribers, 31 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
After revolving upon some suitable apology for intruding myself with the following statement and request, I have thought it most respectful to decline offering any, except to observe that if ought appears to your better judgement improper in either, that you will attribute it to any thing else than a willingness on my part to act so, in any respect towards you. For six years ending with the...