1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson, 4 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances of a peculiar nature have weighed with us to forbear acting on the Subject of your note till next monday or tuesday, that is our next post day. We are with high respect Your obedt. Servts. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker and Daniel Smith, 29 January 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
As we propose this Spring to take possession of and fortify some post as near the mouth of Ohio as the ground will admit, it becomes very important for us to know the exact latitude thereabouts. I take it for granted that your present Line will be stopped before you get there by unpurchased Lands. We therefore wish extremely that one of you would take a trip to the mouth of the Ohio with your...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Smith, 24 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favors of Sep. 1. and Octob. 4. together with the report of the Executive proceedings in the South Western government from March 1. to July 26. In answer to that part of yours of Sep. 1. on the subject of a seal for the use of that government, I think it extremely proper and necessary, and that one should be provided at public expence. The opposition...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Smith, 10 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 6. came safely to hand, & I thank you for the Chickasaw vocabulary it contained. it will aid me considerably in filling up a defective one I had recieved before . I have been long anxious to have as many of the Indian languages preserved as could be, because a comparison of them among themselves as well as with those of the red men in Asia, may lead to conjectures as to...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Smith, 11 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In acknowleging the reciept of your favor of Mar. 1. I take occasion at the same time to answer the query it proposed by observing that the reports from your office should contain periods of six months each. It would be well that they should end on the last days of June and December. Having nothing interesting to communicate I shall only add assurances of the esteem with which I am Dear Sir...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 9 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
“ Southwestern Territory, At Mr. Cobbs,” 9 Dec. 1791 . In Blount’s absence, acknowledges receipt of TJ’s to him of 22 Aug. 1791, “which was so much delayed on its passage that it never came to hand ‘till 8th. Nov. last.”—The information requested about Davidson county claims amount to 407,780 acres, which includes all allowable under the law of North Carolina except a few remaining preemption...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 21 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In the War department a copy of a letter to Col. Meigs appears, dated Oct. 29th. 1808. in which Col. Meigs is requested to give notice to the Cherokees and Chickasaws that the white people settled on their land would be removed this Spring—and to the settlers also he is requested to give notice that they ought to remove from the said land voluntarily, or the military would remove them this...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 27 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
From the habits I have ever been accustomed to consider you in, I have ventured to address you on matters of the utmost importance to this territory and also affects the general government. That the Indians have not always been treated with justice by the whites is an undoubted truth: but since the treaties of New York and Holston with the Creeks and Cherokees I neither know nor have heard of...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 5 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ late in my congratulations with you on the acquisition of Louisiana they are not the less ardent on that account. How greatly is our chance encreased to remain at peace with foreign nations! to what a degree are they excluded from tampering with our indians! how bright the prospect of encreasing population and commerce. A bill, I understand, is on its passage in Congress for the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Smith, 4 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Southwest Territory, 4 Oct. 1791. Letter of 12 Aug. to William Blount is received in his absence.—Provides answers to questions TJ asked relating to boundaries of Indian claims.—Rumors that Zachariah Cox has established a settlement on the Tennessee River are untrue. The Chickasaws permitted him to set up a post solely to trade with them. His acquittal by the Superior Court has encouraged...