1To James Madison from Thomas Newton, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
Above is a copy of a report made to me by Capt Harrison, which I considered my duty to forward. All vessels are stop pe d coming to this place & fired at within our harbours. This report I was requested to forward to you for yr consideration. I am respectfully Yr. Obt Servt DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
2From James Madison to James Monroe, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The documents herewith inclosed from No. 1 to No. 9 inclusive explain the hostile attack with the insulting pretext for it lately committed near the Capes of Virginia by the British ship of war the Leopard on the American Frigate the Chesapeake. No. 10 is a copy of the Proclamation issued by the President, interdicticting in consequence of that outrage, the use of our waters and every other...
3To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
The proclamation is well received here by a very large proportion of the community. It is however suggested from a quarter by no means unfriendly, that it would have been agreeable and useful, if the impressment of our Seamen, who were taken from the frigate had been as distinctly and positively affirmed as their American birth. The circumstances of their escape from the British service & the...
4To James Madison from Frances Gwynn Baylor, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
I presume on an acquaintance form’d with you and your amiable Lady some years since, and which if adverse circumstances had not prevented a renewal of; it should have been my study to have cherishd unto this day, to request a favour of you in which my Daughter Mrs. Sutton as well as myself are materially interested and which will confer a lasting obligation on us by your attention thereto. We...
5To James Madison from Frederick Degen, 6 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you herewith a list of the American Vessels arrived at this Port from the month of December last to all June, and beg leave to observe that two more came in about a fortnight ago, which being still in quarantine are not comprized and will of course be included in the next List. One of these the Brig Fitz William Capn. Goldsbury of Boston, coming from Leghorn to...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised Henry Williams to send him by this day’s post 87 D. 13 C for William Stewart. I therefore now inclose you 90. D. out of which you will be so good as to pay him immediately. I expect to be on in a fortnight with what may be necessary the demands still remaining on you. I offer you my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
7From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Bedinger, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Bedinger to seal and send the inclosed letter to Colo. Tatham wherever he shall be after having perused it. mr Bedinger will see that, on a consultation with the Secretary of the navy, it will be asked of him to do for forwarding the agency of Colo. Tatham. he salutes him with respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
8From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Brown, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have happened to recieve an order of the bank of Virginia at Richmond on that at Alexandria for 251D. 09c which being only 9.34 more than your account, I have endorsed it to you, and now inclose it. if you will remit me the balance, or inclose a ten dollar bill, I will take care to return you the small difference of 66. cents. Accept my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
9To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by Express last night the copy of a correspondence between Commodore Douglass and the Mayor of the Borough of Norfolk, together with information that the British Squadron had taken its station in Hampton Roads at the mouth of Elizabeth river, for the declared purpose of preventing any Vessel from going to or from Norfolk—I should have taken measures to give you early information of...
10From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you on your safe arrival with miss Clinton at New York, & especially on your escape from British violence. this aggression is of a character so distinct from that on the Chesapeake, and of so aggravated a nature, that I consider it as a very material one to be presented with that to the British government. I pray you therefore to write me a letter stating the transaction, & in...