1From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, [20 May 1783] (Madison Papers)
… Notwithstanding the numerous arrivals from Europe, we receive no other information than what passes through the public prints. Sir G. Carlton in answer to a letter from General Washington on the subject of the provisional Treaty repeats the same sentiments regarding the Negroes, which he advanced in the Conference at Orange Town; entering a Caution however against their being considered as a...
2From Thomas Jefferson to the Governors of Virginia and Maryland, 31 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have communicated to Congress this day a copy of the resolutions of a Committee appointed here for the purpose of considering what may be done to improve the commerce between this country and the U.S. together with a copy of the contract between the Farmers general and Mr. Morris to which those resolutions refer. These resolutions have received the sanction of government and been officially...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 22 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
An opportunity offering at a moment’s warning only to London, I have only time to inform your Excellency that we have shipped from Bourdeaux fifteen hundred stand of arms for the state of Virginia of which I now inclose the bill of lading. A somewhat larger number of cartouch boxes have been prepared here, are now packing, and will go to Havre immediately to be shipped thence. As soon as these...
4From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 9 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the honour of your Excellency’s letter of May 17. 1786. on the subject of Captn. Greene supposed to be in captivity with the Algerines. I wish I could have communicated the agreeable news that this supposition was well founded, and I should not have hesitated to gratify as well your Excellency as the worthy father of Capt. Greene by doing whatever would have been necessary...
5From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 12 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing your Excellency on the 9th. inst. in answer to your’s of May 17. on the subject of Capt. Greene; and on the 22d. of July, I wrote you that 1500 stand of arms were then shipped at Bourdeaux, and some cartouch boxes were on their way to Havre. The arms went on board the ship Comte d’Artois Capt. Gregory bound to Richmond and addressed to your Excellency according...
6From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 7 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of inclosing to your Excellency a report of the proceedings on the inauguration of the bust of the Marquis de la Fayette in this city. This has been attended with a considerable, but a necessary delay. The principle that the King is the sole fountain of honour in this country, opposed a barrier to our desires which threatened to be insurmountable. No instance of a similar...
7William Short to the Governor of Virginia, 21 March 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
By direction of Mr. Jefferson who is absent, I have the honor of forwarding to your Excellency, the proceedings of the city of Paris on the reception of the Marquis de la fayette’s bust presented to them by the State of Virginia. The French Packet which sails in a few days furnishes the first opportunity which has been offered, of conveying these proceedings and I make use of it with very...
8From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 3 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your Excellency’s letters of Jan. 28. and May 4. which have come to hand since the date of mine of Feb. 7. Immediately on the receipt of the former I caused enquiry to be made relative to the bayonets, and found that they had certainly been packed with the muskets. Your Excellency’s favor of May 4. renders unnecessary the sending the proofs. There have been...
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10From James Madison to the Governor of Virginia, 27 April 1790 (Madison Papers)
Information having been received here that some persons acquainted with the appropriation made at the last Session of Congress in favor of the officers & soldiers of the Virginia & N. Carolina lines of the late army, are taking advantage of the claimants who are ignorant of that provision, by purchasing their claims for very inconsiderable proportions of their amount, it became a question...