211To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel L. Hylton, 22 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 5th. instant came to hand a few days past and expected until the receipt thereof Capt. Stratton had long since carryed the whole of your crop of tobacco, having left orders with the inspectors whenever he apply’d to deliver the balance of your crop in their Warehouse. Only two hhds. now remains which would have been shipt at the same time he carryed the last, had they not been...
212To Thomas Jefferson from Martin de Villeneuve, 22 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 22 Dec. 1791 . He recalls with pleasure his visit with TJ in Paris with the recommendation of Comte de Montmorin and in the company of Mr. J. Fitzsimons. He wishes to know whether Article xii of the 14 Nov. 1788 Consular Convention between the United States and France governs the settlement of differences between French citizens or whether Article xiii allows French merchants in the...
213To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Lisbon, 23 Dec. 1791 . He takes advantage of this opportunity by Capt. Stobo to advise TJ that in his letters of 22 Nov. and 4 Dec. he enclosed receipts from Thomas Barclay for 32,175 current guilders for Barclay’s Moroccan mission. He has been attentive to the request in TJ’s 11 Apr. letter for information about Brazil, though his efforts have been constrained by the Portuguese government’s...
214To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Fenwick, 24 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith is a copy of my last respects mostly on the Subject of the depreciation of the Assignats, since they have continued to fall and all the foreign Exchanges, and coins, also that of the country are at least one third better than the Assignats. Indeed Dollars are now selling for eight Livres, and exchange on London is under 6½ d. Stg. ⅌ Livre. The progress of this uncertain value, and the...
215To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 25 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The P returns Mr. Muters letter, and gives Mr. J an opportunity of reading one from Judge Innes on the same subject. The latter, commences his operations from the point, to which we have not yet been able to get, namely, established Posts in the Indian Country—the primary object of the Campaign, after the accomplishment of which, every thing else would be easy. RC ( DLC ); addressed:...
216To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 25 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
You will find by the enclosed that our troubles in the Federal City are not yet at an end.—I pray you to give the letters a consideration and inform me of the result, to morrow, or next day.—Yours affectly. & sincerely, RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Dec. 1791. Entry in SJPL reads: “G.W. to Th:J. Federal city.” The Commissioners had written to Washington,...
217To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 26 Dec. 1791 . The Emperor of Morocco has no ships at sea, Spanish cruisers having blockaded Salice and Larach. Internal dissensions and inadequate supplies of naval stores from Spain have made it impossible for him to carry out his boast that he would equip twenty sail from Larach.—The Spanish court is very hostile to Morocco. A Spanish cruiser has seized a ship from Amsterdam...
218To Thomas Jefferson from William Blount, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
“ Territory of the United States of America South of the river Ohio, at Mr. Cobb’s ,” 26 Dec. 1791. He has learned that Virginia has “passed a law extending their government over that space of country which lays between the lines run by the Virginia and North-Carolina Commissioners, commonly called Walker’s and Henderson’s lines. I have before informed you that I had thought it my duty to...
219To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 26 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved with infinite satisfaction your letter of the 29th. July last, and thank you for the trouble you were kind enough to take to inform yourself of, and let me know, the fate of my letter to the President:—I should not have written to him at all, had I known at the time that you had accepted the American Ministry. The Definitive Treaty between Russia, and the Porte, must be by this...
220To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 27 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 27 Dec. 1791 . This letter will be delivered by Alexander Campbell, U.S. attorney in Richmond, and a man “well deserving of your politeness and attention, if convenient or agreeable to you to show him any.” Unable to visit Monticello while TJ was there, he wrote a letter “to be left at Colo. Bell’s in Charlottes Ville and forwarded to Monticello, which I hope you receivd.” He fears...
221To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, [27 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received, and scarcely had time to read the enclosed.—[I wan]t to see you, and the heads of the [oth]er Departments to morrow morning at nine Oclock on business of the War Department.—Yrs. Affectly, RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Dec. 1791. Entry in SJPL reads: “[G.W. to Th:J.] proposing consultation.” Washington enclosed copies of Secretary...
222To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I did myself the honor to write you from hence under date 4th. current, affaires have remain’d in pretty much the same state throughout the northern district of this Colony; I mean with respect to the ravages of the Insurgents. The southern and western Districts have been obliged to take copious draughts from the cup of bitterness. Should I attempt to recite the melancholly accounts...
223To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas Forster, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Thos. M: Randolph having inform’d me it was your intention to rent on a lease your tract of land in Gouchland County call’d Elk hill; wanting such a place I have been to see it, and beg leave to offer myself as your tenant, provided the term of the lease and the rent answer the idea Mr. Randolph has given me. As the mode of cultivation I propose pursuing may have an influence on these, it...
224To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
225To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My Brother is this moment departing for Philadelphia and has requested a letter of introduction to you. I find a pleasure in complying with his request not only on his account, but because it affords me an opportunity of intimating that I am not ignorant of, or ungratful for, your late acts of friendship & of assuring you of the sincere esteem & respect with which Dr Sir I have the honor to be...
226To Thomas Jefferson from Sylvanus Bourne, 29 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time I had the honour of addressing you last, I was in expectation of forming such a mercantile connection, as would have induced me to return to the west Indies; but the late repeated bad news from that quarter, has discouraged the Person who contemplated this connection with me from any further pursuit of it. I now therefore beg leave (agreably to your advice as to the mode of...
227To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 30 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My last was written a few days previous to my leaving Paris for this place, whither I have supposed it proper I should come on account of the loans negotiating here and at Antwerp. Notwithstanding the inclement and disagreeable season I did not think myself authorized to dispense with the journey, as from the tenor of your and Mr. Hamilton’s letters of the last year, I took it for granted you...
228To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 31 Dec. 1791 . He encloses copies of his letters of 18 and 26 Dec.—His letters to the Basha of Tangier and Francis Chiappe were designed to inform them that he would not arrive in Morocco until it became safe to do so. The sons of L’Abbas have taken the field to avenge their father’s death. Muley Yezid’s prospects look gloomy. He is as attached to the English as Muley Slema is to...
229To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 31 Dec. 1791 . He encloses three letters from the American prisoners at Algiers received by [James] Simpson, the Russian consul here, who has established a correspondence with them. These letters reveal two facts of importance. “One is that Mr. Lamb in the Name of the United States made an absolute agreement for the Ransom of these people, the other that liberty has been offered to...
230To Thomas Jefferson from William Barton, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The sheets which compose the Pamphlet, herewith inclosed, will be comprized in the third Volume of the Philosophical Society’s Transactions, now in the press. Being favored by the Printer with a few copies of this part (with the addition of a Title-page) I beg, Sir, your Acceptance of one. If some additional Observations on the same subject, resulting from the Census, which have been read in...
231To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 31 Dec. 1791 . The great powers of Europe are in chaos because of the impact of the French and Polish Revolutions. They fear and hate each other and dread “ l’exemple que la nation françoise a donné aux autres .” Lafayette goes from Paris to Metz to raise men and supplies from the emigrés, beginning with Ettenheim.—The embassy must be sold because its physical condition is...
232To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 31 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 31 Dec. 1791 . Enclosing the quarterly accounts through today of American ships touching in this port. Also enclosed is an account of disbursements for the same quarter which total £61.3.2 when added to those formerly transmitted, “and to which I beg your attention.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD ); 1 p.; in clerk’s hand except for signature. Enclosures not found.