1Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creeks, 31 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Heads of departments and Attorney General at the President’s on the 31st. day of Aug. 1793. A letter from Mr. Gore to Mr. Lear dated Boston Aug. 24. was read, stating that the Roland, a privateer fitted out at Boston and furnished with a commission under the government of France, had sent a prize into that port, which being arrested by the Marshal of the district by process...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Suter, 31 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to send a horse from this place to my own house in Virginia, and to receive another from thence, I have directed a servant to come from thence and be at your house on Wednesday the 4th. of Sep. where another will meet him from this place, to exchange horses, and each return. Both will be furnished with money for their expences: however as accidents may detain one or both on the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Biddle, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 1st. inst. I expect to leave this place on the 5th. or 6th. of October and to be on the afternoon of the next day at Mr. Hollingsworth’s at Elkton, where I shall be glad to see you. I shall then proceed directly home, and wish you to take measures for meeting me there as quickly after my arrival as possible, because, instead of remaining there as I expected,...
4From Thomas Jefferson to George Buchanan, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Buchanan and returns him many thanks for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, and particularly for the partialities expressed toward himself. He concurs sincerely in the general sentiments of the pamphlet and can say with truth that no man in the United states more ardently wishes to see some plan adopted for relieving us from this...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Dobson, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last wrote to you I expected that I should have been permanently fixed at home this autumn. I have been obliged however to defer it to the winter. But I shall make a visit there about the middle of October, and therefore will be obliged to you to lodge there for me in the mean time a statement of the paiments made on my bill of exchange and bond, and of the balance due, and I will see...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Montgomery & Henry, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of Aug. 19. and can with truth assure you that it is the first information I have ever recieved of the existence of such a debt as is therein mentioned. On my annual visits to Monticello, my chief object has been to make an exact statement of every debt great or small due to and from my estate. This I have done chiefly by the information of Colo. Lewis: and...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter received from Mr. Maury, Consul at Liverpool, inclosing a copy of the order of the British government for intercepting our commerce in Grain. We shall doubtless receive it authentically and soon from Mr. Pinckney. In the mean time Mr. Maury’s information seems sufficient foundation to instruct Mr. Pinckney provisionally to make...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Shelby, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners of Spain residing here have complained to the President of the United States that certain persons at this place are taking measures to excite the Inhabitants of Kentucky to join in an enterprise against the Spanish Dominions on the Missisippi; and in evidence of it have produced the printed address now enclosed. I have it, therefore in charge from the President to desire you...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the US. the letter of the 27th. inst. which you did me the honor to write, and the printed paper it inclosed; and I am authorised to assure you that the President will use all the powers with which he is invested to prevent any enterprize of the kind proposed in that paper to the citizens of the US. and in general to prevent their concurrence in any...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Ward, with Jeffferson’s Note, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I forward the enclosed at the desire of Mr. Adair—the Jays Cargo was shipd by Saml. Ward & Brothers—and was at their risk till its arrival in France. I will take the earliest opportunity of laying the particulars of this shipment before you. I am Sir your most obedt sert [ Note by TJ: ] The affidavit inclosed in this letter was sent to Mr. Pinckney . There is a duplicate of it in Mr....
11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 28 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the papers of Messrs. Wilson Potts & Easton, merchants of Alexandria, complaining that their brig the Jesse has been taken by a French privateer called the Sans pareil , carried into Charleston, and there condemned by the French Consul and sold. The object of their application is to obtain national interference for redress. But this measure is always slow,...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs the favor of Dr. Barton’s company to dinner with a small party of friends on Friday the 30th. at 3. aclock. RC ( PHi : Barton Correspondence); addressed: “Dr. Barton.” Not recorded in SJL .
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inform Mr. Hammond, that on examination of the proceedings of his office he finds the usage to be to produce the original of the Consular commissions to the President: and for this reason that if the office be called on by a court of justice on any question relative to the Consul, a certificate in the nature of an Inspeximus is sent them, which supposes there...
14Circular to American Merchants, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Complaint having been made to the Government of the United States of some instances of unjustifiable vexation and spoliation committed on our merchant vessels by the privateers of the Powers at War, and it being possible that other instances may have happened of which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the United...
15From Thomas Jefferson to William Channing, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you copies of two letters from Judge Marchant to the President of the United States, and of sundry depositions taken by him, from which there is reason to believe that the Marshal of that district has been guilty of a very unjustifiable negligence, if not a connivance, in suffering the escape of a certain William James Davis, against whom he was charged with criminal process. It is...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The sloop Hannah, Capt. Curvan goes on public account to Havre to carry public dispatches for Mr. Morris our minister at Paris. The Captain is to go with those dispatches himself to Paris. I take the liberty of mentioning this to you to ensure to them your particular aid and patronage should it be needed. Tho every precaution has been used to furnish them with every thing or the means within...
17From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper came to the President from one of the unhappy fugitives of St. Domingo, of the name of Lentilhon, now at Baltimore. He represents himself as 63. years of age, labouring under a fever, uncomfortably lodged, wanting linen, outer clothes, and other necessaries, for the approaching winter, and his passage to France in the Spring. Without doubting that the assistance of the...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers should have been annexed to the documents of my letter of Aug. 16. but were omitted by inadvertence. They are therefore now inclosed to you separately. I have the honor to be with great esteem & respect Dr Sir your most obedt. servt. Mr. Genet’s answer to the address of the citizens of Philada. do. lately to do. at New York. The above contain his declaration that France did...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perceive by the enclosed affidavits that an act of piracy has been committed by a certain William James Davis, master of the English merchant vessel the Catharine on board an american Sloop called the Rainbow. He afterwards came with his vessel into Newport in Rhode Island, but having some intimation that process of piracy was issuing against him, he slipt his cable in the night and...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Thayer, Bartlet & Company, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 5. and of the two boxes of China, and Mr. Dowse’s letter . From the length of time (4. years) since Mr. Dowse had been so kind as to undertake to bring me a service of China, he apprehended I must have given up the expectation of it and supplied myself, and therefore in his letter desired me to consult my own convenience only, as it was...
21From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President Minutes of what passed on the subject of the letter to Mr. Genet. Also the draught of a letter to the Merchants . Both papers have been twice sent to the Atty. General’s, but he is not in town nor will be till tomorrow. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); addressed: “The Preside[…]”; endorsed by Washington. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures:...
22From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the memoir of M. Lentilhon, with a letter to Dr. Mc.Henry adapted to his case. Of the letter of M. Millet he can make very little. It is rendered difficult of comprehension by the bad English in which it is written: and still more by the imperfect and indigested views of the writer. He sees no distinct object in it but to get the President...
23From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve by the inclosed papers that Genet has thrown down the gauntlet to the President by the publication of his letter and my answer , and is himself forcing that appeal to the people, and risking that disgust, which I had so much wished should have been avoided. The indications from different parts of the continent are already sufficient to shew that the mass of the republican...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 14. I asked the favor of you to send off the horse you had been so kind as to procure for me, on the 1st. of Sep. to meet Tarquin at Georgetown, who is to be sent from hence, there the riders to exchange horses, Tarquin to be carried to Monticello, and the other brought here. I have since that received your letter of July 31. and Maria has received one of Aug. 8. neither...
25From Thomas Jefferson to the Cabinet, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson submits to the Secretaries of the treasury and War and the Atty. Genl. some sketches of Notes to be signed for the President. As they are done from memory only, they will be pleased to insert whatever more their memories suggest as material. Particularly, the final conclusion as to the express-vessel will be to be inserted, which is most accurately known to the Secry. of the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and incloses him a copy of a commission of a Mr. Moore to be Vice-Consul of Gr. Britain for the state of Rhode-island, on which an Exequatur is asked. As it has been our practice hitherto, where there is a Minister from the same nation, to issue Exequaturs only on his authentication of the Commission, Th: Jefferson takes the liberty of...
27From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses a draught of the clause for the letter to Mr. Morris for his consideration. Tr ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Draft of the second paragraph of TJ to Gouverneur Morris, [23] Aug. 1793 .
28To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, with Jefferson’s Note, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President wishes the Secretary of State to let him know what measures, in his opinion, will be proper to be taken on the subject stated by the British Consul Genl. [ Note by TJ: ] Bond’s letter of Aug. 23. RC ( DLC ); in Tobias Lear’s hand, with note at foot of text by TJ; addressed: “The Secretary of [State]”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Washington received 26 Aug. 1793. Recorded in...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to Dr. Barton, and being now in the act of sending off his books to Virginia, takes the liberty of asking from Dr. Barton the volumes lent him.—Th:J. has been for some time settled on the banks of the Schuylkill near Gray’s ferry, where he would always be very happy to see Dr. Barton, should his rides or walks lead him that way. His absence from...
30Cabinet Opinions on Edmond Charles Genet, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At meetings of the heads of departments and the Attorney General at the President’s on the 1st. and 2d. of Aug. 1793. On a review of the whole of Mr. Genet’s correspondence and conduct, it was unanimously agreed that a letter should be written to the Minister of the US. at Paris, stating the same to him, resuming the points of difference which had arisen between the government of the US. and...