1From Thomas Jefferson to James B. M. Adair, 1 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored with your letter from New York, [and I] am very thankful for your care of the letters from Mr. Pinckney and particularly so also for your attention to the threshing machine, which, if it answers what I have heard of it will be a vast acquisition to the states of Virginia and North Carolina. If you should not be coming on yourself to Philadelphia in the course of the present...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 12 May 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Adams and begs his care of the inclosed letters . Those directed to Messrs. Monroe and Hardy will make him acquainted with two very worthy gentlemen of the Virginia delegation. Should Colo. Monroe not be at New York Mr. Jefferson begs the favor of Mr. Adams to deliver his letter either to Mr. Hardy or Mr. Charles Thomson with a request to keep it till they...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Frederick Ast, 14 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6th. inst. conveys to me the first information of your establishment in this country, in which I wish you every success. With respect to the application you propose to Congress on the subject of insurances , I am not able to say what may be it’s effect. We are little habituated to these speculations here, and therefore the less likely to estimate their true value. Instead...
4George Muter to the Auditors, 3 January 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
War Office, 3 Jan. 1780 [ 1781 ]. Issue a warrant for £450 to John Liggon for two months house rent for Nathaniel Nattall and ten men for the state from 4 Nov. to 4 Jan. Signed by Muter. Countersigned by TJ. RC ( Vi : Executive Department, Auditors’ Office, Vouchers); 1 p.; at foot of text: “The Auditors”; endorsed: “Jno. Liggon £450 30 Jan: 1781 Army” and “Exd.”
5From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Bankson, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to Mr. Bankson as soon as he has finished the letters left with him yesterday, to go on with the Duplicate of those Aug. 16. and 23d. to Mr. Gouverneur Morris and the documents, taking therein the assistance of the other gentlemen. The press copy is to be sent to Mr. Morris, that on writing paper being wanting for another purpose . When it is ready, Mr. Bankson...
6Memorandums to Benjamin Bankson, [15 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums for Mr. Bankson. Mr. Bankson will receive for me at the Treasury 875. Dollars. He will in the first place pay 600. Dollars of it to the bank of North America, and take up a note of mine for that sum endorsed by J. Bringhurst and due the 3d. or 4th. of October. There will then remain free money 275. Dol. also Mr. Bringhurst’s note now delivd. to Mr. Bankson for 48. 323 Out of this...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Bankson, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Bankson will find herein inclosed the following papers, to wit 1. to Mr. Duplaine. my original letter to him } a copy of the Letters patent a copy of the Evidence 2. to Mr. Genet. my original letter to him } a copy of the Letters patent a copy of the Evidence. a copy of my letter to Duplaine 3. to Mr. Morris my original letter to him } press copies will do for this if good.
8From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Bankson, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Bankson will recieve herein an original commission for Mr. Dannery to be Consul of France at Boston, an Exequatur signed by the President and myself, and a letter from me to Mr. Genet meant to accompany both. He will be pleased to retain in the office a copy of the original commission, then to inclose the commission itself with the Exequatur (to which he will first affix the seal of the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Bankson, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received by post your favor of Sep. 23. and the letters accompanying it. I now inclose you a returned commission to be filed in the office.—Crosby mentioned to me that he had some interests, of moment to himself and his wife, to settle in Delaware, which would require an absence of a week, and I thought he could not take a better time than during the suspension of our business....
10From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Barclay, 3 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Aop applied to me on the subject of a dividend of prize money assigned to Mr. Barclay, which, as I informed him, can only be paid in America. It has since occurred to me that Mr. Barclay might perhaps have relied on this in part for your particular use during his absence. If so, and any inconvenience should arise from the disappointment, I beg you to be so friendly as to communicate it to...