481Enclosure: Table of Vice-Presidential Absences, 29 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Beginng of Session. End of do. Absences at the beginning of the session days Absences at the close of the session. days acts passd acts signd by VP 1791. Oct. 24. – 1792. May 8. the V.P. absent from Apr. 18. to May 8. inclus. 21 44 24 1792. Nov. 5. – 1793.
482Notes on Senate Debates, 19 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 19. same subject . Dexter maintained that the Com. law as to crimes is in force in the courts of the US. Chipman says that the principles of Com. right are Common law. and he says the Com. 1. of England is in force here. there being no laws in Vermont for appointing juries which the Marshall can follow, he sais he may appoint them as directed by the Com. 1. of England tho’ that part of...
483Notes on Senate Debates, [after 5 March 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
1800. March. heretical doctrines maintained in Senate. on the motion against the Aurora. that there is in every legal body of men a right of self preservation authorising them to do whatever is necessary for that purpose. by Tracy, Read, & Laurence. that the common law authorises the proceeding proposed agt. the Aurora, & is in force here. by Read. that the privileges of Congress are and ought...
484Notes on a Conversation with Tench Coxe, 2 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
1800. Jan. 2. information from Tenche Coxe. mr Liston had sent 2. letters to the Govr. of Canada by one Sweezy . he had sent copies of them together with a third, (original) by one Cribs. Sweezy was arrested (being an old horse-thief) and his papers examd. T. Coxe had a sight of them. as soon as a rumor got out that there were letters of mr Liston disclosed, but no particulars yet mentioned,...
485Notes on John Marshall, 21 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 21. mr John Marshall has said here that had he not been appointed minister to France he was desperate in his affairs, and must have sold his estate & that immediately, that that appointment was the greatest God-send that could ever have befallen a man. I have this from J. Brown & S. T. Mason. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 108:18559); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as Notes on Charleston...
486Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 10 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 10. Dr. Rush tells me that he had it from Saml. Lyman that during the XYZ Congress the Federal members held the largest Caucus they have ever had, at which he was present, & the question was proposed & debated whether they should declare war against France, & determined in the Negative. Lyman was against it. he tells me that mr Adams told him that when he came on in the fall to Trenton ,...
487Notes on John Marshall’s Speech, [after 7 March 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( ViHi ); written in TJ’s hand on verso of last page of printed copy of Speech of the Hon. John Marshall, Delivered in the House of Representatives, of the United States, on the Resolutions of the Hon. Edward Livingston, Relative to Thomas Nash, Alias Jonathan Robbins (Philadelphia, 1800). Marshall’s speech to the House of 7 Mch. was a defense of John Adams’s action in extraditing Jonathan...
488Notes on a Conversation with Samuel Smith, 12 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
12. Genl. Sam. Smith says that Pickering, Wolcott & Mc.Henry wrote a joint letter from Trenton to the President then at Baintree, dissuading him from the mission to France. Stoddard refused to join in it. Stoddard says the instructions are such as that if the Directory have any dispositions to reconciliation, a treaty will be made. he observed to him also that Elsworth looks beyond this...
489Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to William Short (Jefferson Papers)
On 26 Mch. 1800 Jefferson promised William Short “a long letter containing a comprehensive view” of Short’s affairs under his management. Although he began writing the detailed epistle on 13 Apr., he worked on it, and presumably on several of the enclosures that he sent with it, “at intervals” for almost a month. After dispatching the letter, Jefferson realized that he had neglected to make a...
490Notes on Senate Debates, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 11. the jury bill before the Senate . mr Read says that if from any circumstances of inaptitude the Marshall cannot appoint a jury analogously with the state juries, the common law steps in & he may name them according to that. and Mar. 12. same bill. mr Chipman speaking of the case of Vermont where a particular mode of naming jurors was in force under a former law of that state, when the...
491Notes on a Conversation with John Nicholas, 13 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
13. Baer & Harrison G. Otis told J. Nicholas that in the Caucus mentioned ante 10th. there wanted but 5. votes to produce a declaration of war. Baer was against it. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 108:18558); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as Notes on a Conversation with Samuel Smith, 12 Jan. 1800. Caucus : see Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, 10 Jan. 1800. Nicholas, George Baer, Jr.,...
492II. Partial Copy from Memory, 9 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I added to this letter another page, & forgot to take a press-copy. eight hours afterwards I sit down to repeat it as nearly verbally as I can by memory. May. 9. I begun this letter on the day of it’s date and continued it at intervals. being now within 3. days of my departure from this place & that of the Parlementaire, I bring it to a close. since that date some facts of importance have...
493Notes on Conversations with Abigail Adams and Edward Dowse, 11 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 11. conversing with mrs Adams on the subject of the writers in the newspapers, I took occasion to mention that I never in my life had directly or indirectly written one sentence for a newspaper, which is an absolute truth. she said that mr Adams she believed had pretty well ceased to meddle in the newspapers since he closed the peices on Davila . this is the first direct avowal of that...
494Indenture for Land Exchange with Nicholas Meriwether Lewis and Mildred Hornsby Lewis, 1 July 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the first day of July one thousand seven hundred & ninety nine between Nicholas Meriwether Lewis and Mildred his wife on the one part & Thomas Jefferson on the other part, all of them of the county of Albemarle, witnesseth that the said Nicholas Meriwether, & Mildred his wife, for the considerations herein after expressed, do hereby give grant bargain & sell unto the...
495Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Rush, [27 March 1800 or after] (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Rush tells me that within a few days he has heard a member of Congress lament our separation from Gr. Brit. & express his sincere wishes that we were again dependant on her. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 108:18559); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as the preceding document, and is the final notation on that page. On 24 Feb. 1800 TJ received a letter of unspecified date from Rush that is...
496Mortgage of Slaves and Goods from Edmund Randolph, 19 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
This Indenture made this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred. Between Edmund Randolph of the City of Richmond of the one part, and Thomas Jefferson the friend and trustee of Arriana Randolph, William Foushee, Daniel L. Hylton, William DuVal, Samuel Mc.Craw, Lewis Nicholas, and Philip Norborne Nicholas of the other part: Whereas the said Edmund Randolph...
497Notes on Treasury Statement, [after 28 December 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
Monies wanting for the year 1800. according to a Report by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress of Dec. 17. 1799. Civil department, including Mint, valuation of lands & lighthouses 888,815.95 Foreign intercourse, viz. diplomatic department & certain treaties 336,000. Navy 2,482,953.99 Arms 260,000. Army 4,067,200. Indian department 81,800. Annuities, grants, military pensions...
498Notes on Charleston Printers, 14 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 14. Freneau in Charleston had the printing of the laws in his paper. he printed a pamphlet of Pinckney’s Ires on Robbins’s case. Pickering has given the printing of the laws to the tory paper of that paper, tho’ not of half the circulation. the printing amounted to about 100. D. a year. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 108:18559); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as Notes on Senate Debates,...
499Indenture with Craven Peyton for the Lease of Fields at Shadwell, 1 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the first day of October 1799. between Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle on the one part & Craven Peyton of the same county on the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas hath demised & leased unto the sd Craven a parcel of land containing four fields of his farm called Shadwell in the same county, which fields are known by the names of the...
500Memorandum on Attendance of the Vice President, [after 29 December 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
It is very well known that, in the earlier part of their sessions, very little business is done in either house of Congress; & particularly that in the Senate there is rarely a bill even brought in during the first 3. or 4. weeks. in the mean while the Senate is employed in recieving the President’s speech, preparing their address, & is divided into Committees who are digesting business. they...
501Notes on a Conversation with Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
19. W. C. Nicholas tells me that in a conversn with Dexter 3. or 4. days ago, he asked Dexter whether it would not be practicable for the states to agree on some uniform mode of chusing electors of a President. Dexter says ‘I suppose you would prefer an election by districts.’ yes, said N. ‘I think it would be best, but would nevertheless agree to any other consistent with the Constn.’ Dexter...