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Notes on a Conversation with John Nicholas, 13 January 1800

Notes on a Conversation with
John Nicholas

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., of Maryland, and Harrison Gray Otis served together in the Fifth and Sixth Congresses (Biog. Dir. Cong.).

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    “Notes on a Conversation with John Nicholas, 13 January 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-31-02-0259. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 31, 1 February 1799 – 31 May 1800, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 303.]