5391From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 360. D. to be paid as follows. to John Perry 200. mr Nelson 30. Wm. Maddox 52. 16 mr Belt 75. on account 2. 84 360. mr Belt shall receive his balance the first week in next month.
5392From Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Brown, Jr., 11 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the address of that portion of the citizens of Stockbridge who have declared their approbation of the present suspension of our commerce, and their dissent from the representation of those of the same place who wished its removal. A division of sentiment was not unexpected. On no question can a perfect unanimity be hoped, or certainly it would have been on that between war...
5393From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 7th. has been recieved, & the papers it covered, but I must trouble you again to send me, by return of post , the whole of the papers which were in that cartoon, all of which were of the same character ‘to be answered or acted on’ immediately on my arrival here. I specified the particular parcels you sent me merely to ascertain the right bundle. I think your idea of shifting the...
5394From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by my grandson Th: Jefferson Randolph who goes on to take the benefit of your lectures in Natural history in the first instance, & of those of Anatomy & Surgery. it is proposed that the two former shall occupy his attention almost exclusively, his attendance on the lectures in Surgery being merely with a view to the situation of the head of a family in the country where...
5395From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Such was the accumulation of business awaiting me here, that it was not till this day that I could take time to look into my letters to you. as my copies are with the Polygraph I can refer to the originals in your hands by the page and line. letter of Feb. 18. 1st. paragraph to be omitted, being merely of private business. pa. 1. l. 22. perhaps the word ‘old’ may be misunderstood, & therefore...
5396From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th Jefferson Randolph is now here, and will leave this place so as to be in Philadelphia on Tuesday the 18th. he will immediately repair to the quarters you are so kind as to offer him. I have arranged with his father to supply all his expences, except for clothes & pocket money. these were excepted merely because, altho’ I have entire confidence in his prudence and governableness,...
5397From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 12 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by my grandson Th Jefferson Randolph who goes on to Philadelphia to attend the lectures in Anatomy, Natural history & Surgery during this winter, and of Botany in the spring. those of Anatomy & Natural history, in the winter course, are to occupy his attention almost exclusively and he will attend the course of Surgery merely to get the outlines of the doctrines, and to...
5398From Thomas Jefferson to John George Jackson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. was recieved the evening before the last. the story of the declaration imputed to mr Smith is one of the poor efforts frequently tried by the federalists to sow tares among the members of the administration, of which we are so well aware as never to suffer ourselves to be drawn into any inquiry about them. what I now write therefore is meant for your personal...
5399From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of yesterday it has occurred to me that the stile in which, in my letters to you, I have spoken of the mass of falsehood & calumny afloat in our country, & the impossibility of believing what is beyond the evidence of our own senses, is too strong to be published. such a fellow as Cobbet, abusing us as a nation, will quote this as testimony of it given by ourselves. the...
5400From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by my grandson Th: Jefferson Randolph, who goes to Philadelphia to attend a course in Natural history, Botany, & anatomy. mr Peale’s museum, mr Hamilton’s garden & the anatomical preparations & dissections give to Philadelphia advantages in those branches of science which are to be had no where else in America. other branches being well taught in Williamsburg he will go...
5401From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore. call on mr P. Williamson Market street No. 72. and pay him for a dozen steel pen points sent me. call on mr Rigden, watchmaker and pay him for repairing my repeating watch, & pray him to send it by some person coming here who will undertake to bring it in his pocket. Philadelphia. deliver my alarm watch to mr Voigt and pay him what the repair will amount to. perhaps I may owe him...
5402From Thomas Jefferson to James Ronaldson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the spring of 1806. you sent me many patterns of a variety of manufactures then carried on in Philadelphia. these proved that the arts had already taken good root there. occurrences since that have made it the duty of every one to improve every opportunity in his power of promoting these. I happen by accident to have obtained the Iceland or Shetland race of sheep of many horns. it is from...
5403From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered you by my grandson Th Jefferson Randolph, who goes to Philadelphia to attend a course of lectures in Natural history Anatomy & Botany. he will also attend the lecturer in Surgery, but as an amateur, and with a view to the care of a family when he shall have one, in a country situation where we have no surgeons & want them every day. he may then recollect and apply what...
5404From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 5. and one of Sep. 30. from mrs Page on the same subject, came both to my hands on the 8th. not knowing the situation in which this might find mr or mrs Page I have thought it best to address it to you with a commission for mr Harrison inclosed. I would wish you to say to mr Taylor that I am justly sensible of his honorable proposition in behalf of my friend, and that in...
5405From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favor of Genl: & Mrs. Dearborn & Mr. Wingate to dine with him on Monday the 17th: at half after three, The favor of an answer is asked. Privately owned.
5406From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As we know that Sullivan’s licences have overstocked the wants of the Eastern states, with flour; the proposal to carry more there is of itself suspicious, and therefore even regular traders ought not to be allowed. their regular trade was to supply flour for exportation as well as consumption. if the rule of the sixth (or eighth I believe) is extended to them the supply will be kept up...
5407From Thomas Jefferson to George Hunter, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4th. inst. was recieved a few days ago. you have been greatly decieved by the information that I had never paid the debt to William Hunter & that the bond is lost. I paid it to Joseph Royle’s executor & have a perfect recollection of the fact, and I have no doubt that at Monticello I can produce satisfactory evidence of it; probably the bond itself. I am not willing to...
5408From Thomas Jefferson to John Woodside, 14 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Woodside & his thanks for his attention to the handsome drawing by mr Mills, to whom he prays mr Woodside to make his thanks also acceptable when he informs him of the delivery. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5409From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Harris, 15 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 5th. instant has been duly recieved with the essay accompanying it which is now returned. my public occupations, and especially on the approach of a session of Congress, so imperiously demand all my time, that it has not been in my power to give to your essay so deliberate a perusal as might justify minute observations on it. but from the hasty perusal these have permitted...
5410From Thomas Jefferson to John le Tellier, 15 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Claxton having it in charge to have two silver terrines made for the President’s house, I wrote to enquire in Richmond whether you were in a situation to undertake them, & the answer being affirmative, he has requested me to ask further what would probably be the weight and cost of a terrine for soup, & what money it would be necessary for him to advance to you. I inclose you two designs,...
5411From Thomas Jefferson to Robert L. Livingston, 15 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep 22. waited here for my return, and it is not till now that I have been able to acknolege it. the explanation of his principles given you by the French emperor in conversation is correct as far as it goes. he does not wish us to go to war with England knowing we have no ships to carry on that war. to submit to pay to England the tribute on our commerce which she demands by...
5412From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Collector of Detroit. I think the liberal construction of the letter of May 2. as explained in the Collector’s letter, had better be permitted to go on, sub silentio, as the contrary would be vexatious & unprofitable, and might excite a spirit of counter-vexation in the English. McKim’s application is inadmissible, and Genl. Smith would be far from himself approving such a departure from rule,...
5413Notes on Pisé Walls, 16 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Pisé walls. Cointeraux’s new method of 1808. a beam of timber 12. I. wide, 8 ¾ I. deep has mortises dug through it 8 I. wide & 14. I. long. this mould-beam is supported on benches with a thick plank (say 2. I.) under it, forming a bottom from which it can be easily hoisted. into the mould-mortise drop a board 14 I. by 8 I. scrimp & ¾ I. thick. put into the trough thus closed at bottom as much...
5414From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 17 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. is recieved, and the 135. D. shall be sent you the first week in Nov. as shall also the small debts stated to be now due in the paper you gave me, & which I have now recovered these amount to something under 50. D. I expect mr Madox is now about the stable, & the house laid off where an old loghouse stands, & of course that he draws off some of your force. I think it will be...
5415From Thomas Jefferson to Obadiah B. Brown, 17 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Members of the Baltimore Baptist association I recieve with great pleasure the friendly address of the Baltimore Baptist association, & am sensible how much I am indebted to the kind dispositions which dictated it. In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. all men felt the right, and a just animation to obtain it was excited in all....
5416From Thomas Jefferson to George Blake, 17 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
However favorably the inclosed papers represent the case of Alexander Trott, yet it would be against every rule of prudence for me to undertake to revise the verdict of a jury on ex parte affidavits & recommendations. if the judges & yourself who were present at the trial think the defendant a proper object of pardon I shall be ready, on such a recommendation, to issue it. I ask the favor of...
5417From Thomas Jefferson to John Rea, 17 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will thank mr Rea to make & forward to him at this place a counterpane, or coverlid of the description below. the best conveyance would be by stage, provided mr Rea should find any passenger who would be so good as to have an eye to it in the different transfers from stage to stage. if he will send his bill at the same time it’s amount shall be carefully remitted him. a...
5418From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I think that none of the circumstances preceding the passage of the Embargo law stated by M. Lorent, make any part of his case. the misfortunes entering into the preceding history of that property, not flowing from any act of this government, authorize no claims on it. the embargo law excepted from it’s own operation articles then laden on board a foreign ship, without distinguishing between...
5419From Thomas Jefferson to William Tristoe, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Members of the Ketocton Baptist association I recieve with great pleasure the affectionate address of the Ketocton Baptist association, & am sensible how much I am indebted to the kind dispositions which dictated it. In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. all men felt the right, and a just animation to obtain it was excited in...
5420From Thomas Jefferson to William Moore, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To Capt. William Moore, & Lieutt. John Whiteman, the other officers & privates of their company of light infantry of the first regiment & first brigade of the militia of Delaware. I recieved on the 8th inst. your letter covering the resolutions of Aug. 13. whereby your company offer themselves as volunteers for the service of their country, should it’s exigencies call for them. the offer is...
5421From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter for T. B. Randolph containing his appointment as a Cadet. but the lodgings at the Military school at Westpoint being entirely full, he cannot be recieved there till the 1st. of March. indeed he could do nothing there sooner, as their vacation begins with November & ends with February. Genl. Dearborne proposed to me yesterday a new regulation respecting the Cadets. there...
5422From Thomas Jefferson to Owen Roberts, 18 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Doctor Rogers, & his thanks for the communication in his letter of September 12th. not recieved till the 3d. inst. the sentiments contained in his address are truly republican, and, were they as general as they are laudable, woul leave us without uneasiness under any unfriendly dispositions of the other hemisphere. Catalog--Rubinfine.
5423From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Clagett, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16th. specifying the particular papers inclosed me in 1806. has enabled me to turn to their proper deposit, where I have found them, and now inclose you all those which came to me under cover of the letter of 1806. with my respectful salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5424From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Is the case proposed by mr Wolcott left by the law at the discretion of anybody? the law makes it the duty of the Collector to detain if he suspects an intention to export to a foreign market, à fortiori if that intention be avowed . it is true that the first step proposed is only to go to another district, but declared to be preparatory to an exportation to the West Indies. it is true also...
5425From Thomas Jefferson to Matthew C. Groves, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of the 11th. inst. have been recieved, & I am obliged to observe that so wholly do the indispensable duties of my office engross my whole time that I could not give a deliberate reading to two letters so voluminous as these & not relating to my particular functions, without withdrawing time from objects having stricter claims on me. I have run over them hastily and percieve...
5426From Thomas Jefferson to David Hopkins, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 20. came to my hands on the 5th. inst. I have entirely forgotten the subject of your visit in 1806. and the mode you proposed of producing motion; and I am sure you greatly overrate any service I could render you even did my public duties allow me the time to consider your proposition carefully. but these duties so entirely engross the whole of my time, & especially on the...
5427From Thomas Jefferson to James Main, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. has been duly recieved. certainly I would with great pleasure contribute any thing in my power to render the history you propose to write a faithful account of the period it will comprehend. nothing is so desirable to me, as that after mankind shall have been abused by such gross falsehoods as to events while passing, their minds should at length be set to rights by...
5428From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a petition of the widow Bennet for the liberation of her son at Boston, a Minor, or for a moiety of 3. months pay to enable her to go to another son. I think when her case was formerly before us, she was said to be a woman of ill fame, & that her son did not wish to return to her. still however the mother, if there be no father, is the natural guardian, & is legally entitled to...
5429Notes on Natural Bridge Lands, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
1808. Oct. 20. Wm. Jenkings of Rockbridge calls on me and offers to buy my lands at the Natural bridge. he says they are worth as much as the adjacent tract which has sold 2. or 3. times at 10. D. & some of it £4. an acre. he sais the land is thin. his view is to build a public house. he lives about 4. or 5. miles from the Bridge, which is 4. or 5. miles also from Greenlee’s ferry. he will...
5430From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The case of the Martinique petitioners. I think it wrong to detain foreigners caught here by the embargo. but in permitting them to take our vessels to return in, we do what is a matter of favor, not of right. of course we can restrict them to a tonnage proportioned to their numbers. in the transport service I believe the allowance is 2. tons to every person. we may allow a little more room....
5431Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 22 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Oct. 22. Present the 4. Secretaries. Intruders on the new purchase South of Tenissee. 2. on the Indian lands (Choctaw & Cherokee) on each side of that purchase. 3. on the N. side of the Red river. agreed unanimously as to the first to appoint a Register & he to give notice to all the Intruders to come in & make a declarn that they have no claim to the lands, & that a military force be sent in...
5432From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 22 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr William Jenkings who lives 4. or 5. miles from the Natural bridge and whom I suppose to be a merchant, called on me two days ago to propose to purchase my lands at the bridge. I asked him some questions about the adjacent lands, in order to get his ideas of the value. he said the adjacent tract had been sold two or three times at about 10. D. & some of it as high as £4. the acre. I...
5433From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Ellen, which, I presume, will inform you that all are well at Edgehill. I received yours without date of either time or place, but written, I presume, on your arrival at Philadelphia. As the commencement of your lectures is now approaching, and you will hear two lectures a day, I would recommend to you to set out from the beginning with the rule to commit to writing...
5434From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 21st. is recieved. I think you ought not to venture to come without a horse or mule besides those in the Phaeton. a dog may disperse your sheep, or some other occurence, & they could not be pursued either with the Phaeton or the man on foot. two horses in the Phaeton & a mule for the rider would be best. if you can hire a steady horse reasonably, do so; or if you can borrow one....
5435From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the case of the Schooner Anne carried off forcibly by a British crew, I think the removal of the Inspector should be permitted to take place. the Collector should be instructed to communicate from time to time all circumstances which may enable us to trace the vessel, and copies of these papers should be furnished to mr Madison to furnish him the grounds of an answer to the British...
5436From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s & your Mama’s letters of the 20th. are recieved. tell her I will take care of her accounts with mrs Madison. I thank you for your care of my wines. I will endeavor to send bottles for the two doubtful casks into which you have drawn a part. I put a letter from Jefferson to your Mama into your Papa’s newspaper packet which went by the stage yesterday. yours to him shall be immediately...
5437From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I must trouble you with the transaction of the business explained in the inclosed note, and the advancing to Le Telier the money he may want as far as 300. D. the amount of the inclosed draught of the bank of the US. here on that at Norfolk in your favor. what the cost may be beyond this will be remitted by mr Claxton hereafter when the work shall have been delivered. when recieved I will pray...
5438From Thomas Jefferson to John le Tellier, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Le Tellier is desired to make for the President’s house two silver terrines, of the ordinary size, and of the form numbered 1505. on the drawing sent, being the uppermost of the two forms on the paper, and when done to pack them so securely that they cannot suffer by being brought in the stage, & to deliver them to messrs. Gibson & Jefferson, who will in the mean time advance to him the...
5439From Thomas Jefferson to John Moody, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your letter of the 20th. and readily consent to pay mr Evans the usual compensation for his inventions employed in my mill, whenever you or he will be so good as to ascertain the amount. what these are I know not, having left to the millwright to do whatever he thought would be useful. she began to run in the autumn or winter of 1806. I make this paiment willingly as a...
5440From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As the work you mention will cost as is supposed not more than 50. D. & is so necessary for the preservation of the wall, I think it may be so far considered as appurtenant to the wall & necessary to it’s duration, that it may be placed to that account. DLC : District of Columbia Papers.