1To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond has the honor of sending to Mr. Jefferson the last Monthly Review and Gentlemans Magazine, which he has received from England. Mr. H. also annexes a Copy of the Queen of Spain answer to his letter of recall. He has no copy of this last paper, but the tenor of it may be collected from the Queen of Spain’s answer. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); enclosure: Copy of Luisa, Queen of Spain, to...
2To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. He is this moment returned home, and has been extremely mortified at learning the mistake, which his servant, through ignorance, committed, in informing Mr. Jefferson that Mr. H. was then in the house, as at the time, when Mr. J. was so obliging as to call upon him, he had been absent from home more than half an hour. RC (...
3To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and would have been happy to have dined with him today; had he not been engaged for some days past to meet a party of English Gentlemen. Mr. H. will be happy to wait upon Mr. Jefferson at any hour tomorrow that he will be so obliging as to appoint. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); addressed: “Mr Jefferson Secretary of state for the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond will have the honor of dining with Mr. Jefferson tomorrow, in compliance with his obliging invitation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); endorsed by TJ with reference to the communications exchanged with Hammond on this day: “Hammond George. June 2. 1792. notes preceding the conference reported to the President.” Tr ( Lb in same).
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of stating to you, that I have no information as to the precise situation of Caldwell manor; but from a variety of circumstances I am inclined to believe that Caldwell manor either is situated near to, or forms part of, the town of Alburgh, which town, though on the south side of the 45th degree of latitude, is under the protection and...
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Having this morning received a letter from Richmond, which informs him of the adjournment of the circuit Court of that place, without any decision on the subject of actions brought by British Creditors, he will be much obliged to Mr. Jefferson, if he will have the goodness to acquaint him, whether this circumstance has arisen...
7To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 April 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 12th of March last I had the honor of addressing a letter to you on the subject of Mr. Pagan. As you have never acknowledged the receipt of that letter , I am apprehensive it may not have reached you: if that shall have been the case, I will transmit you a copy of it, and am with due respect, Sir, Your very humble servant, RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); in the hand of Edward Thornton, signed...
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 18 February 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
I should feel a considerable degree of reluctance in troubling you again on the subject of your communication of the 13th curt., were I not solicitous to justify an expression in my answer, which, from the letter I received from you this morning, appears to you exceptionable in point of accuracy. I was induced to regard the assurance of my personal conviction &ca. as a formal one, by the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have received the inclosed copy of Mr. Shoolbred’s commission, as his Majestys Vice-Consul for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which he has forwarded under a presumption that a copy would be competent to the purpose of obtaining the recognition of the President of the United States. The particular cases of exigency, which have...
11To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 13 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter dated yesterday, and I cannot conceal from you my surprize at the requisition contained in it—that the President expects from me, as one of two parties specified, that none of the vessels you have enumerated shall “depart until his ultimate determination” respecting them “shall be made known.” I have no wit of controul over any of them: Indeed, one alone excepted ,...
12To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 3 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you that, by the Halifax packet, which arrived here on Wednesday last, I have received a dispatch from my Court, communicating to me his Majesty’s entire approbation of my conduct, relative to my conversations and explanatory correspondence with you, on the subject of the circular notification which I transmitted to you on the 12th of April. Having obtained this...
13To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday; and I desire you to be assured that I entertain a proper sense of the principles of Justice, which have dictated the President’s determination, of “excluding from all further asylum in the ports of the United States the vessels that have been armed therein, to cruize on nations with which the United States are at peace,” and of...
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of this date, I cannot avoid expressing to you my concern at your not having deemed it expedient to return a definite answer to the questions, which I had the honor of submitting to you in my letter of the 14th. curt., and which appeared to me extremely plain and obvious in their import. As an individual, I am not interested in any measures which the...
15To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and begs leave to assure him that he has felt equal regret with him at the circumstances, which have hitherto prevented their meeting. In conformity to Mr. Jefferson’s obliging proposal Mr. Hammond will have the honor of waiting on him tomorrow, at any hour that he will have the goodness to appoint. Mr. Hammond is extremely...
16To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day had the honor of receiving your letter, dated the 9th. curt., in answer to my memorials of the 4th. and 6th. of this month. As there appears to subsist an essential difference between us, on a matter of fact, I esteem it necessary for my justification, to assure you that my statement, of the establishment of a regular succession of cruizers , from the French fleet stationed at...
17To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acquainting you that, in consequence of the requisition contained in your letter of the 10th: curt:, I have communicated the subject of it to his Majesty’s different Consuls in the United States; and have directed them to pursue such measures as may be the best calculated for facilitating the object of the regulation, to which your letter refers. I have the honor to be,...
18To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday. In conformity to your recommendation I have instructed the parties interested in the British brigantine Catharine to adopt without delay in the district Court of New York the proper legal measures for the support of their rights and for the recovery of their property. I desire you to be persuaded, Sir, that I entertain...
19To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I can only repeat what I have before stated, in my first conversations with you after my arrival, and subsequently in my letter of the 6th. of this month; viz, that I have no special Commission, empowering me to conclude any definitive arrangement upon the subject of the commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the United States: But that I...
20To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 13th. curt:, I have the honor of informing you that I have not yet received such definitive instructions, relative to your communication of the 29th. of May 1792, as will enable me immediately to renew the discussions upon the subject of it, which have been for some time suspended. I can however repeat with confidence my conviction, that the continuance of the...
21To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday, and though the circumstances of Mr. Crousillat’s complaints are not quite of so exceptionable a nature as those alleged in Mr. Lemaigre’s former statement, relative to the Suckey, I shall nevertheless willingly give to any Agent, whom Mr. Crousillat may appoint, a letter for the Governor of Jamaica, similar to that which I gave to Mr....
22To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of observing that I have no other instructions upon the subject of my communication than such as are contained in the circular dispatch, of which I stated the purport in my letter dated yesterday. I have however no difficulty in assuring you, that the result of my personal conviction is, that the determination of his Majesty’s government...
23To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 23 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of our conversation of this morning, I have made the necessary enquiries relative to the Sloop Hope of Antigua Captain William John Richardson, and I learn that that vessel was captured, on her passage from St. Bartholomews to Norfolk, near the capes of Virginia, on the 10th. day of August last by the privateer le Citoyen Genet—was sent into this port, where she arrived on the...
24To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [12 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his compliments to Mr. Jefferson and has the honor of inclosing to him the deposition of the Pilot on board of the Brig Catharine, which he begs Mr. Jefferson to annex to the other deposition upon the subject of the Brigantine’s capture. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 12 June 1793 received 13 June 1793 and so recorded in SJL . Tr (...
25To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter, dated yesterday, and I request you to accept my acknowledgements for the full exposition which you have given me of the intentions of this government, relative to prizes taken by privateers fitted out in ports of the United States. Should any future captures be made by armed vessels of this description, I shall certainly employ every exertion in...
26To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [27 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The British Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and has the honor of informing him that he has just learnt that the person who has the care of the Light House on Cape Henry was a witness of the capture of the Ship William. The necessary steps are taken for procuring the deposition of this person on this subject without delay. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); partially dated;...
27To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [13 April 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to the Secretary of state, and has the honor of returning to him the draught of the letter to the President of the U.S., the contents of which certainly meet his full approbation, and are an accurate exposition of his personal sentiments.—Mr. Hammond begs leave to assure the Secretary of State that he is perfectly sensible of this mark of...
28To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to return you my acknowledgements for your very obliging favor of the 28th. Curt., and also for the communication of the Attorney General’s letter on the subject of Mr. Thomas Pagan’s case. Had my interference in behalf of Mr. Pagan been dictated merely by the spontaneous desire of relieving that Gentleman from his present unfortunate situation, I might possibly have been induced...
29To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 15th curt., you mention that one of the points, stated in my memorial of the 8th of this month, has been reserved for future deliberation. That point appearing to me to be of the most serious magnitude, I shall be infinitely obliged to you, if you will have the goodness to inform me at what time I may expect to receive the determination of this government upon it; as my...
30To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last packet, I have received from my Court (in consequence of a communication from me of the reports circulated upon the subject) a corroboration of the truth of the sentiments, which I had the honor of stating to you, as the result of my personal conviction, in my letter of the 14th of December, relative to Mr. Bowles. I am directed to assure this government, in the most explicit...