1Henry Dearborn’s Report on the War Department, [12 May 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
on the Great Lakes, a brig called the
2To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 11 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When we take a view of the mountains through which the north River passes, the Idea naturally occurs, that probably once those waters were damed up by those Mountains, and thuse formed a great Lake from thence to the Shawangunk mountain, such I find has been the oppinion of many.
3I. Address of Little Turtle, [4 January 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
4III. Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 7 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...to live together like brothers in peace and friendship, and your Father the President, most sincerely hopes that the same friendly dispositions will continue and encreace in strength in all parts of the United States, as long as the Great Lakes & Rivers remain.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Elkanah Watson, 1 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...Franklin’s nephew, Jonathan Williams. Watson settled in Albany in 1789. He owned farms, was a banker, promoted agricultural fairs, wool production, and turnpike construction, and advocated the construction of a canal from Albany to the Great Lakes (
6To Thomas Jefferson from Horatio Gates, 7 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Quebec through the Great Lakes region, the Illinois settlements, and down the Mississippi. TJ owned the book and recommended it to others. No English translation of the work was published until the third quarter of the nineteenth century (Charles E. O’Neill...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Owl and Others, 8 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
and Republics in the Great Lakes Region
8To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 13 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the Columbia, using rivers, canals, and short portages, imagine what a route this would be for European, Asian, and American commerce. Products from the north would reach it from the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi while goods from the south of the new continent would arrive from the lower Mississippi and from the river in northern New Mexico whose source is close to the 40th parallel...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
has not been found but it probably concerned customs violations on the Great Lakes. For the custom house officers appointed for the Niagara district, see Gallatin to TJ, 11 Aug. 1803 (first letter).
10To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 18 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
engaged in fur-trading ventures that took him to the Great Lakes, the upper Mississippi Valley, and as far west and north as the Saskatchewan and Athabasca Rivers. As TJ knew, the reliability of information from Pond was disputed (