1To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 2 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...attack by Americans on the western posts. Dorchester was skeptical and told Bowles that he could neither advise him to proceed to England nor to return home. He also pointed out very bluntly that the adventurer had “chosen to come [to Quebec] very much out of his way, without producing any Authority, and without assigning any satisfactory reason”; that if the attack had taken place when he...
2To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 4 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
were led by the adventurer William Augustus Bowles (see J. L. Wright, Jr.,
3To Thomas Jefferson from William Murray, 12 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
...his bills had been protested. At the time these people engaged with him it was not known that he intended to make this settlement in opposition to the general Government: On the contrary it was supposed by the adventurers that the Company had a legal right to the lands under their purchase from Georgia and that by removing to that land they would offend none but the Spaniards and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 9 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
mission to England, led by the adventurer William Augustus Bowles, is discussed in
5Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
...which the British minister had sent to the secretary of state on 30 March. Having just received a communication from the British government, Hammond could assure the administration that Britain in no way encouraged or countenanced the operations of the adventurer William Bowles in the Creek country (see Hammond to Jefferson, 30 Mar.,