1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 27 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...both American property—in consequence of which they sought Pinckney’s assistance on behalf of the American owners in recovering the ship and cargo wrongfully held in violation of the neutrality of the American flag and the treaty between the United States and France (
2From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1790 (Madison Papers)
. Gives his views concerning the application of the treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and France to the latter’s protest of the United States tonnage acts.
3David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
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4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, [August 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
of the convention between the United States and France indicates that he composed this letter after 31 July. He could have written it no later than early October, when the French government announced the signing of preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain. It seems likely, given...
5James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
6John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
7To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 4 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...7, adopted by the President of the United States and annexed to the Treasury Secretary’s circular letter, which declared equipments adapted solely for war unlawful, and of Articles 18 and 19 of the treaty between the United States and France, the exceptions to which did not comprehend this case, since the ship had entered with the French fleet from Cap-Français and been in the harbor since...
8David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
9James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
10James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Dawson, 18 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...the eight-year limit on duration of the convention imposed by the U.S. Senate. He also agreed to expunge the second article, leaving the status of previous treaties between the United States and France unresolved but closing off indemnity claims. Dawson wrote private letters to Madison on 25 June and 5 Aug. in addition to his official communications to the State Department. Hinting that...
12James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
13To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
alliance between the United States and France was insincere and transitory
14From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [9–14 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
not warranted by the usage of nations nor by the stipulations existing between the United States and France. It is true, that it is not so warranted, nor yet by any law of the Land: that, therefore, it is a mere nullity, can be respected in no court, make no part in the title...
15William H. Crawford to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
16To Thomas Jefferson from Vernes, 30 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
may have been an early draft of Bérard’s Observations on the tobacco trade between the United States and France, printed under 3 Sep. 1787, q.v. for a note on Bérard’s letter to the farmers-general of 14 July 1787 and other documents involved in the efforts being made by TJ, Lafayette, Bérard, and...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Martin de Villeneuve, 22 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
of the 14 Nov. 1788 Consular Convention between the United States and France governs the settlement of differences between French citizens or whether Article
18To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 30 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...armed with eight cannon and manned by at least twenty men, had stayed in New York harbor too long to be considered a distressed vessel under Articles 17 and 22 of the 1778 treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and France, which effectively closed American ports to privateers of nations at war with France except under strictly defined conditions of distress (
19VI. Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
nation” is a very extensive one—the terms being almost words of course in Commercial Treaties. And consequently our own Vessels in the carrying Trade between the United States and France would be in a worse situation than French Vessels. This is the necessary result of equal privileges on on[e] side, and unequal on the other, in favour of the Vessels of France.
20John Hollins to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
21To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 12 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
. Enclosure: Barlow to Abraham Baldwin, Paris, 4 Mch. 1798, a treatise on worsening relations between the United States and France, attributing the deterioration to American measures that included the appointment of Gouverneur Morris as minister to France, the Jay Treaty, the recall of James Monroe, and the sending to France of Pinckney (whose return there after the...
22Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 1 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
23John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
24To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Auguste Adet, 27 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...she had engaged the United States into making towards us. The opinion which the Directory adopted was that of the friends of liberty, and of those who knew the real interests of the United States and France. But to bring about the triumph of that opinion they were required to struggle against the secret friends of England, who to back up the efforts of the partisans of discord which that...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An article in each of those pacts guaranteed the free passage of ships and protected the cargoes of neutral vessels. Those provisions appeared also in a treaty between Russia and Sweden in March 1801. The convention between the United States and France included similar guarantees, Article 14 declaring “that free ships shall give a freedom to goods” (
26James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
27To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 14 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
by a Repetition but beg Leave to add That I am Confident That after my Father has done Every Thing in his power to serve both Countries of United States and France That I having followed his Example with Zeal, Integrity and Probity, you will take in your Wisdom my Critical Situation and not abandon me as a Bastard of not any Country?
28Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
29To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Elam, 10 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The differences, between the United States and France, having been terminated by their late Treaty, and the Treaty subsisting between this Country and
30Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]