1To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
..., leather, books, blank & printed, candles, boulting cloths, chemical & galenical preparations...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Robotham, 11 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
minuetes that is full of Bad air wherein a Candle will not burn So that a man may desend without...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...a return trip to Guadeloupe, with a cargo including candles, codfish, herring, oil, and soap...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 28 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...“Stores” of beef and pork, port, wine, candles, “a Small quantity coffee Tea & Sugar,”...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Ellery, 12 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...noon. and is then engaged with company till candle-light, after which his friends will again...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Adam Lindsay, 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...with an annual supply of myrtle wax candles and an occasional procurement of Hughes crab...
7To James Madison from James Barbour, 17 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
...late hour of the Night & that he held the Candle to give them light.”
8To James Madison from Obed and Aaron Mitchell, 4 March 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...that produced illuminating oil and spermaceti candles. In 1846 the Mitchells’ claim was...
9To John Adams from Dudley Leavitt, 7 April 1802 (Adams Papers)
...one second of time there flow out of a burning Candle, 418,660,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Claxton, 13 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...of the Setting room, intended to exclude the candle flies and bugs in the evening, which...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Minifie, 24 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...from another. He operated a soap and candle works in Philadelphia during the 1790s,...
12Notes on the History of Mt. Wollaston, 19 October 1802 (Adams Papers)
Stick candles ’gainst a Virgin Walls white back;
13To John Jay from Timothy Dwight, 4 January 1803 (Jay Papers)
washing, firewood, & candles; & three fourths of a dollar for his instruction;... ...& candles,...
14From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 22 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
...for Clerk hire, office rent, fire, Candles, newspapers, printed books, gratuities, nor...
15To James Madison from John Beckley, 20 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
...Silver—Mockplated joints—pair of lamps to be constructed for candles instead of Oil—a Silver
16To Thomas Jefferson from William Thomas, 29 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...Since a Small whiteish speck rose up close by the candle or apple of my eye, As the Speck grew...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 10 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...the rays of the sun, or the blaze of a candle flame
18To Thomas Jefferson from Silvanus Ewer, 15 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...became a successful whale merchant and manufacturer of oil and candles (
19Memorandum Books, 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...bill for 79.20 to John Marrast, at Norfolk for candles....bayberry candles (Marrast to TJ...
20From Thomas Jefferson to James Taylor, Jr., 29 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...to be supplied from Norfolk with moulded candles of Myrtle wax, sometimes indeed so...
21To Thomas Jefferson from James Taylor, Jr., 20 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...give you information that the myrtle wax candles coud be procured—I have made enquiry...
22To Thomas Jefferson from John Marrast, 18 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...have sent you a case containing 42 pounds of white candles in the schooner
23From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 18 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...a box of about 30 ℔ of moulded tallow candles. myrtle wax would be preferred but I presume...
24To Thomas Jefferson from John Marrast, 22 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...of informing you that I loaded two cases of green candles on the ship ...of candles: one white...
25To James Madison from Turell Tufts, 29 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...of articles admissible, excludes Beef, Pork, Candles, Soap—Whale Oil, which by the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to John Marrast, 13 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
of the white & green wax candles you had been so kind as to send me,...
27Estimate of State Department Expenses for 1805, 28 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Fire & Candles
28To James Madison from Thomas Appleton, 20 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...and ship’s broker. He turned to candle manufacturing when his earlier business suffered during...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Marrast, 22 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...for $79.20 for three cases of white and green candles that I sent you at the time.
30To James Madison from George W. Erving (Abstract), 23 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
tobacco, “Provisions,” gin, soap, candles, pitch, tar, and lumber, and arrived in July...
31To Thomas Jefferson from William Armstrong, 30 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
; The Beef Pork Hemp fens Cordage Loaf Candles &c. of which no accurate estimate has been made...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 9 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
..., Almonds, Raisins, Saffron, Drugs, Corks, Candles, Fruits in Brandy and Glazed; Cordials...
33To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 6 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...⟩; with the Sellers not a pound of Sugar or Candles up to a Cab⟨le⟩; & anchor & a...
34Memorandum re Gibson & Jefferson, 4 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...05. Wrote to Gibson & Jefferson for 30. ℔ candles
35From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 August 1805 (Adams Papers)
ed and the Candle of Life, is expiring.
36To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 13 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...them to go by the Stage. A Box of Candles, with a Cask containing Syrrup of punch, were...
37To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 2 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My wine Brandy Spermc. & tallow Candles Box Soap & loaf sugar are already arrived—that my...
38To James Madison from Anthony Terry, 31 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
John Cunningham, carrying a cargo of soap, candles, butter, potatoes, cider, rum, and cloth was...
39To Thomas Jefferson from John O’Neill, 30 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...they had thought him to much of Roman Candle Stick in principles. Such conduct as this...
40To James Madison from Stanley Griswold, 3 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
...a year’s office rent of $50; wood and candles estimated at $20; $5 for the delivery of...
41Estimate for the Service of the Year 1806, 10 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
Fire and Candles
42To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
" Nails, brads & Candles
43To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 30 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...some woolen Merchants, put Tallow Candles amongst the bales of Cloath; Mrs. Rittenhouse used...
44From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 30 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...Norfolk, a grocer I believe, for some Myrtlewax candles he furnished me. I will ask the favor...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Etienne Lemaire, 30 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The debt to Marast for the candles had entirely escaped me. I have desired mr Jefferson...
46To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 16 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...I yesterday forwarded to you a box of wax Candles by John Conners waggon, to be left at Mr...
47From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 6 November 1806 (Adams Papers)
...else in the way of board—fire–wood & candles—I told him there would be two fires constantly...
48Re Estimate for the service of the year, 20 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
Fuel and Candles
.... Paynes a few minutes after I left home a Candle which was standing on my drawers, owing to...
...but to what is infinitely more dangerous the candles upon your tables and drawers—Let me...candle