26251To James Madison from John Pope, 13 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 December 1811, Washington. Recommends John Edwards King of Cumberland County, Kentucky, for the judicial vacancy in upper Louisiana. He is a lawyer of “experience, respectability & influe⟨nce⟩ & qualified for the office.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, misfiled under “Edwards”). 1 p. Docketed by Monroe. Damaged at margin.
26252From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
What is common Law in England has been Subject to disputes enough. In Blackstones Commentaries and Fortescue Alands Preface to his Reports you may find the most intelligible Account. In general, Usage from time immemorial practiced and approved, is the Criterion It is denied by many and doubted by more whether The United States have any common Law There may be some Principles and Rules of Law...
26253From James Madison to William Pinkney, 12 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of your letter of the 8th. you were nominated to the Senate as Successor to Mr. Rodney. The inclosed Commission will inform you of the result. In expectation of the pleasure of seeing you as soon as you can make it convenient, I tender you assurances of my great esteem and sincere regard. RC ( NjP : Pinkney Papers). Docketed by Pinkney. Enclosure not found.
26254To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 12 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
The late President Adams communicated to me yesterday, in a friendly interveiw at my house, the enclosed extract of a letter; & expressed great apprehension, that if all the propositions, for enforcing the non intercourse act, should be adopted, they will overthrow the republican governments of the New England States & make them compleatly federal. The searching houses, as proposed before the...
26255To James Madison from William Hull, 12 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 December 1811, Newton. States that Reuben Attwater’s term as secretary of the Michigan Territory will expire on 1 Mar. 1812. Has approved of Attwater’s conduct in office and would find his reappointment “highly satisfactory.” Presumes that there will be no objection to the reappointment but mentions it because Attwater is now the acting governor. “I do not expect to return to the Territory,...
26256Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu par M r Barlow , et avec bien de la reconnaissance, votre Lettre du 15 avril . Un Homme comme vous peut être retiré des Places, jamais des affaires. Vous êtes un Magistrat du Genre-humain. Tant mieux Si l’établissement des Manufactures dans votre Pays ne vous oblige pas de changer le Systême de vos Finances aussi promptement que l’on paraissait avoir lieu de le craindre. Mais le cas...
26257From Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Russian Court to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Le Département des Cérémonies a l’honneur d’annoncer à Madam Adams qu’Elle est invitée, ainsi que Mademoiselle Johnson, sa soeur, au Bal de Sa Majesté l’Impératrice Mère, le 12. de ce mois, à huit heures du soir. MHi : Adams Papers.
26258To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 11 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 December 1811, Vincennes. Encloses a memorial from both branches of the Indiana territorial legislature “upon the subject of the Army lately under the Command of Governor Harrison.” RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p. Signed by Johnston as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Docketed by JM. For enclosure, see n. 1. Johnston enclosed a five-page memorial, dated December 1811, to the U.S....
26259Richard Barry to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now under the necessity of calling on you for the ballance of my account if convenient I would not trouble you now but I am building a House in front of F and 12 th Street three Story which I find that it will exhaust my little resources Indeed, Sir if I thought it was putting you to an inconvenience I would not trouble RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by...
26260From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I feel Some Compunction, when I recollect the long time that has passed Since I wrote you a Line. Indeed I Could take no pleasure in Writing, nor you in reading continual Narrations of Wounds Bruises, Sicknesses Amputations and Deaths, among those you Love, as I did with the most ardent and well merited Affection. I could only recommend Epictetus’ Antoninus, and St Paul, all of whom you know...