158961To James Madison from John Armstrong, 3 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here on friday last and have this day taken the command. Gen. Bloomfield left us this morning. He has been both frank and friendly & I should do wrong were I not to make this acknowlegment, as well to you as to him. Before we parted, he wished me to suggest, that he thought it adviseable under all circumstances, that he should be left in New Jersey untill the 25th. of September next....
158962To James Madison from James Fenner, 3 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am informed that Judge Barnes of this District, in consequence of a severe malady under which he is now suffering without hope of recovery, has sent forward his resignation as District Judge. Presuming the report to be true, I take the liberty of nominating the Hon David Howell, at present our District Attorney, as the Successor of Judge Barnes. Your knowledge of Mr Howell renders it...
158963Thomas Jefferson to William Birch, 3 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some days ago your favor of July 8. and with it the prints you were so kind as to address to me. for these be pleased to accept my thanks. they are an elegant specimen of mr Edwin’s talent in this line, and prove also that the design has well conformed to the original. I am very sensible of this mark of your attention, and of the kind expressions of your letter towards myself...
158964Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
How shall I find words to express to you my dear Sir the grief I feel in having to communicate the mournful and afflicting intelligence of the unhappy fate of my ever to be regretted and most valued friend M r Geo. Jefferson Alas! he is now no more, the memory of his transcendant worth is all that is left to us—You who have long known and esteem’d his virtues, must bitterly deplore his death,...
158965Thomas Jefferson to Joseph St. Leger d’Happart, 3 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 20. was a month on it’s passage to me, and since it’s reciept I have not been able sooner to acknolege it. I am happy you have recieved the amount of your claim on the government, which I was satisfied could not have been delayed but from some accidental cause. your claim on them for reimbursement of mr Clarkson’s failure to you will not be so fortunate. no government I...
158966Benjamin James Harris to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith enclose you two drawings Shewing the principles of two different inventions that I consider to be entirely new, which I wish to submit to your examination—One of them is for the purpose of constructing Fire proofe Ceilings & the other for Filtering and Refrigerating water I will thank you to investigate both of these principles and give me your opinion of them,—And as I wish to...
158967Thomas Jefferson to Alexander L. Joncherez, 3 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of July 2. and thank you for the kind offer of the charts you therein mention. these charts being manuscript and original, it would be a pity they should not go to the public use, and in this view their being sent to this place would be retrograde to the object. having no good maps of the countries they describe, I should think a bookseller would find it well...
158968Enclosure: Littleton W. Tazewell to Martin Oster, 4 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have attentively Considered the papers which you submitted, for my opinion—Concerning the rights of M r & mad. Beauvois to the State of M r Piernez deceased, the brother of mad. Beauvois , and now beg leave to offer you the result of my examination there of. M r Piernez having died without issue, or father or mother and leaving no brother or any other sister than mad. Beauvois . By the law...
158969To James Madison from James Monroe, 4 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
We arrived here on sunday last, & had the good fortune to meet Mr Hay & our daughter on their way to the springs. Mrs. Monroe had intended to accompany them there, but will remain here, with the younger part, being not far from indisposition, & too much fatigued to pursue the journey. We took the Dumfries route, & breakfastd at Lansdowne’s, the worst house we ever saw. The upper route by...
158970Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 4 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th ult came duly to hand; and I have to thank you for the military Manuals you were so kind as to send me. this is the sort of book most needed in our country, where even the elements of tactics are unknown. the young have never seen service; & the old are past it: and of those among them who are not superannuated themselves, their science is become so. I see, as you do,...
158971To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 5 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
As I feel sensible of the honor of your correspondence, I cannot permit myself to be in your debt on that Score, especially as my Letters are attended with no expence. I find Sir—I am highly hon’d in making the Tour of the United States in your company, and It is the fin I trust I hope our travels, & our example will not be without its salutary influence on at least a portion of Our fellow...
158972From Abigail Smith Adams to William Eustis, 5 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I address you upon a subject of much delicacy and which from circumstances which must be well known to you makes me diffident in presenting to your view the oldest Revolutiary Feild officer now Living. I presume I need not name to you his former Services, nor the loss of property which his Family sustaind by the Enemy, nor the wounds he received in the Service, or those qualification, which so...
158973To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
In a letter of May 6. from Foronda is this passage. ‘ No remito a Vm exemplares de mis papelitos para el ilustrado y sabio Madison, aunque le tributo todos mis respetos: pero es Presidente, y las vilas almas, lexos de conocer que esto seria un acto de Cortesania que no tiene relacion con la presidencià, me tacharian tal vez de poco afecto à la patria, alegando que tenià consideraciones con...
158974To James Madison from John Morris, 5 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The tender of voluntary service which I had the honour to offer on behalf of the officers and privates of my company having been invited as well by previous assurances and recommendations communicated by Mr Lacock and others, as by special and peculiar circumstances which recommended that course for the most prompt and efficacious mean of defending their own frontier, those assurances have...
158975To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, 5 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 August 1812. Represent over 1,500 inhabitants who assembled at Brentwood to express their opinion on the present state of national affairs. Observe with regret that the “system of policy pursued by the General Government, from the Embargo of 1807 to the present time,” has encouraged “the destruction of the Commerce of these States.” “We have not been indifferent spectators,” as commerce is...
158976Sergeant Hall to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of my brother Jn o E Hall , to whose care this volume has been forwarded, by the author, for the purpose of transmission, I take the liberty of enclosing it to you RC ( DLC ); adjacent to closing: “Th. Jefferson, Esq r Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 Aug. 1812 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found. Sergeant Hall (1788–1848), printer, newspaper editor, and...
158977Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 5 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a long letter of June 28 . in which I inclosed you a bill of exchange for 5500. francs by duplicate, the 1 st of which had been inclosed to you by mr Barnes . the object of the present letter is merely to forward the triplicate of the same bill, to guard against accidents, as the dangers of the sea are somewhat increased by the war. in mine of June 28. I omitted to mention that I...
158978Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 5 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of May 6. from Foronda is this passage. ‘No remito a Vm exemplares de mis papelitos para el ilustrado y sabio Madison, aunque le tributo todos mis respetos: pero es Presidente, y las viles almas, lexos de conocer que esto seria un acto de Cortesania que no tiene relacion con la presidencia, me tacharian tal vez de poco afecto à la patria, alegando que tenia consideraciones con...
158979Josiah Meigs to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to address you on a subject, which to me is of a very interesting nature— It is not unlikely that you have already heard that I have no longer any connection with the University of Georgia —The real cause of that disconnection is to be found in the Federal Character of the Board of Trustees, who have appointed a Clergyman & a Federalist as my Successor—The Board which...
158980Notes on Outstanding Debts, [before 5 August 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Wickham for Hanbury 140.85 – 22 D. 44 Liv’s costs suit ✓ Garth J. W. 208 £–4 + int. Oct. 2. + 100 D. for Salmons ? ✓ Vest . mule . 55.D ✓
158981From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 6 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of July 18 was duely received. Your Resolution to Subjugate yourself to the controul of no Party, is noble; but have you considered all the Consequences of it? in the whole History of human Life. This Maxim, has rarely failed to annihilate the Influence of the Man who adopts it and very often exposed him to the Tragical Vengence of all Parties, There are two Tyrants in huhan Life,...
158982From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 6 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear that you were well, and that your dear mother bore her journey so well. After you left me I felt no restraint upon me, and could give way to all I felt and all I had suppressed; my harp was upon the willow, and my spirits at a very low ebb; I have in some measure recovered them, and follow you daily...
158983To James Madison from William Duane, 6 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have been just informed by Mr Carswell that he means to signify by the morning’s Mail, that he cannot accept the office of Commissary General. There is no man more honest than Mr Carsewell, and it is the sense which he entertains of the importance of the station which induces him to decline its acceptance. The same idea of its importance induces me to take the liberty of addressing you. A...
158984To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 6 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to submit to you, & to solicit your approbation of these accounts, the only ones relating to the public buildings on which I have occasion to give you any trouble, because unless allowed by you they cannot pass the treasury, and must stand as a charge against me personally. 1. Of the first, the enclosed affidavit explains the nature perfectly, and I will only add that altho’ the...
158985To James Madison from Andrew Hull Jr., 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
At this interesting crisis of our beloved country I take the liberty, to address a few lines to the perusal of your Exelency as it hath ben reported by those who are unfriendly to the measures adopted by the goverment that the War is unpopalar even among the republicans in the New-england States, having Traveled lately in the States of Massechusets New Hamshire and Vermont, am confident of its...
158986To James Madison from Andrew Hull Jr., 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since writing the Inclosed I here learn that the governor and council have refused to comply with the Requisition of the Secretary at war in calling out the drafted Militia and to summon the Members of the house of Representetives to mete at this place two weeks from next Tuesday. With sentiments of high consid[e]ration Your Obt Servt RC ( DLC ). Hull to JM, 7 Aug. 1812 (first letter) . On 10...
158987To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I do not perceive that the General Government could well interfere upon the subject of the Letter, which you did me the Honour to enclose to me even if it were desirable that it should; but I am quite sure that it will be wholly unnecessary. There is no Disposition to Riot here except with a mere Handful of low people, who can and will be restrained by the Authority of the Majistracy of the...
158988Recommendation of John Neilson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof M r John Neilson , a house Joiner by trade worked for me at Monticello some years. I can assure those who may have occasion to employ him that he is perfectly acquainted with the orders of Art Architecture , and the most approved stile of finishing both inside and outside work. is equal in the execution of it to any workman in America , draws well and is a complete master of...
158989Nicholas B. Pryor to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Before you receive this you will receive a letter from Col o Anderson , Expresing my inclination to have an appointment in the United States army . if you can reconcile it to your self, to recommend me to the war department, you will do me a favour which I shall Ever be indebted to you for. the reason why I ask this important favour of you, is, because I know you can have any man appointed...
158990Alexis Marie Rochon to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
J avois eu L’honneur de vous adresser un Exemplaire de mes voyages par le moyen de M. Short qui n’a cessé dans toutes les circonstances de me donner des marques d’une veritable affection. celle que vous m’avez temoigné Monsieur, m’est toujours Presente et je n’aurois pas manqué de vous En temoigner plutot ma Reconnaissance Sans votre nomination à L’Eminente place de Président des Etats unis :...
158991From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice, with joy unspeakable, in the news I hear of the open Part you have taken with no less Wisdom and Fortitude than Justice and Generosity, in the present great Crisis of your Country’s Fortune. To endeavour, with or without Success, to assuage the passions and allay the fever of your fellow Citizens; when upon the point of precipitating themselves down a precipice: was worthy of...
158992To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The paternal farm which I visited on the 11th: of last month, lies two miles further from Philadelphia than the honorable Cottage where you once did me and my brother the honor to take a family dinner with my dear and Venerable mother. She purchased and retired to it After She gave up business in Philadelphia. I had seen my native place but once since I was Six years old, and that but for a...
158993From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 25th. Ult: The rancorous opposition in some of the E. States to the war, is peculiarly unfortunate, as it has the double effect of crippling its operations, and encouraging the Enemy to withold any pacific advances otherwise likely to be made. It appears that the B. Cabinet has been forced into a reconsideration of their refusal to repeal the...
158994From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The communications from the B. Govt. lately recd. thro’ Baker are of a curious character. They promise that the O. in C. would cease on the 1st. Aug: with a right reserved to renew them in May next, in case the conduct of France and of the U. S. should require it; and particularly in case the Non-Imp: Act should not be repealed within 14 days after a notification of the actual repeal should be...
158995To James Madison from Charles Hall, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have conversed with several passengers who arrived here last week in the Ship William direct from London, and who are not employed by the English Government, consequently do not endeavour to make their miserable condition appear to be desirable. These passengers represent the disaffection of the Natives of England to their Government as extreme, and the wretchedness and misery of the great...
158996To James Madison from the Chester Republican Cavalry, 8 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1812 , “ Chester Ct. House, So Ca .” Have observed that the supplement to the Volunteer Act empowers the president to appoint and commission officers in the volunteer corps, “apparently contravening a certain clause of the first Act,” which allowed militia companies already organized to retain their commanding officers in the volunteer service. “We were and still hold ourselves ready...
158997To James Madison from John Morris, 8 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1812, Erie, Pennsylvania. His volunteer company having been ordered by the governor into service in defense of the frontier bordering on Lake Erie, as was their sole object when they tendered their service to the president, “this company now consider the motive of the President as well as their own at an end in the accomplishment of its object; and through me beg leave to signify...
158998Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Colvin & his thanks for the papers he was so kind as to send him containing the answer to the protest of the Minority. he had already read two numbers of it with great satisfaction, and not without surmise of the hand from which it came. it’s union of fact and logic will let our enemies see that we have pens as well as swords to respond to their...
158999Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lehré, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 14 th Ult. covering a paper containing proceedings of the patriots of S. Carolina . it adds another to the many proofs of their steady devotion to their own country. I can assure you the hearts of their fellow citizens in this state beat in perfect unison with them and with their government. of this their concurrence in the election of mr Madison & mr Gerry at...
159000Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 21. was duly recieved. at the time of it’s reciept the Secretary of state was daily expected at his seat in my neighborhood . he lately arrived there and I yesterday made your request the subject of a conversation with him, in which way it was much easier than by letter, to go into full explanations with him. he says there will be no difficulty in permitting you to take...
159001Thomas Jefferson to Robert Wright, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve and return the congratulations of your letter of July 6. with pleasure, and join the great mass of my fellow citizens in saying ‘well done, good & faithful servants , recieve the benedictions which your constituents are ready to give you.’ the British government seem to be doing late what, done earlier, might have prevented war; to wit, repealing the orders in Council. but it should...
159002From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 9 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
After I returnd from your hospitable Mansion where the scenes of former days were pleasin g ly renewd I had the Subjects of contraversy between two ancient Friends and upon a review—I must Candedly Say that I judged both in the wrong, and am certain if personal intercourse from unavoidable circumstances had not been obstructed, neither party would so have judged, or so have written— I was can...
159003From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 9 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The last of your favors which I have to acknowlege is that of the 3d. Ult: from Boston. I am glad to see that you are again at Albany; where your presence will aid much in doing all that can be done for the reputation of the campaign. The lapse of time & the unproductiveness of the laws, contemplating a regular force, and volunteers for an entire year, under federal commissions, compel us to...
159004To James Madison from John Montgomery, 9 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I presume you have seen the Statement with the Documents subjoined, Made under a resolve of the City Council of Baltimore, published in the American of yesterday, this gives the origin progress & extent of the late disturbances in this Place. With regard to the Alarm for the safety of the Post Office here, the Very general Military Assemblage of all ranks for its protection, & the general...
159005To James Madison from Matthew Walton, 9 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 August 1812, Prince Edward. “Some time ago a Vacancy was occationed in upper Louis[i]ana by the Death of Judge Shraider, Shortly after Several Recommendations was sent on Recommending Mr. Richard Cocke of Washington County Kentucky, & as yet have Received no answer.” Supposes that the appointment has been overlooked in “the great press of war Business.” Assures JM that Cocke’s appointment...
159006Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of July 21. with the map of the environs of New York , for which as well as for the kind offer to send me Law’s map of the Northern and Western frontier when done, be pleased to accept my grateful thanks. these proofs of friendly recollection give me great pleasures pleasure , as marks of an esteem which has grown out of our connection as fellow-laborers in the...
159007Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came to hand after the return of our post. the afflicting news of the death of my relation & our mutual friend had reached us thro’ the public papers two or three days before, and I have since recieved a particular account of it from his fellow passenger mr Fontaine Maury . of a worthier man death can never deprive us. altho’ his intention intended return was unexplained,...
159008Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Goodman, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Jame Hubbard delivered your letter of the 30 th some days ago and proposes to set out on his return tomorrow. I am happy to hear your crops are likely. the wheat when threshed must remain in it’s chaff in the barn until we can dispose of it. with this view I should be glad if you before I go up you would get from the different millers the terms on which they will grind it for me, for I have no...
159009Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin James Harris, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is duly recieved, & I freely offer you what occurs to me respecting the inventions therein mentioned. that of the fireproof cieling is entirely new, as far as I know, and will in many situations, I think be useful. I take for granted that the triangles H. K. F. in the drawing (which I return you) are either of the solid of the joist A. or are strips of hard wood firmly...
159010Thomas Jefferson to Fontaine Maury, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favors of the 18 th & 29 th of July , and in duty return you my thanks for the painful intelligence it they conveyed. this afflicting event had reached us thro’ the public papers, but the manner and circumstances of the death of my relation and friend were unknown. nor were they calculated to lessen the unhappiness of their issue. his inestimable worth will render...