28851To James Madison from William Bentley, 24 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to say, that in asking a Letter to Gen Stark, It never entered my thoughts to answer any Public purpose. But I may say with truth, Gen Stark’s Letter has saved New England. The bitterest invectives are from this conviction, but they soon cease. Still the conviction is sure, “And they gnaw their tongues for pain.” Assured that I speak the sense of all N E, I remain with the highest...
28852To James Madison from Christopher Ellery, 24 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 April 1810, Providence. Recommends Henry Wheaton for the position of marshal of Rhode Island. RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
28853From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 23 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
I this day received your kind Letter of the 17th. I know not any thing which would give me more pleasure than accepting your kind invitation. I had anticipated the pleasure of making you a visit this Spring, with the hope of improveing my Health, and invigorating my Spirits by the hospitable greetings of my dear Sister and Friends. I had find upon this month, but have had a Series of Sickness...
28854From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 16th. has been recd. It is not improbable that there will be an early occasion to send for public purposes, a ship to G. B. & France; & that Norfolk will be the port of Departure. I recommend therefore that your plow be lodged there as soon as may be, with the proper instructions to your Agent. It may not be amiss to include in them a discretion to forward the plow to any other...
28855To James Madison from Jesse Waln, 23 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
Previous to my departure from Canton I received a small Package from Poonqua Winchong for Mrs Maddison, he has lately visited this Country and appears to be greatly pleased by the civilities received from you—have the goodness to present my best Compliments to Mrs Maddison and tell her I shall forward the Package by the first safe opportunity. With great Respect Your Obedient Servt. RC ( DLC...
28856To James Madison from Josiah Jackson, 23 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1810. Reports that his father-in-law, Henry Madison, “as well as the rest of us were much g[r]atifyed in the short answer” [not found] JM sent. The old gentleman “is still in tolerable Health except a giddiness in the Head that causes a staggering.” His own family includes eight living children; in addition, “We have had about the same number of Blacks to raise.” While educating his...
28857To James Madison from Joseph H. Macklefrith, 23 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 April 1810, Fort McHenry. Rumors that provisional army is to be disbanded prompts this request for a discharge from the Fifth Infantry Regiment. Macklefrith (a sergeant) must properly care for his family. If the country were endangered or lacked an army, “I should prefer the Cause of my Country to that of my family but its to the reverse.” RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , M-177:5). 3 pp. Docketed...
28858Archibald Fisher to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho’ it may seem impertinent for a Stranger placed in an inferior rank in Life, thus to address a person of such distinguished Eminence, yet presuming on that philanthropic Character you hold with all unprejudiced minds, I thus venture obtrusively to solicit a hearing. I am a poor alien,—a Child of misfortune, thrown, by a train of untoward Events, on these shores.—I have been here a...
28859James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16 th has been rec d . It is not improbable that there will be an early occasion to send for public purposes, a ship to G.B. & France; & that Norfolk will be the port of Departure. I recommend therefore that your plow be lodged there as soon as may be, with the proper instructions to your Agent. It may not be amiss to include in them a discretion to forward the plow to any other...
28860John Hollins to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your respects of the 8 th Ins from Poplar Forest , came in course to hand, inform g of the arrival of the plaister at Richmond , also that Mess s Gibson & Jefferson woud remit me the amount, say $80:40, which they have done, & is at your credit, it will be satisfactory to learn at a future day, that the plaister answer’d the purpose I am really sorry to find our friends Mess s
28861Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 22 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A little before my departure for Bedford I informed you that the pressures on me for money for corn & other objects would oblige me to rely on you for a very considerable sum of money, of which no delay could be admitted. on my return it was some days before I went to the mill to call on you, & then learned for the first time that you were gone to the Northward & would not be back till June, &...
28862From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have already drawn for three hundred pounds Sterling, of the credit, for which Mr: Gray gave me a letter upon his correspondents here. He will call upon you for the money; which does not quite amount to the balance I left in your hands for the purpose—I have written to you that I shall in all probability be compelled to draw upon you for more, but as by the course of exchange I draw at great...
28863Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 21 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here your letter of the 2 d on my return from a three weeks visit to Bedford : and as I see by a resolution of Congress that they are to adjourn on the 23 d I shall direct the present to Eppington where it may meet you on your passage to Carolina . mr Thweatt is to let me know when I am to set out for
28864To James Madison from Samuel Fulton, 20 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
On my quittal of the Service in the year Eighteen hundred and three I had the Honour of addressing you on the Subject of my quitting a foreign Service, and offring it to my Native Country. Some Short time after I had the Honour of receiving from you an answer Informing me that nothing Could be Done at that moment nor untill a new organization would take place. About five years past I became a...
28865Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Feb. 15. & Mar. 13. were recieved in due time, but were not acknoleged because I was daily in expectation of the cuttings which should have accompanied the latter. on the 15 th inst. I recieved yours of the 10 th & concluding the bundle of cuttings had been rejected at some post office as too large to pass thro’ that line, I had yesterday, in despair, written my acknolegements...
28866Thomas Jefferson to William O. Allen, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 9. with the copy of the publication called Love & Madness which it inclosed, & beg leave to return you my thanks for this mark of your attention. when I collected the proofs of the genuineness of Logan’s speech I did not know of this publication containing it. I afterwards recieved it from a friend. but that which you send me is of an edition older by...
28867Thomas Jefferson to William Dickson, 20 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 20. came safely to hand together with the miniature of Governor Lewis & watch string. I immediately sent them to his mother , not doubting that the person who of all others possessed the greatest portion of his affection was the one for whom his wishes would have destined it. the deplorable accident which has placed her in the deepest affliction, is a great loss to the world...
28868From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 19 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
Amsterdam, December 1, 1781—wrote to Major Jackson: “Last night I received your letter of the 12th of November, and am very sorry to find that you were not likely to sail as you expected. My dear Mrs. Adams, who has heard that Charles is coming home in Gillon, has a thousand anxieties about him, which will increase every moment until his arrival. But when we trust ourselves to wind and waves...
28869To James Madison from John Lambert, 19 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed is a graft of the St. Germain Pare, of which I sent Mrs. Madison a sample some time ago. If you have a pare stock growing in the Garden, or walks around the Presidents House, would you not wish to propagate the fruite. I expect to have some of them sound and good when I get home. They begin to mellow in Novbr. and last until May. I am your most Obdt Humbl. Servt. RC ( DLC ). John...
28870William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose two copies of the report of a select commit tee of Congress , and of several papers relating to the establishment of a first meridian for the United States , one for your own use, the other for the American philosophical Society at Philadelphia , of which you a re President. Several errors and omissions have been corrected with the pen, which may be avoided, should another edition be...
28871To James Madison from “Tammany,” 18 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 April 1810. Warns that the nation depends on JM to save the ship of state and the “democratic party” from shipwreck. Alludes to the “bank question” and the report that JM considers it to be “settled.” Asks what this might mean: that because a Federalist majority once voted for the bank the Federalists can determine the meaning of the Constitution? Reminds JM that he argued against such...
28872Thomas Jefferson to Lydia R. Bailey, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the favor of your letter of Mar. 22. in which I think there must be some mistake in ascribing to me a subscription for ten copies of mr Freneau’s poems. certainly if I ever had subscribed for that number from any one, from principles of great esteem, it was as likely to be him as any one, for whom I have a very high esteem, of which I hope he can never entertain a doubt. but as...
28873Thomas Jefferson to Gilbert C. Russell, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favors of Jan. 4. & 31. the last of which did not reach me till two days ago; and with my own, to express the thankfulness of all the friends of the late unfortunate governor Lewis for your kind attentions to him. we have all to lament that a fame so dearly earned was clouded finally by such an act of desperation. he was much afflicted & habitually so...
28874Thomas Jefferson to William W. Woodward, 18 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 30. is recieved, & from the account you give of the size of the 5 th vol. of Scott’s bible I would prefer it’s being divided into two volumes in boards. the balance of 1.75 D shall be included in the first remittance I have occasion to make to any other person in Philadelphia , as I have no particular agent there. the books will come safest if put on board some vessel bound...
28875From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
A Day since I saw Mrs Harrod & she informed me that you had thoughts of making us a visit, & to take your Daughter Adams, Abigail, Elizabeth, & Thomas, in the Carriage with you—Will not the President do us the favour of a visit—Mr Peabody & I, both wish we had anything in this Town to render it more agreeable—When I lived in Haverhill, we could have company to amuse him more congenial to his...
28876To James Madison from “Mucius” [John Randolph], No. 3, 17 April 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 April 1810. No. 3. Has no desire to discuss the details of the correspondence between Francis James Jackson and Robert Smith but hints that Smith and his brother, as well as “ other members of the family compact,” would not be averse to a war with Great Britain in order to conceal evidence of their financial peculation. Declares JM to be “a prisoner of state in your own palace” and that...
28877Thomas Jefferson to Henry Skipwith, 17 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Overhauling my seeds reminded me that I was to send you some Millet seed. it is now inclosed. put it into drills 3. or 4.f. apart so that you may conveniently plough it, and the stalks at 6.I. distance in the drill. it is planted immediately after cornplanting, say in May. it is to be used for the table as homony, boiled or fried, needs neither husking nor beating, & boils in about two hours....
28878From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 16 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
AMSTERDAM, October 25, 1781—wrote to congress—“I see in the London Courant which arrived to day, an advertisement of a translation into English, of the address to the people of the Netherlands: so that this work is likely to be translated into all languages and read by all the world; notwithstanding the placards against it. I have before sent that of Utrecht: that of Holland is as follows. The...
28879To James Madison from William A. Burwell, 16 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
By a resolution of this House an adjournment will take place on the 23d. I am personally extremely anxious to get home, every consideration conspires to render me impatient, but I think from the prospect which the last intelligence from Europe presents us, much good might result from the arrival of the J. A. There are also several questions of great national Moment which would probably be...
28880To James Madison from William Duane, 16 April 1810 (Madison Papers)
My son Wm. J. Duane will have the honor to present you this note, going to Washington on a matter of business his own wishes and my desire would not suffer me to scruple taking this liberty of making him known to you. He goes to Washington with the View of prosecuting an undertaking which I formerly contemplated, the publication of an Edition of the laws of the U. S. upon a plan of which I had...