1From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 3 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Louis Osmond , desires me to [convey?] to you the circumstances known to me relative to his emigration to America. Mr. Osmond, about three years ago, arrived in America from France, and brought me letters of recommendation from [several?] persons of rank and character there informing me that his fa[mily?] having from some circumstances lost their fortune there, [he had?]...
2From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 23rd. instant, desiring an ascertainment, in the mode pointed out in my letter of Septr. 5. of the losses occasioned by waste, spoliation, and detention, of the Sloop Hope, taken on the 10th. of August by the privateer le Citoyen Genet, brought into this port the 14th. and restored on the 20th. in consequence of the orders of this Government, has been laid before the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the district Attorney of Pennsylvania is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the cases of the British ship William, captured by the French privateer the Citoyen Genet , and reclaimed as taken within the Jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of November 10. I have...
4From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 14 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th. instant, on the subject of the British ship Roehampton, taken and sent into Baltimore by the French privateer the Industry, an armed Schooner of St. Domingo, which is suggested to have augmented her force at Baltimore before the capture. On this circumstance a demand is grounded that the prize she has made shall be restored. Before I...
5From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 13 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of addressing you on the 19th. of June last, I asked for information when we might expect an answer to that which I had written you on the 29th. of May was twelvemonth, on the articles still unexecuted of the treaty of peace between the two nations. In your answer of the next day, you were pleased to inform me that you had forwarded the letter of the 29th. of...
6From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 22 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 12th. instant covering an additional Instruction, to the Commanders of British armed vessels, and explaining it’s principles, and I receive it readily as a proof of your willingness to anticipate our enquiries on subjects interesting to us. Certainly none was ever more so than the instruction in question, as it strikes at the root of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 13 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honor to enclose you the copy of a letter from the Attorney General of the United States in the case of Hooper and Pagan, in consequence of your last to me on that subject. It is still to have been wished that no efforts had been spared on the part of Mr. Pagan to bring his case before the Supreme Court of the United States. However supposing the Court of Massachusetts to be the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the privateers Petite Democrate and Caramagnole sent into New London as a prize the Brig Nancy of Jamaica: that the Govr. of Connecticut, having possessed himself of the said brig by a party of militia, was ready to deliver her up to her master or owner at the time of her capture, but that no such persons have appeared, and that in this case the Governor...
9From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 11 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your desire I wrote to the Committee of Baltimore to inform me of the passengers to France who ask your passport. The following is an extract from their letter, of Sep. 8. ‘The numbers already entered and for whom a provision has been made at a heavy expence to the French republic and the inhabitants of this town are as follow. In the Marianne, Capt. Ardouin 250. persons. In the...
10From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 10 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday, and laid before the President your letter of the 8th. instant, desiring that James Shoolbred should have an Exequatur on the copy of a consular commission inclosed in that letter. But it appears so material in law that our records should be founded on an inspection of the original, that the President, on account of the distance, thinks it more convenient that Mr....