601To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1794 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your favor of Apr. 24. and received at the same time mister Bertrand’s agricultural Prospectus. tho’ he mentions my having seen him at a particular place yet I remember nothing of it. and observing that he intimates an application for lands in America, I conceive his letter meant for me as Secretary of state, & therefore I now send it to the Secretary of state. he has given...
602To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have formed an opinion, quite satisfactory to myself, that the adjournments of Congress may be by law, as well as by resolution, without touching the constitution. I am now copying fair what I had written yesterday on the subject & will have the honor of laying it before you by ten aclock. the address to the President contains a very full digest of all the arguments urged against the bill on...
603To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1790 (Washington Papers)
In the course of the visit we made the day we left Mount Vernon, we drew our host into conversation on the subject of the federal seat. he came into it with a shyness not usual in him. whether this proceeded from his delicacy as having property adjoining George town, or from what other motive I cannot say. he quitted the subject always as soon as he could. he said enough however to shew his...
604To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has now the honor of inclosing to the President the draught of a letter to mister Genet on the subject of the departure of the privateer. also a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Tobias Lear’s docket on the AL
605From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 28 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the draught of the letter with proofs of his confidence in the indulgence of the President, having freely used the liberty he gave him in softening some expressions lest they should be too much felt by Mr. Morris. The changes are made with a pencil only, and can therefore be easily restored where disapproved. PrC ( DLC ).
606To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the Decypher of a Note from Mr Barclay expressed in Cypher. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson’s “Explication of a paragraph in Cyphers
607Cabinet Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaws, 1–5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
That an Agent be sent to the Choctaw nation to endeavor secretly to engage them to support the Chickasaws in their present war with the Creeks, giving them for that purpose arms and ammunition sufficient: and that it be kept in view that if we settle our differences amicably with the Creeks, we at the same time mediate effectually the peace of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, so as to rescue the...
608To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you on the 24th Ult. which I presume you will have recieved at Cambden. the present is ordered to go from Petersburg to Taylor’s ferry. I think it better my letters should be even some days ahead of you, knowing that if they ever get into your rear they will never overtake you. I write to day indeed merely as the watchman cries, to prove himself awake, & that all...
609To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inclose to the President the copy of a Report on the petition of John de Neufville referred to him by the house of Representatives, which he proposes to send in tomorrow. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . On 11 April 1792 the House of...
610To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President the plan of the Federal territory just received by mister Ellicot, as also a letter & message on the subject. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
611To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have given you the trouble of more reading on the subject of Major Lenfant’s letter, than you perhaps intended. I have done it from an apprehension that your mind might not be thoroughly satisfied whether he was not equally justifiable in the demolition of mister Carrol’s house, as in the demolition of trees & other obstacles, which he urges in his own justification. the truth is that...
612To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “the translation of a letter from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, with the draught of an answer he proposes to them, & a letter to the Governor of Georgia. he incloses also a translation of the papers which accompanied the letter he received.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State;...
613To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
If the heads of Departments and the Attorney General, who have prepared the eight rules which you handed to me yesterday, are well satisfied that they are not repugnant to treaties, or to the Laws of Nations; and moreover, are the best we can adopt to maintain Neutrality; I not only give them my approbation, but desire they may be made known without delay for the information of all concerned....
614Cabinet Opinion on the Creek Indians and Georgia, 29 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States having assembled the heads of the respective departments and the attorney General, laid before them for their advice thereon, sundry communications from the Governor of Georgia, and others, relatively to the recent alarming depredations of the creek Indians upon the State of Georgia. Whereupon after the subject was maturely considered and discussed it was...
615From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: J. presents his respects to the President. Mr. White beleived pretty decidedly that General Morgan would serve under any officers who had been his superiors except Genl. St. Clair, but at the same time he said he could not engage it positively. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed by Lear. Tr (same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL or SJPL .
616To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose for the President’s notice a small pamphlet sent to Th: J. by the author, containing some ideas which may merit attention, in due time, at the Federal city. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The letter-book copy is mistakenly dated “2d March...
617To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and asks a dozen Passports for present use. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The letter-book copies omit “his respects.”
618From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President Govr. Clinton’s letter. Also to send him a statement of Mr. Genet’s conversation with him in which he mentioned Gouvernr. Morris. This paper Th:J. prepared several days ago, but it got mislaid which prevented it’s being sent to the President. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge,...
619IV. Questions for the Supreme Court, [18 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
1. Do the treaties between the US. and France give to France or her citizens a right , when at war with a power with whom the US. are at peace, to fit out originally in and from the ports of the US, vessels armed for war, with or without commission? 2. If they give such a right , does it extend to all manner of armed vessels, or to particular kinds only? If the latter, to what kinds does it...
620To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send for the perusal of the President the inclosed letters just received from mister Barclay. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson received two letters from Thomas Barclay, U.S. consul to Morocco, on 26 October. Both letters were written from...
621To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Jefferson presents his compliments to the President, the report of the Commissioners of public accounts was delivered to Mr Taylor to be filed away. he was called to new york on Saturday by the illness of his child, and Mr Blackwell has been searching some time for it without being able to find it —he will continue to search, & when found it shall be sent to the President. LB , DNA : RG...
622From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, has the honor of inclosing him a letter he proposes to send to the Speaker to-day, if approved by the President: also the translation of some papers given him by Mr. Ternant three or four days ago, which he has not before had time to prepare: also extract of a private letter from Mr. Short. Th:J. will have the honor of waiting on the President...
623To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a memorial from mister Hammond. he proposes to ask a meeting with the Secretaries of the treasury & war at 9. oclock tomorrow, in time to write by the post of tomorrow. should the President think fit that the inclosed should be the subject of deliberation, it may be considered at the same time. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB...
624From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The day after your departure I received from a Mr. Greene, a merchant now at N. York, through a third person , the following communication. ‘That he had had very late advices from Spain by way of the Spanish islands , to this effect, that war with France was inevitable, that troops were marching from all quarters of the kingdom to the frontiers, and that 50. sail of the line had been...
625Cabinet Opinion on the Polly (Republican) and the Catherine, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President having required the opinions of the heads of the three departments on a letter from Governor Clinton of the 9th inst. stating that he had taken possession of the sloop Polly, now called the Republican, which was arming, equipping & manning by French & other citizens to cruize against some of the belligerent powers, and desiring to know what further was to be done, and they having...
626From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Questions to be considered of. I. As to France. Shall it be proposed to M. de Ternan, to form a treaty, ad referendum, to this effect. ‘The citizens of the U. S. and of France, their vessels, productions and manufactures shall be received and considered, each in all the dominions of the other, as if they were the native citizens, or the ships; productions or manufactures of that other. And the...
627From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the Director of the Mint has occasion for a sum of money for the following purposes. D for the house purchased 1600.£ Pensva. or 4266.66 for about 15. tons of copper to be procured. abt. 5000. on account for workmen &c 733.34 10,000. making in the whole ten thousand Dollars. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the...
628To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Th. Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that his letter to Gouverneur Morris is dated December 17th. he incloses him a letter from Mr James Brown just now received. LB , DLC:GW . GW had apparently asked Jefferson for the date of his letter, perhaps to give his own letter to Morris of the same date (see GW to Morris, 17 Dec. 1790 ). According to his Summary Journal of Public and...
629From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and incloses him some letters just received. Mr. Pinkney’s and Mr. Morris’s information relative to the doing and undoing the decrees of the National assembly, in the case of the ship Lawrence and some other expressions in Mr. Morris’s letter seem to render it proper to lower the expression in the message purporting the just and ready...
630To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I should have taken time ere this to have considered the observations of mister Young, could I at this place have done it in such a way as would satisfy either him or myself. when I wrote the notes of the last year, I had never before thought of calculating what were the profits of a capital invested in Virginia agriculture. yet that appeared to be what mister Young most desired. lest...
631To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & returns him the letters from the Commissioners. he does not recollect whether he shewed him his letter to Ellicot the only one he has written to him since last Summer. lest he should not have done it he now incloses it. he thinks it impossible that any thing in that could have produced ill humour in Ellicot towards the Commissioners & if...
632To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President & will take the liberty of presenting to him to-day Colo. Von Rohr, who is the subject of the inclosed letter from Governor Walterstorf of Santa Cruz. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW .
633Enclosure: Statement II, 3 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Analysis of the Expences of the U.S. for their intercourse with Foreign nations from July 1. 90. to July 1. 91. and from July 1. 91. to July 1. 92. taken from the accounts of Messrs. Short, Humphreys, Morris, Pinckney & Willinks, Van Staphorsts & Hubbard given in to the Auditor. PrC ( DLC ); in TJ’s hand. Tr ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 2d Cong., 2d sess.); in the hand of George Taylor, Jr.,...
634To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
It is my duty to suggest to your attention that in the act of the late session of Congress for making certain appropriations, is a clause enacting that a sum of 50,000 D. in addition to former provision be appropriated to defray any expence which may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the U.S. & foreign nations, and to add that the public service will be advanced by having that...
635Memorandum to George Washington, [11 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Papers requiring the President’s instant attention. Th:J’s letter to Viar and Jaudenes . } the Courier goes on Saturday. Genet’s communications relative to Spain Little Sarah. the Governor’s letter of June 24 . and Warden’s 1st. report . the Governor’s letter of July 7. x Th:J’s conversation with Genet .
636From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 27 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that in a Madrid gazette of Sep. 14. is an article of Namur Aug. 23. which states circumstantially the capture of M. de la Fayette, and that he was carried from that place to Antwerp. It says that his intention had been to pass in the rear of the Austrian army, but ran foul of a picquet near Rochfort. There were 17 or 18. officers...
637From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President the inclosed draught of a clause which he has thought of proposing to the committee to whom the President’s letter with the accounts of the Department of state are referred. He will have the honor of waiting on the President at one aclock, as well to explain any parts of it as to take his pleasure on the whole matter. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR...
638Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Papers requiring the President’s instant attention. Th: J’s letter to Viar & Jaudenes. } the Courier goes on Saturday. Genet’s communications relative to Spain Little Sarah. the Governor’s letter of June 24. & Warden’s 1st report. the Governor’s letter of July 7. x Th: J’s conversation with Genet. x Th: J’s opinion against firing on the Little Sarah. Rawle’s letter. July 9. Genet’s letter....
639To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Submits “to the President a letter to mister Van Berckel on the subject of the infraction of the privileges of his house by a constable.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . For Dutch minister Franco Petrus Van Berckel’s letter to Jefferson of 25 June...
640Cabinet Opinions on Privateers and Prizes, 5 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments and the Attorney general at the Secretary of state’s office Aug. 5. 1793. The case of the Swallow letter of marque at New York, desired to be sent out of our ports, as being a privateer. It is the opinion that there is no ground to make any order on the subject. The Polly or Republican , in the hands of the Marshal at New York, on a charge of having...
641To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 5 July 1792. Encloses “a letter just recieved from mister Hammond, which will be difficult to answer properly.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . British minister George Hammond’s letter of 5 July to Jefferson reads: “I have the honor of submitting to your...
642From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose for your perusal a letter which I have prepared for Mr. Short. The ill humour into which the French colonies are getting, and the little dependance on the troops sent thither, may produce a hesitation in the National assembly as to the conditions they will impose in their constitution. In a moment of hesitation small matters may influence their decision. They may...
643To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1790 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jefferson has the honor of inclosing for the perusal of the President rough draughts of the letters he supposes it proper to send to the court of France on the present occasion. he will have that of waiting on him in person immediately to make any changes in them the President will be so good as to direct, and to communicate to him two letters just received from mr Short. AL , DNA : RG 59,...
644From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you on the 24th. Ult. which I presume you will have recieved at Cambden. The present is ordered to go from Petersburg to Taylor’s ferry. I think it better my letters should be even some days ahead of you, knowing that if they ever get into your rear they will never overtake you.—I write to day indeed merely as the watchman cries, to prove himself awake, and that...
645From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President 2 Cents made on Voigt’s plan, by putting a silver plug worth ¾ of a cent into a copper worth ¼ of a cent. Mr. Rittenhouse is about to make a few by mixing the same plug by fusion with the same quantity of copper. He will then make of copper alone of the same size, and lastly he will make the real cent, as ordered by Congress, four times as big....
646From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him a commission from the French Executive council to Mr. Dannery to be Consul for them at Boston, also an Exequatur, countersigned by himself, which will want the President’s signature, and then the seal of the US. With these is a letter to Mr. Genet, and a cover to Mr. Bankson directing him what to do. Should the whole...
647From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 28 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you two letters from Judge Symmes of Jan. 25th. and 27th. His letter of Sep. 17. mentioned in the first of these was received by me Nov. 23. and after being laid before you, was answered Dec. 4. The part of the answer respecting leave from you to come to Philadelphia was in these words. ‘The President does not conceive that the Constitution has given him any...
648From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President the rough draught of an answer to Mr. Genet’s letter of June 22. It is left unclosed, in case any other matters should be thought proper to be added. Otherwise he would propose to close it with reiterations of friendship to his nation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same,...
649To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President his answer to mister Genet on the subject of the French debt. he had prepared it yesterday morning, but unluckily left it at home, which has delayed it a day. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Jefferson’s letter to Edmond Genet of 11 June explained...
650From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letters of the Commissioners on their discharge of the workmen &c. in the Federal city. The copy of the Extracts from them for Majr. L’Enfant was not finished till last night, and therefore could not be sent to him till to-day. Consequently the conference with him is put off to tomorrow. Th: J. incloses a copy of his letter to Majr....