28851To Thomas Jefferson from Washington Committee on Manufactures, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Committee appointed (at a meeting of the Citizens of Washington) to receive Subscriptions for a manufacturing Company, present herewith the Articles of Association of said Company, & hope for your countenance in the Undertaking; they are confident that your Name at the head of the Subscription, will ensure Success so far as relates to raising a Capital, & Should that object be...
28852To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Wilson, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The person who is the Bearer of this, has in his possession specimens of Copper Ore found in Orange County, State of Virginia, which he is solicitous to shew to the President—Considering this discovery (if the facts be as he states) highly important at this interesting crisis I have advised him to wait on you without delay— I have succeeded, tolerably, among the gentlemen here, in procuring...
28853From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you Dr. Maese’s letter which a pressure of business has occasioned me to keep too long. I think an account of the manufactures of Philadelphia would be really useful, and that the manufactures of other places should be added from time to time as information of them should be recieved. to give a perfect view of the whole would require a report from every county or township of the US....
28854From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Approaching now the end of my administration, I have thought it just to cease making any new appointments to office which can possibly be put off to the 4th. of March, in order that my successor may select his own tools. the appointment which has been the subject of a correspondence between us not ending till the 3d. of March, must of course lie over. knowing the dispositions of my successor...
28855From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Thomson, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, my dear & antient friend, for the two volumes of your translation which you have been so kind as to send me. I have dipped into it at the few moments of leisure which my vocations permit, and I percieve that I shall use it with great satisfaction on my return home. I propose there, among my first emploiments, to give to the Septuagint an attentive perusal, and shall feel the aid...
28856From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not heard whether Jerry is returned from Bedford with his waggon, but I expect he is, and that except bringing home your corn, you have little waggoning to do. it will be well therefore to have both waggons in order, and to proceed to waggoning dung to the garden. that from Milton should be first brought, and for this purpose it will be worth your while to put the road along the river...
28857To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit a statement shewing, as far as returns have been received from the collectors, the number of vessels which have departed from the United States with permission between the 22d of Decer 1807 & the 30th Septer. 1808, and specifying the other particulars contemplated by the resolution of the Senate of 14th Nover. last. New Orleans is the only important port from which...
28858To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Hanson, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to Send, for your amusement, a curious production of the Vegetable (not Kingdom , but) Republic . I wish it were in my power to put it into your permanent possession. But the Owner, being somewhat of a Virtuoso himself, cannot be induced to part with it, desirous as he is of adding it to a little Cabinet of Curiosities of his own. There is but one Opinion here...
28859From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you, my dear Cornelia, on having acquired the invaluable art of writing. how delightful to be enabled by it to converse with an absent friend, as if present. to this we are indebted for all our reading; because it must be written before we can read it. to this we are indebted for the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Columbiad, Henriade, Dunciad, and now for the most glorious poem of all,...
28860From Thomas Jefferson to Washington Committee on Manufactures, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Committee appointed to recieve subscriptions for a manufacturing company at Washington and in answer to their note of the 24th. this moment recieved, he begs leave to observe that so long as his residence at Washington had a character of some continuance, he chearfully joined with, his fellow citizens in contributions to whatever promised to advance...
28861From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed petition from Deville was handed me by Genl. Turreau. I told him at once it was inadmissible, that days had been long ago announced after which no vessels would be permitted to depart; that in favor of emigrants we had continued indulgences till very lately; but that as there must be an end to it, that time had come and we had determined to give no more permissions. they had had a...
28862To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
G Granger presents his compliments to the President, and in relation to the case of Moss of Petersburg he remarks—that at the General post Office he is considered to be of honest, reputable Parents, a Minor of most engaging appearance and manners, who had always sustained a fair character untill he was discovered in these robberies—his is not a single crime—but a series of crimes for months,...
28863To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received your much esteemed favor of the 24th, and lost not a moment in ascertaining what could be done to relieve you from your present embarrassed situation. It is not I trust necessary for me to inform you, that I am always much averse to making professions of friendship, and of a desire to serve those I esteem—My character and disposition I hope being in some degree known to...
28864From Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. by mr Cunow was duly recieved & I now return you the letter it covered. mr Cunow’s object was so perfectly within our own views that it was readily obtained, & I am in hopes he has left us with a more correct opinion of the dispositions of the administration than his fraternity has generally manifested. I have within a few days had visits from the Poutewatamies, Miamis,...
28865To Thomas Jefferson from William Nelson, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you excuse my taking the liberty of asking the favor of you to put the enclosed letter for our friend Mr. Short in the proper channel to him, after adding to the superscription the place in Europe where he may probably be? With sincerest wishes for your health and happiness, and with great respect & esteem, I am, dear Sir, yr. obedt S MHi : Coolidge Collection.
28866From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 27 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of Nov. 14. I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Statement, shewing, as far as returns have been recieved from the collectors, the number of vessels which have departed from the United States with permission, & specifying the other particulars contemplated by that resolution. DNA : RG 46—Records of...
28867To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is your request that your constituents should write you their opinions concerning our national affairs, I shall send you some of my Ideas in a very crude state in order for you to digest and place in a more regular form, and to lop, prune, or cut up, or girdle, as after perusing you may think proper. To begin, I understand that a 100,000 of the Militia are by our Administration to be put...
28868To Thomas Jefferson from John Martin Baker, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I crave your indulgence: urged by necessity, I take this liberty. Most Respectfully Sir, I beg leave to solicit any temporary Employ in this City, or any other part of the Union, you may be pleased to confer on me, during until the much desired Epoch, permitting me the resuming of my station: Praying Your Consideration, I have the Honor to be—With the Highest Respect, and Gratitude. Sir, Your...
28869To Thomas Jefferson from Maurice Bredin, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I write these few lines unto your Excellency, with hope, when they arrive at Your Hands, that you will be kind enough to return an Answer, unto Me, my situation is such after, Arriving to the Age of Maturity of not getting into any Business, worth attention to support an, Aged Family, which by the ties of Nature I, am bound to do, Your general, Character being, that of Humbleness, to your...
28870From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the petition of Jacob Smith of Newport in the case of the ship Triumph, which is a new case to me. perhaps the practice as to foreign ships arriving since the embargo laws, with which I am unacquainted, may facilitate the solution. what should be done? The Atalanta. is not the Collector the person who is to search into the fact charged? I do not know who it is that does this in...
28871To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had already received & rejected a duplicate of Jacob Smith’s petition. There could be no hesitation in the case as she is a vessel owned by citizens of the United States, and the President had no authority to grant a permission unless by virtue of the power vested by the first Embargo act: and that has never been used for any but public purposes. The vessel being originally foreign bottom...
28872To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The complaints against—Clarke, collector of York (Maine) respecting violations of the embargo, if not countenanced, at least permitted, appear well founded. Both Mr. Cutts who represents the district & Mr Storer who lives within nine miles of York (at Portsmouth) recommend the removal. The propriety of appointing the person herein mentioned is respectfully submitted. DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of...
28873To Thomas Jefferson from John McIntosh, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
We the deputies of our nation will communicate to our Father what we have heard since our arrival. We did not think that we were bringing the talks of our old chiefs that we have dismissed. We thought that we were bringing the talks of our beloved man the Path Killer our present principal Chief and the talk of forty two towns that are also of his Mind. What we have seen and heard since our...
28874From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately recieved from my old friend Mr. Thouin superintendant of the National garden at Paris a package containing 700. different kinds of seeds of every country, except of the United States; they were gathered in 1807. and he says they will be good for sowing in the spring of 1809. on every paper is written the time for sowing it (according to the French calendar) and whether under frames,...
28875From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 23d. is recieved. it was never till this day that I have been able to know of any person going to Philadelphia in the stage, so as to put the Polygraph under their care. Capt Jones of Philadelphia was so kind as to take charge of it. he left this this morning in the mail stage, & consequently the Polygraph will have arrived there one day before you recieve this. in the same box...
28876From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 22d. it was the first information I had had of the sentence against Moss, the District attorney not having written to me as you supposed. I referred the case to the Post M. Gl. who in his answer says ‘his is not a single crime, but a series of crimes for months, if not years. there were found upon him between 1300. & 1500. D. which he had robbed in small...
28877To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I heard to day from a Virginia student who had recieved letters from home stating an Insurrection in Amherst. If you have heard any of the circumstances attending it, pray inform me, as it is too near to every thing which is dear to me, to fail being very interesting. I have paid, McAllister and Mr Parke for clarksons history, which you had forgot to Mention, I went to see Mr J. Pemberton, he...
28878To Thomas Jefferson from United States Senate, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Vice President being absent on account of the ill state of his health, the Senate proceeded to the election of a President pro tempore, as the constitution provides, and the honorable Stephen R. Bradley was appointed. Ordered, That the secretary wait on the President of the United States, and acquaint him, that the Senate have, in the absence of the Vice President, elected the honorable...
28879To Thomas Jefferson from William Sunderson, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Merchants, Mechanics, Traders and Mariners of Boston convened on Tuesday Evening December 20th 1808—it was resolved that a Committee be appointed to prepare a memorial to the President of the United States expressive of the disapprobation of this meeting on the Embargo & that the said Committee be directed on the Evening of Wednesday the 29th to make their report & that...
28880To Thomas Jefferson from St. George Tucker, 28 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. Inst. was duely recieved, and has been considered with the Attention due to your friendship & Confidence, which you may rely on not being abused. I waited until I could avail myself of public rumour before I Should venture to mention the Circumstance you allude to. The Spirit of 76. furnish’d the opportunity last week: I have now the satisfactory hope of recommending a...