8501From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 4 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of May 31. and leave to your own judgment entirely what is best to be done with my tobo. the danger of the rains having injured it may be a good reason for examining it so far as to be satisfied on that score. by sending it to Philadelphia I can always have a dollar more than is given for any crop that goes there; but it is troublesome sending it, and I wish...
8502To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 4 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I Hope You will Have Received My Joyfull Congratulations on the Happy, Thrice Happy Arrangement for Louisiana, as Well as my Thankfull Aknowledgements for the Honourable Bounty of Congress in my Behalf and for the kind part You Have Been pleased to take in this Equally flattering and advantageous favour. These Lines shall be Consecrated to The Memory of a departed friend of ours General...
8503From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you two letters yesterday by the direct post. in the evening I recieved the two now inclosed, and altho’ I do not know that sending them by Richmond they can get to you sooner than if sent by our next post of Wednesday, yet I take that chance, to lessen the anxiety of yesterday’s accounts. affectionate salutations RC ( DLC ); endorsed by Randolph as received 10 June. Recorded in SJL...
8504To James Madison from Stephen Kingston, 5 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 June 1803 . “I beg leave to transmit you the inclosed (original) letter from Mr. Sarratea dated Madrid 25 feby. last, for the purpose of being noticed in the Instructions of State to the Minister of the United States there, and to entreat such attention to the subject of those agressions as may obtain from the government of Spain, fair, reasonable, and speedy compensation, without which our...
8505To James Madison from James S. Morsell, 5 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 June 1803, Georgetown . Declines appointment as a commissioner of bankruptcy: “my professional duties will occupy so great a portion of my time as to render an attention to the execution of the trusts under that Commission impractacable.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LRD ). 1 p.; docketed by Jefferson. James S. Morsell (1775–1870) was a Georgetown lawyer. JM appointed him to the circuit court of the...
8506To James Madison from François de Navoni, 5 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 June 1803, Cagliari . In his letters of 30 Sept. and 4 Dec. last [not found], sent by way of Marseilles, informed JM of all he thought necessary for U.S. commerce here. Recommends himself to JM’s protection and justice for the work he has done for the U.S. in serving American ships in this road. Hopes to receive soon a commission from the U.S. Has a correspondence with all the Mediterranean...
8507To James Madison from François de Navoni, 5 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Deux de mes Lettres du 30. 7mbre. et 4. Xmbre. passé, je me Suis fait un devoir par la voye de Marseille de vous humilier, vous informant de tout ce que j’ai cru convenable pour le Service et pour le Commerçe comme mieux vous en aurés etè instruit, du detail de ce très Excellant Sel que j’ai remis a Monsr. le Premier Presidant, et au Commerce même. Je vous le renouvelle donc derechef, et je me...
8508To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Chastellux, 5 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The remembrance of your friendship for the father of my Child, and the very kind letter you was so good as to write to me some years past at a moment I addressed you in favo’r of my dr. Boy emboldens me to claim your protection again, if you are of opinion that I can apply to the States of Maryland for an indemnification as being the direct & legal descendant of Lord Baltimore: my right which...
8509Commissioners of Bankruptcy: List of Candidates, on or before 5 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Jacob I. Cohen William Hull Wm. Vaughan for Portland Worcester . Samuel Flagg Abraham Lincoln Francis Blake MS ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 2:0414); undated but see Lincoln to TJ
8510To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, on or before 5 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The names, agt Worcester, in the memorandum were intended for commissioners of bankruptcy;— Vaughan I think was designed to supply the place of one who had not accepted, Cohen , I have no recollection of— Hull was named , altho the commission was considered as full, to quiet his feelings, which appeared to have been very much hurt, from an idea of his having been neglected—As the...
8511From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 5 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
1400. 621. 1410. 327. 251. 569. 1402. 640. 146. 1486. 1445. 956. 530. 43. 954. 1399. 1006. 1436. 1379 1576. 1372. 1501. 1436. 981. 167. 996. 548. 604. 805. 809. 1046. 377. 1401. 1513. 1274. 1067. 1440. 569. 663. 981. 818. 1443. 270. 1315. 1440. 627. 1310. 219. 179. 1337. 520. 1440. 1225. 271. 569. 1549. 925. 1153. 569. 341. 801. 1501. 126. 1550. 94. 352. 879. 569. 177. 1507. 1042. 1102. 439....
8512To Thomas Jefferson from François Navoni, 5 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Je me suis avec empressement fait un devoir de vous humilier deux de mes lettres datées 30. 7mbre., et 4. Xmbre. passés les quels j’avois remis a Marseille les ayant raccomandées pour sa promte expedition, et j’ai eté deja averti qu’elles furent acheminées par Battiment. Comme jusqu’a present je n’ai pas encore eté honnoré de reponse aux dittes Lettres, de rechef, et par la meme voye de...
8513From James Madison to Peder Blicherolsen, 6 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have laid before the President your note of the 4th. inst. signifying your intention to make a visit to your country which your sovereign has permitted, and that Mr. Pederson whose arrival is daily expected will be presented as Chargé d Affaires during your absence. The President has thought proper to make it an occasion as well for assuring his Danish Majesty of the dispositions of the...
8514To James Madison from George W. Erving, 6 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April 19h. and in conformity to the direction therein given shall pay into the hands of Baring & Co the ballance of monies deducted or to be deducted on account of the advances of the United States in Prize Causes, from what may be received in the awards of the commissioners: After the 15 July I shall be able to ascertain the amount...
8515To James Madison from Edward Thornton, 6 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 1st curt. with its inclosures, and shall take an early opportunity of laying them before His Majesty’s Government, to whom I have already mentioned the transaction they allude to. I have likewise taken measures to procure from Captain Douglas his statement of the details. Not that I pretend that any circumstances can justify...
8516From James Madison to A. B. Due, 6 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 June 1803, Department of State . “The Secretary of State has received your letter of the 3rd. inst. [not found] with its enclosures. As the latter prove yourself and Messrs. Matry and Letailleur to be residents of the United States and not citizens, it is out of his power at present to grant the passports you request. If you have any other evidence to prove you to be citizens, you will be...
8517From James Madison to Andrew Ellicott, 6 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 June 1803, Department of State . “A voucher has been transmitted to the Treasury Department, enabling you to receive three hundred and fifty Dollars for expenditures specified in your letter of the 27th. Decr. last.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14). 1 p. On 4 June Jefferson issued a certificate, “by the representation of the Secretary of State,” to serve as a voucher for the...
8518From Thomas Jefferson to Christian VII, King of Denmark, 6 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Blicherolsen your Minister Resident with the United States, having communicated his purpose of making, under your permission, a voyage to his country, I make it an occasion of expressing the satisfaction which his estimable qualities and the use he has made of them in the exercise of his functions, have inspired: and at the same time of assuring your Majesty of the perfect reciprocity in...
8519To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 6 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to your Excellency by the Reverend Mr; Gideon Blackburn, who has been appointed by the General Assembly of Presbyterians in the United States, at their late session in this City; a Missionary to the Cheerokee nation of Indians; for the purpose of instructing them in the ways of civilized life and in piety. This Gentleman is a native of Cumberland County in Pennsylvania, but...
8520To Thomas Jefferson from John P. Whitwell and Andrew Oliver, Jr., 6 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
We, the Subscribers, citizens of the Town of Boston, with the greatest deference, and respect, humbly beg leave to enclose a Copy of a Letter from ourselves to the Secretary of the Navy ; and to solicit thereto, the momentary attention and interference of the Chief Magistrate of the Union; whose exalted Character, whether Moral, Political, or Literary, we have ever beheld with the highest...
8521From James Madison to William Savage, 7 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly received your letter of the 5th. of April last, and enclose a copy of the act of Congress passed at the last session to prevent the importation of certain obnoxious persons. As its object is to reinforce the laws of the individual States, these laws are the criterion of the exclusions. I also enclose proof of Thomas Holland, who is detained on board the frigate Decade, being a Citizen...
8522To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 7 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
We have the pleasure to forward to you by Mr. Jay the ratification by the first Consul of the Treaty and conventions, which we concluded on the 30th. of April, with this Republic. We have heretofore forwarded to you the original instruments, and two Copies by different ways, the original by Havre, under the care of Mr. Hughes, who sailed about two weeks since, expressly charged with that...
8523To James Madison from James Monroe, 7 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a view which I have taken of the question whether W. Florida is comprized in the cession lately made to the UStates by France of Louisiana, in which I am led to conclude that it is. Indeed I think that the doctrine is too clear to admit of any doubt. The bargain is proportionally a more advantageous one to us. You will see by our joint letter the propriety of an early decision on...
8524To James Madison from Noah Webster, 7 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Accompanying this is a Copy of a revised & improved Edition of the Prompter, which I transmit to be deposited in the Office of State, in pursuance of the Statute, for securing copyright. As the Certificate of Register in the Clerks Office could not be printed on the back of the title page, it has been added at the end of the Work; altho, with deference to your opinion, it appears not to be...
8525To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 June 1803, Hamburg . Announced his intention of going to Great Britain in his last of 28 May . Postponed his trip because of “the rapid and unopposed advance, of the French Army into our immediate vicinity.” Was convinced that “in Case of General inquisition” during an occupation, only he could give “efficient protection to the American property” in the city. A part of the French army has...
8526To James Madison from James P. Watson, 7 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 June 1803, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe . Wrote JM on 3 May [not found] “respecting the impresment of american Seamen.” Since that time the commandant has prevented impressments. Has opened a store in this city and has the only consignments from American merchant vessels in this port. Requests appointment “as a Publick agent,” promising that JM may rely on his fidelity. Refers JM for...
8527To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 7 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
My last was under 28th. ulto. & announced my intention of making a Voyage to England. The rapid and unopposed advance, of the French Army into our immediate vicinity and the general fear that it would occupy this City, induced me from a Sense of official duty to forego the advantage which my projected Voyage promised, persuaded that in Case of General inquisition, no one acting under me, Could...
8528From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 7 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kindness on a former occasion has emboldened me to trouble you again for a draught on Paris of the value of 200. Dollars, for which sum I inclose you a check on the New York branch bank. my apology is that it shall be the last time for the present year , and that I am really so helpless in things of this kind that like other helpless beings I throw myself on the charity of the benevolent....
8529From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 7 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is mr Mansfield , to be appointed Surveyor vice Putnam. he is come to get whatever information you think necessary to have communicated to him for the proper discharge of his duties. he is informed that when the other duties of his office will admit, he is to make a survey of the Missisipi, & to fix certain geographical points such as the South end of Lake Michigan, the West...
8530To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Harris, 7 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing whether Mr. Mirriwether Lewis has left the City of Washington or not, have taken the liberty of inclosing a letter of importance to him under cover of one to you—If Mr. Lewis has left Washington you would conferr a singular favor on me by forwarding the inclosed letter to him, by post, & by writing me by post to Charlottesville the place of his destination & where I may direct to...
8531To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 7 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
A number of Boatswains, Gunners, Carpenters and Sailmakers are wanting for the Squadron now preparing for the Mediterranean . I therefore enclose 20 blank warrants to which I have the honor to request your Signature.— with high respect, I am Sir yr. ob: Servt. RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department...
8532From James Madison to John Francis Mercer, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 4th. inst, but having no recent information from London respecting the Maryland Bank Stock I can only assure you that when any is received I shall lose no time in communicating it to you. With great respect &ca. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 14).
8533To James Madison from George W. Erving, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your (private) Letter of Ap. 4. 1803. Mr King has finally left this without availing himself of the priviledge which it Seems the President intended that he shoud exercise. In fact I have reason to think that Mr Gore himself had been made sensible of the impropriety of his acting as chargé des affairs & that he declined the offer of Mr King to appoint him:...
8534To James Madison from James Monroe, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
In our publick communications we have been so full that little is left to be added here. I inclose you a letter open addressed to Genl. Mason, W. C. Nicholas & Mr. Breckinridge containing a statment of facts relative to what has occurr’d here which I have thought it proper to put under yr. controul. You may either deliver or retain it to be returned to me when I get back to America....
8535To James Madison from James Monroe, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of yesterday I have had an interesting communication with the minister of foreign affairs. Our letter had been restored to Mr. Livingston by Mr. Marbois in a casual interview who also shewed him the order to Mr. Pichon which was substituted to it. To see that order and receive one to him for the surrender of the country to the United States I called yesterday evening by...
8536To James Madison from Joseph Barnes, 8 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 June 1803, Paris . Wrote JM last on 20 Dec. 1802 from Leghorn; expected to be in Sicily at his post by now. The loss of his business caused the delay but has given him the opportunity to travel to Paris and speak with Monroe and Livingston “on objects of the United States.” Hopes “good will result from it.” After the date of his last letter, went to Naples and presented his commission to the...
8537To James Madison from Joseph Pulis, 8 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 June 1803, Malta . Reports that on 18 Jan. the schooner Enterprize captured the imperial polacre Pauline [ Paolina ], loaded with goods for Tripoli, and brought it into this port, where it awaits orders for its disposition. Since the beginning of May several ships have arrived in quarantine carrying British troops from Alexandria and one of the four principal pashas of Cairo. The frigate...
8538To James Madison from James Simpson, 8 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 June 1803, Tangier . No. 58. Forwarded his no. 56 dated 14 May by way of Gibraltar; sent no. 57 dated 3 June by the Brig Mary of Salem; sent duplicates of both to Jarvis in Lisbon. “Yesterday” received the original and duplicate of JM’s of 26 Mar. with a postscript to JM’s 1 Apr. letter. As requested, he encloses a copy of JM’s 21 Oct. 1802 letter . The delay in sending his nos. 53 and 54...
8539To James Madison from Joseph Barnes, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
When I had the pleasure o f writing you from Leghorn Decemr. 20th. 1802 I expected Long since to have been in Sicily at my Post. However tho’ a variety of unforeseen occurrent circumstances in closing my business, especially in Leghorn, have caused my detention, yet as it has given me the opportunity of proceeding here from Marseilles and having interviews with o ur Ministers Mr. Monroe & Mr....
8540To James Madison from Joseph Pulis, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
En acquitement du devoir rélatif à ma charge, je mets sous les yeux de Votre Excelence tout ce qui est de plus intéressant depuis la derniere lettre, que j’eus l’honneur de vous écrire, & prémièrement, que l’Esckooner l’entreprise s’est emparé le 18. de Janvier dernier de la polacre Imperiale, apellée la Pauline, comandée par le Capitaine Luc Radich allant à Tripoly chargé de diverses...
8541To James Madison from James Simpson, 8 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
No. 56 dated 14th. Ulto. was forwarded to Gibraltar and No. 57 of 3d. Inst. by the Brig Mary of Salem to sail from Sallé. Duplicates of both have been sent Mr. Jarvis of Lisbon by a Portuguese Sloop of War. Yesterday I was honour’d by way of Gibraltar with original and duplicate of your 26th. March, with postscript to the latter of 1st. April. In obedience to your desire I send with this, an...
8542From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Ferris, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Isaac Briggs informed me by letter that he had purchased for me, from you a clock and that the price of it including box & packing would be about seventy dollars. I now inclose you that sum, and will thank you to have it well packed & secure against rain, and sent by a vessel bound to Richmond addressed to the care of Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson merchants of that place. they will pay the...
8543To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Professional pursuits have absorbed so much of my attention, since the last Presidential election, that I have been a very superficial observer of the political affairs of our country. Knowing the just views, & upright intentions of the Executive of the Union; I rested in the hope, that the adverse party, had the policy, if not the justice, to estimate properly, that lenity which was extended...
8544To Thomas Jefferson from John Isaac Hawkins, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to request as a favor you will permit the bearer Mr. Uri K. Hill to take your likeness in Profile with one of my Patent Physiognotraces , and would also ask leave to Publish copies of the same, here & in Europe. Mr. Hill is a Pupil of Nature, whom I have lately met with in travelling thro’ the New England states. with her instruction he has composed several beautiful pieces...
8545From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the manifests of my tobacco which I had not recieved till last night. they agree with the list I sent you, except omitting the light hhd of 700. ℔ which I presume has been retained above. the amount is 44,439. ℔ Accept my affectionate salutations. PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr. George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Recorded in SJL with notation “manifests 44,439...
8546To Thomas Jefferson from Martin Kinsley and Others, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
We the underwritten inhabitants of the District of Maine and in the vicinity of Frenchmans Bay haveing been informed that Meletiah Jordan Esqr: Collector of that Port is likely to be removed from his Office; would with great deference introduce to your notice Paul Dudley Sargent Esqr of Sullivan within the Port to fill the vacancy if there should be one, we can recommend as a Gentleman fully...
8547From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 3d. was recieved last night. would not riven pine slabs make a better moveable cover for the plaistered part of the house, than linen? if slabs 10. f. long and 2. f. apart were first laid cross ways thus horizontally and then others nailed up & down close, & breaking joints and the nails clinched on the under side, it would hang together strongly, and might be laid on, & laid by...
8548To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing was done at May Court. M. Carr and Barber was employed. my instructions to them was to have the business put of untill the next Court. I attended Monday last; but Nelson who appears for Henderson did nothing. M. Carr thought it ought to come before the quarterly Court at which your instructions shall be executed. when Meriweather & Millar was leaveling the Mill seat I expressed my...
8549To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas N. Quackenbush, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the close of the last winter the Council of Appointment of this State was pleased to appoint me to an office which by the constitution of this State incapacitates me during my continuance therein from holding any other—Having accepted this appointment—I am therefore obliged to, and hereby do, resign the office of General Commissioner of Bankruptcy with which I have been Honored by you—...
8550From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of May 30. has been recieved. should Brown recover so that the law shall inflict no punishment on Cary, it will be necessary for me to make an example of him in terrorem to others, in order to maintain the police so rigorously necessary among the nailboys. there are generally negro purchasers from Georgia passing about the state, to one of whom I would rather he should be sold than to...