12781Thomas Jefferson to David Michie, 20 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 17 h to M r Peyton communicated to me on the 18 h & that of the 18 h to myself delivered the same day conveyed the first notice I have ever had that you claimed a single foot of the lands which had belonged to the late Bennett Henderson . I am a bonafide purchaser of those lands and paid more for them than I thought their clear fee simple value, which I certainly should not...
12782Thomas Jefferson to David Michie, 20 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In the disputed Case between us it was agreed that any depositions which either party wished to make use of hereafter in any arbitration or suit on the subject might be taken on due notice and should be used by Consent wishing to secure the deposition of Judge Carr before he left this neighbourhood, I applied to you by letter the last Autumn for this purpose, but was informed you Could not...
12783Thomas Jefferson to Henry Middleton, 8 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 25 . was a month on it’s passage to me. I recieved with great pleasure this mark of your recollection, heightened by the assurance that the part I have acted in public life has met your approbation. having seen all other the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars & prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, &...
12784Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 10 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved from M. Thouin , Director of the National garden of France a collection of many different species of rice. whether any of them possess any properties which might render them preferable to those we possess, either generally, or on under particular circumstances of soil or climate I know not. but the scripture precept of ‘prove all things & hold fast that which is good’ is...
12785Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 5 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Our cultivation of Benni has not yet had entire success. the 1 st year we sowed late & the frost caught it, so that we had scarcely seed the 2 d year to raise seed for the 3 d . we have at length made in the neighborhood two or three bushels. I succeeded in expressing the oil in the iron press you saw at Foxall’s . but the iron giving a brown tinge to the oil, altho transparent & free from...
12786Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 22 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Two friends, who lately accompanied me to this place have proceeded on a tour through the Southern country. the one of these is mr Correa a gentleman from Portugal , of the first order of science, being without exception the most learned man I have ever met with in any country: modest, good-humored, familiar, plain as a country farmer, he becomes the favorite of every one with whom he becomes...
12787From Abigail Smith Adams to E. Miller, 15 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Will you permit Listen to a Friend to your Reputation to your rising prospects, to your rising prospects, to your future pursuits and to the happiness of your family to tender you some advice, nor deem it an intrusion? It is a Subject of much delicacy which I scarcely know how to begin yet such is the partiality I have entertained for you from the amiableness of your manners and the good...
12788Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 14 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Bedford a few days ago, which has delayed the commencement of our malting till three days ago. altho I shall set out for Bedford again on the 19 th to continue there to the end first of December, yet I shall take measures to enable Peter to go on with his malting and brewing. not to be too late again in providing corks, as I was last year, and fearing I should get bad ones at...
12789Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 21 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel myself bound in candor to communicate to you the step which the dangers impending over our country us, and the great change of circumstances since you left Charlottesville , have required me to take. the permission you requested to visit Norfolk was for a fortnight only which however I asked for a month, on my own responsibility; and in such terms as produced from the Marshal a...
12790Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 26 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time the cask of biscuit you were so kind as to send us, and which we found to be of the very best quality. I have deferred acknoleging it until the season is approaching when considerations of health would recommend your leaving Norfolk , and the great heats will suspend the operations of your brewery; and I now take up my pen to assure you you have always a home here, and...
12791Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Miller, 17 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to announce to you that your bill is passed; so that you may now take possession of your property, and sell and do with it what you please. I recieved the information last night in a letter of the 14 th from mr Cabell , our Senator, who undertook the care of the bill. you would do well to write to the clerk of the House of Representatives for a copy of the law, paying the...
12792From John Jay to Morris S. Miller, 22 May 1809 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . by the last mail, and have read with great pleasure, your obliging Letter of the 11 th . Inst:— The Information in conveys, cannot fail of being grateful to all who prefer the wise and upright Policy which distinguished the Administration of Washington, to that which of late has distressed and disgraced our Country: How far the favorable changes which have taken place, are imputable...
12793From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 11 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter of the Sixth of this Month is this day received with great Pleasure. I thank you, Sir for the Facts relative to your Ancestors, and Shall be obliged to you for any others that you may please to communicate to me. I may possibly furnish you hereafter with Some Information concerning your Uncle Joseph Miller: but this is mere conjecture at present. I escorted to the Tomb in the...
12794From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 12 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Some Gentlemen in this Town have lately caused to be printed a Sermon of Mr Hancock the Father of the late President of Congress and Governor of Massachusetts; which although I heard it delivered from the Pulpit and was familiar with it afterwards in print in my Childhood; I had not seen for I know not how great a Number of Years. Knowing your taste for Antiquities and believing that it...
12795From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 24 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether my transient acquaintance, with you, will justify me, or acquit me of indiscretion, in introducing a gentleman to you in this manner. But the Reverend Mr Henry Colman a Congregational minister, beloved & esteemed in this neighbourhood, travelling to the Southward & wishing to see the most eminent, men; I know of none more eminent to whom I could introduce him. His character...
12796From James Madison to Samuel Miller, 24 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 20th. The newspaper of this day will inform you that a Proclamation has issued recommending the 2d. thursday of September to be generally observed as a day of religious solemnity. The delay proceeded from that of Congs. who were expected to lay the foundation for the measure as they did last year. No time was lost after their Resolution reached my hands. I...
12797From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 13 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
I Sent yesterday to the Post Office one of Mr Hancocks Century Sermons under cover to you and I thought the foregoing Letter written for the Purpos was wrapped in it. By Some inadvertence, of myself or another, it was omitted: and I am not Sorry for it as it now gives me an opportunity to add Somewhat relative to your Ancestor. John Alden, a Magistrate of Plymouth Colony, was one of the first...
12798From John Adams to Stephen Miller, 23 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Last Evening Mr: Apthrop put into my hand your polite Letter of the first of this Month from New York. Your civil Apology for writing to me was unnecessary: because I hope I should always be ready to communicate any information in my possession in furtherance of Justice; and especially to a Gentleman whose Father and Grandfather Uncle and various Relations I have known and respected from my...
12799From John Jay to William Miller, 24 November 1815 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 12 th . of this Month. Having for more than a Fortnight, been ill of the Cold or Influenza, which prevails this Season very generally; I find myself feeble, and unable to write or read much without Fatigue. I cannot however let Garret return, without committing to his Care a few Lines in answer to yours.— You are right in supposing that at your age much...
12800From James Madison to William Miller, 4 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your communication of the 28th. Ulto: and I can not be insensible to the approbation e⟨xpres⟩sed of my conduct during a momentous period, by the Legislature of a State, which bore with distinguished patriotism, its share of the trials which were encountered. In recommending the appeal to arms, the reluctant duty was prescribed by the honor, and sanctioned by the voice of the...
12801From John Jay to William Miller, 30 March 1813 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 6 th . of last month— It gave us pleasure to learn from it, that ^you had regained^ your Health now re-established , and that M rs . Miller and all the Family were well. M r . Benson has been elected a Member of Congress; but your Intelligence that Peter was also elected, is not so correct. I understand that there was a small majority against him, but that the...
12802Thomas Jefferson to William Miller, 1 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be obliged to you if you will send me by post a copy of Reuben Skelton’s will duly authenticated from your office. it is dated May 18. 1752 . but he did not die till Aug. 1759. which will guide you in your search for it. the ticket for the copy shall be paid to our sheriff if addressed to me, or to any other person to whom you may commit it. I am Sir PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r...
12803Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 26 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you from Bedford the 1 st inst. to which I refer you if you have made a list of the books I forwarded for binding I would thank you for a copy, being at a loss sometimes to recollect whether a particular book was among them. indeed I shall be glad of the books themselves as soon as you can have them bound. I observe their there is a mail-tumbrel from Fredsbg weekly to Milton which...
12804Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 6. did not come to hand until the 15 th . I then expected I should finish revising the translation of Tracy ’s book within a week, and could send the whole together. I got thro’ it, but on further consideration thought I ought to read it over again, lest any errors should have been left in it. it was fortunate I did so, for I found several little errors. the whole is now...
12805Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 1 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
1814. Dec. 1. wrote to mr Millegan to procure me Garnet ’s Naut. Almanac 15. to be forwarded by mail. & his d o for subseq t years. Blount ’s Naut. Alm. for 1815 & subsequent Stewart ’s elements of the Philos. of the human mind. 8 vo FC ( DLC
12806Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 5 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just now returned from a 7. weeks visit to Bedford , to which place I went immediately on writing you my letter of Aug. 17. on my return I find here your two letters of Aug. 16. and 20. the former covering my account amounting to 264.75 from which deducting the 92.D. remitted a balance remains of 172.75 I knew there had been other books furnished me of which I had no account; but it runs...
12807Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 7 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By a note in the 5 th vol. of Joyce ’s Scientific dialogues I see that the 7 th & 8 th vol s were published in Mar. 1807. I presume therefore they must have come to the US. and will pray you to get them for me to compleat the set you procured me, which consisted of the first 6. vols only. the two volumes wanting are on the subject of chemistry. it is a book of inestimable value, & renders all...
12808Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 28 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from M r Sam l H. Smith I am informed that the President had engaged you to come on here as soon as I should be ready to examine and pack the library, and that mr Dougherty was to superintend the transportation. I have been a fortnight laboriously engaged in revising the books, & placing them on their shelves every one in the place and order in which it stands in the Catalogue....
12809Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 11 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 31. came to hand the day before yesterday only. one of the boxes of books arrived ten days ago. the other is not yet come. the bill in your last letter is of 50½.D. another which came in your letter of May 6. from Fredericksbg was of 41½.D. there have been a few other books furnished of which I have never had a bill, nor know their amount. they were I believe but few; and...
12810Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 19 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at two or three different dates written to ask the favor of you to let me know how much I am in your debt, but have received no answer. if you will be so good as to inform me, it shall be promptly remitted, as it should have been long ago, had the amount been known to me. should you in the mean time have been able to get the 7 th & 8 th vols of the Scientific dialogues I shall be glad...