12841Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 19 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter which you mention to have written about ten days ago has not yet been recieved. that of the 16 th by mr Sea came to hand last night. I will first observe in answer to your enquiries, that the personal property of the estate; and especially that which is liable to waste may, & ought to be sold without waiting the probat of the will. this may be done by any agent of the estate, but...
12842Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 7 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now so frequently and long in Bedford , & find such accumulations of letters on my return, that I am long answering them, and especially those which press least. yours of Jan. 20. had been recieved in February, that of June waited here till my last return from Bedford . both contained copies of your accounts. in the former you mention that the risks of the mail prevented your sending the...
12843Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor, 29 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved by the hands of your brother Col o Minor your favor of Aug. 15. and inclosed in that a list of the debts of mr Marks which you considered so far authenticated as to entitle them to paiment. these were to Col o Callis £21–8–8 with interest from May 1809. to W m Kimborough £6–4 with interest from 1804.
12844Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 18 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th came to my hands the last night only, and I hasten to reply to it, being anxious to change my position from that of an obstacle, to a promoter of the object of the Directors . if I know myself, I wish nothing unjust, and I am more certain that the Directors do not, because they have no personal interest to blind them. if we have not the same opinions, it is because we...
12845Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 31 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I proceeded according to agreement to make notes of what I understood to be the intention of all parties on the day of our conference, but soon found it would be quite as easy to put them at once into their ultimate form, which I accordingly did & now inclose you , subject to the correction of the recollections of the other gentlemen. according to the best of mine there is but one article in...
12846Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 22 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you do us the favor to take peas & punch with us to-day? we did not know till last night that we should have either. RC (photocopy in ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL .
12847Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 20 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose an answer to your favor of the 10 th . should the Directors still dissent from my propositions, I should wish a personal conference with them, for there is no end to writing. the ground on which we stand now is simply this. 1. they ask the use of my dam, and perhaps to raise it. I answer, take it & use it: but if you endanger it by raising it, you must maintain it. 2. they ask the...
12848Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 3 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, just as I was preparing for a journey to Bedford , your letter of Jan. 15. informing me that the Directors of the Rivanna Company had changed their first resolution of carrying the navigation thro’ my canal, and had determined to follow the bed of the river: that in that case they would consider my mill dam as an obstruction to the navigation, and a lock to pass it necessary; and...
12849Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 15 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday the inclosed act for the assesment of Congressional taxes. I see by that that a pri Collector and principal assessor are to be appointed for our district ( Nelson , Amherst , Albemarle & Fluvanna ). the former officer is of little concern to those who mean to pay punctually; but the principal assessor is all important; because the sum to be paid by our district being fixed...
12850Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 18 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th is recieved, notifying me that the Directors of the Rivanna company have had under consideration the bill respecting the navigation of our river, that they have decided unanimously that the passage of that law as it was amended by the Senate , would comprehend every object of their petition to the last assembly , and that they propose to petition that the bill, as...
12851Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 30 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
An accidental misplacing of the papers from the Directors of the Rivanna company , which I recieved thro’ you, & the never having been able to find them till yesterday, nor otherwise to know their contents (for I had not read the principal one) must be my apology for not having taken them into consideration till this moment. on reading their resolution of the 12 th instant it is a subject of...
12852Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 25 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The present state of things at the Shadwell mills & at the lock requiring some new order to be taken respecting them, I must request the favor of a meeting of the Directors of the Rivanna company ; in order that what is necessary may be done in concert between us. the small proportion of business which has been done at the mills heretofore, rendered the stoppages which took place from time to...
12853Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 24 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I participate in all your hostility to dogs, and would readily join in any plan for exterminating the whole race. I consider them as the most afflicting of all the follies for which men tax themselves. but as total extirpation cannot be hoped for, let it be partial. I like well your outlines of a law for this purpose: but should we not add a provision for making the owner of a dog liable for...
12854Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 18 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Jefferson Randolph informs me you have a horse to sell for mr Gilmer , of properties which would suit me; that you would be willing he should be tried for a week & returned if not approved, that his price is 100.D. paiable with some indulgence. I should ask time to get my flour to market, & to sell it without pressure; say till March or April. if this be correct, I ask the favor of...
12855Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 20 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Peter Minor and sends him a bottle of oil of the last expression, in the wooden press placed under the beam of the cyder press. it’s colour shews it preferable to the Iron press; and the ease with which this press is made is a further encoragement to the culture of the Benni. Th:J. will not make seed this year, owing to his having sowed it with a...
12856Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 20 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Watson’s 50.D. were recieved in August last mr Divers’s a couple of months after; I expected daily to have recieved mr Hudson’s and Cap t Meriwether’s which would have closed this business as far as I have undertaken it, and to have remitted the whole at once. my long absence since in Bedford has
12857Thomas Jefferson to Andrew C. Mitchell, 16 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the pamphlet which you have been so kind as to send me. I have read it with attention & satisfaction. it is replete with sound views, some of which will doubtless be adopted. some may be checked by difficulties. none more likely to be so than the proposition to amend the constitution so as to authorise Congress to tax exports. the provision against this in the framing of...
12858Thomas Jefferson to John Mitchell, 7 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 26. is just recieved, and I learn with great satisfaction that the object of the public liberty to which you devoted your services in the field, has been still that of your retirement and has been maintained on the most correct principles. it is a subject of much regret when those who have performed all their duties faithfully to their country, become from any circumstances...
12859From John Adams to John Mitchell, 19 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honour to write me on the first of this month, with a parcel containing Letters from J.Q. Adams Esq in Russia to his Father, his Mother; his Brother & his Sons, with one to Robert Fulton of N. York committed to your care by H. H. Cogswell Esqr Secretary of the Province by Order of his Excellency Sir John C Sherbrook the Commander in Chief. My thanks...
12860Thomas Jefferson to William or Reuben Mitchell, 18 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not bring with me from home the papers respecting my wheat ground at your mill of the crop of 1810. but I have, in a letter from home written from home to Doct r Callaway on that subject a very exact statement made out on a view of all the papers. I recieved (according to the accounts rendered me by Gibson & Jefferson ) 232. barrels of flour. most of them were superfine; the number of...
12861From John Adams to Samuel L. Mitchell, 24 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
What apology can I offer, for the liberty I take of introducing to you the Revnd Henry Colman of Hingham? My apology is ready without ceremony. Mr Colman wishes to see, the great and good men and things in New York & Philadelphia, and as a man of Science, letters, and virtue, he is worthy to see them. Any notice you may take of him, will be gratefully acknowledged, by your humble Servant with...
12862From John Adams to Samuel L. Mitchell, 7 February 1817 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a Curiosity, which, for anything I know, is as inexplicable, as any thing in Antiquity.— At what time, and by what People was that Monument to Daniel erected? If by the Jews in the time of the Captivity, would not the Inscription have been in Hebrew? Would the Chaldeans have permitted the Jews to erect such a Monument, even with an Inscription in their own or in Egyptian...
12863Thomas Jefferson to William Mitchell, 12 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I learnt some time ago thro’ mr Griffin the award of the arbitrators in the question between us referred to them, and I have now to ask the favor of you to furnish me with a state of our account for it’s final discharge. there was a small credit to be given me, as explained in my letter of Dec. 18. which you will be able to ascertain. being to leave this within a very few days, I will thank...
12864Thomas Jefferson to William & Reuben Mitchell, 6 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 25. was brought me by our last post I was certainly not aware that any question could arise on the terms of our agreement. mr Griffin had brought me your first proposition of 2/6 less than the Richmond price, which I declined, but told him that if you would give within 2/ of the Richmond price, the best which should be given within a reasonable number of days, you should...
12865Thomas Jefferson to Samuel L. Mitchill, 20 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to D r Mitchell for the print of Asiatic antiquities he has been so kind as to send him, which, however unintelligible to him, is still a curiosity. he is happy in the occasion it has presented of a mutual recognition of former fellowship in service, and of renewing to him the assurance of his constant esteem & respect. RC (Christie’s, New York City, 1992);...
12866Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson and Samuel L. Mitchill, 17 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday only your favor of July 15. informing me that the Literary and Philosophical society of New York had been pleased to elect me an honorary member of their body. permit me, through you, to retur n them my thanks for this mark of their favorable attention. age, distance, and a relaxation in literary & Philosophical pursuits will, I fear, render me an unprofitable member, but...
12867From James Madison to Samuel Latham Mitchill, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Jennings has a medical invention in the value of which he feels as much confidence that he is anxious to present it to the consideration of the most enlightened of the profession. Altho’ a departure in some measure from an established rule, I can not refuse a line which may promote an opportunity for the accurate explanations by which he wishes his invention to be tested. His benevolent...
12868Thomas Jefferson to Baron Karl von Moll, 31 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Within a few days only I have recieved the letter which you did me the honor to write on the 22 d of July 1812 . a delay which I presume must be ascribed to the interruption of the intercourse of the world by the wars which have lately desolated it by sea and land. still involved ourselves with a nation possessing almost exclusively the ocean which separates us, I fear the one I have now the...
12869From James Madison to James Monroe, 29 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 26. and return the projected answer to Adml. Cochrane, with a few pencilled alterations, which you will perceive the Scope of; and adopt, or remodify as you may think best. The last one is intended to obviate the apparent inconsistency occurring to you. The only ground on which the B. Govt. could properly, or prudently call the attention of this to the affair in...
12870From Abigail Smith Adams to James Monroe, 3 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
upon the 23d of Feb’ry mr Adams addrest a Letter to you, and inclosed a private Letter from my Son at St Petersburgh to me, requesting a return of it by the next Mail. as the Letter has not been received I presume in the multiplicity of buisness, It has been forgotten. You will oblige me by sending it, and at the same time do me the favour to forwarding the packet which accompanies this Letter...