15031John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Esteemd fav r 15 th on your Return from Bedford After 7. weeks Absence— Covered your 2 powers for my Receiving all divid ds or profits due or may hereafter become due—&c a . Be pleased to Observe—Both these Stocks viz the $12,500. 6 pC ts and the 46 share Colum
15032Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel T. Eldredge, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to ask your permission to become a subscriber to your ‘ New York public sale report ’ and inclose you a five dollar bill for the first year in advance. it is of the bank of Virginia which I understand is negociable with you at par. be pleased to direct the papers to me ‘at Monticello near Milton .’ and to accept the assurances of my respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover...
15033John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have directed Martin to remain at Monticello until he learns to Turn—He will be able to get the stocks necessary for the pieces 400 in number and I can send for them after his return— My health is I hope gradually improving— I am able now to take exercise on horse back which I am in hopes in time with a rigid attention to diet will restore me— Martha unites with me in every wish of affection...
15034Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas H. Lewis, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to look over my correspondence with mr Minor as Secretary of the Rivanna co. I find that I have either lost, mislaid or returned to him a draught of an Indenture prepared by him and inclosed to me in his letter of Nov. 10. 1810. by turning to that letter which is in my possession, but a copy of it, no doubt, retained by him, you will find a description of the Indenture . could...
15035Nicholas H. Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your s ⅌ boy and am sorry I cannot this evening comply with y r request Uncle W m Meriwether wished to paruse the correspondence between yourself and M r Minor the papers are now in his posession but as soon as I can possably get them I will examine and if the paper alluded to in your letter can be found a copy of it shall certainly be sent to you RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M
15036Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
you may have observed a proposition of a correspondent , publïshed in the Weekly Register of the 23rd ult. as to a collection of Speeches, &c. belonging to the period of our revolution. I have reason to believe it comes from one of the first men of our country, & it has excited no little attention. Be pleased to refer to it. The collection being So loudly called for, I shall attempt to make...
15037Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Rent Claims of the Heirs of Bennett Henderson, [by 30 December 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Some Notes on the claim of rents by Frances , Lucy & Nancy C. Henderson . The loss I have sustained by this purchase amounts to the whole value of the lands. it is a fair object in me then to save as much of that loss as I possibly can; it is justifiable to avail myself of every principle of law or equity, which can protect me, and a candid judge, either in law or equity, would give me the...
15038Josephus B. Stuart’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 24–25 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Tuesday 24 th December 1816. After breakfast proceeded to M r Jefferson s—spent the day with him. M rs Randolph & miss daughter Helen (Granddaughter)
15039To John Adams from Cresswell and Addams, 24 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
We have the Honor of your Excellency’s Letter of the 16th. Instant wherein You inform us that you have received Authority from the Secretary of State of the United States to adjust and settle our Accounts for Services authorized by the late Genl. Lyman on the public Account of the United States. We beg to make our best acknowledgments for the Trouble and Interest your Excellency has taken in...
15040From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 24 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have seen but one of your Papers. I know nothing of the Transactions in England or America. The Will is a Phenomenon. A Neuton a Saunders a Barrow or a Bowditch might make the Algebraick Calculations necessary to explain it: I am totally incapable of it. I know not whether the Will has been proved and approved in Europe, or America. I know not what questions are depending before the Court or...
15041To James Madison from Leonard Peirce, 24 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Having obtained the consent of my parents to enter as a cadet in the Military Academy of the United States I would solicit from you an appointment to the Academy at West Point should there not be a full complement of cadets there; and if there should, to any other Academy which Congress has or may or established at their present session I am eighteen years of age, and have received a thorough...
15042To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 24 December 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas Cooper. 24 December 1816. “Mr. Cooper presents his respects to the President of the United States & will have the honor to dine with him on Thursday next.” RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Federalist Thomas Cooper represented Delaware in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses.
15043Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return after a long absence I learned that you had been so kind as to send the Collector’s commission to mr Minor , and that he had declined it. it seems he had in the mean time engaged in a business from which he could not withdraw, a circumstance unknown to me when I troubled you on the subject. my thankfulness to you however is not the less. I mentioned at the same time mr Southall ’s...
15044Destutt de Tracy to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de passer huit mois dans une campagne éloignée de près de cent lieux de la capitale. dans cette profonde Solitude, mes plaisirs habituels étaient les travaux de l’agriculture; mais mon plus grand bonheur a été d’y apprendre de vos nouvelles, & la continuation de la bonté extrême dont vous ne cessez de m’honorer. on m’y a envoyé une la copie de votre lettre du 17 mai dernier à M r de...
15045Hezekiah Niles to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Assured that it will afford you pleasure to notice any improvement in what, perhaps, may be called the household arts , I enclose a small piece of a preparation just offered for sale in our city for the purpose of clarifying coffee, as well as wines & other liquors. I have tried it for the former, And it completely answers the purpose—a piece an inch square is the quantity for a gallon,...
15046Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 24 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in October a letter from mr M c Ilhenny whom you were so kind as to recommend as a watchmaker, informing me he would come on to establish himself at Charlottesville as soon as he could hear from me. I was just about setting out on a journey to Bedford , and answered him therefore by advising him to postpone his coming till my return. he did so, and arrived in Charlottesville by the...
15047From John Adams to Richard Rush, 25 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 29th of September has not been answered by me as it ought to have been. Your Excursion Horseback gave me high hopes; and excited vain Recollections. Dean Swift bragged; and why Should not I.? Swift crowed over Pope Arbuthnot &c and boasted that he could ride 500 miles upon a trotting Horse. In 1777 I rode on Horseback from Penn’s Hill in this Town to Baltimore, more than 500...
15048Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 25 December 1816 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
My general aversion from the presumption of intruding on the public an opinion of works offered to their notice has yielded in the present instance to the merit of your undertaking, and to your belief, well or ill founded, that my testimony in it’s favor may be of advantage to it. I have written therefore, in a separate letter , which you are free to publish, what I can conscientiously say on...
15049Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine, 25 December 1816 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from Bedford , after an absence of 7. weeks, I found here your favors of Oct. 28. Nov. 13. 20. & 23. with a copy of the 1 st N o of your Repository. but I found also an immense accumulation of letters recieved during my absence, some of which claimed my first attentions. you know my aversion to the drudgery of the writing table. the great affliction of my present life is a too...
15050Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 26 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heretofore known something of jarrings between the Rivanna company and myself. certain claims of right, equal, & even paramount to my own, which they set up to my canal, and whi a work which has cost me 30,000.D. and which would render it’s value almost null to me, oblige me to bring a suit in chancery to quiet my title . I have prepared a bill , but cannot finish it until I can see...
15051To John Adams from John Trumbull, 26 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Twenty Eight years ago, I had the honor of painting in London your portrait in my picture of the Declaration of Independance,—the long succeeding period of War and Calamity palsied and suspended thy progress in the work of which that picture was a most important part. Peace is at length restored; I have resumed my task; that Picture is finished; Trenton, Princeton & York Town are far advanced;...
15052From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 26 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
your uncle and I ask the pleasure of mr Greenleafs and your Company to dinner tomorrow. Your Aunt MWA : Adams Papers.
15053From James Madison to Congress, 26 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. It is found that the existing laws have not the efficacy necessary to prevent violations of the obligations of the United States, as a nation at peace towards belligerent parties, and other unlawful acts on the high Seas, by armed vessels equipped within the waters of the United States. With a view to maintain more effectually...
15054John Trumbull to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Twenty eight years have elapsed since, under the kind protection of your hospitable roof at Chaillot , I painted your portrait in my picture of the Declaration of Independance, the composition of which had been planned two years before in your library: the long succeeding period of War & Tumult palsied & Suspended my work, and threw me, as you know into other pursuits Peace is at length...
15055From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 27 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
I do declare that I can write Greek better than you do, though I cannot Say, So well as you can, if you will. I can make nothing but Pot–hooks and Trammels of the Frontespiece of your amiable Letter of the 15th. If you had quoted your Authority I might have found it. Jesus is benevolense personified. An Example for all Men. DuPuis has made no Alteration in my opinions of Christian Religion in...
15056From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Albert Gallatin, 28 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Will you have the goodness my dear Sir to send the enclosed to Mrs. C King, as I do not know her address. I take the liberty of making this request having witnessed your readiness to serve the Ladies, and feeling and how happy they are to receive an obligation at your hands— Present my respectful Compliments to Mrs. Gallatin and believe me, Sir, with the highest sentiment of esteem and...
15057From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
General Boyd, Mr Stores, Mr Forbes, and Mr and Mrs. Everett, have all arrived in London within the week past; and by them, with many other Letters and despatches I have received your favours of 5. and of 26. November—There must be I think a Letter in arrear between the 30th. of September and the 5th. of Novr—You acknowledge the receipt of my Numbers 92 and 93—and 97 and 98. I hope the...
15058From James Madison to William Bentley, 28 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Crowninshield having made me acquainted with the passage in your letter to him, which speaks with so much personal kindness towards me, and so favorably of my discharge of the public trust which is about to close, I can not forego an expression of the value I put on such sentiments from such a source. The approbation of the wise and the worthy is the recompence which ought to be next to...
15059Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
A load of flour was sent off from hence a few days ago, and another will follow within two or three days. that from Bedford is of necessity later, it’s distance from Lynchburg rendering it impracticable to be sent there until they have done all their fall seeding. mr Yancey informs me he will not be able to get his tobacco down till March. My grandson is the bearer of an order for 220.D. and I...
15060To James Madison from Nehemiah H. Mason, 29 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The purport of this, will I hope excuse the liberty I have taken; It is in behalf of a poor orphan who is now confined in the penitentiary at Philadelphia for the crime of letter robbery. William Yeatman, the name of him alluded to; was born in this county, of reputable parents, but had the misfortune to be deprived of them when he was an infant. He was then taken by his paternal uncle James...