15101To James Madison from John Tyler, 1 January 1817 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ From John Tyler. Letter not found. 1 January 1817. “J. Tyler regrets, that owing to a previous engagement, he can not accept the President’s invitation to Dinner tomorrow.” Offered for sale as item 103 in William Reese Company, Archives & Manuscripts , Catalogue 331 (February 2016). Tyler, who would later become the tenth president of the United States, 1841–45, was elected to the Fourteenth...
15102Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker and Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately addressed a letter to mr Thweatt , intended equally for you in a case of my own: I now address this to you equally intended for mr Thweatt , in the case of another. it is to sollicit your attention to the petition of Visc o Philip S. Barziza one of the coheirs of Col o Ludwell owner of the Green spring estate . the mother of the petitioner was sole daughter of
15103Thomas Jefferson to Philip I. Barziza, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 14. is but just recieved, informing me of your petition to the legislature . I have outlived all my antient acquaintances in that body; but I have two or three young friend s there to whom I write by this mail , and ask their attention to your case. these are mr Thweatt of Chesterfield & Baker of Cumberland in the
15104Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A member of a family to which I have been much attached by long intimacies sollicits my asking the notice attention of some of my friends to his petition before the legislature . he is the Viscount Barziza , youngest of two sons of Count Barziza of Venice by the only daughter & heiress of the late mrs Paradise , who was the daughter of Col o
15105Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Dec. 16. and hasten by the first return of the mail, to express my mortification that the remittance of 31.D which I had desired Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to make you in June, and which I had taken for granted was done had however never been done. it must have been ac c identally overlooked by mr Gibson , as in a mass of business happens sometimes with the...
15106Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 13. came to hand but two days ago. nothing could be so desirable to me as to have settled in the neighboring village of Charlottesville such a family of artists as is described in mr Hassler ’s letter to you . yet I dare not advise it; because I do not believe they could find employment there. it would be a good stand for a single workman, a real proficient in the...
15107Enclosure: Minutes of a Meeting of the Société Agricole et Manufacturière Française, 2 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Société agricole et manufacturière française Présidence de M r Lee Seance du 2 e jour de janvier 1817 Après un profond examen Sur le choix important d’un terrein propre a Asseoir notre nombreuse Société—après avoir considéré les avantages qui doivent résulter d’un établissement Sous les 33 ie au 35 ie degres de latitude dans un pays elevé, Sain, jouissant d’un climat tempéré et de toute Sa...
15108From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 2 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 26th. of December 1817 inclosing a Postnote upon the Branch Bank of The United States at Boston for nine hundred and One dollars and Ninety five Cents, being the Amount of the dividend of five per Cent upon the debt proved under the Commission of Bankruptcy of Robert Bird and Co. at New York. I am your affectionate Father MHi : Adams Papers.
15109From James Madison to the Senate, 2 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
I nominate, Valentine Southall, of Virginia to be collector of direct tax and internal duties for the 19th collection district of the same State in the place of Thomas. J. Randolph resigned. Peyton S. Symmes, of Ohio to be register of the land office at Cincinatti in the Same State in the place of Symmes removed. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 14B–A2). In John Payne...
15110To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 2 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Yesterday we lost one of the brightest ornaments of our institution, (Mr. Cadet Low), by ⟨the⟩ premature discharge of a piece of artillerys—this is the second deplorable accident that has happen⟨ed⟩ at this place in the space of 18 months, both under the immediate command and eye of Captn. Partridge. Captn. Crozet a distinguished artilleralist from France, now in the employ of our government,...