2191To James Madison from J. Howard March & Co., 22 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
At the request of Col: R H Macpherson, we have shipped on board the Mary & Frances, and consigned to Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. of Alexandria on your Excellencies account, a pipe of the very best old Madeira Wine. For its cost including Insurance, £79.2.6 Stg, as pr. Invoice enclosed we have this day had the honour to draw upon you in favor of Messrs. Adams Herbert & Co. We Remain, Very...
2192To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to present, with this, a letter from James Turner, Esquire, of North Carolina, Senator in Congress, recommending Israel Pickens, Esquire, as receiver of public monies in The Land-office about to be opened in the Mississippi territory for the sale of Lands lately acquired by a treaty with the Indians of the Creek Nation. I have the honor &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C,...
2193Account of a Conversation with John Lowrey, [22 February 1816] (Madison Papers)
Colo. Lowry. “Father. I now have the pleasure to be in Your presence. I am directed by my National council to take you, Our Father—by the hand. This day was appointed by the Great Spirit for us to see One Another. It makes my heart as glad to enter your house as does when I enter my own house. When I left my Nation I expected to have seen You before now but this being the day chosen by the...
2194John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by Gilmer s boat a Cask Teneriffe Wine rec d of D r Fernandes through Fox & Richardson & have by your directions inclosed it in a rough cask to secure if it from the Watermen— The Gauger’s mark (as you will observe at the head of the cask) is twenty nine Gallons, one Gall out Maj
2195Auditor’s Report on the Purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s Library, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
N o 31.537. I have examined and adjusted an Account between the United States and Thomas Jefferson in relation to the Sale of his Library, and find that he is chargeable on said account To Treasury Warrants for amount of the following issued in his favor Viz N o 8584 dated 21 April 1815 ✓ 8580 8585 〃 〃
2196Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you hastily by a late mail a short letter containing the substance of our proceedings respecting those Bills in which you felt a particular interest. A more particular statement may not be unacceptable to you. Capt: Miller ’s Bill passed by in the Senate by a vote of 12 to ab t 5. after an elaborate discussion, in which not only the merits of the particular claim, but the general law...
2197Thomas Eston Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall always acknowledge with grateful sensibility my obligations to you for your very friendly application to the secretary of the navy in favor of my son Mann — Mann waited on him in Washington , was very kindly received by him, and assured of obtaining a warrant so soon as there is a vacancy—The profession he has chosen, I confess, is not perfectly agreable to me, but he has a right to...
2198Enclosure: Charles Bellini Estate Account, 20 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The Estate of Charles Bellini decd in acc t with John Bracken admor D r & C r 1806 Jan’ry By hire of Mars 1805 rec d in 1806 £20:
2199From Abigail Smith Adams to William Steuben Smith, 20 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
I am very anxious to learn whether mrs Smith is confined? I expected the post of this day would have brought me a Letter, but was dissapointed, in hearing either from you, or Caroline—I Should have written to mrs Smith, but I have been little able, for Six weeks to hold a pen, Sometimes I have tremblingly pen’d a few lines to Caroline, to keep her mind at ease. I have not been able to answer a...
2200To James Madison from Tench Ringgold, 20 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
General Mason having informed me lately in a confidential manner that he had it in contemplation to resign his appointment of Superintendant of Indian Affairs, is the cause of my addressing to you this letter. The General gave me this information, in consequence of a long friendship which has subsisted between us, and his desire that I might succeed him in the appointment; and my present...