4381To James Madison from the New York State Canal Commissioners, 8 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed Exemplification of a Statute passed the eighth of last april will shew that we are empowered to make application, on behalf of the State of New York, to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of a Canal betwe[e]n the Great Lakes and Hudson’s River. An object of such general concern seems to be within the scope of that information which is to be communicated to the...
4382To James Madison from John Hawker, 8 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 October 1811, Plymouth. Encloses a memorial for JM’s consideration. Mentions that the orders in council are still in force and that “Vessels and Goods belonging to Citizens of the United States; comeing from or bound to France are often sent in here & are Condemned.” RC and enclosure, two copies ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Hawker”). RC 1 p. Enclosure (6 pp.) is a memorial by...
4383From John Adams to Kilborn Whitman, 9 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
your kind letter of september 2nd though received in season has not yet been answered or acknowledged. Unfortunate accidents and afflictive Events have rendered me incapable of Writing during the whole of this time. I read your letter, Sir with much concern, and immediately communicated it to my son. I cannot say that I have interested myself in any appointment of any kind, since the 4th of...
4384To James Madison from James Wilkinson, 9 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
When I agreed to waive all exception to the Jurisdiction of a Military Tribunal, and submit to a rigorous Scrutiny of my Conduct for more than twenty years past, I did hope, & I am sure it was your intention, Sir, that the proceedings against me should not only be free & unbiased, but that there should not be even cause for Suspicion, that the Government felt any Interest whatever in depriving...
4385Thomas Jefferson to John Bracken, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Aug. 13. stating the ineffectual effort you had made to remit to the sisters of Bellini the amount of their claim on his effects. they are very old, said to be in great poverty & distress, and therefore entitled in charity to our good offices in conveying their money to them. a remittance thro’ England to the continent of Europe is now impracticable, & a direct...
4386Thomas Jefferson to William J. Harris, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of the letters of mr Eppes , mr Giles & others in your behalf, I wrote to mr Hamilton , Secretary of the navy inclosin g them, and have just recieved his answer expressing his readiness to make out your appointment as midshipman whenever you will call for it. you have now therefore only to go to Washington , there recieve your appointment, and the instructions of mr Hamilton...
4387Benjamin & Thomas Kite to Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We forward ‘The Picture of Philadelphia , ’ for which thou art a Subscriber,—The price is One Dollar, which thou wilt be pleased to send us when convenient.— RC ( MoSHi : TJC-BC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Oct. 1811 and so recorded in SJL ; notations by TJ on verso: “1.D. to be remitted” and “ June 17. 12. remitted thro’ Benj. Jones
4388To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mrs. Lewis, the widow of Colo. Nich Lewis, has requested me to mention to yourself the name of a mr. Wood, an applicant for a commission in the army. On recieving the request I rode to her house to ask something about him, observing to her that something more than his name would be necessary. She candidly told me at once that he was a very capable young man, connected with her only as being a...
4389Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 10 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Lewis , the widow of Col o Nich Lewis , has requested me to mention to yourself the name of a mr Wood , an applicant for a commission in the army . on recieving the request I rode to her house to ask something about him, observing to her that something more than his name would be necessary. she candidly told me at once that he was a very capable young man, connected with her only as being...
4390Samuel M. Stephenson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
At the Request of our friend D: B. Warden ; I herewith send you a small Box, containing 2 Roots of the agrostis Stolonifera in Irish, Fiorin Grass: with printed Directions for the Culture of it. It is often transported in a dry state, I have sent it with the Roots in a little Earth, supposing this the most Successful mode. As I wish to hear of your Success, in the Culture of our Indigenous...
4391Thomas Jefferson to John Payne Todd, 10 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I send you our observations of the solar eclipse of Sep. 17. we had, you know, a perfect observation of the passage of the sun over the meridian, and the eclipse began so soon after as to leave little room for error from the time piece. her rate of going however was ascertained by 10. days subsequent observation and comparison with the sun, and the times, as I now give...
4392Peter Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much respected Letter of the 27 th March has been just forwarded to me by M r Warden from Paris . I am not unknown to you Sir as you Suppose, having had the honour of your acquaintance in New York in 1789., being then Established in Cadiz . a disorder which I got in America obliged me to come to this Place and circumstances have made me remain in it, but it’s climate is changed much for...
4393Thomas Jefferson to Dudley Burwell, 11 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Burwell of Franklin , your relation, has requested me to send you a letter of introduction to Doct r Wistar whose lectures you are attending. I comply with pleasure with this request, and shall be happy if I can serve you in your useful pursuits, or gratify you by obtaining the more particular attentions of so estimable a character as Doct r Wistar . with this view I ask the favor of you...
4394Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 11 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter is from mr W m A. Burwell , one of the members of Congress from our state . he lived with me at Washington as Secretary, perhaps at the time you paid us a visit there, or perhaps he may be known to you thro’ the medium of his speeches in Congress , where he distinguishes himself by his good sense, his devotion to his country united with the most conciliatory conduct towards...
4395From John Adams to James Wilkinson, 12 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
On Thursday night I received from the Post Office your favour of October the second. Although it arrived at a moment when Wounds, Sickness, and Deaths in my Family, and among my tenderest Connections had excited all my sensibility and that of all my Family I thought it my duty to answer as soon as possible to the Interrogatories you enclosed. My answers are contained in the enclosed Sheet N.2....
4396From James Madison to James Wilkinson, 12 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 9th inst: inclosing a statement of a private conversation between Lt. Opie, and Mr. Simmons Acct. of the War Department, made by the former. The considerations out of which the Court Martial in your case grew, would attach particular regret to any circumstance affecting, even in appearance or opinion, the justice and fairness of the proceedings, as they...
4397To James Madison from David Howell, 12 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
My only Son will have the Honor to deliver this Letter. I have endeavoured to impress his mind with Just views of your personal character & political measures, &, I am authorised to assure you of his Support. He is a young man of regular habits, united with much benevolence & a laudable zeal in the Republican cause, which received his first political attachments. Whatever patronage it may fall...
4398Executive Pardon, 12 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 October 1811, Washington. JM remits the sentence of death imposed 12 Aug. 1811 by a court-martial at Baton Rouge on Sgt. Peter B. Conger of the Consolidated Infantry Regiment for the offense of desertion. Leaves standing that part of the sentence reducing Conger to the ranks. Tr ( DNA : RG 107, LSMA ). 1 p.
4399Henry Foxall to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The time that has Elaps d since since you last wrote me, and my silence on the Subject of the Stove, of which you sent me the pattern moddal must have caused you to suppose that I had neglected it all together—However I have made a pattern modal pattren therefrom and have cast two Stoves from the same—I have no doubt but your very high Opinion of their Utility will be fully realized—I have put...
4400Roger C. Weightman to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M Chambers of N York put into my charge a parcel of Fiorin grass recently received from Ireland , with directions to take the earliest and safest mode of conveyance to Monticello . Since my return home I have had it boxed and directed to the care of the post master at Fredericksburg .
4401From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Sobrius esto! Recollect your own Non Nobis! Your Letter of the 20th. of September I communicated to Mrs Adams as you advised. Mrs Adams to her Daughter, After a reasonable Time for Deliberation and Reflections the Heroine determined. The Mother and the Daughter went to Boston and consulted Dr Warren Junior, Dr Welsh, Dr Warren Junior having previously consulted Dr Tufts and Dr Holbrook. The...
4402To James Madison from Benjamin Hawkins, 13 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure my Dear friend to receive your favour of the 18th July. To a man of my standing with you there was no need of the frank declaration you have made to ensure a continuance of my confidence in your political conduct and to convince me that you are invulnerable in that part where you have been so violently assailed. I had known but little of the character of Mr. Smith and...
4403Thomas Jefferson to Edward Coles, 13 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I let lent to mr Barlow a great collection of newspapers pamphlets E t c in several large boxes, which on his departure he informed me he had deposited in the President’s house . I have therefore to request the favor of you to assist me in getting them back again. vessels are so constantly passing from Washington to Richmond that I presume there can be no difficulty in finding one which will...
4404Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 13 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home I found that three bushels and eight qut s of Timothy seed of the price of 10$ had been forwarded to M r Leitch in M r Harnests waggon— By the same conveyance was sent a smal Ferkin of butter made at my dairy which I beg you will accept as a present—I directed it to be made & packed in this month in expectation that the weather would have proved more favorable than it has...
4405Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 13 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 11. was recieved after a considerable delay on the road. on the subject of my debt to mr Welsh , if you will have the goodness to recur to my letter of June 5. 10. you will find a candid statement of the circumstances which have, of necessity, suspended my attention to it for a while. in winding up my affairs at Washington , an accumulation of outstanding accounts, which had...
4406To John Adams from William Plumer, 14 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
By the last mail I received your favour of the 7th instant, informing me that your son has declined the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, & that he will remain at Russia, at the least another winter. In the course of the present week I shall address myself to him, by letter, in that distant country. I think your invaluable correspondence, published in the Boston...
4407To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 14 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have no letter from you of a later date then 28. of April last—which I received nearly three months since—I continue to write you, at least once a month; but the season for Navigation is already closed, and henceforth I shall have only indirect occasions of Conveyance—This letter I expect will go from Gothenburg—The Navigation of the Baltic is indeed so much obstructed, even while the Summer...
4408To James Madison from Henry A. S. Dearborn, 14 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
At the request of my friend N. Bowditch Esqr. I have enclosed you one of his papers containing the result of his calculations on the Elements of the Orbit of the Comet which for some weeks has appeared in the northern regions of the heavens. I have known him for some years & have no doubt but he is the ablest astronomical mathematitian in this country & equal to any in Europe. He is a self...
4409James S. Gaines to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1811, with 14 October 1811 postscript (Jefferson Papers)
The State of Virginia which was foremost in her contest for Liberty appear to be the last to enjoy it. for at the close of the war it seems as if she was quite exhausted, and Just nestled herself down under some of the most Corrupt principles of the old regal Government. principles Sir, if persisted in will finally eventuate in the downfall of all that have been atchieved the last hope of the...
4410Henry A. S. Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A fiew days ago I spent the afternoon at Salem with my friend Nath. Bowditch to consult him on the observations which he hade made on the Comet which now blazes in the nothern regions of the sky. He had attentively observed it since its first appearance & had nearly finished his calculations of its Elements. Yesterday I received a letter from him, requesting me to forward to you, the enclosed...