6551Thomas Jefferson to James Hamilton, 25 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of May 4. I informed you of the reciept of yours of Apr. 16. just as I was setting out on a journey, immediately on my return from which I would look to the having paiment made of the subscriptions to mr Maclure assigned to you. I am proceeding in that business, and, without awaiting it’s entire accomplishment, think it best to communicate it’s present state as below. the...
6552From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 7 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
I congratulate you on the elections but hesitate on the causes you assign: I know not what is meant by the Policy of the war. Have we just and righteous causes of war against G Britain? Is the war necessary for the defence of our rights? if you answer these questions in the affirmative, it necessarily follows that the war is politick. If you say it was impolitick to declare war with so little...
6553To James Madison from Richard McRae, 2 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
It is with some degree of diffidence that I obtrude myself on your Consideration. I have for some days past attempted to have my account adjusted at the War Dept. in an equitable mode which has been rejected by the Accountant Mr. Simmons—the form in which I wished to have my A/c settled woud. shew a balance of $900 or more. Mr. simmons admission of my A/c has cicatrised me to the quick &...
6554To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 25 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
On the 21st instant, I received a letter from the Secretary of War of the 15th, for detaching, pursuant to your directions, ten thousand of the militia of this Commonwealth; & immediately gave orders to the Adjutant General to make the arrangement, & to the Secretary to convene the Council, lest their aid may have been wanted. This day I have issued General Orders for compleating this...
6555Jonathan Shoemaker to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Thy Letter of the 22 d of Last Month but very lately met me at this Place & I am Sorry to Say it is out of my power to Remit the Sum required, I have however Inclosed one hundred & twenty Dollars wich is all the Money I have by me but Expect to Receive some more before I Leave Pen y s ylvania , I Expect to be at Shadwell Early in June, in the Mean wile if thee whould call on my Son Lukens , I...
6556To John Adams from William Cunningham, 9 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to you for your favour of the 29th. ult. If you will compare your Letters of the 23d. of Oct. and the 15th. of Nov. with the one I am now answering, you will perceive, I think, that you have given me some occasion to suspect, that you distrust my qualifications for public employment. But as such a suspicion is irreconcileable with the character of your communications; and as I...
6557To James Madison from William Crawford, 7 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I hope you will pardon this intrusion in the midst of those momentuous affairs which must now press upon your attention. At the request of Mr. Lloyd I now address you in his behalf. I have witnessed some experiments on his late discovery. I presume not on being competent to decide its merit. But it appears to me worthy of a full & fair trial. As, either in the army or navy, it might be...
6558To James Madison from Samuel McKee, 16 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
I ask leave to lay before you the enclosed recommendation; I presume that Some of the persons by whom It is Sighned are knowen to you—they are generally men of the first respectibility; and influance in Kentucky, and I would Supperadd that Mr McBrides’ merit and worth entitles him to the respect and esteem of all those Who know him. I am only Sorry that a man of So much worth and capacity for...
6559To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, [3 May] 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the copy of an Act for the relief of Arthur St. Clair, and a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury on the same subject. The phraseology of the Act being different from that adopted in other similar cases, the authority of the President is necessary in order that the money may be paid: and the whole or part will be paid in conformity with his decision. RC ( DLC...
6560Thomas Jefferson to Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for making me acquainted with mr M c Culloch . he staid with me but part of a day. but that was sufficient to let me see that he was capable, well informed and modest. he left us on the 18 th for the Natural bridge , from whence he intended to return, and to postpone for a while his Western expedition. I recieve the kind expressions of your letter with sensibility & gratification,...
6561From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
“Chain’d to his Throne, a Volume lies, With all the Fates of Men: With every Angels form and Size Drawn by th’ eternal Pen. His Providence unfolds the Book And makes his Counsells Shine; Each Opening leaf; and every Stroke Fulfills Some deep design. Here he exalts, neglected Worms To Sceptres and a Crown: Anon the following Page he turns And treads the Monark down. Nor Gabriel asks the Reason...
6562James Oldham to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed you on the 11 th of October of M r Foulke Promissing me to have youre memorandum of glass put up at the Glassworks in baltimore and forworded on to richmond , he rites me that the Glass workes is not in operation and have not bin for Some time and Such Sizes of Glass cannot be Got in Baltimore . the agent for the boston company has ritten for it and informs me this morning that I...
6563To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 7 May 1813 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . this Morning your letter of the 4 th . instant & instantly sent the one enclosed to M rs Livingstons brother Anthony Barclay— On the 1 st . instant I paid M rs . Watkins $35 agreably to the Directions contained in your letter of the 27 April. And I have this day paid her $69 being the Interest rec d . on Honeywells bond & $35 which you say you have rec d . for her, making $104 for...
6564James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your favor of the 26 th and have made to the members of the Cabinet the communication you suggest with respect to your printed memoir on the Batture . I learn from the Department of State that some books were rec d for you, and duly forwarded. What they were was not ascertained or remembered. If they do not on their arrival correspond with your expectation, let me know, & further...
6565To James Madison from Thomas C. Wharton, 28 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing to your Excellency on the 9h. inst praying the remission of a fine of twenty five dollars inflicted by a Court martial held in this City for the trial of certain persons charged with disobeying the “ orders ⟨of⟩ the President of the United States. ” If neglect of duty or opposition to the Laws of my Count[r]y could be chargeable to me, I would not trouble Your...
6566Petition of Rivanna Company to Virginia General Assembly, [ca. 5 October 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
To the General assembly of Virginia, The petition of the subscribers members of the Rivanna Company respectfully represents—that by an act passed the 30 th day of December 1806 they were incorporated for the purpose of extending the navigation of the Rivanna River from the town of Milton to Moores ford opposite charlottsville , That under that act they proceeded to subscribe Money & appoint...
6567To James Madison from the Citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, 27 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 June 1812. “Whereas the Representatives of the American People having for the vindication of the Honor and long invaded rights of their Country declared War against Great Britain, and her Dependencies, our avowed and implacable enemy—It becomes the sacred and imperious duty of every Patriot Citizen to gird on his sword and meet the event with energy and resolution. “Carolinians have been...
6568Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs A.A had the kindness to Send me inclosed N o of the Month Rep—to convey it, after its perusal, to Monticello . I expect, it is the only one on our continent. That excellent Lady received it from her Son at the court of St. James . Although I regret, that there has not been complied with my injunctions—Still I rejoyce at the publication, and can find reasons to palliate this appearing...
6569From John Adams to James Trecothick Austin, 17 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for Leolin which is a morsel of exquisite Taste in composition, and a model of Politeness in Political Controversy. There may be a point or two, in which you and I may not perfectly agree in opinion, but these at the present time are not of Consequence enough to make it necessary for either of us to spend our time in Explanations. I am Sir with the best wishes for your Usefulness...
6570Pardon and Remission for John Hugh Reilly, 1 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Whereas it has been represented to me that at the Circuit Court of the United States for the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, lately held in this City, John Hugh Reilly was convicted of a misdemeanor, in an assault & Battery committed by the said Reilly, whereupon he was sentenced to pay a fine of five Dollars to the United States, to satisfy the costs of prosecution and to...
6571James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The day before yesterday the Enemies ships after loading with flour Tobacco & merchandize, with the ships surrenderd to them at alex a came down the Potomac —12 miles below alexandria at the white house on the Virginia side, Com Porter with the militia was stationd—the whole number marines and militia 3,000. Porters
6572To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, [23 October] 1813 (Madison Papers)
Je profite des bontés de Votre Excellence, en Vous priant de permettre que Monsieur Crawford continue, comme voulait bien le faire Monsieur Barlow, d’insérer mes lettres à mes Enfans dans les Paquets qui vous Sont adressés, ou à Monsieur le Secretaire d’Etat Munroe. Je Suis extrêmement reconnaissant de la bienveillance avec laquelle vous et lui les faites parvenir à ces jeunes gens, qui me...
6573Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I was waiting to write to you on the subject of my bonds only until I could recieve an answer to a letter I had written enquiring the footing on which treasury notes could be recieved. here they are eagerly recieved at par and the interest, while no one will recieve a bank note but for the purposes of the moment. I speak of the country people, and not of the banking cabals. your letter...
6574To James Madison from James Monroe, [ca. 25 June 1814] (Madison Papers)
The enclosed give a very unpleasant prospect in regard to our affairs with Engd. The part of Mr G’s & Mr Bayard’s letter in cypher is the most important. The gentlemen are at dinner. It shall be decypherd as soon as they return. I send the whole to communicate what is not in cypher. I shall return from dinner at 4. when I wish to receive the letters. I send you also an important number of...
6575From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 17 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
His Excellency Samuel Adams late Governor of Massachusetts was born in Boston in 1722. His first Education was in the celebrated public Latin School in that City where he was prepared for the University at Cambridge to which he was admitted in 1736. He received his degree of Batchellor of Arts in 1740 and his Degree of Master of Arts in 1743. After his first degree, he entered the store of...
6576Abraham Howard Quincy to Thomas Jefferson, 27 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
you may recollect in my reply to y r enquiries concerning the nature of the stone fire cabinets of my invention that after giving you a faint discreption I stated that I should shortly vissit your part of the country & have the pleasure personally to give you a detailed account of thier opperations, & produce you for inspection several of my models. I have however had the misfortune to be thus...
6577To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your respected favr of the 15th Inst—permit ted me to Say—You are greatly mistaken—Altho’ the Spirit of party has cruelly exposed you, to the rancorous Venom of party Malignity—Your friends are consoled, with the full belief, that these angry wa t ers beat against you, as against a rock in the Midst of the Ocean—& that each Succeeding wave falls broken at your feet—they also Know...
6578Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ladd, 25 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your notification in the suit of Gilliam v. Fleming that you should proceed to a settlement of the accounts on the 1 st of Aug. at your office. no person can be more anxious for a settlement than myself. for altho’ my interests being balanced on both sides, I have none at all in the result, yet having been for 30. odd years the depository of the papers, & more intimate...
6579From James Madison to William Bentley, 28 October 1809 (Madison Papers)
I received in due time your friendly letter of August 12. last. My respect for your sentiments as well as justice to my own, require that I should say, in explanation of my not complying with your considerate hint, that I was restrained by an apprehensiveness, that an expression, at that period, of the gratitude and admiration which I feel in a degree exceeded by no Citizen, for the venerable...
6580To James Madison from William Eustis, 9 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
By the Ship “Exchange” I send you the last Brussells papers. The inauguration of the King at Brussells was marked with splendor but appeared to want the cordiality which a welcome chief might expect to receive. The Belgians, who appear to have no national character, complain 1st that with a superior population they have only an equal vote with the Hollanders & 2ndly that they are married to...
6581Enclosure: Instructions for the Use of a Carding Machine, [ca. 13 March 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
Directions for using the Carding Engine Make the feeding frame fast in front of the Engine, by means of the irons and screw rod, and so placed that the cards on the main Cylinder will just pass the fluted Rollers without touching them.—The upper fluted Roller is kept down on the under one by two wires ( ) hooked ovev over the pivots of it at the ends, & under two small iron levers ( ) one end...
6582To James Madison from Harry Toulmin, 13 February 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 February 1812, Fort Stoddert. Is reluctant to trouble JM at a time of crisis with “a tedious communication” on a “mere personal concern,” but “the cause of Justice … is as interesting as the cause of War: and the Chief of the Union … will never be insensible to the importance of maintaining at home, the good order of society, the vigour of the laws, and the Character of the Government.” Has...
6583Thomas Jefferson’s Survey of Bear Creek Lands, 26–28 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
11. Nov. 26. beginning on Bear creek on the E. side of the road. ✓ N. 34½ E. 50. po. leaving the branch on the E. ✓ at 10. po. further the branch is 4.6 po. on the E. ✓ at 80. po. from the Beginning, branch 4.8 E. ✓ at 92 . from d o touched it. ✓ at 100.
6584To James Madison from Caleb Nichols, [ca. 17 July] 1812 (Madison Papers)
The earnest Petition of Caleb Nichols of Plattsburgh in the State of N. Y. humbly Showeth, that Whereas the U. S. have Declared war against G. B. And Whereas Canada and Novascotia, Nay Hallifax alone, are worth continuing the war for. And Whereas it is reported, which report your Petitioner believes to be true, that the British orders in Council have been recinded. And Whereas the British...
6585To James Madison from Chevalier Lejeune Malherbe and Others, 5 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
We Subscribers, refugees and Sufferers of the late political occurrences which have taken place in the Island of Cuba, being in the necessity to go to France, humbly beg that a vessel should be cleared from this port, as a flag a [ sic ] truce for Nantz or Bordeaux, in order that we may be transported there with our family and baggage only. Our number cannot be properly ascertained at present,...
6586To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 20 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
J’ai reçu avec une vive reconnaissance la lettre dont Votre Excellence m’a honoré le 3 décembre dernier, les marques de bienveillance qu’Elle me donne, et Surtout celle de permettre que je profite d’un des Vaisseaux des Etats Unis que Vous envoyez dans nos Ports pour effectuer mon retour en Amérique quand j’en aurai la possibilité. Vous rendez justice à mon attachement pour votre Sage nation,...
6587From James Madison to John Geddes, 15 January 1814 (Madison Papers)
The address and resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, transmitted under cover of your letter of December 18, have been duly received, and I return through the same channel, the enclosed answer. I tender, at the same time, my acknowledgements for the kind expressions you have personally added, with assurances of my esteem and friendly respects. I have recd., fellow Citizens, your...
6588From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
We have received no Letters from you, later than the 7th of September. The obstructions in the Way, are Such that if the communication is not So frequent or So regular as We wish, We compose ourselves as well as We can, and please ourselves with the hope that you are all well. Your Friends here and at Washington are all well. I write you nothing on publick affairs. Our Government has many...
6589Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 15 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Albemarle Accademy held at the house of Triplet T Estes in Charlottesville the 15 th day of April 1814 —agreeable to adjournment, present Peter Carr President, Thomas Jameson , Frank Carr , Jno: B Carr , Robt B Streshly
6590To James Madison from Richard McRae, 5 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Upon more mature deliberation I am induced to impose myself a second time on your Consideration; in my letter to you of the 2d. Inst. I expatiated freely with regard to the injudicious policy adopted by Mr. Simmons the Accountant in the adjustment of claims submitted for his inspection & expressed a willingness to receive the amount of my account in its most reduced form but I have come to the...
6591To James Madison from J. Dunham, 28 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 April 1812, Windsor. Describes himself as having been a “ Federal Republican ” for twenty years, and for ten years he has studied the duties “necessary to form the scientific soldier .” Has served presidents Adams and Jefferson “with equal fidelity” and “with equal, & … entire, approbation.” “That War, with either Belligerent, might now be just , I have never doubted; but, under existing...
6592James Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours , enclosing m r Harrison’s letter on the subject of commissions for Doctor James & his brothers was receivd several days since; I immediately waited on the secretary at war & had a conversation with him on the subject, from which I think one of them will receive a commission. There would have been no doubt as to the others, but as the applications from that state were considerably more...
6593To John Adams from Ignatius Thomson, 20 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter of the Sixth of September which I read with pleasure and thank you for the freedom you have manifested in disclosing your thoughts on the subject. To err in judgement is an infirmity to which the wisest of men are liable, but I sincerely hope that our rulers will be endued with that wisdom that which is profitable to direct in this day of peculiar trial and the liberties...
6594To James Madison from James Lloyd, 7 September 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 September 1812, Gettysburg, Adams County. “Having wrote you Sometime ago [not found] … and Reciving no answer thinking that it never Reached you being Desirous to know the result of an Experiment which has Cost me a great deal of t[i]me trouble & expence not only for my own good but that mankind Should be benefited by it. “When I was down at the City of washington trying my Combustable...
6595To James Madison from Richard M. Johnson, 19 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Such is my opinion of your wisdom, justice & humanity, that I must call your particular attention, to the decision of Mr Lee which makes a deduction of 40 Cents from those under Gov. Shelby after the 20th of Oct. till their final discharge which tirminated after allowing every 20 miles as one day. I am happy to find that this decision is contrary to the opinion, of the late Sec of War, instead...
6596From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 5 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
Last Evening I received your Letter with the inclosurs. I wrote to you on fryday, but the post did not go, and the Letters were taken in yesterday mor’g by Thayer: I presume you got it after you had written to me— Mr Adamss Letter was written the day the peace was signd. it contains this passage which I should like to have inserted in the paper, as an extract from one of the Ministers to his...
6597From James Madison to Cyrus King, 30 March 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Cyrus King. 30 March 1814. “J. Madison requests the favor of Mr. King to dine with him on Saturday next at 4 o’clock. “An answer is requested.” RC ( MeHi ). 1 p. Printed, with blanks for name and day of week filled in by Edward Coles, who also wrote “March 30th” in the lower right corner. Year not indicated; assigned here on the basis of the invitation’s being filed with other documents...
6598From John Adams to John Taylor, 13 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
In page 10. You Say, “Mr Adams, has omitted a Cause of Aristocracy in the quotation, which he forgets not to Urge, in other places; namely, exclusive Wealth.” This is your Omission, Sir, not mine. In page 109 Vol. 1. I expressly enumerated “Inequality of Wealth” as one of the causes of Aristocracy, and as having a natural “and inevitable influence in Society.” I Said nothing about “exclusive”...
6599To James Madison from William Pinkney, 27 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 27 June 1812, Baltimore. Offered for sale in Swann Auction Galleries Catalogue No. 469 (9 May 1957), item 301, which notes that the letter reads in part: “I have read great part of Mr. Jefferson’s Book on Livingston’s claim, and find it, as I had expected, a luminous & masterly production.”
6600José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Derby a well known gentleman of Boston , has told me how he desired to pay a visit to Virginia , and to have the honor of being presented to you. Though his known caracter be a competent passport every where, still he is persuaded that decency requires that he be presented by some one of your acquaintances, and wishes me to perform this function. I am very glad to have this occasion of...