27051To Thomas Jefferson from Grand & Cie., 11 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Nous avons l’honneur de vous addresser Sous cette Enveloppe la Copie des Lettres que nous eûmes l’avantage de vous écrire les 25. Mai 1793 et 24. Mars 1795. Nous ésperons cependant quelles vous Seront parvenües, vû quelles vous ont été addressées par Triplicata. Continuant, Monsieur, à être privés de l’honneur de vos Lettres et des ordres de la Trésorerie des Etats unis au Sujet du Solde de...
27052From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lilburne Lewis, 11 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
All I know about the lands directed to be sold by my father’s executors is that in an account settled between Dr. Walker and myself I am allowed a credit of £15. at the date of May 23. 1771. being for three eighths of my father’s share of the lead mine, to wit my own eighth part, and those of my sisters Jane and Elizabeth @ £5. each. Consequently your share would be £5. with interest from that...
27053From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 12 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The last post brought me a letter from Madame de Chastellux, covering the inclosed, which she informs me is on the same subject with hers to me, and that she refers you to me for particulars. I had very little acquaintance with her personally in Paris. I understood she was the daughter of an English general Plunket in the Austrian service, entirely without fortune. Chastellux is said to have...
27054From Thomas Jefferson to John Craig Millar, 13 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sometime ago honored with your favor of July 10. covering that of Mr. Stewart of Mar. 1. whose letters and friends are always to me objects of great respect. It is flattering to our country to become an object of preference to men of science, whom any circumstances invite to a change of their soil. But it were to be wished it could hold out to them at the same time better prospects of...
27055From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Tazewell, 13 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought much sooner to have acknoleged your obliging attention in sending me a copy of the treaty. It was the first we recieved in this part of the country. Tho I have interdicted myself all serious attention to political matters, yet a very slight notice of that in question sufficed to decide my mind against it. I am not satisfied we should not be better without treaties with any nation. But...
27056From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 14 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Peyton , is a young gentleman who has lately entered into commerce at Milton, a small town near me. Proposing to establish a correspondence for his supplies at Philadelphia, and being an entire stranger there he has asked me to introduce him to some person who may be able to advise him to good characters for his dealings. I am personally but little acquainted with him,...
27057From Thomas Jefferson to Sampson Crosby, 15 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 28 . came duly to hand, and since that I have recieved the box containing Dunlap’s and Bache’s volumes for 1794. and the two volumes of Genl. Washington’s letters . As I am anxious to continue to recieve those newspapers at the end of the year, bound up, perhaps it would be better to bespeak them now for the present year, to be laid by till the close of the year in the...
27058From Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 15 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Come and take your nap with us to-night. I have not the pleasure of being acquainted with Mr. Carrington but if he will accompany you, I shall therefore be the more obliged to him. It will relieve you from the heats and drunken noise of Charlottesville and you will return in better tone to the functions of justice in the morning and more philanthropically disposed to gloss over the follies...
27059From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Donath, 16 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your favor of Aug. 27. Having imagined that you always had a stock of glass on hand of assorted sizes, so that I might at any time make up a deficiency, I sent you but a rough guess of the quantity I should want. Finding now that it is necessary to be more exact, I have estimated my wants with more care, and find they will be the quantity stated below, which therefore...
27060To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 16 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of Mr. Jaÿ, your Plenipotentiary in England, having obligingly taken Charge, after his Patron’s Departure for America, of mÿ last Packet to your Honor, as President of your philosophical illustrious Society, dated the 1t. of June last from London: I hope, it came safe and officially to Hand in due Time. It contained, (besides Mr. Cavallho’s Theory of magnetic Fluids and their...
27061Inquest on Shadwell Mill, 18 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Albemarle county to wit. An Inquest taken at Shadwell in the parish of Fredericksville and county aforesaid on the 18th. day of September 1795. by virtue of a writ of Ad quod damnum issued from the court of the said county on the 12th. day of the same month before Francis Taliaferro deputy sheriff of the said county and by the oaths of Thomas Bell, William Chapman, Thomas W. Lewis, Henry...
27062From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 21 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved about three weeks ago a box containing 6. doz. volumes of 283. pages 12mo. with a letter from Lambert , Beckley’s clerk, that they came from Mr. Beckley and were to be divided between yourself, J. Walker, and myself. I have sent 2 doz. to J. Walker, and shall be glad of a conveyance for yours. In the mean time I send you by post the title page, table of contents , and one of the...
27063To Thomas Jefferson from John Carr, 22 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
When I informed you there were several orders for rebuilding your mill, I was under a mistake. Having occasion to examine the Books in other cases, the order now sent must frequently have presented itself, and not attending to the date or Language of the order, I was inducd to think thier were more; the Copy of the writ and inquest are under Cover also. I am Sir yours. &C RC ( MHi );...
27064From Thomas Jefferson to Eliza House Trist, 23 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by our last post but one your favor from Alexandria . Mr. Giles had before informed us you intended a visit to that city this summer, and as I flattered myself with the hope of seeing you here also, and knew that Patsy would be a material object in your visit I was only waiting to know when she would return, in order to express to you our general wish to see you, and that I would...
27065From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 23 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume I am not mistaken in supposing that an injunction is the proper and most effectual mode of preventing a person from drowning a millseat of mine by raising his dam below it. With this view I have prepared the inclosed bill and documents , and trouble you with them to procure and send me an injunction. The defendant being very actively employed at present in raising his dam, the case...
27066Bill in Chancery on the Henderson Milldam, [24 September 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
To George Wythe Judge of the High Court of Chancery of Virginia humbly complaining Sheweth your orator Thomas Jefferson of the County of Albemarle, that he is and upwards of thirty years has been seized by devise from Peter Jefferson his father of a tract of land in the said County on both sides of Rivanna river and including the bed thereof on the north side of which river and on the said...
27067To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Harrison, 28 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately received and examined the Accounts of Mr. Grand, Banker at Paris, I have extracted from them such Charges as appear proper against you; a Statement of which I now do myself the honor to transmit for your Inspection; and on which I should be glad to receive any observations you may find necessary. Besides the Amount of this statement Mr. Grand charges the United States with Livrs....
27068From Thomas Jefferson to William Alexander, 29 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your note by Dr. Currie I have now lodged at Colo. Bell’s in Charlottesville 3. casks of nails to be forwarded to Staunton to the care of Gamble & Grattan by any waggon which may be passing, or to be delivered or otherwise disposed of at your order. The contents of the casks, and cost carried to your debet are noted below. As it is impossible to make casks...
27069To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 30 September 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you two letters from St. Yldefonso under the dates of the 2d. and 3d. of this month—the first was sent to Mr. Yznardi to be forwarded directly to you—the second was sent by duplicate under cover to the Sec. of State. My stay at St. Yldefonso was prolonged until within these few days contrary to my expectation when I last wrote to you. During this time I have recieved the duplicate and...
27070From Thomas Jefferson to Bushrod Washington, 1 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Some months ago a subpoena in Chancery at the suit of Mr. Banks was served on me as former governor of Virginia , calling on me and others not named [but I suppose the Counsellors of that day] to appear &c. Presuming it was for some act done on behalf of the commonwealth I wrote to the governor to know whether I must defend, or whether the executive would not undertake it for the Commonwealth,...
27071To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 4 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. Ulto., after travelling to Philadelphia and back again, was received by me, at this place, the 1st. instant. The letter from Madame de Chastellux to me, is short—referring to the one she has written to you for particulars respecting herself and infant son. Her application to me is unquestionably misplaced, and to Congress it would certainly be unavailing, as the...
27072To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
We have before us your very esteemed favor of 27 May remitting us £ 39.17.10½ Stg. Nathl. Anderson’s Bill on Wm. Anderson of London " 70. 8. 6 " Geo. Meade’s Do. on Geo. Barclay & Co. of Do. £110. 6. 4½ Stg. on account of Mr. Philip Mazzei whom We have advised thereof. These Bills have both been protested for non acceptance. But We have endorsed them to the Consul of the United States in...
27073To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
With infinite pleasure did We peruse the letter You favored us with, under date of 28 May , for the friendly Contents of which We beg of you to accept our most sincere hearty Thanks. Mr. Mazzei’s affairs are full as good as We supposed them and if He went out to take care of them himself, They would furnish him a comfortable retreat in his old age. Your letter to him has been forwarded . We...
27074To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Rutledge, 12 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a long time since I wrote you, and a much longer since I have heard from you. Your last, was written on the Eve of your resignation: mine, was an acknowledgment of it; and conveying my best good Wishes for your Happiness in retirement. I hope they have been answered, by your enjoyments in domestic Life; but not that you are so perfectly pleased with the latter, as to abandon for ever all...
27075From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Auguste Adet, 14 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with pleasure your letter of the 9th. Ult. by post, but should with greater pleasure have recieved it from your own hand, that I might have had an opportunity of testifying to you in person the great respect I bear for your character which had come to us before you, and of expressing my obligations to professor Pictet, for procuring me the honor of your acquaintance. It would have...
27076To Thomas Jefferson from Antonia Carmichael, 14 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Etant arrivée depuis quelque’s semaines dans ce pais et ne sachant par quel moyen vous faire passer un livre intitulé la Conquête du Mexique que feu mon mari vous avoit destiné ainsi que quelques papiers a votre adresse. Si les lettres d’Hernand Cortes a Charles Quint ainsi que les gravures vous font plaisir je crois pouvoir vous les procurer. J’ai l’honneur d’Être Monsieur Votre tres humble...
27077From Thomas Jefferson to Marc Auguste Pictet, 14 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the honor of being made known to Mr. Adet, who did me that of forwarding your letter of Jan. 1. my distance from the seat of government not admitting the pleasure of recieving it from his own hands. I flatter myself, from the character of this gentleman, that his mission will be fruitful in good to both countries. You will ere this have heard from your friend in London...
27078Notes on the Letter of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, [after 15 October 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on Professor Ebeling’s letter of July 30. 95. Professor Ebeling mentioning the persons in America from whom he derives information for his work, it may be useful for him to know how far he may rely on their authority. President Stiles. An excellent man, of very great learning, but remarkeable for his credulity. Dr. Willard. } All these are men of respectable characters, worthy of...
27079To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 18 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
On opening the letter forwarded by Pickering, which I omitted at Monticello, because I took for granted that it merely covered, like yours, a copy of the French Constitution, I found a letter from Monroe, of the 30 June, from which the following is an extract. “You will be surprised to hear that the only Americans whom I found here, were a set of New Engld. men connected with Britain and who...
27080From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 October 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson the bearer hereof is not entirely unknown to you I believe. He asks of me however a line of introduction. He is a candidate for the office rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Hay, and he wishes me to say to you what I know of him. He has respectable talents, is well-read in the law, and is a good republican, and a very honest man. If no fitter person offers, I need not ask your...