551From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Mercer, 7 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of Nov. 30. and can assure you that the city is understood universally to be entirely clear of infection, not a single person having the yellow fever at this time, and that this has been believed to be the case near three weeks. The members of Congress here are entirely without apprehension. Still I have not learnt how a stranger is to know into what houses he...
552From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the notice given to the Governor of Pensylvania of the apprehensions that a number of the emigrants of St. Domingo might be returning hence to the island in a hostile form, enquiries were set on foot, the result of which I have the honor to inclose for your information; and am with respect Sir Your most obedt. & most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “the Min. Plen....
553From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th. of Nov. on the subject of your bills refused paiment at the Treasury, was duly laid before the President and referred to the department of the treasury, a copy of the report from which I have now the honor to inclose you, and am with great respect Sir Your most obedt. & most humble servt RC ( AMAE : CPEU, Supplément, xx ); at foot of text: “The Min. Pleny. of the...
554From Thomas Jefferson to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 5 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding the sale of the Pilgrim it may be of importance to possess evidence of the place of her capture. I am therefore to ask the favor of you to have the evidence taken according to the general rules heretofore communicated to you, and to send the same to me. I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your letters of Nov. 26. and 30. & to be with great respect Sir your most obedt....
555From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 4 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me you had employed Eli Alexander to superintend my business; on the terms proposed, finding him the same furniture which I supplied to Mr. Biddle and paying his travelling expences there, and that he will set out by the 15th. inst. I agree to the terms, confiding that he will make his travelling expences reasonable. He had better go...
556To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to send him the letters & orders referred to in Mr Morris’s letter, except that of the 8th of April, which must be a mistake for some other date, as the records of the office perfectly establish that no letters were written to him in the months of March & April but those of Mar. 12. & 15. & Apr. 20. & 26. now inclosed. the enigma...
557From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to send him the letters and orders referred to in Mr. Morris’s letter, except that of the 8th. of April, which must be a mistake for some other date, as the records of the office perfectly establish that no letters were written to him in the months of March and April but those of Mar. 12. and 15. and Apr. 20. and 26. now inclosed....
558To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, with Jefferson’s Note, 2 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very well satisfied with the train things are in. You will recollect that the Proclamation, Rules and other things are referred to in the Speech . I shall depend upon there being got ready at your Office. Yours &ca [ Note by TJ :] Answer to note of this day respecting publication of proceedings with Gr. Britn. RC ( DLC ); in Washington’s hand, with note by TJ at foot of text; addressed:...
559From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him three copies of the Proclamation and of the Rules. Having only heard the speech read, he cannot recollect it perfectly enough to decide by memory what documents it requires from his office, and therefore is obliged to ask of the President if any more be requisite? RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The Presid[…]”;...
560George Washington to the Senate and the House of Representatives, [2 December 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
As the present situation of the several nations of Europe, and especially of those with which the US. have important relations, cannot but render the state of things between them and us matter of interesting enquiry to the legislature, and may indeed give rise to deliberations to which they alone are competent, I have thought it my duty to communicate to them certain correspondences which have...
561Notes of a Conversation with John Beckley, 1 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 1. 93. Beckley tells me he had the following fact from Lear. Langdon, Cabot and some others of the Senate, standing in a knot before the fire after the Senate had adjourned, and growling together about some measure which they had just lost, ‘ah! said Cabot, things will never go right till you have a President for life and an hereditary Senate.’ Langdon told this to Lear, who mentioned it...
562From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This place being entirely clear of all infection, the members of Congress are coming into it without fear. The President moved in yesterday, as did I also. I have got comfortably lodged at the corner of 7th. and Market street.—Dr. Waters is returned; not well, but better. Still always Hectic. He and Mrs. Waters are just gone to housekeeping for the first time. Mrs. Trist is also returned to...
563To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters just received. Mr Pinkney’s & mister Morris’s information relative to the doing & undoing the decrees of the National assembly, in the case of the ship Lawrence and some other expressions in mister Morris’s letter seem to render it proper to lower the expression in the message purporting the just & ready redress...
564From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the US. your letter of Nov. 25. and have now the honor to inform you that most of it’s objects being beyond the powers of the Executive, they can only manifest their dispositions by acting on those which are within their powers. Instructions are accordingly sent to the district attornies of the US. residing within States wherein French Consuls are...
565From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and incloses him some letters just received. Mr. Pinkney’s and Mr. Morris’s information relative to the doing and undoing the decrees of the National assembly, in the case of the ship Lawrence and some other expressions in Mr. Morris’s letter seem to render it proper to lower the expression in the message purporting the just and ready...
566To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, & which he found on his return home in the night. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. According to GW’s journal, these enclosures were letters “From Thos. Pinckney Esqr. of the 25 Sept. 93,”...
567From Thomas Jefferson to Certain District Attorneys, 29 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Minister Plenipotentiary of France, complains that the Consuls of his Nation are exposed to insults, and their persons to danger from the numerous French Refugees, chiefly of the Islands, who are in and about the places of their residence, and are understood to be ill-disposed to the government of France, and those in authority under it. The Consuls are liable to the ordinary laws of the...
568From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 29 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, and which he found on his return home in the night. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Thomas Pinckney to TJ, 25 (two letters) and 27 Sep. 1793
569From Thomas Jefferson to John Nancarrow, 28 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been sensible that Mrs. Nancarrow and yourself were proposing to incommode yourselves out of merely friendly dispositions to me, and that I could not avoid embarrassing you more than I could be easy under, I received yesterday with great satisfaction the offer of commodious apartments which I have not hesitated to engage, because it relieves me inasmuch as it relieves you from the...
570Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President’s Address and Messages to Congress, 28 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov 28. We met at the President’s. I read over a list of the papers copying to be communicated to Congress on the subject of Mr. Genet. It was agreed that Genet’s letter of Aug. 13. to the President , mine of Aug. 16. and Genet’s of Nov. to myself and the Atty. Genl. desiring a prosecution of Jay and King should not be sent to the legislature: on a general opinion that the discussion of the...
571From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received, my very good friend, your kind letter of Aug. 19. with the extract from that of La Fayette, for whom my heart has been constantly bleeding. The influence of the United States has been put into action, as far as it could be either with decency or effect. But I fear that distance and difference of principle give little hold to Genl. Washington on the jailors of La Fayette....
572From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 11th. and 14th. of Sep. since which I have received yours of July 5. 8. Aug. 1. 15. 27. 28. The fever which at that time had given alarm in Philadelphia, became afterwards far more destructive than had been apprehended, and continued much longer, from the uncommon drought and warmth of the autumn. On the 1st. day of this month the President and heads of the...
573To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. he will mention M. de la Fayette to mister Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the governor. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
574From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I laid before the President of the US. your two letters of the 11th. and 14th. instant on the subject of new advances of money, and they were immediately referred to the Secretary of the treasury within whose department subjects of this nature lie. I have now the honor of inclosing you a copy of his report thereon to the President in answer to your letters, and of adding assurances of the...
575From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknoledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th. instant, and to thank you for the information it conveys of the present state of the French islands in the West Indies. Their condition must always be interesting to the US. with whom nature has connected them by the strong link of mutual necessities. The riot which had been raised in Philadelphia some days ago, by emigrants from St....
576From Thomas Jefferson to —— Myers, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my engagement I now inclose you 186. Doll. thirty six cents = £55–18–3 Virginia currency to be passed to the credit of Mrs. Carr . You will readily perceive that your endorsement on the inclosed bank note will make it cash to any person wishing to remit to Philadelphia. The Custom house officers particularly take up these notes by a general arrangement. I am Sir Your most obedt....
577From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 14th. Mine of the 2d. ought to have been then at hand, and since that those of the 10th. and 17th. All will have informed you of my health, and being here. I am happy that you think Tarquin will suit you, and insist on your acceptance of him. This is no sacrifice to me, because my sole motive for having thought of parting with him was that he is...
578From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello you mentioned to me that sheep could be procured at or about Staunton, good and cheap, and were kind enough to offer your aid in procuring them. Reflecting on this subject, I find it will be much better to buy and drive them now, before they have young ones, and before the snows set in, than to wait till the spring. I therefore take the...
579From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. He will mention M. de la Fayette to Mr. Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the Governor. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Washington. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not...
580Cabinet Opinions on Various Letters, [23 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
At sundry meetings of the heads of departments and Attorney General from the 1st. to the 21st. of Nov. 1793. at the President’s several matters were agreed upon as stated in the following letters from the Secretary of state. To wit: Nov. 8. Circular letter to the representatives of France, Gr. Brit. Spain and the U. Netherlands, fixing provisorily the extent of our jurisdiction into the sea at...
581Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President’s Address to Congress, 23 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 23. At the President’s. Present K. R. and Th:J. Subject, the heads of the speech . One was, a proposition to Congress to fortify the principal harbors . I opposed the expediency of the general government’s undertaking it, and the expediency of the President’s proposing it. It was amended by substituting a proposition to adopt means for enforcing respect to the jurisdiction of the US....
582From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [15–22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your publication in the newspapers in the form of a letter to me of the date of Oct. 27. reached me thro’ that channel soon after it’s date. It had before been known to the Pr. in the same way. It was not necessary therefore to communicate to him the MS. copy I had the honor of receiving from you afterwards. Nor did I suppose an answer expected. You had found my name and office convenient as a...
583Cabinet Meetings. Opinions Concerning the Relations of the United States with Several European Countries, [1–22 November … (Hamilton Papers)
At sundry meetings of the heads of departments & attorney general from the 1st. to the 21st. of Nov. 1793. at the President’s several matters were agreed upon as stated in the following letters from the Secretary of state. to wit. Nov. 8. Circular letter to the representatives of France, Gr. Brit. Spain & the U. Netherlands, fixing provisonily the extent of our jurisdiction into the sea at a...
584VII, 22 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Notes Text cases where individuals (as Henfield &c.) organize themselves into military bodies within the U.S. or participate in acts of hostility by sea, where jurisdiction attaches to the person . What is the present legal mode of restraint? binding to the good behavior? military restraint? or what? or can the act only be punished after it is committed? The Constitution having...
585From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 12th. of July I informed you that the President expected that the Jane of Dublin, the Lovely lass and Prince William Henry, British vessels taken by the armed vessel Citoyen Genet, should not depart from our ports until his ultimate determination thereon should be made known. And in a letter of the 7th. of August I gave you the further...
586From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 2. I took the liberty of noticing to you that the commission of Consul to M. Dannery ought to have been addressed to the President of the US. He being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation, and whatever he communicates as...
587From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me of a conspiracy among the refugees from the French colonies now at Charleston, to undertake an expedition from thence against the said colonies, I communicated the information to the Governor of S. Carolina , with a desire that he would prevent every enterprize of that nature. The other matters contained in the same letter...
588From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the inclosed gazette is a paper purporting to be a Protest of the Consul Dannery against the revocation of the Exequatur of Mr. Duplaine issued by the President. Before the President proceeds to consider what notice such a protest would call for from him, he thinks it requisite to be assured that the paper is genuine. I have therefore to ask the favor of you to endeavor to procure authentic...
589Materials for the President’s Address to Congress, [ca. 22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes Text. Cases where individuals (as Henfield &c) organize themselves into military bodies within the US. or participate in acts of hostility by sea, where jurisdiction attaches to the person . The Constitution having authorised the legislature exclusively to declare whether the nation, from a state of peace, shall go into that of war, it rests with their wisdom to consider What is...
590Memorandum to George Taylor, Jr., 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The following commissions wanting − + William Barker 2d. Mate } Collector Charleston and capt. of Cutter. } This memorandum for Barker and Cozens is exactly copied from one from the Secy. of the Treasury . If it is not understood, explanations must be asked at his office. − + Matthew Cozens 3d. Mate Note dates of Com. Th: J. returns the blanks, as we are now near enough to obtain...
591From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 21 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I passed your house last, you told me you thought there would be to be bought there red clover seed, fresh and cheap. I take the liberty to inclose you a twenty dollar bill and to beg the favor of you to lay it out for me in as much fresh clover seed as it will buy, and to give the seed in charge to the overseer whom you shall be so good as to employ for me, to be carried on with him. Not...
592Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President’s Address to Congress, 21 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 21. We met at the President’s. The manner of explaining to Congress the intentions of the Proclmn. was the matter of debate. E.R. produced his way of stating it. This expressed it’s views to have been 1. to keep our citizens quiet. 2. to intimate to foreign nations that it was the Pr’s opinion that the interests and dispositions of this country were for peace. Hamilton produced his...
593From Thomas Jefferson to John Mason, 20 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Being now returned to the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and business resumed in that place, I will pay on sight Mr. Fenwick’s draught: be pleased to accompany it with your own for the little disbursements made for me about the box of books &c. or if you prefer it, write me the amount of the whole, and I will remit you a bank post-note on the collector of George town by the return of the post...
594From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Söderström, 20 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 16th. No particular rules have been established by the President for the conduct of Consuls with respect to prizes. In one particular case, where a prize is brought into our ports by any of the belligerent parties, and is reclaimed of the Executive, the President has hitherto permitted the Consul of the Captor to hold the prize until his determination is...
595From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Genet and to acknolege the receipt by the hands of a Courier, of his letter of Nov. 12. and two others of Nov. 16. which shall be immediately communicated to the President. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). The letter of Nov. 12. was actually Genet’s 14 Nov. 1793 letter about John Jay and Rufus King, which according to
596From Thomas Jefferson to John Ross, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely congratulate you on your resurrection. On the faith of the newspapers I really lamented you dead for several days. I hope Mrs. Ross and all your family have enjoyed good health during the afflictions of the city. Not knowing what date was inserted in my note for the 100.D. you were so kind as to give me for it, nor where to seek the note, as nobody has come to seek me about it, I...
597Notes of Cabinet Meetings on Edmond Charles Genet and the President’s Address to Congress, [18 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. 93. At a Conference at the President’s where I read several letters of Mr. Genet, on finishing one of them, I asked what should be the answer? The Presidt. thereupon took occasion to observe that Mr. Genet’s conduct continued to be of so extraordinary a nature that he meant to propose to our serious consideration Whether he should not have his functions discontinued and be ordered away...
598Memorandums to George Taylor, Jr., 18 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for Mr. Taylor. Nov. 18. 1793. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy; with lacunae. TJ’s directions to the chief clerk in the Department of State concerned the copying of documents that the President submitted to Congress on 5 and 16 Dec. 1793 with his messages on American relations with France, Great Britain, and Spain ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and...
599To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1793 (Madison Papers)
I have got good lodgings for Monroe & yourself, that is to say, a good room with a fire place & two beds, in a pleasant & convenient position, with a quiet family. They will breakfast you, but you must mess in a tavern; there is a good one across the street. This is the way in which all must do, and all I think will not be able to get even half beds. The President will remain here I believe...
600From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
No letter yet from my dear Maria, who is so fond of writing, so punctual in her correspondencies! I enjoin as a penalty that the next be written in French.—Now for news. The fever is entirely vanished from Philadelphia. Not a single person has taken infection since the great rains about the 1st. of the month, and those who had it before are either dead or recovered. All the inhabitants who had...