16711To James Madison from David Montague Erskine, 23 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 1st: Inst: inclosing a Copy of a Letter from Wm: Reeve stiling himself an Officer in the Naval Service of His Britannic Majesty and acting as prize Master to a Spanish Vessel captured by the British Frigate Hebe, to Governor Clairborne of the Orleans Territory. As it is not my Province to decide upon the Conduct of any of His Majesty’s Officers, I...
16712To James Madison from James Simpson, 19 March 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour of encloseing with this, copy of my Communications of 20th. February. On the 24th. last Month the Essex Frigate Captain Bainbridge anchored in this Bay. He was supplied with some small Articles of Provision he asked for, as usual duty free, and sailed again the 26th. The 13th. Inst. the Batavian Sloop of War Daphne, arrived here with dispatches from that Government,...
16713To James Madison from John Mitchell, 26 June 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 June 1803, Le Havre . “A letter received from Mr. Barnet of the 24 in reply to mine of the 22d, in a very friendly maner removes all the fears I was under of his supposeing I had in my Letters to you misrepresented his intentions.” Barnet believes his appointment at Paris will detain him “some months” and is pleased that Mitchell will “officiate In his stead.” Renews his hopes that they may...
16714To James Madison from William McKinley, 18 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
Last year I wrote to J. G. Jackson Esqr. our representative in Congress, to use his best endeavours, to obtain (for E Pentland Editor of the Commonwealth printed in Pittsburg) the Publishing the laws of the U. N. S. The following exstract is from his favor of the 5th. March 1807. "Upon the receipt of your favour I waited upon Mr. Madison, and communicated the information concerning the...
16715To James Madison from Murdoch Yuille Wardrop and Company, 10 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to the directions of our friend, The Honble: Bushrod Washington, we have embraced the opportunity of the Schooner Three Sisters, Capt: Rich, bound to Norfolk, & Baltimore, to ship you Two Pipe’s of our finest old wine, to the address of Andrew Parks Esqre: at the latter place; which we flatter ourselves, will arrive in safety, & have not a doubt, from the attention paid to their...
16716To James Madison from Abraham Bradley Jr., 22 August 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Abraham Bradley Jr. 22 August 1806, Washington. “At the request of Mr. John G. Jackson I have this day deposited three hundred dollars to your credit at the bank in this city, as you will observe by the inclosed receipt, of which I will thank you to advise Mr. Jackson.” RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p. The enclosed receipt (1 p.), signed by Alexander Kerr, teller at the Washington...
16717To James Madison from James Brown, 18 January 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From James Brown. 18 January 1816. “Mr Brown” accepts JM ’s “polite invitation for Saturday next.” RC ( PHi ). 1 p. Unsigned; in hand of James Brown, senator from Louisiana.
16718To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 6 November 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 November 1801, Leghorn. No. 13. Transmits dispatches received on 5 Nov. from Eaton and duplicates of earlier ones already forwarded. Is distressed at news from Eaton that U.S. squadron had gone to Gibraltar and left enemy coast unguarded; hopes at least one frigate will have returned. U.S. citizens trading at Leghorn complain of lack of protection, no warship having appeared at Leghorn since...
16719To James Madison from Adams Herbert & Company, 3 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
We had the honor to receive by the mail of this day, your Excellency’s letter of date the 1st Current, and beg you to accept our acknowledgements for your promptitude in forwarding us the check for five hundred fifty three Dollars & 80/100 which it contained, and which is in full for the original cost and subsequent Charges on One pipe wine from Madeira. We shall attend very particularly to...
16720To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 15 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 15 October 1805, New Orleans. “During my late Illness at Natchez I receivd your private Letter of the 20th July [not found], and I immediatly transmitted by a safe conveyance to Mr: Duplantier, the Packet which you committed to my care. “I am inclined to think, that the Land near this City, which has been mentioned to Genl. Lafayette, is not in a situation to be...
16721To James Madison from John Morris, 5 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The tender of voluntary service which I had the honour to offer on behalf of the officers and privates of my company having been invited as well by previous assurances and recommendations communicated by Mr Lacock and others, as by special and peculiar circumstances which recommended that course for the most prompt and efficacious mean of defending their own frontier, those assurances have...
16722To James Madison from Jacob Engelbrecht, 5 September 1825 (Madison Papers)
With due deference, would I take the liberty of requesting a favor from you, which, tho’ it may appear of little import to you, will be of great satisfaction to me. I wish you, to honor me with a Letter, in your own hand writing, which Letter, I wish to keep and preserve in honor of you, and after your death to have it neatly framed to preserve as a relick. I have now in my possession Letters...
16723To James Madison from Divie Bethune, 17 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
By last mail I had the pleasure of forwarding four packages to your adress, which had been committed to my care by Mr. Pinckney in London. When I parted with Mr. Pinckney on the 7th. ulto. he said, ’ ’ Should you be detained some days at Falmouth I expect to forward You another very important dispatch care of Mr. Fox." The packet was not detained, & no additional dispatch came to hand before I...
16724To James Madison from J. Aaron Emanuel Vonhalle, 19 February 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 February 1810, Fort McHenry. Informs JM that in the “greatest Distress” he enlisted five months ago as a soldier in Capt. George Armistead’s company but now seeks a discharge. RC ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , V-7:5). 1 p. A second letter from Vonhalle to JM, 20 Feb. 1810 (ibid.; 1 p.), adding that his family wished him to return to his native Prussia, is docketed by a War Department clerk as...
16725To James Madison from Jeremiah Lawrence, 15 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to state that David Worth and myself were sole owners of the Schooner Mary of Nantucket which we fitted for a Whaling Voyage to the Cape de Verd Islands and elsewhere, David Folger Master, who sailed from this Port in the said Schooner on the 14 of July 1802 and proceeded on his said intended Voyage & after cruising near the said Islands until the 24th of November, and had obtained...
16726To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 26 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have this day received your private letter of the 17th. Ultimo, acknowledging the receipt of my communications of the 9th. of December. The course Mr. Burr has taken in his flight is not ascertained; I learn however by a Gentleman from the Mississippi Territory that the general opinion there, was, that Burr was concealed at Natchez, where his adherents are said to be numerous. My opinion is...
16727To James Madison from Francis Mulligan, 14 October 1806 (Madison Papers)
I profit of the present Occasion, as one of the most Interesting moments of of my life, wherein it affords me, this Early opportunity, in Testifying to you, in the most Sincere manner, my congratulations, on the happy Triumph of republicanism, over the Enymies, to the Peace, and happyness of Our Country, which the event of this Election has but this moment proven, wherein Robert Marion,...
16728To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 29 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the President of the United States referred the Resolution of the 26th. of March, 1816, requesting that information be laid before the Senate, “in relation to such proceedings as have been had for completing an accurate chart of the coast, within the extent of Twenty leagues from any of the shores of the United States; and in relation to such examinations...
16729To James Madison from Aaron Jordan Booge, 1 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
I apprehend that it is probable I am the only Chaplain in the Service, who has not done himself the Honour to present a Line to the first Magistrate of the United States. This has not been because I have been wanting of the highest Respect & Veneration for my sincerely beloved President: but because I have supposed your Time & Attention so much taken up with the public Concerns of the Nation...
16730To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 21 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
Having for some time felt a great deal of anxiety about the consequences to the United States, which appear likely to rise out of the Affairs of the Western Country I have turned my attention a good deal to considering that Subject, and as I know you also have had a very great solicitude about it I shall trouble you with such thoughts or facts relating to it as I think may possibly be of use....
16731To James Madison from David Jameson, 30 August 1780 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Rives Collection of Madison Papers). I have not had the favour of a letter from you by this weeks post As Col Senf & Maj Magill went on with Gen. Gates’s letter to Congress giving accot. of our disaster in Carolina, and could give you the particulars I did not write on the occasion. Since they left this place we have recd. a letter from Gen. Stevens, he dates from Spinks’s about 70...
16732To James Madison from William Eustis, [ca. 3 October] 1812 (Madison Papers)
In making out the order, as the Militia were to rendezvous at Pittsburg, at which place they would of course wait for further orders, it was thought sufficient by this mail to direct detachments on the requisition of Captn. Piatt for the Cannon & Stores, without adding “you will wait further orders”—taking the chance (which is very small) of any part of them proceeding without orders. I...
16733To James Madison from James Monroe, 28 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you such documents mentiond in your memo: as are to be obtaind from the dept. of war. Those to be found, in the Natil. advocate, will be sent as soon as obtaind. There being no file of that paper, in that dept., they must be looked for elsewhere. I have allowed to Mr. Morris, the expence of his journey from Cadiz to Madrid six hundred dolrs., & a like sum to replace him there, &...
16734To James Madison from John Graham, 17 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
In my Letter of yesterday, which went by the way of Fredericksburg, I mentioned that Mr. Gallatin had declined giving any opinion as to the propriety of permitting the Secretary of Mr. Rademaker to go out to Rio Janeiro in the vessel Chartered to take Mr. Hill there. I therefore sent the Letter of Mr. R. asking this permission to you. From the inclosed Note you will see there is yet time for...
16735To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 17 November 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 November 1804, New Orleans. “I enclose you two other original Letters from the Marquis of Casa Calvo to me, relating to the late News from Nachitoches and Point Coupie. “A small Detachment of Troops has been ordered to Point Coupie, & I believe everything is now tranquil at that place. I have received no late Dispatches from Nachitoches; but I persuade myself that there also, the cause for...
16736To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 12 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Dashkoff, Chargé d’affaires and Consul General of the Emperor of Russia, has arrived here and proposes to set out in about Six weeks for Washington. Having called upon me and expressed a hope, that he might be accomodated with a passage on board of one of the vessels employed by the United States in carrying dispatche s to and from Europe, I found it necessary to explain to him, the...
16737To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 1 May 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 May 1803, Antwerp. Refers to his last letters of 12 to 18 Mar . “I was honoured on the 18th. Ulto., with your letter of the 3d. March [not found] with my commission as confirmed by the Senate, which, as events have turned, I hope fixes me here and may be a means of satisfying the wishes of my friend Mr. John Mitchell lately appointed by our Envoys to the Commercial Agency at Havre.” Is...
16738To James Madison from Samuel Carswell, 16 June 1810 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of a conversation that lately passed, betwixt the post-Master of this place, (Mr. Patton) & myself, I take the liberty, of addressing you at the present time. He says he is fearful, that a late Law of Congress, will compel him, to keep the post-Office open, on the Sabbath. The necessity of enforceing the Law, & the consequences that will result therefrom, are what I purpose to...
16739To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 25 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
Estoy pronto à coóperar de mi parte con los Justos deseos de su Excella., el Seňor Presidente, en orden à la devolución de los Esclavos, propiedad Americana, que desertan à los Dominios de mi Soberano: asi escribiré al Sõr. Dn. Nemesio Salcedo recomendandole èste punto, que reclama V. S. que es lo unico que puedo hacer, siempre que èste Gobiérno, siguiendo las Leyes de reciprocidad, se obligue...
16740To James Madison from Jonathan Bull and Others, 9 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 April 1811, Hartford, Connecticut. “The friends of the government have for some time past, contemplated with deep regret, the unhappy situation of the federal courts in this district”; they believe that some gentlemen, not friendly to the district attorney, have attempted a remedy by seeking his removal. Such a step would cause pain to the friends of Mr. Huntington, especially at a time when...