1To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, 20 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Captain Lewis on his way to the Westward called on me and requested that I would at the proper season furnish you with some cuttings, from my Nursery , which you will receive herewith, No. 1. 2. 3. & 4 were sent me from detroit two years since. No. 5 & 6 are from bearing trees in my Orchard— No 1 Large White apple—tied with a White string No. 2 Large Red apple tied with a red string No. 3...
2John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
About the 1 st week in May last I received a request from an old and useful friend, to whom I could not well refuse a kindness, solliciting from me a letter of introduction to yourself and another to M r W. C. Nicholas . and adding, that he would set out for some of the watering places in your state about the 10 th of that month. I accordingly gave him a few lines for each of you and committed...
3John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Concluding from your last letter , that after the sitting of the Circuit Court in May last, the administration of the estate of Gen. Kosciusko would be regularly committed to your friend & neibor M r Cocke , I, on the 5 th of September , wrote to that Gentleman, stating the nature and extent of my son ’s claim, and requesting, from him, such information as would best direct me, how to have it...
4John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the letter you did me the honor to write to me by M. Coles , whom I found to be everything that you had said of him,—well informed & confidential & therefore an excellent supplement to my letters both public and private. In discharge of this new obligation, I employed myself in writing to you a long letter, filled with facts, conjectures and forebodings. On looking over it, I found...
5John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
When I last had the pleasure of hearing from you , you had determined to decline the executorship of Gen: Kosciusko ’s will and I have since learned, thro’ M r Wirt , that in persuance of his advice , a gentleman of your neiborhood, M r John Hartwell Cocke of Fluvianna County , had qualified, under the laws of Virginia , as administrator.
6John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, by the last Mail from the south, the pamphlet which you were so obliging as to address to me and percieving, by the note to page 24, that the only copy of Crozat’s charter you had met with, was that inserted by Joutel in his narrative of Le Salle’s last voyage, I take the liberty of sending to you one, which I obtained directly and in person from the depot of laws in Paris , but...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong, 4 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter thro Madam L. F. Felix was answered some time since, and in compliance with her request I beg leave to forward the inclosed for your perusal and consideration, if the Land Located by me for your friend does not meet the approbation of that Lady, it is no fault of mine as a Locator—the lines of those small tracts not being run at the time the Locations were made, it was imposible...
8John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have brought with me for you the double-plough of M r Parker & wish to know how it may be best conveyed to Montecello ? or with whom in this City I may leave it for the winter? a letter addressed to M r Gelston on these points, will be most likely to accomplish your instructions and my wishes. I set out on Monday next for Washington where at least I am sure of hearing of you. Your very kind...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Armstrong of New York, 2 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received the letter of the 26th. of May with which you were pleased to honor me, and another of the same date from Mr. Madison, proposing to me the mission to Paris as successor to Chancellor Livingston. In a letter of this day to the Secretary of State I have signified my acceptance of this appointment. It is true, that in coming to this determination, I have had my doubts, but...
10John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years before I left Paris Gen. Kosciuszko put into my hands the paper, of which the enclosed is a copy. Understanding that it was not to be used ’till the General ’s death, it has been in my cabinet unopened from that day ’till this & is now recurred to on the information brought by the mails of the day that the Gen l had died in Switzerland on the 15 th of Oct last & that his funeral was...