1From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 23 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of the House of Representatives in their resolution of November 11. that copies should be laid before them of all acts, decrees, orders & proclamations affecting the commercial rights of Neutral nations, issued or enacted by Great Britain & France, or any other belligerent power, since the year 1791 & also of an act placing the commerce of America, in English ports,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the 25th. instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th. of April last. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
3From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 1 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries of the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th. of March relative to certain dates, I transmit a report of the Secretary of State made to me on that subject— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 4 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In my message of January 20. I stated that some papers forwarded by mr Daniel Clark of New Orleans to the Secretary of State in 1803. had not then been found in the office of State: and that a letter had been addressed to the former Chief Clerk, in the hope that he might advise where they should be sought for. by indications recieved from him they are now found. among them are two letters from...
5From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 30 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Choctaws being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for paiment, proposed to the US. to cede lands to the amount of their debts, and designated them in two different portions of their country. these designations not at all suiting us were declined. still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire...
6From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 30 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The posts of Detroit and Mackinac having been originally intended by the governments which established & held them, as mere Depots for commerce with the Indians, very small cessions of land around them were obtained or asked from the Native proprietors, and these posts depended for protection on the strength of their garrisons. the principles of our government leading us to the emploiment of...
7From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 20 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Some days previous to your resolutions of the 13th. inst. a court of Enquiry had been instituted, at the request of Genl. Wilkinson, charged to make the enquiry into his conduct which the first resolution desires, and had commenced their proceedings. to the judge Advocate of that court the papers & information on that subject, transmitted to me by the House of Representatives, have been...
8From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 18 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request expressed in your Resolution of the 18th. instant I now transmit a copy of my Proclamation interdicting our harbors & waters to British armed vessels, & forbidding intercourse with them, referred to in my message of the 27th. of October last. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
9From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 20 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with satisfaction I inform you that the treasons & misdemeanors meditated & prepared by Aaron Burr & his accomplices were finally supprressed, & chiefly by the exertions of our faithful fellow citizens, who when apprised that enterprises were meditated against their country & it’s lawful authorities, stepped forward with promptitude in the several places where these designs were in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 16 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of mr. Briggs I proceed to state what I know of the facts mentioned in this petition & others connected with them. In July 1804. mr. Briggs being here, and about to set out for Natches, as Surveyor Genl., I happened to say in conversation how anxious I was to get a direct road from Washington to N. Orleans, which should not cross the mountains at all, to express a hope that the...