3191Enclosure: Observations on the French Debt, [ca. 17 October 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Quotation from Fenno’s gazette of Sep. 19. 1792. a peice signed Catullus ‘I proceed now to state the exact tenor of the advice which Mr. Jefferson gave to Congress, respecting the transfer of the debt due to France to a company of Hollanders. After mentioning an offer which had been made by such a company for the purchase of the debt he concludes with these extraordinary expressions. “If there...
3192IV. Secretary of State to the President, 14 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you the copy of a paragraph from the report of the proceedings of the Executive of the North-Western government, which may perhaps need the attention of the Secretary at war.—I am, with the most profound respect & attachment Sir Your most obedient & most humble Servant, PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “the President of the U.S.”; entry in SJPL reads: “Winthrop Serjt....
3193No. 5., 1 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
We the Subscribers being a Committee appointed by the Owners of fishing Vessels in the Town of Marblehead, to take into Consideration the many Grievances and Burdens the Cod fishery now labors under, and to make a Statement of them, which Statement so made to be handed to Colo. Glover, by him to be laid before the Committee of the General Court appointed to consider the same, do report the...
3194X. Secretary of State to William Short, 19 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 6. No. 46 by Mr. Osmont came to hand yesterday and I have just time before the departure of Mr. Terrasson the bearer of my letter of the 15th. inst. and dispatches accompanying it, to acknowlege the receipt, and inform you that it has been laid before the President. On consideration of the circumstance stated in the 2d. page of your letter, he is of opinion that it is...
3195Notes on Alexander Hamilton and the Bank of the United States, 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 31. Mr. Beckley tells me that the merchants bonds for duties on 6. mo. credit became due the 1st. inst. to a very great amount. That Hamilton went to the bank on that day and directed the bank to discount for those merchants all their bonds at 30. days, and that he would have the Collectors credited for the money at the Treasury. Hence the Treasury lumping it’s receipts by the month in...
3196Notes of a Conversation with Alexander Hamilton, 13 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J mentioned to him a letter received from J. A. disavowing Publicola, and denying that he ever entertained a wish to bring this country under a hereditary executive or introduce an hereditary branch of legislature &c. See his letter . A. H. condemning Mr. A’s writings and most particularly Davila, as having a tendency to weaken the present government, declared in substance as follows. ‘I...
3197Memorandum to George Washington, [11 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
To be read at the President’s leisure. Governr. H. Lee’s letter. June 28. concerning supposed pestilential disease in W.I. The Suckey. Th:J’s letter June 26. to Mr. Hammond. Th:J. to Mr. Hammond. June 25. on insinuation concerning Western posts. do. to do. do. developement of order about privateers arming. Philips’s letter June 7. cannot be received as Consul at Curaçoa....
3198Notes 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...
3199Report on the Proceedings of the Northwest Territory, 29 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State has had under consideration the Report of the proceedings of the Secretary of the Territory of the U.S. North West of the Ohio in the absence of the Governor from January the 1st. to June 30th. 1792. and Reports to the President of the United States that there is nothing contained therein which requires any thing to be done on the part of the President of the United...
3200Report on Edmond Charles Genet and Gouverneur Morris, 11 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President doubtless recollects the communications of Mr. Ternant expressing the dissatisfaction of the Executive council of France with Mr. Morris our minister there, which however Mr. Ternant desired might be considered as informal: that Colo. Smith also mentioned that dissatisfaction , and that Mr. LeBrun told him he would charge Mr. Genet expressly with their representations on this...
3201V. Jefferson to Lafayette, 7 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of yesterday gave me the first information that Monsieur de Mirabeau had supposed to the honorable the assembly of the nation that I had made an offer to Mr. Necker to obtain from America a quantity of corn or flour, which had been refused. I know not how Monsieur de Mirabeau has been led into this error. I never in my life made any proposition to Mr. Necker on the subject: I never...
3202V. Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Residence Bill, 15 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill having passed the two houses of Congress, and being now before the President, declaring that the seat of the federal government shall be transferred to the Patowmac in the year 1790 [i.e. 1800], that the session of Congress next ensuing the present shall be held at Philadelphia, to which place the offices shall be transferred before the 1st. of December next, a writer in a public paper...
3203Clause for Bill on Offenses against the Law of Nations, [3 December 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Be it enacted &c. that wherever any offence against the law of Nations, for which no act of Congress hath yet presented specific punishment, shall be committed by a citizen of the U.S. the same shall be cognisable before the Circuit courts on presentment or information and indictment, shall be tried by a jury of the district where he is apprehended or to which he shall be first brought, and...
3204Cabinet Opinions on Relations with France and Great Britain, 7 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A circular letter from the Secretary of state to the Consuls and Vice Consuls of France, informing them that their Exequaturs will be revoked if they repeat certain proceedings, also one to Mr. Genet covering a copy of the letter of the Secretary of state to Mr. Gouverneur Morris desiring the recall of Mr. Genet, were read and approved. A letter from the Governr. of Georgia to the Secy. of...
3205Declaration for the Mutual Assurance Society, [1796 or later] (Jefferson Papers)
IT must particularly be mentioned in the description of each plat, to wit: The dimensions of the Buildings intended to be insured, their situation and contiguity to other buildings or wharves, what the walls are built of, mentioning what part thereof is of brick, stone, or wood, that is how many feet of wood and how many feet of stone or brick, or if of wood and covered with thick plaster or...
3206Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 6 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Aug. 6. 1793. The President calls on me at my house in the country, and introduces my letter of July 31. announcing that I should resign at the close of the next month. He again expressed his repentance at not having resigned himself, and how much it was increased by seeing that he was to be deserted by those on whose aid he had counted: that he did not know where he should look to find...
3207Report on Proceedings of Executive in Northwest Territory, 29 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state has had under examination the Records of Proceedings in the Executive department of the North-Western government from the 1st. of Aug. to the 31st. of December 1791. transmitted by the Secretary, and Reports to the President of the United States That finding nothing therein which calls for the attention or interference of the President, he has deposited them among the...
3208Memorandum to Henry Sheaff, [after 20 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The following facts are from my own enquiries in going thro’ the different wine cantons of France, examining the identical vineyards producing the first quality of wines, conversing with their owners, and other persons on the spot minutely acquainted with the vineyards, and the wines made on them, and tasting them myself. The wines of Burgundy and Champagne being made at the head of the Seine,...
3209Notes on the Constitutionality of Bounties to Encourage Manufacturing, [February 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
When we come to select the proper manufactures to be encouraged, we must attend to this, that tho labour in general is dearer here than in Europe, yet there is some species of labour which may vie with theirs, to wit 1 of women and chdn. 2 of men on rainy days, days of frost, long nights &c. 3. machines and natural events, to wit wind, water, sun &c. Encourage therefore the manufactures where...
3210Memorandum of Conversation with José de Jaudenes, 27 December [1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Don Joseph Jaudenes (at a dinner at the city tavern) told me he had received new instructions from his court to express to us the king’s dispositions to settle every thing on the most friendly footing, and to express his uneasiness at having recd. the communication of our sentiments thro’ the Chargé des affaires of France, while a direct communication was open between us, the matter having...
3211Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 1 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Bladensbg. Oct. 1. This morning at Mt. Vernon I had the following conversation with the President. He opened it by expressing his regret at the resolution in which I appeared so fixed in the letter I had written him of retiring from public affairs. He said that he should be extremely sorry that I should do it as long as he was in office, and that he could not see where he should find another...
3212Memorandum on Americans Captured at Sea during the Revolutionary War, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum of Americans taken on sea during the war and obliged to do duty on board British men of war under the act of parliament . James Caskey an Irishman taken on board the ship Oliver Cromwell, Capt. Coulter from Philada. in 1777 by the Beaver, an English sloop of war, put on board the Weldon, Capt. Landle to be carried to Cork, but taken out on the 27th. July and put on board the Exeter...
3213Memorandums to Benjamin Bankson, [15 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums for Mr. Bankson. Mr. Bankson will receive for me at the Treasury 875. Dollars. He will in the first place pay 600. Dollars of it to the bank of North America, and take up a note of mine for that sum endorsed by J. Bringhurst and due the 3d. or 4th. of October. There will then remain free money 275. Dol. also Mr. Bringhurst’s note now delivd. to Mr. Bankson for 48. 323 Out of this...
3214II. Second State of the Report on Commerce, [before 5–after 23 February 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the Report of a committee on the written message of the President of the United States of the 14th. of February 1791, with instruction to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with foreign Nations, and the measures which he should...
3215Notes for Revising the Virginia Constitution, [1794 or later] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for a Constitution The legislature to provide for having periodical returns to them of the qualified electors of every county, to wit, every man of full age, who pays taxes to government, or is of militia. Every male citizen of the commonwealth liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. The...
3216Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on a Proclamation of Neutrality and on Receiving the French Minister, [19 April 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments & the Attorney general at the President’s Apr. 19. 1793. by special summons to consider of several questions previously communicated to them in writing by the President. Qu. I. Shall a Proclamation issue &c.? (see the questions) agreed by all that a Proclamation shall issue, forbidding our citizens to take part in any hostilities on the seas with or...
3217A Bill to Promote the Progress of the Useful Arts, [1 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Be it Enacted by the Senate and Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that when any person shall have invented any new and useful art, machine, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, or composition of matter, and shall desire to have an exclusive property in the same, he shall pay into the Treasury of the United States...
3218Enclosure: Form of Receipt for Bonds, 14 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Received of Thomas Jefferson by the hands of Mr. Eppes the following bonds, towit A.B. and C.D. for £—paiable 179—. Nov— &c. which bonds I promise to collect and apply to the credit of certain bonds given by the said Thomas Jefferson for his part of the debt of the late John Wayles to Messrs. Farrell & Jones, according to written articles of agreement entered into by me as agent for the said...
3219IX. Report of Secretary of State on Lands at Kaskaskia, &c., 17 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State, having received from Arthur St. Clair, Esquire, Governor of the North-Western Territory, a Report of his Proceedings for carrying into Effect the Resolve of Congress of August 29th. 1788, respecting the Lands of the Inhabitants of Kaskaskia, La Prairie du Rochers, and Kahokia, which Report was enclosed to him in a Letter bearing Date of the 10th. Instant, and observing...
3220Memorial from George Hammond, with Jefferson’s Notes, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of representing to the Secretary of State that he has received information from various respectable quarters that a considerable quantity of arms and military accoutrements, which an agent of the French government has collected and purchased in this country, is now preparing to be...