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...
3221Memorandum to James Monroe, [after 21 December 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
I find the calculation of the As of Holland (which is the common measure applied by the Encyclopedie to all coins) will be so difficult to trace through the coins and weights of Holland and Spain, that no public assembly will ever understand them. Consequently it is better to rest the question altogether on the report of the Board of Treasury of Apr. 8. 1786. and the Consequent Final decision...
3222Enclosure II: Extracts from Jefferson’s Papers, with Comments, 17 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
‘In Senate Feb. 1. 1791. The Committee to whom was referred that part of the speech of the Pr. of the US. at the opening of the session which relates to the commerce of the Mediterranean, and also the letter from the Secy. of state dated 20th. Jan. 1791. with the papers accompanying the same, reported, Whereupon Resolved that the Senate do advise and consent that the Pr. of the US. take such...
3223Cabinet Opinion on Consulting the Supreme Court, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
July 12. 1793. At a meeting of the heads of the departments at the President’s on summons from him, and on consideration of various representations from the Ministers Plenipotentiary of France and Great Britain on the subject of vessels arming and arriving in our ports, and of prizes it is their opinion that letters be written to the said Ministers informing them that the Executive of the US.,...
3224VII. Jefferson to Necker, 8 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a copy of my letter to Monsieur de la Fayette. When I called on him yesterday he had already spoken to Monsieur de Mirabeau, who acknoleged he had been in an error in what he had advanced in the assembly of the nation as to the proposition supposed to have been made by me to your excellency, and undertook to declare his error when the subject should be resumed...
3225Enclosure: Observations on L’Enfant’s Letter, 11 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Observations on Majr. L’enfant’s letter of Dec. 7. 1791. to the President, justifying his demolition of the house of Mr. Carrol of Duddington. He says that ‘Mr. Carrol erected his house partly on a main street, and altogether on ground to which the public had a more immediate title than himself could claim.’ When blaming Mr. Carrol then he considers this as a street; but when justifying...
3226Enclosure: Letter of Protection for Friendly Indians, [13 March 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
George Washington , President of the United States of America. To all to whom these Presents shall come. Know Ye , That the Nation of Indians called the inhabiting the Town of and other Towns, Villages and Lands of the same community, are, in their persons, Towns, Villages, Lands, Hunting-grounds and other Rights and Property in the Peace and under the Protection of the United States of...
3227XI. Jefferson to Lafayette, 9 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been curious to form some estimate of the quantity of corn and flour which have been supplied to France this year, I applied to a person in the farms, to know upon what quantities the premium had been paid. He could not give me information but as to the Atlantic ports into which there has been imported from the united states from March to May inclusive 44,116 quintals of corn 12,221...
3228Notes for Replies to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, [7–9 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
29. Ship Wm. no power in this country could take out of custody of court 29. brig Fanny. July 12. Lovely Lass and Pr. W. H. Wm. Tell. desire the Lovely Lass and Pr. W. Henry to be restored. [ Notes for reply to Hammond: ] Consular jurisdiction. Brig Wm. Tell will be delivered to court or reclaimed by executive. both parties right to cruize. Fr. has secured to herself 2. rights MS
3229Notes on a Copying Process, [1796] (Jefferson Papers)
Un particulier de Hambourg dit avoir trouvé un procedé, pour prendre sur-le-champ à peu de frais, et en quelque endroit qu’on se trouve, copie de toute espece de manuscrit. Mais desirant tirer quelque profit de sa decouverte, il ne la communiquera qu’aux personnes qui voudront payer cette communication 24. francs. On peut dès à present deposer ou faire parvenir cette somme, franc de port, chez...
3230Notes on Alexander Hamilton, 11 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 11. 1792. Mr. Butler tells me that he dined last winter with Mr. Campbell from Denmark, in company with Hamilton, Laurence, Dr. Shippen, T. Shippen and one other person whom he cannot recollect, that after dinner political principles became the subject of conversation, that Hamilton declared openly that ‘there was no stability no security in any kind of government but a monarchy.’ That...
3231Notes of Cabinet Meeting on Edmond Charles Genet, 1 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Aug. 1. Met at the President’s to consider what was to be done with Mr. Genet. All his correspondence with me was read over. The following propositions were made. 1. that a full statement of Mr. Genet’s conduct be made in a letter to G. Morris, and be sent with his correspondence, to be communicated to the Exec. council of France, the letter to be so prepared as to serve for the form of...
3232George Washington to the Senate, with Jefferson’s Note to Washington, 28 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was led, by a consideration of the qualifications of Patterson of New Jersey to nominate him an associate justice of the Supreme court of the US. It has since occurred that he was a member of the Senate when the act creating that office was passed and that the time for which he was elected had not yet expired. I think it my duty therefore to declare that I deem the nomination to have been...
3233No. 17: Abstract of the Tonnage of foreign Vessels entered in the Ports of the United States from October 1st. 1789 to … (Jefferson Papers)
Abstract of the Tonnage of foreign Vessels entered in the Ports of the United States from October 1st. 1789 to September 30th. 1790. France 13,435 Holland 8,815 Sweden 311 Prussia 394 Spain 8,551 Portugal 2,924 Denmark 1,619 Germany 1,368 British Dominions 225,495 262,912
3234Articles of Agreement with William Champe Carter, 20 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Articles of agreement concluded between Wm. Champe Carter on the one part and Thomas Jefferson as Attorney for William Short on the other. The said Wm. Champe covenants to convey to the said Wm. Short a fee simple estate in a certain tract of land known by the name of the Indian camp quarter, part of a tract of land devised to him by his father, and lying between the lands of James Monroe and...
3235VIII. Jefferson’s Vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians, [14 June 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
Unquachogs. About 20. souls. They constitute the Pusspátock settlement in the town of Brookhaven S. side of Long island. The language they speak is a dialect differing a little from the Indians settled near Southampton called Shinicocks and also from those of Montock called Montocks. The three tribes can barely understand each other. quadrupeds { cow. čowsen — turkey nahiam. horse. hosses...
3236Report on Census, 24 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
SCHEDULE of the whole number of Persons within the several Districts of the United States, taken according to “An Act providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States;” passed March the 1 st , 1790. districts. Free white Males of
3237Memorandum to James Madison, [after 12 January 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the alloy of the Dollar dwt grs. dwt The Spanish dollar, till 1728, had 11–4 of pure metal to every 12 of mixed from 1728. to 1772 10–21 since 1772 10–17 The above is from the Encyclopedie grs mixed grs alloy grs mixed grs alloy The 1st. dollar gives this proportion 288 : 16 :: 416 : 23.11 &c. The 2d. 288
3238Notes on Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Foreign Loans, [after 4 January 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The most prominent suspicion excited by the Report of the S. of the T. of Jan. 3. 1793. is that the funds raised in Europe and which ought to have been applied to the paiment of our debts there, in order to stop interest, have been drawn over to this country and lodged in the bank , to extend the speculations and increase the profits of that institution. To come at the truth of this, it...
3239Enclosure: Jefferson’s Opinion of American Conduct in an Anglo-Spanish War, 12 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Heads of consideration on the conduct we are to observe in the war between Spain & Gr. Britain and particularly should the latter attempt the conquest of Louisiana & the Floridas. The dangers to us, should Great Britain possess herself of those countries. she will possess a territory equal to half ours, beyond the Missisipi she will seduce that half of ours which is on this side the Missisipi...
3240I. Jefferson’s Draft Memorandum on Consular Vacancies, 21 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A note of the vacant consulships and of the candidates. Mr. Palyert says some think him a native of Engld. some of America. He travelled in the U.S. before the war. During the war he was at Lisbon, a tory. He is now a member of the Eng. factory. Is very rich and has great connections with this country. John Telles, whose papers were laid before the President some time ago, is also a candidate....