601Subscription for Extending the Navigation of the Rivanna, [before 8 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas by an act of the General assembly passed in the year 1764. intitled ‘an act for clearing the great falls of James river, the river Chickahominy and the North branch of James river’ Thomas Walker, Edward Carter, Charles Lewis, Nicholas Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Fry, Nicholas Meriwether, John Walker, John Harvey, Valentine Wood and James Adams were constituted trustees for clearing...
602From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, 9 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted in my Memorandums to mention 2. boxes of books marked T.I. No. 1. and No. 2. which are packed, and a box containing a Spinet which the carpenters have to put a top to, which when done I have taken the liberty to direct shall be carried to your house, and perhaps when there you had better order the same person to go on with [them] to Charlottesville, from whence they may be better...
603From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you some wheat which the President assures me from many years experience to be the very best kind he has ever seen. He spread it through the E[aster]n shore of Maryland several years ago, and it has ever be[en c]onsidered as the very best of the white wheat of that state so much celebrated. It is said to weigh 62. 63. 64. lb to the bushel. The grain, tho’ small, is always plump. The...
604From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 23 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from George town inclosing some seed of the best white wheat. Our journey here was without accident, except that of retardation by the rains. Our delay happened however at the Susquehanna, where the abundance of Sheldrakes was some solace. My newly purchased horse ( Brimmer ) performed well; I drove him a good deal in the carriage. I do not think he lost a pound of flesh on the...
605No. 4: Abstract of articles imported into the United States from British colonies for one year, commencing the 15th. … (Jefferson Papers)
Abstract of articles imported into the United States from British colonies for one year, commencing the 15th. August 1789 and ending on the 14th. of August 1790, as far as the accounts have been rendered. 6,343 barrels of pickled Fish. Cwt. 3,701. 2.20 ℔ s. of dried Fish. Note. Oil and Lumber imported, paying a Duty ad valorem, the quantity of each can only be ascertained by the several...
606To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, [24 November 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury, and incloses him a note from mr Droz, the coiner, which he forgot to deliver to him to-day when he had the honour of waiting on him. It came to hand yesterday. ALS , letterpress copy, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. For Jean Pierre Droz, see H to Jefferson, April 22, 1790 .
607From Thomas Jefferson to John Churchman, [24 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Churchman and his thanks for the pamphlet and chart he has been so good as to send him. He incloses him a letter to Mr. Leroy, who will recieve and distribute such of these pamphlets and charts as Mr. Churchman may send to him. It will be proper to take care that no expence fall on him for either postage or transportation. RC ( PPAP ); addressed:...
608From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 24 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury, and incloses him a note from Mr. Droz, the coiner, which he forgot to deliver to him to-day when he had the honour of waiting on him. It came to hand yesterday. PrC ( DLC ); not recorded in SJL . The enclosed note from Droz was in that from Grand to TJ, 28 Aug. 1790.
609From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Knox, 24 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Genl. Knox and incloses him a copy of a memoire sent him by Blanc the gunsmith who made the 6. fusils sent to Genl. Knox. It will explain to him more fully the extent of Blanc’s improvements. He incloses him also some certificates in favor of a Mr. Hastings Marks junr. of Virginia who would be glad of some commission in the federal troops to...
610From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 25 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 1. came to my hands a few days ago and gave me the first account of your safe arrival in England, on which, as well as your pleasant voyage accept my friendly congratulations. The incertainty of the footing on which the supplying the French market with tobacco will be put, induces me to believe that the surest mode of rendering you that service which I ever wish to render...
611From Thomas Jefferson to Paul R. Randall, 25 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
My departure from New York having obliged me to leave unanswered several of the letters addressed to me, and of course those which were last received, your favor of Aug. 26. which was of that number, remains to be answered on my return here. This I take the liberty of doing by inclosing you the extract of a letter I wrote to one of the first applicants for the office of chief clerk, and which...
612From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 25 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Donald having it in contemplation to make overtures for the purchase of tobacco for French consumption, and the public papers rendering it uncertain whether that business will be left in the hands of the farmers general, or committed to a new board, or perhaps left altogether free, insomuch that we know not here to whom application must be made, I cannot do better than recommend him as my...
613From Thomas Jefferson to Mercy Warren, 25 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place I receive the honour of your letter of Sep. 23. together with the volume which accompanied it; for which be pleased to accept my grateful thanks. A multiplicity of business has as yet permitted me to dip but a little into it; but yet sufficiently to foresee that it will soothe some of my moments of rest from drudgery, and will add another illustrious name to the roll...
614To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1790 (Adams Papers)
From a letter received from the President mr̃ Lear is satisfied he cannot be here to-day and doubts even the possibility of his arrival tomorrow. of course our expedition of to-day would be certainly fruitless, and is therefore laid aside agreeably to a message I have received from Gen l. Knox & the attorney Gen l. Your’s affectionately & respectfully RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “The...
615From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
From a letter received from the President Mr. Lear is satisfied he cannot be here to-day and doubts even the possibility of his arrival tomorrow. Of course our expedition of to-day would be certainly fruitless, and is therefore laid aside agreeably to a message I have received from Genl. Knox and the attorney General. Your’s affectionately & respectfully, RC ( MHi : AM ); addressed: “The...
616From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of the following dates have been duly received. At sea. Lat. 7° 40’ long. 13°. Mar. 5. 1790. At sea. Lat. 7 20. long. 10–55. Mar. 30. St. Marc. July 6. do. Aug. 4. do. Aug. 9. Havre Sep. 25.
617From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Kinloch, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 26. 1789. did not come to my hands till the 4th. of the last month when it found me on my way to Virginia. It should not otherwise have been so long unanswered. I am certainly flattered by the approbation you are so good as to express of the Notes on Virginia. The passage relative to the English, which has excited disagreeable sensations in your mind is accounted for by...
618From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to acknowledge the receipt of your two favors of Apr. 10. and July 7. By the latter it would seem as if you had written an intermediate one which has never come to hand: and the letter of July 7. itself was not recieved till the 14th. of October, while I was in Virginia from which I am but just returned. The President is not yet returned, tho’ expected tomorrow.—The Declaration and...
619From Thomas Jefferson to William Temple Franklin, 27 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of Oct. 13. The President is not yet arrived. Your general desire being known, I will take care that your special preferences shall also be known should circumstances give place to it. Your grandfather sent me only one sheet of Mitchell’s map, and it makes part of the testimony he was desired to give on the subject of the disputed river of St. Croix, being referred to...
620From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 27 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel myself much indebted to Mr. Vaughan your father for the opportunity he has furnished me of a direct correspondence with you, and also to yourself for the seeds of the Mountain rice you have been so good as to send me. I had before received from your brother in London some of the same parcel brought by Capt. Bligh; but it was so late in the spring of the present year that tho the plants...
621To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Note of letters recieved. Mr Short. July 16. a private letter in which he says it is true that the Queen of Portugal has appointed mr Freire her Minister resident for the U.S. Ignatius Palyart. Philadelphia. Oct. 5. announcing his commission as Consul general for the Queen of Portugal in the U.S. Dumas. Hague. May 26.—July 10.—July 26. nothing new. Nathaniel Gilman. Exeter Sep. 10. } accepting...
622Jefferson’s Memoranda for Washington, [29 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Note of letters recieved. Mr. Short. July 16. A private letter in which he says it is true that the Queen of Portugal has appointed Mr. Freire her Minister resident for the U.S. Ignatius Polyart. Phila. Oct. 5. Announcing his commission as Consul general for the Queen of Portugal in the U.S. Dumas. Hague. May 26.—July 10.—July 14. Nothing new. Nathaniel Gilman. Exeter Sep. 10. } accepting...
623Memorandum to George Washington, [29 November 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
A note of subjects, some of which the President may think proper to be mentioned to Congress. The extreme want of a coin: and necessity of pursuing the establishment of a Coinage, and of uniformity in measures, weights and coins. PrC ( DLC : TJ Papers, 59: 10131); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; brackets in original. Recorded in SJPL under 29 Nov. 1790: “Subjects of speech to Congress.” In his...
624From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 30 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns Mr. Cox many thanks for the several communications he has favored him with and which will be of great utility to him. Can he procure him the loan of one of the latest editions of Ld. Sheffeild’s book? As also Edward’s answer to it. RC ( CtY ); addressed “Mr. Coxe Treasury office Chesnut street”; endorsed. Not recorded in SJL . Sheffield’s Observations on the commerce of...
625From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas MacDonogh, 1 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry that the short recess of the Executive happened at the time you were pleased to attend here with your Commission as Consul. I received your favour of November 8th. on the 23rd. of that month, together with your original Commission, which I exhibited to the President immediately on his return, and have now the honor to re-enclose it to you, together with the Exequatur, adding...
626From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of last week to Mr. Randolph I mentioned that I should write every Wednesday to him, yourself and Polly alternately, and that my letters arriving at Monticello the Saturday and the answer being sent off on Sunday I should recieve it the day before I should have to write again to the same person, so as that the correspondence with each would be exactly kept up. I hope you will do...
627From Thomas Jefferson to John Woodard, 1 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Nov. 24. and am sorry that I am not able to serve your wishes: but there neither is, nor has been a single vacancy in the clerkships in my office since I came to it. I found them all filled, and continued the same gentlemen as was just, so that I have not had a single appointment to make. I am Sir Your very humble servt., PrC ( DLC ). Woodard’s letter, dated...
628From Thomas Jefferson to James Anderson, 2 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of April 29. with which you were pleased to honour me, did not come to my hands till the 25th. of October. The plan of the publication it proposes, appears to me judicious, and that such a depository well filled will be very useful. I sincerely wish it all the success which it’s great merit deserves. I am far from presuming that I could in any situation contribute towards it any...
629From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Bréhan, 3 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of May 11. with which you were so good as to honour me, did not come to hand till the 14th. of October when I was on a visit to Virginia, from whence I returned to this place a few days ago only. Accept my sincere regrets at the perverse arrangements of fortune which seems to have made a point of disappointing all my wishes to be near you, and every occasion even of seeing you. She...
630From Thomas Jefferson to Moustier, 3 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I have suffered in your opinion from the delay of acknowleging the receipt of your several letters into which I have been led by unavoidable circumstances. The truth is that since my arrival in America (now exactly a twelvemonth) I have been able to pass not one third of that time at the seat of government, one half of which was lost by an illness during which I was incapable of...
631Jefferson’s Draft of Items for the President’s Message to Congress, [3 December 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
The laws you have already passed for the establishment of a judiciary system have opened the doors of justice to all descriptions of persons. You will consider in your wisdom whether improvements in that system may yet be made; and particularly whether an uniform process of execution, on sentences issuing from the federal courts, be not desireable thro’ all the states. The patronage of our...
632Jefferson’s Opinion on Proposal for Manufacture of Woolen Textiles in Virginia, [3 December 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
The house of delegates of Virginia seem disposed to adventure 2500.£ for the encouragement of this undertaking: but the Senate did not concur. By their returning to the subject however at a subsequent session, and wishing more specific propositions, it is probable they might be induced to concur if they saw a certain provision that their money would not be paid for nothing. Some unsuccessful...
633From Thomas Jefferson to Noah Webster, Jr., 4 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 4. [i.e. 14] came to my hands on the 20th. of November. Application was made a day or two after to Mr. Dobson for the copies of your essays, which were recieved, and one of them lodged in the office. For that intended for myself be pleased to accept my thanks. I return you the order on Mr. Allen, that on Dobson having been made use of instead of it. I submit to your...
634From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 7 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
This week I write to you, and if you answer my letter as soon as you recieve it, and send it to Colo. Bell at Charlottesville I shall recieve it the day before I write to you again, which will be three weeks hence: and this I shall expect you to do always so that by the correspondence of Mr. Randolph, your sister and yourself I may hear from home once a week. Mr. Randolph’s letter from...
635To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honour to return you the letter from the President of the Assembly of representatives for the community of Paris to the President and members of Congress, which you had recieved from the President of the Senate with the opinion of that house that it should be opened by you, and their request that you would communicate to Congress such parts of it as in your opinion might be...
636I. The Secretary of State to the President, 9 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honour to return you the letter from the President of the Assembly of representatives for the community of Paris to the President and members of Congress, which you had recieved from the President of the Senate with the opinion of that house that it should be opened by you, and their request that you would communicate to Congress such parts of it as in your opinion might be...
637From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Nourse, 11 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your letter of November 10th. I have now the honor to enclose you an estimate of the expenses of the Department of State for one year from the 1st. day of January 1791, as nearly as I can foresee them. I am with great respect &c. FC ( DNA : RG 59, PCC No. 120). Enclosure (same): “Estimate of the expences of the Department of State for one year from the 1st. day of January...
638From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Stockton, 12 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your attention in procuring a set of the laws of New Jersey. Your letter of yesterday, not being handed to me till this morning, and no body being in the Treasury offices on Sunday, I cannot procure you the necessary order for the money till tomorrow. It shall be done as early in the day as the attendance of the officers of the treasury and their forms will admit. As soon...
639To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under his consideration the journal of the proceedings of the Executive in the Northwestern territory, thinks it his duty to extract therefrom, for the notice of the President of the U.S. the articles of Apr. 25. June 6. 28. & 29. some of which are hereto annexed. Concieving that the regulations, purported in these articles, are beyond the competence of the...
640II. Report of Secretary of State on Lands at Vincennes, 14 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under his consideration the Report, made by the Secretary of the government North West of the Ohio, of his proceedings for carrying into effect the resolution of Congress of Aug. 29. 1788. respecting the lands of the inhabitants of Post Vincennes, makes the following Report thereon to the President of the United States. The Resolution of Congress of Aug. 29....
641III. Report of Secretary of State on Executive Proceedings in Northwest Territory, 14 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under his consideration the journal of the proceedings of the Executive in the North-Western territory, thinks it his duty to extract therefrom, for the notice of the President of the U.S. the articles of Apr. 25. June 6. 28. and 29. copies of which are hereto annexed. Concieving that the regulations, purported in these articles, are beyond the competence of...
642IV. 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....
643To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under consideration the two letters of Oct. 13. 1789. from the President of the U.S. to mr Gouverneur Morris, & those from mr Morris to the President of Jan. 22. Jan. 22. Apr. 7. 13. May. 1. 29. July 3. Aug. 16. & Sep. 18. referred to him by the President, makes the following Report thereon. The President’s letters of Jan. 22. authorized mr Morris to enter...
644From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract from a letter of the house of Van Staphorsts . ’So far from Mr. Dohrman having made us any remittance for our friend Mr. Mazzei, that gentleman is greatly in our debt, and we fear will not be able to stand the return of a large amount of bills he drew on Europe on speculations of corn, but which did not arrive. What funds he had in the hands of his London correspondents are attached by...
645II. Report of the Secretary of State, 15 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under consideration the two letters of Oct. 13. 1789. from the President of the U. S. to Mr. Gouverneur Morris, and those from Mr. Morris to the President of Jan. 22. Jan. 22. Apr. 7. 13. May. 1. 29. July 3. Aug. 16. and Sep. 18. referred to him by the President, makes the following Report thereon. The President’s letters of Jan. 22. authorized Mr. Morris to...
646From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 16 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just desired Capt. Maxwell at Norfolk to forward to you 6. packages of furniture arrived there for me, the numbers and contents as below stated. I must beg the favor of you to receive them and pay the river freight &ca., from Norfolk for which I have desired Capt. Maxwell to draw on you. They are to be forwarded to Monticello; when a good opportunity offers. If my own waggons run at...
647From Thomas Jefferson to James Maxwell, 16 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having desired that some part of my furniture should come from Paris immediately to Virginia I took the liberty of desiring Mr. Short to consign it to you. I now learn by a letter from Monsr. La Motte merchant at Havre that he has shipped them on board the John Capt. Bushnell bound for Norfolk, where I suppose them arrived, as his letter purports to come by the same vessel. There should be six...
648From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of Nov. 11. I have yesterday received a letter from Mr. Mazzei authorizing the immediate sale of Colle, and shall therefore write to Mr. Lewis on the subject. I sincerely wish you may be able to get some of Mr. Carter’s land adjoining. But I should think it worth your while to go further than 300 acres, and that by a negociation with Dobson you...
649III. The Secretary of State to Gouverneur Morris, 17 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine to you of August 12th. yours of July 3d. August 16th. and September 18th. are come to hand. They suffice to remove all doubts which might have been entertained as to the real intentions of the British cabinet on the several matters confided to you. The view of Government, in troubling you with this business, was either to remove from between the two Nations all causes of difference,...
650II. Secretary of State to John Browne Cutting, 17 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 11th. came to hand August 28th. Those of July 16. August 7. 11. October 4. and 6. at subsequent periods.—They should not have thus long have remained unacknowledged but for the idea, which has been constantly kept up, that you were on the verge of your departure for this country. Even so late as the date of your last, Mr. Barrett says in a letter to me that “Mr. Cutting will...