51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 11th. and 14th. of Sep. since which I have received yours of July 5. 8. Aug. 1. 15. 27. 28. The fever which at that time had given alarm in Philadelphia, became afterwards far more destructive than had been apprehended, and continued much longer, from the uncommon drought and warmth of the autumn. On the 1st. day of this month the President and heads of the...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well, and nothing new in our neighborhood. I have not heard from Edgehill this week. My threshing machine will only get to work this afternoon. Mr. W. Hylton senr. who called here on his way to the springs, tells me he has information in a letter from Sr. George Strickland that 2. steers will get out 120. bushels of wheat a day with it. This is encoraging. You will be astonished to...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well here, except that the children have little colds, which however are going off. As you will be out of the post-road, I shall not write again, which I mention, that my silence may give no uneasiness. We have now fine weather for work. As your clover seed did not sprout, I have advised the leaving it unsowed till you come. I shall not sow mine till the last week in March. I had...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 28 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recieved your two favors of the 22d. with the information, always welcome to me, of the health of our family. Mr. Derieux’s letters will go by a vessel which sails on Saturday next, consequently before his power of Attorney arrives, nor can I leave any directions to forward it, as the letter inclosing it cannot be described to the chief clerk of the office so as to authorize...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker, Jr., 2 April 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by the bearer three mares to be put to your Jack. I shall still be able to muster up four or five more but a view of the scarcity of money makes me fearful to enter into a money contract, which this number of mares would render considerable. If you can take wheat or flour of the growing crop delivered at Milton, I shall have no fear of engaging that, because I can be sure of it: and...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 13 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you the day before yesterday by Mr. Paradise. I write now by post . The case described in that letter page 3. line 4. to 11. has happened. Mr. Necker was dismissed from office the evening of the 11th. and set out for Geneva. This was not generally known in Paris till yesterday afternoon. The mobs immediately shut up all the playhouses. The foreign troops were advanced into the city....
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 10 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Proposing to leave this for Virginia on Thursday or Friday at farthest I have this morning been settling all my money affairs, and find I cannot square them unless it would be convenient for you, instead of recieving the rent now due in cash, to let me take on myself so much of our joint note for 684. Dollars due at the bank about this day month. With this facility for my rent, I can pay off...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 21 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your’s of yesterday’s date relative to the French sailors in the jail of Philadelphia. The object of the original enquiry I took the liberty of making on that subject, was to know whether they were in the custody of the Executive or the Judiciary authority of the country: and being informed that it is in that of the Judiciary, the Federal Executive does not think itself...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Greenleaf, 19 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of making a collection of the best gazettes which have been published at the seats of the present general government I take the liberty of troubling you to make up for me a collection of your’s of the years 1789. and 1790. either unbound or half-bound. The stages will furnish the best method of conveying them to me, the price of which conveyance shall be paid here, and that of...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The ship New Pigou still remaining in port, gives me an opportunity of acknoleging the receipt of your letter of Sep. 8. and of answering on the subject of Mr. Sayre, that after enquiring at the treasury, and of others likely to be informed, I cannot find any person who has the least knowlege of any demand of his against the U.S. I saw him in Paris some years ago, when he never mentioned any...
61From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to you have been of Nov. 2. 17. 24. Dec. 8. all of which I hope you have received. Yours come to hand have been of the 31st. of Oct. 7th. 14th. and 30th. of Nov. and 11 th. of December .—When I wrote the last Sunday , I hoped my furniture, books &c would have been embarked and sent off the next day. But the vessel loitered till the river has frozen up, and will now prevent their...
62From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 27 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My tobacco arrived here yesterday by the Linnet Capt. Weymouth, whom I will direct to deliver it to you. There are 30. hhds, supposed to weigh about 40,000 ℔. but the weights not having been forwarded, it may perhaps be necessary for you to weigh it here. Instead of sending the money on to Richmond, the Gentleman for whom it was destined writes me word he will be here between the 8th. and...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Mar. 27. and Martha’s of Mar. 28. came to hand on the 14th. with one of Apr. 2. to Maria. I am sorry to hear my sugar maples have failed. I shall be able however to get here any number I may desire, as two nurserymen have promised to make provision for me. It is too hopeful an object to be abandoned. Your account of Clarkson’s conduct gives me great pleasure. My first wish is that...
64From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last favor was of May 25. Mine was of June 20. having written regularly every third week to you, and the intermediate ones to Patsy or Polly. The bill for the removal of the federal government to Philadelphia for 10. years and then to Georgetown has at length past both houses, so that our removal is now certain: and I think it tolerably certain that the President will leave this place on...
65To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, with Jefferson’s Note, 29 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge your private favor of the 12th. of December covering a bill for 13 st. which is duly honor’d. I wish the threshing machine may answer the purpose, I have no doubt that on a proper stream of water the effect of it would be astonishingly great and the principle being accurately described in the model may be applied to smaller machines for farmers whose strength of Cattle...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 25 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day drawn an order on you in favor of Mr. Brown for £15–18–9. I have also desired Mr. Lewis if he should receive a debt of £10-14-5 from Lewis’s and Meriwether’s estates for which he is executor, to call on you for £1-12 to make up a sum of £12-6-4½ due to Henry Guy, and if Guy should come in before Mr. Lewis receives the £10-14-5 then to call on you for the whole £12-6-4½ and...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 24 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs leave to trouble Mr. Pinckney with the following commissions. Faden, map maker in London is engraving a map of S. America from one which Th:J. furnished him. He is to return the original and half a dozen copies. Colo. Smith employed him. Will Mr. Pinckney be so good as to jog him from time to time? Will he also be so good as to procure a model of those parts of the threshing...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
This being my week of writing to Maria, I should not have troubled you but to inclose the copy of a letter I write this day to Colo. Randolph. You see that I have taken great liberties in hazarding ideas on which you ought to have been previously consulted: however I do it in such a way as to leave them open for your correction, and when we meet at Monticello, the arrangements may be finally...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Biby’s boats are arrived and have not brought my 4d. nail machine nor hoop iron. Gamble & Temple write me it was in the hands of a Mr. Ball, and sent somewhere up, perhaps to Westham. Will you be so good as to have it sought for, or it may lie months in some out of the way place, or perhaps never be found. It had better come up in some waggon to Colo. Bell, if it can be handily got aboard one,...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 22 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 13. and 26th. of June, since which I have received yours of Apr. 27. May 2. 11. and 15. The object of the present being merely to cover a bill of five thousand dollars, say one thousand and seventy seven pounds, eleven shillings and nine pence sterling drawn by Mr. Wilcocks on Edward Mc.Culloch & Co. of London at 60. days sight, for the use of our diplomatic...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 March [1796] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20th. is received. It is not in my power to forward the land warrants for my certificates, as Clarke did not return them to me. I question if the surveyor returned them to him. I shall write to him by the next post, but you will be here before he can answer. He writes me that he put 300. ℔ tobacco of mine into a hhd. of yours. This may enter into our general account if you...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. has been duly recieved. I send you by the present post a pamphlet on agricultural subjects published by a society in N. York. Mr. Brown wrote me some time ago that my barrel of hams was at Richmond as also the box of books. Should they be still there, I would rather the former should be returned to Monticello for your use, because I have got thro the article of giving...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 11 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I have addressed to Admiral Jones, of which you have had the perusal, has informed you of the mission with which the President has thought proper to charge him at Algiers, and how far your agency is desired for conveying to him the several papers, for receiving and paying his draughts to the amount therein permitted, by redrawing yourself on our bankers in Amsterdam who are...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 July 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
It is possible that in the course of the voyages you are about to undertake for your health, you may sometimes be disappointed in the remittances provided to be made to you or your expences may exceed them. If therefore in any such event you should find it necessary to apply to other resources for money, and the addition of my name to your own would facilitate your obtaining it, I pray you to...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 17 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by post on the 13th. That day all the rest of the ministry was dismissed except Villedeuil and Barentin. The new ministers were Breteuil, Broglio, Vauguyon, de la Porte, de la Galaisiere, and Foulon. The people of Paris forced the prisons of St. Lazare, where they got some arms. On the 14th. they took the Invalids, and Bastille, and beheaded the Governor and Lt. Governor of the...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 25. came to hand on the 5th. inst. I wrote to my daughter on the 3d. informing her that I should set out on the 14th. and be at Mr. Madison’s on the 21st. and wishing that a pair of plough or waggon horses could come for me on that day to John Jones’s, 17 miles from Monticello and about 12. miles from Mr. Madison’s, and there wait till I arrive at Jones’s. The President sets...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 16 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of yesterday and cannot but think you will retire from the proposition of my finishing the house in the garden when you recollect what has past between us, and recur to the lease wherein all our stipulations were ultimately settled.—Our first agreement was £150. for the house and you to make such additions as should be agreed on, adding 6. per Cent on their cost to...
78From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 4th. inst. and will immediately have Mr. Peyton’s name placed among the candidates for the superintendancy of the magazines at Columbia. It will be not amiss to observe however that if there be a keeper at present and he chuses to remain, he would not be deprived without evident ill conduct. As I observe that through the negligence of the posts my letters...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have intended this fortnight to make out a list of the packages of furniture I have sent to Richmond, with the contents of each, that if there was any thing which would be convenient to yourself or Martha, you might have it brought up immediately; but an eternal hurry of business prevents me from thinking of that or any thing else of a private nature but just in the moment of setting down to...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
When you shall have perused the inclosed, be so good as to stick a wafer in it and deliver it. It will explain it’s own object, on which therefore I need add nothing. You are certainly right in deciding to relinquish the purchase if Colo. Randolph desires it. But I rather suppose he means nothing more than that he will not abide by the agreement if all the articles are insisted on. He mentions...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Chittenden, 12 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of inclosing to you on the 9th. instant copies of some papers I had received from the British minister here, and I have now that of forwarding some received from him this day. I must renew my entreaties to your Excellency that no innovation in the state of things may be attempted for the present. It is but lately that an opportunity has been afforded of pressing on the court of...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 10 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Capt. Stratton arrived last night with the 4. hhds. of tobo. for which I gave you the bill of lading some time ago. He will call on you to-day. I should like that it were examined, because I believe, from the marks, that it is of the Bedford tobo.—I mentioned to you sometime ago that I believed I should have occasion for about 400. Dollars of this money, to be obtained by discount at the bank....
83From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 13 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of the 23d. of July. yours of the 13th. of the same month. I am now within a week or ten days of my departure, tho’ not decided whether by Havre or Lorient. The latter port is inconvenient, but there is a vessel there which suits me. The former port much more eligible, but no certainty yet of a vessel there. But if none before the 23d. I set out for Lorient. They have...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 6th. We the next day strewed some clover seed on moistened cotton. This is the 6th. day, and the plate has been set on the hearth every night. They have not sprouted; but I think they are swelled. By the next post we may probably decide whether they will sprout or not. The weather continues cold, snowy, and unfriendly to the labors of the field....
85From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Harwood, 22 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the public buildings at George town inform the President that they are in want of a sum of money for the objects of their appointment, and that they suppose you will accept his draught for the first instalment of the money granted by the state of Maryland. The President being unwilling to make any draught but on a certainty of it’s acceptance, I am to ask the favor of...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by post . The weather having broke away we are trying to get the waggon off before the river becomes impassable. I put on board her a box for Mr. Wythe containing my whole and precious collection of the printed laws of Virginia, to be bound as noted to Mr. Wythe who has occasion to keep them some time for his use. I have taken the liberty of saying you would answer the charges of...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., [after 27 September 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
There being a possibility that the books or papers which Colo. Lewis gave in to me might be called for in some settlement, I meant to ask you to take the trouble of noting where they are, and of delivering them out either to Colo. Lewis or his son should they be wanting. The papers occupy three of the four pigeon holes at the right hand bottom corner of my press. The labels on the three...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mifflin, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknolege the receipt of your favor of yesterday covering the letter of Mr. Serjeant in the case of ejectment Barclay v. Proctor, and have inclosed the letter to Mr. Pinckney with a recommendation to lend his aid to the sollicitations of the parties interested, whenever it shall be necessary for obtaining what is right. I have the honor to be with sentiments of the most...
89From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of yours of May 16. with the information always pleasing of your being all well.—In addition to the news which you will see in the papers, we now have the certainty of Dumourier’s operation. He had proposed an armistice to the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, which was agreed to on condition of his withdrawing his troops from the Netherlands. He did so. It was then...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 6 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers will inform you of some checks the French have lately received. They are confounded and multiplied in the papers. The truth is that a combined operation in three different parts took place the first days of March, under Clairfayt, Saxe-Cobourg and Brunswick, every one of which succeeded. The first killed and wounded 1400, and took 600. The second killed and wounded 4000....
91From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 February 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
All are well here and at Edgehill. The most remarkeable fact in our neighborhood is the marriage of Capt. Allcock to Mrs. Walker, widow of Dr. Walker. I have no information of the last week’s work at Edgehill. Mine was never more backward. Petit is entirely ruined by Milton. He is 40. or 50. acres behind Page in his ploughing. He is not more than half done the wheat fallowing; tho’ we have had...
92From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Bell, 14 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here is of such a nature as to oblige me for long intervals to put aside all my private matters, and only to take them up at times when I have a little glimmering of leisure. Hence an almost total abandonment of my pecuniary interests, in cases often of real magnitude: and hence the long delay of answering your favor of Jan. 30. received two months ago. Tho’ I cannot view Mary’s...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 August 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by the last post your favor from Doctr. Le Mayeur’s. Your horse also came safe, and the one you desired will be delivered to the post tomorrow morning: but in very bad plight, having been surfieted treading wheat. Zachary sends a saddle and mail [pelon], but says there is neither bridle nor straps.—We are all well. Maria comes down stairs to-day for the first time. The children in...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker, Jr., 26 December 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not take a memorandum in writing of the terms on which our mares went to the Jack, relying chiefly on Mr. Randolph’s memory who happens to be now absent. If I recollect them rightly, it was 2 guineas a mare with the usual deduction of 1. in 5. or one fifth, for those who sent over that number. If so my account stands thus. 7. mares @ [2 guineas?] £19–12 deduct one fifth 3–18– 5 remains...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Smith, 27 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 5th. of May 1789. Mr. Holker recieved from you new loan-office certificates to the amount of 43,646 dollars specie value for 405,100 dollars paper value which had been burnt in his house. These certificates are issued in his name; but the property of them is in himself jointly with Messrs. Le Coulteulx & co. and Ferdinand Grand. The latter has desired me to enquire whether Mr. Holker...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 11th. which is quicker than has been usual. I see by an advertisement in the Virginia papers that the post to Charlottesville and Staunton is now established, so that on your return to Monticello I am in hopes you will find a more certain and quick conveyance than we have hitherto had for our letters. I will thank you for information of the days...
97From 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...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willing, 16 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President of the bank of the US. Being now to make up his annual account of the expenditure of the fund of 40,000 Đ for the legislature, he begs the favor of the President to have him furnished with a copy of the account of the Secretary of state on the bank books, down to the present day, to serve so far as a Voucher. RC (Facsimile in...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the reciept of your favour of Apr. 7. which came to hand on the 20th. I hope my letters on the subject of my tobacco have got to hand in time to prevent any contract there interfering with the sale I made here. I learn that 4. hhds. more are coming on. Being entitled to the highest price given before payment, I believe I shall be sure of 5⅓ dollars which will neat me 29/3...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 24 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have determined to agree to give you 250£. for your house and tenement in my possession as proposed in your letter of the 16th. on condition that you lease it to me for seven years with a right in me to relinquish it at any time after the expiration of the first year on giving you three months previous notice: the new lease to begin as to the bookroom and stable when they are delivered to...