17541Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here about a month and shall now within a day or two set out on my return to Monticello . on winding up my here I find my debts amount to 222.D. which sum I recieve from mr Robertson , and draw for the same on you in his favor. I found on my arrival here that mr Yancey had preferred employing the teams in getting in the new crop sown, rather than in carrying the old to Lynchburg :...
17542Thomas Jefferson to James Ronaldson, 11 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1 st was the first information I recieved of your return to Philadelphia . I had recieved in the spring the assortment of seeds you had been so kind as to address to me. they were very long in their passage from Norfolk to this place, insomuch that the season was far advanced before they got to hand. many have consequently failed, but several succeeded. the oats & barley...
17543To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1793 (Madison Papers)
My last was of the 25th. Since that I have received yours of the 20th. and Colo. M’s of the 21st. Nothing further has passed with mr. Genet, but one of his Consuls has committed a pretty serious deed at Boston, by going with an armed force taken from a French frigate in the harbour, and rescuing a vessel out of the hands of the marshal who had arrested her by process from a court of justice....
17544To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for the information of your letter of the 10th. It gives at length a fixed character to our prospects. The war undertaken, on both sides, to settle the questions of impressment & the Orders of Council, now that these are done away by events, is declared by Great Britain to have changed it’s object, and to have become a war of Conquest, to be waged until she conquers from us our...
17545Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Nous voila donc, mon cher ami, en guerre avec l’Angleterre . this was declared on the 18 th inst. 30. years after the signature of our peace in 1782. within these 30. years what a vast course of growth & prosperity have we had! it is now 10. years since Great Britain began a series of insults & injuries which would have been met with war in the threshold by any European power. this course has...
17546Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Plats of Poplar Forest Boundaries, 14 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
1817. Dec. 14. Observations on the lines in this plat. Beginning at a corner white oak, sometimes called a Spanish oak, well known on Callaway ’s road. S. 88. W. 85. po. fully marked to pointers, & so found by Maj r Organ Nov. 27. 1817 . N. 52. W. 125. po. full marked to a post oak fore & aft found by Maj r Organ . 23. po. more without another marked tree terminates it at Clarke
17547From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 29 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes of consultations. 1807. July 26 Norfolk. agreed that all the militia at this place, & on both sides of James river be dismissed, except 1. an artillery company to serve the spare guns at Norfolk and to be trained to their management. 2. a troop of cavalry to patrole the country in the vicinity of the squadron, as well to cut off their supplies as to give notice of any sudden danger, to...
17548From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 21 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A copy of the treaty with Gr. Britain came to mr Erskine’s hands on the last day of the session of Congress, which he immediately communicated to us; and since that mr Purviance has arrived with an original. on the subject of it you will recieve a letter from the Secretary of state of about this date, and one more in detail hereafter. I should not have written but that I percieve uncommon...
17549From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 3 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall take the liberty of confiding sometimes to a private letter such details of the small history of the court or cabinet as may be worthy of being known, and yet not proper to be publicly communicated . I doubt whether the administration is yet in a permanent form. The Count de Monmorin and Baron de Breteuil are I believe firm enough in their places. It was doubted whether they would wait...
17550From Thomas Jefferson to the Governor of Virginia, 24 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your Excellency’s two letters of Sep. 10th. and that of Octob. 14. 1785 . The former were brought me by Mr. Houdon, who is returned with the necessary moulds and measures for General Washington’s statue. I fear the expences of his journey have been considerably increased by the unlucky accident of his tools, materials, clothes, &c., not arriving at Havre in time to go...