5931From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received from the Governor of this state the inclosed letter addressed to him, and have only time remaining to recommend the matter to your attention; only observing that in all these cases of patronising individual rights, the business of sollicitation is to be left to the private agent, and the aid of the minister to be given only by a general countenance and patronage and...
5932From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter on the subject of further supplies to the Colony of St. Domingo, has been duly received and considered. When the distresses of that Colony first broke forth, we thought we could not better evidence our friendship to that, and to the Mother Country also, than to step in to it’s relief, on your application, without waiting a formal authorization from the national Assembly. As the...
5933To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, [21 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inclose to the Secretary of the Treasury a copy of his letter to M. de Ternant, communicated to the President & approved by him; also a copy of the note of approbation from the French court of which he spoke to him, with the estimate of M. de la Forest which the Secretary of the Treasury might perhaps wish to keep by him. AL , letterpress copy, Thomas Jefferson...
5934From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 21 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inclose to the Secretary of the Treasury a copy of his letter to M. de Ternant, communicated to the President and approved by him; also a copy of the note of approbation from the French court of which he spoke to him, with the estimate of M. de la Forest which the Secretary of the Treasury might perhaps wish to keep by him. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 360,...
5935From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have engaged Mr. Vaughan to make an advance of a second sum of 250. dollars, an order for which on Mr. Hopkins I inclose to Colo. Gamble by this post. This makes up the sum which your note to me expressed as necessary for your present accomodation. For the residue you will have to wait not only till these sums are replaced, but till the sales beyond that shall be effected. The assortment was...
5936From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 18th . and am really concerned that the person you had mentioned to me will not undertake my business, because from your account of him I think he would have suited me, as, tho the chief of my business would be that of a farmer, yet it involves in a small degree a variety of other things. Perhaps a reasonable augmentation of price might induce him: if so...
5937From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel L. Hylton, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 10th. and am puzzled what to say on the subject. My first object is to be sure of the price. The mortgage of the Green briar lands I consider as almost nothing, so distant, probably so worthless, so difficult to be got at by the law, and so little likely to be sold for even any thing. I do not know Dr. Taylor’s circumstances: but Mr. Eppes...
5938From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter received from Mr. Randolph or yourself is of Oct. 7. which is near seven weeks ago. I ascribe this to your supposed absence from Monticello, but it makes me uneasy when I recollect the frail state of your two little ones. I hope some letter is on the way to me. I have no news for you except the marriage of your friend Lady Elizabeth Tufton, to some very rich person, but whose...
5939To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to the President mister Cooper’s pamphlet which he has perused with much satisfaction, & is thankful for the opportunity of perusing it, furnished him by the kindness of the President. AL , DLC:GW . Jefferson apparently enclosed the pamphlet that had been written recently by British native Thomas Cooper (1759–1839), who traveled to France in the spring of 1792 to lend...
5940From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Leacock, 24 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I consider as a particular kindness the information you are pleased to give me on the subject of pot and pearl ash. It is a business in which I wish to engage moderately and cautiously, and being entirely unacquainted with it myself, I wish for good information before I proceed. I understand that a cord of wood makes two bushels of ashes, and that two bushels of ashes make 10. ℔ of pot ash,...