6631From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 August 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the act of our assembly, a copy of which I now do myself the honor of inclosing you, I am, in the name of the General assembly, ‘to request you to proclaim pardon to all deserters from the Virginia line of the continental army, who shall within two months after the publication of the act’ (which took place about a week ago) ‘return to their several companies, if on land, and if...
6632Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Norris, 17 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Two persons of the name of Millar have offered themselves to me as overseers at farms which I have in Bedford , where we cultivate both wheat and tobacco. they say they are from the neighborhood of Fauquier C. H. & have been brought up there. but they are provided with no recommendations. their appearance bespeaks labor and industry, and their conversation intelligence. I have agreed with...
6633From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 7 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Having asked the favour of Mr. Peuchen, merchant at Cologne, to send me a couple of stoves which I saw there, and which I have described to him in a letter of this date, I have taken the liberty of assuring him you will pay for me his draught on you for the amount, and that you will be so good as to receive and forward them to me to the care of Mr. Limozin merchant at Havre de grace. This...
6634From Thomas Jefferson to L. F. F. Reibelt, 12 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured, Madam, with your letter of the 2d. inst. containing the very obliging request of accepting from you the elegant plates which accompanied it. considering it as an expression of the favorable sentiments you are so good as to entertain towards me, I feel all the gratitude for that expression which I could possibly feel did the laws of my situation permit me to accept the too...
6635From Thomas Jefferson to J. Phillipe Reibelt, 17 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Reibelt, and his thanks for the Communication of the Catalogues, which he now returns except 1. the Notice de la galerie des Antiques, & the Catalogues des estampes. the 1st. of these appearing to be a complete catalogue of the new acquisitions of the Museum, and the other comprehending matter new to him altogether, he begs leave to detain them a...
6636From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 3 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your desire I wrote to Chancellor Livingston on the subject of the bones. the following is an extract from his letter dated Jan. 7. ‘I have paid the earliest attention to your request relative to the bones found at Shawangun, & have this day written to a very intelligent friend in that neighborhood. I fear however that till they have finished their search there will be some...
6637Thomas Jefferson to Charles W. Goldsborough, 5 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 22. is duly recieved and calls for my acknolegements of it’s kind expressions towards myself. I assure you with truth that your disavowal of the slanders of the Pseudo- Native of Virginia was not necessary to satisfy me that you are free from that imputation. the real author is too exactly known to me from particular information, as well as from the internal evidence of his...
6638From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 13 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received from the British Minister here, a Memorial on the Case of Thomas Pagan, a British Subject, supposed to have been wrongfully condemned and imprisoned by Authority of the Courts of Massachusetts, I take the liberty of asking you to procure for me a complete Copy of the Record of Proceedings in this Case. I understand there has been something done by the Legislature and Executive,...
6639From Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Duvall, 13 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The office of Chief judge for the district of Columbia being become vacant by the resignation of mr Johnson, my desire to procure for offices of so much confidence, & permanence, persons whose talents & integrity may ensure to the public the honest benefits expected from them, and strengthen the mass of confidence which from the people at large […] so necessary for their own service, has...
6640From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 10 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The last grant of money for defraying the contingent and other expences of the Department of State having been laid out, and the account thereof and vouchers presented at the Auditor’s office for settlement and settled, I have to request the favour of your directing a warrant for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be issued for the payment of such expences as may arise in future.—I...
6641From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 7 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of the Senate of yesterday, I now transmit the five printed memorials of the Agent for the ship New Jersey, in the one of which marked B. at the 9th. page will be found the letter relative to it from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at Paris to the French minister of the treasury, supposed to be the one designated in the resolution. we have no information of...
6642From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 22 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter to Thornton is civil both in matter & manner, and entirely proper. I dare say Irvine will do very well as Surveyor at Buffalo. he seems so far to have conducted himself well as Indian agent. I do not know Oliver Phelps’s particular character, except that he has all the sagacity of a Connecticut man, and is attached to the little band . but I do not see that his recommendation need...
6643Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
the pork delivered mr Minor according to the entry in my book is was 10. hogs weighing 1067 ℔ @ 8.50 D = 90.69½ D RC ( ViU: TJP ); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL . TJ made this pork sale in December 1818 to Samuel Overton Minor , from whom he received $70 through
6644From Thomas Jefferson to the County Lieutenants of Powhatan and Certain Other Counties, 31 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
It having become essentially necessary to raise immediately a large body of Cavalry and having no means of providing Accoutrements we are obliged to attempt the recovery of All the public Arms and Accoutrements for Cavalry dispersed in private hands through the state, which if they can be secured will arm and equip a very respectable force. I am therefore to press you instantly and diligently...
6645From Thomas Jefferson to the National Institute of France, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the letter wherein you have been pleased to announce to me that the National institute of sciences and arts had elected me a foreign associate for the class of moral and political sciences: and I recieve it with that sensibility which such an expression of respect from a body of the first order of science, is calculated to inspire. Without pretensions to those qualifications...
6646Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 11 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
With the return of peace I return to my old correspondents. I am out of wine and it will be some months before I can recieve what I have written for to Europe . I must request you to fill up the chasm by sending me a quarter cask of either dry Sherry or dry Lisbon, whichever you have, most to be recommended. let it be in a double cask, and sent to Richmond o by some vessel going to that place...
6647From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 13 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I informed you in my letter of the 31st. of December of the measures I had taken relative to the reimbursement of the 51,000 gelders to Fizeaux & co. to wit, that I had asked the Willincks and Van Staphorsts to pay the interest, and written to the board of treasury for their orders as to the principal. I inclose you a letter just received from Fizeaux & Co. now Hugguer, Grand & Co. by which...
6648From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 3 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the day before. with respect to the slanders in which the two mr Hunts were implicated, I assure you on my sacred honour that I never heard one word uttered but from mr Granger and one other person, who does not reside in this part of the country, nor is any way connected with the government; and the sole object of his communicating with me was to engage me...
6649From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My journey & two days detention on the road by high waters gave me time to reflect on our Canal at New Orleans, on which I will therefore hazard some thoughts. I think it has been said that the Misipi at low water is many feet lower, opposite N.O. than lake Pontchartrain. but the fact is impossible, being in contradiction to the laws of nature. two beds of dead water connected with the same...
6650Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 21 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Aug. 30 . arrived while I was absent in Bedford , to which place I now go several times in the year & stay there from a fortnight to a month. I congratulate you on your safe arrival in the US. and should have done it with more pleasure in person had your perambulations for health led you this way. your former letter by mr Irving was immediately complied with, the business executed to...
6651From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 3 d in expectation that the note would be discounted I had already drawn on you for 300 + 200 + 100 + 50D. say 650.D. I shall stop at that and settle Bacon’s balance otherwise. our river rose 1. foot with the late rains and we got off Wood’s boats with flour; but I learnt yesterday that the water failed before they got out of the river, and that they are...
6652To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1786 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of yesterday I forgot to inclose one I have received on the subject of a debt due to mr Paradise, and I wish the present letter may reach the bearer of that in time to go by the same conveiance. The inclosed from Doctor Bancroft will explain itself. I add my solicitations to his, not to ask any thing to be done for mr Paradise inconsistent with the justice due to others, but that...
6653From Thomas Jefferson to Puckshunubbee, 13 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson President of the United States to Pukshanubby, Mingo-Humastubba, Oakchummy, Tuskamiabby and Pawh amattakor, Chiefs of the Choctaw nation. My children . I learn with great satisfaction that you have leased to us three sections of one mile square each on the road from the Chickesaws to Natchez and one on the Pearl river: and you desire me to send you a paper under my own hand to...
6654Thomas Jefferson to James Fishback, 19 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that a copy of your oration delivered in Lexington on the 4 th of July last, which came inclosed to me yesterday, may have come from yourself, I take the liberty of addressing to you my thanks for this mark of attention. I have read it with satisfaction, a single paragraph only excepted in the following words excepted. ‘ mr Jefferson , it is said, declared that when he was in Paris ,...
6655From Thomas Jefferson to Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 21 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter written to you a few days ago informed you that my draughts on my departure would be greater than I had formerly given you reason to expect. I have this day drawn one bill on you for £210. sterling in favor of Mr. Auldjo or order, and have sent to Messrs. Grand & co. a letter of credit desiring you to answer their bill for two thousand eight hundred florins banco, which demands...
6656Thomas Jefferson to James Jay, 7 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 27. came to hand on the 3 d of March . the occupations of the moment & of those which have followed must be my apology for this late acknolegement. the plan of civilising the Indians is undoubtedly a great improvement on the antient & totally ineffectual one of beginning with religious missionaries. our experience has shewn that this must be the last step of the process. the...
6657From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a petition of the widow Bennet for the liberation of her son at Boston, a Minor, or for a moiety of 3. months pay to enable her to go to another son. I think when her case was formerly before us, she was said to be a woman of ill fame, & that her son did not wish to return to her. still however the mother, if there be no father, is the natural guardian, & is legally entitled to...
6658From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
On recurring to my papers here, I find I had overlooked an order of Moran & Mattox for £16–8–9=54.70½ D paid by me to John H. Craven, and consequently that my order sent you in favor of Moran Feb. 8. was that much over the balance due from me to him. if therefore he has not drawn all his money from you, be so good as to consider this as a counterdemand of 54.70½. D part of which you had been...
6659Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Glenn, 7 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information on the subject of your letter of June 20. just now recieved but it is now 40 years since the transactions have passed after which you enquire, and during upwards of 20 of thos e years I was absent from the states state and generally my attention so occupied with other business as to prevent the mind ever recurring to the objects of...
6660From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 17 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote last to you, which was on the 24th. of March, I have received yours of March 22. I am indeed sorry to hear of the situation of Walker Gilmer and shall hope the letters from Monticello will continue to inform me how he does. I know how much his parents will suffer, and how much he merited all their affection.—Mrs. Trist has been so kind as to have your calash made, but either by...