51From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Loring, 17 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The resolutions entered into at a meeting of the Officers of the legionary brigade of the first division of Mass: Militia on the 31st. ult. which you have been pleased to forward to me, breathe that spirit of fidelity to our common country, which must ever be peculiarly the spirit of it’s militia, & which renders that the safest and last reliance of a republican nation. The perils with which...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 17 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to call at the office of Hope’s Philadelphia price-current, enter me as a subscriber and pay 3. dollars, the year’s subscription. the paper must be addressed to ‘Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, near Milton.’ affectionately yours Privately owned.
53From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 17 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Peter Freneau of South Carolina to be Commissioner of loans for South Carolina. Philip Grymes; now District attorney of Orleans to be Register of the land office of the US. for the Eastern part of the said territory. Major Abimael Y. Nicoll of the regiment of Artillerists to be Adjutant & Inspector of the army. Robert Brent of the territory of Washington to be Paymaster of the army....
54From Thomas Jefferson to War Department, 17 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas, by the resignation of Henry Dearborne, late Secretary at War, that office is become vacant. I therefore do hereby authorize John Smith, chief clerk of the office of the Department of War, to perform the duties of the said office, until a successor be appointed. Given under my hand at Washington this 17th. day of February 1809. DNA : RG 107—LRUS—Letters Received by the Secretary of...
55From Thomas Jefferson to James Tilton, 16 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor covering the resolutions and address of the citizens of Wilmington & it’s vicinity, and I beg leave through the same channel to return the inclosed answer. I have no doubt that whenever an appeal shall be made to the great body of our fellow citizens in every part of the union, their good sense & honest views will be a perfect security to us. I entirely concur with...
56From Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 16 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 11th. covering resolutions of the General assembly of Virginia on our foreign relations, and an Address to myself on my approaching retirement, & I ask leave, through the same channel to return the inclosed answer. nothing can give me more sincere satisfaction than this kind & honourable testimony from the General assembly of my native state, a state in...
57From Thomas Jefferson to John Taggert, 15 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I must trouble you again on the subject of paint & oil by asking the favor of you, to send for me to Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson at Richmond, 60 galls. linseed oil, & 100. ℔ of dry white lead, by the first vessel going to Richmond, after your river shall be open, & to note to me the amount which shall be duly remitted. I tender you my best wishes & respect. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
58From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Fitzhugh, 14 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 11th. and immediately applied at the War office, where the former application had been made, to know if the place were still vacant which Genl. Dearborne had proposed for your son. but he informed me that after keeping the place open as long as the necessary service of the office would admit, he had been obliged to fill it. this passed I believe...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In the instant of the departure of the post Genl. Dearborne calls on me to know the name of a person for whom I applied to be made a Cadet; and I have forgotten the name, & cannot find it on a review of your letters, altho’ I know it was through you that the application came. pray let me know it by return of post; and I will keep the place open a few days. Genl. Dearborne leaves us in a few...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Caleb Kirk, 13 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a sample of wool of my Merino sheep, and will thank you for your opinion of it & that of the best judges you can consult. the hatters particularly can say whether it is such as they give the high prices for. my object is to know whether it is worth my while to attend to their propagation. I salute you with friendship. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
61From Thomas Jefferson to John Neilson, 13 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
mr. Dinsmore, in his last letter to me, desired me to send you 50. Dollars; which I now inclose accordingly. I informed him a post or two ago that I had lodged 500. D. for you in the bank of Richmond, & inclosed him an order in your favor. I tender you my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
62From Thomas Jefferson to James Ronaldson, 13 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I must once more be troublesome to you on the subject of Wool. I inclose you a sample of the wool of a race of sheep which I have been propagating for 14. or 15. years as the Merinos of Spain. their history is stated on the back of the paper, and I ask the favor of you to be so good as to ascertain, by the opinion of the best judges, it’s quality & value, & particularly in comparison with that...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Smith, 13 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to pay to the order of John Barnes the amount of the half year’s dividend due & payable on Genl. Thaddeus Kosciuzko’s twenty shares of Pensylvania bank stock. CtY .
64From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 11 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Peter Gansevoort junr. of New York to be a Brigadier General in the troops raised by virtue of an act entitled ‘An act to raise for a limited time an Additional military force’ Wade Hampton of South Carolina to be a Brigadier General in the same. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
65From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 11 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Humphrey Magrath, now sailing master, Charles C. B. Thompson James P. Wilmer. Francis Mitchell Robert M. Gamble John Nevitt Jacquelin B. Harvie now midshipmen to be Lieutenants in the Navy William Winthrop, now a 2d. Lieutenant of Marines to be a 1st. Lieutenant in the Marine corps in the place of Lt. Johnson resigned. Matthew Boyle of Kentucky to be a 2d. Lieutenant in the...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Augustin Francois Silvestre, 11 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Sep. 8. and with it the 10th. volume of the Memoirs of the society of Agriculture, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. I shall always recieve their continuation with pleasure. my future address will be ‘Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, near Milton, Virginia.’ According to the desire of the Society, communicated to me in your letter I procured 10. bushels of...
67From Thomas Jefferson to John Peter Van Ness, 11 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Colo. Van-Ness & Judge Craunch, and returns the draught of the answers to the interrogatories in the form in which he can make oath to them, which he will be ready to do any forenoon that it may suit them to do him the favor of calling on him. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
68From Thomas Jefferson to John Diffenderffer, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have seen in a Baltimore paper an advertisement from you of Spring rye for sale. I did not know that this grain was to be had, in America and am anxious to get a little for seed. I inclose you a paper dollar, the only small remittance I can make in a letter and will pray you to do up a parcel in a bit of linen securely, of that value, & addressing it to me. send it by the stage, for which I...
69From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you was of the 14th. of March 07. no occasion arose for writing again in the course of that year, and at the close of it, in December 07. our embargo put an end to the departure of vessels, which has continued from that time to this, 14. months. since my last, I have recieved yours of 07. Jan. 24. June 22. Sep. 13. Oct. 20. Dec. 19. 08. Mar. 29. the present will go very...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine François Tardieu, 10 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to M. Tardieu, and his thanks for his excellent maps of the United States & the bay of Mexico. he incloses for his acceptance an actual survey of the Missisipi from it’s source to the mouth of Ohio. this was done by ascending the river with a compas, & long line, & correcting the latitudes from time to time by celestial observations. it is undoubtedly...
71Deposition re Edmond Charles Genet, 9 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The deposition of Th: Jefferson named in certain interrogatories in a cause depending in the supreme court of Judicature of the State of N.Y., wherein Edmund Charles Genet is plaintiff & Isaac Mitchell is defendant. This deponent, being first duly sworn, deposeth & saith that having carefully considered the written interrogatories abovementioned as proposed to him by the parties plaintiff &...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Falls Moore, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment recieved a letter from messrs. Williamson & Cowling of Savanna informing me that they had sent to your address two tierces of cotton seed for me by the schooner Mary Capt. Almeda which left Savanna for Baltimore on the 24th. of January. as she may be arrived, or daily expected, & this seed is procured for the Agricultural society of Paris, I am very anxious it should get to...
73From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Two tierces of cotton seed sent me from Savanna to Baltimore I have desired messrs. Falls & Brown of that place to forward by the first vessel to New York in the hope they may arrive there before the departure of the public vessel bound from thence to France. should they arrive in time I will pray you to put them on board that vessel, with a card on them addressed to ‘M. Sylvestre Secretary of...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Having paid to mr Munro the amount of the glass I purchased from the public, I wish to say a few words in explanation. I was induced to take it, because of it’s convenience on the spot, & on your mentioning that it would be sold at what it cost the public, and would be a benefit to the public in taking off their broken fragments which were too small to be applied to any use for them. the...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Beekman Livingston, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Jan. 15. with every disposition to gratify the desires of so distinguished a revolutionary character, it is out of my power at present to offer any appointment to your son which he would probably accept: there being no vacancies now open to new competitors, above the rank of ensign or 2d. Lieutenant. a bill for...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been daily expecting some of the large hiccory nuts from Roanoke which would possess you of what I believe is the same species from Gloucester, Kentucky & Roanoke. but they are not yet arrived. I must now ask the favor of you to furnish me with the articles below mentioned for the garden, which will occupy much of my attention when at home. I would wish the roots &c to be so packed up...
77From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander McRae, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the papers you were so kind as to send me with thanks for the communication of them. I have thought it right to give the information to my successor. the ascendancy which great Britain exercises over us through the sameness of language & manners, but above all by her omnipotence over our Commercial men, is most deplorable. in the existing difficulties she has proved that these...
78From Thomas Jefferson to George Sullivan, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of the 2d. desiring permission to have a machine for spinning wool, cotton & flax, invented in Paris, brought in the public vessel now about to sail from New York for France. in consideration of the public utility of introducing such a machine, the Secretary of the Treasury will give notice to the captain at New York that he is permitted to bring it. as the...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Mayer & Brantz, 7 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Jan. 18. 1808. I took the liberty of asking the favor of you to import for me certain books, which you kindly answered that you would so soon as the difficulties of intercourse would permit. but these have certainly not been relaxed. I have now a perfect opportunity (by the public vessel now going to France) to order & recieve them within 4. months, provided you have not given...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought Congress had taken their ground firmly for continuing their embargo till June, & then war. but a sudden & unaccountable revolution of opinion took place the last week, chiefly among the N. England & N. York members, & in a kind of panic they voted the 4th. of March for removing the embargo, & by such a majority as gave all reason to believe they would not agree either to war or...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no mail from Milton this week, so that any letters committed to that will not come to hand until next week. I must pray you to send me a little of the wool shorn from my old breed of sheep (Merinos) about the bulk of an apple, done up flat in a letter. I believe it is the identical kind which is now selling for 1 ¼ D. a pound. I offer you my best wishes. ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers.
82From Thomas Jefferson to John Milledge, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Govr. Milledge and at the request of the editors of the papers below mentioned he takes the liberty of inclosing him a check on the bank of the US. here for 28 D 50/100 which they express the hope Govr. Milledge will be so good as to recieve & convey to them. the objects are as follows, according to the accounts recieved from them. D The...
83From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you mr Latrobe’s account for the glass I purchased at the Capitol & President’s house. he has charged it at what it cost the public, 10. cents the square foot. but on the back I have calculated it at 12 ½ cents, for which he says I might have bought it, by the box, from the merchants. the amount at this last price is 150 7/100 D for which I inclose you a check on the bank US. will...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose, for the use of my grandson a draught of the bank of the US. here on that at Philadelphia for 56. D. having added to the usual sum 6. Dollars, which I pray him to call & pay to mr Dobson for me, for books lately recieved from him. I begin already to be much occupied in preparing for my departure to those scenes of rural retirement after which my soul is panting. I salute you...
85From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter on the subject of my plants and will now explain to you what they were, tho’ I cannot say what was in each box or pot particularly. Savory. a dead plant, it’s leaves very aromatic: a little resembling thyme my dependance is that it’s seeds are shed on the earth in the box & will come up. Arbor vitae. a small evergreen tree, in a small pot. Ice-plant. not entirely...
86From Thomas Jefferson to John Rea, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr John Rea, and incloses him an order of the bank of the US. here on that at Philadelphia for 40.50 D the amount noted to him for the coverlid forwarded to him. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
87From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 6 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Peter Sailly of New York to be Collector of the district of Champlain & Inspector of revenue for the same. Thomas Coles of Rhodeisland to be Collector for the district of Providence. Joseph Marquand of Massachusets to be Surveyor of the district of Newbury port. Nathaniel Williams of Massachusets to be Collector & Inspector of the revenue for the district of Dighton. William Otis of...
88From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Morgan, 4 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have only a bust portrait of mr Madison, that is done by Pine formerly of Philadelphia, & is but an indiffent one, and it is at Monticello. it bears no comparison, in point of merit with the one done by Stewart, in possession of mr Madison himself. I know but of that single one existing, but there may be other copies. of this I am not able to inform you. I salute you with respect. DLC :...
89From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Douglas, 4 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The approbation you are so good as to express of the measures which have been recommended & pursued during the course of my administration of the National concerns, is highly acceptable. the approving voice of our fellow citizens, for endeavors to be useful, is the greatest of all earthly rewards. No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man, than that which protects the rights...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Dec. 28. covering the tragedy of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and I am sure you are too reasonable not to have ascribed the delay of answer which has intervened to it’s true cause, the never-ceasing pressure of business which cannot be deferred. I have read the piece with great satisfaction. I recognise in Louis that purity of virtue, & sincere patriotism...
91From Thomas Jefferson to Georgia Legislature, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Senators & Representatives of Georgia, and having recieved through their hands the Address of their legislature, he begs leave, through the same channel, to return the answer, which he presumes he has, with propriety, directed to the Governor in the first instance. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson. The Address which the Legislature of Georgia, the...
92From Thomas Jefferson to William Jones, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of Jan. 24. covering the resolutions & address of the town meeting of the city & county of Philadelphia, the answer to which has been delayed by other business which would not admit delay. I beg leave, through the same channel now to convey my answer. Accept in this separate letter my thanks for the very friendly expressions of personal regard contained in your...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Armistead T. Mason, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 7. came to my hand on the 23d. only of that month; since which the pressure of business which could not be delayed, has prevented my sooner acknoleging it’s reciept. the offer of service therein made by the subscribing members of the troop of cavalry, attached to the 57th. regiment of Virginia militia, under your command, is worthy of that ardent love of our country which,...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Armistead T. Mason, 3 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter in answer to that in which you offer the services of the subscribing members of your troop of cavalry. I make this separate & private answer to the very friendly letter addressed to me in your own name only, & which accompanied the former. the relation which you bear to my most valued & worthy friend Stevens T. Mason gives you a just title to communicate your wishes to...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick VI, 1 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your Majesty’s letter of the 22d of March last, announcing the decease of your most honored father, the most serence and potent Prince Christian the 7th King of Denmark, Norway &c. &c and the consequent succession of your Majesty to the Throne of Denmark. Whilst we mingle with the grief of your Majesty the condolence which the occasion calls for, it is a consoling reflection...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
These recommenders are such good men that I think it will be best to make the nomination at once if the Senators & delegates know nothing to the contrary. will you be so good as to consult them? NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
97Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 1 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
1809. Feb.1. present all. on the execution of the act for employing an addnal naval force. agreed 1. to raise men to man the 30. gunboats to proceed to N. Orleans. 2. as many as will man 30. more to be sent to different ports to support the embargo. 3. to man the small vessels below the size of a frigate. 4. to man the Constn. by the time these are raised we shall know whether the embargo,...
98From Thomas Jefferson to Little Bear, 31 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I will now give a separate answer to the speech which you delivered to me separately. the Secretary at War has explained to you our assent to the exchange of lands which you propose with a particular individual, and this shall be put into writing. He has also explained to you the difficulties we find in getting smiths & carpenters, who are honest & capable men, to go & live among you, & that...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Indian Nations, 31 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have considered the speech you have delivered me, and I will now give you an answer to it. You have told us on former occasions of certain promises made to you at the treaty of Grenville by Genl. Wayne, respecting certain lands whereon you & your friends live. But when we looked into the treaty of Grenville, we found no such promises there; and as it is our custom to put all our agreements...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your kind letter of the 20th. certainly I shall be much pleased to recieve your aid & counsel in the management of my farms, which will become so essential. my whole life has been past in occupations which kept me from any minute attention to them, and finds me now with only very general ideas of the theory of agriculture, without actual experience: at a time of life too...