3151From Thomas Jefferson to George Taylor, Jr., 16 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Taylor. Thinking it possible that the members of Congress, retaining the horrors of the yellow fever which prevail at a distance, may remove to Lancaster, and on so short notice as to prevent Th:J. from settling his affairs in Philadelphia, to which place he should not return again, Lancaster being so far on his way home, he thinks it best to do...
3152From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [16 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose for his information the following letters written in consequence of the two last consultations preceding his departure. There being quadruplicates of most of them, the trouble of looking over them will be proportionably diminished to the President. Nov. 8. four letters to the foreign ministers on the extent of our...
3153From Thomas Jefferson to Eli Whitney, 16 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Octob. 15. inclosing a drawing of your cotton gin, was received on the 6th. inst. The only requisite of the law now uncomplied with is the forwarding a model, which being received your patent may be made out and delivered to your order immediately. As the state of Virginia, of which I am, carries on houshold manufactures of cotton to a great extent, as I also do myself, and one...
3154From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
No letter yet from my dear Maria, who is so fond of writing, so punctual in her correspondencies! I enjoin as a penalty that the next be written in French.—Now for news. The fever is entirely vanished from Philadelphia. Not a single person has taken infection since the great rains about the 1st. of the month, and those who had it before are either dead or recovered. All the inhabitants who had...
3155From Thomas Jefferson to Herman LeRoy, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 13th. and learn from it a very different state of things from what either my son in law or my self were apprised of. However, tho’ the debt be much greater than I had understood, the coupling of Dover in the mortgage is a more than proportionate increase of the security. All I have therefore to wish at present is that the proceeds of the protested bill...
3156From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have got good lodgings for Monroe and yourself, that is to say, a good room with a fire place and two beds, in a pleasant and convenient position, with a quiet family. They will breakfast you, but you must mess in a tavern; there is a good one across the street. This is the way in which all must do, and all I think will not be able to get even half beds.—The President will remain here I...
3157From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter of Oct. 31. I extracted what was necessary from it and wrote to Mr. LeRoy. His answer has produced a state of things with which you are probably unacquainted; which however, tho it presents a much broader scene, may present also more security for you, than that which we had understood to exist. The debt from Colo. Randolph to Mr. LeRoy and others is in...
3158Notes of Cabinet Meetings on Edmond Charles Genet and the President’s Address to Congress, [18 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. 93. At a Conference at the President’s where I read several letters of Mr. Genet, on finishing one of them, I asked what should be the answer? The Presidt. thereupon took occasion to observe that Mr. Genet’s conduct continued to be of so extraordinary a nature that he meant to propose to our serious consideration Whether he should not have his functions discontinued and be ordered away...
3159Memorandums to George Taylor, Jr., 18 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for Mr. Taylor. Nov. 18. 1793. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy; with lacunae. TJ’s directions to the chief clerk in the Department of State concerned the copying of documents that the President submitted to Congress on 5 and 16 Dec. 1793 with his messages on American relations with France, Great Britain, and Spain ( ASP American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and...
3160From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Genet and to acknolege the receipt by the hands of a Courier, of his letter of Nov. 12. and two others of Nov. 16. which shall be immediately communicated to the President. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). The letter of Nov. 12. was actually Genet’s 14 Nov. 1793 letter about John Jay and Rufus King, which according to
3161From Thomas Jefferson to John Ross, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely congratulate you on your resurrection. On the faith of the newspapers I really lamented you dead for several days. I hope Mrs. Ross and all your family have enjoyed good health during the afflictions of the city. Not knowing what date was inserted in my note for the 100.D. you were so kind as to give me for it, nor where to seek the note, as nobody has come to seek me about it, I...
3162From Thomas Jefferson to John Mason, 20 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Being now returned to the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and business resumed in that place, I will pay on sight Mr. Fenwick’s draught: be pleased to accompany it with your own for the little disbursements made for me about the box of books &c. or if you prefer it, write me the amount of the whole, and I will remit you a bank post-note on the collector of George town by the return of the post...
3163From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Söderström, 20 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night your favor of the 16th. No particular rules have been established by the President for the conduct of Consuls with respect to prizes. In one particular case, where a prize is brought into our ports by any of the belligerent parties, and is reclaimed of the Executive, the President has hitherto permitted the Consul of the Captor to hold the prize until his determination is...
3164From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Hollingsworth, 21 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I passed your house last, you told me you thought there would be to be bought there red clover seed, fresh and cheap. I take the liberty to inclose you a twenty dollar bill and to beg the favor of you to lay it out for me in as much fresh clover seed as it will buy, and to give the seed in charge to the overseer whom you shall be so good as to employ for me, to be carried on with him. Not...
3165Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President’s Address to Congress, 21 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 21. We met at the President’s. The manner of explaining to Congress the intentions of the Proclmn. was the matter of debate. E.R. produced his way of stating it. This expressed it’s views to have been 1. to keep our citizens quiet. 2. to intimate to foreign nations that it was the Pr’s opinion that the interests and dispositions of this country were for peace. Hamilton produced his...
3166From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 12th. of July I informed you that the President expected that the Jane of Dublin, the Lovely lass and Prince William Henry, British vessels taken by the armed vessel Citoyen Genet, should not depart from our ports until his ultimate determination thereon should be made known. And in a letter of the 7th. of August I gave you the further...
3167From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 2. I took the liberty of noticing to you that the commission of Consul to M. Dannery ought to have been addressed to the President of the US. He being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation, and whatever he communicates as...
3168From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me of a conspiracy among the refugees from the French colonies now at Charleston, to undertake an expedition from thence against the said colonies, I communicated the information to the Governor of S. Carolina , with a desire that he would prevent every enterprize of that nature. The other matters contained in the same letter...
3169From Thomas Jefferson to Christopher Gore, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the inclosed gazette is a paper purporting to be a Protest of the Consul Dannery against the revocation of the Exequatur of Mr. Duplaine issued by the President. Before the President proceeds to consider what notice such a protest would call for from him, he thinks it requisite to be assured that the paper is genuine. I have therefore to ask the favor of you to endeavor to procure authentic...
3170Materials for the President’s Address to Congress, [ca. 22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes Text. Cases where individuals (as Henfield &c) organize themselves into military bodies within the US. or participate in acts of hostility by sea, where jurisdiction attaches to the person . The Constitution having authorised the legislature exclusively to declare whether the nation, from a state of peace, shall go into that of war, it rests with their wisdom to consider What is...
3171Memorandum to George Taylor, Jr., 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The following commissions wanting − + William Barker 2d. Mate } Collector Charleston and capt. of Cutter. } This memorandum for Barker and Cozens is exactly copied from one from the Secy. of the Treasury . If it is not understood, explanations must be asked at his office. − + Matthew Cozens 3d. Mate Note dates of Com. Th: J. returns the blanks, as we are now near enough to obtain...
3172Cabinet Opinions on Various Letters, [23 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
At sundry meetings of the heads of departments and Attorney General from the 1st. to the 21st. of Nov. 1793. at the President’s several matters were agreed upon as stated in the following letters from the Secretary of state. To wit: Nov. 8. Circular letter to the representatives of France, Gr. Brit. Spain and the U. Netherlands, fixing provisorily the extent of our jurisdiction into the sea at...
3173Notes of Cabinet Meeting on the President’s Address to Congress, 23 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 23. At the President’s. Present K. R. and Th:J. Subject, the heads of the speech . One was, a proposition to Congress to fortify the principal harbors . I opposed the expediency of the general government’s undertaking it, and the expediency of the President’s proposing it. It was amended by substituting a proposition to adopt means for enforcing respect to the jurisdiction of the US....
3174From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I laid before the President of the US. your two letters of the 11th. and 14th. instant on the subject of new advances of money, and they were immediately referred to the Secretary of the treasury within whose department subjects of this nature lie. I have now the honor of inclosing you a copy of his report thereon to the President in answer to your letters, and of adding assurances of the...
3175From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknoledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th. instant, and to thank you for the information it conveys of the present state of the French islands in the West Indies. Their condition must always be interesting to the US. with whom nature has connected them by the strong link of mutual necessities. The riot which had been raised in Philadelphia some days ago, by emigrants from St....
3176From Thomas Jefferson to —— Myers, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my engagement I now inclose you 186. Doll. thirty six cents = £55–18–3 Virginia currency to be passed to the credit of Mrs. Carr . You will readily perceive that your endorsement on the inclosed bank note will make it cash to any person wishing to remit to Philadelphia. The Custom house officers particularly take up these notes by a general arrangement. I am Sir Your most obedt....
3177From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 14th. Mine of the 2d. ought to have been then at hand, and since that those of the 10th. and 17th. All will have informed you of my health, and being here. I am happy that you think Tarquin will suit you, and insist on your acceptance of him. This is no sacrifice to me, because my sole motive for having thought of parting with him was that he is...
3178From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello you mentioned to me that sheep could be procured at or about Staunton, good and cheap, and were kind enough to offer your aid in procuring them. Reflecting on this subject, I find it will be much better to buy and drive them now, before they have young ones, and before the snows set in, than to wait till the spring. I therefore take the...
3179From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. He will mention M. de la Fayette to Mr. Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the Governor. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Washington. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not...
3180From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received, my very good friend, your kind letter of Aug. 19. with the extract from that of La Fayette, for whom my heart has been constantly bleeding. The influence of the United States has been put into action, as far as it could be either with decency or effect. But I fear that distance and difference of principle give little hold to Genl. Washington on the jailors of La Fayette....