71From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 7 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 27. mentioning that Mr. Donath’s arrival with my glass is hourly expected, and that you will forward it immediately. The object of the present is merely to desire it not to be forwarded, but only it’s arrival made known to me, as I mean to have the sashes made and glazed with this glass in Philadelphia before it is forwarded. I thank you for your speedy...
72From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 4 August 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great satisfaction your information that we are likely to get Cary’s claim against us settled on proper terms, and hasten to give my consent to any settlement you shall make, that it may recieve no delay from me. I had hoped indeed that a greater number of instalments would have been allowed us. Even Hanson gave us seven; a number which I would not ask from Mr. Welsh; but from...
73From Thomas Jefferson to William Alexander, 26 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The large and constant remittances of cash which I am obliged to make to Philadelphia for nailrod for the supply of my nailery, constrain me to expect short paiments for the nails I furnish. I have lately even found it necessary to require ready money instead of the three months credit I formerly gave. I have therefore taken the liberty of drawing on you for £16—10—3 the amount of the nails I...
74From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, 15 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I was happy to recieve your favor by your son and happier to recieve him, and to learn that you are in good health. I find by his conversation that he has a fund of information which at his time of life must promise the best success: and should have thought him a valuable acquisition to our neighborhood. But the gr[ound?] had been occupied before the death even of Doctr. Gilmer, by a gentleman...
75From Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Chastellux, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters of May 26. and Sep. 7. with which you honored me found me retired from business altogether and at a very great distance from the seat of government. I immediately forwarded to the President that which was directed to him, and I consulted with some of my friends who were in Congress to know whether that body had in any instance undertaken to provide for or assist any of the officers...
76From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 22. has been duly recieved, and I again avail myself of the permission to trouble you with a letter for Europe which needs an unsuspicious conveyance. I rejoice at the victory obtained by the French over their enemies. I should have rejoiced much more however to have seen them at peace with their continental antagonists, and the whole war reduced to a duel between them and...
77From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your brother recieved a letter from you a few days since in which he says you mention having recieved but two from me since you left us. I have not been a very troublesome correspondent to you, I acknolege, but have written letters of the following dates to you, to wit 1794. Mar. 11. Apr. 24.—1795. May 26. Sep. 6.—1796. June 12. In this last I acknoleged the reciept of yours of Nov. 18. and...
78From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. P. Derieux, [4 July 1796?] (Jefferson Papers)
[…] after […] Loss by fire you […] I procured 2. bed ticks, 3 pair sheets, and 6. blankets to ask your acceptance of towards replacing those you had lost. They were made up in a bale, and are now at Colo. Bell’s who will forward them to you, or keep them till you pass on to Staunton as you shall direct. With my best respects to Mme. Derieux, I am Dear Sir Your friend & servt P.S. I was so...
79From Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been misdirected to me. The services therein offered are for the Philosophical society and I therefore think it my duty, by a transmission of the letter to you, to put it in their power to avail themselves of them if they find occasion. I think it proper to mention to you shortly at this moment a discovery in animal history of which I hope ere long to be enabled to give...
80From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself for having so long left unanswered your valuable favor on the subject of the mountains. But in truth I am become lazy as to every thing except agriculture. The preparations for harvest, and the length of the harvest itself which is not yet finished, would have excused the delay however at all times and under all dispositions. I examined with great satisfaction your...
81From Thomas Jefferson to —— Hite, 29 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is the Duke de Liancourt one of the principal noblemen of France and one of the richest. All this he has lost in the revolutions of his country, retaining only his virtue and good sense which he possesses in a high degree. He was president of the National assembly of France in it’s earliest stage and forced to fly from the proscriptions of Marat. Being a stranger and desirous...
82From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 29 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The very contracted state of my acquaintance in my own country after so long an absence, and the general interest which prompts us to present strangers of distinction passing through it to the best men of our country, render me troublesome to you. The bearer hereof is the Duke de Liancourt of one of the most distinguished families of France, and of the wealthiest, till the events of his...
83From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to you Mr. Volney the celebrated traveller, author, and member of the first national assembly of France. In all these characters his name will already have been familiar to you, and his worth as well as his being a traveller will readily obtain for him your attentions and good offices. To these claims let me add my own sollicitations, and assurances that you...
84From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ducoigne, [21 June 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be delivered you by Mr. Volney, my friend, [and a] countryman of old France. He proposes to go to your country and to be acquainted with you, because good people love to know one another. I therefore recommend him to you, and ask you to be his friend, to take ca[re of] him, and to render him all the services he needs while he is at Kaskaskia. [He] came to visit me at my own...
85From Thomas Jefferson to Harry Innes, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Volney is so well known for his celebrated travels and other works, and as a member of the first national assembly of France that I need only name him to put him in possession of your attentions and kind offices. As he proposes to take Kentuckey in his way to the Illinois I have taken the liberty of introducing him to you well assured you will be pleased with an opportunity of becoming...
86From Thomas Jefferson to Henri Peyroux de la Coudrèniere, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Retired to my estate and withdrawn from the bustle of public life I had not expected an occasion of recalling myself to your recollection. This however is furnished me by Mr. Volney whose name is already well known to you as the celebrated traveller into Egypt and Syria, author of some other very estimable publications, and a member of the first national assembly of France. These with his...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Shelby, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by Mr. Volney, well known in the literary world and a distinguished member of the first national assembly of France. As he proposes to take Kentuckey in his route Westward, I take the liberty of recommending him to your attentions and friendly offices. The esteem in which he is held both here and in Europe as well as his great personal merit and talents render him...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 21 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is Mr. Volney the celebrated traveller and author of several works highly esteemed in Europe. His name will also have been known to you among the worthies of the first National assembly of France. As he takes Staunton in his rout Westward I take the liberty of committing him to your good offices while there. He wishes to supply himself there with a cheap horse, just...
89To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
In Bache’s Aurora of the 9th inst. which came here by the last post a paper appears which, having been confided, as I presume, to but few hands, makes it truly wonderful how it should have got there. I cannot be satisfied as to my own part till I relieve my mind by declaring, and I attest every thing sacred & honorable to the declaration, that it has got there neither thro’ me nor the paper...
90From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you May 22. advising you of a draught for 100.D. payable to Saml. Howell junr. & Co. The present serves to cover a power of attorney to recieve about 300.D. July 1. from the bank of the US. and to advise you that I have this day drawn on you for 300.D. payable to Samuel Howell & Co. July 2. which be pleased to honor on account of Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of...
91From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington du Motier de Lafayette, [19 June 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
The enquiries of Congress were the first intimation which reached my retirement of your being in this country, and from Mr. Volney, now with me, I first learned where you are. I avail myself of the earliest moments of this information to express to you the satisfaction with which I learn that you are in a land of safety where you will meet in every person the friend of your worthy father and...
92From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
In Bache’s Aurora of the 9th. inst. which came here by the last post, a paper appears which, having been confided , as I presume, to but few hands, makes it truly wonderful how it should have got there. I cannot be satisfied as to my own part till I relieve my mind by declaring, and I attest every thing sacred and honorable to the declaration, that it has got there neither thro’ me nor the...
93From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 12 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The dreadful misfortune of poor Derieux , who has lost his house and all it’s contents by fire occasions the present letter to cover one from him to his aunt. I send it open for your perusal. Be so good as to seal and send it. I hope she will if she has not done it already, send him some relief. I recieved only 3. weeks ago your favor of Nov. 18. It had been 5. months on it’s way to me. The...
94From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 5 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a proposition from Europe which may perhaps be turned to account for the enlargement of your Museum. The hereditary prince of Parma, a young man of letters, of 22. years of age, lately married to a daughter of the K. of Spain, is desirous of augmenting his cabinet of Natural history by an addition of all the American subjects of the 3 departments of nature and will give those...
95From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 4 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of May 29. Some time in the course of the last year I was informed by Mr. Meade that he held a draught of Mr. Ceracchi’s on me for 1000 D. and desired to know if it was good. I explained to him, too much at length to be here repeated, how unfounded the draught was, and that I should not accept it. Nothing further therefore is now necessary than to repeat to you that I...
96From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Two or three days before the reciept of your favor of the 20th. I had recieved a letter from Mr. John Stuart of Greenbriar, accompanied with a leg bone and two joints of the toe of the animal mentioned in your letter. They are of a species not yet known most certainly, and the animal must have been as preeminent over the lion, as the big buffalo was over the elephant. The bones are too...
97From Thomas Jefferson to John Stuart, 26 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great acknolegements to make you for your favor of April 11. which came to hand a few days ago with the bones you were pleased also to send, towit the leg bone and two phalanges of the toe of the animal mentioned in your letter. One of these (the claw) was broke, but so that we could put it together. This animal is certainly hitherto unknown, and seems, from the dimensions of these...
98From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 23 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randolph tells me that a hogshead of my P. Forest tobacco has been lately sold by the inspectors as having remained there too long, and that you are kind enough to search into it in order to save the proceeds. It must of course have been of the following crops. To wit. of the growth of 1789. sold to Mr. Donald of 1790. } shipped in 91. & 92. on my own acct. to Philadelphia by D. Hylton of...
99From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 2[2] May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 22d. of the last month I drew on you in favor of Robert Barclay for twenty seven dollars thirty one cents. The present serves to advise you that I have this day drawn on you for one hundred dollars in favor of Messrs. Samuel Howel junr. & Co. Will you be able to give me any information by what conveyance were forwarded the boots, gongs and tea, so as to enable me to trace them? I am...
100From Thomas Jefferson to Mann Page, [16 May 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
I am growing old, and am grown lazy, and particularly [in wri]ting letters. Yet, when any circumstance of business [orders] […] to take up a pen for an old friend, I […] feel the warmth [of earlier] years rekindle in my heart. While writing to you I am (in imagination) at Rosewell, 25 years old, in all the vigour of love and liberty. It is unpleasant that we should have been made, like our...
101From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 14 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I now send you the nails desired, as is stated below. I must beg you, my dear Sir, to push the supply of corn as far as you possibly can. At the time I recieved your letter , I had an agent gone in quest of corn into the quarter you mention, to wit, Louisa and Orange; he returned having been able to get but 20. barrels, which is very far short of what will be necessary for our bread; for as to...
102From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 12 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
The present representative of Farrell & Jones has brought a suit against the executors of Mr. Wayles as security for the late R. Randolph on the foundation of a loose and equivocal expression in a letter neither meant as an engagement by Mr. Wayles nor understood as such by F. & J. I do not believe there is the smallest danger of it’s being so understood by a court or jury, but as all things...
103Enclosure: Deed of Mortgage of Slaves to Henderson, McCaul & Company, 12 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the 12th. day of May 1796. between Thomas Jefferson of Albemarle in Virginia of the one part, and Messrs. Henderson McCaul & Co. of Great Britain merchants and partners of the other part, witnesseth, that for the purpose of securing to the said Henderson McCaul & Co. several sums of money due to them from the said Thomas by several bonds amounting to about fifteen...
104Deed of Mortgage of Slaves to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 12 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the 12th. day of May 1796. between Thomas Jefferson of Virginia of the one part and Nicholas & Jacob Vanstaphorst & Hubbard of Amsterdam, bankers, of the other part, witnesseth that whereas the said Thomas is indebted to them in the two sums of one thousand and four dollars fifty four cents, and eight hundred and eighty eight dollars sixty seven cents making together...
105From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 1 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding that I cannot depend on the profits of my plantations for paying off the last bond to Kippen &c. I have come to a resolution to sell two tracts of land, the one in Bedford, the other here, and have given directions in Bedford accordingly. If they can be sold, they will effect the whole paiment. The sale will yet require some time, and the circumstances of our country always require...
106From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, [25 April 1796] (Jefferson Papers)
I have not written to you by the last posts expecting you would be on the road. Your last seems to suppose you may still recieve this at Richmond. The lad whom you mention to have eloped from Varina is at Edgehill. My groceries, and rope are arrived at Charlottesville. We had in the mean time fallen on an easy and quick method of taking down our columns, which was but the work of one day. I...
107To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1796 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 11th. is recieved, with the letter from Bringhurst. On consideration of all circumstances, I find that the advantages of taking iron from the manufacturer will be more than countervailed by disadvantages. I give up Sharpless therefore. Lownes I must abandon. Above a month ago I wrote to him for an additional ton of rod, merely to furnish a decent occasion to call for nearly that...
108I. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 24 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 26. 1795. is just recieved and gives me the first information that the bills forwarded for you to V.S. … & H. of Amsterdam on W. Anderson for £39.17.10 1/2 and on George Barclay for £70.8.6. both of London have been protested . I immediately write to the drawers to secure the money if still unpaid. I wonder I have never had a letter from our friends of Amsterdam on that...
109From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 11th. is recieved, with the letter from Bringhurst. On consideration of all circumstances, I find that the advantages of taking iron from the manufacturer will be more than countervailed by disadvantages. I give up Sharpless therefore. Lownes I must abandon. Above a month ago I wrote to him for an additional ton of rod, merely to furnish a decent occasion to call for nearly that...
110From Thomas Jefferson to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 24 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to you covering remittances on behalf of Mr. Mazzei have been of May 27. and Sep. 8. 1795. and Jan. 31. 1796. By a letter from Mr. Mazzei I am advised that that of May 27. got safe to hand, but that the bills on Anderson of London for £39—17—10 1/2 and George Barclay of the same place for £70—8—6 were refused paiment in consequence of the hostilities between Gr. Britain and the U....
111To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1796 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 4th. came to hand the day before yesterday. I have turned to the Conventional history, and inclose you an exact copy of what is there on the subject you mentioned. I have also turned to my own papers, & send you some things extracted from them which shew that the recollection of the P. has not been accurate when he supposed his own opinion to have been uniformly that declared in...
112Agreement with Randolph Jefferson, 17 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the 17th. day of April 1796. between [Ran]dolph Jefferson of the one part and Thomas Jefferson of the [other] part witnesseth that Whereas the said Randolph under the will of Peter Jefferson their father is siesed in feesimple in an undivided sixth part as tenant in common in a certain parcel of land in the county of Albemarle on the branches of Hardware river containing...
113From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 4th. came to hand the day before yesterday. I have turned to the Conventional history, and inclose you an exact copy of what is there on the subject you mentioned. I have also turned to my own papers, and send you some things extracted from them which shew that the recollection of the P. has not been accurate when he supposed his own opinion to have been uniformly that declared in...
114Enclosure I: Extract of Madison’s Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention, 17 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract verbatim from last page but one, and the last page. ‘Mr. King suggested that the journals of the Convention should be either destroyed, or deposited in the custody of the President. He thought, if suffered to be made public, a bad use would be made of them by those who would wish to prevent the adoption of the constitution. Mr. Wilson preferred the 2d. expedient. He had at one time...
115Enclosure II: Extracts from Jefferson’s Papers, with Comments, 17 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
‘In Senate Feb. 1. 1791. The Committee to whom was referred that part of the speech of the Pr. of the US. at the opening of the session which relates to the commerce of the Mediterranean, and also the letter from the Secy. of state dated 20th. Jan. 1791. with the papers accompanying the same, reported, Whereupon Resolved that the Senate do advise and consent that the Pr. of the US. take such...
116From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not write to you by the last post because I expected you would be on the road; but as I find this will reach you in time I will ask the favor of you to bring me the certificate from Byrd’s warehouse relative to the 2. hhds. of tobacco T W C. mentioned in your’s of the 6th. inst. It will be extremely material to be brought on Cobbs by surprize, because they consider Colo. Bell’s...
117From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 10 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of [March] 28. came by our last post: and flatters me with the hope of seeing you here. I shall certainly be at home all the month of May, and very happy to recieve and possess you here. I shall have a great deal to learn from you of what passed in France after I left it. Initiated as I was into the mysteries of the revolution, I have much still to learn which the newspapers never...
118From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 5 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am doomed to be a very troublesome acquaintance to you. I am now in want of a stone mason, one with whom I had agreed to begin my house within 3. weeks from this time having yesterday notified me that he cannot come. Mr. Cocke of this county tells me of a Mr. Felty Millar of your town a good workman and suitable on every account for my purposes. The object of this letter is to get you to...
119To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1796 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 13th. is recieved. I am enchanted with mr. Gallatin’s speech in Bache’s paper of Mar. 14. It is worthy of being printed at the end of the Federalist, as the only rational commentary on the part of the constitution to which it relates. Not that there may not be objections, and difficult ones, to it, and which I shall be glad to see his answers to: but if they are never answered,...
120From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 27 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of Feb. 28. I have recieved your favors of Feb. 27. and Mar. 5. and 12. In consequence I now draw on you for 400. Doll. at 10. days sight in favor of Messrs. Charles Johnston & Co. These gentlemen having set up business in the brokerage line of every kind, undertaking among other things to recieve and forward goods for all persons, I shall make them in future the center of my...