1From Thomas Jefferson to José Ignacio de Viar and José de Jaudenes, 21 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Kenneth Thompson, a citizen of the United States, proposing to go down the Missisipi to New-Orleans on business, wishes to obtain a passport from you to that place, for his greater safety. He brings me letters from Maryland assuring me of his being a person of merit and good deportment; on these assurances I take the liberty of presenting his application to you, only asking...
2From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 25 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Don Joseph Jaudenes having communicated to me verbally that his Catholic majesty had been apprised of our sollicitude to have some arrangements made respecting our free navigation of the Missisipi, and a port thereon convenient for the deposit of merchandize of export and import for lading and unlading the sea and river vessels, and that his majesty would be ready to enter into treaty thereon...
3From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 26 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letter of yesterday evening, in answer to mine of the morning, I perceive that Don Joseph Jaudenes’s communication verbally had not been understood in the same way by him and myself. How this has happened I cannot conceive. Monsr. de Jaudenes will do me the justice to recollect that when he had made the verbal communication to me, I asked his permission to commit it to writing. I did...
4From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 3 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Messieurs de Viar and de Jaudenes. Tho’ the arrangements on the negociation with Spain are not yet all taken, yet he has no reason to doubt they will be so in the course of a week or two, and that they will perfectly accord with the expectations of the gentlemen. PrC ( DLC ). TJ was responding to an anxious request for information the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Oliver Pollock, a citizen of the United States, has stated to me that a sum of 9574¼ Dollars due to him at the Havanna, was attached by his Catholic majesty’s government there to secure certain sums due to Spanish subjects from the said Oliver Pollock, that he has since otherwise paid the sums he owed to those persons, and to all others within his majesty’s dominions,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 23 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inform you that a commission has been issued to Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Short, as Commissioners plenipotentiary for the U.S. to confer, treat and negociate with any person or persons duly authorized by his Catholic majesty of and concerning the navigation of the river Missisipi, and such other matters relative to the confines of their territories, and the intercourse to be...
7From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We lately received from Mr: Seagrove our Indian Agent for the southern department a letter, of which the enclosed is an extract; whereby it appeared that a party of the Creek indians under the influence of the adventurer Bowles had meditated some depredations on the Spanish settlements, from which they had been diverted by a friend of our Agent; but that their disposition to do injury was...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the president of the United States the letter of May 10th. of Captain Henry Burbeck, commandant of the Fort of St: Tammany, to his Excellency the Governor of East Florida, with the other letters relating thereto, which you were pleased to put into my hands, and I have the honor to inform you that, the president having entirely disapproved of the expressions which Capt....
9From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 3 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of June 26. with the papers accompanying it on the subject of the robbery supposed to have been committed within the territory of Florida by three citizens of the state of Georgia: and I have it in charge to assure you that due enquiry shall be immediately made into the transaction, and that every thing shall be done on the part of this government...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Information has been received that the Government of West Florida has established an Agent within the territory of the United States belonging to the Creek Indians, and it is even pretended that that agent has excited those Indians to oppose the marking a boundary between their district and that of the Citizens of the United States. The latter is so inconsistent with the dispositions to...