121To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state having had under his consideration the journal of the proceedings of the Executive in the Northwestern territory, thinks it his duty to extract therefrom, for the notice of the President of the U.S. the articles of Apr. 25. June 6. 28. & 29. some of which are hereto annexed. Concieving that the regulations, purported in these articles, are beyond the competence of the...
122To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom was referred, by the President of the United States, a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania with the documents therein mentioned, on the subject of certain lands on Lake Erie, having had the same under consideration, thereupon Reports That Congress, by their resolution of June 6. 1788. directed the Geographer general of the United States to ascertain the...
123To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to inform him that Judges Jay & Wilson called on him just now and asked whether the letter of yesterday pressed for an answer. they were told the cases would await their time, & were asked when they thought an answer might be expected: they said they supposed in a day or two. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG...
124To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to enclose him the answer to his note of yesterday. Should any article of it need explanation, he will be at the orders of the President for that purpose to do it either verbally or in writing. LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. For the enclosure, see below. Later on this date, GW...
125From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 25 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Director of the mint having given in to the Secretary of state a general statement of the monies hitherto received for the mint, to wit 15,000 Dollars from the Treasury, and 170.25 D. the proceeds of certain articles sold, as also of the expenditures of the mint amounting to 16,233.46 D. with an application for a further sum of 5000. Dollars the same are respectfully laid before the...
126From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured with your Excellency’s Letter of the 8th instant. Having found it impracticable to move suddenly the whole Convention Troops, british and germans, and it being represented that there coud not immediately be covering provided for them all at fort Frederic we concluded to march off the British first from whom was the principal danger of desertion and to permit the germans...
127From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 21 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from Mr. Seagrove . When he shall have considered of the questions of wages to Albion Coxe (till he shall have qualified himself to draw his regular salary) and the ordering a coinage of 1000 Dollars in small silver for the Treasury, he will be so good as to communicate his determinations. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The...
128To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1781 (Washington Papers)
I hope it will not be unacceptable to your Excellency to receive the congratulations of a private individual on your return to your native country, & above all things on the important success which as attended it. great as this has been however, it can scarcely add to the affection with which we had looked up to you, and if in the minds of any the motives of gratitude to our good allies were...
129From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 December 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received at this place the honour of your letters of Oct. 13 and Nov. 30. and am truly flattered by your nomination of me to the very dignified office of Secretary of state: for which permit me here to return you my humble thanks. Could any circumstance seduce me to overlook the disproportion between it’s duties and my talents it would be the encouragement of your choice. But when I...
130From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 21 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses him draughts of letters in the Algerine business. In that to Colo. Humphreys he proposes a modification of the former instructions in one point, on a presumption that the President will be disposed to approve it. He will wait on him to-day to know his pleasure, as also to submit to his consideration the question of Mr. Genet’s reception...
131To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received the letter of the 21st of January with which you have honored me, and no longer hesitate to undertake the office to which you are pleased to call me. your desire that I should come on as quickly as possible is a sufficient reason for me to postpone every matter of business, however pressing, which admits postponement. still it will be the close of the ensuing week before I...
132From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We are still without any occurrence foreign or domestic worth mentioning to you. It is sometime since any news has been recieved from Europe of the political kind, and I have been longer than common without any letters from Mr. Short. Colo. Hamilton has taken a trip to Bethlehem. I think to avail myself also of the present interval of quiet to get rid of a headach which is very troublesome, by...
133From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to the President. Apprehensive that there has been some misconception of his correspondence with Mr. Ellicot, he incloses to the President full copies of the only letters he has written to Mr. Ellicot in the course of the years 1792. and 1793. The last of them was written with no other view than to prevent public altercation between Mr. Ellicot...
134To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & sends him a letter put into his hands by Govr St Clair. he also sends him Govr Clinton’s answer, this moment received. he does not say how it happened that Th: J’s letter of Feb. 17. did not get to him till Feb. 28. it was certainly put into the Post office here on the morning of Feb. 18. it must be presumed the Govr has been absent from...
135To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Estimate of the demands on the Foreign Fund from July 1, 1790, to March, 4, 1793 1790-1. 1791.-2. 1792-3 8 months France Salary 4500 6000. 6000. Secretary of Chargé des Affaires, during his absence in Holland. Suppose 4 months abt 243. 1350. 900. his expences on that journey abt 675. Gazettes postage, and other Extras abt 350. 350.
136From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the memoir of M. Lentilhon, with a letter to Dr. Mc.Henry adapted to his case. Of the letter of M. Millet he can make very little. It is rendered difficult of comprehension by the bad English in which it is written: and still more by the imperfect and indigested views of the writer. He sees no distinct object in it but to get the President...
137To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
I this moment discover that I have dated my letter of yesterday Nov. 4. instead of Dec. 4. tho’ the letter be gone out of my hands I hope the present will reach the bearer of it in time to accompany that, and to prevent the embarrasment of dates which it might otherwise occasion. I have only to repeat assurances of the sentiments of esteem & respect with which I have the honor to be Your...
138From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President Dr. Thornton’s answer to Mr. Hallet’s objections this moment received, and which he has not had time to read. Perhaps the President may think it worth while to communicate them to Mr. Hobens and see what he thinks of them, for which reason he sends them to the President in the instant of recieving them. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by...
139From 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...
140To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 3d is this moment put into my hands, and as the post does not usually stay here above an hour, it leaves me time to scribble a few lines only, scarcely admitting them to be prefaced with an acknowlegement of the pleasure it will give me to be permitted to communicate with you occasionnally. we received dispatches from Europe yesterday, by Capt. Barney. there is no news but in...
141To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State having recieved from the Commissioners for the State of Vermont a letter proposing these Questions 1. Whether, as that state will not be a distinct member of the union till the 4th day of March next, the President can, before that day, nominate officers for it? and 2. if he cannot, whether he can nominate them after the recess of the Senate? makes thereon to the...
142To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 2–4 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President his letter of Aug. 7. to mister Hammond, which was confined to the special cases of three vessels therein named. the object of mister Hammond’s letter of Aug. 30. is to obtain from the government a declaration that the principle of those special cases shall be extended to all captures made within our waters or by the proscribed vessels,...
143To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the Presidt a letter from mister Pinckney. he will have that of waiting on him to-day to know what to say to the Commrs of the Federal seat about the order for money on Virginia. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson had received...
144To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the letter of the National assembly to him of Dec. 22. 92. it’s most distinct object seems to have been to thank the U.S. for their succours to St Domingo. it glances blindly however at commercial arrangements, and on the 19th of Feb. the same assembly passed the decree putting our commerce in their dominions on the footing of natives &...
145From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 11 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send for the perusal of the President some letters from Mr. Barclay received yesterday. He has received no letters from Mr. Short, nor any other person in France. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U. States”; endorsed by Lear. Tr ( DNA : RG 59, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL or SJPL
146From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that he called this evening on M. de Ternant, who produced to him the original letter of M. Le Brun instructing him to apply to our government for two millions of livres to be laid out in flour and one million in salted provisions. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. PrC ( DLC ). Not...
147To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President three sets of the papers relative to the Spanish interference for the President & the two houses. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Jefferson’s enclosures included copies of the 29 Oct. letter that he received from Spanish...
148From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On further consideration I have thought it may be as well to omit the proposition for making any addition however small to the foreign fund , till the next session of Congress, by which time it will be more evident whether it is necessary or not. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir your most obedt. & most humble servt PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy. Not recorded in...
149To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letters of the Commissioners on their discharge of the workmen ⟨&ca⟩ in the Federal city. the copy of the Extracts from them for Majr L’Enfant was not finished till last night, & therefore could not be sent to him till to-day, consequently the conference with him is put off to tomorrow. Th: J. incloses a copy of his letter to Majr...
150To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President has the honor to inclose him AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . GW’s executive journal records the receipt of this letter and its enclosures on 26 Feb. 1793 ( JPP, Dorothy Twohig, ed.
151From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 28 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The rise in the price of copper, and difficulty of obtaining it from other quarters, has induced the Director of the Mint (as I had the honor of mentioning to you yesterday) to turn his attention to Sweden, as the country from which according to his information it may be obtained on the best terms. He wishes that some means could be adopted of importing some on the public account. There is so...
152To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends for his perusal some of the letters which had been accumulating at his office, & which he received yesterday. he will wait on the President to-day to translate the Spanish papers sent by mister Short, as also with some other letters in foreign languages. Th: J. sends to the President a supply he received yesterday of paper, of which the...
153To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose several letters for the perusal of the President. when he wrote to the Governor of Kentuckey, on a former intimation from the Spanish representatives, there was no probability that the intervention of military force would be requisite, and as far as illegal enterprizes could be prevented by the peaceable process of law, his writing was proper. it is...
154To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and will take the liberty of waiting on him at half after one, as well that he may get through some long papers he has to communicate to him, as that he may be sure of being there when mister Genet comes. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB...
155From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letters of Seagrove from which he has had an extract taken. He incloses also the names of three gentlemen who have expressed their willingness to serve in the Mint. The President knows them personally and will judge of their fitness. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by Lear; on separate...
156To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President. he had expected that the Secretaries of the Treasury & War would have given to the President immediately the statement of facts in the case of the Little Sarah, as drawn by the former & agreed to, as also their Reasons: but Colo. Hamilton having informed Th: J. that he has not been able to prepare copies, Th: J. sends the President the...
157From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the letter of the 21st. of January with which you have honored me, and no longer hesitate to undertake the office to which you are pleased to call me. Your desire that I should come on as quickly as possible is a sufficient reason for me to postpone every matter of business, however pressing, which admits postponement. Still it will be the close of the ensuing week before...
158From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The decision of the case of the British debts which was expected to have taken place at Richmond, being now deferred, Th: Jefferson has the honor of submitting to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Hammond, asking an answer on the subject of the treaty of peace. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( Lb...
159To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send to the President the speech of De Coin, written at length from his notes, very exactly. he thinks he can assure the President that not a sentiment delivered by the French interpreter is omitted, nor a single one inserted which was not expressed. it differs often from what the English Interpreter delivered, because he varied much from the other who alone was...
160From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners of the Territory of the United States on the Potomac having, according to law, had the said Territory surveyed and defined by proper metes and bounds, and transmitted their report with a plat of the boundary, I have now the honor to lay them before you. As this work has been executed under the Authority of the Legislature, I presume it would be proper to communicate the...
161From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As the conditions of our commerce with the French and British Dominions, are important, and a moment seems to be approaching when it may be useful that both should be accurately understood, I have thrown a representation of them into the form of a table, shewing at one view, how the principal articles interesting to our agriculture and navigation stand in the European and American Dominions of...
162To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State incloses to the President the letter to the King of France with the alteration he proposes for incorporating the vote of the house. if the President approves it, he will be so good as to return it in time to be written at large to-day, signed & sealed. Th: J. thinks the copy of the resolution delivered the President with the signature of the Speaker will be the proper...
163To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from our bankers, at Amsterdam stating a balance due them on the foreign intercourse fund Apr. 2. of 13,225 florins equal to about 5,300 Dollars. this being communicated for the information of the President, the following explanation is necessary. independent of the fund on which this balance appears, the bankers had in their...
164From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the letter of Mr. Rumaine praying to be relieved from duties on the wrecks of fortune with which he escaped from St. Domingo. Th:J. has put the letter of the same person to himself, with those of Mr. Genet into the hands of Mr. Murray, to make them the foundation of a bill of relief . RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of...
165From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and returns him the letters from the Commissioners. He does not recollect whether he shewed him his letter to Ellicot the only one he has written to him since last Summer. Lest he should not have done it he now incloses it. He thinks it impossible that any thing in that could have produced ill humour in Ellicot towards the Commissioners and...
166From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 29 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters brought by the Rider yesterday afternoon, and which he found on his return home in the night. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Thomas Pinckney to TJ, 25 (two letters) and 27 Sep. 1793
167From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the form of nomination for Mr. Joy. He has not entered into explanations of the reasons for making the appointment, as these explanations to the Senate have not been accustomary and nothing seems to call for it in the present case. He has retained and filed the letters of recommendation. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President...
168To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to send for the President’s perusal, his letters to Govr Sinclair & Judge Symmes: as also letters received from the postmaster at Richmond on the subject of the two cross posts. he has gone further as to that towards the South Western territory, than Th: J.’s letter authorized, as he only submitted it to his enquiry & consideration whether a post along that rout...
169To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor of inclosing him some letters just received also the draught of a letter to the Judges. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letters to Jefferson from diplomats William Carmichael and William Short of 18 April and 5 May 1793...
170To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1791. Encloses a copy of his report of this day to the House of Representatives on the petition of Jacob Isaacks, noting: “it is printed on the back of a Permit in order to shew that the proposition therein made is perfectly practicable.” ALS , NUtM ; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC : Thomas Jefferson Papers; LB , DLC:GW ; copy, DNA : RG 59, Domestic Letters.