31To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 1 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Commissioner of the General Land Office respectfully represents to the President of the U States that by letters from the Governor of the Indiana Territory it appears that applications have been made to him for the purpose of obtaining leases of some reserved sections in that territory which exhibit appearances of salt springs—for the purpose of making experiments. By the 2d sect. of the...
32To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 8 August 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josiah Meigs. 8 August 1815, “General Land-Office Washington City.” “The inclosed was received this morning from Edward Tiffin Surveyor General, with a request that it might be transmitted to the President of the United States.” RC ( DLC ); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent). RC 1 p.; docketed by JM . Meigs enclosed Tiffin’s 31 July 1815 letter to him, which...
33To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 20 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
The documents enclosed with this relative to the opposition of the Indians to the survey of the Military Bounty lands in the territory of Michigan, and of the road from the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the connecticut reserve are respectfully presented. Surveyors have been frequently interrupted in the prosecution of their work; but I do not know that any compensation has ever been...
34To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 8 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to inclose, with this, a Sketch copied from a Vignette which it is proposed to cause to be impressed on the Patents for Bounty Lands to the Soldiers of the late army. I do not think myself authorised to annex this ornament to the Patent without your approbation. The Vignette is engraved by the celebrated Anderson of New-York —it will not increase at all the expence of the...
35Josiah Meigs to Thomas Jefferson, 16 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot resist an impulse which all good men must feel. With the multitude of my Brethren of the United States , I congratulate you on the astonishing events of which we have received information within a very short period. Next to that Good Being who has kindly guided this great people to their present happy state, I feel an emotion of Gratitude to M r Jefferson which I have not language to...
36To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 1 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have read, and with this return the Papers I had the honour to receive yesterday, “for perusal, and to be returned.” I have reason to believe that the Illinois and Wabash companies will resume their efforts to obtain from the United States a confirmation of their Claims. The following Extract from the Correspondence of Albert Gallatin, Esquire with Judge Thruston, while it is very honourable...
37To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 23 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
The lands in the district West of pearl river, in the Mississippi Territory, and west of the basis meridian, being prepared for sale, and the receiver of public monies for that district having informed me that applications are daily made by persons to purchase, I have the honor to transmit herewith for your signature a proclamation authorising a public sale of those lands on the second Tuesday...
38To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 3 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, herewith, for your approbation, a lease of a Salt Spring upon section 34 of township 11 in range 3, of the district of Steubenville: This lease was made by the Register of that district in August 1814 under directions from this office, but he omitted to send the lease till now. I have &C Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent). Enclosure not...
39To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 22 June 1815 (Madison Papers)
The rent of the Saline on section 1-9-3 W. in the district of Kaskaskia is merely the interest of the legal price of the section. Should the spring prove abundant, the U. States will, at the expiration of the lease, be able to rent it at its full value either to the present or other lessees; if other lessees than the present take the lease, the future lessees must pay the present ones for...
40Josiah Meigs to Thomas Freeman, 15 May 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Josiah Meigs to Thomas Freeman. 15 May 1816, General Land Office. “The President has been pleased to direct an alteration of the plan of survey in the country acquired by the treaty of August 9th. 1814. As it is understood that but a small proportion of the lands bordering on the West side of the Chatahouche are fit for cultivation, and of course, would not be purchased, and settled, it is...
41To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 13 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
The late Proclamation relative to Intruders on the Public Lands having apparently caused a considerable excitement, I presume it not improper to communicate the inclosed Extract from a Private Letter received this day from Colonel Nicholas Gray, Register of the Land-Office at Washington. Mip.p.i. Territory, West of Pearl River. I have the honour to be very respectfully Yours. P.S. The...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Meigs, 11 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not whether this address may not be judged impertinent; but I cannot refrain from expressing to you, personally, the grateful sentiments which your public conduct has excited in my breast. For thirty years I have been an attentive observer of that progress of Mind which has produced such great and beneficial effects as I have witnessed. When I consider the magnitude & difficulty of...
43To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 19 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
I do not know whether it is proper for me to request you to read the letter which accompanies this. Mr. Wolcott was my Classmate in College, and the Friend of my youth. We have, through life, been likeminded on the most interesting subjects. In his native state he has sustained a long and painful ordeal on account of his political opinions; and I have the pleasure of beleiving that he will not...
44To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 20 May 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Josiah Meigs. 20 May 1815. “I enclose you a Patent for Signature, which is called for by Mr. Graham of the War Department, and is requested by him for special reasons, with as little delay as possible.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent). 1 p.
45To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 12 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose herein, for your approbation, leases of two lead mines in the Territory of Missouri, executed by the Recorder of Land titles at St. Louis, to Saml. Hammond and to Hammond & Connor. I have the honor &c. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent). On 13 Dec. 1814 Meigs informed Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles at St. Louis, that JM had...
46To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 17 February 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to transmit, with this Note, a Letter received this day, recommending (as Receiver of Public Monies in the Land-Office about to be opened for the Sale of the Public Lands ceded by the late Treaty with General Jackson) Israel Pickens, Esq; now a Member of Congress from the State of North-Carolina. It is, I presume, not improper to say, that I have no doubt of the capacity and...
47To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 20 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
By the Act of May 20, 1812, the Surveyor General, under the direction of the President of the United States, is authorised & required to designate &c the Western & Northern Boundaries of the State of Ohio. As this act contemplates the decision of the ultimate boundaries, on two sides, of an independent State, it is desirable that it should be done in such a solemn and scientific manner as to...