1To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 25 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Having never before had the Honor to address Your Excellency, We now embrace the Opportunity that is offered to us by Mr. Daniel Parker a well known American Gentleman; Who informs us that having with some other People Supplied the American Army with several Necessaries and Money for the Pay of the Troops; They have liquidated their Accounts with Congress, And are credited on the Books of the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 30 July 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 25th. Supposing that the funds which are the object of your enquiry are those which constitute what we call our Domestic debt, it is my opinion that they are absolutely secure: I have no doubt at all but that they will be paid with their interest at six percent. But I cannot say that they are as secure and solid as the funds which constitute our foreign...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 19 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s esteemed Favor of 31 July and are much Obligated by the very particular and satisfactory Manner in which you have furnished your Opinion of the Value of the different species of Public Funds in America. The Settlement of the Concerns of Mess. De la Lande and Fynje in any other possible Way than by Acceding to Mr. Daniel Parker’s Proposal presenting...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 12 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
The receipt of your favor of Sep. 19. should not have been so long unacknoleged but that I have been peculiarly and very closely engaged ever since it came to hand. With respect to the expediency of the arrangement you propose to take with Mr. Parker I must observe to you that it would be altogether out of my province to give an official opinion for your direction. These transactions appurtain...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 20 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored by Your Excellency’s ever respected Favor of 12 Instant, obliging us much by your useful Information and your Readiness to serve us. We request Your Excellency to be assured We entertain a high Sense of Your Condesendsion, And shall ever esteem ourselves happy to evince it all in our Power. His Excellency John Adams Esqr. has already transmitted to Messrs. W. & J. Willink and...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 25 October 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 20th. inst. In order to give you the information you desire on the subject of the Liquidated debts of the United states, and the comparative footing on which they stand, I must observe to you that the first and great division of our federal debt is into 1. Foreign, and 2. Domestic. The Foreign debt comprehends 1. The loan from the government of Spain. 2....
7[To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 27 October 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Amsterdam, 27 Oct. 1785 . Recorded in SJL as received 1 Nov. 1785. Not found.]
8To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 3 November 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Amsterdam, 3 Nov. 1785 . Acknowledge receipt of TJ’s letter of 25 Oct.; they are grateful for his advice and are anxious to be of service to him. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, with the signature of the firm; endorsed. Recorded in SJL as received 8 Nov. 1785.
9To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 9 February 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The Motives of the Present are to acquaint Your Excellency that our mutual Friend Mr. Philip Mazzei has favored us for a short time with a Perusal of “Notes on the State of Virginia written in the Year 1781 somewhat corrected and enlarged, in the Winter of 1782, for the Use of a Foreigner of Distinction, in answer to certain Queries proposed by him.” This Book appears from a Note of your Hand...
10[From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas & Jacob van Staphorst, 2 March 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 2 Mch. 1786 . An entry in SJL under this date reads: “Vanstaphorsts. A copy my Notes by Mazzei.” Not found; see Van Staphorst to TJ, 9 Feb. 1786.]