1To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 28 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Attwood Digges, c.28 April 1791. On 28 April Digges introduced William Pearce to Thomas Jefferson and wrote: “I have so little time before the Vessel sails to address The President and yourself. . . , that I hope You will escuse haste & inaccuracys” ( Jefferson Papers, Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J.,...
2To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 1 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
As I am writing to Mr Fitzgerald I take the liberty under a Cover to Him to inclose Your Excellency a description of Messrs McCabe & Pearce’s new invented double Loom for weaving two peices at the same time, & which description is annexd to the Report of a Committee of the Irish House of Commons upon the utility & benefit of such a Loom. Since Mr Wm Pearces embarkation hence to New York in May...
3To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 12 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
I hope Your Excellency will forgive my intrusion upon Your more important concerns when my purpose is solely to serve the Infant Manufactures of Our Country, and once more to mention a few words about Mr Wm Pearce the loom & machinery artist whom I inducd to go out to America last spring & took the liberty to introduce to You. He has I find met with the encouragement & patronage which He...
4To George Washington from Thomas Attwood Digges, 10 April 1798 (Washington Papers)
Mr Digges presents His respectful complements and best wishes to General Washington and sends this in a small box of seeds, which accompanies a few Potatoes of a remarkably approved kind & productive Growth, which Mr Rhd Edmonds Seedsman No. 96 Grace Church Street London handsomely offerd to and pressd Mr D. to present in His name to General Washington. Mr Chs Pye, who has also purchasd some...
5From George Washington to Thomas Attwood Digges, 31 August 1799 (Washington Papers)
Genl Washington presents his compliments to Mr Digges, and will, with pleasure, exchange 20 bushels of the early white wheat with him when he gets it out of the straw; which is not the case at present—nor can be until the latter end of next week or beginning of the week following: which would be full early for sowing that kind of Wheat—Indeed any time in September is in good season. The...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 30 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obligd in many instances by Your kind attentions, and particularly so for the present of Quarantine Corn, which I have carefully sown in good soil & put in according to Your instructions. The grain appears to me exactly that round, red- & yellow kind which the Spaniards & Portuguese with success (tho’ in but small quantities comparatively to their wants) cultivated while I resided...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Attwood Digges, 1 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Digges with friendship & respect & sends him the newspapers recieved last night. he is sorry that only the latter part of the particular publication, which mr Digges wished to see, is in them. he will be happy to see mr Digges & his friends on the 4th. of July, and to join in congratulations on the return of the day which divorced us from the follies & crimes of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 25 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am obligd to yield up what I had very much at heart, (a visit to Monticello) to my other riding avocations, and to the extreme heat for the last ten days, as well as the still continued severe & afflicting drought. The Eves of my old House has not dropt five minutes at a time since the 3d July—not a sprig of green grass, and scarcely any vegitation in the Tobacco: of which hereabouts we have...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend and old acquaintance Dr. Hamilton, of very respectable connections at Waterford Ireland, and of late a neighbouring Phisician to me but about to fix in Baltimore, having intimated a desire to wait upon You, I most cheerfully give Him this Introductory line with a solicitation for Your usual kind attentions and civility. I knew Dr. Hamilton a practitioner in London, for some years...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A long confinement to my chamber (with a Rhumatic and Pluracy complaint) will I hope plead my excuse for troubling You to read a letter in lieu of giving an ansr. by personal enquiry. I have a very favourable opportunity & mean shortly to send a relative of mine (a Lad of abot 15 yrs. old) to Spain .—there to fix him for 6 or 8 yrs. in order to attain the Language and merchantile advantages of...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 11 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My old acquaintance & neighbour Doctor Rhd. H. Courts who is now with me, & who has a plaint to make to You, (which from my confinement I cannot personally attend Him in,) will wait upon you with this. The Doctor served faithfully & for several years in our Revolutionary War, has been ever a firm & uniform Republican (even in the worst of times), a constant supporter of the present...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 29 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your request I hastend all in my power to obtain an accurate survey & plot made of that part of my Warburton Farm where its extreme point (a high promontary) at the narrowest part of Potomack hereabouts, and where the channel makes an angular bending close in with the shore, forms a seemingly favourable position for a Fort on its heights as well as a battery near the shore....
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 15 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had an anxious desire, & at times nearly fixd on setting out on a visit to You at Montecello, but My Wheat & Hay harvest with other troubles have deprived me of that felicity: I was anxious to do so by taking a lift downwards in Mr Fosters carriage but could not accomplish my wish at that time. Soon after my Nephew Jno Fitzgerald deliverd You the requested survey & plat of the Site...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Attwood Digges, 21 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. came to me here, and certainly I should have been made happy by a visit from yourself in person had your health & convenience permitted it. your readiness in aiding our survey of the site for military works is duly estimated, and certainly our duty to the public as well as yourself requires that full justice shall be done you in the valuation. whether the law requires...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 14 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Supposing my business will oblige me from hence in the afternoon (while I can catch a spert of fair weather) And that I may thereby not have the pleasure of seeing You this trip, I make free to inclose You Mr Brodies intimation, ( the only one I have yet been able to obtain .) about the late military visit to Warburton—which unluckily happend while I was replacing a boundary stone & busy with...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 23 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My negro messenger to Cob point (wch is a little below Hooes ferry) has but just returnd, altho He might have been back on tuesday last.—He has brought me two Swans, killd on fryday night—an old one which weighs in his Feathers &ca 19 ½ lb and a young one, much leaner which weighs 15 lb.—The old fellow will likely be a tough morsel, & I am sorry the young one is not fat which none of them are...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 4 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I got to the City very soon after Your departure from it, and was vexd & sorry not to have taken my ride thither on the preceeding day. After selecting a few Ewes from Bowies flock, I went to get the promisd Lamb You So kindly offerd from Your mixd flock, takeing Mr. Cocking (a well informd English Farmer living in Washington) with me the better to choose its form & feel its Fleece, for wool...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Attwood Digges, 10 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4th. came to hand two days ago, and I am sorry to learn by it that we shall not have the pleasure of your company here this season. mr Brodie has not yet arrived. I shall be happy to see him whenever he does, and will deliver your message to him. I am not certain whether I mentioned to Joseph (who has the care of my sheep at Washington) that you were to take a ram lamb; but...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg Your forgiveness for intruding on You the enclosed Letter to Mr Brodie, which I suppose of some consequence to Mr Brodie as comeing from His Family by the last British Packet. Should He not be at monticello be pleasd to return it back to me. The Fort progress’s towards its completion of its heavy wall work and begins to shew a handsome River front.—I have my dayly vexations about it as...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 26 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I want very much to write to Dr. Wister of Philaa on the theme of placeing my two nephews Attwood Fitzgerald & Geo Carroll at Philaa. as well for this & the next winters Lectures as also for the whole summer through; But I have no acquaintance with the Doctor but the short meeting we had on our return from Mr Spriggs. They go by tomorrows Coach, and I should esteem it a great favour, if You...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Attwood Digges, 20 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My nephew Jno Fitzgerald about to depart for his military station at Norfolk, & meaning to pay his farewell respects to You, gives me an appertunity of handing You this. I never left Washington with more regret, worse health and depressd spirits (after a confinement of sickness for three days in a dirty Tavern) than on sunday last, or I would have made my departing congee to You. I got so...
22Indenture for Land at Fort Warburton, 31 August 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Indenture for Land at Fort Warburton. 31 August 1815. “This Indenture … between Thomas Attwood Digges [and] William Dudley Digges both of Prince George’s County in the State of Maryland and Robert Brent of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia of the first part and James Madison President of the United States of America of the second part” conveys “unto the said James Madison...
23Thomas A. Digges to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A variety of untoward incidents, to which we are all doomd, has for the last three summers rebutted my attempts to visit You and our good friends at Montpellier , and I was peculiarly vexd in Octo r last that I could not by a proferrd seat in M r Bagot s Barouche to M r Madison s & to have partaken of the pleasurable scenes they enjoyd there and of which they yet speak in rapturous delight:—...
24Thomas Jefferson to Thomas A. Digges, 15 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
a letter from the shadows of 41. to 43. (for these I suppose are the years of our births) is like one of those written from the banks of the Styx , it is so long since we have exchanged salutations, that I had almost been afraid to hazard mine to you without inclosing in it an Obolus as postage for Charon . I wish too that your letter had given a better account of your health and situation. to...