1From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
While at Monticello in August last I recieved your favor of Aug. 6. and meant to have acknoleged it on my return to the seat of government at the close of the ensuing month. but on my return I found that you were expected to be on here in person, & this expectation continued till winter. I have since recieved your favor of Dec. 30. In the former you mentioned the plan of the town which you had...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 28 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 28. written as President of the Convention at Vincennes, was recieved on the 23d. inst. by the hands of mr Parke : and I derive great satisfaction from it’s expressions of confidence in my attention to the interests of the territory of Indiana; attentions which my duties call for, and which certainly never will be intermitted on my part. Instructions which were sent you...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 31 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The act of Congress erecting Louisiana into two territories, & providing for their government annexes the upper one by the name of the district of Louisiana to the Indiana government. as you will see the act shortly in print, I shall only observe generally that it does not come into force till the 1st. of October, but it provides that the upper territory shall be divided into districts by the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 14 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter on the division of the Louisiana territory into districts, and since that I have been able to collect very satisfactory information on the same subject as well from persons from that country as from good maps. on the whole I find than to adopt the existing divisions, which are five in number and will require 5. Commandants of different grade. I would...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 28 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago from mr Jesse B. Thomas, Speaker of the H. of Representatives of Indiana, a certificate of the election of ten persons out of whom I am to name five for the legislative council. the names being new to me, and utterly uninformed of every character, it would be to substitute chance for choice were I to designate the five. I therefore send you an instrument designating...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 16 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several unacknoleged letters of June 18. Aug. 29. Nov. 12. & 20. prove me an unpunctual correspondent. it is not because I do less than I might do, but that there is more than I can do. I will now summarily reply to their several articles. and first I pray you to deliver to the legislature the inclosed letter in answer to the Address they favored me with. of the two persons chosen to...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 2 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Governor Harrison and puts under cover to him a duplicate of his answer to the legislature of Indiana. the original of which was inclosed in his letter of Jan. 16. the Commission for the legislative council goes by this post, having till now been lying before the Senate. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
8From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 16 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
Thomas Jefferson , President of the United States of America, To all who shall see these presents, Greeting: Know ye, That reposing special Trust and Confidence in the Patriotism, Integrity and Abilities of William Henry Harrison, of the Indiana Territory, I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate do appoint him Governor in and over the said Indiana Territory; and...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 30 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your letter of Oct. 10. covering the resolutions of the French inhabitants of Vincennes, and had hoped that their uneasiness under your supposed want of confidence in them had subsided. but a letter lately recieved from their chairman, covering another copy of the same resolutions induces me to answer them, in order to quiet all further uneasiness. I inclose you my answer,...
10From Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 22 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the treaty of 1803, we obtained from the Kaskaskias the country as far as the ridge dividing the waters of the Kaskaskias, from those of the Illinois river. by the treaty of 1804, with the Sacs & Foxes they ceded to us from the Illinois to the Ouisconsin. between these two cessions is a gore of country, to wit, between the Illinois river & Kaskaskia line, which I understand to have belonged...