11To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 24 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The result of my enquiries relative to Upper Louisiana fixes the population of that District at 9373 Souls of Whom 7876 are Whites and 1497 blacks. I am still of Opinion that it would answer all the purposes of Civil Government & be sufficiently Convenient to the Inhabitants to lay out the Country into four or five divisions or Counties, whose boundaries might be very nearly the same as those...
12From 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...
13To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 6 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Augustus Choteau will have the Honor to deliver you this. A gentleman who is justly considered not only from his large fortune & superior information but from the Amiableness of his character, as the first Citizen of Upper Louisiana—You will I am sure derive great pleasure from his Conversation as his Knowledge of this country is certainly superior to what is possessed by any other person &...
14From 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...
15To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 18 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose herewith a list containing the names of the five persons whom I have selected for the Legislative Council of this Territory agreeably to the directions contained in your letter of the 28th. of April—In making this selection I have conformed as far as possible to the restrictions laid down in your letter. Four out of the five are I believe Staunch Republicans but...
16To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 29 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
It gives me great pleasure to have it in my power to inform you that the Conference I have lately had with the several Tribes of Indians under my Superintendance has had a most beneficial effect—that every improper prejudice has been removed from their minds and that all the chiefs have both generally & individually expressed the warmest attachment to the United States and their Willingness to...
17To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 12 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This Will be handed you by Mr. Parke who has been appointed Deligate from this Territory to Congress I beg leave to recommend him to you as a man of the most unblemished Morals & of the purest Republican principles Having understood that Mr. Parke had been reported to you as a violent Federalist I must take the liberty to observe that nothing can be further from the truth. He has on the...
18To Thomas Jefferson from William Henry Harrison, 20 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Hay having declined the appointment of a member of the Legislative Council for this Territory two other persons have been nominated agreeably to the Ordinance and I presume their names have been sent on to you. Viz Mr Shadrack Bond & Mr John Perry—the former is certainly the most proper character; altho’ he has had little advantage from education he posseses a very strong natural capacity &...
19From 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...
20From 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.