11Enclosure: Extract of Letter concerning W. A. Bowles, 12 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
A vessel arrived here from New Providence with certain accounts of a Mr. Bowles being there, having lately arrived from London in company with five Indians, and British goods to amount of upwards thirty thousand pounds sterling, said to be delivered as presents (by Bowles) to the Indians in this quarter from the goverment of Great Britain. That the said Bowles was actually to sail four days...
12From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A constant expectation of carrying into full effect the declaration of the President, against permitting the armament of vessels within the Ports of the united States, to cruize on nations with which they are at Peace, has hitherto prevented my giving you a final answer on the subject of such vessels and their prizes. Measures to this effect are still taking, and particularly for excluding...
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 14th. inst. I have the honor to inform you that the French privateers therein mentioned were required to depart to the dominions of their own sovereign, and nothing particularly expressed as to their ulterior movements; that it is expected that the speedy departure of those vessels will obviate the inconveniencies apprehended in your letter; and that it will be...
14From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 5 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter which I had the honor of writing you on the 15th. of May, in answer to your several memorials of the 8th. of that month, I mentioned that the President reserved, for further consideration, a part of the one which related to the equipment of two privateers in the port of Charleston. The part alluded to, was that wherein you express your confidence that the Executive Government of...
15From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 3 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Louis Osmond , desires me to [convey?] to you the circumstances known to me relative to his emigration to America. Mr. Osmond, about three years ago, arrived in America from France, and brought me letters of recommendation from [several?] persons of rank and character there informing me that his fa[mily?] having from some circumstances lost their fortune there, [he had?]...
16From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Hammond: after receiving his letter of this morning he had called on Mr. Hammond to speak with him on the subject of it, according to the desire he had before expressed to him, that when once each party should have explained fully the ground on which they view the matters in difference between them, they might shorten by oral...
17From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and requests for half after three tomorrow his company to a solo dinner, if no engagement shall happen to stand in his way. PrC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ). Not recorded in SJL .
18From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of your’s of the 19th. instant. In mine of the same date, I had that of stating to you the matter of fact of the President’s requisition to the privateers in question. The development of it’s terms, and the inferences from them will, it is conceived, be most properly referred to the occasion which shall call for them. Such occasion may never happen; but, if it does, the...
19From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Government here has received complaint that the Snow Suckey, belonging to George Makepeace, a citizen of the United States, with her Cargo, belonging chiefly to Peter Le Maigre, and wholly to citizens of the United States, and not at all of the character of contraband, commanded by Anthony Andaulle a citizen also of the United States, and bound from the Port of Philadelphia to Port au...
20From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing you on the 1st. instant on the subject of the Republican sent into New York by the Boston frigate as her tender, I have received a letter from the Minister of France alledging that the Boston captured the Republican within the limits of the protection of the US. Should this be agreeable to the fact in your own judgment, I would request her delivery to her...