47341Proclamation Appointing a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, 11 November 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas the Honourable the General Congress, impressed with a grateful sense of the goodness of Almighty God, in blessing the greater part of this extensive continent with plentiful harvests, crowning our arms with repeated successes, conducting us hitherto safely through the perils with which we have been encompassed and manifesting in multiplied instances his divine care of these infant...
47342Henry Hamilton’s Parole, 10 October 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I Henry Hamilton Lieutenant Governour and Superintendent of Detroit do hereby acknowledge myself a Prisoner of War to the Commonwealth of Virginia and having permission from his Excellency Thomas Jefferson Governor of the said Commonwealth to go to New York do pledge my faith and most sacredly promise upon my Parole of Honor that I will not do, say, write or cause to be done, said or written...
47343Impressment Warrants to Various Persons, November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas by an act passed at the General Assembly holden in the month of may in this present year and intituled an act for giving further powers to the Governeur and Council and for other purposes, authority was given for obtaining by impress among other things so many horses waggons and necessaries as might be wanting to supply the militia and other troops ordered into actual service. These...
47344Notes on British and American Alienage, [1783] (Jefferson Papers)
Qu. 1. Can an American citizen, adult, now inherit lands in England? Natural subjects can inherit. Aliens cannot. There is no middle character. Every man must be the one or the other of these. A Natural subject is one born within the king’s allegiance and still owing allegiance. No instance can be produced in the English law, nor can it admit the idea of a person’s being a natural subject and...
47345Thomas Jefferson’s Notes for a Biography of George Wythe, [ca. 31 August 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Notes for the biography of George Wythe . George Wythe was born about the year 1727. or 1728. of a respectable family in the county of Elizabeth city on the shores of the Chesapeak . he inherited from his father a fortune sufficient for independance & ease. he had not the benefit of a regular education in the schools, but acquired a good one of himself, and without assistance; insomuch as to...
47346Memo re Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
books given to Th:J. Randolph. Sep. 4. 08. Homeri Ilias. Coluthus & Tryphiodorus. Virgil. Serotype. Lucan. Elzevir 1651. Claudian. Elzevir. 1650. Silius Italicus. Jansson. 1620. Ovid. Met. Lugduni. 1568. Juvenal et Persius. Blaeu. 1668. do. Leers. 1683. Horace. Wetstenii 1719. Senecae tragoed. Amst. 1568. Plautus. Jansson. 1650. Terence. Wetstenii do. Jansson. 1619. Autonius. Blaeu....
47347Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Capitals for University of Virginia Buildings, [after 6 March 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
I D N o I . East. Ionic. 4. Capitels . dim d diam. 26 ½ cost 240. freight
47348Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 1 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
May 1. present the 4. heads of departmts. a letter from the Mayor of N.Y. complaing. of the murder lately committed, & the trespasses by the Leander, Cambrian & Driver, & asking for a naval force. also the deposns of Pierce & . it was considd. that the laws had made an establishmt of 900 men for the navy in peace, with power to employ them in any vessels we thought proper; that these might...
47349Jefferson’s Compromise Motion concerning Ratification of the Definitive Treaty, [2 January 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas it is stipulated in the definitive treaty of peace between the United states and his Britannic majesty that the ratifications of the said treaty shall be exchanged on or before the 3d. day of March next and there now remains before that period little more time than is requisite for the passage of the said ratification across the Atlantic; And Congress consisting at present but of 7....
47350Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 25 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
25. present at first the 4. heads of depmt, but after a while Genl. Dearborne withdrew unwell. dispatches from Genl. Wilkinson to myself of Oct. 21. by a confidential officer (Lt. Smith) shew that overtures have been made to him which decide that the present object of the combination is an expedition by sea against Vera cruz: and by comparing the contents of a letter from Cowles Meade to the...
47351Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 11 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 11. present the 4. Secretaries. qu. shall Rogers be removd in N.Y.? unan. to let lie till Congress. Qu. whether we shall proclaim the French treaty, or wait and lay it before the Senate? unan. not to proclaim but to say to Pichon we will go on with the exn. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 112:19297); entirely in TJ’s hand; follows, on same sheet, Notes on a Cabinet Meeting of 22 Oct. Louis André...
47352I. Notes on Washington’s Questions on Neutrality and the Alliance with France, [before 28 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
1st. Principle. the people the source of all authority the Constituent in all treaties this answers Qu. II. III. IV. V. VI. XII. 2d. Principle. the Legislature alone can declare war the question of Guarantee is a question of war. this answers Qu. VII. VIII. IX–X. Qu. XI. Art. 17. French ships of war & privateers with prizes may come & go freely, < with prizes > English do. may not. If...
47353Notes on Conversation on Rufus King, 25 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Gunn (of Georgia) dining the other day with Colo. Hamilton said to him, with that plain freedom he is known to use, ‘I wish Sir you would advise your friend King, to observe some kind of consistency in his votes. There has been scarcely a question before Senate on which he has not voted both ways. On the Representation bill, for instance, he first voted for the proposition of the...
47354Notes of a Conversation with George Hammond, 17 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 17. Hammond says the person is here to whom the 6. nations delivered the invitation for Simcoe to attend, who says they insisted on it and would consider his non-attendance as an evidence that he does not wish for peace. But he says that Simcoe has not the least idea of attending.—That this gentleman says we may procure in Upper Canada any quantity of provisions, which the people will...
47355Account of Guard for British Prisoners, [5 October 1777] (Jefferson Papers)
£ Acct of the guard as presented by Bernis Brown was for himself from Nov. 15. 1776 to May. 15. 1777. 181 days @ 2/ 18 2 0 to 10. privates from Nov. 15. 1776. to Apr. 10. 1777. 146 days @ 1/4 97 6 8 to 4. privates from Apr. 10. to May 15. 35. days @ 1/4 9 6 8 to 6 ¾℔ candle 6 9 125 2 1 Certified the above.
47356Notes on Executive Departments, [after 21 March 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Departmt. of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { Regular troops Militia Pensioners Posts stores Navy Indian affairs Department of the Treasury . . . . . . { Customs Excises other matters of Revenue { qu. Light houses.
47357Enclosure: Revocation of Duplaine’s Exequatur, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
George Washington President of the United States of America. To all whom it may concern. The Sieur Antoine Charbonet Duplaine heretofore having produced to me his Commission as Vice Consul for the Republick of France, within the States of New Hampshire, Massachussets, and Rhode Island, and having thereon received from me an Exequatur bearing date the fifth day of June 1793. recognising him as...
47358Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson, [ca. 12 September 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Account Sales of 19 Bbls flour & One Hhd Tobacco for Th: Jefferson 1820 May 1 Recd for 1 Hhd Tobacco Shockoe TJ 1710.160.1550. Refused @ $5.10 $79. 05 June 21
47359Proclamation on the Embargo, 19 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas information has been received that sundry persons are combined or combining and confederating together on lake Champlain and the Country thereto adjacent for the purposes of forming insurrections against the authority of the laws of the United States, for opposing the same and obstructing their execution, and that such combinations...
47360Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 8 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 8. present the 4. heads of department. agreed on instructions to Genl. Wilkinson which see. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
47361Extract from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 12 September 1810, document 2 in a group of documents on … (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Directors of the Rivanna company at Shadwell mills on Wednesday the 12 th Sep. 1810. present W m D. Meriwether , Nimrod Bramham , John Kelly and Dabney Minor . Upon taking a view of
47362IV. Draft of a Model Treaty, 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
The parties being willing to fix in a permanent and equitable manner the rules to be observed in the commerce they desire to establish between their respective countries, have judged that the said end cannot be better obtained than by taking the most perfect equality and reciprocity for the basis of their agreement. On these principles I. Cases where both parties are in full peace . , after...
47363Notes on Expenses, [ca. 1 May 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
£ Col o Branham 3–6–6
47364III. Partial Draft: Judiciary, Juries, and Naturalization, [before 12 November 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Judiciary. The Judiciary system of the US. and especially that portion of it recently erected will of course present itself to the contemplation of Congress; and that they may judge of the proportion which the institution bears to the business it has to perform, I have caused to be procured from the several states and now lay before Congress an exact statement of all the cases decided since...
47365Passes for Poellnitz and Others, [25 August 1779] (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Capt. Pelnitz , one of the aids de camp to Majr. Gen. Riedesel of the German Convention troops now within this commonwealth, has permission to pass, attended by his servant, from the county of Albemarle along such direct roads as he shall chuse to the Medicinal springs in the county of Berkeley there to continue with Majr. Genl. Riedesel or his family and to accompany them on...
47366Notes on Newspaper Articles, 21 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
1797. Nov. 30. good cautions to prevent fire . Adams & Larkin’s paper of this date. Dec. 1. Pleasant’s paper . an excellent piece on the bank of the US. shewing they draw 960,000 D. profits on 2. millions actual cash which is 48. per cent. Bache’s. Mc.kain’s charge on the subject of libels . 1798. Feb. 3. & 5 16. Brown’s paper, 3 excellent pieces (by Tenche Coxe ) the 1st. fixg. the dates of...
47367Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the Central College, 7 October 1817 (Madison Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors &c. held at Charlottesville 7. Oct: 1817. On information of the amount of the subscriptions to the Central College, known to be made, and others understood to be so, the board resolves, that the Pavilion now erecting be completed as heretofore directed, with the 20. dormitories attached to it, and that two other pavilions be contracted for and executed the next...
47368Memorandum of Advice for the President, 12 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Verbal answer proposed to the President to be made to the Committee who are to wait on him with the resolution of the 10th. inst. congratulatory on the completion and acceptance of the French constitution. That the President will, in his answer, communicate to the king of the French, the sentiments expressed by the H. of representatives in the resolution which the committee has delivered him....
47369Memo on Wines, Food, Other Items Shipped to Monticello, 10 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Sent to Monticello. Mar. 10. 06. No. 1. 2. two pipes Marsalla 3. 4. two Qr. casks Bucellas & Termo. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
47370Notes on Conversations with John Beckley and George Washington, 7 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
June. 7. 93. Mr. Beckley, who is returned from N. York within a few days, tells me that while he was there Sr. John Temple, Consul genl. of the Northern states for Gr. Br. shewed him a letter from Sr. Gregory Page Turner a member of parliament for a borough in Yorkshire , who he said had been a member for 25 years, and always confidential for the ministers, in which he permitted him to read...