11051From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 21 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved my Polygraph, with which I am now writing, and find it to answer well every where except a small place in the N.W. corner, which is of little consequence. in fact none of them probably can be perfect in every point of the whole field which their dimensions can cover. I now inclose you the 10. D. for the silver pens, & am sorry you did not enable me to judge of the cost...
11052From Thomas Jefferson to William W. Woodward, 21 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 18th. has come to hand, and three volumes of Scott’s family bible had been before recieved at different times. it has been so usual for some person to apply here for the subscriptions for books by those who reside here, that I have not attended to the case of this particular one, nor do I know whether any one has ever called for the subscription. but presuming it has not...
11053To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Banister, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
at a time like the present when, wonderfull Events are taking place in the world does it not become us one and all to look well to our goings and See that we Each fulfill our duty with attention, and diligence. Much hes ben Said on our political affairs but it is not my Intention, To Enter into that field of debate vewing my Self les capable for the task then I was to Serve under General...
11054To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of enclosing herewith a statement showing the amount of monies expended by this Department within the City of washington, in persuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th. Instant. Accept, Sir, the Assurances of my high respect and consideration. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.
11055From Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Dupont and presuming he will know the residence of the person to whom the inclosed is addressed he takes the liberty of putting it under cover to him. it was addressed to Th:J. from France with a special request to have it safely delivered. Privately owned.
11056To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Greenup, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of the Legislature of this State, I transmit to you a copy of several resolutions agreed to in the present session, expressive of the sentiments of this State towards the Government of the United States. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most ob’t. servt DLC : Broadside Collection. Whereas it is considered of importance, that citizens living under the same...
11057From Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. is this moment put into my hands, and as it reminds me of my default in not answering the former, I take up my pen to answer instanter. our prospects are great if we can preserve external & internal peace. with England I firmly expect a friendly arrangement. with Spain we shall possibly have blows; but they will hasten, instead of preventing, a peaceable settlement....
11058To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Leib, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Dr. Muhlenberg of this place, whose reputation as a botanist you are not unacquainted with, is very desirous of possessing the seed of any rare plants that Captain Lewis may have brought with him. As you will be in possession of them, I have taken the liberty of requesting a specimen of any that you may have to spare, for my friend the Doctor. As you have always evinced the strongest...
11059From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This is merely a private letter, intended for yourself individually. if I have not answered the very friendly and flattering address I recieved through you, and the many others I have recieved, it is not from an insensibility to their kind and gratifying contents. no man feels them more powerfully than I do; no breast ever felt more consolation from such testimonies of good will. and the...
11060To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Course of our various Communications in relation to the movements of Col Burr in the Western Country I have from time to time expressed two Opinions, which, as they were not at all countenanced by any of the other gentlemen, I did not deem it expedient to press upon your attention. The more, however, I revolve in my mind those opinions the more are they confirmed. And I cannot longer...
11061To 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...
11062From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now lay before you Accounts of the sums which have been expended by the United States on the Capitol, the President’s house, the public offices, the Navy yard, and the Marine barracks respectively, & the amount expended on other objects of public expence within the city of Washington as requested by your resolution of the 15th. instant. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of...
11063From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate James Leander Cathcart, heretofore Consul of the United States at Tripoli, to be Consul of the United States for the island of Madeira. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
11064From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 23 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of yesterday has been duly considered. what I had myself in contemplation was to wait till we get news from Louisville of Dec. 15. (the day of Burr’s proposed General rendezvous.) the post comes from thence in 12. days. the mail next expected will be of that date. if we then find that his force has had no effectual opposition at either Mariette or Cincinnati, & will not be stopped at...
11065From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Capt. Mc. Neill (formerly commander of one of our frigates) to Capt Tingey asking the command of the revenue cutter at Charleston. he was a good officer, reduced when the navy line was reduced; & therefore entitled to any proper thing we can do for him. I am induced to believe his claims better than those of any other. he is considered as a man of perfect fidelity....
11066From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, 24 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The National legislature, by an Act, at their last session, for laying out & making a road from Cumberland, in Maryland to the State of Ohio, Authorised the President to appoint Commissioners for laying it out in such direction as they should judge proper, & he should approve: & the President, after obtaining the consent of the States through which it should be laid out, was authorised to take...
11067To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 24 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor enclosing Ten Dollars; the payment for the additions to your small Polygraph I have received and that you find it will answer your purpose is a great relief to my mind, I had said that we strove to make it correct, that we could not make it perfectly so, was a mortification to me. I hope it will improve by use; will acquire more freedom, for every joint is closly fitted. Permit me...
11068To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Christian, 24 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Saratoga Rangers, a volunteer Company, of the first New York Regiment of Light Infantry, which I have the honour to command, resolved at a full meeting to tender their Services to their Country. When we formed into a Company it was with a view to engage in actual service whenever the General Welfare should require it. Our Standard was presented by the illustrious Gates, it reminds us of a...
11069To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 24 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The death of our late Consul in Madeira will doubtless be followed by sundry applications for that consulate. The bearer of this Mr Wm S: Shaw has been established some time as a merchant in Madeira. I have known him some years and am confident that he would discharge the duties of a consul in that island with great reputation. He is not only a man of integrity & candour but of much...
11070To Thomas Jefferson from Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 25 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’adresser pour Mr. Provenchere et la lui ai remise à lui même. Permettez moi de Saisir cette occasion de vous offrir l’hommage du profond respect avec lequel j’ai l’honneur d’etre, Monsieur le President, Votre très humble et très obeissant Serviteur MHi : Coolidge Collection.
11071To Thomas Jefferson from John Pearce, 25 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Having taken a Copy right of a pamplet herein inclosed i was directed by Mr Caldwell the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the united States meeting in Phidelphia to send a copy of the same to the Secretary of the united States as the law requir’ed it. I thought the same respect ought to be shew’ed to the president I therefore take the freedom to trouble you to accept of a copy of pricous matter...
11072To Thomas Jefferson from John Taylor, Jr., 25 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of the Subscribers Merchants residing in the City of Philadelphia respectfully represents— That for want of some person residing at Point Petre–Guadaloupe in the Capacity of a Notary Public, your Memorialists have repeatedly found incovience and difficulty in the return of the Proceeds of their Cargo’s or Shipments, and they have frequently experienced the painfull mortification...
11073To Thomas Jefferson from William Waller Hening, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Encouraged by several friends members of the General Assembly and others, I have it in contemplation to undertake the publication of the Statutes at Large, from the first settlement of the colony of Virginia to the present time. But knowing that whoever undertakes a work of that kind must be, in a great measure, dependent upon you for materials, I am unwilling to commit myself until I know how...
11074From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. with the book, has been safely recieved. the Memoires de l’Amerique were packed in a box & sent from Monticello in May last: but owing to the extraordinary fall of the river & the drought which continued till Winter the vessel on board which they were was stopped about midway to Richmond, & the books were left there till November when for the first time the navigation...
11075From Thomas Jefferson to Josiah Masters, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Masters to dine with him on Monday the 29th. at half after three, or at whatever later hour the House may rise The favour of an answer is asked Catalog--Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Tex..
11076To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard McMahon, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is painful to me to trouble you at this period, when you are so much occupied with the important affairs of the Nation; but your goodness I hope will excuse my anxiety, to procure some seeds of the indiginous plants of the western parts of America, if you received such from Capt. Lewis on his return. A small portion of every kind you could conveniently spare, would greatly oblige me and...
11077To Thomas Jefferson from Petrie, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform your Excellency that there will be probably at the end of next week an opportunity for france at Baltimore. if you direct to Mr. le Lorys, Consul of france, the Box of grains which you intended to send by the way of Bordeaux I will take care at my return at Baltimore that it will be put safely on board the vessel. the mentioning that it is an invoice from your...
11078To Thomas Jefferson from William Tatham, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your enquiry of me yesterday, touching the chase of the French Ship by Three Brittish Frigates, I have asked my servant (Joseph Harrison, a Black man of very exemplary truth integrity & confidence) what he reccolects of the circumstances involved in your question. We were four or five nights at Church’s Island, opposite the place where the Ship was burnt, and I flatter myself...
11079To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Brown, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscriber request leave to State Sum facts respecting a wound I received in the late war with great Britian. the papers Containing the evidenc of Said wound are at the war office Signed by the Judge of this district as the law directed. The Secty. at war Says he is not otherised by the act made for pensinors to put me on to the list. as I was a Serjeant when wounded and having recivd....
11080To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson subscribed for 1 copy of Discourses on Chemistry $ 3: $ 3:
11081To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Kerr, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I Recd. late last night your note of that day, and Shall do myself the honor of dining with your Excelency, on monday 29th, agreeable to Request; I have the Honor to be with Sentiments of high respect and esteem Your Excellncys, Obedt. Humb. Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
11082To Thomas Jefferson from Reuben Hopkins, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
We the undersigned, being appointed a Committee on behalf of the republican Citizens of Orange County in the State of New York, for the purpose of expressing their full and unequivocal approbation of your past official conduct, and likewise from the conviction they have of your earnest desire and successful endeavours to promote the harmony independence and interest of the United States, To...
11083To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I could not miss so good an opportunity of writing to you my Dear Grand Papa as now offers itself to tell you I do not regard your not punctually answering my letters as I know how many you have to write. your grass still continues to look very well and will I hope all the winter. I rely upon your indulgence to excuse this short letter as I have not any thing to say to you Mama, Sister Ann,...
11084To Thomas Jefferson from William Neilley, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of a number of the citizens of Franklin and its vicinity in the county of Williamson, Major William Neilley in the chair, the following address and resolutions were unanimously adopted. At a moment like the present, when rumors prevail in the Atlantic states, calculated to excite suspicions of the fidelity of the western inhabitants to the general Union, the citizens of Franklin...
11085From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Adams to dine with him on Wednesday the 31st . at half after three, The favour of an answer is asked. MHi : Adams Papers.
11086From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letters of the 13th. & 20th. the 14£ which you say is still wanting to pay your debts shall be sent by the first or 2d. post of January. I am chagrined at the malconduct of Martin in the toll-mill. I fear I shall be as much disappointed in his principles as in his health. but if in addition to negligence & dishonesty he disobliges our customers, he must be instantly...
11087From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 20th. I would prefer that the door of the North pavilion should be a folding one, opening from the outer architrave into the jamb, so as to enter the room but a little below the chairboard, within, it is to be plaistered. the cornice to be Tuscan of the form of that used in the bedrooms of the house, but proportioned to the height of the room, that is to say,...
11088From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing a letter will still find you at home, I drop you a line to give you the Western news. a letter from Wilkerson of Nov. 30. from N. Orleans informs us he is there & his troops coming down the red river to him; & that he is preparing to cover that place from Burr. this letter comes by water & is therefore here before those we are to infer are on the road informing us of his having...
11089To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Wright, 28 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 24 Instant covering the Act of Congress for laying out a Road from Fort Cumberland to the Ohio, the Report of the Commissioners appointed for that service, and your request that the Legislature of Maryland would give their consent to your cutting the same was received by Mail, and shall on to Morrow be presented to them, and I have no doubt will be duly attended...
11090To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Georgia Revenue Cutter In January 1805, sundry recommendations were received, all of which were thought insufficient. They were in favor of Ths. Allen first mate, Alexr. R. Johnston, & P.S. Laffitte respectively. The collector never announced that there was a vacancy till Octer. 23d 1806 when he recommended N. Newall who had, it seems received a temporary appointment from the former collector,...
11091To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 29 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left home Mr Christie was dangerously Ill, being considered in the last Stage of a consumption, my letters just received Say that he cannot exist another Month—Under those circumstances I beg leave to observe that appointments Such as the Collector tend to increase or diminish the Confidence in the ruling powers, and in Baltimore have a powerful Operation on our Elections & politick the...
11092To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Saunders, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Memorial of twenty citizens of the United States of America confined under sentence of slavery in the dominion; of his most Catholic Majesty the king of Spain, to the President, Senate and House of Representatives, Shews that we your Memorialists are residents of the United States of America, and for the most part of the State and city of New York, and are part of a number of men of the...
11093From Thomas Jefferson to Chief Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My Children, the Wolf and people of the Mandan nation. I take you by the hand of friendship & give you a hearty welcome to the seat of the government of the United States. The journey which you have taken to visit your fathers on this side of our Island is a long one & your having undertaken it is a proof that you desired to become acquainted with us. I thank the great Spirit that he has...
11094To Thomas Jefferson from Paul Lanusse, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Merchants of the City of New Orleans, having long suffered the most serious inconveniences from the irregularity of the Mails, and at length wearied with frequency of disappointed expectation;—by the Chamber of Commerce of that City, respectfully approach your Excellency with their grievance, in the hope of obtaining through you that relief which no representation by any other channel has...
11095To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By directions of our mutual Friend Thos. Newton Esqre. we have Shipped for Richmond directed to Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson one cased qr Cask of sweet wine or Lisbon Malmsey which notwithstanding be allready fined we think it requires to be fined again before to be used & expecting it to your intire Satisfaction we remain with the greatest respect & consideration— Sir! Your most obedient & hble...
11096To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Peters, 30 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Gregg writes to me, that you wish that I should inform you of the Circumstances operating to induce our fixing the Term of 5 Years for the Imprisonment of one Coleman , as Part of the Sentence passed on him, by Judge Washington & myself at the Circuit Court, in April last. For the Purpose, he states, of enabling you to judge of the Propriety of your Interposition to remit Part of the...
11097Shadwell Mills and Houses, 31 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Grounds for estimating the value of the Shadwell mills according to actual cost. The original mill, house dam & every thing else were so compleatly swept off by the great fresh of 1771. that nothing was left but the stones (Peak) & the horns of the spindle imbedded in them. it was then thought that by moving the canal higher up so as to take the water out above the ledge of rocks about ¾ of a...
11098To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 31 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
That part of the letter which relates to the rebuilding of the light house at Smith’s point instead of attempting to secure the ground, which indeed seems hopeless will be laid before the Comee. of Commerce & Manufactures who may report an appropriation for that object. The part which relates to the conduct of the keeper of Cape Henry light house is submitted to the President for his...
11099From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 31 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the keeper of lighthouses should be dismissed for small degrees of remisness, because of the calamities which even these produce, & that the opinion of Colo. Newton in this case is of sufficient authority for the removal of the present keeper. DNA : RG 26—Light House Service.
11100From Thomas Jefferson to Osage Nation, 31 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I welcome you sincerely to the seat of the Government of the United States. the journey you have taken is long and fatiguing, & proves your desire to become acquainted with your new brothers of this Country. I thank you for your visit & I thank the master of life who has preserved you by the way & brought you safely here. I hope you have found yourselves through the whole journey among...