1061To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the translation of a letter he received last night from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes and which he supposes should be communicated to the legislature as being in answer to one communicated to them. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letter of...
1062To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Hollingsworth, 24 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours I Received and agreable to Request have Bought Clover seede two Bushels at Eighteen Dollars and this afternoon Mr. Alaxander is to set sail from Frenchtown with the seede for Richmond. He would have started sooner but was Disappointed by the post. […] your very Huml Servt RC ( MHi ); one word illegible; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Post—Philada.”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Dec....
1063From Thomas Jefferson to John F. Mercer, 19 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 13th. I had been waiting two or three days in expectation of vessels said to be in this river and by which we hoped more particular accounts of the late affairs in France. It has turned out that there were no such vessels arriving as had been pretended. However I think we may safely rely that the D. of Brunswick has retreated and it is certainly possible...
1064From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Burwell, 26 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of the 11th. inst. and am happy to be able to explain the appearance of a double employment of trustees in the affairs of Mr. Paradise. This is what was at first arranged, while I was in Europe. It was necessary to have trustees in London who might receive the proceeds of Mr. Paradise’s estate and pay it to his creditors, and to whom the creditors might apply. Dr....
1065To Thomas Jefferson from William Blount, 20 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 18th Instant I had the Honor to receive your letter of the 1st. with the Inclosures. On the 24th I leave this for the ceded Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio from whence I will embrace the first Opportunity of Writing you after I have fixed my Residence. I now suppose it will not be far distant from Judge Campbell’s. I am very happy to hear that friendly...
1066To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to the President a letter just received from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, and will have that of waiting on him in the evening. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress copy), DLC : Jefferson Papers; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy),
1067To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Gamble, 14 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of the 4th. enclosing letters to Monsr. De Reaux, and informing that the 5,000₶ which we were concerned in is paid . I forwarded to London a Bill for 4,000 to J. & T. Gilliat, leaving the date of payment, after presenting, blank for them to fill up, as appeared most advantagiously suited to obtain the money. 21 days was the sight they inserted, and it was returned...
1068To Thomas Jefferson from Seth Jenkins, 7 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Mr. Cotton Gelston of this place, whom I have taken the Liberty of introducing to your acquaintance. His business is to obtain a Patent for Mr. Benjamin Folger , for securing an important discovery he hath made in manufacturing Whale Oil—the particulars of which discovery will be communicated to you by Mr. Gelston. From the information I have had, and the experiments...
1069To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Sr., 25 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I Paid you my respects the 31th. ulto. and just now I receive a Letter from my Friends Messrs. Willing Morris & Swanwick of Philada. of the 23th. Last July, in which they say, “We Congratulate you on your appointment of American Consul at your Port under our new and respectable Government and are with esteem and regard yr. &c. &c.” That is the single advice I have yet received, but I can’t...
1070To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Peters, 13 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to present you with the Plan I send you for a State Society of Agriculture. I drew it up at the Request of our Philada. Society and have Hopes that I shall get it thro’. It is only the Beginning of a Plan I have in View in which, at some future Day, I will attempt embarking our Government. At present I keep it out of View. I wish every State would do something in this Way as the...
1071To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McCaul, 25 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of writting you on the 14th of Augt. last, and have been greatly dissappointed at not hearing from you since, nor receiving the promised remittances. You can easily Judge from the great subject that my Partners and self have in Virginia how hard it is upon us to lye so long out of it as we have done. I therefore hope you will exert yourself to make a payment this year and as...
1072To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
1073To Thomas Jefferson from George Taylor, Jr., 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
G. Taylor Junr. has the honor to inform the Secretary of State that he has inquired respecting the House occupied by the late Mrs. House, now by a Mrs. Dunn, and is told by persons who remained in the City, but cannot give it as authentic, that two Gentlemen have died in it, supposed of the fever. That on this occasion, and being informed that some Nurses of the sick are in possession of...
1074From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 25 February 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
As attorney in fact for Mr. William Short one of the ministers in Europe for the US. I inclose you two 6. per cent certificates of his amounting to three thousand eight hundred ninety three dollars eighty nine cents, to be sold to the best advantage you can for his account, as also to receive three hundred and ninety dollars sixty two cents due on his stock of different descriptions,...
1075From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 11 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This accompanies a duplicate of my letter of Oct. 11. troubling you with some small commissions, to which I must add the having some window sashes made for me agreeable to the inclosed directions, and the sending them to Virginia in the ensuing spring.—But there is another commission with which I trouble you with real reluctance. It is to procure for me from Glasgow or Edinburgh a mason...
1076From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have nothing interesting to tell you from hence but that we are well, and how much we love you. From Monticello you have every thing to write about which I have any care. How do my young chesnut trees? How comes on your garden? How fare the fruit blossoms &c. I sent to Mr. Randolph, I think, some seed of the Bent-grass which is much extolled. I now inclose you some seed which Mr. Hawkins...
1077To Thomas Jefferson from Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s direction Bw. Dandridge has the honor to transmit to the Secretary of State a Resolution of the House of Representatives, just received—and to request the Secretary to furnish the several papers therein required. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Secy. of State”; endorsed by TJ as received 26 Dec. 1793. Dft ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ). FC ( Lb in same, SDC
1078To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 20 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President’s command, T. Lear has the honor to return to the Secretary of State the letter from the Treasurer of Virginia, which has been submitted to him—and to request that the Secretary would inform the President where he can obtain a copy of the new Impression of the Federal City . The President wishes to know if it would not be adviseable, in the Secretary’s Opinion, to have a...
1079To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 26 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a return of the piscatory articles exported from the United States in one year, one month, and ten days, excepting fourteen quarterly returns from twelve ports which have not yet been received. Among these are Boston, Newyork Charleston and five small ports of Massachusetts and Main. From the irregular Manner in which the first returns were made it was...
1080To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President some letters just arrived by the Pigou. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . Tobias Lear added “one from Mr Short & one from Mr Pinckney” to the receiver’s copy of this letter. Thomas Pinckney, in his letter of 29 Aug. from...
1081From Thomas Jefferson to José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar, 17 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We lately received from Mr: Seagrove our Indian Agent for the southern department a letter, of which the enclosed is an extract; whereby it appeared that a party of the Creek indians under the influence of the adventurer Bowles had meditated some depredations on the Spanish settlements, from which they had been diverted by a friend of our Agent; but that their disposition to do injury was...
1082From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering, 3 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Bell of Charlottesville called on me yesterday and informed me that he had recieved your appointment as postmaster at that station, which however he found himself obliged to decline accepting, on account of his frequent absences from home, rendered necessary by his commercial affairs. It was certainly impossible to have named a fitter person, if he would have undertaken it. In the event...
1083From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Sayre, 17 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 13th. on the same subject with one written to the President, and I have the honor to inform you that the circumstances of the case not leaving room for the appointment therein proposed, the offer of service you are pleased to make cannot be made use of. I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedt. humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Mr. Stephen...
1084From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Maria and I are scoring off the weeks which separate us from you. They wear off slowly, but time is sure tho’ slow. Mr. D. Randolph left us three days ago. He went by the way of Presquisle and consequently will not enrapture Mrs. Randolph till the latter end of the month. I wrote to Mr. Randolph sometime ago to desire he would send off Tom Shackleford or Jupiter or any body else on the 1st. of...
1085From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 5 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
In the account of Kippen & co. against my father’s estate which you rendered to Mr. Nicholas there is a sum of £200., charged as paid to Dr. Walker Aug. 16. 1769. for which Dr. Walker has given no credit in his account against the estate, nor does he remember. It becomes necessary therefore for this to be established by producing the voucher. I must pray you to do this and to send me by post,...
1086Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President sends to the Secretary of State the Counter part of An Agreement with the Bank of the U.S. for 800,000 dollars, to have the ratification prepared in the usual way for the President’s signature. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket reads “Washington President June 13. 93. rec’d June 13.” The enclosure was an agreement of 31 May 1793 between Alexander Hamilton and the...
1087From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marx, 4 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with yours of May 29. Some time in the course of the last year I was informed by Mr. Meade that he held a draught of Mr. Ceracchi’s on me for 1000 D. and desired to know if it was good. I explained to him, too much at length to be here repeated, how unfounded the draught was, and that I should not accept it. Nothing further therefore is now necessary than to repeat to you that I...
1088To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 20 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave again to remind your Excellency that in none of the french colonies have they received from the Court of France (officially) the Convention with the United States respecting Consuls &c.—therefore no one of their Governors or Commandants can grant me the necessary exequateur or receive me in any form. With Respect I have the honour to be Your Excellys Mo Obt. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD );...
1089From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 31 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having but a few Hours Notice of the sailing of a Vessel from this Port for Bilboa, I can only avail myself of it so far as to send you a Duplicate of my Letter of April 11th. but not of the Papers which accompanied it. I add the Copy of a Letter and Deposition, which were not then sent, and which shew you that the Practice complained of in Mr. Jay’s Letter of September 9th. 1788 has not been...
1090To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rush, 15 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter Mr. Andrew Brown has applied to me as One among many witnesses of his zeal in promoting the Adoption of the fæderal constitution by means of his paper, and has requested me to add my testimony, of his faithful and meritorious services, to that of his Other friends . His sacrifices to his principles, and to the best interests of our Country have been great. The...