7671To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Douglas, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time is nearly approaching when you will resign the important charge with which you have been invested, and retire with honor to the station of a private Citizen we feel it our duty and do with pleasure embrace the present opportunity of expressing our sincere approbation, of the wise & prudent measures which you have recommended and which have been pursued by Congress, in the...
7672To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The change in the payment of three hundred & siventy five Dollars is perfectly agreeable, to me, I am hurt at your Necessity of selling a part of your land purchasd. of the Hendersons, in yours of the 9th inst You ask me to state, what that part is worth, all that lays south of the Main Road & whithar it woud not sell bettar in lots. It appears to me it lays very well to divide, making two...
7673To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
General Smith (of N Carolina) with his very best Respects has the honour of sending to the President of the United States the Grape Vine promised yesterday—In conversing with Mr. Blackledge last Evening, he fully corroborated the description mentioned in the morning— Genl. Smith hopes it will answer every expectation & that under his own Vine the President may, for many years, enjoy in perfect...
7674To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Smith, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Edward S. Smith of the City of New York. Respectfully sheweth. That your Petitioner is a Native Citizen of the City and State of New York, and disposed to pursue a Military and Naval life having served a regular apprenticeship to the seafaring business is desirous to Obtain the appointment of a Midshipman in the Navy of the United States— Your Petitioner therefore respectfully...
7675To Thomas Jefferson from John Cockle, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor of addressing you yesterday Stating generally What had Occurred here, in violations of the Laws of our Country. I learnt yesterday in N York, that notwithstanding a ship had been caught on Saturday night & her Sails taken from her, She on Sunday Night made another attempt in a violent Storm & before She could any Sails Cast She drifted on Shore & is now in possession of the...
7676To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
As well as I can recollect, there were no talks made by either of the Chiefs alluded to, or answers given, except such as related merely to friendly dispositions on both sides, with some explanations relative to the Treaty of Greenvill, presents were made in the usual way, with recommendations to keep at peace, to cultivate the land, and to discontinue the use of Ardent spirits, &c &c. The...
7677To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "Filo Libertus", 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Take of your Embargo & restore us to freedom, or 300 Yankees Youths between 18 and 20. & 150 of City Washington are resolved on your destruction. Look to it One of the three hundered by the order of the Sectary DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
7678To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I will thank the President for the loan of the survey herein mentioned & which relates, I presume, to the intended communication between the Chesapeake Bay & Albemarle Sound. Respectfully DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
7679To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Distribution which has been made of the 30 vessels authorised by act of 9th instt. Maine Penobscot 1 } 4 The twelve old revenue
7680To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard McMahon, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the Gloucester nuts, and am extremely obliged to you for them; the more so as I have for two or three years past paid particular attention to the Juglans family, and have not been able to make out, to my satisfaction, more than 7 United States species, viz. 1. Juglans nigra, Lin. 2. Juglans cinerea Lin }