201To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends him a letter from Mr Short. Also a circular letter he has written to the foreign ministers at Philadelphia, in order to place his Report on commerce on safe ground as to them. Also a copy of the statement of the French debt as furnished me by mister Ternant. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
202From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state, to whom has been referred by the President of the United States, the Report of the proceedings in the Executive department of the North Western territory, for the month of July 1791. made by the Secretary of the said territory, thereupon Reports That the letter of July 12. 1791. therein entered, having been already communicated to the legislature of the United states,...
203To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson having had the honor at different times heretofore of giving to the President conjectural estimates of the expences of our foreign establishment, has that of now laying before him in page. 1. of the inclosed paper, a statement of the whole amount of the foreign fund from the commencement to the expiration of the act which will be on the 3d of March next, with the actual expences...
204To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President translations of some communications from Messrs Viar & Jaudenes, also a letter for Mr Pinckney. LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The letter from José de Jaudenes and José Ignacio de Viar to Jefferson of 18 June described “different acts practised” by Gov. William Blount and others in the Southwest...
205From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 11 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a memorial from Mr. Hammond. He proposes to ask a meeting with the Secretaries of the treasury and war at 9. aclock tomorrow, in time to write by the post of tomorrow. Should the President think fit that the inclosed should be the subject of deliberation, it may be considered at the same time. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The...
206To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I have received at this place the honour of your letters of Oct. 13 and Nov. 30 and am truly flattered by your nomination of me to the very dignified office of Secretary of state: for which permit me here to return you my humble thanks. Could any circumstance seduce me to overlook the disproportion between it’s duties & my talents it would be the encouragement of your choice. but when I...
207From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [7 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Smith supposes the bill he incloses must be laid before Congress. On a former suggestion of the same kind , Th:J. being able to find nothing which rendered it necessary, consulted the Attorney General, who was of opinion it was not necessary, but promised [to] make more diligent enquiry. The result will now be asked of him by Th:J. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); undated, but endorsed by...
208To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed extract of a Letter from Governor Nash which I received this Day being a confirmation of the intelligence I transmitted in a former Letter I take the liberty of handing it forward to your Excellency. I am informed through a private channel on which I have considerable reliance that the enemy had landed 500 troops under the command of a Major Craig who were joined by a number of...
209To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 3 July 1792. Encloses “to the President a letter just recd from Colo. Humphreys.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed letter from David Humphreys, U.S. minister to Portugal, to Jefferson of 3 May 1792 concerned the recent assassination of Gustav III of...
210From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 January 178[6] (Jefferson Papers)
A conversation with the Count de Rochambeau yesterday obliges me to write a supplementary letter to that of the 4th. instant. He informs me that he has had applications for paiment from the person who furnished the badges for the Cincinnati, as well the Americans as French, that this person informed him they were not paid for, that he had furnished them indeed on the application of Major...
211To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President a letter to the Govr of Georgia, & two others on the occasion of mister Ternant’s recall. he sends at the same time the letters which were written on the recall of Mr De Moustier, as it is necessary to preserve a certain proportion between the expressions used on these occasions. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
212To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson having prepared a written opinion on the Question Whether Passports should be granted to vessels belonging to American citizens, but of foreign built, has the honor of inclosing it to the President as an explanation of the principles on which the affirmative was adopted yesterday. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . In the enclosed opinion of 3 May, Jefferson...
213From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 8 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President 3 copies of the papers on the subject of the Coins. He does not see however that it is necessary to send one to the Senate, unless usage has rendered it so. He has retained the Directors original statement, thinking it ought to be of record in his Office, as it may be the foundation of a Law. Tr ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, SDC ); at head of...
214Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 12 July 1790 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Abstract. 12 July 1790, New York. Secretary Jefferson reports to Washington that he “had a conference yesterday with mr. Madison on the subject recommended by the President. He has the honor of inclosing him some considerations thereon, in all of which he believes mr. Madison concurred.” The enclosure, in Jefferson’s hand, delineates “the conduct we are to observe in the war between Spain and...
215To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President draughts of the instruments which he suggested as proper to be given formally to each tribe of Indians whose circumstances may call for such a manifestation of our views with respect to them. the first is a Letter of protection of the ordinary tenor, except that it declares a protection of the lands as well as the persons & other...
216From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 23 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State has had under consideration the Official Communications from the Secretary of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio, from January 1st. to June 30th. 1791 inclusive: and thereupon reports to the President, that none of the said Communications appear to require any thing to be done on the part of the Government of the United States; that they...
217V. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a copy of the questions to be proposed to the judges, which he has endeavored to make with exactness, but cannot be sure he may not have mistaken some of the interlineations of the original. He has added at the end those from his own paper which were agreed to. They are the numbers 22. &c. to the end. He incloses also the rough draughts...
218To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
We are still without any occurrence foreign or domestic worth mentioning to you. it is somtime since any news has been recieved from Europe of the political kind, and I have been longer than common without any letters from mister Short. Colo. Hamilton has taken a trip to Bethlehem. I think to avail myself also of the present interval of quiet to get rid of a headach which is very troublesome,...
219To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1791 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of state having recieved information from Thomas Auldjo, who was appointed Vice consul of the United States at Cowes in Great Britain, that his commission has not been recognised by that government, because it is a port at which no foreign Consul has been yet recieved, and that it has been intimated to him, that his appointment to the port of Poole and parts nearer to that than...
220From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, incloses him a publication by Mr. Knox an Under-secretary of state in England, who seems to have been the true parent of the British system with respect to our commerce. He asks the favour of the President to read the paper No. 18. page 60. as it shews the expectation of what would be done on our part, and an acknolegement of the injury it...
221To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the papers from Johanna Lucia Henrietta Hinrichsen, a Danish subject, state that she is entitled to inherit from her brother Daniel Wriesburg deceased two tracts of land in New Jersey & New York and she petitions Congress, & the states of New Jersey & New York to have justice done her, offering, if they will pay her the reasonable rents...
222To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses him draughts of letters in the Algerine business. in that to Colo. Humphreys he proposes a modification of the former instructions in one point, on a presumption that the President will be disposed to approve it. he will wait on him to-day to know his pleasure, as also to submit to his consideration the question of Mr Genet’s reception...
223To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson ⟨w⟩ith his respects to the President is sorry to inclose him an account of mister Barclay’s death in a letter to a mister Callahan of this place from his brother in Lisbon. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosed “Extract of a Letter dated Lisbon 24th January...
224From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly considered the translation of the letter of Dec. 27. from M. de la Forest stating that the French Consuls here have a right to recieve their salaries at Paris, that under the present circumstances they cannot dispose of their bills, and desiring that our government will take them as a remittance in part of the monies we have to pay to France. No doubt he proposes to let us have...
225To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 10 Nov. 1791. Sends a copy of a report he has prepared for the Senate. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . On 3 Nov. the U.S. Senate requested the secretary of state to prepare a report on the petition presented by John Mangnall on 2 Nov. requesting a pension and compensation for losses during the Revolutionary War ( Annals of Congress Joseph Gales, Sr., comp....
226To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter just received from mister Hammond, & the answer he proposes to give to it. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The enclosed letter from George Hammond to Jefferson of 8 Aug. inquired whether the French privateers Citoyen Genet, Petite...
227To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the 18th instant the enemy came from Portsmouth up James river in considerable force, tho’ their numbers precisely are not yet known to us. they landed at Burwells ferry below Williamsburg & near the mouth of Chickahominy above it. this latter circumstance obliged Colo. Innes who commanded a body of Militia stationed on that side the river to cover the country from depredation, to retire...
228From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson having received information that a vessel sails from New York for Amsterdam about Wednesday , is endeavoring to get ready the necessary papers for Messrs. Short and Carmichael, to go by tomorrow’s post. He beleives it impossible; but in order to take the chance of it, he troubles the President to sign the Commission to-day, which Mr. Taylor now carries to him for that purpose. RC...
229From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 20 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with yours of the 15th. instant, and not a little mortified with the miscarriage of so many of my letters. They have been of the following dates Mar. 27. Apr. 24. Apr. 2. May 1. Apr. 10. May 8. Apr. 17. May.15. June. 5. from Bennington. Of these it appears that only the three first and that of May 15. had come to hand, and probably that of June 5. has been recieved ere this....
230To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1792 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on the passage of the Act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations, I desired the bankers of the United States in Amsterdam, to raise an account with the Secretary of State of the United States, to be confined to the objects of that Act, and requested them and our Ministers abroad to make up their accounts from July to July annually, and...
231To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson respectfully submits to the President the draught of a letter to mister Hammond on the subject of the prizes taken by the Charleston privateers. Mr Randolph has read & approved it. he has had no opportunity of communicating it to the Secretaries of the Treasury & War. the former is still prevented from coming to town by the situation of his family. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous...
232To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns him Montmorin’s letter, which he thought he would wish to keep, & sends him a letter from Govr. Chittenden, open as he received it. also the letter from Algiers in which there is nothing new but their present marine force in the last page but one. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
233From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my duty to suggest to your attention that in the act of the late session of Congress for making certain appropriations, is a clause enacting that a sum of 50,000 D. in addition to former provision be appropriated to defray any expence which may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the U.S. and foreign nations, and to add that the public service will be advanced by having...
234To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honour to inclose him the following papers. 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),
235From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter he has received from Mr. Bournonville, and his answer. He is in hopes Mr. Dandridge will be able to translate the letter to the President, and if he approves of the answer he will be pleased to stick a wafer in it, as well as in the cover to Mr. Bankson. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the United States at...
236To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 9 October 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of answering, by the return of post, your favor of Sep. 27. recieved this day, inclosing the letter & memorial of messieurs King, Pratt & others, owners of the ship Andrew, & her cargo, desiring the interposition of the Executive on account of the cargo of rice taken by a decree of the general council of L’orient, & of the freight & detention of the vessel. the memorialists...
237To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to subjoin the alteration he suggested in the last paragraph of the President’s speech. Having read Colo. Humphreys’ letters after mister Short’s he had been led into an erroneous arrangements of the facts they state. Colo. Humphreys’ letter mentioning the king’s refusal of the constitution is of Aug. 22. while it appears by mister Short’s letter of Aug. 30. that...
238To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to the President the opinion on the two cases of vessels referred to the Heads of the department, and the letter he has prepared in consequence to the Attorney of the district. Genl Knox will wait on him with his letter to the Governor. Symmes’s case is to be considered of tomorrow, as it required some enquiry. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters;...
239From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends a sketch of such a message as he thinks might accompany the statement from the Secretary at war. He does not know whether the President intended that an estimate of the next years operations should accompany it. But he thinks it a proper occasion to bring forward the preparations for the next year, and that it forms the safest...
240To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
Mr Ellicot having sent the inclosed letter from Roberdeau for the perusal of Th: Jefferson, he thinks the 1st page & 2 or 3. lines of the 2d worth reading by the President. the rest contains communications of small news. he has learnt that Majr Lenfant, after his conversation with Th: J. wrote to Roberdeau to continue 50. hands; which shews he means to continue himself. Is the President’s...
241To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a second complaint of Peter LeMaigre a merchant of this city, for a second vessel taken from him by the British. in the former case, which happened during the absence of the President, it was unanimously agreed by the heads of the departments that it would be proper to communicate the case to Mr Hammond, and desire his interference. AL ,...
242From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 13 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to lay before you a communication from Mr. Hammond Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty covering a clause of a statute of that country relative to it’s commerce with this, and notifying a determination to carry it into execution henceforward.—Conceiving that the determination announced could not be really meant as extensively as the words import, I asked and...
243To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the Director of the Mint has occasion for a sum of money for the following purposes. D[ollars] for the house purchased 1600.£ Pensylvania or 4266.66 for about 15. tons of copper to be procured. abt 5000. on account for workmen &c. 733.34 10,000. making in the whole ten thousand Dollars. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL...
244From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Having had the honor of communicating to you in my letter of the last of July, my purpose of retiring from the office of Secretary of state at the end of the month of September, you were pleased, for particular reasons, to wish it’s postponement to the close of the year. That term being now arrived, and my propensities to retirement daily more and more irresistible, I now take the liberty of...
245From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 November 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Richmond, 10 Nov. 1780. Encloses copy of intercepted letter from Gen. Leslie to Lord Cornwallis; describes circumstances of its capture in same terms as in letter to Gates of this date, q.v. An added paragraph reports the capture of deserters from the Convention army in same terms as in letter to Huntington of this date, q.v. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); 2 p.; in a clerk’s hand, with...
246To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President & incloses him some letters for his perusal. those from G. Morris & mister Short require immediate notice, because there are vessels about to sail by which answers should be sent. the President will see by mister Remsen’s letter the peculiar misfortune of the dispatches to Carmichael & Short, of which, from their particular delicacy, it was...
247To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1781 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Letter will inform you of the arrival of a British Fleet in Chesapeake Bay. The extreme negligence of our stationed expresses is no doubt the cause why as Yet no authentic account has reached us of a general action which happened on the 15. instant about a mile and a half from Guilford Court House, between General Green and Lord Cornwallis. Captain Singleton an intelligent Officer...
248To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Jefferson, 12 Dec. 1792. An ALS , sold by Anderson Galleries, Howard K. Sanderson Sale, lot 471, 1–3 May 1916. According to the catalog entry, this letter asks GW to call at Jefferson’s house, when riding out, to see Samuel Mulliken’s model of a machine for sawing stone. The commissioners for the federal district had brought Samuel Mulliken and his saw for cutting...
249From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 29 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President draughts of letters to Mr. Short and the Marquis de la Luzerne. As to the former he asks his attention to the paragraph respecting the devices for the Medal.—He hopes he will change and accomodate the letter to M. de la Luzerne to his own ideas of the part that gentleman acted, and of the length proper to go in expressing our sense of it....
250IV. Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 15 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs pardon of the President for being later in sending the inclosed than he had given him reason to expect. The sole cause has been that the act of copying took him longer than he had calculated. He will have the honor of waiting on the President to answer any thing which he may have omitted materially in these papers. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of [the...