251From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 16 November 1792 (Jefferson 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 and New York and she petitions Congress, and the states of New Jersey and New York to have justice done her, offering, if they will pay her the reasonable...
252From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 19 March 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing to your Excellency on the subject of the expedition against Detroit, the want of men, want of money and difficulty of procuring provisions, with some other reasons more cogent if possible and which cannot be confided to a letter, have obliged us to decline that object. I thought it therefore necessary to notify this to your Excellency that no expectations of our undertaking it...
253To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 6 July 1792. Submits to GW the draft of a letter from Jefferson to George Hammond. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . GW replied to Jefferson later this date: “The enclosed will, I think, throw the labouring Oar upon Mr H—— & is approved of accordingly” (
254To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and submits to his approbation an addition to the letter to messrs Carmichael & Short. the circumstances & prospects under which the guarantee of Louisiana had been suggested are so changed, as in his opinion to render it better to retract that suggestion, and to forbid the guarantee. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; AL (letterpress...
255To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inclose to the President his letter to G. Morris, to which he will add any thing the President pleases by way of Postscript or by incorporating it into the letter. a ship sailing from hence for Havre on Monday Th: J. proposes to send his letters for France by that rather than by the French packet. LS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW . The...
256To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return the Indian proceedings with the addition proposed, and to mention to the President that he did not send him in writing the proposition for enquiring into their boundaries, because having spoken to Genl Knox on the subject it was found that their claims had been perfectly explained to Genl Putnam. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59,...
257To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of State has had under consideration the Report of the proceedings of the Secretary of the Territory of the U.S. North West of the Ohio in the absence of the Governor from January the 1st to June 30th 1792. and Reports to the President of the United States that there is nothing contained therein which requires any thing to be done on the part of the President of the United...
258From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 6 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to inclose you a draught of a letter to Governor Pinkney, and to observe that I suppose it to be proper that there should, on fit occasions, be a direct correspondence between the President of the U.S. and the Governors of the states; and that it will probably be grateful to them to recieve from the President answers to the letters they address to him. The correspondence with...
259From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a Note to Mr. Coxe and a letter which is the subject of it. When perused he will ask the favor of the President to stick a wafer into the cover and forward it by post. Mr. Coxe’s note to Th:J. is put into a separate packet among papers to be returned to Th:J. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US. Mount Vernon”;...
260From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote you the day before yesterday, I have recieved a letter of Mar. 25. from Colo. Humphreys informing me that the Queen of Portugal was considerably better: as also mentioning the death of the emperor of Germany. What effect this last event will have on the affairs of Europe, cannot be foreseen, the character of the successor being absolutely unknown. He is 24. years of age. One...
261From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the copies of the Algerine papers which have been made out to form the basis of instructions for the Commissioner to be appointed. The President will be pleased to consider whether he would chuse to have them altered in any particular. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in DNA...
262To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his respects to the President, has the honor of inclosing him a letter he proposes to send to the Speaker today, if approved by the President: also the translation of some papers given him by mister Ternant three or four days ago, which he has not before had time to prepare: also extract of a private letter from mister Short. Th: J. will have the honor of waiting on the...
263To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 24 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. he will mention M. de la Fayette to mister Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the governor. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His...
264To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Report brought by a captain of a ship from Lisbon just in the moment of your departure that France had declared war against several nations, involved in that declaration almost every power of Europe. I therefore suspect that it has arisen from Kersaint’s proposition to declare war against every nation, which a pilot may not have distinguished from a declaration. still I have thought it...
265To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that the papers from Monsr Cointeraux of Paris contain some general ideas on his method of building houses of mud, he adds that he has a method of making incombustible roofs and cielings, that his process for building is auxiliary to agriculture, that France owes him 66,000 livres, for so much expended in experiments & models of his art, but...
266From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to the President Mr. Cooper’s pamphlet which he has perused with much satisfaction, and is thankful for the opportunity of perusing it, furnished him by the kindness of the President. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); addressed: “The President of the U.S.” Not recorded in SJL . Mr. Cooper’s pamphlet was probably Thomas Cooper, A Reply to Mr. Burke’s Invective against Mr....
267To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I have just received intelligence, which though from a private hand, I believe is to be relied on, that a fleet of the enemy’s ships have entered Cape Fear river, that eight of them had got over the bar and many others were laying off; that it was supposed to be a reinforcement to Lord Cornwallis under the command of Genl Prevost. This account which had come through another channel is...
268From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 3 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson respectfully submits to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Hammond on the subject of the prizes taken by the Charleston privateers. Mr. Randolph has read and approved it. He has had no opportunity of communicating it to the Secretaries of the Treasury and War. The former is still prevented from coming to town by the situation of his family. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR );...
269From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When you did me the honor of appointing me to the office I now hold, I engaged in it without a view of continuing any length of time, and I pretty early concluded on the close of the first four years of our republic as a proper period for withdrawing; which, I had the honor of communicating to you. When the period however arrived circumstances had arisen, which, in the opinion of some of my...
270From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and incloses the draught of a letter to Mr. Pinckney in answer to one lately received from him. As Colo. Hamilton, the Attorney General and Th:J. had a meeting on another subject, Th:J. took the liberty of consulting them on it, and has altered it agreeably to their minds. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”;...
271From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the subscription paper he has prepared for enabling the Philosophical society to send Mr. Michaux on the mission through the country between the Missisipi and South sea, and he will have that of waiting on him tomorrow morning on the subject. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. PrC (...
272From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 May 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with your favor of Apr. 24. and received at the same time Mr. Bertrand’s agricultural Prospectus. Tho’ he mentions my having seen him at a particular place yet I remember nothing of it, and observing that he intimates an application for lands in America, I conceive his letter meant for me as Secretary of state, and therefore I now send it to the Secretary of state. He has given...
273To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to add, what I forgot in my former letter, a request to you to be so kind as to communicate to me what you can recollect of Bushnel’s experiments in submarine navigation during the late war, and whether you think his method capable of being used successfully for the destruction of vessels of war. It’s not having been actually used for this purpose by us, who were so peculiarly in...
274From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 11 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, begs leave to express in writing more exactly what he meant to have said yesterday. A journey home in the autumn is of a necessity which he cannot controul after the arrangements he has made, and, when there, it would be his extreme wish to remain. But if his continuance in office to the last of December, as intimated by the President, would,...
275To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from mister Pinckney covering proposals from a mister Holloway to come over as engraver to our mint. it does not appear that mister Holloway was very eminent, as far as we can judge from the expressions in mister Pinckney’s letter: his idea of making it a kind of appointment for life seems inadmissible; and the delay to which his...
276From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 10 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the judgment of the President the rough draught of the Report he has prepared on commerce. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . The text sent to Washington, in the hand of George Taylor, Jr., with revisions made by TJ in response to comments he had solicited from Tench Coxe, is in DLC : TJ...
277To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1791 (Washington Papers)
On view and consideration of the testimonies in favour of mr Anderson’s character, they appear to me to place it on high ground. against this there is no testimony but that of mr Jaquet, which being contradicted by his own former testimony and by the person who committed it to writing, and who seems to have been made acquainted with the subject of it, I should estimate it at nothing, and...
278From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 11 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have given you the trouble of more reading on the subject of Major Lenfant’s letter, than you perhaps intended. I have done it from an apprehension that your mind might not be thoroughly satisfied whether he was not equally justifiable in the demolition of Mr. Carrol’s house, as in the demolition of trees and other obstacles, which he urges in his own justification. The truth is that without...
279From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 13 March 1793 (Jefferson 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 and other...
280From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 14 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects incloses to the President two letters recieved yesterday from Mr. Morris.—He had sent the Observations of Mr. Keith to Mr. Rittenhouse, with a note for his consideration. Th: J. incloses the Note with Mr. Rittenhouse’s answer for the perusal of the President if he thinks them worth the time. P.S. The Proces-verbal accompanying Mr. Morris’s letter has appeared in...
281From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President returns the inclosed. He will mention M. de la Fayette to Mr. Pinckney in a letter he is now about to write, to go by the William Penn on Thursday. The other paper was inserted in Brown’s paper of Friday, probably by the Governor. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Washington. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not...
282From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 2 July 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received from the Committee of Congress at Headquarters three letters calling for aids of men and provisions. I beg leave to refer you to my letter to them of this date on those subjects. I thought it necessary however to suggest to you the preparing an arrangement of officers for the men: for tho? they are to supply our battalions, yet as our whole line of officers almost are in...
283From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and submits to his approbation an addition to the letter to Messrs. Carmichael and Short. The circumstances and prospects under which the guarantee of Louisiana had been suggested are so changed, as in his opinion to render it better to retract that suggestion, and to forbid the guarantee. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President...
284To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President two letters just received from Mr Barclay. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The first of the enclosed letters from Thomas Barclay to Jefferson, written at Gibraltar, was that of 8 Sept., in which Barclay conveyed a detailed...
285From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [ca. 18–19 August 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson on examination of the subject finds that the resolution for restoring or compensating prizes taken by the proscribed vessels was agreed to by the heads of departments and Atty. Genl. on the 5th. There was a difference of opinion how far it should be communicated to Mr. Hammond; the President was pleased to call at the office of Th:J. and to decide in favor of a full...
286To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President the inclosed draught of a clause which he has thought of proposing to the committee to whom the President’s letter with the accounts of the Department of state are referred. he will have the honor of waiting on the President at one aclock, as well to explain any parts of it as to take his pleasure on the whole matter. AL , DNA : RG 59,...
287To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President having been pleased to propose, for consideration, the question Whether it be proper or not to convene the legislature at an earlier period than that at which it is to meet by law? and at what time? I am of the opinion it will be proper. 1. Because the protection of our Southern frontiers seems to render indispensable a war with the Creeks, which cannot be declared, nor provided...
288To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter he received from Mr Short yesterday, by which he expected to leave the Hague on the 12th of December: also the answers he has prepared to the two petitions from Post Vincennes. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW...
289From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President and sends him his report on the subject of commerce with Spain , and the form of a message to the Senate. A second copy is now making out for the President’s own use, so that he may send in the one now inclosed today, assured of receiving the other the moment it is finished. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); endorsed by Lear. Tr (same, SDC ). The...
290From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [21 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President, and sends for his perusal a letter he has prepared for the Commissioners, which will inform him also of Mr. Blodget’s ideas. In the mean time Blodget will be preparing the necessary papers. Th: J. has at length been able to see Dr. Wistar about the big bones. They are at his house, always open to inspection. The Doctor is habitually at home...
291To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
Th. Jefferson had a conference yesterday with mister Madison on the subject recommended by the President. he has the honor of inclosing him some considerations thereon, in all of which he believes mister Madison concurred. he has sketched the heads only, as the President’s mind will readily furnish the developement of each. he will wait on the president at one aclock on some other business,...
292From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [11 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the President. He had expected that the Secretaries of the Treasury and War would have given to the President immediately the statement of facts in the case of the Little Sarah, as drawn by the former and agreed to, as also their Reasons: but Colo. Hamilton having informed Th:J. that he has not been able to prepare copies, Th:J. sends the President the...
293From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [1 February 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Ellicot having sent the inclosed letter from Roberdeau for the perusal of Th: Jefferson, he thinks the 1st. page and 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...
294From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inform the President that his letter to Gouverneur Morris is dated December 17th.—He encloses him a letter from Mr. James Brown just now received. Tr ( DNA : RG 59, SDC ). Washington’s inquiry, if in writing, has not been found and neither it nor the above is recorded in SJL . Evidently Washington made the inquiry in order to give his own letter to Morris the...
295To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
[Philadelphia] 7 July 1792. Sends “a recommendation of a candidate for keeping the lighthouse at Cape Henry.” AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB (photocopy), DLC:GW . The enclosure was a recommendation of John Waller Johnston written by David Meade Randolph of Presque Isle, Va., on 30 June and...
296To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1792 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson, with his dutiful respects to the President of the United States, has the honor to inclose him under an open cover to mister Taylor two letters to M. de Ternant, the one containing an Exequatur for his signature (the commission whereon it is grounded being under the same open cover to mister Taylor) the other an answer to a formal notification of the declaration of war by France...
297To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from mister Seagrove. When he shall have considered of the questions of wages to Albion Coxe (till he shall have qualified himself to draw his regular salary) and the ordering a coinage of 1000 Dollars in small silver for the Treasury, he will be so good as to communicate his determinations. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous...
298To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
The Executive of this State think it expedient and necessary that under our present circumstances the prisoners of war under the Convention of Saratoga be removed from their present situation. Many circumstances have led to this necessity. It will be utterly impracticable as long as they remain with us to prevent the hostile army now in this State from being reinforced by numerous desertions...
299From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington and the Virginia Delegates in Congress, 10 May 1781 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers of the Executive having been almost wholly lost in the visit which was made by General Arnold to this place, we are endeavouring to procure Copies of as many of them as we can. As the Correspondence with your Excellency is among the most important I am to solicit the Favor of you to permit the Bearer hereof Mr. Granville Smith to take Copies of any Letters with which you have been...
300To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1792 (Washington 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 & 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 mister Taylor now carries to him for that purpose. AL...