761To James Madison from James Johnson, 30 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have been engaged in assisting to furnish the Troops of the U States with rations in the State of Louisiana and the Mississippi Territory for several years. Of this I had the honor of informing you last summer when we were so very hard run for funds &c. Proposals is received untill 12 OClock this day for furnishing that and other districts in the U States. I have made proposals again and I...
762To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 29 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Frederic Pursh a naturalized citizen of the United States & author of a Flora of North America lately published being upon his return to that Country with the object of contributing further to the improvement of Agriculture & the advancement of science by means which will require the assistance and encouragement of persons of influence in different parts of our country I have taken the...
763To James Madison from Thomas Walker, 29 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
With the utmost possible deferrence I address Your Excellency which would not have been presumed but for the despotic law of necessity. A fortnight since a petition was transmitted to your Excellency on behalf of your very humble servant, paying [ sic ] a pardon and liberation from a New York Prison where he is confined at the suit of unprovoked maliciousness for having casually without...
764To James Madison from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
J’ai à vous remercier avec la plus vive reconnaissance de la bonté, pleine de graces, avec laquelle Votre Excellence a bien voulu admettre mon Petit-Fils dans le Corps des Midshipmen. J’ose vous répondre qu’il portera dans Son Service un noble Zêle et une grand application. J’ai appris à ces Jeunes Gens là qu’il fallait compter le travail, la fatigue, le péril et la vie pour rien; l’utilité...
765To James Madison from Jean Laffite, 27 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Encoraged by the benevolent dispositions of your Excellency, I beg to be permitted to State a few facts which are not generally known in this part of the union, and in the mean time Sollicit the recommendation of your Excellency near the honnourable Secretary of the treasury of the U. S. whose decision could but be in my favour, if he only was well acquainted with my disinterested conduct...
766To James Madison from Daniel D. Tompkins, 27 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
At a recent council which I held with the Seneca nation of Indians they begged me to address you in their behalf, relative to the nonpayment of their annuity, and of the interest of the stock which they held in the late United States Bank. They stated that these payments had been witheld from them at a time when the war between Great Britain and America rendered the receipt of their regular...
767To James Madison from Jacob Barker, 26 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Will you allow me to ask the favour of you to enquire into the proceedings at law against me and my Securities by the United States on account of some Bills of Exchange which I furnished the Treasury Department last year in connection with the Contract I made for the loan of five Millions of Dollars. After you become acquainted with the facts of the case I shall be particularly obliged if you...
768To James Madison from David Daggett, 26 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have received by the mail of this day a letter inclosing a Petition to the President of the United States in behalf of Aaron West, a sergeant in the 6th: Regiment of United States infantry stationed upon Governors Island near NewYork, stating that the Petitioners are apprehensive that as he has been lately tried by a Court martial for desertion, he may be under sentence of death, & praying...
769To James Madison from Nathan Sanford, 26 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Sanford, has the honor to present his respects to the President; and begs leave to say, that he has been requested by James Fairlie Esquire of New York, to suggest his name, for the place of Commissioner to determine the line between the United States and the Canadas. The suggestion, is accordingly offered, with all delicacy and respect. It is one, concerning which, there will be no...
770To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 25 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
I would hereby take the liberty of introducing to your notice the bearer of this, Mr. Hassler, who has recently returned from Europe, with the apparatus of instruments, which, in execution of his mission for that purpose, he had there procured for the Government of the United States. A descriptive list of these instruments (which are at present in my custody) has lately been transmitted to the...