1From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 27 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Will mr Rodney be so good as to meet the heads of departments here this morning at 11. aclock? Privately owned.
2From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 1 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Rodney judge Rodney’s letters with thanks for the communication. he has entire confidence that the Atty General will spare no attention or effort to have all the evidence which exists produced in the developement of the late conspiracy. should not Ashley, when at Richmond, have been subpoenaed as a Witness? the case of the Attorney and Marshal of the territories...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 23 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the message, and pray you to suggest, on a separate paper, such alterations as you shall think for the better either in the matter or style. I must ask the return of it this evening because mr Coles has to make 4. copies, & will have only two days to do it in. it comes to you thus late, as time was necessary for it to go through the hands of the other gentlemen. Affectte....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Rodney. he found on his arrival here yesterday his two letters of Sep. 21. & 24. and doubts not mr Rodney has recieved the pardon from the office of State. he returns him the 2. letters of judge Rodney as requested & thanks him for the communication of them. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 17 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments at mr Madison’s house at 11. aclock this forenoon. Privately owned.
6From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Burr, Blannerhasset, S. Swartwout & Martin are here. can & should the two first be arrested & sent to Kentucky for treason, & the two last for Misdemeanors, committed by the one in Orleans, the other in Maryland? be so good as to satisfy yourself on these points, & if affirmatively, on your informing me so, I will call a consultation. affte. salutations. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
7From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of Depts. tomorrow at 12. Oclock. CtY .
8From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 20 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great reluctance I break in on the tranquility & happiness you are enjoying in the bosom of your family, by suggesting the necessity of your presence here. immediately on the arrival of mr Gallatin, whom we expect every hour, consultations will be to be held on several matters of great importance, in which we shall be happy to have your aid. add to this that some matters of...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Can mr Rodney inform Th:J. whether Genl. Bowie and mr Wilkinson (are these their titles?) are still in town & where? he wishes to invite them to dine to-day. PHi .
10From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A consultation is necessary to-day, and as notice could not be given last night, the hour must depend on mr Gallatin’s arrival at his office, he being generally the latest & most uncertain as to his hour. will you be so good as to be within reach at that time? Catalog--Gallery of History.
11From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State requests the favor of the opinion of the Attorney General upon the right of the Territorial Governors to remit penalties, and return the enclosed letter from the Governor of Michigan upon which the question arises. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
12From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the heads of departments and Atty Genl to meet to-day at 12. oclock on a consultation. Catalog--Paul C. Richards Autographs.
13To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have attentively considered the enclosed statement & opinion of Mr. Derbigny relative to the batture in front of the suburb St. Mary at the city of New-Orleans, & concur with him in sentiment, if the case be correctly stated. This I am bound to presume as it has been officially communicated to you by Governor Claiborne whose letter I have sent to the President. Yours Very Respecy. & Sincey....
14To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 22 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of the 21st. inst: by the mail of this morning & shall obey your friendly call with great cheerfulness. I shall leave home tomorrow in my own carriage & bring Mrs. Rodney with me, for whom I have been waiting for several days. With great esteem & respect Yours Very Sincerely & Affecy. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
15From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments at 10. aclock tomorrow. Privately owned.
16To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 22 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor of the 20th. inst: by the mail of this day. I shall leave this on Saturday morning in a carriage hired for the purpose & shall loose no time on my journey. I would have set off tomorrow but it was not in my power to make the necessary arrangements; & I would have taken the stage, but the duties of the office with which you have honored me, require that I should bring a...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 22 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I very much suspect that the date of the letter quoted in the message is quoted wrong. the contents are correctly stated & well remembered. I believe it will be necessary for you to send me the whole bundle, unless you can readily lay your hand on the letter substantially agreeing with the message, & on Genl. Wilkinson’s letter to Genl. Smith of the same import. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
18From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
It is the wish of the President that you pay to Daniel Brent, the agent of Mr. John Graham, the sum of three hundred and Eighty dollars and twenty five cents, being for the reimbursement of expenses incurred by Mr. Graham in his late tour thro’ the Western Country, by direction of the President. With great respect &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
19From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the heads of departments and Atty. Genl. to meet to-day at 12. aclock on a consultation. Privately owned.
20From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 1 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the Attorney Genl. to attend him tomorrow (Monday) at 11. oclock at a consultation of the heads of departments. DGU .
21From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The constitution giving to the Supreme court exclusive jurisdn in all cases affecting Ambassadors Etc.— cannot the within mentioned case be removed into that court? when there, a Nolle Prosequi may be entered. for it is indignant that a man remaining here in defiance, and himself entering the field of the newspapers in the most insolent stile, should have the counter-insolencies punished. DeHi .
22From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 19 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Rodney his thanks for the drawings of Madison’s & Amen’s caves, which he is glad to recieve; for altho within 25. miles, he has never seen the new cave. he knows nothing of Burr’s trial but from the newspapers, which exhibit strange scenes indeed. it is impossible Congress should not take up that subject. he salutes mr Rodney affectionately. NHi .
23From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. incloses a paper to mr Rodney to do in it what may be necessary, which he presumes will be, according to the decisions of the judge, nothing! he proposes to be in Washington Octob. 3. affectionate salutations. ViU .
24From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The bill referred to in the enclosed is not recieved, but I suppose may be expected hourly. how shall I proceed to have it paid so as to keep the account in the same form, that is to say, still in your name? when shall we have the pleasure and advantage of seeing you here? Affectionate salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
25From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I think I remember that on the question whether the court of one district could have an attachment executed in another to compel the attendance of a witness, you satisfied us it could not. will you have the goodness to give me a formal opinion on that question with as little delay as convenient? I presume it could no more enforce the giving a deposition. an existing case may render necessary a...
26From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed documents from Judge Lucas, evince a difference of opinion between him & the acting Governor. Should the construction of the latter be erronious it may be necessary to warn him of it. I therefore request the favor of your sentiments upon the case. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
27To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 16 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance William Cooch Esq. a very reputable & influential citizen of New-Castle County in the State of Delaware & for many years a member of the legislature. His political principles are those of a genuine Republican. He is going on business to Virginia & wishes on his way to call & pay his personal respects to you. I am Dear Sir Yours Very...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 9 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment received the enclosed which I hasten to transmit by the return of the mail Yours Most Sincerely DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
29From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not sooner been able to acknolege the reciept of your favors of the 21st. & 29th. ult. and to thank you for the communication of the letters they covered, & which are now re-inclosed. the designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. but the parallel he has selected from history for the model of his own course corresponds but by halves. it is true in it’s principal...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 31 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your note enclosing one of Capt. Truxtun’s. We this day argued the case of Burr before Marshall C.J. who will give an opinion tomorrow. Burr spoke a few minutes after his Counsel had done, & in my humble opinion much to his disadvantage. My impression is, that he will be held to bail for treason, from what fell from the C. justice, immediately after I had closed the argument. I may...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 22 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Burr, as a prisoner under a guard of 10. men, passed Coweta 800. miles from here, on the 3d. inst. at 30. miles a day he will be at Cartersville on James river on Thursday the 26th. there is not therefore one moment to be lost in deciding and acting on these questions. 1. must he not be ordered from Cartersville down to Richmond for trial? 2. should not an express go off instantly to meet him...
32To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 10 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I received this morning your letters with the papers enclosed for Mr. Jackson. You will see by the inclosed letters to the President my opinion of the depositions & the use I contemplate making of them. The President writes me that he will be at Washington by the 16. Inst. so that my letters must not go on to him, but wait his arrival at the seat of Government. Our friend Mr. Jackson merits...
33From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 17 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter was sent to me on the supposition that some step might be necessary to be taken here you being at the time in Philada. The writers of the letter however have proceeded on a mistake as to the allowance to Witnesses. The act of Feby. 28. 1799. makes it 5 Cents per mile equal at this season to near two dollars a day, and 1¼ dols. during attendance on the Court. The Marshall...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns the inclosed to mr Rodney with thanks for the communication. it is very evident that our embargo, added to the exclusions from the Continent will be most heavily felt in England and Ireland. Liverpool is remonstrating & endeavoring to get the other ports into motion. yet the bill confirming the orders of council is ordered to a 3d. reading, which shews it will pass....
35From Justus Erich Bollmann to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been informed by the Secretary of State that he has sent you two letters, directed to me, with the Request to forward them—an Occurrence which must have taken Place at least four Weeks ago—I feel a considerable degree of Surprise not yet to have received them, particularly as You can not have been unacquainted with my address either before or after my Arrival here. Not knowing, Sir, of...
36To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 11 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
On my arrival here, I found that the District Attorney was at Princeton, & I determined if Burr had not left the city to apply immediately for a warrant & arrest him for treason, so as to secure & have him sent on in custody to Richmond for trial, unless some good natured judge released him upon Hab. Corpus. He has been obli ged in order to elude the Sheriff’s officers who ha ve been in for...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 19 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The intelligence contained in the enclosed, is at this crisis, so interesting & important, that I transmit it to you by the return of the same mail which brought it on, lest by some accident the official dispatches may not have yet reached you. I will thank you to return it when you have done with it, as part of it, relates to a fine little boy of mine who is afflicted with the most...
38From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
A gentleman holding Virginia military land warrants, having had the misfortune to locate them and surveys made, on lands previously and regularly located by others, which was not discovered by him until patents were granted at this office, is desirous of retracing his steps, by surrendering the patents already issued, removing the locations to vacant land, and by this course obtain new...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Previous to my receiving your note of the 22d. inst: Mr. Madison had sent me a lenthy statement of facts relative to the batture in front of the suburb St. Mary at New Orleans, or alluvial lands to which you refer. In this statement Messrs. Derbigny & Lisly French lawyers of reputation & Mr. Gurley Attorney General of the New Orleans territory, have, I understand, given decided opinions in...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 3 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Circuit Court of the United States for this District sat yesterday at New Castle, or rather ought to have met there, but judge Chase, did not attend, nor was the cause of his non-attendance known. At the term before he did not attend, because he was preparing for his trial. At neither term however was there any business for him to do, notwithstanding all the noise & clamour on the subject...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 6 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Burr is actually in Philada. I have just received a letter from Mr. Dallas of which the following is an extract—“Col. Burr Bollman, &c., are here. I presume a consultation will be held, & that what has been proved or can be proved will decide their future operations.” I flatter myself we shall have ample evidence at the Court to induce a Grand jury who are impartial & intelligent, to find a...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 17 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. your favor enclosing Mr. Pleasonton’s note. Mr. Read informed me, when at New Castle, that he had received the pardon. He had also made an arrangement, just before I got to New Castle, for continuing the trials I mentioned in my last, until the next term of the Supreme Court for Sussex County. All the important questions which the subject of those trials involves will be discussed on...
43From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 31 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to submit for your consideration and opinion the following question arising out of an award of the Board of Commissioners appointed under the 7th. Article of the late British Treaty. The Brig Ceres, Hall, Master, belonging equally to William Prestman, William Calhoun, and Ebenezer Thayer of Charleston (S. C.) was laden at that port in the year 1794, the principal Cargo by the...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed were forwarded to me by Dr. Tucker from Washington, & found me at this place, which I leave this morning for Philada. They are the only letters I have received from my father since that of the 26th. of Jany last. It appears that Genl. Eaton’s deposition did not reach Washington (Miss. Tery) the medium of the news papers until about the 4th. of march. My father is mistaken on the...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to introduce to you W . A. Macaulay a physician in the army of the United States. He wishes to exchange this birth for the more active & honorable situation of an officer. He is a native I believe of Virginia, is a young gentleman of amiable character & manners, & of correct republican principles. I have no doubt but that he possesses every qualification of an active & meritorious...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 15 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot but express the sincere satisfaction, I feel on the appointment of an old Revolutionary officer, to a post which will render him comfortable. Genl. Shee is entitled to great credit for the purity & uniformity of his principles & conduct. He withstood persecution in the Federal reign of terror in 98’ & resisted temptation in the unfortunate struggle of 1805. in this state. From the...
47To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 10 June 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have read & considered the case stated in your letter of the 28th: April on the subject of a Patent issued under a mistake, in consequence of a Virginia military land warrant, "located on lands, which had been previously & regularly located by others". The patent thus issued can be of no effect. It is I conceive null & void. The identical land, by the Same metes & bounds, having been...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 15 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot avoid transmitting you the enclosed letter from my father, which was forwarded to me this day from Philada. Tho’ the Government may perhaps have received more correct & detailed information on the subject, especially if the directions given by my father have been complied with. If the Spanish Government are concerned in the business, I suspect, their agency is concealed in the...
49To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, June 1807 (Madison Papers)
Agreeably to your request contained in your favor of the 1st inst. I enclose a draft in favor of Mr. Milliken for $350. I also have forwarded to J. G. Jackson Esq. an order for $. 500. 5/ 100 in consequence of your letter of the 30th. ulto. & another order, to Mr. Brent as agent of Mr. Gra ham for $.380: 25/ 100 agreeably to your directions of the 26. ulto. Judge Toulmin’s packet, I find on...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 12 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hay desires the letter of Genl. Wilkinson specified in the inclosed paper from Burr’s counsel, & in the extract from my message. it was in the bundle of papers I gave you, which bundle I supposed you had left with mr Hay. if you did not, will you be so good as to forward to me immediately this particular letter of Oct. 21. that I may judge whether all, or how much of it may be...