11To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 24 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
As you are now retired from public Business you will not, probably, consider a philosophical communication as an unpleasant Intrusion on your Leisure; If, however, I were to offer an Apology, it would be the Experience I have had of your Indulgence in many Conversations. In the Summer of 1791 I went with my Family to the Redsprings in Bottetourt, and took with me the best Thermometer and...
12Enclosure II: Height of Virginia Mountains by Barometrical Measurement, 24 January 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 80: 13925); entirely in Williams’s hand; endorsed by TJ: “Mountains. height of. Jon. Williams.” For the printed version of this diagram, see APS American Philosophical Society , Transactions , iv (1799), pl. facing p. 221.
13To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 8 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, June 8, 1796. “I thank you for your friendly offer and, in conformity, request you to let me know what proposals Mr Macomb is willing to make. My Demand is $17530 Dollars, being the difference arising on the unperformed Contract made with me by Mr. Duer on the Companys acct. agreeably to the terms of the partnership. I bought the $50000 six ⅌ Cents and paid for them in specie...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 20 June 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time since I conveyed to you , through the medium of Mr. Maddison, a transcript of my barometrical Journal over some of the mountains in Virginia. As the philosophical Society are about publishing another Volume, and as the Committee of selection have put my paper on the list for publication, I am extreemly desirous of receiving your answer to my last, that I may avail myself of your...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 3 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I take shame to myself for having so long left unanswered your valuable favor on the subject of the mountains. But in truth I am become lazy as to every thing except agriculture. The preparations for harvest, and the length of the harvest itself which is not yet finished, would have excused the delay however at all times and under all dispositions. I examined with great satisfaction your...
16To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Williams, 18 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Mount Pleasant [ near Philadelphia ], August 18, 1796 . “I wrote you, on the day of my last Interview relative to my affair with Mr Macomb, June 8. 1796.… By your silence it is evident that, as counsel for Mr Macomb you did not think yourself justifiable to enter farther into the Matter. My only reason for troubling you now, is to request your remembrance of the measures I have taken to...
17To George Washington from Jonathan Williams, 16 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
My Servant informs me that you desire to know at what price I would sell my Horse Leopard. He cost me 300 Dollars about 2 Years since, when I was well assured that he was but 7 years old. Considering the extraordinary Expence of keeping a studd Horse I think 400 Dollars would barely replace my money. I have not found any defect in him, and I beleive him to be at this moment perfectly sound....