1To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to request the favor of you, to cause a warrant to be issued on the Treasurer of the United States payable to George Taylor Junr. to the amount of five hundred dollars, for defraying the contingent expenses of the department of State. I have the honor to be with sentiments of the highest respect and esteem &c. LC , Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives. Taylor was...
2Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on a Treaty with Algiers, 10 April 1792 (Washington Papers)
If the President should enter into a Provisional convention with the government of Algiers for a sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars, will the Senate advise & consent to it’s ratification, the government of Algiers being made clearly to understand that we are not to be bound by the treaty until it shall be ratified? If this sum appears too high, what lower limit would the Senate approve? If the...
3George Washington to the Senate, 10 April 1792 [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
If the President should enter into a Provisional convention with the government of Algiers for a sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars, will the Senate advise & consent to it’s ratification, the government of Algiers being made clearly to understand that we are not to be bound by the treaty until it shall be ratified? If this sum appears too high, what lower limit would the Senate approve? If the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 10 Apr. 1792 . Requests that a warrant be issued on the United States Treasurer for 500 dollars payable to George Taylor, Jr., “for defraying the contingent expenses of the department of State.” FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ); at head of text: “To the Secretary of the Treasury.” Not recorded in SJL .
5Notes on John Robertson and Algerine Prisoners, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Our prisoners have beans and oil and vinegar for breakfast, and boiled wheat and butter for dinner and three small loaves of rye bread for the day. A suit of cloaths once a year, viz an oznabrigs shirt, a flannel frock, jacket and trowzers, and a pair of slippers. Obrian bit by a mad dog last summer. But doing well. Harnet is out of his senses. Now remain thirteen. He thinks the common man...
6Notes on Headaches, 10 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Recipe for the head-ach called the Sun-pain 6. grains of Calomel taken at night, without any thing to work it off, or any other matter whatever. Mr. Willis of Georgia has had this head-ach to a dangerous extremity, and tried bark ineffectually. A drunken Doctr. recommended the above dose of Calomel, it relieved him from the next fit. He had it some years after, and the same medecine relieved...