1To Alexander Hamilton from David Gelston, 14 April 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, April 14, 1802. Directs Hamilton to proceed on behalf of the United States attorney for the District of New York against the Brig Triton , which had arrived in the port of New York from Bristol, England, “with a Cargo of Porter in cases of less capacity than forty gallons beer measure contrary to the laws of the United States.” ALS , RG 21, District Court for the Southern District of...
2To James Madison from Gabriel Christie, 14 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I wrote you on the 20th of last mounth by way of New York. But least some axcident should happen to my letter I am enduced to send this by way of Alexandria. In my last I informd you that I wished to decline the appointment of Consul at Canton for my Son and would wish him appointed Consul at Madera. Mr Pintard has left that place and I am told the duties are performd by a Mr Charles Alder an...
3To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 14 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
Le Congrès ayant fait l’appropriation nécéssaire pour mettre à exécution la convention Signée entre la République française et les Etats Unis, le 9. vendemiaire an 9, J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser ci Joints deux tableaux comprenant, le premier, la liste des bâtimens appartenant à la République française qui doivent être restitués par les Etats Unis d’après l’article 3. de la ditte...
4To James Madison from Thomas Bulkeley, 14 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 April 1802, Lisbon. “I embrace this conveyance the Ship Perseverance … bound to New York (on board which goes Col Humphreys his wife my sister passengers taking with him a valuable acquisition to our Country of 100 Sheep of the famous Spanish breed as to quantity & quality of wool they produce)—To hand you the list of the trade to Porto to compleat the whole up to the 31 december last.… The...
5To James Madison from Samuel Snow, 14 April 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 April 1802, Providence. “I have the honour to enclose to you a semi-annual Report of Vessels entered at Canton between the last day of December 1800 and the first day of July 1801, received from my Agent there by a late arrival. No special communications accompanied this report.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Canton, vol. 1). 1 p. Enclosure not found. A full transcription of this document has been...
6To James Madison from Thomas Bulkeley, 14 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I embrace this conveyance the Ship Perseverance Captn. Coggeshall bound to New York (on board which goes Col Humphreys his wife my sister passengers taking with him a valuable acquisition to our Country of 100 Sheep of the famous Spanish breed as to quantity & quality of wool they produce)—To hand you the list of the trade to Porto to compleat the whole up to the 31 december last. Those...
7To James Madison from Samuel Snow, 14 April 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to enclose to you a semi–annual Report of Vessels entered at Canton between the last day of December 1800 and the first day of July 1801, received from my Agent there by a late arrival. No special communications accompanied this report. I have the honour to be with great Respect Sir, your most obedient, and very humble servant The preceding is the full transcription of a...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have prepared a catalogue for the library of Congress in conformity with your ideas that books of entertainment are not within the scope of it, and that books in other languages, where there are not translations of them, are to be admitted freely. I have confined the catalogue to those branches of science which belong to the deliberations of the members as statesmen, and in these have...
9Enclosure: List of Books for the Library of Congress, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Law of Nature and Nations ✓ Rutherforth’s institutes of natural law. 8vo. Puffendorf devoirs de l’homme et du citoyen. 2.v. 12mo. Beller’s delineation of Universal law. 4to. ✓ Grotius’s Laws of war with Barbeyrac’s notes. ✓ Puffendorf’s law of nations with Barbeyrac’s notes. ✓ Burlamaqui sur la droit naturelle et Politique 4to. Wolff droit de la nature et des gens. Lat. Fr. 6.v. 12mo. ✓...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous recevrez sous peu de jours un second exemplaire de l’élégante traduction des Oeuvres de Senèque, (prix 9 dollars les 6 volumes brochés) & le Lucrèce Latin français. J’ai parcouru avec attention les catalogues des Principaux Libraires de Paris, Il n’y est fait aucune mention d’une Edition de Seneque, traduite par la Grange avec le texte original—ce qui me porte à croire qu’il n’en existe...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Stevens, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer, Mr: O Hebert is an english Gentleman of easy Circumstances, interested in a Patent Right for a Discovery of a Mode of applying Steam for the Cure of certain Disorders. Altho’ the Discovery is not altogether new, yet I believe the Mode of Application is perfectly so. I am willing for the Good of Humanity to suppose that it possesses all the Virtue attributed to it by it’s...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander White, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Not yet sufficiently possessed of the state of proceedings respecting the city, I am afraid of taking up an erroneous idea. I have in the inclosed draught of a resolution expressed my idea of what is wanting to be done at this time that you may see if I view it, according to the fact, & correct me if otherwise. it differs from yours principally in leaving out the part respecting making the...
13Enclosure: Draft of a Resolution for the City of Washington, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas sundry lots and fractions of lots for building have been laid out on the ground of the city of Washington which are not yet described by lines on the plan of the city, particularly within certain squares or spaces left open in the sd plan, and the water-lines on the said plan are not exactly conformable with those lines as they exist actually on the ground: Resolved that it is...
14To Thomas Jefferson from "Yankey Doodle," 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have told you in my last Letter that I Soon Send you another the object of my Letter is that you Shall See how you Shall act in this Case Sir a few day’s ago—an affray took place on board the Spanish brig it Contain’s as follow’s the mariner’s having Consulted a lawyer about how they Could get Paid the Lawyer told them that must keep possesion brig until the monday following when he Should...