1From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter of the 14th. Decr. communicating the President’s directions to prevent the papers of the Spanish Surveyor General and Secretary of Louisiana from being carried out of the District, information has been received, that, in the course of the last summer Mr. Morales, sent to Pensacola the records & documents, relative to grants of Land in Louisiana, which had been in his possession...
2From James Madison to David Gelston, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I enclose an extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability at Philadelphia, respecting the proceedings of Genl. Miranda at the port of New York, the information contained in which is confirmed by official complaints; and by the direction of the President I have to request an explanation how it has happened that the Officers of the Customs have neither given information of this...
3From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been duly honored with your letter of the 8th. instt on the subject of an alledged expedition from New-York, in an Armed Vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, and conveying not only Military Stores, but other Citizens engaged for Military purposes; the whole under the charge of Genl. Miranda, and with a destination contrary to the Neutrality of the United States. It will...
4To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure of dropping you a line lately & I now send another acquainting you of my safe arrival in this City after a long & the latter part of it very boisterous passage in a Danish Ship I found at Lisbon. I found my Children all I could expect or wish but I soon saw my long absence had extremely injured my affairs, & if my Estate had not been a very large & one of the most productive...
5To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 10 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joel Barlow. 10 February 1806. “Permit me to ask you to read the enclosed Prospectus, & if its principle meets your approbation, to encourage it among your friends in the legislature. “I may mistake the true interests of the country. But it appears to me that this subject embraces one of the most essential of them.” RC ( InU-Li : Lafayette Mss). 1 p. Yale graduate, lawyer, and “Hartford...
6To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Sylvanus Bourne. 10 February 1806, Amsterdam. “The inclosed Gazette contains the interesting Contract between Russia & England which formed the base of the late Campaign & declares the principles on which it was undertaken. It is already known to you what the issue therof has been—& that the State of Europe is now much farther off than before from that equilibrium which the contract in...
7To James Madison from Henry J. Hutchins, 10 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Henry J. Hutchins. 10 February 1806, Philadelphia. “Prompted by a desire of proving useful to my fellow-citizens, but still more by my duty as the head of an increasing family, I am induced to address you with a request that if a vacancy should offer within the extensive sphere of your department in which my exertions could be of use, you would be pleased to deem me worthy of your...
8To James Madison from John Mason, 10 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Mason. 10 February 1806, George Town. “Lieutenant Wormely of the Marine Corps, has intimated to me his Wish to obtain the appointment of Consul to one of the Barbary States. “Of the great respectability of the connections of this Gentleman in Virginia I presume you are informed; of his qualifications for such a post, I am not enabled to speak from personal Knowledge, as I have but...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 23d. of December I nominated to the Senate of the US. Joseph de Ville Bellechasse John W. Gurley John Baptiste McCarty Jean Noel Destrehan Pierre Sauvé to be members of the legislative council for the territory of Orleans, being five of the ten persons named to me for that purpose by the House of Representatives of the Territory. Messrs. Bellechasse McCartey, Destrehan & Sauvé were...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last to you I have heard that a gentleman of this country informed Gen. Washington while he was President, of a conspiracy against this country by the spaniards with Wilkerson & others. If it is so, it was either recieved as a private letter by Gen. Washington and so disposed of, or it is in the office of State: Certain it is that the prest did not duly appreciate this information, or...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Hire of white servant. Saddle & portmanteau. stores down river Horses to come back. Ill use my own to St. Louis. The sale of these horses here will bring somthing expences of travilling Boat passage Breckenridge Fowler Wilkison Adair senator Smith—Do Sebastian the judge Ct of Appeals Innes the judge district court Clay the lawyer Burr. Harrison Govr. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
12To Thomas Jefferson from William Jarvis, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to address you the 10th. Ultimo by Captn Groves of the Brig Henry, via Salem. But am apprehensive that at any time you would think it a very dull letter, and at a moment when you must have so much important business on hand exceedingly tedious. If according to a common observation there is no sweet in life without some mixture of bitter, being thus troubled may fairly be set...
13To Thomas Jefferson from William Prentis, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Citizens of the town of Petersburg, believing that the present momentous situation of the United States in their relative intercourse with certain foreign Nations, demands an expression of the public will, have directed me to transmit to you the result of their deliberations. They, with you, Sir, wish to promote those measures which aspire to a true sense of human dignity, and to...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My Brother has gone this Morning to Baltimore, he has taken with him his Eldest Son, not quite recovered from a Violent Cold, and Swelling in his throat. he will find his youngest Son dead, (he died on Saturday night.) and his only Daughter, extremely Ill, without a hope left of her Recovery. a Dropsy in the Brain is Suspected. her head has been Shaved & Blisters were applied—His Distress &...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Williams, 10 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 23. was not recieved till the 4th. inst since which this is the first post. the proposition to be absent for some time, so far as relates to your office of governor might be acceded to without probable injury to the public. altho’ our situation with Spain is critical, & I expect daily to hear that we have come to blows on the other side the Missipi, yet from the character I...