11To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Shorter, 28 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
To the President of the United States The Petition of Elizabeth Shorter humbly represents That your petitioner was committed to the prison of the County of Washington in the District of Columbia on the charge of Stealing a pair of shoes of a certain Phebe Long, nearly twelve months ago—that at the last Session of the said Court held in the Month of June-last she was tried and convicted of the...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Staines, 28 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
To the President of the United States of America The undersigned your petitioners beg leave to represent to you the situation of John Staines, now confined in the jail of this county & district with the hope that you will grant him the relief, which the peculiar hard ship of his case demands. The cause of his imprisonment is his incapacity to pay the fine & fees which he was condemned by the...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 28 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Col. Williams most respectfully Sollicits The President of the United States to permit him to deposit in his hands Six Copies of his thermometrical navigation requesting him to distribute them according to his pleasure among the Persons he may think proper to employ to Survey the Coast. Col. W would not trouble The President, if he knew of any other way of contributing this mite, towards so...