1To James Madison from William Lyman, 2 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
As the foregoing, which you will perceive are copies of letters to Mr. Monroe at Portsmouth, whither he had gone and then was waiting to embark for the United States will serve to shew the time and manner of issuing the Orders therein mentioned relative to neutral trade or the Blockade of France as it is called, I have thought it would be not improper to enclose you the same and to observe...
2Appointments to Office, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Daniel Symmes of Ohio to be Register of the land office at Cincinati Samuel Gwathney of Indiana to be
3To Thomas Jefferson from Irenée Amelot De Lacroix, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
If the services of a soldier bred in the camp, and educated in a military school, and who was advanced to various grades on the field of battle stained with his blood, can be of any use to that country, whose prosperity you have so eminently advanced; would you permit him to tender his feeble efforts, & the zeal which animates him to repress the audacity of the British, whom a fatal destiny...
4To Thomas Jefferson from David Montagu Erskine, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Erskine presents his most respectful Compts. to Mr. Jefferson begs Leave to offer his sincere Thanks in his own Name & in that of Mr. Foster for the Loan of Madm. de Stael’s Corinne and on the Part of his Father for the Present of a Bag of Paccan Nuts, which He can assure Mr. Jefferson will be consider’d by Lord Erskine as a very high Compliment, & a most agreeable Present— DLC : Papers of...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The occasion will I hope be a sufficient apology for this Letter which might on any other be deemed presumptuous and obtrusive. From the last Accounts we have received the aspect of our public affairs in which are materially involv’d those of this part of the Country appears to be getting every day more gloomy; and altho I say and do every thing in my power to check the growing Fears of my...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Supposing that the power to lay embargoes should be considered as improper to be vested in the President during the session of Congress, how would this plan answer? To “repeal the present non-importation act, & in lieu thereof to pass a general non importation act (from Great Britain) to take place say on 1st Feby. next. This is thrown out for consideration & may be liable to other objections,...
7List of Nominations, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Andrews John + Baird George Beatty Z. A.
8From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request made in the resolution of the Senate of Nov. 30. I must inform them that when the prosecutions against Aaron Burr & his associates were instituted, I delivered to the Attorney General all the evidence on the subject, formal & informal, which I had recieved, to be used by those employed in the prosecutions. on the reciept of the resolution of the Senate I referred...
9From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Daniel Symmes of Ohio to be Register of the land-office at Cincinnati Samuel Gwathney of Indiana to be Register of the land-office at Jeffersonville in Indiana. Thomas G. Gibson of Ohio to be Register of the land office at Canton in Ohio. Edmund H. Taylor heretofore (and perhaps yet) of Kentuckey to be Reciever of public monies at Jeffersonville. John Sloane of Ohio to be Reciever...
10From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Several vacancies having happened in the army of the United States, during the last recess of the Senate, I granted commissions as stated in the list hereto annexed marked A. accompanied by a letter from the Secretary at War, which commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate. I now therefore nominate the same persons for the same appointments. I also nominate the...
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Stokely, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At a crisis like this when every American ought to be on the alert, when alarm echoes from Every quarter I am aware that your attention to Important things must be Greatly engaged Still I hope you will excuse the Author of this address tho it may be apparently Trivial. As the Vigelant eye of an American at this time even in Florida might not be amiss—I am one of those beings, Sir, that devoted...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Stokely, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Stokely and recommends to him to apply at the Secretary of State’s office for a Passport as a citizen of the US. which will be given him under the seal of the US. signed by the Secretary of State. this seems to be the only regular document which can be given to answer his purpose, & will sufficiently guard him against the suspicion of being a...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Newton E. Westfall, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Seeing that by the death of Thomas T. Davis Esquire first Judge of this Territory, it has become necessary for your Constitutional interposition to fill the Vacancy Occasioned in our Judiciary by this Gentlemans death and veiwing the great inconvenience which has heretofore arisen and the delays in our General Court on a number of instances, in consequence of the absence of Judge Davis from...