1From John Adams to Alexander Hill Everett, 17 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 15th. Inclosed with this Letter you will find “A Treatise on Expatriation ” by George Hay Esqr of Virginia a Son in Law of Mr Monroe, and a speech of Mr Charles J. Ingersol M C. Son of the Clintonian Candidate for V. P. who made the Address at the Antinapolion Dinner, and a Son of Jared of famous Memory, One Collector in Connecticutt and afterwards Judge of...
2To James Madison from Eleazer Bradshaw Billings, 17 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
Justice & Hon To Myself & Country Demands this information of My Situation, I am Arrested though Suspended, by Majr Wm. Peaccock of the 39h. for reenlisting Men from 12 Mo. to During the War, by this Management you, Excey, will See I have Saved the Govment about $500, in obtaing 5 Men & prolonging their Term of Service perh⟨a⟩ps During life or at lea⟨st the⟩ pleasure of the Govment & Deducted...
3To James Madison from William Jones, 17 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
I enclose these papers as a partial illustration of the ruinous extent to which smuggling is rapidly progressing and the danger to be apprehended from settled habits of turpitude and the expertness and intrepidity acquired by the practice of lawless gain. Can any thing short of the removal of the temptation correct the evil? The opportunities on our middle and Southern coast are manifold...
4Thomas Jefferson to Charles J. Ingersoll, 17 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Ingersoll for the copy of his speech on the Loan bill which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with great satisfaction, and felicitates his country on having in it’s councils so able an advocate of sound principles, and whose age may promise them a long course of his valuable services. he hopes & doubts not mr Ingersoll will recieve the...
5Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 17 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am an unpunctual correspondent at best. while my affairs permit me to be within doors, I am too apt to take up a book, and to forget the calls of the writing table. besides this I pass a considerable portion of my time at a possession so distant, and uncertain as to it’s mails that my letters always await my return here. this must apologise for my being so late in acknoleging your two favors...
6Thomas Jefferson to William Wardlaw, 17 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 5 th came to hand yesterday (the 16 th ) only, or it should have been sooner answered. if I own the Sessions acts of 1748. they are bound up in a volume of Sessions acts which I lent to mr Hening , and which can be resorted to in his hands; but I do not believe I ever had them; and as far as my recollection serves me, no copy of them was ever to be found in my time. and the...