14251From James Madison to William C. C. Claiborne, 14 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 14 January 1805. Described in Jefferson to Claiborne, 7 Jan. 1805, as containing two blank commissions for members of the Orleans Territory legislative council; acknowledged in Claiborne to JM, 26 Mar. 1805 (Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans , 9:363, 426–27).
14252To Thomas Jefferson from William Lambert, 14 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave again to submit to your inspection, some calculations for ascertaining the latitude and longitude of the Capitol in this place, according to methods which have been suggested by yourself . It is my intention to have a number of copies printed at my own expense, by Mr: Samuel H. Smith; but I shall not commit myself so far, until I obtain the opinion of a competent judge of the...
14253From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 14 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the several persons named in the inclosed letter from the Secretary at War for the promotions and appointments in the army of the United States therein proposed for them respectively. PoC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “Military nominations.” Enclosure: Dearborn to TJ, [11] Jan. I nominate : on the same day, Isaac A. Coles delivered TJ’s message to the Senate, where it was...
14254To James Madison from Elias Boudinot, 15 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 January 1805, Philadelphia. “I have the honor of enclosing my annual report as Director of the Mint, for the information of the President of the United States.” Letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 104, Domestic Letters and Statements of Mint); letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 104, Letters Sent by Director of Mint, vol. 1); Tr and Tr of...
14255To James Madison from James Brown, 15 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 January 1805, New Orleans. “Governor Claiborne has this moment presented me with a Commission from the President of the United States appointing me one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the Territory of Orleans. “Anxious that the interests of the United States and of the Territory should not suffer by a vacancy in the Office to which the President has honored with an appointment, I...
14256From Thomas Jefferson to William Keteltas, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. Keteltas to dine with him on Tuesday 15th at half after three, The favour of an answer is asked. RC (Donald A. Heald Rare Books, New York, 2018); undated, but see below; printed form, with blanks filled by Isaac A. Coles reproduced in italics; notation by Coles in lower right corner: “Wm Keteltas Counsellor at Law.” Tuesday 15th : although New Yorker...
14257To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
A few minutes before the departure of the last weeks mail I received and answered your favor of the 1st. of December apprizing me of my nomination as Judge of the Superior Court for the Territory of Orleans. Governor Claiborne informs me that the mail of this day has delivered to him my Commission, the Senate having approved the nomination. Permit me to repeat my expressions of satisfaction on...
14258To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation William Dent Bealle, Adjutant, to be promoted to Brigade Major and Inspector of the Militia of the District of Columbia vice Major Joshua Wingate resigned. With sentiments of esteem & respect I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant [ Approval by TJ :] Jan. 17. 1805. Approved RC ( PHi : Daniel Parker Papers); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Dearborn; at...
14259From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 1st. instant came to hand on the 7th. the present state of things in St. Domingo is certainly very interesting to the US. but to intermeddle in it requires great caution. so many interests are in opposition that it is difficult to move without shocking some of them. with what temper France will hear a proposition for a modified liberty in that island, is unknown, and especially...
14260To Thomas Jefferson from Fulwar Skipwith, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I received by Genl. Armstrong the letter you have done me the favor to write in date of the 11th. of July last. The sentiments, which that letter expresses in support of the high character & personal independence of the General, I would at all times have been disposed to respect; but under existing circumstances, how much more consolatory to my feelings is it to add that, after acquaintance &...
14261To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner’s best respects to the President of the U. States. He has learnt at the French Minister’s , that the style of addressing Jerome Bonaparte , used by the Minister and proper to be used by others, is Monsieur and Sir, in the manner a private frenchman was addressed before the Revolution. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; addressed: “The President of the U. States”; endorsed by TJ as a letter...
14262To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to make known to you my Brother, Thos. Wistar , who is one of a very worthy and respectable Committee of the Society of friends, deputed by that body, to solicit the attention of Congress to the subject of African Slavery, as it may be Connected with Louisiana & the other territories subject to their immediate Controll—This letter is not necessary, for I know that your attention...
14263Enclosure: Report of Director of the Mint, 15 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
At the commencement of the year it is the duty of the Director of the Mint to communicate to Government the state of the Mint, with its issues for the past year. The issues of Silver Coins, notwithstanding the mercantile embarrassments attending the importation of Bullion, have greatly exceeded that of the year 1803; and the advantage of a public Mint has been sensibly experienced, by the...
14264To James Madison from John Martin Baker, 16 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 January 1805, Palma. Refers JM to his last of 18 Dec. “Herewith have the honor to enclose the report of American Vessels, arrived and sailed, within the ports of my Consulate, from the thirtieth day of June 1804—Up to the thirty first day of December, inclusive [not found]. “I have now the satisfaction Sir, to communicate for your information, that the last accounts announce a total...
14265To Thomas Jefferson from Gabriel Duvall, 16 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Charles J. porter settled his first Accompt at the Treasury, for disbursements at September Court 1801. His Salary did not commence until the first of July 1802, under an Act of Congress passed on the 29 April 1802.—It does not, therefore, furnish evidence of the date of his commission. Tennessee was divided into two districts by an Act of the 13th. of Feb. 1801, & without doubt, Mr. porter...
14266To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Bishop Carrol’s letter The Agent “Sibley” has arrived; and the memorial was forwarded to Congress this morning by Mr Dawson. There is no doubt that Congress will secure the old settlers, though their grants may not be perfectly legal. But all that is now necessary is to amend the law so that claimants of every description be allowed to file their claims with the commissioners; on whose report...
14267From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin H. Latrobe, 16 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the bill appropriating 110,000. D. for the South wing of the capitol & 20,000. for the North wing & other public buildings as it has past the H. of R. with only 17. dissenting votes. I have no reason to suppose it will fare worse with the Senate: but till it passes them it will not be safe to take any positive steps. I will endeavor to have it hurried there, and as soon as it...
14268To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Worthington, John Smith of Ohio, and Jeremiah Morrow, 16 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
We take the liberty to recommend Samuel Huntington esquire as a candidate for the office of Governor of the Michigan Territory—Mr Huntington has held several Important offices in the State of Ohio, is at present one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of that State, and has sustained that character of a good Republican and we are informed is acquainted with; and can converse in the French...
14269From James Madison to Samuel W. Dana, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805, Department of State. “I have the honour to inclose in consequence of your request of the 14th inst. a statement of the several description of claims recorded in this office, under the 8th section of the act of Congress of the 3d of March 1803, relative to lands south of the state of Tennessee. This statement has been made by Mr. Crawford, the person appointed to record the...
14270To James Madison from William Billings, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805, Canaan, New York. “I did my self the honor to write you from N York about three years past Informing you of some Nefarious practices against the Nation. “I now take the Liberty to Inform you that from some Commerceial Conc[e]rns that have Come Under my Notice I think that Some Fraud has ben practiceed under Claims of French Spoialations [ sic ]. “If you will please to serch...
14271To James Madison from James W. DePeyster and Company, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805, New York. “A return of the power under cover of your Letter of the 11th. Instant has induced our Executeing a new one in favour of Doctor Saml L. Mitchell which we hope will prove sattisfactory, we certainly did not calculate on being so troublesome when we executed the first or it should not have been done. We merely proceeded according to Mercantile usages, not reflecting on...
14272To James Madison from John Gibson, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805, Vincennes. “The appointment of Secretary of the Indiana Territory which I now hold, will Expire at the End of the present Session of the Senate, permit me Sir, again to sollicit your interest and that of your friends in my reappointment to that office. I make no doubt, Governor Harrison has already represented to the president of the United States the part I took in effecting...
14273To James Madison from William Savage, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805. “Inclosed is a list [not found] of persons who represent themselves to be Americans.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Kingston, Jamaica, vol. 1). 1 p.; written at the foot of the duplicate copy of Savage to JM, 7 Dec. 1804 .
14274To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 17 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 January 1805, Washington. Informs JM that he is entrusting the duties of the commissary general of commercial relations between France and the United States to Louis Arcambal, commissary at Baltimore, for the time being, since Louis-André Pichon is on the point of returning to France, and asks the government to accept this interim appointment. Refrains from requesting an exequatur for...
14275To Thomas Jefferson from Rufus Easton, 17 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being class’d with the friends to the present administration, I have felt it my duty to make confidentially to the executive department of the Government for the benefit of the United states, the communication herewith sent—And I feel the more warranted in doing this from the respectful manner in which my name has by various characters of high respectability been mentioned to your Excellency—...
14276Enclosure: Confidential Communication on Louisiana District, 17 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the second of April last about twenty of the Inhabitants of this town after perusing the Bill which was adopted by Congress for the Government of this Country assembled with a view to appoint a Committee to call an assembly of Delegates from the different Districts to form a plan of Government for this Country— The annexation of this Territory to that of Indiana was made the ostensible...
14277From Thomas Jefferson to William Lambert, 17 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Lambert & returns him his paper on the longitude & latitude of Washington, he has gone over it with as much attention as his time and familiarity with the subject would admit: but he has been too long abstracted from the process of calculation in this line, to undertake to review it critically. he is satisfied at the same time it does not need it....
14278To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 17 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur, de Vous prevenir, que, ayant rencontrè dans mon Depot des Tabelles Statistiques tres exactes sur l’Empire Germanique, l’autriche et la Prusse—d’apres les derniers arangemens politiques—que j’estime convenables a la Bibliotheque du Secretariat d’Etat—j’ai pris la Libertè, de les faire mettre a la poste a Votre Adresse—en me permettant pour çette fois çette exception de la regle,...
14279To James Madison from George W. Erving, 18 January 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment received your obliging letter of Novr. 3d & hasten to return my best acknowledgements for your Early and very friendly attention to mine of Sep. 1st and at the ⟨s⟩ame time to Express to you my grateful sense of the favorable sentiments with which the President ⟨h⟩as been pleased to view my observations upon the Subjects therein mentioned. I shall pursue the course which you...
14280From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Brown, 18 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I was told last fall that the road to and from Lacey’s ford on Bull run was so destroyed by the rains of last summer that a carriage could not pass there, and that they had not been repaired. will you be so good as to write me word whether a carriage can pass them now, as I shall be going that way the first week in March, and shall be unwilling to attempt the Centreville road, which at that...