791To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Moss White, 1 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having had the Care of the Post Office in this Place, as an assistant to my Brother who is the Post Master, here, I have observed that Samuel Morse the Printer, so long as he continued printing a New Paper in this Town was wont weekly to send one to You, which if received by you I doubt not you must have noticed Several Numbers Entitled, The Inquirer All upon the Subject of Religious Liberty,...
792From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whitlaw, 19 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is now settled that I am to [remain here] I can no longer […] to build myself the nailshop at Monticello which I proposed to you to undertake. I must therefore engage you to do it yourself out & out, and will give you the price you then stated to be the lowest you could take. what that was I do not now recollect with certainty, but I have a note of it at home, made at the time as I...
793From Thomas Jefferson to John Wickham, 2 August 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 22. not having found me at Philadelphia came after me to this place, since which I have recieved that also of July 16. in which I learn with pleasure that it will be yourself I am hereafter to consider as the person to whom my payments for mr Welsh are to be made. I now therefore return you the same order on mr Hooper for 1000. D. which I had before inclosed to & recieved...
794From Thomas Jefferson to John Wickham, 25 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In fixing with you on the epoch of July 1. for the annual paiment of my instalments to the representatives of Cary & co. I had a view to my tobacco which I have heretofore sold in April or May, payable July 1. for some time past however, and especially by my sales of the last year, it has appeared, that the most advantageous time is not till September, and especially when sold at this place...
795From Thomas Jefferson to John Wickham, 15 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I informed you of the circumstances which would postpone my annual paiment somewhat later than the day fixed for it, and I recieved your answer that you had communicated my letter to mr Waller. I have lately sold my tobacco to mr Hooper of Richmond and now inclose you an order on him for one thousand dollars payable Octob. 1st. the term of credit allowed him. as you will be...
796From Thomas Jefferson to John Wickham, 6 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have hitherto been in expectation of selling my last year’s crop of tobo. at Richmond & of ordering out of it the same paiment to you as the last year . but the prices, instead of rising through the season as usual, have fallen, and far below what the state of the general market of Europe justifies. I am now therefore looking out for information whether to send my tobaccoes to Philadelphia,...
797From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of asking the protection of your cover for a letter to Lieutt. Meriwether Lewis, not knowing where he may be. in selecting a private secretary, I have thought it would be advantageous to take one who possessing a knolege of the Western country, of the army & it’s situation, might sometimes aid us with informations of detail, which we may not otherwise possess. a personal...
798From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 16 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr Morgan Brown of Palmyra has been so kind as to offer me two Indian busts of marble or other stone, which are to be forwarded to New Orleans to the care of mr Daniel Clarke junr. of that place. as there would be considerable danger of their being lost, should they come by any common conveyance from thence to this place, and understanding you will be coming round in a frigate in the spring,...
799From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Williams, 15 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments & thanks to mr Williams for the copy of his Thermometrical navigation which he was so kind as to send him. he has read it, as he had done before, in another form , with great satisfaction, and has no doubt it will be of great utility to navigators. Th: J. has for some time wished he could try the thermometer daily in the river near which he lives,...
800From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 11 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of the 2d. inst. I [will] with great pleasure sound opinions on the subject you mention, & [see] whether [it] can be brought forward with any degree of strength. I doubt it however, & for [this] reason. you may recollect that a report which I gave in to Congress in […] [93. and] mr Madison’s propositions of Jan. 94 went directly to establish a...
801From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should sooner have acknoleged your favor of Dec. 8. but for a growing and pressing correspondence which I can scarcely manage. I was particularly happy to recieve the diary of Quebec, as about the same time I happened to recieve one from the Natchez , so as to be able to make a comparison of them. the result was a wonder that any human being should remain in a cold country who could find...
802From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Willing, 23 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to mr Willing, and other gentlemen managers of the ball of this evening. he hopes his non-attendance will not be misconstrued. he has not been at a ball these twenty years, nor for a long time permitted himself to go to any entertainments of the evening, from motives of attention to health. on these grounds he excused to Genl. Washington when living in the...
803From Thomas Jefferson to John Wise, 12 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved yours of the 28 Ult. mentioning that it had been communicated to you that in a Conversation in Francis’s hotel (where I lodge) I had Spoken of you as of tory politics: & you make enquiry as to the fact, & the Idea intended to be Conveyed I Shall answer you with frankness. It is now well understood that two political sects have arisen within the US . the one believeing that...
804From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 3 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your desire I wrote to Chancellor Livingston on the subject of the bones. the following is an extract from his letter dated Jan. 7. ‘I have paid the earliest attention to your request relative to the bones found at Shawangun, & have this day written to a very intelligent friend in that neighborhood. I fear however that till they have finished their search there will be some...
805From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 16 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately recieved from Count Rumford , one of the managers of the Royal institution of Great Britain a prospectus of that institution, with a letter expressing their desire to cultivate a friendly correspondence with the American Philosophical society, I have now the honor of forwarding them for the society. the application of science to objects immediately useful in life, which seems to...
806From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 16 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you a letter of this date to be laid before the society. this is for yourself only. I have proposed so many members at different times that I am afraid to add to the number. yet Dunbar ought to be associated to us. I inclose you a letter with some communications of his to a mr Smith of London, which he sent to me open for perusal, desiring me when read to forward them as...
807From Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 12 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
According to what I mentioned when I had the honor of a conference with you on the subject of the 9000. Doll. due from the US. to mr Short for salary, I now inclose you the assumpsit of messrs. Pendleton and Lyons for the paiment of a sum of money due on a decree, which assumpsit was sent to me by mr Randolph, who stated the amount thus. the original debt £788. 5. 7 sterl. 20. years int. @ 5....
808From Thomas Jefferson to James Wood, 24 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to an instruction from the Senate of the US. I am to perform the melancholy office of informing you that the honourable Henry Tazewell late a Senator of the US. from Virginia departed this life on this day. this is not a place in which I am permitted to indulge those reflections which the loss of so able and virtuous a publick servant naturally suggests. it rests with you, Sir, to...
809From Thomas Jefferson to James Wood, 28 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Three Chickasaw Indians have called on me, without any guide with them, any interpreter, or any document authorising their entrance or passage through the state except a pass from an officer at Staunton . had the County Lieutenant or any other field officer of militia been within reach I should have applied to them to take charge of them & have them conducted to Richmond, from whence I...
810From Thomas Jefferson to James Wood, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. inst. did not get to Philadelphia till I had left it, and therefore came to hand here only this day week. I have bestowed on it’s subject the earliest attention I could. When on a former occasion the Executive were pleased to apply to me (being then in France) for a plan of a Capitol, they at the same time desired one of a prison. An architect of Lyons had in 1761...
811From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 7 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Feb. 22. and shall with pleasure assist mr Marshall in the negociation with mr Lowndes, whenever desired either by mr Marshall or our executive. I wrote you a troublesome letter sometime ago, and now propose some additiments to it. it is with vast reluctance I do it, and would not do it, if books could furnish the information I want. but these are minutiae...
812From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 29 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to relieve you, my very dear & antient friend from the trouble of the volumes I sent you in 96. I have desired my friend & relation George Jefferson to call & recieve them, if you have no further use for them. he is to get them bound. I think I had arranged them into volumes, & labelled each, but that in a subsequent letter to you I wished a change of some of the labels. I inclose him...
813From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 28 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I know how precious your time is and how exclusively you devote it to the duties of your office. yet I venture to ask a few hours or minutes of it on motives of public service, as well as private friendship. I will explain the occasion of the application. You recollect enough of the old Congress to remember that their mode of managing the business of the house was not only unparliamentary, but...
814Enclosure: Queries on Parliamentary Procedure, [7 April 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
When a motion is made to strike out a paragraph, section, or even the whole bill from the word ‘whereas,’ and to insert something else in lieu thereof, it is understood that the friends of the paragraph, motion, or bill have first a right to amend & make it as perfect as they can, before the question is put for striking out. suppose the question is then put on striking out, & that it passes in...
815From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Young, 10 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your astronomical & physiological treatises by the hands of mr Davenport and to return you my thanks for this attention. the heads of these works shew them to be interesting, and I shall peruse them with great satisfaction. their nature however requiring serious reflection it is possible that my occupations here may oblige me to delay the pleasure of the...
816Section of a Bill for Settling Disputed Presidential Elections, [1800] [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Title—a bill supplementary to the act &c strike out the first 11. sections. leave Sect. 12. 13. 14. properly amended add And be it &c that whensoever the two houses of Congress shall be assembled for the purpose of having the certificates of the electors of the several states opened & counted, the names of the several states shall be written on different & similar tickets of paper & put into a...
817Indenture for the Sale of Elk Hill, 5 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the 5th day of August one thousand seven hundred & ninety nine, between Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle on the one part and Thomas Augustus Taylor of the county of Chesterfield on the other part witnesseth that the sd Thomas Jefferson in consideration of the sum of fifteen hundred pounds current money of Virginia to him paid or secured to be...
818Notes on John Adams’s Replies to XYZ Addresses, [before 6 October 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
1. Favor to England. Smith . 1798. Oct. 18. pa. 1. Answer to Grand jury of Ulster county N.Y. ‘if by a coalition—of aiding each other.’ 26. lines. Folsome . pa. 51. to Inhabitants of Concord in Massachus. ‘as I have ever wished—useful to remember it.’ 25. lines Fenno . 1798. July. 6. pa. 2. to Officers & souldiers of Morris county N.J. ‘had not the measures—& perhaps better founded. 30. lines....
819Notes on Senate Debates, 29 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
1800. Apr. 29. Jury bill under considn. Mr. Dexter & Hillhouse & mr Read insisted in the fullest & most explicit terms that the common law of England is in force in these states and may be the rule of adjudication in all cases where the laws of the US. have made no provision. Mr. Livermore seemed to urge the same, tho’ he seemed to think that in criminal cases it might be necessary to adopt by...
820Recipients of Appendix to the Notes on the State of Virginia, [ca. April 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
Loganian Appendix C. Thompson all those who gave me informatn G.W. E.P. Madison mr Jackson. Congr. Granger. Conn. J. Dickinson S. Adams. Heath. Gerry Dyer. Rush Barton Wistar Priestly Cooper A. Stuart Law.
821Marriage Settlement for Mary Jefferson (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the twelfth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven between Thomas Jefferson of the one part, Mary Jefferson his daughter of the second part, both of Albemarle, Francis Eppes and Elizabeth his wife of the county of Chesterfeild of the third part and John Wayles Eppes their son of the fourth part of the same county, Witnesseth, that forasmuch as a...
822Statement of Account with Gibson & Jefferson, 15 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson in acct. with Th: Jefferson 1800. Dt. £ Feb. 5. By cash on Barnes’s ord. on Heth 240. 0. 0 May. 31. do. W. C. Nicholas’s ord. on Pick. Pol. & Johnson 135. 0. 0 Sep. 18. do. from G. Nicholson for nail rod recovy. 20.19. 3 24. do. remitted by J. Barnes.
823Notes on Anti-French Sentiment in the Washington Administration, [before 6 February 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
[…] one of the Secretaries that a resolution was formed to give no office to any person who did not approve of the proceedings of the Executive, and that it was determined to recall Monroe whose conduct was not consonant with the views of the Executive. Davy said they expressed very hostile dispositions towards France, and he wished Logan to apprise Adet of it, who he observed was a good kind...
824Memorandum Books, 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 2. Paid barber 2.D. pd. for books 6.5. Drew on George Jefferson & co. for £98–5 Virginia currency in favor of James Strange agent for Donald Scott & co., Jas. & Rob. Donald & for Alexr. Donald which discharges all balances due to them on account of my mother, my sister A. S. Marks, my brother & myself. The paiment for Alexr. Donald was for a telescope. See among my papers a particular...
825Appendix No. XLIV: From Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
It would have highly gratified me had it been in my power to furnish the relief you ask: but I am preparing for my departure and find, on winding up my affairs, that I shall not have one dollar to spare. It is therefore with sincere regret I have nothing better to tender than the sentiments of good will of Sir, Your most obedient servant,
826Extracts from Beeke’s Observations, [1800?] (Jefferson Papers)
mr Pitt. Beeke Landlord’s rents 25,000,000£ 20,000,000£ fa[rm]ing profits 19,000,000 15,000,000 t[it]hes 5,000,000 2,500,000 mines &c 3,000,000 4,500,000 houses 6,000,000 10,000,000 professions 2,000,000 *
827Notes on Conversations with John Adams and George Washington, [after 13 October 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Under date of May 10. 1797. ante is a memorandum to note in due time Mr. Adams’s free conversation with me Mar. 3. 1797. at Mr. Madison’s. It was as follows. Mar. 2. 1797. I arrived at Philada. to qualify as V.P. and called instantly on Mr. Adams who lodged at Francis’s in 4th. street. The next morning he returned my visit at Mr. Madison’s where I lodged. He found me alone in my room, and,...
828Certificate for George Taylor, Jr., 22 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia. I hereby certify that mr George Taylor acted as translating clerk for the French language to the Secretary of state’s office, during the latter part of the time that I was in that department: that his translations were faithful and well done, and bespoke a full degree of knowlege of that language: and that he was very diligent and assiduous in this as in all his other duties....
829II. Revised Petition to the Virginia House of Delegates, [7 August–7 September 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the counties of Amherst, Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Goochland, sheweth: That by the constitution of this State, established from its earliest settlement, the people thereof have professed the right of being governed by laws to which they have consented by representatives chosen by themselves immediately: that in order to give to the will of the...
830Notes on a Conversation with Mr. Smith of Hamburg, 24 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 24. mr Smith a merchant of Hamburg gives me the following informn. the St. Andrews club, of N. York (all of Scotch tories) gave a public dinner lately. among other guests A. Hamilton was one. after dinner the 1st. toast was the Pres. of the US. it was drunk without any particular approbation. the next was George the III. Hamilton started up on his feet, & insisted on a bumper & 3. cheers....
831Safe Conduct for Three Chickasaw Indians, 28 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Three Chickasaw Indians having come so far without any guide, interpreter or pass, I have engaged the bearer John Haden to take charge of them & attend them to Richmond to the Governor of the state; and they are recommended to the peace, protection and hospitality of the citizens on the road they pass. should they be in want of any necessaries, it cannot be doubted but that the Governor will...
832Bill on Intercourse with Nations at War, [before 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Whensoever war shall take place between two foreign nations, all the citizens or subjects of those nations within the US. shall withdraw from the US. within—months after the commencement of the war. on failure they shall be out of the protection of the law, shall be emprisoned in some convenient sea-port, and sent by such conveyance as shall occur to any foreign country which the Executive...
833Enclosure: Senate Votes on Gerry’s Appointment as Envoy to France, 22 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Yeas. Nays. Langdon } N.H. Livermore Goodhue } Mas. Sedgwick Bradford } R.I. Foster Hillhouse Tracy Con. Paine } Verm.
834Notes on a Conversation with Perez Morton, 24 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mar. 24. mr Perez Morton of Mass. tells me that Thatcher , on his return from the War-Congress, declared to him he had been for a decln of war against France, & many others also; but that on counting noses they found they could not carry it, & therefore did not attempt it. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 108:18559); entirely in TJ’s hand; on same sheet as Notes on John Marshall, 21 Mch. Perez Morton...
835Statement for the Aurora, 25 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
subjoin to the letter ‘It will be observed that the preceding letter is dated at Paris in 1787. mr Jones , to whom it is addressed, awaited mr Jefferson’s return to America, & authorised his agent to settle it with him there. immediately on his arrival in Virginia in Dec. 1789 he procured a meeting with the agent & the other gentlemen interested, and an amicable settlement was made in writing,...
836Enclosure I: Notes on Plan of a Prison, 31 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes and Explanations Fig. 1. The Ground plat of the building, which is an octagonal periphery of barracks, two stories high, within a single order, having before them a piazza, or arcade every arch of which corresponds to a lower and upper cell, which recieve their light and air through the arch and their own grated door. The cells are 8 f. wide, 10 f. long and 9. f. high in the clear, as...
837Notes on a Conversation with Uriah Springer, 20 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 20. 1798. Cap Uriah Springer of Fayette county Pensva calls on me (with Judge Turner ) and informs me he was on the Monongehela in 1774. he lived there. that Logan’s family was killed by one Greathouse & others. that they had been over yellow creek a water of the Ohio 60. miles below Pittsbg & 130. above Kanhaway to the Shawanee encampment in a friendly way. that the Indians came over in...
838Notes on Comments by John Adams, [1–14 January 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
In a conversation with Dr. Ewen , who told the Presidt one of his sons was an Aristocrat the other a Democrat, the P. asked if it was not the youngest who was the Democrat. yes, said Ewen. well said the Presidt. a boy of 15. who is not a democrat is good for nothing. & he is no better who is a democrat at 20. Ewen told Hurt , and Hurt told me. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 105:17951); entirely in TJ’s...
839Notes on Convention of 1800, [before 3 February 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
G. Morris’s construction of the 6th. & 24th. articles. By the old treaty with France they had a right to bring in their prizes call that right A. By the treaty with England we grant them a right with the exeption of that granted to France, to wit A. our dissolution of the treaty with France does not convey A. to England it does not give her a right to bring in French prizes then when we put...
840To Thomas Jefferson from William Wirt, with Jefferson’s Notes, 15 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In a day or two I will come up and settle with you for the nails which were furnished us some time ago —and at the same time for 500. 8d. and 50. 30d. do. if you will be so obliging as to have them sent by the bearer. Yr. obt. Servt. (500) 5 ℔ VIII d. 12d 0-5-0 50. 3 ℔ XXX 10d. 0-2-6 0-7-6 RC ( MHi ); addressed: “Mr. Jefferson Monticello.” Furnished us some time ago : see Wirt to TJ, 4 May...