2251From Thomas Jefferson to Colonia, 22 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Il est arrivé à la Douane de Paris pour Monsieur Jefferson ministre plenipotentiaire de l’Amerique un harnois à trois chevaux qu’il a fait venir d’Angleterre pour son usage particulier. Pour le retirer de la Douane il faut un ordre de Monsieur le Controleur General. Si Monsieur de Colonia voudroit bien l’obtenir et le lui faire passer Monsieur Jefferson lui en auroit beaucoup d’obligation. Il...
2252From Thomas Jefferson to Colonia, 20 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a eu l’honneur de recevoir de Monsieur le comte de Vergennes un passeport pour des armes qu’il doit expedier pour l’etat de Virginie. Son agent l’ayant presenté au Receveur et Directeur à Bourdeaux d’ou cet envoi devoit etre fait, ils lui ont dit qu’on ne pouvoit pas en admettre l’expedition sans que le passeport soit signé de Monsieur le Controleur general. Monsieur...
2253From Thomas Jefferson to Colonia, 7 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson avoit l’honneur, il y a quelques jours de faire passer à Monsieur de Colonia un passeport pour l’expedition des armes à l’etat de Virginie, signé par sa majesté le roi, mais manquant la signature de son excellence Monsieur le Comtrolleur general: et il prenoit la liberté de supplier Monsieur de Colonia de lui procurer la signature de ce Ministre. Peut il oser de le prier,...
2254From George Washington to Rawleigh Colston, 4 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 10th of Novembr, (which did not reach me ’till within these three days) as well as the former by Mr Ireland, came safe to hand. Mr Wright, whom I saw at Alexandria, will have informed you, that as the business respecting the affairs of the deceased Colo. George Mercer was transferred by a decree of the high Court of Chancery, from me to Colo. John Mercer; & the Bonds & other...
2255From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 12 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 9. came to hand on the 25th. of June. I immediately communicated to the foreign officers the inability of the treasury at that moment to provide paiment of the interest due them, with assurances of your attention to them in the first possible moment. I communicated to Commodore Jones also your order for the balance in his hands. As he was entitled to a part of the money he...
2256From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 6 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 3. came to hand some days ago, and that of July 22. in the afternoon of yesterday. Knowing that a Mr. Vannet was to leave Paris this morning to go to Virginia in a vessel bound from Havre to Patowmac, I have engaged him to receive the papers which are the subject of those letters, to take care of them from hence to Havre, and on the voiage, and when he shall be arrived in...
2257From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, with Enclosure, 9 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the desire expressed in your letter of Feb. 16. 1787. I now send you a rough state of the articles attached by Messrs. Schweighauser & Dobree, and actually remaining in the warehouse at Nantes. You will perceive that it is only an estimate made by myself on the spot, as an exact account could not be obtained without unpacking the whole. My estimate is followed by some Notes on the...
2258From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 27 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to forward to you a letter from your bankers in Amsterdam sent open to me for my perusal, and also a copy of my answer to one of a similar tenor. I have at length found myself obliged to insist with those gentlemen on the article of money destined for our captives. Themselves as well as the brokers, being holders of a considerable portion of our bonds, have an advantage in...
2259From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 7 February 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Nov. 10. and 13. and Dec. 5. have been duly received. Commodore Jones left this place for Copenhagen the 5th. instant to carry into execution the resolution of Congress of Oct. 25. Whatever monies that court shall be willing to allow, shall be remitted to your bankers either in Amsterdam or Paris as shall be found most beneficial, allowing previously to be withdrawn from it...
2260From John Jay to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 9 February 1786 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . a Letter from Mess rs . Van Staphorst of the 24 Nov r . last. This Letter of is of such a nature that the Delicacy ^ with ^ which I wish to conduct all such of the affairs of this Departm t . as may affect the Officers of the others, induces me to communicate this Letter to you in the first Instance. It is too long to be soon copied, and being an official paper ought not to be...
2261From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 18 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress having thought proper by their vote of July 18. to instruct me to take measures for the redemption of our captives at Algiers, and to desire you to furnish the money necessary, it is proper to state to you some data whereby you may judge what sum is necessary. The French prisoners, last redeemed by the order of Mathurins, cost somewhat less than 400 dollars; but the General of the...
2262From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 16 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Mar. 29. which I had the honour of addressing you from Amsterdam, I stated to you what had passed till that date relative to our money affairs in Europe, and I inclosed you an estimate of these which looked forward to the end of the year 1790. I mentioned to you also that the prospect of filling up the loan of the last million was at that moment good, so that I thought you might...
2263From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 5 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last of June 17. 1787. I had the honor of communicating to you the information I had received from Mr. Grand that your funds here were out, and he considerably in advance. I took occasion to mention to him the paragraph in your letter of Feb. 17. wherein you were so kind as to say your attention should be immediately turned to the making a remittance. However I understood soon after that...
2264From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honour of writing to Mr. Jay on the 30th. of Aug. 1785. and which announced to him the final settlement of the prize money due to Capt. Jones’s squadron, and the order of the Marechal de Castries that the mòney should be paid into his hands, I mentioned that that order could not be obtained but on my undertaking that, if it should appear there had been any French...
2265From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 7 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to me from the Marquis de la Rouerie, dated March 19. 1786. will apprise you of the impatience of the officers here to receive their money. They are needy and noisy creditors. The other two papers from the same gentleman are, I beleive, for the office of Mr. Nourse, at whose desire I applied for them. I will trouble you to have them handed to his office. I think it my duty...
2266From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 29 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Adams having notified our bankers here of his approaching return to America, and referred them to consult with me in their future difficulties, they, on the receipt of your letter wherein you informed them that your sole reliance for the June interest was on the progress of the late loan, inclosed me a copy of that letter, informing me at the same time that the loan had ceased to get...
2267From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. Franks, who acted as Secretary to Mr. Barclay on his mission to Marocco, having occasion for money for his journey, I furnished him with fifty pounds sterling by draught on the fund appropriated to those purposes, for which I now inclose you his receipt. Mr. Barclay settled his account to the time of his being at Madrid on his return, of which, I presume, one or both those gentlemen will...
2268[From Thomas Jefferson to Commissioners of the Treasury, 15 January 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 15 Jan. 1785 . Entry in SJL reads: “Commrs. of Treasury of U.S. informing of Mr. Adams’s draught in my favor viz. 6000 flor. Currt. = 5769.5 bo. exch. 53½ = 12940 livres—7 sous—6 den.” Not found. On 7 May 1785 John Adams wrote to John Jay as follows: “My friend and colleague, Mr. Jefferson, brought with him an order to receive of M. Grand a sum of money in advance to furnish his...
2269From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 14 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
No opportunity having occurred to send my letter of Feb. 27. I have had time to receive an answer from our bankers, and to write them again. In their answer they quote some resolution of Congress appropriating the monies borrowed in 1787. and 1788. to the paiment of interest to the end of the year 1790. on the Dutch loans, and the residue to salaries and contingent expences arising in Europe....
2270From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 30 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Aug. 5. I had the honour of inclosing to you a letter written me by Messrs. Fiseaux & co. reminding us that the principal of the loan of 51,000 florins obtained by them would become due on the first day of the ensuing year. A few days ago I received another from them calling for the money. At first I was disposed to answer them that I was in no wise authorised to do any thing...
2271From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly honoured by the receipt of your letter of Dec. 6. and am to thank you for the communications it contained on the state of our funds and expectations here. Your idea that these communications from time to time may be useful to the U.S. is certainly just; as I am frequently obliged to explain our prospects of paying interest &c. which I should better do with fuller information....
2272To Thomas Jefferson from Willink & Van Staphorst, with Enclosures, 31 January 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
We are honored with Your Excellency’s respected favor of 13. Inst. urging us again to pay the ƒ51,000 Guilders reimbursable by the United States the First Instant at the House of Henry Fizeaux & Co. which we should have effected, had you and Mr. Adams wrote us clearly and decidedly to do it; instead of which you both desired us to discharge only the Interest and wait the Orders of the Board of...
2273From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 24 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 6th. inst. by a Mr. Vanet to whose care were committed the Consular papers. The vessel was bound to Alexandria, and himself to Richmond; but he promised to go express with the papers to New York and to deliver them to you himself. I thought it better to send the keys by a different conveiance. You will therefore receive them inclosed in this letter which goes by the way of...
2274From Thomas Jefferson to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 17 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 16. has duly come to hand. I will beg leave to repeat an explanation, which I think I had the honor of giving you in a former letter, of the reason why the bills of Mr. Dumas have been paid for some time past by Mr. Grand. Soon after the departure of Dr. Franklin a bill drawn by Mr. Dumas on me was presented for a quarter’s salary. I went to Mr. Grand and asked him if he...
2275From George Washington to the Committee of Congress, 20 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
Upon my alighting in this City I received your communication of the 17th with the resolutions of the two Houses which accompanied it and in answer thereto beg leave to inform you that knowing how anxious both houses must be to proceed to business I shall continue my journey with as much dispatch as possible. Tomorrow evening I propose to be at Trenton—the night following at Brunswick and hope...
2276Commission of New York Delegates to Congress, 4 November 1784 (Jay Papers)
The People of the State of New York By the Grace of God, Free and Independent To All to whom these presents shall come, send Greeting Know Ye that We having inspected the Records Remaining in the Secretary’s Office of our said State do find there a Certain Commission in the Words following to Wit: “The People of the State of New York, By the Grace of God Free and Independent, To all to whom...
2277Circular Letter to United States Consular Agents, 29 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose to you the copy of a letter which I have had the honor of receiving from his Excellency M. de Calonne, one of his Majesty’s ministers, wherein he is pleased to communicate to me sundry regulations lately made for the encouragement of the commerce between France and the United States of America. The favorable footing on which American productions will now be received in the ports of...
2278[From Thomas Jefferson to B. Contée, 13 July 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris, 13 July 1785. Entry in SJL reads: “B. Contéee. Bayonne. See copy. By post (copy lost or mislaid).” Neither the copy that TJ “lost or mislaid” nor the RC has been found; see Contée’s letter of 18 July 1785 .]
2279From Thomas Jefferson to B. Contée, 16 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 18. to Dr. Franklin came to my hands the 1st. inst. As I knew mine of July 13. was then on the way to you no further answer to it was necessary. Your’s of July 30. came to hand on the 6th. instant. I immediately communicated it to Mr. Barclay our Consul general who happened to be at Paris. He thought with me that if you had made no express contract with the agent of the...
2280III. Washington’s Address to Congress Resigning his Commission, [23 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulations to Congress and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country. Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased...