2681Form the Rhode Island Delegates in Congress, 14 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of the Honourable the Corporation of the College at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, transmitted in their vote of the 7th. of September last. we take the liberty to inform your Excellency that the College under their direction was founded in the year 1764, and received the small endowments of which it is now possessed, solely, from the beneficence and...
2682II. Replies to Queries: New York (1), [ca. 1–5 June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Answers to Govr. Jefferson’s Quæries Government. Price of Labour. Ship Building Navigation Fisheries. MS ( DLC ); in an unidentified hand; although there is no indication of the state for which these replies were made, they clearly relate to New York. In DLC : TJ Papers 11: 1916 (separated from the present MS ) there is the address leaf for these replies, reading: “The Honble Jefferson [sic]...
2683Samuel Hardy and John F. Mercer to Jefferson and James Monroe, April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, April? 1784 .] Requesting “the favor of their Company to dine with them @ 4 oClock.” RC ( DLC ); without date or place; addressed: “Honble M[ess]rs. Jefferson & Monroe.” The blank verso of this note was subsequently used by TJ in his draft of an additional instruction to the Committee of States and therefore must have been received before 26 Apr. 1784; see Vol. 6: 529, note.
2684III. Replies to Queries: Connecticut, [June–July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Memoir containing answers to questions respecting the government, commerce &c. of the State of Connecticut. Government Amount of taxes in Bills of the United States since May 1775: 13,906,649. 3. 2 Deduct amount of abatements £3,428,643.16 Do. for balance due the Treasury 1,365,275. 6. 4,793,919. 2 Total Amount paid in Continental Bills £9,112,730. 1. 2 Amount paid in State Bills since 1780...
2685III. From Jean Nicolas DéMeunier, [February? 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
M. Démeunier est penetré de reconnoissance de tout ce que Monsieur Jefferson a La bonté de faire pour Lui. Il est si agreable et si heureux, d’avoir L’honneur de Causer avec un homme si parfaitement instruit, si Zelé pour Les choses interessantes, et si interessant Lui même à tous égards, que M. Démeunier prendra peutêtre La Liberté de Lui demander encore quelques momens. Il va Corriger et...
2686Swan’s Proposals for Supplying American Beef, &c. to the French Government, 19 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 19 July 1788 . “ Jam’s. Swan de Boston En faveur d’une association dans les Etats-Unis de l’Amérique ,” submits proposals for furnishing to the government of France a quantity of salt beef and pork, livestock, and butter from America for the troops and vessels of the king, in the colonies in America as well as in Europe as follows: Ten to forty, or fifty, thousand barrels of beef of a...