851From Thomas Jefferson to William Crawford, 20 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved thro’ you the Address of the Democratic citizens of the county of Adams in Gettysburg on the 15th. of Feb. last, I ask permission through the same channel to return the answer, & to offer to them & yourself the assurances of my high respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
852From Thomas Jefferson to Creek Nation, 2 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am glad to recieve your visit at the seat of our government, and to take you by the hand of friendship as our neighbours & children. I thank the great spirit who has brought you safely through so long a journey, and who I hope will continue his protection and restore you safely to your friends. it is now 15. years since the great Chiefs of your nation met us at New York in the time of our...
853From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 13 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I was able to get from Washington a few days ago, and am here for about three weeks to unbend, as much as the current business will permit, with the aid of the country recreations. a little before my departure the incident took place at New York, on the subject of which I saw letters from yourself & General Varnum who were witnesses of the effect produced. altho’ the scenes which were acted on...
854From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 19 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 19. was recieved at this place, and I have with great pleasure written the two inclosed letters for your perusal; when perused, be so good as to stick a wafer in that to mr Bentley, & forward it to him. We have been long without hearing from the Mediterranean, and the state of Commodore Barron’s health is a subject of uneasiness. the issue of that contest is becoming the...
855From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 21 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Crownenshield & incloses him the six dollars for the dumb fish he was so kind as to send him: he returns him his thanks for the trouble he has taken, and is encouraged hereafter to make use of his friendly offices in the same way. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
856From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 12 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 28th is recieved & I join with you in expressions of satisfaction that the Tripoline war is finished. in the present state of things with Spain it was desirable that our little navy should not remain in her power. I percieve by your letter that you have been so kind as to forward the fish. having heard nothing of it I had presumed it had slipped your memory. the object of the...
857From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 26 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Crowninshield & informs him that having seen in the Salem register recieved yesterday the account of the death & burial of mr Gibaut, he has this day directed a commission for John Kitteridge according to the recommendations forwarded. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
858From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 11 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Crownenshield, and presuming on his kindness formerly experienced asks the favor of him to procure for him a kental of the best dumb-fish to be forwarded to Gibson & Jefferson at Richmond for Monticello. It is intended for use in August & September. Th:J. leaves Washington the day after tomorrow, and will be back about the middle of...
859From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 29 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed has been sent to me by some person who does not chuse to give his name. the usurpation of our flag, and the practice of our merchants to lend their cover to belligerent property has been a long & crying evil. we lose the profits of doing the same business for ourselves, subject our own vessels to suspicion & vexatious searches, and are in constant danger of being embroiled with...
860From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 21 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 14th. and have to thank you for the Halibut and tongues & sounds. having opened one of the boxes only and finding no fins in it I had concluded they were not to be had. I shall find them in the other box at Monticello to which place they go. whenever you will be so good as to let me know the cost it shall be remitted. the conduct of the Cambrian has...
861From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 23 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Crownenshield & returns him the inclosed letters which he has read with much regret. but he must still ask an interview with mr Crownenshield. RC (Mrs. Charles L. Hoskins, Seneca Falls, New York, 1950); addressed: “The honble Mr. Crownenshield”; endorsed by Crowninshield. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: see Crowninshield to TJ, 20 Feb.
862From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 2 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson with his salutations to Mr. Crowninshield returns him thanks for the fish he has been so kind as to send him. He will take the liberty of repeating his request that if any of the very best quality should fall in his way after his return that he would be so good as to send him a Kental to the address of Mesrs. Gibson and Jefferson, Richmond. [Note from Jacob Crowninshield on...
863From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 26 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Crowninshield and returns him the letter he was so kind as to send him. he percieves it comes from a mind sensible to the feelings of domestic life, but capable of resolving on what is proper. he asks the favor of an interview with mr Crownenshield. RC (Mrs. Charles L. Hoskins, Seneca Falls, New York, 1950). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure not...
864From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Crowninshield, 13 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
After my letter of yesterday was sent to the Post office, I recieved one from mr Jefferson of Richmond informing me that the fish had just come to that place, having passed circuitously to it. I hope you will recieve the present by the same post with yesterday’s so as that I may have given you no further trouble respecting this. Accept my thanks for your attention to this matter and my...
865From Thomas Jefferson to Catherine Church Cruger, 15 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The favor of your letter by mr Cruger was recieved with great pleasure, & I have further to acknolege that of making him known to me. it would have been a great gratification, had the occasion permitted me to be useful to you in giving the license sollicited by mr Cruger. but the time for doing that expired some months ago, after having been duly announced in the public papers. since that no...
866From Thomas Jefferson to John Crump, 11 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 8th. at my last settlement with John Perry in Sep. last we were nearly even. since that he has done some work for me, and my paiments have probably about kept pace with his work, not yet settled. he has still work to do for me, for which I may have to pay him about 100. D. a month which has been our ordinary rate. but this is future, liable to be...
867From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 23 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Dr. Bruff a dentist the bearer of this, has resided some years in this place, and has justly acquired the character of a very excellent man. possessing talents of the very first order in mechanics he has applied them with great success to the invention & improvement of the instruments of his art & much to the advantage of those who have occasion to employ him. having been of that number...
868From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 29 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof is mr Thomas Main whom I have spoken of to you as the person who has been so succesfully engaged here in raising the thorn hedge & whom you were so kind as to say you would patronize should he be willing to undertake the same business at Richmond. indeed for his integrity sobriety industry & skill I can safely recommend him as worthy general patronage; and I am persuaded that...
869From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 19 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor accompanying the award of the Arbitrators in the case between mr Ross & myself, only on the eve of my departure from Monticello when it was impossible for me to take time even to read the papers. I have taken the first moment in my power, (after getting through the mass of business [accumulated] here) to examine the papers. I am perfectly satisfied with the correctness of...
870From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 14 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Jan. 8. covering the award of the Arbitrators, and I consent willingly to the paiment to them of 50. Dollars on my part for their trouble, which mr Jefferson will do for me. I write to him to this effect. he had already, at my desire procured as much tobo. as would have discharged the award, had it been corrected as I believed it would. but it will now want...
871From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 30 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival at home I have two or three times recieved Vaccine matter from Dr. Waterhouse at Boston & through him from Dr. Jenner of London, which has been inoculated directly or by succession 1 into 30. or 40. of my family, & 20. or 30. of mr Randolph’s with perfect success. many of them are through the disease. a few had slight fevers, and one only a bad arm, produced by too deep an...
872From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 25 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a publication of Aiken’s on the Cowpox, as also some pieces from the newspapers. you will see Dr. Coxe’s experiments of the variolous after the vaccine inoculation. the matter for the latter was from me, & consequently proves that we kept the disease in it’s genuine form at Monticello, as well as that the matter I sent you was genuine. but as you deferred using it, it probably...
873From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 2 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last notes in the case between mr Ross & myself, I mentioned that I would apply to messrs. Lewis & Eppes for information of the credit given at a sale in Elk island, on which the rate of converting money into tobacco in a particular instance depended. I have received their answers, neither of them recollecting what credit was given on particular bonds: they suppose also that mr Ross, or...
874From Thomas Jefferson to William Curtis, 18 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 24. came to my hands the 7th. inst. and I shall with pleasure give you the substance of my transactions on behalf of the late mrs Ariana Randolph. in the year 97. she wrote to me stating the depth of her distresses, the arrearages due to her on her marriage-contract, and solliciting my aid to procure what was due to her. Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph and Philip Grymes had...
875From Thomas Jefferson to William Cushing, 10 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful salutations to the honorable judge Cushing, and incloses him the petition of Jesse Brown, at whose trial judge Cushing presided. he requests the favor of him to say whether from the circumstances disclosed at the trial, & those stated in the petition he considers him as a proper object of pardon. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
876From Thomas Jefferson to William Cushing and Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of the honble Mr. & Mrs. Cushing to dine with him on Monday next at half after three, Feb. 2. 05. The favour of an answer is asked. RC ( NNPM ); printed form, with blanks filled in TJ’s hand reproduced in italics. William Cushing (ca. 1732-1810) was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in...
877From Thomas Jefferson to George W. P. Custis, 23 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter I rode to the Hamburg hill from whence you suppose a bridge may be advantageously thrown across the river. comparing this with the other positions, below and above, which have been proposed, I observe that in proportion as they lengthen the road they shorten the bridge. it will rest with the legislature to decide at which place or places they will authorize the...
878From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Cutbush, 24 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Dr. Cutbush and his thanks for the volume on the health of soldiers and seamen which he has been so kind as to send him. he shall peruse it with pleasure at his first leisure. in the mean time the great utility of the object justly entitles the author to the thanks of every friend of his country. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
879From Thomas Jefferson to Elisha P. Cutler, 6 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Inhabitants of North Yarmouth in legal townmeeting assembled. Your representation and request were recieved on the 5th. inst. And have been considered with the attention due to every expression of the sentiments and feelings of so respectable a body of my fellow citizens. no person has seen, with more concern than my self, the inconveniences brought on our country in general, by the...
880From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Cutting, 18 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of Jan. 26. I referred to the Secretary of the Treasury so much of it as related to your models machines Etc by his answer which I inclose, you will percieve that the laws have not given any exemption from duty to objects of that kind; and we can only execute the laws as they are. To my congratulations on your return to the United states, permit me to add my...
881From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Cutts, 27 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of The Hon’ble Mr Cutts to dine with him the day after tomorrow at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise. The favour of an answer is asked. Wednesday Jan’y 27th 1802 RC ( ICHi ); printed form, with blanks filled by an unidentified hand reproduced in italics. Richard Cutts (1771–1845) belonged to a prominent family of merchants and...
882From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Cutts, 20 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have in my house at Monticello a skylight which I would wish to cover with a single sheet of glass. this must be of 4. feet diameter at the least, but would be still better at 5 feet 6. Inches. I do not know that such a sheet can be cast at all, but if it can, it is only to be had at a glass house on being specially bespoke. I understand there is a glass house at Boston or in it’s vicinity,...
883From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Willis Daingerfield, 5 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 26. is recieved, & the agreement for the hire of the negroes of mrs and miss Dangerfield for the next year considered as closed, on the same terms as were agreed on for the present year, that is to say for Edmund 70. D. Warner 69. D. Sampson 60. D. Polly 40. D. Gabriel 82 D. Billy 80. D. Tom 74. D. Jack 60. D. & George 55. D. in all amounting to five hundred & ninety...
884From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Willis Daingerfield, 9 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had counted fully on being able at this time to have placed in the bank of Fredericksburg the sum of 590. Dollars for mrs & miss Dangerfield for the last year’s hire of their negroes: I find however that I cannot do it till this day four weeks, when they may have the utmost assurance of it’s being there, and may enter into any arrangements on that supposition under the certainty that they...
885From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Willis Daingerfield, 5 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day remitted to the bank of Fredericksburg for the hire of your negroes & those of miss Sarah Dangerfield the last year the sum of five hundred & ninety Dollars, of which 239. D. are placed there in your name & subject to your order, and 351./590. D. in the name of miss Dangerfield & subject to her order, which will be paid accordingly without any special or further order from me....
886From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Willis Daingerfield, 10 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John H. Freeman hired for me four negroes of your property & five belonging to miss Sarah Dangerfield, for the present year, who are now at this place. mr Freeman’s constantly declining health will probably induce him to leave my service within a few weeks. this is the occasion of my troubling you at present, as I am desirous, during my present visit to this place, to take measures for...
887From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Willis Daingerfield, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am later this year than usual in expressing to you my willingness to retain for the next year the negroes I have heretofore hired of yourself & miss Sarah Dangerfield, because the letter of mr Hooe of Nov. 18. of the last year assured me it would be your desire to continue them with me as long as I might have occasion for them. I have counted therefore on retaining them, with the exception...
888From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Willis Daingerfield, 7 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As the year is drawing to a close, and the season arrived at which it is necessary to engage labourers for the ensuing year, I take the liberty of stating that I shall be glad to continue to hire for the next year the four negroes of your property & five belonging to miss Sarah Dangerfield, now in my service, and on the terms heretofore agreed on and explained in my letter of Sep. 5. 1806. to...
889From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 29 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21. was recieved here the last night. I have not with me a copy of my letter of the 21st. which you quote as of the 17th. but the object of that was to inform you that Doctr. Franklin when he left Paris, did not leave with me a single scrip of paper, or of the pen, of any nature whatever, or any article of any kind whatsoever; and this on an explanation between ourselves,...
890From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 17. Doctr. Franklin left nothing with me when he left Paris, not even a scrip of a paper; because we concurred in opinion that as he left nothing unfinished, the office of foreign affairs here was the proper deposit for his papers. I heard nothing of his having any other deposits. certainly he left none of any kind with me. had a deposit of silver been...
891From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Dallas & thanks him for his note on the subject of the Prohibition. the observation that it does not remove the cause, and consequently cannot come within the description of ‘writs necessary for the exercise of their jurisdiction’ had not occurred to him & is weighty. but it suggests to him (and a 30. years abstraction from legal studies makes him...
892From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was applied to some time the last year to give a pardon to the persons (the Lowries) who are the subjects of the inclosed letter & petition. but the facts then stated, & the short imprisonment they had then suffered did not justify it in my judgment. in consequence however of further information, & of the longer term of their confinement, I now think it my duty to pardon them. a copy of the...
893V. To the Danbury Baptist Association, 1 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing....
894From Thomas Jefferson to William Dandridge, 7 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
To Capt. William Dandridge and the Henrico junior Volunteer infantry attached to the 33d. regiment of Virginia Militia. The offer of your service in supporting the rights of your country merits & meets the highest praise; & whenever the moment arrives in which these rights must appeal to the public arm for support, the spirit from which your offer flows, that which animates a nation, will be...
895From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Danforth, 29 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The Editor of the Pittsfield Sun did for a while forward me the newspaper as mentioned in your favor of the 16th inst. which I recieved [here] a day or two after my arrival from Washington. I had [found] of the character you give [it]. what has discouraged me from taking distant papers is the difficulty of making paiments at a distance of so small amount as not to be the object of a bill of...
896From Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier d’Annemours, 29 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by mr Derbigny with very great pleasure your letter of Sep. 30. it was not delivered till Dec. 11. & mr Derbigny informed me you would be gone from N. Orleans before an answer could reach it. had I known of your being there, I should not have failed to drop you a line to recall our antient acquaintance. the present will go to the care of Govr. Claiborne, and is merely to express to...
897From Thomas Jefferson to William Darlington, 29 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to Mr. Darlington & his thanks for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him on the mutual influence of habits & disease which he shall peruse in the first moments of leisure with the pleasure so interesting a subject promises. Privately owned.
898From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 15 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 10. came safely to hand a week ago. according to your permission it has been communicated to mr Madison & mr Gallatin. I have also communicated it to Genl. Dearborne; because one of the persons named by you is particularly under his observation, so far it was necessary, & not further, & I will be responsible for it’s secrecy. the information is so important that it is my...
899From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 12 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 14. has been just recieved. the first of Jan. 10. was acknoleged in mine of Feb. 15. after that those of Feb. 10. Mar 5. Apr. 5. & 21. came in due time. as their matter did not require answer, their acknolegement was postponed to avoid the suspicions of which you seemed to be aware, as well as to await your return from the journey you had undertaken. the acknolegement of...
900From Thomas Jefferson to James Davidson, 23 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Davidson with respect and returns him mr Cathalan’s bill with an acceptance. MHi : Coolidge Collection.