14241To Thomas Jefferson from John Freeman, 18 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorye to trubel you with a thing of this kind tho tho I am forced to do it: for I have been foolish anofe to in gage myself to melindors and I was in hops of when i came to Virginia this time to get hir Misstress consent with yours I have got the Consent of hir parence Tho I fear the deth of hir mistress: will make us meresibel unless you will be so good as to keep us botch: as to what I...
14242To Thomas Jefferson from John Smith, 11 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
So far as the enclosed Certificates may justify I presume to place myself before you as a Candidate for office, whenever it may be your pleasure, or occation may occur, to turn your attention to our state. In the Middle age of life, heretofore used to commercial pursuits, with a wife and family now distressed by the effect of political persecution, a Mind unambitious and Moderate Views, I...
14243To James Madison from Gabriel Duvall, 23 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 January 1805, Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office. “By the 4th section of the Act of the 28th February 1803, it is the duty of the Consuls, vice-consuls &c. of the U. S. from time to time to provide for the Mariners & seamen of the U. S. who may be found destitute within their districts respectively, sufficient subsistence & passages to some port in the U. S. subject to such...
14244To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Forster, on or before 18 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Reverendissime, Praesul, Domine, ac Moecoenas gratiossissime! Your Excellence will excuse the bold presumption which I undertook by addressing myself to You. Before I acquaint Your Excellence, with the design, what induced me, to come thitherto, You will be desirious to know, who I am, and from whence I come from. Here my attestats explain it— In short, I had the same fate, as Virgil, when he...
14245To Thomas Jefferson from John Bird, 3 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to write you on the 10th. ultimo—Stateing my application for the Office of Collector of the Customs for the District of Delaware, in case a vacancy should happen, by the removal, or resignation of the present officer—: To which be pleased to refer. In that Letter I took the Liberty to recommend your Excellency to Governor Hall, and C: A: Rodney Esquire, for information, with...
14246From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 9 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Capt Truxton’s idea of a [gradual] relief of our frigates [presents] advantages. in addition to what he [mentions], the frigate going out [might] always carry supplies; the frigate relieved may always be any particular one which may have got damaged & need repairs. it puts it in our power to shift the officers at our will & without offence. [it] might, on the arrival of the one & before the...
14247To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 30 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 October 1801, Cap Français. No. 14. Wrote to JM on 28 Oct. via brig bound to Newburyport; has little more to add. As he mentioned, gunfire was heard on the night of 22 Oct. The following morning a plot was uncovered to raise an insurrection and exterminate whites not only at the cape but throughout the country to the northwest. An alarm spread on 24 Oct. that “the Country was in Arms and...
14248To Thomas Jefferson from J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 30 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform The President that I have this day Shipp’d on Board the Sloop Harmony, Captn. Ellwood, for Alexandria, a Box containing Books, consignd to me by Wm. Lee Esquire of Bordeaux—The duties paid 95. Cents I have the Honor to be with Perfect Respect Sir Your Most Obedt RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “The President of The U States”; endorsed by TJ as received 1 June and so...
14249From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, 14 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12th. came to hand last night. while making out the commissions of bankruptcy the newspapers informed me of the death of your son, on which event I sincerely condole with you. his name was therefore omitted and another inserted so as to compleat the number before the reciept of your letter recommending mr Pettit. Though I take for granted that the colonisation of Louisiana by...
14250Deed for Land Purchased from Benjamin Brown, 9 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
This Indenture made on the 9th day of September One thousand Eight Hundred and two Between Benjamin Brown of the one part and Thomas Jefferson, of the other part, both of the County of Albemarle Witnessith, that the said Benjamin, In consideration of the sum of Eighty five pounds fifteen Shillings Virginia Currency to him paid by the said Thomas hath Given, granted, bargained and sold unto the...