1From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 4 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 April 1803. Acknowledged in Clark to JM, 20 June 1803 (DNA: RG 59, CD, New Orleans, vol. 1). Requests Clark to keep “an account as exact as possible of the amount of all payments exacted from our Citizens in violation of the Treaty.” Encloses a letter from Pichon to the colonial prefect of Louisiana.
2From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 19 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letters to the Governor & Intendent of Louisiana have just been put into my hands by the Spanish Minister here. They contain orders from His Catholic Majesty for the immediate restoration of the Deposit at New Orleans; as you will find by the communication on the subject by the Marquis D’Yrujo to this Department of which a printed translation is herewith enclosed. You will please...
3From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 6 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 6 July 1803 . Acknowledged in Clark to JM, 12 Aug. 1803 . Announces the purchase of the Louisiana Territory.
4From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Clark, 17 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be informed by a letter from the Secretary of state of the terms and the extent of the cession of Louisiana by France to the US. a cession which I hope will give as much satisfaction to the inhabitants of that province as it does to us. and the more as the title being lawfully acquired & with consent of the power conveying, can never be hereafter reclaimed under any pretence of force....
5From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 20 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that the Treaty & Conventions, entered into on the 30th. of April by our Ministers Extraordinary, at Paris with the French Government, were received here on Thursday evening last. For an outline of the Agreement I refer you to the enclosed Newspaper; to which is added a copy of Articles II III IV V & VI. To these the President wishes you to give all the...
6From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 16 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
My present absence from the office of State puts it out of my power to refer to all the letters from you not yet acknowledged. The last received was of the 12th. of August. The preceeding one on the boundaries of Louisiana &c. &c. has not yet reached me. All the information you may be able to give on that subject, and on every other made interesting by the late cession from France, will be...
7From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 30 September 1803 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a letter from Mr. Brown one of the Senators for Kentucky, whence it appears that a Mr. John Quarles a Citizen of Kentucky is, and for some months past has been confined in irons at New Orleans, under the orders of the police, as it would seem at the instigation and from the influence of an individual actuated by a private misunderstanding. On account of the respectable standing of...
8From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon, being desirous of forwarding to New-Orleans certain communications preparatory to the delivery of Louisiana to the United States, employs for that purpose the Bearer Mr. Landais, who will put this into your hands. I request the favor of you, not only to receive him with the attentions expected from your politeness, but to give any counsel or other proper aid in the discharge of his...
9From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 31 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
The present Mail conveys to Govr. Claiborne & Genl. Wilkinson authority to receive or take possession of Louisiana, and to Govr. Claiborne authority to administer for the present the Government of the ceded Country. The possibility suggested by recent circumstances, particularly a protest from the Spanish Government against the cession from France to the United States, that delivery may be...
10From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 10 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter was sent to me by Mrs Clark, with a request that it might be forwarded to you. I take this occasion of congratulating you on the successful termination of the measures for placing Louisiana in our hands, and of repeating my acknowledgments for the active and useful services which you have rendered on the occasion. The Bill providing a government for this acquisition has not...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Clark, 21 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Clark, & his thanks for the Indian axe he was so kind as to send him, which is the largest he has ever seen. he is also thankful for the permission to copy the maps he has communicated to him, for which purpose he retains the following at the War office, to wit 1. Mapa de las Cereanas de Mexico. 2. Plana de la Ciudad de Mexico. 1791. 3. Vera Cruz &...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Clark, 14 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have examined the papers you left with me on the claim to the commons of N. Orleans, and finding the subject to be within the cognisance of the board of Commissioners for that territory; they will be immediately instructed to make full enquiry into the foundation of the claim & to report it for the decision of Congress. With respect to the lots & buildings in the city of New Orleans held by...
13From James Madison to Daniel Clark, 24 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 18th. inst. has been recd.. I refer you to Mr. Sanford, the District Attorney of New York, to whom I shall write by this days Mail on the subject generally of your claim, under the judgement against Danl. Penfield. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.