10551To Thomas Jefferson from John Langdon, 6 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honor’d with your favor of the 22d Ult by the last mail, with Mr. Shannon’s Commission inclosed, who expressed his warmest thanks for the same. This fresh mark of your goodness and attention to me at a moment when your whole time must be so much occupied by the great and important concern’s of state; demands my greatful acknowledgements. The view of our Public affairs which you are...
10552Enclosure: Report of Director of the Mint, 6 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Director of the Mint of the United States, on the commencement of the New Year, respectfully makes the following Report of the Issues of the Mint from the first January 1803 to the 31st. December of the same year. Notwithstanding the dull prospect at the beginning of the year, Coinage of every kind, amounts in the whole to the Sum of Three Hundred and Seventy Thousand six hundred and...
10553William Smith Shaw to John Quincy Adams, 7 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
On my return last evening from Atkinson where I have passed the last eight days in company with your brother Thomas I had the pleasure to receive your letters of the 23 & 24 ul t: with Mr. Tracy’s speech for which I am much obliged to you At present I have only time to say that Mr Stedman was the writer of the letter alluded to in mine of the 13 th — Russel when he shew me the letter did not...
10554To Alexander Hamilton from Abraham Ellery, 7 January 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
Deer Park, near Natchez [ Mississippi Territory ], January 7, 1804 . “Having it in contemplation to establish myself in the law line at New Orleans, I conceive that it would very much assist me in my debut to be made known to the Governor of that province. I have already written for letters of recommendation to him to … some others of my friends in the Atlantic States—will you suffer me, Sir,...
10555From James Madison to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 7 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 26. Ulto. I have communi⟨cated⟩ to the President and also to Mr Gallatin in whose Dept: the Collectorships lie, the paragraph relating to that at Norfolk. Your wishes therefore are known to both, and will no doubt enter into the comparative estimates, whenever the occasion for them shall arrive. It is proper at the same time, and especially as it will be an answer...
10556To James Madison from Sylvanus Bourne, 7 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1804, Amsterdam. “Inclosed I send you the Leyden Gazettes up to the present date & I take this occasion to regret that it will be absolutely requisite in order to produce (if possible) a relaxation of their present ruinous system of quarantine here that some direct communication should be made by our Govt: to that of this Country—my efforts in this regard having had no beneficial...
10557To James Madison from Richard Harrison, 7 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1804. “These papers are respectfully submitted to the Secretary of State with a view of obtaining his decision whether the depositions of Dr. Stevens & his private Secretary may be received in lieu of the vouchers generally required, & which it is not usual to dispense with at the Treasury without authority from the head of the proper Department.” Tr and Tr of enclosures ( DLC :...
10558To James Madison from Zachariah Lewis, 7 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1804, New York. “Your letter of the 30th. ult. directed to E. Belden & Co. together with a copy of the first laws of the present Congress, were received this day. As you request an immediate answer, I improve this moment to inform you, that I have lately purchased the establishment (of the Commercial Advertiser & the Spectator) of E. Belden & Co.—they having relinquished this kind of...
10559To James Madison from John Montgomery, 7 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1804, Alicante. Is sorry to have to address JM on the subject of the loss of the Philadelphia at Tripoli, of which event he assumes JM has been informed. “And As of course Your Excellency Will take the earliest measures for to treat With that Regency for the ransom of the Unhappy men Who have fallen into Slavery I beg leave to make a tender of my personal services there in Any Way...
10560To James Madison from Turrell Tufts, 7 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 January 1804, Surinam. “This moment William Wyman master of the Schooner Anne of Boston, to me well known, has Appeared before me & made a declaration, a copy of which is inclosed. It will inform you of a most arbitrary act.… This is not the first act of the like nature, although it is the first that has occurred Since my residence here. Formerly, most Criminals were forced on board our...
10561To Thomas Jefferson from Ephraim Jordan and Others, 7 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned Inhabitants of the County of Knox Indiana Territory—beg leave humbly to recommend to the notice and patronage of your Excellency a Citizen who has long continued to deserve well of his Country.— From the time General John Gibson , Secretary to the Territory began to reside among them in his official capacity, they have had every opportunity which familiarity of intercourse...
10562To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Saltonstall, 7 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
May Your Excellency pardon the intrusion of a foreigner, and deign to peruse the following, is the petition of respectful Sir Your very obedient servant Walter Saltonstall During Mr Burges Allisons privation I taught in his academy and since through good wishes he has accommodated me with some volumes in folio such as a Spanish dictionary and Universal penman for my use as a Teacher; and I...
10563From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 8 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I dropt you lately a few lines on the subject of Jerome Bonaparte’s expected marriage to a young lady of Baltimore. The affair was afterwards apparently broken off, but has since been compleated; and that letter has been forwarded. In order to ensure your receipt of the substance of it (no copy having been kept of the original) it is wished by the friends of Mr. Patterson the father of the...
10564To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 8 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday I signed the Act, to ratify, on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, relative to the choosing of a President and Vice-President of the United States. There were but nine Nays in the House of Representatives and one in our Senate, on this occasion. The speech of Mr; Tracy in the Senate of the U.S. was sent to me, with a Letter,...
10565From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
A confidential opportunity offering by mr Baring, I can venture to write to you with less reserve than common conveyances admit. the 150 livres you paid to mr Chas for me shall be replaced in the hands of mr Lewis your manager here, with thanks to you for honoring what you had no reason to doubt was a just claim on me. I do not know him personally or any otherwise than by his history of our...
10566From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering, 8 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering, and has searched without success in Hutchins’s Topographical Description of the Western country for the passage relative to the Northern boundary of which mr Pickering spoke to him yesterday. he imagines therefore he mistook the pamphlet to which he referred, and therefore asks the favor of the loan of it. RC ( MH ); addressed: “The...
10567To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne and James Wilkinson, 9 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The Orders from the French Commissioner, for the Delivery of the Posts at Natchitoches and those in upper Louisiana, of which we have been in Expectation for some Days, are not yet received. The Delay has arisen from the Tardiness of the Spanish Commissioners. We are informed however by Mr Laussat, that he has, at Length, received from the Marquis de Casa Calvo, the necessary Instructions to...
10568To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
Every circumstance that has come to my Knowledge since my last, tends to confirm the doctrine it contains, that no time was to be lost in taking possession of Louisiana after the exchange of ratifications. It gives me great pleasure to find that the President has adopted the most decisive measures for that purpose. I hope in the course of a few weeks to hear that the ceded territory is in our...
10569To James Madison from Moses Young, 9 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
In obedience to your orders I am to inform that col. Humphreys the late american minister at the court of Spain, arrived there in august ’97 loaded with public business and destitute of a secretary. It was more than six weeks before he met with me. In the mean time he had offered the american consulship at Madrid to the junior partner in a banking house there: the banker declined the...
10570From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Department of State. “I have received your note of the 7th. inst. requesting a decision from this Department, whether the depositions of Dr. Stevens, and his private Secretary may be received in lieu of the vouchers generally admitted in the settlements at the Treasury. As these depositions constitute a higher grade of proof, than has been admitted in some other instances of a...
10571To James Madison from John Martin Baker, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Palma. Refers JM to his last dispatch of 28 Nov. 1803. Has no return to make for the last six months, “only one American having appeared off the Islands Baleares, within that period, that, on the 18th of November, off Port Mahon, (a Ship from New York, out three months, laden with Flour.) which vessel was not admitted entrance, in consequence of a Royal Order of the 13th. of...
10572To James Madison from Swinton C. Holland, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Trieste. “I had this honour on the 22nd. October [not found] and have now that of waiting upon you with a list of American vessels arrived at this port &c from the 30th. June to the 31st. December [not found].” Just received a letter from Preble informing him of the blockade of Tripoli. “I have published this information to the Government here & made it known to all the Consuls...
10573To James Madison from Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Portsmouth. “As I have some friends at Algiers among whome is my father Tobias Lear, I now write you these few lines to let you know that all thier friends in this place are uneasy on account of thier not having recieved letters from them since they left Gibralter. I have wrote them a few lines and enclosed them to you sir as my hond. father desired me to do; and if you will be...
10574To James Madison from Robert Montgomery, 9 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 January 1804, Alicante. “I had this honor under the 6/7 ulto. and am since deprived of any letters from Your department the present will therefore only serve to Cover a letter and other dispatches received on the 3d. Current from Mr Lear at Algiers, I also sent duplicates of these papers on the day I received them to Mr Jarvis at Lisbon.” Offers his services in sending money to Tripoli for...
10575To Thomas Jefferson from John Jay AcModery, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
an unfurtuanate Man addresses You with these Lines though Scarsly worthy of Your Notice on account of its Iregular stile & Compossure—But would most Humbly begg pardon for the Intrussion & wish You to exuse me for attempting to trouble You with so lenghty a Scrawlling & so poorly Connected & spelled Sir I embarked in the Earliest Day of the American Revolution went with the faithful Genl....
10576From Thomas Jefferson to James Oldham, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the day before, and now inclose you the 20. Dollars desired. I ordered from Philadelphia the three sheets of sheet iron which you supposed might be wanting. they are now on their way. if not wanting to finish the terras, they may be employed on the gutturs which are to be laid with sheet iron. they should be painted on both sides before they are laid down....
10577From Thomas Jefferson to Anne Cary Randolph, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of the 7th . with your Mama’s postscript. as your’s was the principal the answer is due to you. I am glad to find you are pursuing so good a course of reading. French, History, Morals, and some poetry and writings of eloquence to improve the stile form a good course for you. how does Jefferson get on with his French? will he let Ellen catch him? the American...
10578To Thomas Jefferson from Tompson J. Skinner, 9 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer Mr Easton A Citisen of New York, is Solicitous that you should become Acquainted with his Character, I am Situated at A Considerable Distance from him, But have Connections And Acquaintance in the County where he resides— By whom I have been informed that Mr Easton was a very respectable Gentleman, of Fair Character And promising Talents, And A firm Undeviating Republican—The...
10579Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to You for two Letters Since I Wrote to you. Your Letter of december 22 d I thank You for, as well as the other; to me your conduct wanted not any justification or explanation. I am fully Satisfied that You have Weighed every measure, looking much further into concequences than those who censure and condemn. Yet I like to have some reasons to give to those who feel anxious upon...
10580To John Adams from William Cunningham, 10 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
I have ascertained that Mr. Adams’s Sermon at the Dudleian Lecture was not published; a copy was deposited in the archives of the University agreeably to the wish of Judge Dudley. I am informed, in a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Cushing of Ashburnham, that it was a laboured Discourse on the Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, and for which the Author was much complimented. I have, for sometime,...
10581To Alexander Hamilton from Louis Le Guen, 10 January 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 10, 1804. On January 18, 1804, Le Guen wrote to Hamilton and referred to “La Lettre … que jai la Lhonneur de vous Ecrire Le 10.” Letter not found. ]
10582From James Madison to Richard Harrison, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
It appearing that William Eaton Esqr. late Consul of the United States at Tunis did on the 9th. of August 1802, in his official capacity, enter into an instrument of writing acknowledging to have received from Sidi Haggi Junis Ben Junis, a Tunisian Merchant, the sum of thirty four thousand Spanish milled dollars, as a loan for the use of his public agency; and Richard V. Morris Esqr. having on...
10583To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you a copy of the ordinance for establishing a court of Justice in this City, which was alluded to in my last communication. I have only to repeat that this measure was essential to the interests of the City, and was called for by the voice of the society, and I persuade myself that the proceedings of this Tribunal will be marked with justice and moderation. I also...
10584To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 10 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
The moment I recieved your dispatch of the 8 November in cypher I considered it my duty to go to the Ambassadour of France with the intelligence it contained & to inform him as the Cession of Louisiana had been made to us by his Government & recieved the sanction of ours & as our Conduct throughout the whole had been fair & honourable We certainly could have no right to expect any difficulties...
10585To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 10 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 January 1804, Lancaster. Encloses “a small packet for our Minister in France,” which he asks JM to forward. “I am anxious that it should be sent early, as I see by the public prints that he is expected to return the insuing spring; which is a circumstance I regret on account of my correspondence with the National Institute, as he has been the channel thro which our letters have passed, and...
10586To James Madison from Fontaine Maury, 10 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 January 1804, New York. Requests a letter of introduction to Governor Claiborne “in favor of Mr Hugh Pollock of this place who is about to settle at New Orleans.” “Mr Pollock has been a Merchant of much respectability here for some years, he married the only Daughter of Mr Joseph Anthony late of Philada. and from a long acquaintance with him I have no hesitation in saying he is quite the...
10587To Thomas Jefferson from David Leonard Barnes, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 31st ult. inclosed with the petition of Nathl Ingraham, and a copy of your letter to Mr. Ellery—It is not in my power to make a correct statement of the case decided against Capt Ingraham, without having recourse to the records, which are kept at Newport—I shall go there the beginning of February to attend the District Court,...
10588To Thomas Jefferson from Lydia Leslie, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendship you have always had the goodness to express for my late husband Robert Leslie, who about two weeks since closed a life long embittered by sickness and misfortune, has induced me to take the liberty of entreating your assistance in the present distressing situation of my affairs. At the suit of a creditor in England for debts incurred by the partnership of Leslie and Price, an...
10589To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The right of appeal to your Excellency might well be questioned, were it not for a lively recollection of your singular affability towards me at a time when you supported a less elevated station, and when too, I was in the exercise of an inferior office, the honor of which it is my present object to rescue from injust opprobrium. When it was deemed consistent with the wellfare of my country...
10590To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 10 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Forgive the liberty which I take in introducing my cousin Mr. Robert Hallowell Gardiner to your notice, which he will claim after a time, more upon his own account, than mine. He is a young man who has not only acquitted himself honorably in his collegiate studies at Cambridge in this state; but has travelled in several parts of Europe. Since his return, he has with great good sense, good...
10591From Alexander Hamilton to Louis Le Guen, 11 January 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, January 11, 1804. On January 18, 1804, Le Guen wrote to Hamilton : “Je n’ai recu que Ce matin, La Lettre dont Vous mavés favorisé Le 11.” Letter not found. ]
10592From James Madison to William Payne, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Department of State. “As the laws of the last session requiring that deeds for Georgia lands of a description to be recorded in this Department should have been presented for that purpose previously to the 1st. inst. allows of no descretion to admit them afterwards, I have the honor to return the one you enclosed to me a few days ago, and to inform you that it is excluded by...
10593From James Madison to James Simons, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 12th. Ult. [not found] requesting instructions respecting the repairs to be allowed to a French Vessel of War, should she as expected arrive at your port in a state to require them. In answer I refer you to the several instructions heretofore transmitted from the Treasury Department, explanitory on that subject,...
10594To James Madison from John Gavino, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Gibraltar. No. 140. Last wrote on 4 Jan. 1804 . Encloses a list of arrivals at Gibraltar during the past six months [not found]. RC ( DNA : RG 59, CD , Gibraltar, vol. 2). 1 p.; docketed by Wagner.
10595To James Madison from William Kirkpatrick, 11 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 January 1804, Málaga. “An order having yesterday come down from Madrid for permitting the Ships Yorick, and Flora, to sail,” forwards this and a copy of his 19 Dec. letter by the former. “This moment I have received a Letter from Captn Bainbridge dated Tripoly 1 Novr. with the very distressing Account of his Ship Philadelphia having been wrecked on the 31 October last, on Rocks five miles...
10596To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Baring has concluded, notwithstanding Mr Pichon’s entreaties, not to take the stock till we shall have heard from New Orleans. He urges that it is not just that the risk, however improbable the event, of our not obtaining possession should fall on him; which he says would be the case if he gave a receipt for the stock before we know that we have possession. I offered to give him the...
10597To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have before me your favors of the 4th & 9th of November, I do not know whether to be glad or sorrey that the marriage has not taken effect, it might possibly have given offence, it might also have been made productive of some advantage. speaking confidentialy with one of the ministers on the subject he inquired particularly about the probable fortune of the lady I told him that notwthstdg...
10598To Thomas Jefferson from Charles P. Sumner, 11 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The approbation, with which the inclosed have been received by a number of my friends, has emboldened me to request the favor of your accepting them. I offer them with great diffidence; and value them chiefly for the opportunity they afford me of making a profession of those sentiments of admiration for your character, with which—in all the sincerity of my heart—I have ever felt myself your...
10599To James Madison from James Monroe, 12 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
I enclose you the letter from Mr. Livingston wh. was referr’d to in my publick one of the 9th. It is to be presumed that this affr. is ended between him & me. I have adverted to the guaranty in my publick letter in all the lights in wh. it seemed to be applicable to the existing state of affrs. in relation to France & Spain. It appears probable that it may be necessary that some person shod....
10600From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 12 January 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1804, Department of State. “I duly received both your letters [not found] respecting the Brig Friends. The President having given no direction for a remission of the penalties incurred, it follows that the law ought to take its course. I should have returned a particular answer to the first letter, had I been acquainted with the suspension and its consequences, which have...