271To James Madison from Robert Taylor, 3 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Daniel Ward of Culpeper the bearer of this wishes an appointment in t he army of the United States. I have known him for several years and believe that any patronage you afford him will be well placed. His character is believed to be entirely fair and in his office of deputy Sherif which he has held for some years I have not heard ought alledged agt. him. He has brought letters to me from...
272To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 2 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The two vacant offices are Surveyor of the port of Pittsburgh Do do of Cincinnati The first may be filled by enquiring from Hoge & Smith of Pennsa.—It is in Smith’s district, but much nearer to Hoge. Perhaps the list of candidates for Register may supply a name for the Cincinnati Surveyor. Old Goforth might do; it is a sinecure of 150 dollars. It seems to me that Symmes stands first for...
273To James Madison from William Eaton, 12 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
The cause of the sudden change of treatment on the part of this Bey towards me in my representative character is just now discovered. About thirty days ago arrived here a chaux (messenger) from the Sublime Porte with a firman from the Grand Signor demanding immediate restitution of three Sardinian merchant vessels and cargoes, captured during the late war, by the Bey’s cruisers, while under...
274To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar A. Rodney, 7 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 31. ulto. & thank you most sincerely for your attention & liberality to our Seminary. I trust our exertions to revive it will be crowned with success. It is matter of real concern, that those places which have acquired celebrity, on the score of education should unfortunately be under the influence of false principles. Every honest mind must feel afflicted,...
275To James Madison from John Leonard (Abstract), 5 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
5 February 1805, Barcelona . “My last Respects to you were by the Schooner Betsey Capt. Terrett. I now send a list [not found] of the arrivals &c. from June 1804 to Jany. 1805., and beg leave to observe that I have not yet received the Commission of Consul, for altho I am considered as such & exercise the functions annexed to the Office yet it would afford me a satisfaction to receive the full...
I am all impatience to hear from you, my beloved friend, and cannot concieve the reason, of your not having written from New York, according to your promise. there are some reports about that have occasioned me some much uneasiness and I wish very much to learn, that our friends there are all well , not a line having been recieved here. I have sent your Bank book, &c, as you desired, and have...
277From Thomas Jefferson to George White, 18 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the specimens of straw-plaiting which you were so kind as to inclose & learn with satisfaction the possibility that you may establish the manufacture in some of the states. but the distribution of powers by our general & state constitutions has placed in the general government no authority to embark in or to encourage any in particular. the state governments can do it; but they...
278To James Madison from William Willis, 27 August 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 August 1803, Barcelona . His last letter informed JM that “Leonard had arriv’d here and that he was soon to take possession of the Consulate.” Has given up the office but wishes to be reinstated once his “innocence and exertions for the common interest” of his country are established. “I am inform’d every day that Mr Leonard has secret instructions to arrest me and send me to the U.S.… I...
279From James Madison to John Shee, 13 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have lately Shipped to your care in the Schooner Caroline, John Hand Junr. Master, thirty one Boxes containing volumes of the laws of the United States, 2d. Session 9th. Congress, addressed to many of the Governors of the States and Territories. I pray you to forward them as opportunities may serve to their respective places of destination, paying the expenses from Philadelphia, which shall...
280To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 15 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to enclose for your perusal, a copy of a letter this morning received from General Mathews, together with copies of certain other papers accompanying it, giving the latest intelligence from Norfolk—you will perceive that the British Vessels have left Hampton Roads, but it does not appear from any information afforded by the enclosed papers, that they have left our...
281From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 1 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit for the information of Congress letters recently recieved from our Consuls at Gibraltar and Algiers , presenting the latest view of the state of our affairs with the Barbary powers. The sums due to the government of Algiers are now fully paid up: and, of the gratuity which had been promised to that of Tunis , and was in course of preparation, a small portion only remains still to be...
282To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 26 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received quadruplicates and Triplicates of your favor of the 6th October; the First & Second not having yet reached me previous to the receipt of that letter, I had receivd two from Mr Pichon, covering letters to the Minister for Exterior Relations. In one of those he explains only Shortly the nature of his communications to the Minister: This was the first intimation that I had...
283From James Madison to Caesar A. Rodney, 15 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
I am just making a list of the papers in which the laws are to be published in each State. The Mirror of Wilmington is understood to be the proper choice for Delaware. Will you favor me with your opinion, wch. will be waited for, unless I should be obliged to anticipate it, which may perhaps be the case? I am led to suppose there can be little danger of erring by giving a preference to that...
284To Thomas Jefferson from William Shippen, 17 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have known Major Penrose a long time—believe him to be a good republican—a man of considerable talents, a man of integrity & polite manners & think him qualified for the place he solicits. I am Dr. Sir with sentiment of Respect Your obed Servt DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and Recommendation.
285From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 April 1806 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of March 30th I received last Evening. The Subject of it is of great importance I have been absent from my Country and my home for So great a part of the last two and thirty Years, that I have never had an opportunity to be intimately Acquainted with the Affairs of the University or the Characters of the Gentlemen who have the immediate or mediate Government of it. This I have seen...
286John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 27 January 1804 (Adams Papers)
We have this day a sort of Holiday, to rejoyce for the acquisition of our new Territories— The Members of Congress of both Houses are to dine together— [The] federalists who opposed the cession however do not join in the party— Those of us who approved the measure, are to be of the feast—where we at least shall find not much congeniality. You will find in the inclosed papers numerous and very...
287From James Madison to John Rodgers, 28 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have received and laid before the President your narrative dated June 1802; of the outrages committed on you in St. Domingo, under the administration of that Island. The proper use will be made of the facts stated in this document, to support the remonstrances to the French Republic, and to urge the satisfaction due from it to the United States, and which ought equally to flow from its own...
288To Thomas Jefferson from Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 3 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Je suis chargé par mon Pere de vous faire parvenir la lettre ci incluse, veuillez me permettre de saisir cette occasion de vous presenter mon respectueuse hommage et de vous assurer du profond respect avec lequel j’ai l’honneur d’etre, Monsieur, Votre très humble et très obeïssant Serviteur MHi : Coolidge Collection.
289To Thomas Jefferson from William Barnwell, 20 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very liberal offer of Executive Patronage to our Philosophical Society encourages me again to address you . Doctor Wistar by whose advice this is wrote, has lately informed me that Doctor Beach is about to resign his appointment at New-Orleans these and similar considerations have induced me again to offer my Professional Service in that Place. I have long wished for an opportunity to...
290To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 12 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Albert Gallatin. 12 December 1805, treasury Department. “I have the honor to enclose an extract of a letter from James Brown Esqr. the Agent of the United States at New Orleans in relation to Land Claims. As the Intendant and other Spanish Officers may, in consequence of the late orders, be expected to leave the Territory in a very short time, permit me to suggest the propriety of...
291From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 25 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you Dr. Maese’s letter which a pressure of business has occasioned me to keep too long. I think an account of the manufactures of Philadelphia would be really useful, and that the manufactures of other places should be added from time to time as information of them should be recieved. to give a perfect view of the whole would require a report from every county or township of the US....
292From Thomas Jefferson to United States House of Representatives, 4 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Sundry letters relative to Hamet Caramalli, in addition to the Documents which accompanied my message of Jan. 13. having been sent to the Senate on their particular request, the same are now transmitted to the House of Representatives also, as the same subject is before them. DNA : RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.
293To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 9 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have perused and considered the inclosed representation of James M. Lingan, the original proprietor of the Ground within an open space in front of Square No. 78 in the City of Washington bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, 20th. Street west and I. Street north, as also the enclosed three Letters from a Committee of the Citizens and House holders in that part of the City which lies west of the...
294To James Madison from Peder Pedersen, 3 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 December 1804, Philadelphia. “By the Ship Hardware Capt. Wataik [Matlock] who arrived at the 30th ulto. at New York is come a Four wheels Couch and couch Harness marked and numbered as in the margin ordred by me and shipped for my account, permit me therefore on this occasion to request of you Sir, the favor to procure a permit for the landing of said Couch and Harness at New York, that I...
295Report from John Lenthall, 7 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Amount of the Rough stone work to the South wing of The Capitol from April 30th to May 7th 1803 Foundations of 13 Piers up to the offset. } 2350 } Perches 173 to which the Walls were pulled down Work done above the offset on the West } 1933 Front including the Voids of the Arches as solid work for B H Latrobe Surveyor MS ( DLC ); in Lenthall’s hand and signed by him; addressed: “Prest....
296From James Madison to Jonathan Barry, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just received a Letter from the Wife of William Bassett, whose case was committed to this Department in yours of the 12th. of August last, requesting that an application might be made to the proper authority at Cayenne, for the person of her Husband, the said William Bassett, in order to his being sent to the United States, to be tried for the offence with which he stands charged, by a...
297To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 5 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 5 July 1805, New Orleans. “In a former Letter, I advised you of the departure of Captain Carmick for Pensacola with a communication from me to Governor Folch upon the Subject of the Post Road through West Florida. Captain Carmick was detained much longer than was expected, and has returned without Governor Folch’s Answer. A Copy of Captain Carmicks Letter to me...
298To Thomas Jefferson from Jones & Howell, 1 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed we Send You bill of Lading or rather Invoice (bill of Lading to Gibson & Jefferson) for 101 Sheets of Iron at 91.0.26 at $15 pbt $138.47 Boxes & porterage 2.00 $140:47
299To James Madison from François de Navoni, 5 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
Deux de mes Lettres du 30. 7mbre. et 4. Xmbre. passé, je me Suis fait un devoir par la voye de Marseille de vous humilier, vous informant de tout ce que j’ai cru convenable pour le Service et pour le Commerçe comme mieux vous en aurés etè instruit, du detail de ce très Excellant Sel que j’ai remis a Monsr. le Premier Presidant, et au Commerce même. Je vous le renouvelle donc derechef, et je me...
300To Thomas Jefferson from John Breckinridge and Others, 10 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The States of Kentucky, Georgia, & Tennissee, having been for some time impressed with a belief, that it would redound greatly to their mutual interests, if an easy land communication could be opened between Danville in Kentucky, & Augusta in Georgia, have made some attempts to ascertain its practicability. These attempts altho’ not very considerable, have produced full conviction that a good...