4051From James Madison to Isaac Hite, [ca. 7 March 1801] (Madison Papers)
I communicated to you by the last mail the afflicting event which took place on the 27th. Ult. I said nothing on the subject of the testamentary dispensations which it is proper should be made known to all the parties interested in them, because at that time none of the papers had been looked into. I now inclose the copy of the Will found among them; and which tho’ of not so late a date as...
4052From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 15 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by Mr. Rogers your favor of the 6th. Having not yet settled with the Butchers, from whom I have recd. in broken sums nearly the whole of their dbts., I cannot in the present haste ascertain the precise amount to be placed agst. the advan⟨c⟩e to Kincade. As there will be nearly a balance in that case, I return you the two former notes, which may hereafter if expedient be turned into a...
4053Promissory Note to Isaac Hite, 7 October 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 October 1801. JM promises to pay Hite “five hundred dollars, for value received.” Ms (Madison County, Virginia, Circuit Court Records). 1 p. In JM’s hand. Witnessed by JM’s niece Nelly C. Madison. Cover docketed by Hite, “James Madison to Isaac Hite note for £150.”
4054From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 15 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have not heard from you since you left Orange but conclude that you will now be found at home. The delays to which I have been subjected, determine me at length to abandon my visit, till the first of August. I hope I shall then be more fortunate in the oppy. of meeting you. The accts. from Europe are down to the 6th. of May. The preparations for war were not then relaxed and the prevailing [...
4055From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 16 July 1803 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. yours of the 25th. Ult: Your patents have been in my hands for some time, and wd. have been forwarded before my proposed trip to Orange in May, but for the expectation of being then the bearer of them myself. I know of no method by which you can obtain the surplus land, but that of buying warrants to cover it, and proceeding in the usual way. We are waiting anxiously for the...
4056From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 5 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
Business & bad weather have thus far detained me. I hope to set out tomorrow morning, if the mail of this evening brings nothing to interfere. There is a rumour that hostilities have commenced between G. B. & France. The event is to be expected from the positions taken by both parties both in arms & in negociation. Yrs. truly RC ( InHi ). Addressed to Hite at Orange Court House, Virginia.
4057From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 6 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Since my last I have recd. yours communicating the sentiments of my mother & yourself on the proposition towards a compromise in the family. I have written to my brother in consequence, recommending a speedy execution of it. My intentions towards Nelly are known to you. Those of others except yourself, are not particularly known to me. I think it best that the other object should be secured as...
4058From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 25 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 July 1801. Offered for sale in James F. Drake Catalogue No. 28 (1909), item 110, which notes that the two-page letter “mentions the treaty with France, the attitude of Great Britain, the election of Jefferson, etc.” Also offered for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 975 (1908), item 778.
4059From James Madison to Isaac Hite, 13 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have been thus long detained from the pleasure of my intended trip to Orange; and it is still somewhat uncertain when I shall be permitted to start. As it is possible that the posture of the business in my department may continue to make my presence here proper, untill I can receive a few lines from you, be so good as to tell me what will be the last day to which your stay in our...
4060From James Madison to Jussuf Hoggia, 26 June 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Ambassador Mellimelli being about to return from his Mission, I make use of the occasion to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of which he was the bearer, and to thank you for the esteem and good will which it expresses. It is an act of justice to the Ambassador, to assure you that he has been found worthy of the recommendation which your friendship bestowed on him. If at certain...
4061From Thomas Jefferson to Waller Holladay, 15 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Deriving very little aid from my memory on transactions so antient as those the subject of your letter of the 6th. I have turned to my letter files & here state the heads of their information. 1786. Jan. 24. Th: Jefferson to the Govr. of Virginia, informs him that mr Littlepage had been obliged to part with the money sent by him, & that mr L. said it would be repaid by his guardian in Virga,...
4062From Thomas Jefferson to James Holland, 22 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
As I troubled you on a former occasion with mr Briggs’s case, I take the liberty of committing the inclosed letter from him to your attention. when mr Briggs proposed to undertake exploring the road to N. Orleans, it was in the belief it would not cost him more time trouble or expence to go that way to Natchez, than by the tramontane rout. under this belief I accepted his offer, neither of us...
4063From James Madison to Levi Hollingsworth, 13 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter of the 25th. Ult, and shall cause a copy of it to be forwarded to the Ministers of the United States in London, that they may render you such assistance as may be in their power and that it may suggest the utility of arranging means, if possible, for preventing similar sacrifices in future. I am &c. DNA : RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.
4064From James Madison to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 26 October 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 October 1804, Department of State. “I will thank you to transmit to me, as soon as you can make it convenient, a statement comprizing the result of the investigations on the subject of a complaint of the British Minister, which you are requested to make in conjunction with the Collector of Baltimore, by my letter of the 28th. of August last . The intimation that you would lay the evidence...
4065From James Madison to Zebulon Hollingsworth, 28 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose extracts of a communication lately received from the British Minister alluding to irregularities alledged to have been committed by the officers of the French Frigate Poursuivante in the Port of Baltimore, affecting both the peace of the City and the neutrality of the United States. This being the first official intimation upon the subject I request you, with the...
4066From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 19 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
A little transaction of mine, as innocent an one as I ever entered into, & where an improper construction was never less expected, is making some noise I observe in your city. I beg leave to explain it to you because I mean to ask your agency in it. the last year the Agricultural society of Paris, of which I am a member, having had a plough presented to them, which on trial with a graduated...
4067From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 14 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Do you forget promises, or do I recollect what never happened? I think you were to send me a package (of whatever size they are from 1. to 200 ℔) of Moka coffee, and a box of Florence wine as a sample with permission to ask for more if I found it good. if this was not so, I will pray you now to send me those articles by any vessel coming to this place or it’s vicinity. I left your friends in...
4068From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 12 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the day before & this morning I obtained the Speaker’s order for reserving the desk of the H. of R. for mr Glendy on Sunday next, where many of us will be glad to see him. should he arrive here before half after three on Saturday I will expect him to dine with me, as well as yourself if you accompany him. Govr. Bowdoin accepts his appointment, but is too...
4069From James Madison to John Hollins, 25 November 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John Hollins. 25 November 1805, Department of State. “In consequence of your letter of the 22 inst. [not found] I have to inform you, that, according to a letter received from Mr. Blakely, dated 20 Septr. [not found] the Government of St. Jago of Cuba has taken possession of the Industry and her Cargo, and ordered them to be sold. Two days before the date of that letter, Capt. Johns had...
4070From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 23 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
With many thanks for the kind attentions you have paid to my little commissions, I now remit you the amount of the articles shipped as advised by yours of the 21st. is it possible to remit 80. or 100. D. to Leghorn? & through what channel? Accept my salutations of friendship & respect. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4071From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 19 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. came to hand last night. the supply of Florence was proposed on the mutual supposition that you had a surplus to dispose of, beyond your own provision. that not being the case, I cannot consent to break in on your private stock, notwithstanding the obliging proposition of mrs Hollins, and my respect and thankfulness for it; and I hope this letter will be in time to...
4072From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 1 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 29. and have certainly every disposition to do for your friend what would be gratifying to you, as far as consistent with the laws which I have laid down for my own conduct. but I have made it an invariable rule never to intermeddle with the appointments of the governors. from my own difficulties in the exercise of that duty, I know what theirs are &...
4073From Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 23 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your friendly letter of the 21st. being determined that no act of mine, which may be avoided, shall give countenance for clamour to the enemies of the government, or trouble to it’s friends for justification, the sentence on the cotton seed is irrevocable. in answer to your enquiries I will observe that it is usually planted in May, and that the seed being very full of...
4074From John Adams to Abiel Holmes, 6 May 1807 (Adams Papers)
I am under a great obligation to you for the two volumes of the your American Annals, and am ashamed that I have not acknowledged long ago the Receipt of the first of them They are a work of great Labour, care and Industry, and the Execution of the plan appears to me to be as ingenious as it is judicious The Style is Elegant as well as clear and concise. With great satisfaction I observe that...
4075From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 26 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. with the book, has been safely recieved. the Memoires de l’Amerique were packed in a box & sent from Monticello in May last: but owing to the extraordinary fall of the river & the drought which continued till Winter the vessel on board which they were was stopped about midway to Richmond, & the books were left there till November when for the first time the navigation...
4076From John Adams to Abiel Holmes, 14 November 1807 (Adams Papers)
I am Sorry it is not in my power to give you much information relative to General Oglethorpe in complyance with your desire in your favour of the Eleventh of this Month. Recovering from a great Sickness in Paris in the Fall of the year after the Signature of the Definitive Treaty of Peace in 1783 I was advised by my Phesicians to take a Passage to Bath in England, for the purpose of Using the...
4077From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 20. found me at Monticello, where I passed some days on the rising of Congress. on my departure I packed the Memoires de l’Amerique with some other books to be forwarded here, & on it’s arrival I will send it to you by the first vessel for Boston. I now inclose you the American & British chronicle, the size of which admits it’s going by post. I have found it’s dates not...
4078From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 20 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to the revd. Mr. Holmes, and informs him that he forwarded to him lately by a vessel from Alexandria a box containing the Memoires de l’Amerique, which he was prevented from sending by the long continued ice of the winter. he salutes him with respect & esteem. MHi : Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection.
4079From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 9 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago the 1st. vol. of your American annals, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. it will be a valuable repertory of our history, & especially to those whose occupations give them occasion for works which condense much fact in the smallest space possible. I percieve from your plan that the Memoires de l’Amerique in 4. vols. 4to. would be of primary importance. no work...
4080From Thomas Jefferson to Abiel Holmes, 7 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 18. was recieved on the 5th. of Nov. with the tracts you were so good as to send me & for which I pray you to accept my thanks. I learn with pleasure that you are undertaking a Chronological history of America. such a work fully executed will be precious to the man of business. the first of that kind attempted in Europe was by the President Henault who in 2. vols 12mo. gave...
4081From James Madison to David Holmes, 12 December 1807 (Madison Papers)
In reply to your Letter of yesterday I have the Honor to state to you, that no remuneration has been made by the Danish Government to the United States "for and on account of the Prizes taken by the Alliance Frigate in 1779, carried into Bergen in Norway, and afterwards by Order of the Danish Government restored to the British" With great Respect I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your Mo: Obt Sert...
4082From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th. instant and the papers it inclosed, on the subject of Augustine Serrys claim, and in reply, to observe, that from the great length of time suffered by the claimant to elapse before he presented his claim, for settlement, to this Department, which for the first time was in the beginning of the present year, no appropriation...
4083From James Madison to David Holmes, 9 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the honor of returning to you the Memorial of John Mullowny, and the papers which were received with it. They are accompanied by an entire copy of a Letter from Mr. Jefferson, to Mr. Hammond, which is referred to by the Memorialist. The Record of this Letter, if it shall be deemed applicable, contains every thing which the Department of State is possessed of in relation to the...
4084From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Holmes, 3 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 18. was duly recieved, and although I am too rusty in Parliamentary learning to have much confidence in my opinions on subjects of that kind, yet to shew my willingness to answer your wishes I will frankly state my ideas on the question you propose. on turning to the passage you quote from the Manual which speaks of the proceedings of ‘the house’ I supposed the rule confined...
4085From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Holmes, 22 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Holmes, & his congratulations on his appointment to the chair of the H. of Representatives of Virginia, and prays his acceptance of the small volume inclosed. RC (Mr. and Mrs. James J. White, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1981); pasted by Holmes, or later, into a copy of TJ’s A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. For the Use of the Senate of the...
4086From Thomas Jefferson to Homastubbee and Puckshunubbee, 17 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
We have long heard of your nation, as a numerous, peaceable & friendly people; but this is the first visit we have had from it’s great men, at the seat of our government. I welcome you here; am glad to take you by the hand; & to assure you, for your nation, that we are their friends . born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not...
4087From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hooe, 9 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It escaped my recollection yesterday that it was the day on which my acceptance of mr Jarvis’s bill was become due. I now inclose you a check on the bank of the US. at this place for it’s amount, 242.71 presuming the course of your transactions makes money in this bank as convenient as in Alexandria: if it does not, on saying so by return of post I will draw the money myself & remit it. Accept...
4088From Thomas Jefferson to John Hoomes, 17 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I came here on the 4th. & shall leave it on the 25th. inst. for Washington after compleating some arrangements previous to my final removal there. but for fear any accident of health or weather should detain me here longer, I forward you the inclosed order for paiment for the horse , which mr Barnes will pay to your order in Washington, Philadelphia, or Richmond, or remit to your own house in...
4089From Thomas Jefferson to David Hopkins, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 20. came to my hands on the 5th. inst. I have entirely forgotten the subject of your visit in 1806. and the mode you proposed of producing motion; and I am sure you greatly overrate any service I could render you even did my public duties allow me the time to consider your proposition carefully. but these duties so entirely engross the whole of my time, & especially on the...
4090From Thomas Jefferson to Gerard T. Hopkins, 13 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the Address you have kindly presented me, on behalf of that portion of the society of friends, of which you are the representatives: & I learn with satisfaction their approbation of the principles which have influenced the councils of the General government, in their decisions on several important subjects confided to them. The desire to preserve our country from the calamities...
4091From Thomas Jefferson to James Hopkins, 17 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 16. was recd. about 10. days ago only. I have examined my papers, and am still in possession of a copy of the deed for the Hardware limestone lands , in your handwriting, which you were so kind as to send me before you sent the original. but the original itself I unquestionably delivered to the clerk, on a court day, at his table, where I presented it to be recorded. after...
4092From Thomas Jefferson to Gustavus B. Horner, 15 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here a small remnant of the Benni seed I had sent on to be sown, which enables me to fulfill my promise to you. open light furrows with a plough, 3 ½ or 4 f. apart, drop a very few seed every 12. inches along the furrow. when up, thin them to a single plant at each 12. inches, and when advanced in growth draw a little earth to the roots. they need little culture. when the leaves fall...
4093Aaron Burr to David Hosack, [12 July 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Burr’s respectful Compliments. He requests Dr. Hosack to inform him of the present state of Genl. H. and of the hopes which are entertained of his recovery. Mr. Burr begs to know at what hours of the [day] the Dr. may most probably be found at home, that he may repeat his inquiries. He would take it very kind if the Dr. would take the trouble of calling on him as he returns from Mr....
4094From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 18 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Hosack & his thanks for the catalogue of his plants. should he have it in his power to be useful to his institution at any time he shall embrace the occasion with that pleasure which attends every aid given to the promotion of science. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4095From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 15 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the request of the Senate and House of Representatives delivered me by their joint committee of inrolled bills, I now return the inrolled bill, intituled ‘An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda & Mirboha’ to the House of Representatives in which it originated. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a clerk. PoC ( DLC ). RC (...
4096From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 8 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with your resolution of the 2d. inst. I have to inform you that, early in the preceding summer, I took measures for carrying into effect the act passed on the 19th. of Feb. 1799. chapter 115. and that of the 13th. of May 1800. mentioned in your resolution. the objects of these acts were understood to be, to purchase, from the Indians south of the Ohio , some portions of land...
4097From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 23 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d. of May last, desiring a statement of expenditures from Jan. 1. 1797. by the Quartermaster General and the Navy agents for the contingencies of the Naval & Military establishments and the Navy contracts for timber & stores, I now transmit such statements from the offices of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy,...
4098From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 22 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now transmit a report from the Secretary of state with the information requested in your resolution of the 17th. instant. In making this communication , I deem it proper to observe that I was led by the regard due to the rights and interests of the United States and to the just sensibility of the portion of our fellow citizens more immediately affected by the irregular proceeding at New...
4099From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 31 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the desire of the House of representatives expressed in their resolution of yesterday , I have to inform them that by a letter of the 30th. of May last from the Secretary at War to Samuel Hammond a member of the house, it was proposed to him to accept a commission of Colonel Commandant for the District of Louisiana when the new government there should commence. by a letter...
4100From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 1 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
For some weeks past I have had reason to expect, by every mail from New Orleans, information which would have fully met the views of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of Dec. 31. on the subject of a post-road from the city of Washington to New Orleans. but this being not yet recieved, I think it my duty, without further delay, to communicate to the House the...