571To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Sence writeing my last letter to you I have made some ingagements which I wish to inform you I think I mentioned I expected to ingage beef at 4d ½ the pound. I have ingaged one at 4d the pound and the man who I ingage of Delivers it when you arrive at Monticello. we Judge it will way about 500 pounds. Also one other ingagement for 3000 pounds of very Good fodder which I now have in one of the...
572From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Lewis Bankhead, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited till I could execute Anne’s commission as to the seed of the ice-plant, before acknoleging the reciept of her letter of Dec. 19. and your’s of the 20th. I now inclose the seed, in the envelope of a pamphlet for Doctr. Bankhead’s acceptance. the case of Whistelo belongs to the physician, altho’ here presented as a case of law. I do not suppose however it will add to his knolege as...
573To Thomas Jefferson from Washington Boyd, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been directed by the Court to forward to you the inclosed petition accompanied by a letter of Mr. Joseph Nourse Addressd. to the Courts. I am Sir with much Respect your Obedient Servt DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
574To Thomas Jefferson from James Dinsmore, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not receive your favour of the 7th inst. in time to answer it by last mail—with respect to the money it will make no Difference to defer Depositing it untill the time you mention—if more convenient to you—mr Nelson wishes you to send him fifty Dollars as soon as Convenient and also to deposit the $500 in Richmond the begining of next month, or the one after if more suitable to you—I have...
575To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The transactions at Jersey (Powles hook) are certainly infamous. The Surveyor Williams a federalist has cleared & will continue to clear cotton stored there. We have no successor ready; but we must stop his career. Permit me to announce that he is dismissed. The Collector of Amboy may in the mean while & until we have a successor ready, manage the business. Respectfully Your obedt. Servt. DLC...
576To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Venable having been so much longer than he expected in getting an answer respecting the money which we calculated on obtaining from his friend on loan—has caused me I fear, to delay from day to day to write to you, for a longer time than I should have done: I thought it however the less necessary to write before he received an answer, as I informed you that you might be assured of getting...
577To Thomas Jefferson from T. S. Kry, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The petition of Nicholas Kosiey, humbly states, That your petitioner is a spanish subject, about sixteen years of Age—that by the recommendation of the spanish consul at Boston your petitioner was put under the charge of Mr. Charles Joseph Nourse of this City, as a servant; that at the request of your petitioner Mr. Nourse placed him under the charge of Mr. William Knowles of this city to...
578From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your favor of the 10th. I had a consultation with the Secretary at War on the subject of an appointment for mr. E. L. Lomax your son. he informed me that in the new corps of 6000. there was not a single vacancy and that in case of a vacancy, the phalanx of competitors is so solid as to render a chance there much worse than in the old corps. that altho’ there is no opening in...
579From Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented by a pressure of business from sooner acknoleging the reciept of your friendly letter of Dec. 22. and with this acknolegement I pray you to accept my sincere congratulations on the late testimony of public confidence manifested by the legislature of your country in their electing you to the first office in the state. certain I am that there is no one to whose fidelity it...
580To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 18 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 31 Dec. last delighted me more than usual. It was a new mark of your affectionate esteem—it assured me of your continued health; It was an evident proof that I was not yet left alone. Last year has again bereft me of a worthy friend; and I can not longer fill up the empty place with others, ere long, if mÿ days are to be prol onged, I Shall mourn them in mÿ Solitude where,...
581To James Madison from Valentin de Foronda, 18 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Tengo la honra de hacer presente à V.S. que el Consul de S. M. C. Fernando 7o. en Charleston me participa que ha llegado á dicho Puerto la Goleta Corsaria Francesa nombrada Superior su Capitan Brevar con 4 Cañones y 85 hombres procedente de Sto. Domingo y que conduce segun los informes que le han dado, y qe. pertenecen a un Español Añil Marca. S No. 1 à 14 222 Zurras B. No. 1 à 14 14. Ydem B....
582To James Madison from Robert Were Fox, 18 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Since my respects of the Instant I am informed Wheat is rose from 10% . to 14%. P Quarter, I presume in consequence of there being no probability of an importation from the United States. The American Ship Cincinnatus Captain P. Heulte is arrived here from Bordeaux after a passage of 11 Days, with about 400 Tons of Wine Brandy &c. for orders from England, and I am informed several other...
583To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lehré, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you, on my way here from Columbia, and from information received since, from different parts of this State, that the printed documents laid by you before Congress, (which have been sent on by our Members) have made a very strong impression upon the public mind here, and has carried conviction to the mind of every candid Man,—That you have done every thing in your power,...
584To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Leroy, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Lewis Leroy of the town of Washington State of north Carolina Your Petitionner Humbly Sheweth, that in august Last he obtained from the Collector of this Port a Permission to Send out to guadeloupe a Certain Schooner Called the union to bring proprety belonging to your Petitionner that was Left there prior to the embargo, that the Said Schooner Returned to this Port in october...
585To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that in times such as the present are, my letter to my Brother (written in great haste) and his answer to it, while they contain no information of importance in relation to any particular character, point nevertheless to topics worthy your consideration, I use the freedom of enclosing them for your inspection. I should have sent you copies of these letters, instead of the Originals;...
586To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
An idea has occurr’d to me which I will take the liberty to submit to your consideration. I have thought that you might command my services before you retire from office, in a mode which might prove advantageous to our country & equally honorable to you & myself. Our affairs are evidently at a pause, and the next step to be taken without an unexpected change, unless some expedient consistent...
587To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Douglas, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time is nearly approaching when you will resign the important charge with which you have been invested, and retire with honor to the station of a private Citizen we feel it our duty and do with pleasure embrace the present opportunity of expressing our sincere approbation, of the wise & prudent measures which you have recommended and which have been pursued by Congress, in the...
588From Thomas Jefferson to Indian Nations, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have considered the speech you have delivered me, & will now make answer to it. you have gone back to antient times, & given a true history of the uses made of you by the French, who first inhabited your country & afterwards by the English. and how they used you as dogs to set upon those whom they wanted to destroy. they kept the hatchet always in your hand, exposing you to be killed in...
589To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The change in the payment of three hundred & siventy five Dollars is perfectly agreeable, to me, I am hurt at your Necessity of selling a part of your land purchasd. of the Hendersons, in yours of the 9th inst You ask me to state, what that part is worth, all that lays south of the Main Road & whithar it woud not sell bettar in lots. It appears to me it lays very well to divide, making two...
590To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
General Smith (of N Carolina) with his very best Respects has the honour of sending to the President of the United States the Grape Vine promised yesterday—In conversing with Mr. Blackledge last Evening, he fully corroborated the description mentioned in the morning— Genl. Smith hopes it will answer every expectation & that under his own Vine the President may, for many years, enjoy in perfect...
591To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Smith, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Edward S. Smith of the City of New York. Respectfully sheweth. That your Petitioner is a Native Citizen of the City and State of New York, and disposed to pursue a Military and Naval life having served a regular apprenticeship to the seafaring business is desirous to Obtain the appointment of a Midshipman in the Navy of the United States— Your Petitioner therefore respectfully...
592From Abigail Smith Adams to Cotton Tufts, 17 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
my Son J Q Adams has an opportunity of employing the Sum I have which is payd of Eight pr Cent Stock. will you be so good as to draw Such an order as will enable him to receive it, and inclose it to me I Shall go to Town tomorrow he will leave Boston on monday DNDAR .
593To John Adams from Josiah, III Quincy, 17 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am astonished, on recurring to my files, at finding that your favour of the 23d. Ulto. has lain by me, so long, unanswered. I shall not recapitulate reasons, nor invent apologies. I know that your goodness will supply both, and find a cause of delay, any where, rather than in a want of a deep sense of the honour & of the value of your correspondence. Both of which, you know me well enough to...
594From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 17 January 1809 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 10 Inst.— The Intent and Meaning of the 9 th . Article of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Great alien Britain always appeared to me to be plain and obvious, nor have any Doubts of that kind ever occurred to been suggested to me before. Among the Instructions given ^to^ me when I went to England, there was one in these Words, viz...
595To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your favor of the 11th. which I have just now recd. I feel much more indifferent to the measures of the belligerents with respect to us than many of my fellow citizens not because I am more regardless of the general welfare but because I sincerely believe that "all things are working together for good". In our infancy we had the powerful protection we required. When we attained...
596To James Madison from Edward Lloyd, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Mr Edw. Gibson, of Talbot County, has informed me, that he is an applicant, as Bearer of dispatches from your Office to Europe, and being a Stranger himself, to all the Heads of the Departments, has requested me to state to you his Character. Mr. Gibson was born in my neighbourhood and has been personally known to me for the last Six or eight years. He has received a liberal education, and is...
597To James Madison from Thomas Bolling Robertson, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to you a correct statement of the Executive acts of the Governor of the Territory of Orleans from the 1st. of July to the 31st. December 1808 I am Sir very respectfully your obt. St. DNA : RG 59-TP-Territorial Papers, Orleans.
598From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I communicate to Congs. certain letters which passed between the B. Secy. of State Mr. Canning, and Mr. P. our Minister Plenipoty. at London. When the Documents concerning the relations between the U. S. & G. B. were laid before Congs. at the Commencement of the Session, the answer of Mr. P: to the letter of Mr. Canning, had not been received; and a communication of the latter alone, would...
599From James Madison to Epaphroditus Champion, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inform you, in answer to your enquiries, that a statement of the case of the Brig Matilda, was sent by this Department, some time ago to the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at London, with a request to him to have it submitted to the Government of Sweden, thro’ its Representative in London. This was accordingly done. From information, since received, it...
600To James Madison from James Maury, 17 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of writing to you on the 13h. ulto. pr Jamaica for Norfolk, sailed the 27th., a copy of which is inclosed. On the 10th. Instant I received your letters of the 25h. & 26th. Nov:; with the Documents you have been so good as to send me, for which I am much obliged to you. I also received the Packets for Mr. Pinkney, which were forwarded to him & of which he acknowledges the...